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Be inspired by success stories from talent professionals from various industries
Join us at #MCRCX26 to learn what world-class candidate experience actually takes, from the people who've built it.
Rising expectations. AI everywhere. Candidate experience has never been harder to get right, or mattered more.
IHR Candidate Experience Conference brings the UK's in-house TA teams to Manchester for a day of insightful sessions and roundtables that go beyond theory. You'll hear what's working from the people making it work, pressure-test your own approach against your peers', and walk out with a plan you can start immediately.
Premium Members can unlock FREE tickets (worth £295) using their Membership ID (found in My Account) as the promo code at registration.
Speaker Topics
Candidate expectations
Engaging and meeting modern candidate needs
AI and automation
Balancing technology with a personalised CX
Pre-application experience
Where candidate journeys actually begin
Candidate trust
Rebuilding confidence in hiring processes
Speakers
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Why attend
Unrivalled speaker content
Strategic roundtable discussions
Hear from your peers on their successes, challenges and changes within candidate experience space
Best practice sharing
Best practice sharing
Hear from your peers on their best practices in the candidate experience world
Career development
Discover how IHR Membership gives you the community, content, events and connections to grow
Networking opportunities
Networking opportunities
Grow your network at our dedicated lounge areas and post-event drinks
Offers, goodies and competitions
Pick up some treats for your team and be in with the chance to win big prizes!
Register for the event
Premium Members can unlock free tickets using their Membership ID as the promo code.
Who attends?
“It was a brilliant and energising experience. Events like this remind me just how powerful our community is when we come together to share, challenge and learn.”
“The event was fantastically insightful, with the array of interesting topics and the brilliantly organised roundtable discussions.”
“It was a great event, filled with insightful discussions and inspiring speakers. Beyond the sessions, the chance to network with so many brilliant minds within Talent Acquisition was invaluable.”
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Venue
Lyf Piccadilly, Manchester
A bright, design-led space in the heart of the city, and easy to reach.
The hotel is half a mile from Manchester Piccadilly railway station (12 minutes walking distance or 5 minutes taxi ride) and the MEN Arena. Manchester Airport, 9 miles away.
Craig is a Talent Acquisition and Employer Brand leader with over 10 years of experience driving recruitment and talent strategies across the financial and professional services sectors. Based in Edinburgh, he leads Aegon UK’s end-to-end Talent Acquisition function and oversees the development and delivery of the organisation’s Employer Brand strategy.
With over 12 years of experience in Talent Acquisition, she is currently working as a Talent Acquisition Business Partner at TalkTalk—operating as the Head of Talent Acquisition and reporting directly to the Chief People Officer.
She leads on defining and executing the organisation’s EVP, building an inclusive and agile recruitment framework, and driving strategies that enhance candidate experience, employer branding, and diversity in hiring.
From shaping scalable hiring processes to embedding a culture-focused talent strategy, she brings a hands-on, forward-thinking approach to attracting top talent and supporting organisational growth.
Transformational leader with excellent communication skills, known for successfully developing and managing both centralised and remote teams. With a strong focus on enhancing capability, driving technology-led experiences, and achieving outstanding delivery and performance, this individual fosters a culture of excellence. Passionate about creating and embedding a “hiring culture,” they coach, influence, and educate across all organisational levels; strategic, tactical, and operational, building trust and aligning teams around common goals. Fully embracing the integration of human-touch hiring with AI and automation technology, they bring a forward-thinking approach to hiring, ensuring innovative and efficient talent acquisition strategies.
After 10 years working within recruitment and software sales, Matt managed to combine both worlds when joining Tribepad. He's passionate about helping recruiters hire fairer, faster and better, and is our resident expert on all things public sector, leading the charge on helping Tribepad's growing customer base in local government to transform their hiring processes. Tribepad is used by more than 25 million people across the globe in 16 languages. Clients include The BBC, Tesco, Subway, NHS Professionals, Grant Thornton and The Church of England.
Graham Hewitt is Solutions Insights Director at ManpowerGroup, with over 25 years' experience helping organisations solve complex talent attraction and workforce challenges. He helps employers rethink how they attract, engage and convert talent in an increasingly complex hiring market by combining commercial strategy with data-driven insight.
Graham has led the development of the Talent Insight Scans, a framework that benchmarks employer brands, career sites and candidate journeys across hundreds of organisations. His work centres on balancing candidate friction and candidate signal, helping employers remove unnecessary barriers from the hiring process while capturing the right information to make better hiring decisions.
Drawing on insights from hundreds of employer assessments, Graham works with business leaders to explore the impact of AI, changing candidate expectations and skills-based hiring on the future of talent acquisition.
Alex Hanson-Smith is co-founder and CTPO of inploi, where he leads product and engineering. He began his career in eCommerce and customer engagement strategy at Ogilvy, working with global consumer brands, and has spent the decade since applying that thinking to hiring. inploi now sits behind the careers sites and application journeys of employers including PureGym, Compass Group and Wagamama, reaching millions of candidates a year. He is most interested in the point where behavioural science, design and hiring technology meet, and in what recruitment can borrow from consumer products that people actually enjoy using.
