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Katrina Collier is on a mission to end the collaboration chaos that ruins recruitment and candidate experience; exacerbated by hybrid working. She is one of 2 people globally delivering design-thinking workshops specifically for recruitment, that swiftly help companies fix the real issues preventing successful talent acquisition. She is also a Mentor, Author of The Robot-Proof Recruiter, a global keynote speaker, and host of The Hiring Partner Perspective podcast.  Katrina is an Ambassador for Hope for Justice charity, and you’ll find her on LinkedIn and on Instagram & Twitter @KatrinaMCollier.

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Madison Butler is a native New Englander who has brought her east coast energy to Texas. She is a Black, queer woman, and she is also a survivor. She is the owner/founder of Blue Haired Unicorn, a consulting agency. Her work is focused around designing spaces and creating scalable strategies to achieve psychological safety. She is an outspoken advocate for mental health, removing the stigma around trauma and advocates for being “human at work’. She is passionate about facilitating hard conversations through storytelling, data and tough empathy. Madison has been featured in major news outlets such as New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Business Insider and Der Spiegel. She has been recognised by Linkedin as a top Black voice to follow. She was also recognised as Austin’s rising star by DivInc in 2021.She is looked upon as an expert in her field and is passionate about using her platform to have the hard conversations.Madison is committed to deconstructing the status quo and rebuilding corporate America, one organization at a time. Her mission is to ensure that no one ever feels like spaces were not made for them because we all deserve to live out loud. She is a start-up enthusiast and is passionate about building inclusive teams from the ground up with early stage companies. Madison is committed to helping change the narrative around what it looks like to be “human at work”, and hopes to reshape the way we look at ourselves at work and in life.

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Katrina (Kat) Kibben [they/them] is a keynote speaker, writing expert, and LGBTQIA+ advocate who teaches hiring teams how to write inclusive, unbiased job postings that attract exceptional talent. With 15+ years of recruitment marketing and training experience, Katrina knows how to turn talented recruiting teams into empathetic, confident writers. They’re a featured expert in publications like The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and Forbes and have been named to numerous lists, including LinkedIn’s Top Voices in Job Search & Careers. When not speaking, writing, or training, you’ll find Katrina traveling the country in their van.

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Brian Fink is currently a Senior Sourcing Technical Recruiter for Twitter. With 10+ years of specialized recruiting experience, he has helped a wide range of professionals ranging from entry-level candidates (new grads) to C-Suite executives take the next step up in their careers and stretch their professional capabilities. Brian specializes in recruitment tooling, building boolean strings, natural language search, and raw sourcing. He believes and advocates that you are never done learning, regardless of where you are in your career.

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Amy has been working in recruitment and talent related roles within the visual effects industry across both the UK and Canada for many years. In each role she has additionally had responsibility for working with schools, colleges and universities to provide careers guidance and support educators with content. She is a non-executive Director of Access:VFX, an industry organisation working to improve the diversity of the visual effects industry. She is also part of the steering group of the Next Gen Skills Academy who, with industry, have launched industry specific qualifications and developed a formal programme of VFX apprenticeships. Recently Amy has been working with the UK government, advising on the post-16 education landscape. 

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Vanessa Raath is an International Talent Sourcing Trainer who is passionate about training Recruiters & Sourcers to find the best talent, more effectively and efficiently than their competitors. She has trained a large number of recruitment agencies, as well as many internal Talent Acquisition Teams, in all parts of the world. Some of her clients include Twitter, Adobe and Eventbrite, to name a few. Vanessa also still actively works as a Freelance Global Talent Sourcer. She knows that by staying active and operational in this space, she is better equipped to train others to source candidates better. Her speciality lies in the Tech space as this is where her experience, and passion, lies. Currently, Vanessa is the Head Cheerleader, or Owner, of The Talent Hunter (https://www.vanessaraath.com). When she is not training Recruiters to source, or sourcing herself, you will probably find her delivering a keynote presentation on a stage near you.

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Alla Pavlova, Tech Recruiter and Sourcer, based in Amsterdam. Building tech teams from 2008. Got lucky to be a part of Miro, GameHouse, Viber, Dott, My.Games, Blendle, Relive, and other great companies’ journeys. Currently scaling Riot Games Hong Kong & Singapore studio.
Leading Slack Platform Community in Amsterdam and conducting weekly free WAN-parties for Tech Sourcers.
Love creating and testing sourcing tools, pair-sourcing with other sourcers, programming on Scratch or playing computer games. Any AD carry looking for a good support?

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Anastasia is the Director of Talent Acquisition at Remote, one of the most fast-paced unicorn companies. In one year alone her team has hired 750+ team members and she’s always willing to share their story and global hiring best practices with the community.Anastasia always said that a well-developed technology becomes magic in real life. She is extremely passionate about people, and the changes and impact brought by technologies for them - it drives her recruiting career and life. Anastasia’s previous experience is focused heavily on Recruiting for big Tech industry players. Prior to Remote she built from scratch and led the Global Sourcing at GitLab and before that she was driving various recruiting initiatives at Uber, Dell, and a local data science start-up.All her free time is devoted to her family and traveling, and she is still in search of an ideal mix of these 2 hobbies.

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Phil Strazzulla is the founder of SSR, a site dedicated to helping HR Teams find and buy the right software through free online guides.

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Brian Fink is currently a Senior Sourcing Technical Recruiter for Twitter. With 10+ years of specialized recruiting experience, he has helped a wide range of professionals ranging from entry-level candidates (new grads) to C-Suite executives take the next step up in their careers and stretch their professional capabilities. Brian specializes in recruitment tooling, building boolean strings, natural language search, and raw sourcing. He believes and advocates that you are never done learning, regardless of where you are in your career.

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Anita Lettink has spent more than 20 years of her career in global consulting, corporate and executive leadership roles. She has in-depth knowledge of the HCM and Payroll Ecosystem and is recognized as a Top25 Global Thought Leader on the Future of Work.  Anita brings insights and perspectives about the changing world of work to companies, investors and startups worldwide. She is the founder of hrtechradar.com, where she helps young companies that are innovating the HR industry reach their full potential, and supports clients and investors with investment decisions.

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Joanne Lockwood, Founder and CEO of SEE Change Happen, is an Inclusion and Belonging specialist and speaker. She works with organisations throughout the UK, Europe and beyond, challenging corporate mentality, and providing a service that goes far beyond “just” Diversity & Inclusion.Living by the mantra: “Smile, Engage and Educate,” Joanne believes that people are people, whatever their ethnicity, gender and abilities, deserving to be treated with dignity and respect to work well and thrive.

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Adam "Smiley" Poswolsky is an internationally renowned keynote speaker, workplace belonging expert, and bestselling author of three books including most recently, Friendship in the Age of Loneliness. Smiley regularly speaks at Fortune 500 companies and has advised heads of state and foreign leaders about the future of work. Smiley’s TED talk on “the quarter-life crisis” has been viewed over 1.7 million times, and he has spoken in front of fifty thousand people in twenty-five countries. Smiley’s writing has been published in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and the Washington Post, and his work has been featured in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Wall St. Journal, and the World Economic Forum.

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Brian Fink is currently a Senior Sourcing Technical Recruiter for Twitter. With 10+ years of specialized recruiting experience, he has helped a wide range of professionals ranging from entry-level candidates (new grads) to C-Suite executives take the next step up in their careers and stretch their professional capabilities. Brian specializes in recruitment tooling, building boolean strings, natural language search, and raw sourcing. He believes and advocates that you are never done learning, regardless of where you are in your career.

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Currently in the role of Recruitment Team Lead at Greenpeace International, I’ve spent the last year building the Recruitment Team and implementing fair and consistent recruitment practices. Before taking on this role, I worked as Senior HR Advisor within the Greenpeace UK HR team, gaining a good understanding in generalist HR. In total I’ve been at Greenpeace 17 years now. Whilst at Greenpeace UK, I implemented an internship programme which looks to encourage applications from underrepresented young people, which has been hugely successful. I’ve also played a large part within an internal Talent Acquisition Project at Greenpeace, developing recruitment best practice which can be used globally.

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Hi, my name is Karim, born and raised in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. I’m of Dutch🇳🇱 Tunisian🇹🇳 descent. After I finished my Bachelor, Applied Psychology, I found my passion in the world of Talent Acquisition. I love building high performing teams within extraordinary, high-paced organisations (therefore exciting fields), where business and people development come together. Teams that have a direct impact on delivering the organisations strategy. I always try to keep my learning curve as steep as possible to push the boundaries of my own capabilities.

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Sophie's passion for diversity and inclusion (D&I) has led her to leave her former job as a TV journalist and pursue a career with Greenpeace. After working for the German Greenpeace Office on D&I in recruiting, she is now the Greenpeace International Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Officer. In this role, she provides support in form of an EDI lens to all related matters within the organization and leads on the practical implementation of EDI measures.