The Talent 2030 Collective: Recruit, Retain, Repeat

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The modern labor market is defined by shifting expectations and economic uncertainty. Recruiting top talent is only half the battle – keeping them is the real challenge. The Talent 2030 Collective is a morning-to-afternoon summit (yes, breakfast and lunch are on us) where forward-thinking HR leaders explore what it really takes to build workplaces that attract, develop, and keep top performers.

From AI in recruiting to rethinking internal mobility, join HR Brew for a day full of peer to peer networking, tactical problem-solving, and thought leadership discussions built around the employee lifecycle – recruit, develop, retain, evolve – to help you build teams that stay, grow, and drive long-term impact.

Here’s what you can expect we cover:

Addressing Workforce Gaps with Skills-Based Hiring
Is AI in my Interview? Where AI Should (and Shouldn’t) be in the Hiring Process
Upskilling and Internal Mobility: What Career Pathing has to Learn
Culture vs. Compensation: What Keeps People
Beyond the Basics: Data-Driven People Analytics
Mental Wellbeing as a Competitive Advantage
The Great Generational Shift: Multi-Gen Workplace Dynamics

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The New Talent Equation

The modern workforce is being reshaped by shifting expectations, economic pressure, and rapid technological change. In this opening conversation, we explore how leading organizations are rethinking how they attract, develop, and retain talent and what HR leaders need to prioritize now to build teams that can adapt and endure.

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The State of Work in 2026

Drawing from Morning Brew’s 2026 Workplace Trends Study of more than 1,000 professionals, this session unpacks the biggest shifts shaping the employee experience today from rising burnout and shifting loyalty to growing skill anxiety and uneven AI adoption. These insights set the stage for the conversations that follow, grounding the day in real data and real employee sentiment.

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The Intelligence Advantage: Using Data to Power and Protect Your People

The future of work has arrived: a landscape defined by an AI-driven talent market, relentless regulatory change, and the rise of the fractional career. The core mandate for HR leaders is no longer administration—it is strategy. Our panel of cross-functional industry leaders debate and unpack how to build a resilient workforce at scale and bridge the gap between high-tech recruitment and high-touch retention.

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The Human Advantage: How to Build AI Into Work Without Losing What Matters

As AI becomes embedded in everyday workflows, organizations face a critical question: how do you integrate new technologies without eroding the human skills that drive performance and innovation? This session explores how leaders can intentionally design work where AI enhances — rather than replaces — human judgment, creativity, and growth.

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The New Hiring Landscape: AI, Scale, and Shifting Signals

As AI accelerates the hiring process on both sides of the market, application volume is rising while signal becomes harder to identify. This session explores how candidate behavior is changing, what hiring teams are experiencing in real time, and why traditional approaches to evaluating talent are being challenged.

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How Companies Are Rebuilding Hiring for the AI Era

If the hiring landscape is changing, what are leading companies actually doing about it? This panel brings together HR and talent leaders to explore how organizations are redesigning hiring processes to balance speed, fairness, and quality from rethinking assessments to redefining what “qualified” really means.

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From Skills to Systems: Building the Modern Workforce

As roles evolve and skill needs shift faster than ever, organizations are moving beyond static job descriptions toward more dynamic, skills-based approaches. This session explores how leading teams are rethinking how talent is developed from onboarding to continuous learning and how to build systems that support growth at scale.

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From Metrics to Meaning: How People Intelligence Shapes Workforce Growth

Data has become central to how organizations understand and develop talent but many teams still struggle to translate insights into action. This session explores how HR leaders are using people analytics to inform decisions, identify opportunities, and build more intentional, data-driven talent strategies.

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Why Your Best People Are Burning Out: Understanding Conflicting Expectations at Work

Burnout isn’t just about workload—it’s about misalignment. As expectations around growth, flexibility, and communication shift across generations and career stages, managers are left to navigate competing demands without clear guidance. In this session, participants work through real-world scenarios to uncover how these tensions show up inside teams and what leaders can do to better align expectations and reduce friction.

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Breakout-Performance is Broken: What Managers and Systems Need to Do Differently

Despite new frameworks and tools, performance management remains inconsistent and ineffective in many organizations. This session explores where performance breaks down in practice—at the intersection of manager behavior and system design—and what leaders can do to create clearer expectations, better feedback, and more consistent outcomes across teams.

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Culture vs. Compensation: What Keeps People

As organizations compete for talent, leaders are rethinking what truly drives retention. Is it compensation, flexibility, purpose, or something less tangible? This conversation explores how companies are balancing these factors and what employees actually value when deciding whether to stay or leave.

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Designing For What Comes Next

As the workforce continues to evolve, organizations must rethink not just how they hire or retain talent, but how they are fundamentally designed to adapt over time. This closing conversation explores what it takes to build resilient, future-ready organizations from leadership and structure to culture and strategy.

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