So what are you actually screening for?
Hiring in the Age of AI — How AI Is Transforming the Way Companies Find, Assess & Hire Talents. One evening, four practitioners, and an honest account of what is working and what is not.
88%
of organisations now report using AI
Stanford AI Index, 2026
107,310
applications for one graduate programme
775 reached the final intake
1 in 3
of your week spent on the first round
before anyone qualified reaches you
Applications now arrive polished, keyword-matched and indistinguishable. What that does to shortlisting, and what actually replaces the CV as evidence.
Rehearsed answers, borrowed experience, claims nobody checks. How structured interviewing surfaces evidence instead of confidence.
An honest account from people running this in production, including what broke and what it cost.
Keeping a human on every decision, and what that means for fairness, records and defending a shortlist you did not personally assemble.
Certified HR Professional (PHRi) · Master of Ceremonies
A professional compere, speaker and facilitator whose work spans international conferences, corporate events and leadership programmes — including IoT West Africa 2026 and The Workplace Outlook 2026 by Alan & Grant. She is a globally certified Professional in Human Resources — International (PHRi).
Talent Manager, Equinix
A career spanning recruitment, onboarding, engagement and performance management. She has an ongoing curiosity about what shapes how people grow, decide and work — a curiosity she also channels into Career Chats With Mide, her coaching initiative for students navigating career decisions.
HR Executive, Olam Agri
Experience across employee lifecycle management, talent development, HR reporting and digital HR transformation. At Olam Agri he contributes to people-focused initiatives, process improvement, workforce analytics and employee development programmes.
HR Manager, GUO Motors
HR leadership at one of Nigeria's largest transport and logistics operators, where hiring runs at volume across drivers, operations and head office.
Tech Entrepreneur, AI Engineer & CEO, Unovia Technologies
Unovia Technologies is an artificial intelligence company focused on enterprise AI adoption, process automation and workforce automation.
It is a closed conversation, so the only way to hear it is to be there.
This is for you
So we need to have the conversation around it, in order to understand how we can leverage it — the way we have leveraged every other technology before it — to make our work better as HR professionals and founders.