Digitization and Employment - Lorraine Charles

Lorraine Charles is a social entrepreneur and a researcher. She is the Co-founder and Executive Director of Na'amal, which links forcibly displaced people with remote work opportunities. She is the Digital Solutions Specialist for Finn Church Aid. Lorraine is also a Research Associate for the Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge. She is also a member of the MIT ReACT Advisory Committee and the International Rescue Committee (IRC) Technical Advisory Committee for ReBuild, their East Africa livelihood programme.

The Rise of Entrepreneurship & Gig Work - Rosaria Cedras

Rosaria Cedras also known as Madam X, is a Leadership and Communication Specialist who is passionate about coaching high-growth entrepreneurs and corporate executives. She holds a Bcom Marketing Management Degree and has over 10 years of experience in Marketing, Sales, and Branding. She founded Madam X and Co. as a result of losing her job in 2021 and has since formulated strategies and tools to assist her clients in becoming the Influential and Impactful Leaders. She is also a Public Speaking Coach, Corporate MC, and Entrepreneur. Her passion stems from wanting to inspire others to their highest level of greatness.

Navigating the Transitions of Older Workers and Retirement - Kari Carindale

Kari is the SVP of Digital & Alumni Strategy at the Modern Elder Academy. She helps design and deliver unique digital programs to build a community movement online. Kari is a master host with a knack of creating deep connections both live and virtually, with 25 years experience as a driven social entrepreneur in creative strategy, instructional design for live or virtual events, professional hosting, facilitating and training, and private consulting to bring out the best in thought leaders. She has worked with hundreds of experts around the world.

Everything You Need to Know About Hiring for Skills - Tony de Graaf

Tony de Graaf heads up the Hiring Success team, our strategy consulting team at SmartRecruiters. He is responsible for thought leadership and talent transformation consulting helping companies achieve Hiring Success while building purpose-driven organizations. Prior to joining SmartRecruiters, Tony worked as a Talent Leader at organizations such as McGregor, Gaastra, and Wehkamp.

Hiring Technology & The Rise of Video - Ken Diamond

As the trailblazer behind WinTheView’s powerful suite of online career advancement tools, Founder & President Ken Diamond has developed a winning formula for job-search success that has helped thousands of candidates land interviews and life-changing job offers.

It all started with Digital Action, Inc., an award-winning executive search firm Ken launched in 1995 to recruit top talent for corporate clients in print and digital communications, technology, pharmaceuticals, and medical imaging. Leveraging a high-performance career in high-tech sales and management for industry-leading companies in digital graphics and digital printing, Ken has spearheaded the firm’s recruitment success for more than two decades, achieving double-digit growth and earning recognition as one of the fastest-growing companies in the Philadelphia area by the Wharton Small Business Development Center.

Through his work with Digital Action, Ken discovered that going above and beyond to prepare candidates for interviews significantly improved his placement rate. By coaching candidates to create their own robust and visually compelling interview presentations, career success stories, online portfolios – and other materials to support their candidacy for relevant job opportunities – he helped them exude confidence, demonstrate motivation, and articulate their potential for achievement to prospective employers. It also provided them with highly persuasive leave-behind materials for hiring teams to consider in making their final decisions. Thus, WinTheView was born.

Today, Ken continues to add value to WinTheView’s offerings, staying abreast of the latest technologies and exploring new markets and applications to add value for job candidates, corporate clients, career coaching consultants, recruiters, and other partners.

Burnout, Mental Health & Disengagement in the Workplace - Elisabeth Sanders-Park

Elisabeth Sanders-Park is a nationally recognized careers expert and author of the books "No One Is Unemployable," "The 6 Reasons You’ll Get the Job," and "MOJO!: ReClaiming My MOtivation for My JOb + Other Good Things in Life." In the last 15+ years, she has trained 35,000+ employment practitioners and impacted the lives of more than 1 million people across the U.S., Canada, Europe, the Asia Pacific region, and Australia. She is known for delivering messages of hope and practicality with wisdom and humor.

Hiring & Job Search Technology: Broaden Your Horizon - Mark Simon

Mark Simon is an experience and technology focused healthcare recruiter for Fortus Healthcare Resources and Job.com. Over the past 15 years, Simon has developed his Sales, Marketing, and Talent Acquisition acumen in a variety of industries, but with the primary goal of helping job seekers find their dream career. Simon is married to his wife Jillian, father to son Benjamin, and is a lover of animals, philanthropy, and all things technology.