Building AI-First Recruiting Teams: Unlocking the Opportunity, Understanding the Challenge - Gem - GDS Group

Building AI-First Recruiting Teams: Unlocking the Opportunity, Understanding the Challenge

IN-PERSON EVENT
19 February 2026, Los Angeles 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm BST
In partnership
Gem

Dinner Location: Redbird

The demands being placed on talent acquisition teams have never been tougher. Recruiters are managing unprecedented workloads, handling 93% more applications than in 2021. They’re doing so with fewer resources, with teams 14% smaller than five years ago. Hiring processes are longer and more resource-intensive than ever before. And applicant fraud is on the rise, with Gartner predicting that by 2028 one-in-four applicants globally will be fake.

Cutting through all that noise is hard – which is why integrating AI into your hiring process is critical. So how do TA teams do more with less, and harness an AI-first approach to recruiting that enables them to enhance efficiencies, reduce fraud, and better identify top talent? Where do the opportunities lie – and how do you navigate the potential pitfalls?

Join Gem and a handpicked group of your peers to find out, and explore how AI is transforming the talent acquisition space.

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Discussion topics

How are you integrating AI into your recruiting and talent acquisition operations, and where do you see the most interesting opportunities?

What are some of the challenges around applicant fraud, and how are you identifying and preventing it?

What tools, technologies or methodologies are helping your teams get ahead of recruiting volumes and identify the best talent?

Speakers

Nick Stavert

Head of Commercial Sales
"These events are great for relationship building and early stage lead development tool"
Art DuRivage, VP Sales
"It's not a business of selling, it's a business of sharing. And so GDS helps create the environment to share with trust."
David Kidder, CEO & Co-Founder, Bionic
"It's all about exposure and visibility, right? Getting us in front of the right CEOs or the practitioners or whatever, bringing people together to share new techniques, new processes, and new technologies. "
Jason Mical, Cyber Security Evangelist, Devo
"It was a very qualified audience. It was exactly the level and the type of people we want to talk to. The dialogue, the nature of those one on ones gives you the ability to really understand what the client is seeking."
Hamp Hampton, Chief Revenue Officer, Cadalys

Event Agenda

Day one

6:30 pm - 7:00 pm

6:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Arrivals, welcome drinks, and networking

7:00 pm - 7:30 pm

7:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Event welcome and introductions

7:30 pm - 9:15 pm

7:30 pm - 9:15 pm

Table discussions and three-course dinner

9:15 pm - 9:30 pm

9:15 pm - 9:30 pm

Event Wrap Up

Why Attend

Closed door, tailored conversations to benchmark, share and get better equipped to solve complex transformation projects.

Experience shared learning

Meet industry leading like-minded executives tackling similar initiatives.

Benchmark with your industry peers

Discover and network to gain expertise and experience on how to best act and succeed.

Accelerate your projects

Accelerate In-depth face time with the world’s leading organizations pushing the boundaries to solve your challenges.

An engaged experience

An expert host facilitates conversations, with live polling, Q&As, and gamification to ensure focused conversation.

Discover next-level ideas

Ensure project success with access to industry experts and cutting edge thought leadership.

De-risk new projects

Gain a range of insights from peers and technical experts who are current with emerging business trends.

Gem

About Gem

Gem is the only AI-first all-in-one recruiting platform. It brings together your ATS, CRM, sourcing, scheduling, and analytics — plus 800+ million profiles to source from — with AI built into every workflow. By eliminating the headaches of juggling multiple tools, Gem helps customers boost recruiter productivity by up to 5x while saving 30-50% on technology costs. Over 1,000 organizations — from startups to industry leaders like Zillow, DoorDash, and Asana — trust Gem to fuel their growth. With an industry-leading 4.8/5 rating on G2, Gem is the platform recruiters actually love to use.

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