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Join us at #IHRTA26 for an event that’s bigger, bolder, and more insightful than ever.
The event brings together industry leaders to share strategies that strengthen your employer brand and deliver real hiring impact.
Designed for talent acquisition professionals, the event features expert-led sessions, interactive panels, and collaborative roundtables exploring the trends shaping recruitment in 2026 and beyond.
Premium Members can unlock FREE tickets (worth £295) using their Membership ID (found in My Account) as the promo code at registration.
Speaker Topics
Employer Branding
From personal brands to talent pipeline
Candidate market
Navigating attraction in today’s candidate-driven market
Career sites
What top career sites do differently to convert talent
Hiring efficiency
Less spend, better hires - why basics beat big budgets
Global talent
Removing risk to win international candidates
Workforce planning
Smarter attraction strategies for stronger talent outcomes
Agenda
11 June 2026
If your 2026 activation plan looks like your 2022 plan, you’re already behind. The 'post and pray' era isn't just dying—it’s dead. Today, talent is hyper-segmented and cynical of corporate noise. If you aren't innovating your delivery, you’re shouting into a void. Join us as we dismantle the same old channel strategies and reveal the radical, nuanced approaches required to actually move the needle. We’re sharing our most disruptive client campaigns to show you what happens when you stop broadcasting and start connecting.
What to expect:
- Stop wasting budget: Identifying the legacy channels that are draining your ROI.
- The architecture of influence: How to navigate dark social and niche communities where top talent actually hides.
- The ‘nuance' advantage: How tailored content for specific personas creates a competitive edge that money can't buy.
Cutting costs in hiring is easy. Hiring better is not. As pressure mounts to do more with less, TA leaders face a critical challenge: how to improve hiring outcomes without compromising talent quality. This session explores how smarter workforce decisions and sharper attraction strategies can reduce waste and deliver real business impact.
What to expect:
- Why reducing hiring volume doesn’t automatically improve efficiency
- Where organisations waste budget in attraction and hiring—and how to fix it
- How to shift from cost-per-hire to quality-of-hire thinking
- The role of workforce planning in improving attraction outcomes
- How TA leaders can influence better hiring decisions at a strategic level
What separates career sites that attract and convert top talent from those that lose candidates at the first click? Drawing on a decade of behavioural data and billions of interactions, this session reveals the patterns, decisions, and optimisations that consistently drive stronger engagement, higher conversions, and measurable hiring impact.
What to expect:
- The common traits shared by the world’s highest-performing career sites
- Where most organisations lose candidates, and how to fix it fast
- How AI-driven insights are reshaping the candidate journey end-to-end
- Practical ways to improve conversion without a full site rebuild
- How to turn career site performance into a strategic TA advantage
Attracting global talent isn’t just about sourcing or salary, it’s about confidence. For many candidates, relocation is the highest-risk part of accepting a role. This session reveals how leading organisations are removing that friction, turning candidate support into a strategic lever to increase offer acceptance and win scarce talent internationally.
What to expect:
- Why relocation uncertainty is one of the biggest hidden drivers of offer rejection
- How candidate support directly impacts attraction, conversion, and time-to-hire
- Practical ways TA teams can reduce perceived risk for global candidates
- How to position relocation as part of the “sell,” not just post-offer logistics
- What leading organisations are doing differently to secure international talent"
What happens when your budget disappears—but your hiring targets don’t? This session is a straight-talking account of stripping talent attraction back to what actually works. No fluff, no wasted spend—just practical, proven methods that delivered results, cut agency reliance to zero, and rebuilt a stronger, more resilient hiring engine.
What to expect:
- How to eliminate low-ROI spend (and what to replace it with)
- Practical, grassroots attraction tactics that still outperform paid channels
- Building high-impact referral and local sourcing strategies from scratch
- Shifting mindset from “spend more” to “hire smarter”
- How to prove value and maintain hiring performance with zero agency reliance
Employer brand today is built through people, not campaigns. This session shows how to activate employees as authentic content creators and leaders as visible personal brands. Learn how to scale advocacy that feels real, builds trust, and drives hiring impact, turning everyday voices into your most powerful attraction strategy.
What to expect:
- How to turn employee advocacy into a consistent, scalable employer branding engine
- Why personal branding for leaders is critical to visibility, credibility, and talent attraction
- Practical ways to enable employees and leaders to create authentic, high-impact content
- How to design content that’s easy to share, personalise, and amplify across networks
- Real examples of how advocacy and personal branding drive reach, engagement, and stronger talent pipelines
Networking opportunities
Expert guidance
Learn from industry-leaders from world-class organisations
Strategic roundtable discussions
Strategic roundtable discussions
Hear from your peers on their successes, challenges and changes within TA
Unrivalled speaker content
Be inspired by success stories from talent professionals from tech, healthcare and retail industries
Best practice sharing
Best practice sharing
Hear from your peers on their best practices
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.
Previous attendees
“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.”
“There were some brilliant speakers, some really interesting takeaways, and now a lot for me to talk to my team about this morning! I look forward to implementing some of the content later this year.”
“Great insights to a new processes being launched. Good to be able to see another company of similar size go through a transformational change with success.”
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Venue
Cavendish Venues - 1 Basinghall Avenue
+44 (0)20 7706 7700
1 Basinghall Ave 1, Basinghall Avenue, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, EC2V 5DD
The venue is located in the City of London and is accessible within 2 minutes of the Elizabeth Line at Moorgate station.
Also within walking distance (5–10 mins) from several Underground stations: Bank, Mansion House, Cannon Street, Liverpool Street, Monument, Barbican.
Rob is a talent attraction leader with 15 years’ experience across agency and in-house roles in hospitality and retail. He combines commercial awareness, creativity, and empathy to design modern, human candidate journeys through strong storytelling, EVP, and employer branding. Known for creative thinking and trust-based leadership, he coaches hiring teams to identify and harness the ‘superpowers’ that elevate performance.
Paul Bhangoo is currently the Global Head of Employer Brand & Talent Attraction for BT Group. The area supports a global, multi-branded organisation with engagement and attraction of colleagues across the skills spectrum from frontline colleagues working in retail/call centres for EE to digital strategists for BT Group in India – and everything in-between – whilst ensuring that the customer & candidate experience has brand symmetry.
Paul has over 30 years of recruitment/recruitment marketing experience gained in publishing, advertising agencies and within global organisations. In addition to delivering global EVP’s segmented by skills, career stage & geographic localisations, Paul has extensive experience of supporting DEI initiatives within organisations and improving the relationship diverse talent has with global brands.
James has spent over 10 years in the employer marketing industry, developing employer brand and recruitment campaigns across a broad range of complex businesses. James plays a key role in ensuring that SMRS understand each of his client’s needs and that strategy and delivery work hand in hand to meet his clients’ KPIs,
With over seven years’ experience in Talent Attraction and Employer Branding, Charlotte partners with clients to deliver Employer Brand projects from initial concept to activation. She is an expert in campaign planning and activation, media management and content curation, and works closely with a range of high profile clients such as the LEGO Group, Pandora, IHG and Yodel on their Employer Brand and attraction campaigns, on the creation and deployment of their employer brand attraction campaigns for both high volume and niche skills.
Harry Lee is a Director at PerchPeek, working closely with Talent and People teams as they navigate the realities of global hiring.
He spends his time speaking with TA leaders about how candidates are supported beyond the offer - particularly when roles involve international moves.
Harry is passionate about improving candidate experience in global hiring and enjoys exploring where process, data, and technology can make this support more consistent and scalable.
Natasha Preocanin is the Managing Director for In-house Recruitment (IHR), the largest and most engaged community for In-house Recruiters. Our 20,000+ community benefit from over 70 live and virtual events each year ranging from our 1000-strong exhibitions and high profile awards to exclusive half-day breakfasts and targeted dinners for Recruitment Leaders. We also produce industry leading digital whitepapers, webinars and leadership videos alongside high value community forums and an all-inclusive supplier directory.
With a background in events, Natasha's joined the company in 2012 as an Events Executive and quickly progressed up the ranks to her current position as MD. She now leads the company in becoming the go-to resource for all In-house and Talent Acquisition teams who are looking to become better recruiters. Natasha can often be seen on stage, hosting our events or behind a microphone, interviewing a host of industry experts.