Explore the Agenda
8:00 am Networking & Morning Coffee
8:30 am Chair’s Welcome & Recap of Day One
Data-Driven Recruitment Marketing That Cuts Costs & Improves Results
8:40 am Discover: How Hackensack Meridian Health is Leveraging Hyper-targeted Heatmapping to Redefine Nursing Recruitment, Optimize Ad Spend, & Secure Top Talent in a Fiercely Competitive Market
- See how HMH uses zip-code-level heatmapping to overlay total nurse supply with internal workforce data, revealing their true market share by geography
- Learn how HMH replaced broad, wasteful ad campaigns with hyper-targeted outreach, ensuring recruitment dollars are spent only where qualified candidates live
- Explore how data-driven location intelligence is enabling faster hiring decisions, smarter resource allocation, and measurable ROI in persistently scarce talent markets
9:00 am Discover: From Pilots to Practice: 5 Ways Healthcare TA Teams Are Putting AI to Work
- Identify which automation and AI use cases align with your organization’s most critical talent acquisition gaps and build a prioritization framework you can apply immediately after the session
- Evaluate automation and AI solutions through a healthcare-specific lens, understanding how use cases like intelligent job advertising, AI screening, and talent nurture perform differently in clinical versus non-clinical hiring environments
- Develop the business case for automation and AI investment using outcome-based metrics and a practitioner-proven approach to align talent acquisition strategy with leadership and finance priorities
- Understand how to design and implement automation and AI initiatives by prioritizing the development of standardized processes and robust data structures as the critical enablers of scalable, reliable outcomes
9:20 am Discover: How Trilogy’s SEO‑Driven Rebrand Cut $40k a Month in Recruitment Spend While Sustaining Applicant Flow
- Understand how Trilogy restructured job ads to be SEO‑compliant, clearer and more candidate‑centric to dramatically improve visibility and conversion
- Learn how a shift from “post and coast” to programmatic, data‑led recruitment marketing maintained apply volumes while significantly reducing advertising spend
- Explore how small changes to titles, language and content hierarchy unlocked measurable ROI and freed budget to reinvest in innovation and talent experience
9:40 am Develop: How Do You Ensure Your Recruitment Marketing Strategy Is Directly Aligned to Hiring Priorities & Workforce Needs?
Go beyond the case study: your chance to ask questions that uncover the decisions, challenges and lessons behind the results
10:00 am Action: How Do You Connect Advertising Spend to Quality of Hire, Speed of Hire, or Retention Outcomes?
Turn insight into action: now work with your peers to identify the changes you can immediately apply in your organization
10:20 am Refreshments & Networking Session
Creating a Modern Workforce Strategy for Changing Talent Demands
11:10 am Discover: Building a Future‑Ready Talent Acquisition Team Through Capability, Confidence & Candidate Experience at US Acute Care Solutions
- Learn how reframing TA from transactional recruiting to strategic partnership elevates recruiter capability, credibility and impact in highly competitive, passive talent markets such as physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners
- Explore how AI can be used safely and effectively to remove friction, automate communication and unlock insight- without outsourcing hiring decisions or increasing legal risk
- Take away practical approaches to professional development, benchmarking and role design that equip recruiters to articulate complex value propositions and close scarce, high‑value talent faster
11:30 am Discover: Developing a Contingent & Extended Workforce to Meet Clinical Demand While Preserving Flexibility
- Understanding when to pull different workforce levers for different talent types, roles, and market needs
- Determining when to deploy contract labor, international talent, outsourcing, or in‑house hiring to optimize clinical coverage best
- Using an internal staffing team and technology to build a scalable supplemental workforce that can flex with demand
11:50 am Develop: If Healthcare Organizations Continue Using the Same Workforce & Recruiting Models They Use Today, Where Are They Most Likely to Fall Behind over the next Five Years?
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 Does a Truly Flexible Workforce Strategy Look like in Today’s Healthcare Environment?
Turn insight into action: now work with your peers to identify the changes you can immediately apply in your organization
12:30 pm Innovate: How Health Systems Can Become Talent Makers Instead of Talent Takers Through Homegrown Pipelines
- Healthcare systems across the country are losing the talent war by competing for the same shrinking pool of credentialed workers. In this session, explorethe case for a different approach: building homegrown pipelines by upskilling frontline staff — EVS workers, transporters, patient access reps — into highneed clinical roles like MAs, sterile processing techs, and pharmacy techs.
12:40 pm Networking Lunch
Leveraging AI & Automation to Improve Hiring Outcomes & Operational Efficiency
1:30 pm Discover: Learn How Methodist Health’s Real‑time Programmatic Job Advertising Redistributes Spend to Fill Their Hardest‑to‑Hire Roles Faster
- Discover how shifting job advertising spend in real time prevents high‑volume roles from consuming budget while critical, hard‑to‑fill roles are under‑served
- Learn how application‑to‑hire data can automatically trigger spend reallocation across locations, roles and service lines without reactive, manual intervention
- See how healthcare TA teams can maintain always‑on visibility while dynamically prioritizing roles that directly impact patient care and operational risk
1:50 pm Discover: Using Ethical AI Agents to Humanize Recruiting, Elevate Candidate Experience & Unlock Measurable Hiring Impact
- Learn how Cedars‑Sinai piloted AI agents to remove repetitive recruiting admin while freeing teams to operate at a more strategic level
- Explore how video‑led, AI‑enabled job announcements increased candidate engagement, visibility and preparedness before interviews even begin
- Understand the metrics, decision‑making and early results behind an AI partnership that balances automation, ethics and employer brand
2:10 pm Develop: What Lessons Did You Learn About Introducing New Technology into Established Recruiting Processes?
Go beyond the case study: your chance to ask questions that uncover the decisions, challenges and lessons behind the results
2:30 pm Networking & Refreshments
2:45 pm Speed Learning
In this quick-fire session, each table will be hosted by an HR leader who will share the secrets of their most high-impact LEAP; you then get the opportunity to question the host before moving on to your next.