How do you redesign hiring for the scale enterprise demands, without losing sight of the person on the other end of it?
Over three days at the Paris Convention Centre, HR, TA and business leaders from L'Oréal, SAP, Lloyds Banking Group, AXA and hundreds more will be working through exactly that. Sapia.ai joins as a Platinum Sponsor, bringing 10M+ structured AI interviews' worth of evidence that the answer isn't inferring signals from a CV. It's by measuring the person directly.
Olivia Sarson is Global Head of Talent Acquisition at Costa Coffee, appointed to the role in 2026. Her team led Costa’s shift from manual CV screening to AI-powered structured interviews, a change driven by scale: Costa receives 300,000 applications a year for just 8,000 roles. Olivia now owns the strategy for scaling that approach further, with a continued focus on giving time back to store managers and delivering a fair, consistent experience to every candidate, regardless of outcome. She brings over 20 years of talent and HR leadership experience, including 17 years at Walgreens Boots Alliance.
Barb Hyman is the Founder & CEO of Sapia.ai, a pioneer of the AI chat interview and one of the first companies to bring AI-native assessment to enterprise hiring. Since 2018, Sapia.ai has operated as an R&D house, building proprietary algorithms on a dataset of more than 3 billion words. Its science has been peer-reviewed and published in 10+ academic journals, and the company has won multiple awards for AI innovation and its impact on brand, fairness and EDI in hiring. Barb began her career as a lawyer with Herbert Smith Freehills before moving into strategy consulting and senior HR leadership, including Head of HR for BCG across Asia-Pacific and CHRO at REA Group. Today she is recognised as a leading voice on the future of recruiting and ethical AI.
20 Oct 2026 Paris Convention Centre 
16 Sep 2026 12:00 PM (AEST) QT Sydney, Studio Q - 49 Market Street Sydney, NSW 