Speakers

Eva is a forward-thinking Talent lead. She has built a reputation for her personable and human-centred approach to recruiting. She has a strong drive to innovate and improve the recruitment scene through knowledge sharing. Her passion is engaging & empowering people to bring out their best. Beside work, she actively plays basketball.

Natalia leads product & design teams at SmartRecruiters. She holds an MBA from MIT Sloan school of management. Natalia began her professional career as a street artist in Moscow, Russia. She loves outdoor adventures, board games and picking chanterelles. She is now hiring product managers and designers in Berlin and San Francisco.

Babs is passionate about creating unique candidate experiences, she brings this evangelism both as a trainer for recruiters and @Philips for critical capabilities team in the EMEA region. Transforming the way we think about seducing talent and opening minds for creative approaches. She’s been in the IT recruitment industry since 2007. If not @work enjoying life with great food (preferably from own garden) & all sorts of sports to get rid of those kilo’s again.

Jolie is a strategically minded Talent Acquisition AVP with experience in fast paced, technical and digital global matrix environments. She strongly values collaboration, cultural diversity and enjoys being hands on whenever needed. Jolie is keen to make recruitment more digital and like to make the candidate experience one of the best in class. Jolie is real Dutch ( no nonsense ), very sportive, likes to do water sports and do fun things with her two lovely little daughters.

Bill never wears a suit and always wears a hat. He has a simple vision to make recruitment better for everyone. He works towards this by advising talent technology companies on their product road map, with V.C.’s over investments in the sector, with hiring companies on technology and approach, and by hosting #tru events. #tru has hosted over 100 events during the last 12 months, in 65 countries and 5 continents. This has led to conversations with over 2,500 people who work in and around recruiting across the globe. This gives Bill a great insight into the market, and the technology needed to support it.

Kasia is a freelance sourcer and sourcing trainer, eagerly sharing her knowledge through blogging at kmborowicz.com. With a degree in linguistics and a passion for culture studies, she has specialised in leading projects across EMEA in various industries, from investment banking to startups.

Kasia is a fan of social media and networking and believes in a social approach to sourcing. She trains recruiters to use various online platforms for sourcing, alongside more traditional recruitment tools. She also built the largest sourcing community in Poland, counting over 900 members and still growing.

Noor is the Chief People Officer at N26 and is responsible for scaling the organization while maintaining a high employee experience and guiding the organization through hyper-growth in a healthy way. Noor has over 15 years of experience in international Human Resources, specifically building, scaling and transforming organizations. Before joining N26, Noor was the VP People at SoundCloud and before SoundCloud, she led the Recruiting, Talent, and Organizational Development initiatives at TomTom worldwide. Noor is a Dutch native with a passion for travel. Work has given her the opportunity to live in New York, India and now Berlin.

Anna Brandt is the Global Head of Talent Acquisition and Community Operations at Uber via Brandt Talent Solutions, where she enables organizations to scale their talent acquisitions efforts in order to hire and retain the best talent available. Through her founding role at Brandt Talent Solutions in the Netherlands, she has narrowed her focus to Talent Acquisition Program Design & (interim) Management, Training Design & Delivery, Design & optimization of Sourcing and Recruitment processes, Coaching, Development Programs and Employer Branding, and is looking forward to sharing her expertise at #HIREEU.

Johnny is co-founder and CEO of SocialTalent, the largest provider of online recruitment training in the world. Having launched the word “Ninja” into the lexicon of recruiters around the world, Johnny admits he has zero martial arts skills but claims he can martial the arts of recruiting to help any recruiter become a ninja at their job (you see what he did there?). 😉

When he’s not making bad puns, Johnny is busy raising 3 boys with his wife Jill, consuming endless books and podcasts and trying to finish 5k runs like he’s still 25 (which he is definitely not). Follow him @johnnycampbell

As a veteran recruiter and HR product leader, Rebecca leads Global Success, Consulting & Strategy at SmartRecruiters. Her organizations are responsible for global customer & hiring success, research & content, pre-sales solutions consulting, proposal management, implementation, technical services & consulting, and support & marketplace services. Prior to this role, Rebecca ran the Product & Design teams at SmartRecruiters and spent two years at Jobvite leading enterprise renewals as the Director of Strategic Accounts & Senior Product Manager focusing on APIs & Reporting modules. Prior to Jobvite, Carr held both product and operational positions BranchOut, one of the world’s largest professional networks on Facebook, and at Playdom, which was acquired by Disney Interactive Media Group in 2010. Rebecca holds her degree from the University of California – Berkeley.

Strategic Recruitment/HR Executive with more than 15 years of experience in global companies. Special interest in (change) management assignments and opportunity to support employees and organizations to develop. My objective is to built a dynamic organization, in a start up or change management situation. Looking for international exposure and an opportunity to work in different market situations.

Matt Charney is currently the Chief Content Officer at Allegis Global Solutions and a partner in Recruiting Daily. Matt also works with a number of VC backed, early stage startups in the HR Technology space as an advisor, including Textio, TrustSphere, HumanPredictions, Uncommon, Drafted and ConveyIQ.

Sarah Cordivano is Zalando’s Sr. Diversity & Inclusion Officer. She is an active community organizer and advocate for diversity and inclusion. Originally from Philadelphia, she has called Berlin home for the past three years.

Talent Acquisition, my family & friends and shoes – the things that make me wake up in the morning! For the past couple of years I’ve helped several start ups and scale ups grow in terms of People and Culture – and I love it! I’m always up for an experiment, coming up with new concepts and ideas is my fuel.

Sondra Dryer leads Alexander Mann Solutions’ Employer Brand and Experience team globally as a top executive at Talent Collective.

Sondra is passionate about helping organizations develop authentic candidate experiences. She is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin with a focus in Communication and Media Studies and has honed these abilities to craft brands that access talent through a combination of social and digital media, as well as traditional marketing.

Sondra is a proud mother of 3 and a die-hard Texas Longhorn fan. She has worked in M&A consulting and talent acquisition for over 17 years at PwC. A frequent public speaker at major talent acquisition and business-to-business events, Sondra’s credible voice has an impact on today’s most pressing talent topics.

Rob van Elburg is an inhouse executive search specialist. He staffed leadership roles & teams and ING, one of the best banks in the works. Currently he’s staffing the digital leadership roles for GrandVision in 40 countries! Rob’s history in IT recruiting dates back to 1992. He’s been responsible for full desk recruiting, in-house, and RPO globally and in relocating candidates across continents. A results driven out of the box thinker, his approach finds hidden gems few know about. Named a power sourcer by Linkedin, expect a roller-coaster ride with actionable tips, tricks, and do’s and dont’s!

Michael Falkner has throughout the past 18 years always been hunting for the right match. He is today an experienced Talent Acquisition leader with an unusual background as Detective from the Copenhagen National Police and extensive recruiting experience from Laigaard & Partners, Hays, Accenture and Ramboll. As Talent Acquisition Director Nordic at Accenture Michael was responsible for all recruitment activities in the Nordics and Baltics. As Head of Global Talent Acquisition at Ramboll Michael has the responsibility for recruiting activities across 35 countries including a Center of Excellence, Operations, Talent Sourcing Hub, Offshoring and Employer Branding.

Ella is an international recruiter, with almost 15 years experience in a combination of agency and in house recruitment roles for tech companies. She has helped set up and scale, direct sourcing, in house recruitment teams for her previous employer and is currently leading up the Talent Acquisition team in Europe for Optimizely. A Brit living in the Netherlands for the past 12 years, she now has 2 young kids. In her free time you can find her watching live music, trying to keep fit or planning her next adventure!

Prachi is responsible for Marketing and building our demand generation machine used to generate pipeline that fuels SmartRecruiters’ rapid growth. Prachi has been building demand for the last 10 years and has worked with innovative brands to build teams, scale demand generation operations, and create awareness in unestablished markets.

Dominik A. Hahn recently joined Konux – a Munich-based IoT and AI startup – as Head of People & Culture. Prior to this position, he held several HR roles within Europes biggest insurance company Allianz Group, last as Global Head of Talent Acquisition & Employer Branding. In addition, Dominik acts as host of HR Failure Night, an initiative co-founded by him in 2016 which focuses on sharing lessons learned from HR failures and mistakes. Furthermore, Dominik regularly talks about HR in his, German only, podcast “Personalerschnack”. His latest project, HRNeurons.com, aims to build a fully digital HR4HR cross-company community to provide HR professionals with quick support for any open questions.

Ingeborg is a highly energetic, curious and creative HR leader with extensive international experience. After years with Fortune 500 companies, she recently joined one of the fastest growing fintech scale-ups in Europe: Mollie. Ingeborg heads up the team which creates ‘Mollies Employee Experience’. This includes HR, IT and Facilities. She is passionate about creating a work environment and culture where people are so happy… they don’t even want their birthday off.

In December 2016, housebound and fatigued with pain, Sara-Jane Harvey reached out to an Autism Support Group on Facebook, in her time of need – the response was awe-inspiring and she received a wave of questions about her experiences. Before she new it, she was answering in an ‘Agony Aunt/Dear Abbey’ style with dedicated followers. Because she has osteoarthritis, she began recording video responses on what meltdowns or overloads feel like. She adopted the ‘Agony Autie’ name, created her page, and 18 months later, broke 1.5 million views on her “What is Autism to You?” video! Visit https://uk.gofundme.com/agonyautie.

Some refugees have called me an angel. I call myself just Eugène. I believe in collaborative advantage, the power of storysharing and I love to help in realizing matches on the labour market.

Dr. Steven Jones is the CEO of JONES, a firm based in San Diego with a national and global list of clients, that specializes of diversity and organizational effectiveness consulting. Nationally known as “One of America’s Top Experts on Diversity” (DiversityInc magazine), Dr. Jones is a National Diversity Advisor to Sempra Energy, Honda and Hyundai. Dr. Jones holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a Master’s in Multicultural Counseling, and a Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology. In 2003 Dr. Jones published his first book, Journey to Excellence.

Dr. Jones shares his talents as President of the Central San Diego Black Chamber of Commerce, and is on the Boards for LEAD San Diego, the San Diego Chapter for Teach for America. For two years he has been recognized by the San Diego Business Journal as one of the “500 Most Influential Leaders ins San Diego.”

Leslie is a talent acquisition leader with 10+ years of experience in building scalable teams for a variety of companies such as Booking.com, Rocket Internet and various start-ups. Having worked in various counties, Leslie currently works at Oculus by Facebook in Zurich, a company that builds word-class AR/VR technology for everyone to use. In his role at Oculus he’s responsible for building the new Oculus engineering site in Zurich.

Josh Klipp, Esq. is the founder of Made Welcome – a consultancy focused on accessibility strategies for workplaces and events. Prior to founding Made Welcome, Josh practiced employment law for nearly 16 years, specializing in the Americans with Disabilities Act. Josh is also a Certified Access Specialist through California’s Division of the State Architect, #812 in all of California, and is certified to provide guidance on accessibility in the built environment.

Hung Lee is the founder of WorkShape.io – the revolutionary recruiting platform for Software engineers and Editor of leading industry newsletter Recruiting Brainfood. He is an industry professional with over 15 years experience as an agency recruiter, Recruitment manager, Internal Head of Talent, recruitment trainer and strategic advisor for rapid growth businesses in the London Tech Startup scene. Now CEO of an award winning online recruiting platform WorkShape.io, Hung has been at the forefront in developing and promoting new ways in which companies can connect to talent. Hung also curates ‘Recruiting Brainfood’ – the best weekly newsletter in recruitment. Hung lives and works in London.

Joanne is the First Openly Transgender Past National President of the 90-year-old “Men’s Club”, The Round Table.

Taking the decision in 2016 to embark on her personal re-brand, she sold her IT Services business and transitions at the beginning of 2017.

As part of her rebirth she founded SEE Change Happen in Portsmouth, a Diversity and Inclusion Practice specialising in supporting Transgender inclusion to businesses and other organisations. She is also a keynote speaker and talks about her journey in a very open, passionate but lighthearted way.

She strongly believes that our people define who we are. With over 20 years of experience in Talent Acquisition, HR and branding she’s a passionate specialist. Her focus for the last 10+ years has been on scaling and changing tech environments. She’s passionate about making sure that we do what we love. During her life and work events she connected the dots on how companies and their success are defined by the people and their connection to the purpose. Fun fact: Eveliese handles hierarchy and authority badly, it makes her rebellious 😉

Chris Murphy is Country Manager for Xref Ireland. After moving to Australia in 2009, and joining Xref at the Sydney headquarters in 2017, Chris recently made the move home to Ireland and became the first Xref employee on the ground in the region, working alongside the existing Xref UK team. Chris joined Xref with a vast amount of recruitment experience, having worked in the sector for 10 years in both Australia and Ireland. Before Xref, Chris spent more than four years at Bluefin Resources, where he delivered sales and sales leadership recruitment solutions to technology, digital, information services and consulting clients nationally, prior to which he worked as a consultant for global professional recruitment consultancy, Robert Walters. Before moving to Sydney in 2009, Chris spent two years as a principal recruitment consultant for Sigmar Recruitment, one of Ireland's leading recruitment agencies.

Khalil Osiris is an international speaker and CEO of Reflecting Freedom, a social enterprise company. An author, educator, social activist and entrepreneur, Khalil spent 20 years in prison. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Boston University while incarcerated. Khalil transformed his life and emerged from prison with a deep understanding of how to use personal crisis and challenges as opportunities for self-improvement.

Former HR Practitioner who found her love for HR Tech and now supports startups in that space in various ways.

work home for people innovation, facilitating circular competence flow to help create better everyday lives for the many. She is a hybrid People and Culture leader who spent 15 years with multi-local, multinationals like Sony, Carrefour, Thai Union, WPP where she was Group HR Director. She also spent 12 years with Unilever and most recently 2 years as an independent consultant @ ‘Human Revolutionary’ combining deep tech and deep human understanding to align people experience and company purpose.

Arjan loves bringing together people, data and tech to improve the way organizations find talent and the way talent finds employers. With a diverse background from various businesses he has a different view how organizations and teams can approach, organize and evolve TA. “What if we look at recruitment from a supply chain point of view?” how would our process look like than and what can we learn from that? “What if” is the only constant factor for Arjan which makes him curious by nature.

Jerome is an entrepreneur with his heart in recruiting and soul in technology. Jerome envisions a world where recruitment is transparent, and hiring is so easy that his grandma can do it. He’s passionate for what he does, hates the status quo, and loves innovation especially when it reaches disruption. Jerome’s goal is to bring the economy to its full potential by removing friction in the labor market and eradicating unemployment.

Geert-Jan Waasdorp is a serial entrepreneur and (co-)owner of Intelligence Group, Recruitment Accelerator, Werf& and may more companies. He works at the cutting edge of international labour market, recruitment, data and technology. He is a much asked speaker, has written several books and blogs regularly.

Eva Westerhoff is a diversity, inclusion and accessibility consultant specialized in technology who happens to be Deaf. Currently working for ING NL as a Digital Inclusion expert where she is setting the agenda for making channels, products and services accessible for all customers and employees, also for those with a disability. Through education at the Amsterdam School of Economics and a Bachelor degree at the Utrecht University of Applied Science her knowledge ranges from human rights and communication to technology.

Rogier is a freelance Fullstack IT Recruiter, with a demonstrated working experience hiring global. He is always keeping a close eye on trends and developments in the recruitment industry, especially networking, social media and events. He has specialized in taking on challenging projects in various industries e.g. Cyber-security, asset management, banking to startups.