Building real AI momentum in talent acquisition
An invitation-only, half-day working session for senior talent acquisition executives.
Facilitated by Kyle Lagunas, Founder & Principal Analyst, Kyle & Co
● Capacity is intentionally limited to protect the quality of the conversation.
●Applications are open to qualified attendees of the ERE Recruiting Innovation Summit.
The Concept
Every TA org is in motion. Motion isn’t momentum.
Pilots are running. Agents are being tested. Dashboards are lighting up. Every talent acquisition organization is going through some sort of AI motion.
But behind closed doors, most executives will admit they can’t yet tell the difference inside their own operation — real progress from expensive activity. The Executive Forum is the room where that gets worked out, candidly, among peers navigating the same shift.
Your facilitator
Kyle Lagunas
Founder & Principal Analyst, Kyle & Co
Kyle Lagunas has sat in both chairs: talent leader inside organizations like General Motors, and analyst at IDC, Aptitude Research, Brandon Hall Group, and Beamery. He is the founder of Kyle & Co and the Human-Centric AI Council, a community of senior HR leaders shaping responsible AI adoption. At the Forum, he keeps the conversation candid, moving, and grounded in the operational realities of talent leadership.
Anchored in research
The AI Momentum Model, applied to talent acquisition for the first time
The day is built on Kyle & Co’s AI Momentum Model — grounded in survey data from more than 350 senior HR and talent leaders and years of practitioner-focused analysis. For the first time, the model is applied through a talent acquisition lens and pressure-tested by the leaders in the room.
Explore the model →The format
A working session, not a keynote in disguise
This is not a presentation-heavy program. Kyle frames each segment with market observations drawn from current research and ongoing practitioner conversations — then the real work happens at the tables.
The day is built around two working sessions. Session one tackles your automation line: what to hand to AI, what to standardize, and what still requires recruiter judgment in your hiring process. Session two takes on orchestration and consolidation: making clearer platform decisions as AI capabilities overlap, and aligning stakeholders around fewer, more intentional systems.
Chatham House candor
A closed-door conversation held under Chatham House rules, so leaders can speak plainly about what's actually working and what isn't.
Framed by research
Each segment opens with market signal from Kyle & Co's data and practitioner work — context, not slideware.
Think / write / share
Facilitated roundtables in a think-write-share format built for honest, practical exchange grounded in real constraints.
A momentum diagnostic
Participants complete a diagnostic that locates their organization on the AI momentum curve and maps them to one of three momentum archetypes.
In the room
AI is an accelerant, not a strategy. Point it at a broken process, and all you do is get there faster.
Kyle Lagunas · Founder & Principal Analyst, Kyle & Co
What you’ll walk away with
Four things in hand before the Summit opens
Where you sit on the curve
Your organization’s placement on the AI momentum curve, scored through Kyle & Co’s diagnostic and benchmarked against 350+ senior leaders.
The drivers stalling you
A read on which of the seven momentum drivers are holding back your progress — and which to address first.
Three prioritized moves
Three momentum moves matched to your organization’s archetype — concrete enough to brief your team the week you’re back.
A room at your altitude
A peer group wrestling with the same decisions, the same constraints, and the same stakes — at the same level of the org.
Beyond the room
The Forum doesn’t end when the room closes
The themes surfaced Monday carry directly into Kyle’s opening keynote Tuesday morning, Motion Isn’t Momentum: Where AI Is Taking Talent Acquisition. Participants don’t just hear the industry conversation. They shape it.
Participation
Apply to participate
The Forum is intentionally limited in capacity to protect the quality of the conversation. It’s built for senior TA and recruiting leaders who own hiring strategy, technology decisions, and operational outcomes.