We’re so lucky to have an inspiring group of Talent Brand Summit workshop facilitators in Austin!

They represent a large established SaaS company, an airline carrier, and a couple of gig-economy companies. Throw into the mix, a talent and brand leader from a print and digital news media powerhouse, as well as a leader from a certain social network and you’ve got recruitment marketing knowledge in spades.

BUT WAIT. THEY’RE FACILITATORS, NOT SPEAKERS. NO “DEATH BY POWERPOINT”!

They’ll facilitate the great conversations that you’ll have with your table mates at the event. That means that they’re properly kicking off their individual roundtable topics, providing a framework, and guiding the discussion and knowledge sharing among the entire workshop delegation.

You’ve likely used one or more of their company’s products or services. In fact, it would be tough to find anyone who hasn’t.

• We have David Ige, Recruitment Marketing Manager from Alaska Airlines, based out of Seattle. He’s ready to kick off the discussion about activating your brilliant content - just as important to your success as the media production itself.

• Chrissy Thornhill is joining us from Salesforce, where she’s a Senior Manager of Global Employer Branding and Recruitment Marketing. She’ll lead the topic of empowering and enabling your recruitment teams.

• Brenna Child leads talent and brand for the Washington Post, and she understands that a great talent brand starts with an amazing employee experience. We’ll talk about how to engage employees, how to create consistencies between external and internal messaging, and the work lives that play out every day inside an organization.

• Sometimes we’re tasked with conflicting employer brand personalities. Sometimes the experience of each micro-culture means you are selling a different story all together. Colleen Finnegan of Instacart, is leading the conversation about managing your employer value proposition across business units and sub-brands.

• Camille Richardson from Facebook, is tackling probably our favorite topic: Creativity on a Budget. In an action-filled workshop, Camille will be assigning budgets, personas, and timelines to target the right talent LIVE with your table mates.

• Last and most certainly not least, is our roundtable on tools and technology, led by Bari Polay of Lyft. Looking for a new sourcing platform? Need to collect user-generated video content? We’re going to share some of the secrets up our sleeves as well as open up the tools discussion for group feedback.

You’ll be matched with people who are interested in similar topics and who have similar backgrounds and challenges so you can share your knowledge with each other at the roundtables. This is what that will look like for each day of the event.

DAY 1: You’ll start the day getting to know your table mates, and the entire table will jump into discussing three interactive topics. The tables will share back what they’ve learned during each 75-minute discussion, which will be led by a different facilitator. Each table will be able to nominate and vote on the fourth topic of the day, and notes from each discussion will be provided. Your brain will be full of new ideas as you ease into a Texas barbecue dinner and fireside chat. Not done yet? Lastly, it’s time to turn the volume up with a live band karaoke party.

DAY 2: It’s time to pick your own tables. You’ll broaden your network and dig in to discussion around the four daily topics, aided by our talented facilitators. Each day, all meals and drinks will be provided, and we will wrap up this day with a delicious Tex-Mex dinner, and the very first Talent Brand Awards. Nominations will be judged by the TBA board, and presented in our Summit closing ceremony.

Our co-founders, Bryan Chaney and Will Staney will be emceeing the event once again, with some help from Talent Brand Alliance board members. Have you requested your ticket yet?

Early bird ticket registration (and pricing) ends December 31, 2019 and with just 100 seats available, the event sells out every year.