Suzanne Volkert

• How can organizations scale TA globally without increasing cost or complexity?
• Learn how Daiichi Sankyo is unifying talent acquisition across the US, Europe, and Japan by standardizing roles, processes, technology, vendors, and employer branding
• The transformation is enabling greater efficiency, clearer recruiter career paths, a consistent global hiring experience, and a stronger enterprise employer brand

This interactive Q&A explores what it takes to fundamentally transform the TA function, from the individual recruiter’s capabilities to the global operating model that supports them.

Drawing on both the AI-enabled recruiter role and the global TA standardization journeys explored in the Discover sessions, participants will examine the strategic choices that determine whether TA becomes a genuine source of competitive advantage.

• How do you build the recruiter capabilities needed for a segmentation and expertise-led TA model?
• What are the hardest trade-offs in building a global TA operating model, and how do you make them?
• How do you use AI to amplify recruiter expertise rather than replace it?
• What does a genuinely strategic TA function look like, and how do you measure it?

AI is changing how TA teams source, screen, and engage candidates, but most life sciences organizations are still working out where it fits and how far to take it. This panel brings together senior talent leaders to share where their companies are today, what their TA teams are using and testing, and what they have learned so far. Expect frank, experience-led perspectives on what is working, what is not, and where the real concerns lie.

• Where life sciences organizations are in their AI journey, and how they are preparing their teams for what comes next
• The AI tools and approaches TA teams are using now, and those they are exploring
• The key concerns emerging in TA as AI becomes more central to hiring, from candidate experience to fairness and compliance
• Lessons learned so far, and practical advice for TA professionals putting AI to work today