Program

The EU AI Act classifies AI used in hiring and HR decisions as high-risk. That means mandatory transparency, human oversight, and explainability obligations, for the tools you are already using today. Most vendors have been quiet about this.

GDPR Article 22 gives candidates the right not to be subject to purely automated decisions. The uncomfortable question is whether the human in your process is actually making a decision, or just approving what the algorithm already decided.

This session is not a compliance lecture. It is an honest conversation about where the legal lines are, why they exist, and what genuinely compliant AI-assisted recruitment looks like in practice. Spoiler: it is more achievable than you think, but it requires asking better questions of your vendors.

AI agents are taking over more recruitment tasks. But which tasks should they take over, and where should humans stay firmly in control? In this keynote, David Engelen explores how AI changes recruiter value. As execution becomes cheaper, the most valuable recruiters will not be the ones who simply do more. They will be the ones who know where human judgment, trust, empathy, storytelling and commercial intelligence matter most. This session shows how recruitment teams can move from tool adoption to real workflow redesign, and why the future of recruitment is not less human, but more human.

AI agents are moving recruitment beyond content generation and into connected workflows, system actions and increasingly autonomous decisions. But what happens when those agents encounter outdated job descriptions, inconsistent processes, fragmented organisational knowledge and unclear decision boundaries? This session explores recruitment through the lens of Talent Acquisition maturity. We will look at where agents could support planning, engagement, sourcing, assessment and onboarding, and where human judgement and accountability must remain. Attendees will leave with a practical Readiness Test to assess whether their recruitment function is genuinely prepared for agentic TA, or simply about to automate the problems it already has.

• Conny Vandendriessche, founder of Accent Jobs and House of HR, will draw on her extensive entrepreneurial experience to assess each solution’s relevance in a rapidly changing HR environment.
• Duco Sickinghe, former CEO of listed telecom company Telenet and now Managing Partner at investment firm Fortino Capital, will evaluate the financial proposition and explain why he would, or would not, invest.
• Roel Ter Steeg, Partner at M&A advisory firm CFI, will provide insights into financial strategy, scalability and potential exit opportunities.
• Jens Mortier, Chairman of award-winning creative agency BRIGADA, will assess the participants’ creativity, branding and marketing strategy.

Intelligent agents are transforming how candidates discover jobs, they don’t just Google anymore, they ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI, or let agents search on their behalf. If your recruitment brand doesn’t appear in those AI-generated answers, you’re invisible to a growing share of your target talent.

In this masterclass, Gilles Praet (CEO, Visiblie) breaks down the mechanics of Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO) for HR brands: what determines whether your vacancies and employer brand show up in AI answers, how to measure your current AI visibility across models, and the concrete steps to improve it; with a live demo using real recruitment brands.