Program

Pick up your badge and have a morning coffee and tea

Pick up your badge and have a morning coffee and tea in the Serre & Foyer.

Teddy Dimitriva is the chairwomen of TA-Live and will be the host of the day. Teddy is a very experienced chair with a background in HR and technology.

About Teddy Dimitrova
About Teddy Dimitrova What Teddy loves about the today's world is that crazy rapid growth. An environment where you can't stand still, where you need to be sharp, curious and bold to succeed. That, in combination with the world of sourcing, recruitment, talent management and all that comes together with working with people - drives and excites her. Next to her passion for innovation, she's a reliable contributor of today's retail industry - she's a passionate shoe collector, she likes to change my hair color on weekly bases and she strongly believes that disruption is the key to success!

Location: Main Hall

Opening keynote of Kasia Tang, Sourcing & Recruiting Trainer
Sourcing has become an important part of many companies' talent attraction strategy over the past few years. But not every company employs a specialist sourcing team. How can you - as a recruiter - master the basics of sourcing to combine the best of both worlds? In this session we'll cover tools and practices to help you become a sourcing recruiter.

About Kasia Tang
I run training for recruiters and managers focusing on recruiting, social media and sourcing. I write a bilingual blog at www.kasiatang.com and manage Recruitment Open Community Polska, the largest community for Polish recruiters. I work with recruitment teams to help them find and attract more candidates online. I also really enjoy attending recruitment events both in Poland and internationally. Among others, I had the pleasure to present at Sourcing Summit in Amsterdam, the largest sourcing conference in Europe, and events in Berlin such as Social Recruiting Days and Hiring Success.

Location: Main Hall

A guide to how to out hire the big boys. If you are a start-up or recruiting in a competitive field this talk will help you stand out.

About Akbar Karenga

Recruitment geek with experience hiring talent for leading tech companies. Strong network of candidates across software, marketing, academic, sales and operations disciplines.

Location: Main Hall

Time for coffee or tea in the Serre & Foyer. Meet some partners and catch up with other delegates.

Scale up your recruitment team

There is a big difference working in Talent Acquisition for a corporate organization vs. a scale-up organization. At Sana Commerce - an e-commerce scale-up - recruitment is one of the key priorities for the company and its management team. How does that impact your recruitment team? In this break out session I’ll cover anything about our recruitment roadmaps (including the results), our team structure, the tools that we use and share our most important learnings and best practices from the past years.


Bio

Shaunny has over 8 years of experience in Talent Acquisition (agency -, scale-up – and corporate recruitment). Currently she’s managing Sana Commerce’s Recruitment team in Europe and North America. She rejoined the company in 2018 after she had worked at ADP for 3,5 years. Shaunny is very interested in efficiency and improving processes – she’s always in for anything that could be done better. Together with her team she was able to hire over 110 employees worldwide in 2019.

Location: Main Hall

The future of fair and bias free recruitment

About the session: About AI, Data and the important role of the recruiter.

Do you want to see how a bias free assessment robot analyzes the personality of a candidate in a short interview? Do you want to hear how smart recruiters use culture fit assessments to match their employees with the working environment? And, do you want to know why your role as a recruiter is becoming increasingly important, but in a different way?

Meet our AI-Robot Sigmund, get concrete examples of the use of people analytics by recruiters and discover what important role you can play in this.

Profile speakers

Ivo Winkes is a business psychologist and expert in people assessments & analytics. He is one of the business leaders at LTP (market leader in assessment in The Netherlands) and responsible for Online People Assessment Services. Ivo works with his team of assessment psychologists on science based innovative assessment solutions and implements online assessments across the full width of the market.

Sven has a background in work & organizational psychology and clinical psychology and has been working for 5 years as a consultant at LTP. Before that he worked at a recruitment agency for 3 years. Sven advices organizations on staff selection and development, and helps them interpret assessment and performance data. By making effective use of the data organizations already own, Sven helps them make a better match between employees and the working environment. Resulting in a lower sickness and turnover rate and a higher performance.

Location: Small Hall

Sourcing expert versus A.I. Who’s the better sourcer?

Expert sourcer Kim Lokenberg takes on the A.I. of Recruit Robin in this hands-on human versus machine sourcing challenge. Experience how automation and software plays a role in your sourcing process and see for yourself how this complex technology is able to impact sourcing as we know it. As a bonus, you can use Robin’s A.I. to find candidates for your open job roles as well and leave TA-live at the end of the day with a shortlist of the best candidates for your job role.

Location: Choir Hall

Jelmer Zuidema is a recruitment marketeer at Booking.com. He's not a recruiter. He's never processed a candidate from application to his or her desk. However, sometimes it's good to not be too close, to you can objectively observe successful behaviors of those who are.



Adam Gordon is CEO of Candidate.ID and Hung's wingman in the weekly Recruiting Brainfood Live show.

Adam is an industry professional with a long history in recruitment. He has worked at corporates as well as agency side, for recruitment marketing firms before founding his own recruitment tech company. He's a member of the Resourcing Leaders 100, blogger at recruiting daily and advisor to the TA Tech foundation.

Location: Library

The essence of Talent Optimization is to align the People-strategy of an organisation with the business strategy in order to ensure that the strategic goals will indeed be achieved. As such, Talent Optimization embraces Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Talent Development and Employee Engagement. In an interactive interview session Jan wil be interviewed by a TA journalist and the audience is invited to participate in the interview

About Jan Scheck

Jan Scheck is an internationally formed and experienced leader driven by the right connection between people and business, therefore bringing stability to an organization to promote business realizations. Working on the base of an inclusive style with clear ethical standards, Jan advises his clients with regard to designing an optimal organization, putting together strong performing teams and optimizing recruitment and selection for this purpose.

Location: Main Hall

Data driven: Have a look in the kitchen of DMG!

Description of breakout session: De Mandemakers Groep is one of the largest retail companies in the Netherlands. With over 3500 employees and 18 different consumer brands it is a challenge to find the right candidates for all open positions.

How does data and analytics help achieve the goal and how does marketing automation have a part in this? Arnout will give you a look in the kitchen at De Mandemakers Groep.

Speaker name: Arnout Kampen
Speaker Title: Online Recruitment Marketeer @ De Mandemakers Groep

A bit about you and your profile: Arnout Kampen is an energetic and people driven person working as an Online Recruitment Marketeer and he likes to make his decisions based on Data. Innovation and change are two of his best friends and helping his colleagues cope with these is something he does on a daily basis.

Location: Small Hall

The future of Talent Intelligence.


Talent Intelligence is globally on the rise. Especially the bigger international companies are now investing in data and resources where to find talent (allocation) and how to recruit them (persuasion). Instead of the classic internal data approach, the power of external data is there. In this presentation I will show real examples, do’s and don’ts of Talent Intelligence and the possible future of Talent Intelligence.
About Geert-Jan Waasdorp
Geert-Jan Waasdorp (45) is serial entrepreneur, investor en owner of Intelligence Group, a data & tech company specialized in global recruitment and labour market data. Intelligence Group is a global authority in the field of knowledge of the (international) labour market, recruitment and recruitment marketing, with as main goal to help companies find the best talent in the world and recruit more quality than their competitors.

Location: Choir Hall

Mees van Velzen: Talent pipelines

Mees van Velzen is founder of MrWork

Adam Gordon is CEO of Candidate.ID and Hung's wingman in the weekly Recruiting Brainfood Live show.

Adam is an industry professional with a long history in recruitment. He has worked at corporates as well as agency side, for recruitment marketing firms before founding his own recruitment tech company. He's a member of the Resourcing Leaders 100, blogger at recruiting daily and advisor to the TA Tech foundation.

Location: Library

Time for a good international lunch in the Serre and Foyer, meet some partners and to catch up with other delegates.

Kirstin Birner: Talent Operations at The LEGO Group

We are recruiting top talent around the globe with the aim “only the best is good enough”. In this key note I will provide insights on the Talent Ops Model at The LEGO Group and what we are doing to support the business with the best candidates.

About Kirsten Birner

Kirstin is an experienced recruiter and has been working in in-house TA functions over the past few years. She has more than nine years’ experience and is working as Manager in Talent Operations EMEA at The LEGO Group. In this role, Kirstin is the recruitment lead for the team, taking care over demand and capacity, team reporting as well as end to end recruitments across various countries. Kirstin is always interested in improving the recruitment process and helping hiring managers to engage with talents at an early stage to ensure an excellent hiring experience for everyone involved.

Location: Main Hall

Why bother with inclusion?!

Organisations spend millions of Euros each year on Unconscious Bias training, yet very little is being achieved to move the needle when it comes to Gender Equality, BAME and LGBT inclusion - people with disability are often overlooked or turned away for being a too challenging for employers. We are well aware that pay gaps exist all over the diversity spectrum. Key Take Aways... Understand the need for a Shared Vision for Inclusion Why simply hiring diverse talent won't work if the organisations culture isn't fit for purpose. How small inclusions nudges can make a big impact to achieving the vision

About Joanne Lockwood

Joanne is a leading authority on Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging. She specialises in promoting transgender awareness and support to businesses and organisations throughout the UK, Europe and elsewhere. As an International Keynote Conference speaker, Joanne delivers workshops, seminars, and engages with organisations to develop policy & best practises to be more inclusive for all people. Challenging Biases and helping them to develop a Vision and Strategy for Conscious Inclusion. Joanne was a contributor and featured in a Channel 4 (UK) documentary called “The Making of Me”, broadcast in February 2019. This documentary was filmed over a 3 year period and detailed her own personal gender transition and its impact on those around her.

Location: Main Hall

Sterksen & RecruitRobin


Guido de Regt is senior recruitment consultant at Sterksen and Lead corporate recruiter BeNeLux at Atos. He is curious and believes in the power of openness and clarity. He will always put the quality if hire first.

Aron Schilder is the founder and CEO of Recruit Robin. With Robin he's building an AI sourcing tool to help organisations find the best talent in the easiest way possible.

About

Sterksen is a full service recruitment agency with more than 17 years experience in the field. To ensure we keep providing our clients with the right talent, technical innovation is always a top priority within our organisation. Strong and proven partnerships with technical innovaters such as RecruitRobin are key.RecruitRobin provides both our corporate and agency recruiters with relevant candidates and thus enables a more efficient sourcing process. This break out session will tell you more about the how Sterksen and RecruitRobin work together and how technology and tooling can improve your sourcing too!

Location: Main Hall

Employee Referral Workshop by Sam Davies & Bill Boorman

In this workshop, you will be given the opportunity to take part in focus groups that explore the different rewards and processes that increase participation and longevity of your referrals. Led by Real Links’ Sam Davies and their lead advisor, Bill Boorman, you will have the chance to learn how you can tailor your employee referrals to fit the specific needs of your company and employees.

Sam Davies

Sam is the CEO and co-founder of Real Links, an employee referrals company, which increases its clients’, such as Bupa, Adecco and McKesson’s, referred hires from under 10% to over 30% through its methodology and referral automation platform. Through his background as a recruiter and a lawyer who experienced being referred first-hand, Sam brings his unique perspective to innovating the world of recruitment through employee referrals.

Bill Boorman


Bill Boorman has worked in and around recruiting for the last 30 years, and is the founder of #tru. He takes unconventional approaches to recruitment and HR problems and has worked for clients like The BBC, Oracle and HardRock. He's currently in advisory boards several start-ups in recruitment technology and a well know keynote speaker that has been on stages all over the world, from Australia and India to the US and all over Europe.

Location: Small Hall

How to build an awesome careers site

Your corporate careers website is probably the most important linking pin in your recruitment. Every candidate will visit it at some point in the process. It's the place where you can turn candidates into applicants. So it should be good. Based on research on the 500 biggest and most well known employers of the Netherlands this workshop will give you tips and suggestions what to improve first.

Bas van de Haterd Founder Digitaal-Werven

Bio Bas van de Haterd

Bas van de Haterd has been a speaker and consultant in the recruitment industry for 15 years. He's been on stage all over the world from India and Dubai to London, Berlin and Amsterdam. He also runs Digitaal-Werven, a corporate careerssite research in the Netherlands for 14 years now, collecting data on the digital candidate experience.

Location: Choir Hall

Anna Brandt - Talent Acquisition at start-ups and scale-ups

Anna is a global talent acquisition leader with experience at Zalando, Backbase, N26, Uber and Mollie.

Adam Gordon is CEO of Candidate.ID and Hung's wingman in the weekly Recruiting Brainfood Live show.

Adam is an industry professional with a long history in recruitment. He has worked at corporates as well as agency side, for recruitment marketing firms before founding his own recruitment tech company. He's a member of the Resourcing Leaders 100, blogger at recruiting daily and advisor to the TA Tech foundation.

Location: Library

The effects of relocation stress on international talents


In the current Dutch labour market it is increasingly difficult to find the right talent. Companies are in fierce competition with each other for highly-skilled candidates and are forced to think outside the box and identify new ways of finding and acquiring talent. One of those ways is to hire international talents outside of the EU. Most companies regard these processes as lengthy, time consuming and complicated. They offer basic relocation assistance oftentimes in the form of a relocation budget.

Despite acknowledging that moving to a different country is a life-altering event, they tend to underestimate the impact relocation has on their new employee. Anytime people face change, that is more often than not an inherently stressful experience. During this presentation, Leandro will explore this topic. He will discuss the Do's and Don’ts of hiring internationally and he will share his success stories and pitfalls. Also, he will advise on how to prepare for international hires to ensure a smooth and soft landing in the Netherlands and your company.

About Leandro Gomes da Silva


Leandro (30) is a game-changer by nature. His eagerness to change recruitment of technology and internet professionals become clear by his original solutions. As Technology Ambassador he is responsible for representing his Tech department all across the globe and to recruit hidden tech talent . His weapon of choice are bad jokes and his goal is to reduce the stress expats experience during their relocation to an absolute minimum!

Location: Main Hall

How to get men involved in gender diversity.
After extensive research in USA and Europe we present our findings. Wendy will tell about why men are involved, what drives them and what actions they like taking in your gender diversity strategy. A strategy that has te be supported by both women and men to succeed. In other words; you learn how to get the men involved.
Who is Wendy Broersen?
Serial entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Superwomen Academy and curious as hell. Superwomen Academy is an international company and helps companies to attract, retain and develop a diverse workforce. Likes to do things in a different way if she sees conventional ways did not work or do not go fast enough. Inventor of Equalitypoly; the first management game to help companies to not just talk about diversity but get into action.

Location: Small Hall

How to get men involved in gender diversity.
After extensive research in USA and Europe we present our findings. Wendy will tell about why men are involved, what drives them and what actions they like taking in your gender diversity strategy. A strategy that has te be supported by both women and men to succeed. In other words; you learn how to get the men involved.
Who is Wendy Broersen?
Serial entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Superwomen Academy and curious as hell. Superwomen Academy is an international company and helps companies to attract, retain and develop a diverse workforce. Likes to do things in a different way if she sees conventional ways did not work or do not go fast enough. Inventor of Equalitypoly; the first management game to help companies to not just talk about diversity but get into action.

Location: Small Hall

Match. Like. Apply.

Deborah Spiegeler (Founder and Director of HRMarketing) and Laurens van Nues (Co-founder and MD of Magnet.me) will talk about using Magnet.me as as platform to reduce time-to-hire and cost-per-hire, while offering job seekers an intuitive and fun way of connecting with organisations.

About Deborah Spiegeler
Deborah has as background in marketing and extensive working experience in the field of Recruitment & Human Resources, working at top tier organisations as Eneco, BP and Unilever. In 2006 she started her own company HRMarketing.

About Laurens van Nues
Laurens is co-founder and MD of Magnet.me, the largest career platform for students, starters and young professionals in The Netherlands, and is currently responsible for HR and Product innovation.

Location: Choir Hall

Ingeborg van Harten - how to build HR in a tech startup

Ingeborg is head of people and places at Mollie

Adam Gordon is CEO of Candidate.ID and Hung's wingman in the weekly Recruiting Brainfood Live show.

Adam is an industry professional with a long history in recruitment. He has worked at corporates as well as agency side, for recruitment marketing firms before founding his own recruitment tech company. He's a member of the Resourcing Leaders 100, blogger at recruiting daily and advisor to the TA Tech foundation.

Location: Library

Time for a n energy break, meet some partners and to catch up with other delegates.

Internal Mobility: A Design Thinking Journey

Barney will be talking about his experience leading Talent Acquisition Strategy Programmes utilising Design Thinking principles.

With 15 years’ experience within recruitment, Barney has moved through the ranks of agency to manage Global Technology, Digital and Front Office hiring in-house within Financial Services. He is now Head of Customer Success at the Employee Referral Partner Real Links.

Location: Main Hall

Yulia Bondar - Tech recruiter

The best ATS for your company Having worked with several ATS’s, Yulia Will share her feelings about Lever, Greenhouse and Recruitee and tell you what ATS is best for what company. She will share her findings and loves for the different ATS's she knows intimately.

About Yulia Bondar
Yulia is a ”people & technology” enthusiast, coming from Ukraine and enjoying work & life in Amsterdam. Having a degree in psychology and being “geeky”, she always had a neverending curiosity for people. Especially “people at work”. That brought her to Recruitment & Talent Acquisition Management, where she has been exploring the world of tech for the last 7 years.

Yulia always tries one step forward, analyzes where the industry goes and does things differently. It’s all about the right mindset and only then tools, right? Being one of the members of the Hacking HR community and organizing events, she truly believes in the power of the community. And uses it a lot to recruit.

Nevertheless, her expertise goes further with Employer Branding, Recruitment Marketing, and Employee Engagement. During her life in the Netherlands and constantly hiring internationally, she is researching cultural differences at work.

Nowadays she helps startups, scale-ups, and innovative digital companies how they can grow differently and be disruptive employer. And she loves it!

Location: Small Hall

Marcel van der Meer - Sourcing guru

Marcel will give a live sourcing demo using Amazing Hiring in order to try to source the best candidates for the sourcing challenge. He will use the Amazing Hiring tool live on stage and explain his actions and show how one of the worlds best sourcers works and how easy it actually is using the right tools.

Marcel is an independent sourcing contractor, currently working for the Rabobank as a Global Sourcing Lead and responsible for global sourcing and recruitment innovation within the bank. Besides that, he works as an independent trainer within his own company Klikwork and has trained hundreds of recruiters and sourcers to the next level in sourcing. Marcel has almost fifteen years of sourcing under his belt, with a focus on automation and growth.

Location: Choir Hall

Peer Goudsmid: the importance of the intake


Adam Gordon is CEO of Candidate.ID and Hung's wingman in the weekly Recruiting Brainfood Live show.

Adam is an industry professional with a long history in recruitment. He has worked at corporates as well as agency side, for recruitment marketing firms before founding his own recruitment tech company. He's a member of the Resourcing Leaders 100, blogger at recruiting daily and advisor to the TA Tech foundation.

Location: Library

Bill Boorman: Recruiting? Get over it.
Most organisations still hire the way they always have. Ok, theres a bit of technology speeding a few things up, but have we really just automated the things we don't do that well manually? More admin than intelligence? In this session Boorman looks at why the future of Talent Acquisition lies firmly in HR. Job brand over employer brand, where learning and development and talent acquisition must be a single function. It is controversial. You wouldn't expect anything less.

About Bill Boorman
Bill Boorman has worked in and around recruiting for the last 30 years, and is the founderof #tru. He takes unconventional approaches to recruitment and HR problems and has worked for clients like The BBC, Oracle and HardRock. He's currently in advisory boards several start-ups in recruitment technology and a well know keynote speaker that has been on stages all over the world, from Australia and India to the US and all over Europe.

Location: Main Hall

Chairwoman Teddy Dimitrova closes the third edition of Talent Acquisition Live.

Location: Main Hall