Executive Summit in the Bay Area
Join us for an invitation-only executive summit for talent acquisition leaders.
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Friday, September 11, 2026
8:30am – 2pm
Zoom Executive Briefing Center
1 South Almaden Blvd, 11th Floor / San Jose, CA
The summit is small and intentionally curated to foster meaningful conversations among senior HR and Talent Acquisition leaders facing similar enterprise hiring challenges.
The agenda builds on conversations from Shine 2026, moving from broad trends into the specific strategies enterprise leaders need to act on now.
Sessions are workshop-based, so attendees spend the time exchanging ideas with peers and working through practical solutions to their own hiring challenges.
Friday, September 11, 2026
Teddy Chestnut, Co-Founder, Brighthire
Hiring used to run on friction. A resume came with a phone call, a referral, or a reference, and that friction created trust on both sides. Today mass-generated applications meet automated screening, and trust has thinned in between. Talent leaders are the ones who decide what the process looks like, which makes this our problem to solve. We’ll discuss where trust is breaking down, what teams are doing through process, communications, and technology to rebuild trust, and what the standard should be from here.
Moderator: Hazy Sandoval, BrightHire
Everybody agrees the top of the funnel is broken. A flood of applicants is being met with new technologies to sort, rank, and filter candidates. Some companies are taking innovative and creative approaches to ensuring their recruiters can spend time with the best qualified candidates. We’ll discuss what’s working, what’s not, and whether people, technology, or some combination of both should be the gatekeeper to the entry point of the hiring process.
Moderator: Oliver Stephenson, BrightHire
AI technology is advancing far faster than talent teams’ capabilities to experiment, adapt, and deploy at scale. We’ll discuss how teams are managing experimentation, iteration, governance, and skill building, and review specific examples of successes and failures we can learn from together.
Moderator: Teddy Chestnut, Co-Founder, BrightHire
Teddy Chestnut, Co-Founder, Brighthire
Session times are subject to change
Co-Founder
Senior Product Manager
Strategy & Operations
VP of Marketing
Address: 1 Almaden Blvd Floor 11, San Jose, CA
Parking/travel information: Parking lot is shared with Zoom and the AC hotel. Park on the first floor where it's labeled Zoom EBC and bring your ticket inside for validation.
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