Registration & Introductions

Talent Is the Investment Signal

Wahab Owolabi makes the case that AI has raised both the return on a great hire and the cost of a wrong one, which makes talent the asset companies are actually underwritten on: how it's acquired, where it's deployed, and what resources it's given to compound. Followed by a fireside with a special guest.

Special Guest Fireside Chat

The New Talent Playbook for AI Companies

AI has created a talent market unlike any the technology industry has seen, with intense competition for the researchers, engineers, and builders shaping the next generation of companies. What changes when a company is AI-native from the first hire and how should leaders rethink roles, organizational design, and what it takes to attract exceptional talent when compensation alone is no longer enough?

Morning Exchange

Meet the operators, explore partner activations, and connect with the leaders shaping the future of talent.

From Zero to One: Designing Your Team for Scale at Every Stage

From founding-team composition and founder-market fit to critical early hires, incentives, and organizational design, the talent decisions that work at one stage can become liabilities at the next. This conversation examines how talent leaders can anticipate those inflection points, build teams that compound over time, and know when the organization needs to evolve to support the next phase of growth.

Lunch

The Future of Technology Hiring

AI is reshaping how companies find, assess, and hire technology talent—and challenging long-held assumptions about what recruiting should look like. David Paffenholz, Co-Founder and CEO of Juicebox, shares his perspective on the future of technology hiring, from AI-powered talent discovery to the increasingly strategic role of human judgment in identifying exceptional people.

Your Next Hire Isn't Human: Managing the Second Workforce

Every company is becoming an employer of both humans and AI agents, but only one workforce gets planned, budgeted, and reviewed. The other shows up on the bill after the work is done, with no owner and no seat on the headcount plan. Agents are labor, budgeted against the alternative of a hire, and managing them is HR and Talent's next mandate. The leaders who claim the second workforce now will run the function everyone else reports to.

Afternoon Exchange

Meet the operators, explore partner activations, and connect with the leaders shaping the future of talent.

Coding was first. Recruiting is now. Welcome to the Agentic Era.

Claude Code showed what happens when AI moves from assisting with tasks to owning meaningful work end to end. Siadhal Magos makes the case that recruiting is at the same inflection point: shared context, intelligent orchestration, and agents autonomously doing the work they’re best suited to do.

Building the AI-Native Organization

How leaders are redesigning teams, roles, and operating models as AI changes the way companies work.

Closing Fireside

A reflective close on the state of hiring in technology.

Cocktail Reception

Talent Leaders Dinner

An off-the-record dinner with featured speakers and SF-area talent leaders. Sponsored by Juicebox. RSVP Required