Barbara is the Chief People Officer at Remote and a former HR leader at Google and Stripe with over 20 years of experience scaling global organizations. She specializes in navigating complex international growth and building high-performance people operations.

Nadia is the Head of People at Doist and formerly helped scale Remote from 50 to over 600 employees in less than a year. She is a specialist in building high-growth, remote-first cultures and global people operations. 

Vanessa has led People teams across Miro, PwC, and Deloitte, and now runs Intelligence Rewired to help executives adopt AI without losing their best people. She is a specialist in the human side of AI, focusing on maintaining trust and momentum during rapid technological shifts.

Glenn has spent 20 years exploring the intersection of technology and humanity, co-hosting Amplify AI and founding Never Mind The Job Spec. He specializes in helping organizations move past AI hype to focus on the deep cultural shifts and resistance that vendors often overlook. 

Michael is a strategic product leader with a focus on converting subject matter expertise into scalable technology solutions. He specializes in operationalizing AI to bridge the gap between human institutional knowledge and automated workflows. 

Susan is a former CHRO for organizations like Riot Games and GoJek who specializes in rebuilding HR systems from first principles rather than templates. She is the author of The Death of Best Practices and an expert in navigating workforce transformation across high-growth companies.

Nadia is the Head of People at Doist and formerly helped scale Remote from 50 to over 600 employees in less than a year. She is a specialist in building high-growth, remote-first cultures and global people operations. 

Gonçalo Silva is the CTO of Doist, the fully remote, bootstrapped company behind world-class productivity tools like Todoist and Twist. With a background in computer science and advanced deep learning, he has spent over a decade leading global engineering teams across dozens of countries without a single centralized office. He is a prominent voice in the async-first work movement, focusing on how to scale technical infrastructure and build a high-performance culture entirely through distributed workflows.

Phuong spent nearly a decade leading global talent acquisition and workforce strategy at Stripe before founding Talexa, a workforce intelligence platform. She is an expert in "capabilities intelligence," focusing on how to re-architect roles by blending human expertise with AI efficiency. 

 Jessie is the founder of Stakkd and a leading voice in HR technology who works directly with the founders and builders of the next generation of tools. She specializes in bridging the gap between what HR tech startups build and what people teams actually need to function effectively.

Susan is a former CHRO for organizations like Riot Games and GoJek who specializes in rebuilding HR systems from first principles rather than templates. She is the author of The Death of Best Practices and an expert in navigating workforce transformation across high-growth companies.

Glenn has spent 20 years exploring the intersection of technology and humanity, co-hosting Amplify AI and founding Never Mind The Job Spec. He specializes in helping organizations move past AI hype to focus on the deep cultural shifts and resistance that vendors often overlook. 

Magnus Størum is the co-founder and CEO of Spradley, an AI-driven employee insight platform designed to replace static surveys with real conversations. Pulling from his entrepreneurial background in building community-focused platforms, he specializes in leveraging technology to give a voice to the quietest rooms in an organization. Magnus focuses on deploying non-judgmental AI interviewers that cut through corporate buzzwords, allowing enterprise leaders to extract rich qualitative narratives and uncover what their workforces actually need.

Tom Zrubecky is an accomplished entrepreneur, management consultant, and the founder and CEO of Talentpilot, an AI-powered workforce suite utilizing psychometry to help managers build high-performing teams. Prior to launching his own venture, he held strategic leadership roles at firms like PwC and Creative Dock, where he drove complex digital transformations and advised corporations on agile development. He is a prominent specialist in generative AI and agentic tech deployment, dedicated to reshaping the modern labor market by engineering seamless, data-driven matches between candidates and corporate cultures.

David is the Chief Product Advisor for Fusion and the founder of Wavefront Innovations, where he specializes in helping organizations move from AI curiosity to operational excellence. With deep experience in product strategy and systems innovation, he focuses on how technology can be a force for meaningful organizational change. 

Shirley Baumer is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Shapes (formerly DreamTeam), a $24 million VC-backed platform built as the world's first adaptive, AI-native PeopleOS. Previously, she was the very first product manager at monday.com, where she spent years bringing a strict product-led mindset to workflow engineering while scaling the company from 30 to over 2,000 employees and a $1 billion ARR IPO. A second-time entrepreneur with a background in behavioral economics and journalism, she is a prominent specialist in breaking down fragmented, old-school HR stacks and replacing them with agile, self-evolving AI automation.

Alisher Jafarov is a seasoned HR tech innovator and product leader who specializes in engineering modern workforce solutions that bridge the gap between people management and emerging technology. Pulling from deep expertise in enterprise data strategy and agile product development, he has successfully guided organizations through complex digital transformations and scaled talent infrastructures. Alisher is a prominent specialist in agentic workflows and practical AI tools, focusing on how HR teams can move away from manual admin to build scalable, high-performance operations.

Micha Schipper is the founder of Leqture, a leading learning platform that delivers hundreds of interactive, live expert sessions to global enterprises annually. He specializes in corporate wellness and workforce engagement, championing large-scale educational events around workplace psychological safety, diversity, and mental well-being. Micha focuses on providing organizations with the tools and knowledge needed to foster collaborative cultures and enhance employee performance.

Chad Sowash is a veteran of the HR and recruitment technology industry, widely recognized as the co-host of The Chad & Cheese Podcast, often referred to as "HR’s Most Dangerous Podcast." With a career spanning over two decades, Chad was with Monster before it was called Monster.com, led the development of the National Labor Exchange, built long-lasting veteran hiring programs, and today he's an investor, advisor and a leading voice in analyzing the intersection of hiring, technology, and business strategy.  

Barb Hyman is the CEO and founder of Sapia.ai, a market-leading AI recruitment platform backed by over $21 million in funding and trusted by global brands like Starbucks, Qantas, and Aesop. A former Chief Human Resources Officer and strategy consultant at Boston Consulting Group, she initially took over a struggling startup in 2018 and aggressively pivoted it to pioneer the world’s first text-chat "Smart Interviewer." She is a vocal advocate for ethical, transparent tech, focused on using natural language processing to eliminate systemic human bias and make the hiring process completely auditable

Adam Horne is the co-founder of Open Org, a platform and movement dedicated to helping companies build and scale transparent, high-trust workplace cultures. Leveraging his extensive background in talent acquisition and employer branding, he advocates for treating transparency not just as a cultural perk, but as a critical operational metric. Adam specializes in advising modern HR leaders on how to open up their compensation frameworks, hiring practices, and internal metrics to drive retention and attract elite talent.

Tom Zrubecky is an accomplished entrepreneur, management consultant, and the founder and CEO of Talentpilot, an AI-powered workforce suite utilizing psychometry to help managers build high-performing teams. Prior to launching his own venture, he held strategic leadership roles at firms like PwC and Creative Dock, where he drove complex digital transformations and advised corporations on agile development. He is a prominent specialist in generative AI and agentic tech deployment, dedicated to reshaping the modern labor market by engineering seamless, data-driven matches between candidates and corporate cultures.

 Nina is an experienced HR leader and executive coach who has spent her career helping organizations navigate massive leadership transformations and cultural shifts. She is a specialist in developing resilient leadership models that can withstand the pressures of rapid technological and organizational change. 

Mikko Kivelä is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Taito.ai, an AI-native performance enablement platform backed by over $2.6 million in funding. Drawing on deep experience in digital workflow design and organizational scaling, he pioneered Taito's "Performance Intelligence" framework to integrate continuous coaching and goal-alignment directly into daily workflows like Slack. Mikko is a prominent product leader dedicated to shifting companies away from rigid, retroactive review cycles toward lightweight, transparent, and continuous AI-driven feedback loops.

Eva Monima-Harrison is the co-founder of HIOFU, an innovative skills infrastructure platform that is redefining talent mobility through the HIOFU Skills Passport. Leveraging her background in building secure digital frameworks, she has championed a shift away from biased, self-reported resumes toward immutable, candidate-owned evidence of real capability. Eva focuses on engineering ATS-native orchestration layers that seamlessly deliver trust-weighted, auditable skill signals directly into existing enterprise hiring funnels.

Valerie is the CHRO at Empower Pharmacy and the former VP of People at Tesla, where she led global HR through periods of extraordinary growth. Known as "Tesla’s Top Lawyer" before transitioning to HR, she brings a deep expertise in responsible innovation and scaling mission-driven organizations. 

Alexander Snurnitsyn is the Co-Founder and CEO of Beneflo, a borderless employee rewards platform redefining the modern compensation stack. With deep roots in enterprise tech, data strategy, and payroll outsourcing, he previously scaled HRB Portal (AGroup) across the Baltic region as its Chief Executive. Alexander is a leading advocate for agile organizational design and employee choice, specializing in helping companies move away from rigid, one-size-fits-all benefits toward personalized autonomy as a core retention metric

Marcus Workman is a tech innovator, product pioneer, and the CEO and co-founder of PRJCT LAZRUS, a company dedicated to building social finance and community platforms. With a deep background in workflow engineering, software development, and community architecture, he specializes in creating structured digital spaces out of complex manual systems. As a speaker on the HR Builder Stage representing Heirloom, Marcus focuses on how organizations can deploy clean, intuitive technology to seamlessly capture, preserve, and scale internal operational knowledge.

David is the Chief Product Advisor for Fusion and the founder of Wavefront Innovations, where he specializes in helping organizations move from AI curiosity to operational excellence. With deep experience in product strategy and systems innovation, he focuses on how technology can be a force for meaningful organizational change. 

Elizabeth is a neuroscientist and author who explores the intersection of biology and work design to improve human sustainability. She specializes in how environments and rituals shape brain chemistry and long-term performance.

 Daria is a Team Architect and former Chief People Officer with 15 years of international experience at firms like Deloitte. She is the author of CLICKING and specializes in helping leaders build high-performing teams capable of thriving in an AI-driven world.

Marija is a product manager and founder specializing in rapid prototyping and empowering non-technical leaders to build their own tools. She is a core advocate for the "HR Builder" movement, moving practitioners from tool users to active architects.

Chad Sowash is a veteran of the HR and recruitment technology industry, widely recognized as the co-host of The Chad & Cheese Podcast, often referred to as "HR’s Most Dangerous Podcast." With a career spanning over two decades, Chad was with Monster before it was called Monster.com, led the development of the National Labor Exchange, built long-lasting veteran hiring programs, and today he's an investor, advisor and a leading voice in analyzing the intersection of hiring, technology, and business strategy.  

Dr. Maya Huber is the co-founder and CEO of TaTiO, an AI-powered talent acquisition platform that replaces traditional resumes with realistic, task-based job simulations. Holding a PhD in Occupational Therapy, she spent over a decade leading vocational rehabilitation and supported employment initiatives aimed at making the workforce more inclusive. A prominent expert in competency-based recruiting, Maya specializes in reverse-engineering the hiring funnel to help global enterprises evaluate candidate potential purely on actual performance and job-relevant skills.

Phuong spent nearly a decade leading global talent acquisition and workforce strategy at Stripe before founding Talexa, a workforce intelligence platform. She is an expert in "capabilities intelligence," focusing on how to re-architect roles by blending human expertise with AI efficiency. 

Andrei is a technology leader with over 20 years of experience in Agentic AI and enterprise SaaS, previously leading technical teams at RingCentral and Kore.ai. Currently Head of Presales at Graia, he specializes in architecting conversational and agentic AI systems that transform employee experiences and drive business scale.

Simon Drinkwater is a Prosci®‑certified strategic advisor and founder of Vantor Advisory with 28 years of experience aligning people, culture, and technology. He specializes in helping enterprise leaders take a strategic pause to navigate change, build trust, and design sustainable, AI-ready organizations.

Alisa Reznik is a Fractional COO and Executive Advisor with over 20 years of experience scaling startups, hypergrowth businesses, and Fortune 100 companies. Known for her direct approach, she works at the intersection of execution and leadership to build capable leaders who can successfully scale organizations from operational overload to clarity.

Simon Büschges is the CEO and founder of a stealth HR tech startup specializing in building data-driven tools for the future of work. Leveraging an extensive background in product strategy and technical infrastructure, he is dedicated to creating automated solutions that eliminate administrative bloat and streamline enterprise people operations.

Erica Farmer is the co-founder and Business Director of Quantum Rise Talent Group, with over 20 years of experience leading learning and development strategy for major UK brands like British Gas and Virgin Care. She is a highly sought-after speaker and expert in digital-first learning, specializing in showing organizations how to practically integrate generative AI to supercharge corporate upskilling and future-proof their workforces.

Whit is a founder and specialist in AI orchestration and agentic workflows for enterprise teams. He focuses on how independent AI agents can be unified to handle complex, multi-step HR processes.

Yulia is a Microsoft MVP and advisor who helps global organizations integrate AI into their talent and learning operating models. She specializes in bridging the gap between high-level tech strategy and the day-to-day reality of workforce skills.

Nhat is the Founder and CEO of Chosen HQ and holds advanced degrees from MIT and Harvard. He is a specialist in agentic talent systems, focusing on rebuilding hiring processes so recruiters can focus on people rather than paperwork.

Cishawn is a communications architect who uses AI to build simulations for high-stakes workplace conversations. She focuses on using technology to help leaders practice and refine their human skills before it matters in the real world.

Vladimir is an engineer and yogi who combines a background in Artificial Intelligence with an MBA in Innovation & Entrepreneurship. As the founder of ZenHire, he focuses on transforming high-volume hiring into a fair, "zen" experience through deterministic and explainable technology.

Chuck is an AI and People Analytics leader with over 20 years of experience at companies like General Mills and Wells Fargo. A Founding Advisor of the AI for HR Community, he specializes in hands-on AI automation and workforce analytics that HR professionals can actually trust.

Deb is a workflow architect who specializes in building custom "diagnostic" tools that solve specific operational bottlenecks in HR. She focuses on turning institutional knowledge into automated advisors that handle the "messy" parts of HR ops

Adam Horne is the co-founder of Open Org, a platform and movement dedicated to helping companies build and scale transparent, high-trust workplace cultures. Leveraging his extensive background in talent acquisition and employer branding, he advocates for treating transparency not just as a cultural perk, but as a critical operational metric. Adam specializes in advising modern HR leaders on how to open up their compensation frameworks, hiring practices, and internal metrics to drive retention and attract elite talent.

Dorka Nagy-Józsa is the founder of Y2Y, a neuroscience-backed leadership development and AI adoption firm, drawing on 15 years of operational supply chain experience at Coca-Cola HBC and DHL. An internationally acclaimed keynote speaker voted "Best Speaker" at over 30 global events, she specializes in driving real behavior change and managing the world's 11th most-read leadership blog.

John Rood is the founder of Proceptual, a pioneering company that provides compliance and training tools to help enterprise organizations responsibly manage AI risk and data governance. Pulling from deep experience in educational tech and corporate compliance infrastructure, he specializes in translating complex AI regulations into practical, automated operational guardrails for legal and HR leaders.

Brannon is the founder of Carnelian Collective and a former Chief People Officer who specializes in helping HR teams move from curiosity to applied AI capability. She provides AI coaching and fractional HR advisory to help organizations scale with intention by automating heavy administrative loads.

Stacey is the Founder of CoreSynergy Partners with 15+ years of experience scaling people functions in fast-growing organizations. She specializes in aligning people strategy with scalable infrastructure and leveraging AI to make HR operations more practical and impactful.

Alycia is an I-O Psychologist with a PhD who previously validated selection programs for the Canadian Military. She now works on uniting hiring science with AI to build legally defensible and predictive interviewing products.

Kristen is a former Marine and Naval Academy grad who led global talent and DEI for Tesla during its most transformative years. She is an expert in leading through high-stakes uncertainty and building systems that align with core human values.