OCTOBER 26-28, 2026 | WASHINGTON, D.C.
The Only Executive Summit
Built Exclusively for Heads of TA
How Heads of TA are transforming organization, talent, and technology strategy, told firsthand by the people doing it. One Head of TA per company. No vendors, no general admission.
“TA leaders are being asked to solve problems that don’t have obvious playbooks right now. The value of the TA Summit is having a room full of peers who are wrestling with the same questions and can pressure-test ideas in real time.”
The Council Members Attending
Industries Represented: Technology · Financial Services · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Consumer & Retail · Manufacturing & Industrial · Professional Services · Energy & Utilities · Media & Telecommunications
Built Around What’s Keeping Heads of TA Up at Night
Where AI Creates Value (and Where It Doesn’t)
The challenge is no longer whether to adopt AI. It’s knowing where it creates real value versus hype — and how to train recruiters to work alongside it well.
Building the Recruiter Team of the Future
The recruiter’s job is changing faster than most development frameworks can keep up. How do you build a team that advises on talent risk and proves strategic value with leaner resources?
A Tech Stack That Actually Delivers
The challenge is no longer finding technology. It’s knowing what to adopt, what to retire, and how to build a stack that improves outcomes without adding complexity.
Quality of Hire as a Business Metric
Executive teams want TA to move beyond time-to-fill. How do leading organizations define and measure quality of hire in a way that connects to retention and performance?
Answers To Your Urgent Priorities
How is TA transforming?
TA Transformation: Organization, Talent, & Technology
Carter Bradley, Co-Founder & CEO, Veris Insights
Drawing on a year of conversation from across The Council, our opening address zeros in on the three largest challenges facing Heads of TA: how to structure the team to accelerate efficiency and value, how to confidently recruit the best talent as business needs shift and AI erodes candidate signal, and what work AI can take on without degrading performance. You’ll walk away with context on the transformation confronting TA, and answers that drive smarter action.
How is AI reshaping the workforce?
A Fireside Chat with the DOL’s Chief Innovation Officer
Taylor Stockton, Chief Innovation Officer, U.S. Department of Labor
How is AI reshaping work and the workforce — and what should leading employers do now to build the talent they need? A firsthand view of what the Department of Labor is seeing across the workforce, and how it’s responding through its work on AI literacy, apprenticeships, and workforce innovation.
How are TA leaders actually making progress?
Learn From the Most Innovative Leaders in TA
Sitting Heads of TA, live, on what they actually did — not case studies written by a vendor.
How pulling top recruiters into a dedicated “SWAT team” against TA’s hardest problems became a blueprint now being considered for enterprise-wide adoption.
How putting internal mobility on the CEO’s scorecard nearly doubled TIAA’s internal hire rate, from 20–25% to 40–45%.
How SAP operationalized skills-led hiring across roughly 25,000 hires a year with just 15 evaluated skills per role.
How a “forensic” rethink of who does what let a team of 20 recruiters scale to 50,000 hires a year.
How a structured AI proficiency model took Copilot usage from a couple of prompts a week to about six per associate per day.
How a “candidate concierge” model, designed from the company’s own ethos, concentrates human attention where candidate stakes are highest.
How requiring hiring managers to name three 12-month outcomes before a req can open reshaped screening, interviewing, and onboarding at Kohler — and nearly halved cancellations.
The Room Is Curated To You
One Head of TA Per Company. Matched to the Conversations That Matter to You.
Every seat in this room belongs to a sitting Head of TA. No vendors, no general admission, no substitutes. But caliber alone isn’t the point. Before you arrive, we match you into the peer conversations, roundtables, and breakouts most relevant to your reality, based on:
- Industry Groupings: Sessions with in-industry peers to tackle issues specific to or pervasive in your industry.
- Issue Sessions: Breakouts focused specifically on the issues you’re most working on with others who are working on the exact same issues.
- Team Stage Sessions: Tailored to your stage – with other organizations’ leaders who are running similarly sized programs.
This also includes curated tech stack conversations, matching you with peers evaluating or running comparable tools. It happens through a real conversation, not a form: you’ll meet with your dedicated Council Director before The Summit to discuss your team’s specific priorities, and that input directly shapes the roundtable topics, breakout agendas, and cross-industry sessions you’re placed in.
Every Session, Built From What Heads of TA Told Us
Unlike traditional conferences, the TA Executive Summit experience is designed around the challenges, opportunities, and strategic priorities curated specifically for Heads of Talent Acquisition.
Monday, October 26
6:00 – 8:00 PM | Welcome Reception · Drinks, Light Bites & Networking
Tuesday, October 27
9:00 – 10:00 AM | Check-In & Breakfast
10:00 – 10:45 AM | TA Transformation: Organization, Talent, & Technology (Carter Bradley)
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM | Member Innovation Spotlights
12:15 – 1:15 PM | Lunch
1:15 – 3:00 PM | Industry Cohort Breakouts
3:00 – 4:30 PM | Member Innovation Spotlights (continued)
4:30 – 5:30 PM | Fireside Chat (Taylor Stockton, DOL)
5:30 PM+ | Dinner Experience
Wednesday, October 28
8:30 – 9:30 AM | Breakfast & Networking
9:30 – 11:00 AM | Industry Cohort Breakouts
11:00 AM – 12:45 PM | Cross Cohort Roundtables
12:45 – 1:45 PM | Lunch & Closing Discussion
Roundtable topics
- Candidate Matching Tools
- Overcoming Legal Barriers for AI Tools
- Leading a Global TA Team
- Managing a TA Center of Excellence
- Skills Assessment Tools
- Internal Mobility
- Training & Upskilling Recruiters + Hiring Managers