The document outlines the agenda for a two-day recruiting conference with sessions on hiring software engineers, sourcing candidates, improving the candidate experience, and preparing candidates for interviews. Day 1 includes keynote speeches from leaders at Target and Amazon and breakout sessions on candidate engagement, measuring candidate experience, and disaster preparedness for tech interviews. Day 2 focuses on recruitment strategies from GoDaddy, connecting hiring managers to candidates, benchmarking best practices, and improving response rates from tech candidates.

1. Day 1 – Tuesday, June 09, 2015
7:45 am 8:30 am Registration/Coffee
8:30 am 9:00 am Welcome Remarks John Vlastelica
Managing Director, Recruiting Toolbox
9:00 am 9:45 am Opening Keynote Elwin Loomis
Director of Software Engineering at Target
9:45 am 10:30 am Hiring Software Engineers, The
Amazon Way
Danielle Monaghan
Head of Global Consumer Talent Acquisition at
Amazon.com
10:30 am 11:00 am Break
11:00 am 11:30 am Platinum Sponsor – The Art of
Candidate Engagement
Shravan Goli, President of Dice & Panel:
Johnny Campbell, Stacy Donavan Zapar, & Sara
Fleischman
11:30 am 12:15 pm Does Your Candidate Experience
Measure Up?
Andrew Gadomski
Chief Advisor and Founder of Aspen Advisors
12:15 pm 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm 2:05 pm Disaster Preparedness: Prep Your
Candidates for Tech Interviews
Gayle Laakman​n​ McDowell
Founder of CareerCup
2:05 pm 2:15 pm Break
2:15 pm 3:30 pm Concurrent Sessions
Sourcing Round Tables
Master Sourcers:
Sara Fleishman, Amybeth Quinn, Dean DaCosta,
Derek Zeller, Matt Grove, Stacy Zapar, Hakon
Verespej, Carmen Hudson, & Mark Tortorici.
Leadership Panel Discussion
Moderated by John Vlastelica
Lori Russo
Global Head of Talent Acquisition at TripAdvisor
Tracey Pass
Head of Tech Recruiting at Target
Bryan Larson
Head of Technical Recruiting at AirBnB
Scotty Morrison
Head of Global Talent Sourcing at Workday
3:30 pm 4:00 pm Break
4:00 pm 4:45 pm Stay Scrappy: How to Recruit World
Class Software Engineers When
You're Not a Mega Tech Brand
Moderated by Carmen Hudson
Shannon Barbour
Startup Recruiting Manager
Wendy McIntosh
Director of Recruiting at Chef.com
Matt Andrieux
Team Lead at Riviera Partners
4:45 pm 5:00 pm Day One Wrap Up John Vlastelica
5:00 pm 6:30 pm Networking Reception
June 09-10, 2015 | Seattle | www.talent42.com

2. Day 2 – Wednesday, June 10, 2015
8:00 am 8:30 am Morning Coffee
8:30 am 9:00 am Day 2 Opening Remarks John Vlastelica
Managing Director, Recruiting Toolbox
9:00 am 9:30 am The Top Strategies GoDaddy
Employs to Recruit Top
Technology Talent
Arnold Blinn
Chief Architect from GoDaddy
9:30 am 10:15 am Exciting Presentation around
Tech Recruiting
Fascinating Presenter, TBD
Cool Company
10:15 am 10:45 am Break
10:45 am 11:30 am Swipe to the Right: Connecting
Hiring Managers to Great Tech
Candidates
Mark Tortorici
Founder, Transform Talent Acquisition
11:30 pm 12:45 pm Lunch
12:45 pm 1:30 pm Tools of Fortune Carmen Hudson, Principal Consultant, Recruiting
Toolbox & select contestants
1:30 pm 1:40 pm Break
1:40 pm 2:55 pm Concurrent Sessions
Sourcing Round Tables
Master Sourcers:
Sara Fleishman, Amybeth Quinn, Dean DaCosta,
Derek Zeller, Matt Grove, Stacy Zapar, Hakon
Verespej, Carmen Hudson, & Mark Tortorici
Benchmarking Roundtables for
Recruiting Leaders
Engage with peers to benchmark and share best
practices, facilitated by recruiting leader speakers
and participants.
2:55 pm 3:25 pm Break
3:25 pm 4:25 pm They're Just Not Into You:
Improving Tech Candidate
Response Rates
Glen Cathey
SVP, Talent Strategy, K-Force
4:25 pm 5:00 pm Conference Wrap Up John Vlastelica
Managing Director, Recruiting Toolbox
June 09-10 2015| Seattle | www.talent42.com