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AI 101: Empowering TA with Automation
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AI 101: Empowering TA with Automation

Kristen has dedicated her life’s work to building TA organizations that drive business success. Prior to joining Paradox, Kristen spent 12 years at Amazon, last serving as Director of Talent Acquisition. Now, she is responsible for building the teams, systems, and strategies that help Paradox scale. And yes, that means thinking about how we use Paradox tech at Paradox!

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How Mission Technologies, an HII Company, has Transformed their Talent Attraction & Retention Strategy with AI
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How Mission Technologies, an HII Company, has Transformed their Talent Attraction & Retention Strategy with AI

Nicole Goldman is Vice President of Talent Acquisition at Mission Technologies, an HII Company. Her 30-year career spans intelligence, defense, aerospace, federal, cyber and wireless industries with experience in progressive HR, Talent Acquisition, Operations, Diversity & Inclusion, and change management. Nicole is also passionate about mentorship and is a certified Gallup StrengthsFinder coach.

Claire joins SeekOut with a wealth of experience in the HR tech space. She was recently the Chief Product Officer for the EmployeeXM product line at Qualtrics where she led the team to grow the revenue more than 6X during her tenure. Throughout her career, Claire has held various product leadership positions in the tech industry, including leading the Business Platform product team at Facebook, building and growing Microsoft’s cloud platform Azure, consulting experience at McKinsey, and overseeing all product development efforts at a drone startup, eHang. In her new role, Claire is responsible for product strategy and leading teams to deliver the full suite of Talent Optimization offerings, including Talent Acquisition and Internal Talent solutions.

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Solving the Volume Recruiting Challenge with AI
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Solving the Volume Recruiting Challenge with AI

With over 15 years in the People space, Hope Weatherford has been captivated by HR tech, from how it can change the way we work to how it can change the lives of others for the better. She has worked at different levels for all types of companies, from Fortune 100 to early-stage startups. She also serves as an advisor to multiple HR tech startups. Today, Hope leads the People Team at Fountain where she and her colleagues pride themselves on changing the world, one job at a time.

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Technology’s Impact on Talent Acquisition — A Conversation with Kristen Bailey of Paradox
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Technology’s Impact on Talent Acquisition — A Conversation with Kristen Bailey of Paradox

At the most recent edition of the North American HR Executive Summit we sat down with Kristen Bailey, Paradox’s VP, Talent Acquisition, to talk about how technology is challenging and changing some of the tried, tested, and true approaches to Talent Acquisition. TA has always been an area of special expertise among HR professionals, and many organizations attribute their success at becoming employers or choice to how they attract and recruit their people in the first place. With that said, traditional methods can be time intensive, repetitive, and vulnerable to conscious and unconscious biases. All of that can be addressed and improved upon using the latest generation of HR tools and technologies. In this discussion we explore what HR leaders need to know about the evolving nature of recruiting. Give it a listen!

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Digitization in the Food Safety Space — A Conversation with Deepa Thakar of Neogen Analytics
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Digitization in the Food Safety Space — A Conversation with Deepa Thakar of Neogen Analytics

At North American Food Safety & Quality 2023 we sat down with Deepa Thakar, a Key Accounts Manager of Neogen Analytics, to talk about what the Digital Revolution is bringing to FSQ professionals, and why it is more important than ever to automate repetitive analog tasks and give Food Safety experts insights in real-time into where best to apply their energies and expertise. Whether we are talking about visibility and transparency and compliance, or doing more and better work in the same amount of time, or achieving more without increasing headcount, digitization is the way forward to improving FSQ performance and also keeping the public safe. Give this one a listen!

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Innovating with Empathy: How People-Centric Automation Will Enhance Retail’s Future
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Innovating with Empathy: How People-Centric Automation Will Enhance Retail’s Future

Prathibha Rajashekhar currently serves as Senior Vice President of Innovation & Automation at Walmart U.S., where she and her team are responsible for transforming the company’s end-to-end supply chain and store operations through the advancement of high-tech capabilities. This includes modernizing the company’s facilities with state-of-the-art automation designed to enhance the work environment for associates. It also includes digitizing the in-store experience with next generation solutions such as touchless checkout, digital shelf labels and more.

Prior to this role, Prathibha served as Senior Vice President, Private Brands and Sourcing at Sam’s Club where she led the development of Member’s Mark products that drove member advocacy and profitable growth for the business. During her time at Sam’s Club, she also served as Vice President/ DMM for Baby, HBA & OTC categories, responsible for identifying great items and bringing them to life at the best value for Sams’ members.

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Eliminating Waste in the Supply Chain, Process Optimization, Automation, and Workforce Issues — A Conversation with Dheeraj Prasad of Zebra Technologies
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Eliminating Waste in the Supply Chain, Process Optimization, Automation, and Workforce Issues — A Conversation with Dheeraj Prasad of Zebra Technologies

At the 2023 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series we sat down with Dheeraj Prasad to talk about how AI is helping supply chain organizations reduce waste, improve processes, enhance sustainability, and empower workers. From end to end of the value chain, AI-enabled automation is transforming how companies use data and allow their teams to be more productive without increasing headcount by using the right data to create an accurate demand forecast, which improves S&OP, and inventory management, and on and on step-by-step. Throughout the organization, people are freed from mundane repetitive tasks and data analysis to focus on the issues that matter most, which both boosts productivity and job satisfaction. What does training and coaching a workforce to engage with these tools effectively look like? How should supply chain organizations build trust for AI systems that are directing and prioritizing work? Listen to this episode for more!

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The Future of Decisions. Now.
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The Future of Decisions. Now.

As Head of Customer Operations at Unilever, Juan Carlos Parada is leading an innovative, customer-centric agenda designed to digitise and optimise the company’s complete end-to end value chain. Through their technology first approach, Customer Operations is driving transformation across the business; powering Unilever’s future-fit operations, creating full operational integration with customers as One Supply Chain, and delivering on their vision to become the FMCG industry first E2E value network operation that drives superior customer experiences to enable growth.

Fred Laluyaux is the CEO of Aera Technology, a company transforming the future of work through Decision Intelligence — the digitization, augmentation, and automation of decision making. An entrepreneur at heart and Silicon Valley veteran, Fred brings an impressive track record building successful startups and driving technology innovation. Prior to launching Aera, Fred was the CEO of Anaplan, which he grew from 20 to 650 employees, and a $1B+ valuation. He also held several executive positions at SAP, Business Objects, and ALG Software.

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The Future of Decisions. Now.
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The Future of Decisions. Now.

As the Chief Customer Officer at Aera Technology, Laurent Lefouet leads the company’s high-performing customer success initiatives and operations. A strategic, outcome-focused leader, Laurent puts customers at the center of the experience to deliver satisfaction, retention, and growth. He brings more than 25 years of experience in enterprise software and technology. Prior to Aera, Laurent served as the Managing Director for EMEA at Anaplan. Before Anaplan, he was the Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Large Enterprise Sales for SAP France. Laurent has also held international management roles at Business Objects Global and SAP EMEA and India.

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Overcome Uncertain Times: Digitally Enabled Transformation to Drive Business and Workforce Success
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Overcome Uncertain Times: Digitally Enabled Transformation to Drive Business and Workforce Success

James Newman is the Head of Product and Portfolio Marketing at Augury. He has 20+ years of experience across engineering, manufacturing, and technology adoption, James brings a customer-focused outlook to understanding how technology impacts organizational outcomes. Nick Ott is the Director of IT for Canfor Southern Pine. Nick has spent 15 of his 20 years in IT in the Wood Processing Industry. Throughout his IT career he has held positions responsible for System Development, Infrastructure Delivery, M&A, and Project Management.

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Fireside Chat: Building the Future from a Distinguished Tenure in CMC
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Fireside Chat: Building the Future from a Distinguished Tenure in CMC

Introducing Prime Medicine and its vision for the future of medicine How are we thinking about the inclusion of novel types of automation into molecular medicine workflows? Examining how we view Talent in the emergent technology space, and how do we best deploy remote and hybrid work? Historically, pharmaceutical manufacturing leaders were predominantly men; however, many important CMC leadership positions are now held by women. Why is this the case, and how do we sustain this pattern? What are the most significant learnings from having achieved success in licensing autologous cell therapies? — Ann Lee Chief Technical Officer Prime Medicine…

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