President and Founder - College Recruiter

Steven's entrepreneurial spirit was evident from an early age. Disciplined in fifth grade for selling candy during math class and in college for running a massive fantasy hockey league, Steven managed to channel his passions into something more productive after graduate school.

A fully recovered lawyer, Steven founded the business that morphed into College Recruiter and now, as its visionary, helps to create and refine the company's strategy and leads its business development efforts.

Senior Policy Analyst, Upturn

Miranda Bogen is a Senior Policy Analyst at Upturn, where she focuses on the implications of machine learning and artificial intelligence for civil and human rights, and particularly on the intersection of digital technology, automated decisions, and economic opportunity. She has conducted research and authored work on issues including global data ethics, the governance of AI and automated decisions, commercial transparency practices, and consumer protection and corporate accountability in the digital age.

CEO and Founder, XOR.ai

Aida Fazylova is CEO and founder of HR Technology Company XOR.ai. XOR is the leader in human resource and talent acquisition workflow automation, leveraging the technologies of Artificial Intelligence and AI ChatBots for recruiting. Previously Aida has been working as a Talent Acquisition practitioner, and co-founded the most massive online data science community called Open Data Science.

Her Professional goal is to help recruiters understand technology and make the most of it in the future of work that we enter. Motto: Tools don't recruit, people do!

Founder, StartLaunchGrow.com

For the past 25 years, Rob has been instrumental in starting, funding, and growing high growth companies. He has been an executive or founder in numerous companies including Monster.com, Bullhorn, Manugistics, Parsortix, and Avention. He was a principal at Austin Ventures, a multi-billion dollar venture capital fund.

Rob is a member of the Society of Kauffman Fellows, a selective leadership-training program organized by the Kauffman Foundation. He has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and is a cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College.

Rob has authored two best-selling books- Never Too Late to Startup: How Mid-Life Entrepreneurs Create Wealth, Freedom, & Purpose and Entrepreneur Rocket Fuel: How Startup Founders Recruit World-class Talent and Build Culture to Transform Their Business.

Rob’s insights on startups have been featured in Huffington Post, Business Insider, Inc.com, The Next Web, Entrepreneur.com, and on his own blog StartLaunchGrow.com.

Senior Consultant

In her role as Senior Consultant, Julie leads implementation of programs and solutions with Disability Solutions’ clients. She supports the build and deployment of strategic solutions by first assessing current outreach, hiring, and retention systems, policies, and processes, which impact a company’s ability to successfully engage and retain qualified jobseekers with disabilities.

Julie and her team work with numerous Fortune 1000 brands including PepsiCo, Synchrony Financial, Medidata, DB Schenker through P&G, American Express, Aon, and Aramark and many others.

Julie is also the co-host of the podcast Crazy and the King with Torin Ellis. Julie and Torin tackle diversity, equity, and inclusion in our workplace and our world.

Julie regularly speaks at state and national conferences and provides training on compliance and disability inclusion to a variety of audiences. Julie has her undergraduate degree in Political Science from Indiana University. She lives in Columbus, Indiana with her husband, three children, and their dogs.

Julie is also a person with a disability. She is actively managing multiple mental health disabilities.

Andrea is the Head of International at Adzuna, a global job search engine that serves over 10 million visitors a month. Since 2016, he has spearheaded Adzuna’s global presence and continues to oversee the company’s expansion in 15 countries across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Adzuna was founded in 2011 in London, UK and is backed by leading venture capital firms Index Ventures, LocalGlobe, Passion Capital and Smedvig Capital.

Prior to joining Adzuna, Andrea was COO at Hassle.com, the leading online marketplace for finding domestic cleaners in Europe, from its launch until its acquisition by Helpling. Prior to that, Andrea was Co-founder & Managing Director of Rocket Internet where he oversaw the launch and international expansion of the online fashion retailer Zalora in Southeast Asia.

Matt Lucas is the co-founder and President of JobMonkey. In 1985, he started writing and publishing books on cool and unique job opportunities around the world for college students and recent graduates. He grew his publishing company to over $8 million in annual sales, before selling the company in 1997.

In 1999, he launched JobMonkey.com which has become the premier website for people looking for "Cool Jobs" in the United States or Abroad.

Lucas is also an active member of the Seattle startup community and has invested in and / or mentored over 30 Pacific Northwest startup companies.

Max Armbruster is the founder and CEO of Talkpush, the leading conversational recruitment software. He is a serial entrepreneur based between San Francisco and Hong Kong and has sold his last three companies, most recently a recruitment SaaS company. Max has 18 years of international experience in the US, Europe and Asia, and has held strategic roles at SAP, CNET Networks and AT Kearney.

Chief Executive Officer - College Recruiter

Faith's career has always been at the intersection between business and technology. She started as a programmer for Ford Motor Company, graduated from the University of Michigan with an MBA, was a manufacturing information technology consultant with KPMG, served as a project manager for Wells Fargo, and then staged a bloodless coup after joining the business her husband founded, College Recruiter.

Faith's passion for helping young adults find great careers is evident in everything that College Recruiter does. As its integrator, Faith is the hub around which the organization revolves.

CEO and Founder - FlexJobs

Sara is the CEO and founder of FlexJobs, an award-winning, innovative career website for telecommuting, flexible, freelance and part-time job listings, and founder of Remote.co, a one-stop resource for remote teams and companies, and the 1 Million for Work Flexibility initiative. She was named as a Young Global Leader (class of 2014) by the World Economic Forum for her work in technology and the employment fields. Sutton is a graduate of UC Berkeley and currently lives in Boulder, Colo. Sutton is also the creator of The TRaD Works Conference, dedicated to helping companies leverage the benefits of telecommuting, remote and distributed teams.

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder - Three Ears Media

For most of Katrina's career, she has been a marketer living in a recruiter's world - listening to both sides of the talent equation to understand the real issues and find solutions for engaging and hiring better people. Today, she uses her technical marketing know-how and way with words as the co-founder and CEO of Three Ears Media to help both established and emerging brands develop and deliver content that fuels smart recruitment marketing that makes the right people apply.

Katrina has written for Forbes.com, Fortune, SHRM and many other digital publications. She is a recognized leader in recruiting and employer branding who speaks regularly at conferences around the world.

Jonathan is the Managing Director of Talent Tech Labs. He is a lawyer by education, and an entrepreneur and investor by trade. Jonathan can be found at HR technology conferences all over the world as a sought-after speaker and panelist sharing deep insights into the evolution of the Talent Acquisition Ecosystem.

Maaike Kooter is Manager of Business Innovation at Intelligence Group, a global Labour Market and recruitment data company. Together with a team of data-analysts and developers, she is continuously working on data-driven solutions and dashboards for smarter, better and faster (international) recruitment purposes. She helps companies to use data and insights on specific target groups for recruitment strategy, global talent acquisition, employer branding and recruitment marketing.

Venkat Janapareddy is the CEO and founder of Jobiak. He has been an entrepreneur for 20 years with deep knowledge in the HR tech space. Jobiak is his third start up. Both his previous start-ups which he founded had successful exits. His first start-up XpertTech, a technology consulting/staffing company got acquired by UK based private equity company. His 2nd one Gozaik, a social jobs platform for twitter/Facebook got acquired by Monster World Wide

 

Jonathan "JD" Duarte is a serial entrepreneur in the Recruiting Tech industry, having founded 3 companies; including GoJobs, one of the first 10 internet job boards, GoodHire, the fastest growing small business background screening company, and his recent startup GoHire, a Recruiting AI and Messaging Platform. As a Product technologist, Jonathan has built one of the largest job distribution networks, with integrations to over 1,000 job boards. In 2004, he authored the first "Source of Hire" protocol providing the technical framework for tracking job postings and sources of candidate traffic.

In 2016, he launched GoBe, one of the first recruiting chatbots on Facebook Messenger. Within 30 days, GoBe went viral internationally to over 103 countries and generated over 100,000 conversations with no advertising.