Explore the Agenda
7:20 am Registration & Morning Coffee
8:05 am What it Takes to Make a LEAP a Reality
8:10 am Chair Opening Remarks & Connections Before Content
Leveraging AI to Scale Talent Acquisition While Safeguarding Patient Care
8:20 am Discover: How NewYork‑Presbyterian Used AI to Safeguard Patient Care & Workforce Continuity During an Unprecedented Strike
- Hear how NYP prepared for its first major strike in decades by rapidly validating clinical skills at scale without compromising safety in a Level IV children’s hospital
- Learn how AI‑led interviewing exposed that only 10% of self‑assessed strike‑ready nurses met the required competency threshold, enabling a fast pivot in workforce strategy
- Take away a proven model for crisis‑ready talent acquisition that balances speed, quality, and human judgment under extreme operational pressure
8:40 am Discover: How Dental Care Alliance Used Agentic AI to Reduce Recruitment Costs by $2M
- Learn how leading TA teams are deploying agentic AI across the full candidate lifecycle to eliminate low‑value administration while preserving critical human judgment
- Explore real‑world approaches to screening volume, automating scheduling, and running always‑on interviews – without increasing time to fill
- Understand how to ethically redesign recruiter roles to 3–10x capacity gains while improving access to care and reducing the total cost of recruitment
9:00 am Develop: As AI Takes on More Tasks, Where Should Recruiters Focus Their Time & Energy?
Go beyond the case study: your chance to ask questions that uncover the decisions, challenges and lessons behind the results
9:20 am Action: Deciding Where to Scale Hiring Through AI & Where Human Judgment Remains Essential
Turn insight into action: now work with your peers to identify the changes you can immediately apply in your organization
9:40 am Innovate: Healthcare Risk Has Changed, Risk Mitigation Must Change Too
- Employee misconduct is no longer confined to the physical office as digital natives treat social media like the new workplace watercooler; today’s high-risk behavioral signals are broadcast publicly and permanently on social media
- Traditional risk mitigation efforts such as legacy background checks are fundamentally blind to these critical online behaviors, leaving healthcare employers exposed
- Modern, compliant screening solutions analyze misconduct where it actually happens, safeguarding patient safety, protecting brand reputation, and elevating Quality of Hire
9:50 am Speed Networking Break
Rethinking the Employee Journey from First Impression to Lasting Impact
11:10 am Panel: From Attraction to Activation – Building a Seamless Candidate Journey at Methodist Health System
- How TA leaders can connect employer branding, recruiting operations, and onboarding to create a more cohesive, end-to-end hiring journey
- How this integrated approach improves candidate engagement, hiring outcomes, and long-term retention
- Why Methodist Health System has structured roles across these areas the way they have, the ROI this model has delivered, and where intentional overlap helps drive stronger collaboration and results
11:30 am Discover: How Mayo Clinic’s SPARC Program Aligns Individual Purpose with Organizational Strategy to Accelerate Onboarding, Engagement & Career Momentum
- Learn how to design a six‑month, cohort-based onboarding experience that connects new hires to their purpose while embedding strategic alignment from day one
- Explore how integrating design thinking, agile methodologies and structured peer coaching builds capability, confidence and cross-team connection at scale
- See how SPARC drives measurable impact on engagement, career clarity and organizational alignment – while strengthening employer brand and retention
11:50 am Develop: Where Do You See the Biggest Disconnect Today Between Attraction, Hiring, & Onboarding & How Do You Reduce the Cost of That Misalignment?
Go beyond the case study: your chance to ask questions that uncover the decisions, challenges and lessons behind the results
12:10 pm Action: What Are the Moments That Matter Most in Shaping Candidate-to-Employee Transition & Long-term Engagement in Your Organization?
Turn insight into action: now work with your peers to identify the changes you can immediately apply in your organization
12:30 pm Innovate: Beyond the Job Board: How Leading Healthcare Systems Are Rediscovering Qualified Candidates & Building an Owned Talent Strategy
- Understand why healthcare recruiting is shifting beyond job boards toward owned talent strategies
- Learn how health systems are unlocking value from candidates already in their database
- Explore how AI helps recruiters rediscover, engage, and personalize outreach at scale
- Walk away with practical ideas to reduce sourcing costs and build a more sustainable healthcare recruiting engine
12:40 pm Networking lunch
Designing TA Operating Models for Different Talent Needs
1:50 pm Discover: Eliminating Internal Competition & Accelerating Nurse Hiring at Scale Through Centralizing Recruitment & Building a Network-Wide Sourcing Model
- Learn how shifting from a decentralized recruiter structure to a centralized sourcing “concierge” model reduced duplicate applications and removed internal competition across 16 hospitals and 400+ sites
- Understand how a dedicated intake team using cultural, competency, and demand-based screening dramatically improved time to contact and matched candidates to roles aligned with both system need and candidate preference
- Explore how data dashboards and transparent reporting in Workday helped rebuild stakeholder trust after removing local requisition ownership and enabled smarter, network-wide workforce decisions
2:10 pm Discover: How Advocate Health Is Redefining Leadership Hiring Through Talent Segmentation
- Discover how Advocate Health built a talent segmentation model that clearly defines where AI accelerates hiring and where human insight remains critical across operational, skilled, specialized, and premium roles
- Explore how repositioning sourcers as strategic advisors is reshaping recruiter productivity, leadership buy in and candidate experience in a healthcare environment, starting from the ground up
- Learn how external talent curation and high touch leadership pipelines are being used as a true external succession plan, long before roles are open
2:30 pm Develop: How Should Healthcare TA Teams Structure Themselves to Meet the Very Different Needs of High-Volume & High-Touch Hiring?
Go beyond the case study: your chance to ask questions that uncover the decisions, challenges and lessons behind the results
2:50 pm Action: How Prepared Is Your TA Function to Scale Efficiently Without Increasing Cost or Complexity?
Turn insight into action: now work with your peers to identify the changes you can immediately apply in your organization
3:10 pm Innovate: Swipe Right on Your Next CRNA: A Modern Playbook for Healthcare’s Hardest-to-Fill Roles
- CRNAs are among the most competitive, lowest-supply clinical roles in the country – see how health systems have solved for it in under a year, including one who achieved 40 hires, plus a 2-year pipeline into 2028, and has a TA team that sleeps at night
- This is what modern, channel-agnostic TA can look like in practice: 73% of applicant goal in 7 weeks, 130% overall in 4 months, with applicants from 14 states
- Walk away with a replicable framework for turning your highest-stress, hardest-to-fill roles into pipeline machines
3:20 pm Networking & Refreshments
Building Talent Instead of Buying It
3:50 pm Discover: Building a Nurse Intern Pipeline That Trains, Engages & Converts Students into Job Ready Nurses Before Graduation
- Discover how Ochsner Health hires nursing students part time and develops real clinical competencies during school to create a reliable, internal pipeline for hard to fill roles
- Learn how early immersion in organizational processes and culture shortens post graduation orientation and gives intern graduates a clear advantage over external new grads
- Explore how the model is scaling beyond nursing into allied health roles to future proof workforce planning across imaging, respiratory and more
4:10 pm Discover: Operational Impact: AI Agents in Healthcare Recruiting
- As AI rapidly transforms the enterprise landscape, forward-thinking healthcare organizations are reimagining how core functions operate – and talent acquisition is at the forefront of this evolution
- In this session, Yaniv Shimoni, Co-Founder of Take2 AI, joins HR leaders from leading healthcare organizations, to explore how AI-powered agents are reshaping the end-to-end healthcare recruiting lifecycle
- Drawing on real-world implementations across healthcare systems, this session will highlight how organizations are achieving up to 50% automation in recruiting processes – enabling 24/7 hiring operations, reducing time-to-fill, lowering costs, and improving quality of hire
- Gain practical insights into deploying AI agents within existing workflows and driving measurable improvements in recruiting performance
4:30 pm Discover: How Workforce Planning & Workforce Development Partnerships Are Reshaping Talent Pipelines at Children’s Mercy Kansas City
- Discover how breaking down silos between workforce planning, talent acquisition and workforce development enabled Children’s Mercy to prioritize the right roles while scaling regionally
- Learn how a “grow your own” model for entry‑level and hard‑to‑fill roles cut 12‑month attrition dramatically and created clear progression pathways into critical clinical careers
- Explore how proving an internal model unlocked external funding, reduced barriers to employment, and created a sustainable, repeatable approach to building and retaining talent
4:50 pm Develop: What Does it Take to Move from a Single ‘Grow Your Own’ Program to a Scalable, System-Wide Talent Pipeline Strategy?
Go beyond the case study: your chance to ask questions that uncover the decisions, challenges and lessons behind the results
5:10 pm Action: What Are the Biggest Barriers to Scaling Early Talent Pipelines & How Do You Overcome Them Across Education, Hiring, & Workforce Planning?
Turn insight into action: now work with your peers to identify the changes you can immediately apply in your organization