Agenda

Engage Sydney 2024

Full Agenda Announced

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Thursday 14th March

7.30 - 9.15 AM

Registration open

8.00 - 9.00 AM

General Session
Rebecca Hartshorn
Women in leadership breakfast - SOLD OUT
Location: Level 4, Kingston Tower Room, Randwick Racecourse

With International Women’s day only a few days prior, this session will explore this years theme #InspireInclusion.

While you enjoy your coffee and hot breakfast, you will hear from Rebecca Perrone, Associate Director, RPO & Outsourced Solutions – Adecco and Chloe O’Toole, Managing Director – Marketing from Talent on the programs and processes they’ve implemented and what ‘Inspiring Inclusion’ means to them. After the panel, we will have a roundtable discussion facilitated by industry experts.

This event is now at capacity!

Sponsored by

Speakers

Chloe O’Toole

Talent

Rebecca Hartshorn

Rebecca Hartshorn

Launch Group

9.15 AM

General Session
Welcome to Country - Aunty Lola Ryan

About Aunty Lola Ryan

Lola is an Aboriginal women from the La Perouse Aboriginal Community, located on the northern side of Botany Bay.

She is a devoted mother of 3 children and loves spending her spare time with her family and two granddaughters aged 7 and 4 years old.

Lola is the Aboriginal Health Worker of the Child & Family Health Team of South Eastern Sydney Local Health District, a position she has held for 20 years. Her passion is improving the health outcomes for Aboriginal families and children aged 0-5 years and to work on projects that can make a difference in engaging Aboriginal families to take care of their health and wellbeing as well as their family’s needs.

9.20 - 10.05 AM

General Session
Jeff Neumann headshot Nathan Green headshot
Opening keynote: Forward Together

In this recruitment landscape, you need to create your own opportunities. And the journey to reach them begins today. The agencies who will move forward fastest are the ones that use technology to give their teams an advantage. The ones that offer their clients speed, flexibility, and a higher quality of service. The ones that learn from tried-and-true strategies to keep talent satisfied. Hear from Jeff Neumann, SVP Product Marketing and Nathan Green, Senior Solutions Consultant at Bullhorn, on how your agency can strengthen its ability to win new business and attract talent using smart solutions like AI and beyond.

Speakers
Jeff Neumann headshot

Jeff Neumann

Bullhorn

Nathan Green headshot

Nathan Green

Bullhorn

10.05 - 10.15 AM

General Session
Aaron McIntosh headshot Aneliese Hynes headshot
Welcome address

10.15 - 10.55 AM

General Session
Brent Leahy headshot Penny O'Reilly headshot Stephen Smith headshot Matt Webster headshot
CEO panel - Leading from the front

Join us for an insightful session featuring three accomplished recruitment CEOs as they share their strategies for navigating the current business environment, their leadership approaches during challenging times, empowering teams in a slower market, and their methods for attracting and retaining talent. Additionally, they’ll provide valuable insights into how they effectively leverage technology to drive their businesses forward. This engaging discussion promises to equip you with practical insights to enhance your leadership and recruitment strategies, allowing you to stay competitive and succeed in the evolving world of recruitment. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from industry leaders and improve your recruitment approach.

Speakers
Brent Leahy headshot

Brent Leahy

RGF Staffing APEJ

Penny O'Reilly headshot

Penny O’Reilly

ManpowerGroup

Stephen Smith headshot

Stephen Smith

Sirius People

Matt Webster headshot

Matt Webster

Bullhorn

10.55 - 11.25 AM

Networking
Morning tea

Connect with sponsors and peers while enjoying some food and light refreshments

11.25 AM - 12.10 PM

Breakout Session
Andrew Rodger headshot
Masterclass: Building the ultimate recruitment tech stack
Track: Tech Talk

Join Andrew Rodger, CEO & Founder of recMate, in this interactive session on using Bullhorn as a platform to create a tech stack tailored to the needs of your growing business. Andrew will make you think about your recruitment ecosystem in a different way than you ever have before and take you through key milestones in the customer journey of a candidate or client.

You’ll learn how to build a framework to tie your technology investments to the needs of your agency and hear a variety of Marketplace partners deliver two-minute speed pitches on their solutions.

Sponsored by

Speakers
Khanh Pham headshot
Raising the bar: A critical examination of recruitment strategies for 2024 & beyond
Track: Empower your team

The strategies that propelled recruitment agencies to success over the past decade may not be right for the next. How can we continue to raise the bar and make better business decisions, for the good of the industry? In this session, industry experts Charles Cameron, CEO of RCSA, Lesley Horsburgh MD of APSCo and Ross Clennett, High Performance Recruitment Coach will undertake a performance review of the industry, and those we serve. They will delve into the strength and weaknesses of the recruitment market and highlight major opportunities and threats to give us their perspective of where the industry is headed in 2024 and beyond.

Speakers

12.20 - 1.00 PM

Breakout Session
Aaron McIntosh headshot
Work smarter: Using analytics and automation to harness opportunities
Track: Tech Talk

In the ever-evolving recruitment landscape, adaptability is crucial for sustained success. This session delves into real life case study from Fuse Recruitment on how you can use analytics to identify opportunities and future-proof your business, then leverage automation to scale your efforts. With real-time insights and technology to increase your capacity, you can navigate the market as it shifts.

Sponsored by

Speakers
Matt Hughes headshot
Empower your recruitment team: Unleashing personal resilience & well-being for success
Track: Empower your team

Burnout? Personal Resilience? Well-being? If you are seeking practical insights for yourself or your team then this talk is for you! Matt Hughes renowned resilience expert and Principal from Ripen will be demystifying common misconceptions about what well-being is, where resilience comes from, and what it really takes to maximise the well-being and outcomes of ourselves or others. You’ll come away with an awareness of how you or your team are already resilient, the top 5 threats to individual and team success, and the practical skills we must learn for facing life’s inevitable setbacks and hardships. Because life doesn’t get any easier, we just have to get more resilient…

Speakers

1.00 - 2.00 PM

Networking
Networking lunch

Connect with sponsors and peers while enjoying some food and light refreshments

2.00 - 2.45 PM

Breakout Session
Hugh Catterall Rabih Khatib from Bullhorn
Mastering sourcing
Track: Tech Talk

In the current industry climate, the importance of sourcing best fit business opportunities and sustaining a high quality candidate pipeline is more crucial than ever. In this session Bullhorn’s Hugh Catterall, Global Account Director & Rabih Khatib, Account Executive, will explore the power of Bullhorn Sourcebreaker and demonstrate how you can empower any recruiter to find top talent faster, uncover more job opportunities across your existing sources, and leverage sales intelligence to identify opportunities before your competition.

Sponsored by

Speakers
Ez Khan headshot Imogen Storie headshot Jody Falzdeen Josh McCole
The secret to winning new business for sustainable growth
Track: Empower your team

Winning new business has always been a priority for agencies, however we are now seeing a further emphasis on this as the market shifts from a talent first approach to prioritising business development. From doubling down on metrics to up-leveling their teams with the best technology, the most successful teams are those navigating pricing pressure, shrinking margins, and increased competition. How are they doing it? We’ll hear from a panel of agency leaders from the fastest-growing agencies on ways they are improving client relationships to beat the competition.

Speakers

2.55 - 3.40 PM

Breakout Session
Lauren Thom
Mastering onboarding: Meeting the expectations of today's talent
Track: Tech Talk

In order to create an incredible talent experience, you need to consider every interaction your team has with a candidate and make it as frictionless as possible. And while there are countless moments throughout their journey to dig into, this session is going to zero in on the onboarding experience specifically – what talent expect, what the process looks like today, and what you can do to change it for the better. Hear specific examples of how Bullhorn customers are using Bullhorn Onboarding to drive real results, remove the manual back and forth, and exceed candidate expectations.

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Speakers
Samantha Miklos
Taking an agency from startup to success
Track: Empower your team

Growth doesn’t happen overnight. The most successful recruitment agencies navigated obstacles, challenges, and uncertainties on their path to growing their business. Scaling a business requires making decisions for an almost endless list of questions: What technology should we invest in? Which verticals should we explore? How can we increase efficiency? Most likely, these questions look familiar and may be top-of-mind considerations as you navigate 2024. Join us to hear from a leader who has significantly grown their business in the face of uncertainty. They’ll discuss key decisions they made along the way, operational changes they implemented, and lessons learned throughout. You’ll walk away with new insights on growing your business and the inspiration to make it happen for your team.

Speakers

3.40 - 4.10 PM

Networking
Afternoon tea

Connect with sponsors and peers while enjoying some food and light refreshments

Speakers
Closing Keynote - Nedd Brockmann headshot

Nedd Brockmann

4.10 - 5.10 PM

General Session
Closing Keynote - Nedd Brockmann headshot
Closing keynote: Nedd Brockmann

Nedd Brockmann is a 24-year-old sparky from Central West NSW who is focused on changing the world one step at a time. Nedd is the fastest-ever Australian to run across the country, having completed the run from Perth to Bondi Beach in just over 46 days – an incredible effort averaging over 80km a day.

In this keynote session, Nedd will speak about his epic journey across Australia, from inception to realisation, including the amazing support he received and the trials and tribulations that featured in his 46-day run. He embarked on the run to try and raise money for homeless charity Mobilise, and the final total raised for the homeless was $2.6 million, with over $600k raised on the final day.

Throughout this presentation, Nedd will detail the unique toolkit of tips, tricks and strategies to inspire audiences to harness their own potential and tackle their own personal challenges, irrespective of how large or small. Nedd focuses on the need to just keep showing up, and speaks of the importance of intrinsic and extrinsic motivators, about evolving, adapting, finding resilience within, and how to be a better person as part of your purpose. These are just a few of the key messages Nedd will discuss during this session!

Sponsored by

Speakers
Closing Keynote - Nedd Brockmann headshot

Nedd Brockmann

5.10 - 9.00 PM

Networking
After party
Location: The Stables - Randwick Racecourse

Join us to celebrate the end of an incredible conference at our Official Engage Sydney After Party,  located on site at “The Stables” at Randwick Racecourse.