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San Diego 2020
The Jobg8 Summit North America comes to San Diego in June 2020 for two days of exceptional speakers, actionable insights and connections with industry peers.
The annual event brings together the job board community and arrives to the Californian coast for the first time. If you’re in the job board or online recruitment industry then you should be there! Thought provoking sessions cover current key topics that really matter to you.
You’ll get to connect with a range of owners, managers, innovators and industry suppliers in dedicated one to one meetings through our event networking platform. It’s not to be missed!
What To Expect
Inspiring Keynotes
Speakers will inspire you with their insights. Last year we have leading figures from College Recruiter, Talent Tech Labs, Google, and many more up on stage. See speakers.
Educational Sessions
Featuring multiple sessions from some of the biggest names and brightest minds in the job board industry. Sessions will cover key topics within the industry, including real-life founder stories, candidate and employer insights.
Networking & Fun
There’s more to the summit than just great content - you’ll also join fellow like-minded attendees. With the Convers8 networking platform you can plan your time and arrange meetings with other attendees before you arrive in San Diego. You’ll also meet other industry peers at the breakfast, lunches and drinks reception.
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2020 Speakers
Heather BussingBussing Law
Heather Bussing is an employment attorney, HR Tech analyst, writer and editor. Spending her time exploring the intersection of people, technology and work, Heather regularly advises employers on the HR policies and workforce issues, in addition to teaching legal writing and internet law. She’s appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Mashable, Business Insider, and NPR discussing employment issues and tech.
John NurthenStaffing Industry Analysts
John Nurthen manages the team that delivers SIAs international research content across the entire workforce solutions ecosystem, including the gig economy and job boards.
He has almost 30 years’ experience in the staffing industry, having previously worked in senior managerial roles for three of the world’s largest staffing firms. He has played an active role in major equity offerings and mergers, and held responsibility for internal and external communications, e-Business, technology matters, marketing and CSR. He played a leading role in the development of common data standards with the creation of HR-XML SIDES and was responsible for creating the first global procurement contracts with a number of the world’s largest job boards.
Katie MehnertPink Petro & Experience Energy
The modern architect of culture change in energy, Katie Mehnert is the Founder and CEO of Pink Petro™, the global community and career resource aimed at disrupting the gender gap in energy. And in 2017, she launched Experience Energy℠ the only global careers platform aimed at delivering the energy transition.
Katie has held global leadership roles with BP and Shell in safety and environment during periods of financial crisis, spills, divestment and globalization. Katie’s early career included consulting with Duke Energy, Entergy and Enron. Her corporate path drove her to entrepreneurship to help energy companies prepare for the looming talent shortage and workforce diversity needs to address energy poverty and climate change.
In 2019, she testified before Congress on the clean energy workforce of the future. She's published in Scientific American, Forbes, The Hill, CNBC, CNN, and other international outlets. She is also the founder of Lean In Energy, a global nonprofit solely devoted to mentoring in the energy sector.
Katie is a four-time World Major marathoner having completed London, Chicago, New York and Berlin. Her husband is an associate general counsel with Baker Hughes. They live with their 8-year-old daughter in Houston’s Energy Corridor. Her book on overcoming fear and progressing with purpose, Grow with the Flow, will release in 2020.
Doug BergZAPinfo
Doug is a renowned entrepreneur and innovator of talent technology, founding startups like techies.com and Jobs2web (acquired by SuccessFactors/SAP for $110M) and raising over $125M dollars in venture capital. Doug is an active investor and advisor to several bleeding-edge technology companies and serves as Chief Zapper of ZAPinfo, one of the fastest-growing recruitment platforms in the market, interfacing with more than 100 talent platforms, job boards, social networks, and search engines globally.
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Location
Hilton San Diego Bayfront places you in the heart of San Diego, walking distance from San Diego Convention Center and Petco Park. The hotel is close to Balboa Park and San Diego Zoo.
San Diego International Airport (SAN) is 4 miles (12 minute taxi ride) from the venue.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jessica Miller-Merrell is a workplace change agent, author and consultant focused on human resources and talent acquisition living in Austin, TX. Recognized by Forbes as a top 50 social media influencer and is a global speaker. She’s the founder of Workology, a workplace HR resource and host of the Workology Podcast.
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
Adam Deif is a Head of Industry overseeing Google's B2B efforts among industries including Careers, People Search, and Life Events. Prior to that, he was in charge of mobile strategy in the retail sector working with partners including Target, Walmart and Best Buy championing performance and brand marketing efforts. Previously, Adam was an Analyst at Google in both the retail and travel verticals in Toronto and New York. Prior to Google, Adam worked in Investment Banking at Credit Suisse and Algorithmic Trading at Sanford Bernstein in New York.
Adam has BA in Economics from The University of Western Ontario. During his time there, he became and still remains a huge fan of Toronto, Canada, "one of the most multicultural cities in the world". He now lives in Brooklyn, New York and works in Manhattan.