A Field Guide to HRTech 2022 Conference and Expo

Will you be at the HR Technology Conference & Exposition this September? If you are gearing up for an exciting time at the Expo, take this compact guide to focus on some of the most exciting highlights and events on the event ground! Let Rakuna be your travel companion to this year’s HRTech!

Daily Agenda At-a-Glance

Save your strength for five days full of exciting HR events. Start planning your visit to HRTech 2022 this September using this at-a-glance schedule! If you want detailed information for each day, you can also find a full agenda on the official site of HRTech.

Check Out Advanced HRTechnologies at the Expo Hall

Major global events like the Covid19 Pandemic constantly push the HRTech Industry to innovate their services and HR software to overcome tremendous challenges.

Check out exciting updates and new features from Rakuna - the #1 Total Recruiting Software Solution, specialized in eliminating tedious admin tasks for recruiters and other industry leaders, along with the debuts of entirely new technology and services from up-and-coming businesses!

Want to make a beeline straight to the Rakuna booth? Simply follow this easy guide. We can’t wait to meet you at the expo!

Notable Expo Hall Vendors

1. Rakuna - Booth # 3534

HRTech Products/Services Categories

• AI
• Recruitment
• Talent Management

Rakuna platform allows companies to handle all recruitment, marketing, and operations activities in a single solution. Rakuna’s product suite includes Recruiting CRM, Interview Scheduling, Text Recruiting, and Campus & Event Recruiting.

Our CEO will personally be at Rakuna booth #3534 - excited to greet everyone in person. Come by and chat with our team, share your plans and worries, and Rakuna will let you know how we can help. So skip the line and book your meeting today to get fantastic giveaways, helpful free resources, and a deeper insight into the recruiting solution market!

See you at the Expo Hall!

2. Workday - Booth 3920

HRTech Products/Services Categories

• Benefits Administration
• Compensation
• Employee Benefits
• Learning Management Systems

Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, helping customers adapt and thrive in a changing world.

Workday provides solutions in the fields of financial management, human resources, planning, spend management, and analytics. Thousands of organizations across multiple industries have adopted Workday’s solutions, including almost 50% of the Fortune 500.

3. Paradox - Booth 5109

HRTech Products/Services Categories

• AI
• Assessment
• HRMS
• Machine Learning
• Onboarding

Recently crowned the 225th fastest growing company in the country in the Inc 5000, Paradox is creating a world-leading recruiting software that gives automation a human touch. The Paradox Platform wins the hearts of recruiters and candidates with Oliva - a conversational artificial intelligence assistant. Olivia can tackle tedious admin tasks like interview screening to give recruiters more time to focus on their candidates.

4. Symplicity Recruit - Booth 4038

HRTech Products/Services Categories

• Job Board or Search Engine
• Recruitment
• Recruitment Marketing

Looking for prospective campus partners to start recruiting? Go Symplicity. The Symplicity Recruit platform connects employers and campus recruiters with a robust global network of academic institutions and organizations. Save time, and find qualified, diverse candidates from a pool of 6M+ active students.

5. Built for Teams - Booth 3735

HRTech Products/Services Categories

• HRMS
• Succession Planning

Built for Teams provides Position Intelligence HR technology solutions, including Advanced Org Charts, Position Management, and Succession Planning.

6. Ceridian - Booth 2219

HRTech Products/Services Categories

• Performance Management
• Talent Management
• Time and Attendance

The award-winning solution makes managing compliance a breeze, unlocking more time to make better decisions, forging better team bonding, improving your work environment, and driving engagement with employees.

Startup Pavilion

Discover the latest HR tech and emerging companies at the Startup Pavilion. Demo original products and meet the entrepreneurs who are revolutionizing the market with innovative ideas and HR solutions.

1. ThinkSight - Booth 514J

HRTech Products/Services Categories

• Machine Learning
• Talent Management
• Workforce Planning & Workforce Analytics

A platform of prebuilt analytics and labor market insights, equipped with an advanced metrics library, ThinkSight accelerates growth for mid-market by connecting workforce investments to business results. Make faster and financially educated talent decisions across the enterprise.

2. Talk'n'Job - Booth 514AX

HRTech Products/Services Categories

• Recruitment
• Staffing
• Video Interviewing

Introducing Talk’n’Job, the latest voice-guided chat application channel for blue-collar, young professionals, and all those looking for alternatives to traditional application channels. Turn on your mobile app and start connecting with thousands of job opportunities!

3. Altooro - Booth 514D

HRTech Products/Services Categories

• Assessment
• Recruitment
• Screening

If you constantly work with software engineers, consider adding Alltooro as part of your HR solutions. This AI-based platform automatically evaluates the technical skills of SW engineers and predicts their future professional potential based on collected data.

Start scouting hidden talents and potential prospective candidates while cutting hundreds of hours for assessments.

4. Largely - Booth 514V

HRTech Products/Services Categories

• Consulting and Implementation Services
• Recruitment
• Recruitment Marketing

Employees’ testimonials are critical in convincing prospective talents to join an organization. Largely makes every testimonial a winning pitch to attract candidates.

Users can access a talent marketing platform that effortlessly captures and leverages employee stories to hire exceptional people. Simply craft your content strategy, invite team members, and capture and connect their stories to attract talent to your organization.

5. ReqCity - Booth 514Q

HRTech Products/Services Categories

• Job Board or Search Engine
• Recruitment
• Talent Management

Come and join the next generation in Recruiting Job Boards! With ReqCity, everyone benefits everyone by utilizing a robust network of professional recruiters. Companies save money with a lower cost-per-hire and shorter time to fill, even in a remote work setting. Recruiters are anonymous and get paid upfront, and candidates get more exposure.

Get Up-To-Date With the Latest Trends, Best Practices, and Industry News

When joining the biggest HR conference and expo of the year, you can find more information about the HR industry here than at any other event. As the saying goes, “Knowing is already half the battle,” get your notepad ready and join some of the most exciting seminars, discussions, and demos HRTech 2022 has to offer!

HRTech Talk

Bring new ideas into your recruitment strategy with HRTech Talk sessions. Join exciting, engaging, and fast-moving 20-minute presentations on innovative industry ideas.

HRTech Talk | Speed Up Time-to-Hire and Improve the Candidate Experience with Automated Interview Scheduling

• Room: HRTech Talks Theater Session Number: T6
• Wednesday, September 14, 2022: 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM
• Speaker(s): Adam Bird - CEO & Co-founder of Cronofy

Task automation features like those provided by Rakuna’s solutions are helping recruiting teams tackle tedious administrative tasks, one of them is interview scheduling. Manual interview scheduling can cost recruiters up to 284 hours each year. That’s 284 hours to spend on creating a solid bond with candidates.

HRTech Talk | The Future of Recruitment Marketing is Now

• Room: HRTech Talks Theater Session Number: T13

• Wednesday, September 14, 2022: 4:30 PM - 4:50 PM

• Speaker(s):

  • Brigid McMahon -Talent Acquisition Director - Global TA Strategy & Enablement - IBM
  • Shannon Seery - SVP, Product - Symphony Talent
  • Nick Thompson - Global Talent Marketing Leader - IBM

Having experienced one of the most significant disruptions in the history of the HR and TA industry, it is clear that the future still holds many surprises for recruiters and HR professionals.

Preparation is key. Seeing the maturity curve associated with recruitment marketing is critical in gaining a foothold in this new recruitment landscape. Recruiters must push their TA Tech to its limit.

Join IBM and Symphony Talent as the team breaks down the shifts in candidate behaviors and the talent landscape and answers the lingering question, “where do we go from here?”

HRTech Talk | Accelerating Unbiased Recruiting through Intelligent Automation

• Room: HRTech Talks Theater Session Number: T18

• Thursday, September 15, 2022: 1:50 PM - 2:10 PM

• Speaker(s):

  • Leslie Chau - Product Management Watson Orchestrate & RPA Speaker - IBM
  • Angela Hood - Founder/CEO - ThisWay Global

Combine the ongoing pandemic-fueled job crisis with approximately 11 million open job roles in the United States, organizations are struggling to find qualified candidates.

Recruiting is like joining a race. You need the fastest car with the best material to win the race. Getting that perfect candidate to work for you requires that companies move quickly and ensure they are using best practices to find quality candidates.

However, in talent acquisition, trading time to fill for clerical errors in workflows, approvals, and reviews is a surefire way to fail your recruiting operation. This is where intelligent automation can potentially change the way we work. Discover opportunities to scale and accelerate talent acquisition with automation while removing bias from the recruitment process.

Join Leslie Chau and Angela Hood to discuss how HR professionals can use intelligent automation to speed up sourcing and create exceptional candidate experiences, helping recruiters find the right candidate fast.

HR Case Studies

Behind every successful HR Solution are countless hours of planning and testing. Get to know the results, successes, failures, and lessons learned when developing solutions to support HR professionals.

Case Study | Staying Competitive via AI-Driven Talent Marketing and Acquisition Platforms

• Room: Case Study Theater Session Number: CS17
• Thursday, September 15, 2022: 12:45 PM - 1:15 PM
• Speaker(s): Saleem Khaja - COO & Co-Founder - WorkLLama LLC

Join Saleem Khaja - COO & Co-Founder of WorkLLama LLC, and learn how a company transforms their recruitment process with the help of an AI-driven talent marketing and acquisition platform using features like a conversational chatbot and a referral management solution.

Case Study | The Future of Talent is Elastic: Dolby Reimagines Their Contingent Workforce

• Room: Case Study Theater Session Number: CS15

• Thursday, September 15, 2022: 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

• Speaker(s):

  • Nick Fitzpatrick - Sr. Manager, Work Innovation Delivery - Dolby
  • Aashir Shroff - Sr. Director of Product - Eightfold AI

Most Fortune 500 companies are predicted to expand the scale of their contingent workforce from 6% to 30% by 2025. In reality, contractor hire is considered a secondary plan for most organizations, lacking attention and missing opportunities.

Join this section and learn from Dolby's footsteps- building a flexible workforce by connecting contingent hiring into their overall talent strategy with skills-based AI.

Case Study | The GHRReat Talk Series

• Room: Case Study Theater Session Number: CS13
• Thursday, September 15, 2022: 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
• Speaker(s): Brandon Phillips - Founder, President, and CEO - Global HR Research

Join this exciting and dynamic discussion on a surprising live case study - of how 3 key organizations in their respective industry must work together to set up a seamless recruitment process from hiring and employment screening to onboarding. See how the HR leader of a Fortune 500 company tackles the challenges set by 2 highly controlled yet unique industries and comes out with an optimized HR workflow.

HRTech Vendor Demos

Want to gain a deeper understanding of your favorite HR Solution? Join your chosen vendors in hour-long, deep-dive demos and have your key questions about their products answered.

Oracle Demo | Elevate the Employee Experience with Oracle ME

• Room: Demo Room #2 Session Number: D2
• Wednesday, September 14, 2022: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
• Speaker(s): Grace George - Solution Engineer - Oracle

ServiceNow Demo | Unifying Experiences for Your People and Workplaces

• Room: Demo Room #1 Session Number: D1
• Wednesday, September 14, 2022: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
• Speaker(s): Alayne Dovgan - Advisory Solution Consultant - ServiceNow

Visier Demo | Use People Analytics to Hire Smarter

• Room: Demo Room #1 Session Number: D3

• Wednesday, September 14, 2022: 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

• Speaker(s):

  • Matt Davis - Product Marketing Director - Visier
  • Sean McCarthy - Sr. Solution Consultant - Visier

isolved Demo | Leveraging Human Capital Management: From Hire to Retire

• Room: Demo Room #2 Session Number: D6
• Wednesday, September 14, 2022: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
• Speaker(s): Kelli Rico - VP Product - isolved

Penumbra Demo | Designing a Better Workplace Culture with Virtual Reality

• Room: Demo Room #1 Session Number: D5
• Wednesday, September 14, 2022: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
• Speaker(s): Joel Breton - President of Immersive Healthcare Studios - Penumbra, Inc

Eightfold Demo | Eightfold Innovation Showcase: The Single AI Platform for All Talent

• Room: Demo Room #2 Session Number: D14

• Thursday, September 15, 2022: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

• Speaker(s):

  • Brandi Anderson - Solutions Consultant - Eightfold.ai
  • Maggie Zuhlke - Academy Solutions Consultant - Eightfold.ai

Meet Old Friends and Forge New Connections at Exciting Social Events

Pub Crawl

• Tuesday, September 5 - 7 p.m.

You are in for a good time at HRTech 2022! Jump-start your exploration with a complimentary drink and start exploring the Expo!

Pitchfest

Preliminary Rounds: Pitchfest Theater in the Expo Hall

• Tuesday, September 13: 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
• Wednesday, September 14: 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. and 3:15 - 4:15 p.m.

Final Round: Pitchfest Theater in the Expo Hall

• Thursday, September 15: 10 - 11 a.m.

Take a front-row seat to see some of the most brilliant, buzzworthy pitches as startups compete for the $30,000 in prizes donated by the Randstad Innovation Fund.

HR's Top Downloaded Podcast LIVE

Join host Steve Boese and Trish McFarlane - HRTech Conference Chair, as a live audience in the longest-running HR podcast focusing on HR, management, leadership, and workforce technology.

HR Happy Hour

• Wednesday, September 15: 4:30 - 5:30 p.m.

Feeling peckish? Grab some appetizers and enjoy complimentary beer and wine while you mingle with other attendees and continue to visit with exhibitors after a full day of sessions.

Lunches

• Wednesday, September 15: 12 - 1:30 p.m.
• Thursday, September 15: 12 - 1:30 p.m.

Complimentary buffet lunches are available right in the Expo for you to enjoy and mingle with colleagues.

Conclusion

You should now have all the critical information to make the most out of the 2022 HR Technology Conference & Exposition.

From exciting demo sessions to thought-provoking seminars, you have just gone through some of the most notable activities you can experience from September 12th to September 16th at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center.

This will be Rakuna's first time joining this much-anticipated event. The team is excited to show you how far we have come in supporting recruiters in the recruitment space! Remember to sign-up for an in-person meeting with us and receive surprise giveaways!

About Rakuna

Rakuna is on a mission to help employers adapt to the ever-changing recruiting landscape and hire their next wave of talent with the right technology.

The Rakuna platform allows organizations to handle all recruitment marketing and operations activities with a single solution to attract, engage, and nurture top candidates. The Rakuna platform includes Recruiting CRM, Interview Scheduling, Text Recruiting, and Campus & Event Recruiting.

We continue expanding our product suites to include recruiting tools that boost your team's productivity and hiring speed.