Many HR teams have deployed a single, generic agent. The real shift is orchestration: multiple agents tuned to your industry, role, and market, for sourcing, screening, scheduling, onboarding, development and coaching, working together under one governance layer. In this live demo, see how Phenom coordinates precision-built agents from hire to retire, with full visibility into every decision.

Application volumes at ABB rose 40% for the same roles, shifting the challenge from attracting candidates to identifying the right ones at speed. Learn how ABB's decentralized global TA function is pulling multiple levers at once, from AI that uses voice agents to screen and rank applicants to automation that removes manual work, and what it takes to fail fast so the enterprise can learn faster.

Decisions on hiring, pay and promotion are one of the most important things that HR makes. Increasingly however, HR is not the one making them. What are the short and longer implications of this and should we be dialing back on automation within HR?

AI now shapes who gets hired, how people are paid and when they are promoted. The question is no longer whether HR should automate, but whether it still owns the rules once it has. When the workflow becomes the policy, authority quietly shifts to IT departments, vendors and the algorithm itself, and accountability becomes harder to locate just as the stakes for individual careers rise.

This panel asks where automation genuinely improves fairness and where it erodes it, which decisions must always carry a human override, and how much transparency employees deserve about the systems judging them. At its heart is a sharper question about the function itself: is HR becoming the strategic architect of the enterprise, or merely the operator of machines it no longer controls?