Collect your lanyard, catch up with industry friends and check out the exciting Tech Expo located in Fed Square’s Zinc building.

Welcome to ATC2025! ATC2025’s mainstage is in the beautiful architectural building known as The Edge, built on the banks of the Birrarung.

Ever wondered where one billion dollars a day in AI R&D is going and how these developments might soon reshape your workplaces and lives? Or what it actually takes to power those systems?  This session kicks off with a look behind the curtain at AI R&D, unearthing not just what’s being built, but what it demands from the world around it.

We’ll explore two different timelines:

• Now-2030: The next five years where AI agents improve and embed themselves in white-collar and industrial workflows.
• 2030-2040: The timeframe in which many predict AI may outthink us altogether and work for some may be optional unless we design and regulate it differently.

For HR and Talent Leaders, the real tension lies in the questions we’ll unpack: How do you redesign jobs when AI takes the “productivity” out of performance? What happens when hiring decisions are made by machines and who is keeping the bias in check? Is your organisation ready for “AI-native” roles, and do your people have the literacy to thrive in them? How do we ensure the right kind of impact on our people, workplaces and society?

You won’t leave with hype or headlines but a frank assessment of the work and opportunities ahead from Australia’s leading AI expert Dr Toby Walsh, Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of New South Wales.

What if redesigning work didn’t mean choosing between productivity and people? Medibank’s Work Reinvented program is a bold case study in how to reimagine work with purpose at its centre.

This session will spotlight three strategic moves:

• Transitioning to a 4-day work week to support flexibility and performance.
• An ambitious goal to become Australia’s Healthiest Workplace by 2030.
• Systemic friction-fixing – removing red tape to enable performance and impact.

These aren’t isolated experiments. They’re interconnected shifts in how work is designed, led, and experienced at Medibank. For Talent and HR leaders, this session will spotlight what it really looks like to enable performance through intentional design.

Enjoy a gourmet morning tea and barista coffee while you explore the Expo Hall.

 Pre-Work Required: https://advisory.tcsinsights.com/

Automation is forcing TA teams to evolve from Recruiters to Strategic Talent Advisors. This interactive workshop uses live attendee assessment data across five critical advisory competencies – Curiosity, Analytics, Strategic Thinking, Influencing Skills, and Agility. Those that combine Curiosity with data analysis draw better conclusions about talent needs, whilst those who are Influential can drive strategic workforce decisions. In the workshop we will share:

• Live Results Reveal: Interactive analysis of your responses and scores across competencies.
• Competency Deep Dive: Collaborative discussion on how the two lowest-scoring traits impact daily TA effectiveness.
• Solution Workshop: Interactive development of improvement strategies and takeaway exercises.

By the end of the session, you’ll have two tangible outputs:

1. Collective Competency Benchmark: how the data for the five traits compare to Talent Advisor Standards.
2. Two Ready-to-Use Exercises: Practical scenarios that you can immediately implement with your teams to begin the bridge the gap and develop your lowest-scoring competency.

For Canva, allowing candidates to use AI during the hiring process isn’t a question of enabling shortcuts or allowing “cheating”- it’s about practically assessing the real, usable skills our people need on the job. Almost half of our engineers leverage AI to prototype ideas, understand our large codebase and generate code allowing them to focus on what matters most: Empowering the World to Design. This meant that our hiring practices needed to evolve alongside the tools and practices our people use every day. Learn how we shaped new policy, updated communications and embedded the assessment AI tools like Copilot, Cursor, and Claude into our technical interviews.

Following this morning’s Keynote session, Toby Walsh will host an intimate extended Q&A for Talent Directors and Heads of Strategy. This is an off-the-record opportunity to gain a deeper understanding and discuss ethical considerations and workforce implications amongst peers.

As a global leader in healthcare technology, Medtronic faces a unique challenge: competing with both medical innovators and technology giants for highly specialised talent, whilst hiring thousands of employees each year, across 150+ countries. In this session, Medtronic will share its approach to talent acquisition automation – leveraging AI to streamline hiring, simplify candidate experiences, and empower recruiters to act as true talent advisors.

You will gain practical insights into:

• Moving beyond AI hype to achieve measurable business outcomes.
• Redesigning candidate-focused hiring journeys with AI and automation to enhance both recruiter efficiency and the candidate experience.
• Laying the groundwork for data-driven, future-ready talent acquisition strategies.

This session introduces a ground-breaking case study of a TA Function that mapped their team at a task level – unpacking in detail, how recruiter time is really spent. The analysis revealed stark gaps between business leaders’ perceptions of what counts as “critical and productive work” and the everyday reality inside TA teams. It also highlighted where people found their energy, spark, and professional drive, and what drains them. You’ll leave with an understanding of practical next steps and how to redesign work in a way that aligns productivity gains with both business outcomes and employee engagement. This session sits at the intersection of work design, productivity, automation, skills and task analysis and preserving the joy in human-centric work. This is the future.

In talent, the conversation often centres on “getting a seat at the table.” Athanasia Corso, Head of Talent at Network Insurance House, believes the real opportunity lies in owning the seat you already have. With a $10k budget and the support of VideoMyJob, she flipped the traditional recruitment marketing playbook, replacing long timelines and costly film crews with an agile, AI-driven process that surfaced what employees truly value and turned those insights into authentic stories.

The result was a reverse-engineered value proposition shaped by employee voices, a library of hundreds of on-brand videos, and thousands of auto-generated shareable assets such as social clips, branded quote cards and ready-to-publish blogs, all created in just 15 hours of her time. These assets now fuel recruitment marketing, onboarding, internal comms and culture, and will also play a crucial role in amplifying their recent rebrand, proving that even lean resources can deliver enterprise-level impact at scale.

In this session, Jamie Holder, Head of Talent at MUFG Retirement Solutions, sits down with Athanasia to unpack her storytelling playbook, the lessons, advice and strategies she used to move fast, prove outcomes, and demonstrate talent’s strategic power without waiting for permission.

Enjoy lunch in the Expo Hall while catching up with the Talent Community overlooking the banks of Birrarung.

Australian workplaces are undergoing unprecedented disruption, with a wave of new laws and regulatory interventions reshaping employer obligations. Without a clear understanding of these changes, Workforce Leaders risk being caught in a perfect storm of compliance and operational challenges.

Workforce Lawyer, Nick Duggal will unpack:

• The legal implications of AI’s reorganisation of the labour market, and what it means for employers’ obligations.
• The recent High Court decision that expands the way employers need to redeploy workers when undertaking redundancies.
• The Victorian Government initiative to mandate 2 days WFH.
• Impacts of the Economic Reform Roundtable on workplace productivity.
• The growing momentum behind the four-day week, and the legal considerations for contracts, awards, and enterprise agreements.

Walk away with easy-to-understand insights on new legal obligations, areas of risk to watch, and the chance to test your own scenarios and ask your questions direct to Nick.

How work gets done it about to change. This session will introduce you to the world of AI Agents in the most practical way.

By the end of this session, you will understand:

• Automation Agents: Agents that are trained to perform tasks.
• Virtual Partner Agents: Agents that partner with you to discuss and explore, creating a virtual workmate.
• How Agents differ from other tools: Agents are different to GPTs, Chatbots or Prompts.
• Practical Uses: How Agents can be used in recruitment, marketing and even for your kid’s homework, etc.
• How they are bought, built and trained: How to get started fast.
• How the workforce will change: Worried about job losses? There are far more opportunities than you think.

Many organisations are grappling with what role TA plays in Internal Mobility. MYOB decided not to look at Internal Mobility in isolation, but how it intersects and overlaps with Talent Pooling, Talent Advisory and Talent Management and Demand Planning to align with their Strategic Workforce Plan. Together, Adam and Ash will share:

• Why they are expanding their pre-existing Talent Advisory function to broaden impact on the business and being true Talent Advisors.
• How the Exec and SLT team were engaged on the concept of mobilising internal talent.
• How they got Hiring Managers onboard with TA providing career planning to their employees.
• How they engaged Employees to help them “manage their careers”.
• The scope and elements of the Career discussions.
• Lessons they learned from this program of work and where it goes next.

They will also share the results including more empowered and engaged employees, deeply qualified talent pools with increased internal mobility and improved Strategic Workforce and Demand Planning.

Globally, one man dies by suicide every minute and in Australia, it is the #1 cause of death for men under 45. But even as wellbeing strategies become business priorities, men’s health is largely left out of the conversation. Men’s health requires visibility, conversation, and collective action and the workplace is a powerful place to start. Movember have built the world’s largest movement for men’s health, and every November is an opportunity for People & Culture Teams to drive real impact inside their Organisation. Let’s co-create a low-lift, high-impact activation that supports your DEI and ESG goals and drives meaningful change.

Imagine a Talent Acquisition function unburdened by low-value, manual, and siloed processes, and instead, free to focus on relationship building and optimising recruiting strategies.

Join Workday for a look at the new AI Operating Model for TA, a definitive move that transforms your team from transactional recruiters into a genuine strategic powerhouse. This isn’t just an upgrade—it’s an evolution. Discover how implementing a trusted, responsible AI for HR solution can:

• Boost recruiter capacity by an average of 54%.
• Cover on average 70% of requisitions from existing talent pools.
• Enhance hiring collaboration and the candidate experience.
• Reduces time-to-fill and enable a more agile, future-ready workforce.

In this live and interactive session, you’ll be presented with real-world hiring dilemmas. Working in small groups, you’ll weigh your options, debate your approach, and decide how you’d handle each scenario. Will you prioritise speed or rigour? Candidate experience or business pressure? Lock in your decision and then our expert panel will weigh in with a verdict – breaking down the risks, ethics, and evidence behind what best practice really looks like. No one gets voted off the island, but you might just rethink how you hire.

Jo and Eva will wrap up the day and let you know what’s next and what you can expect from Day 2 of ATC2025.

Enjoy social drinks, eats and catching up with the Talent Community overlooking the banks of Birrarung.