Untapped Talent Pools: The Key to Addressing Talent Shortages
Oct 22, 2025 — 11:30 am - 12:20 PMRoom E4

Description
Seventy-seven percent of European employers report difficulty filling critical roles with acute shortages in tech and digital, healthcare, STEM, green experts, education, transport and logistics.
Yet millions of people with these highly desirable skills are ready to work or can be easily upskilled, if employers could find them. Moreover, research shows that these talent pools people are more loyal, productive and engaged than traditional workers. How are leading employers strategically tapping into these talent pools to address talent shortages?
This session brings together senior HR leaders, including Jolie Den Boer from Booking.com, who are successfully leveraging AI to attract highly-skilled workers from untapped talent pools. The intimate boardroom setting allows for:
• Personalized interaction and solutioning alongside HR leaders with hands-on experience implementing these unique talent-programs
• Authentic peer-to-peer exchange with other HR leaders facing similar challenges
• The opportunity to experiment with an AI platform to address your own talent challenges, featuring Roy Baladi, CEO of JobsForHumanity.
Key areas of discussion:
• Who are these hidden talent pools and what unique skills do they bring? immigrants, veterans, formerly incarcerated, people with disabilities, neurodivergent individuals, workers with significant employment gaps.
• How are employers leveraging AI to access these untapped talent pools?
• What best practices and initiatives have employers implemented to select, integrate, and develop these underrepresented workers? How can employers learn from these experiences and continually improve the process?
• How are employers leveraging untapped talent pools to drive increased engagement, retention and productivity?
• What practical steps can your organization take to get started?