SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Evaluating HR's Readiness for Artificial Intelligence

Holiday Inn–Round Rock, 2370 Chisholm Trail, Round Rock, TX 78681

Registration, Networking, Lunch:  11:15 AM – 12 PM

Presentation 12:00 – 1:30 pm

In early 2019, Workology distributed an “HR Artificial Intelligence (AI) Readiness” survey to its global subscriber list of over 100,000 HR practitioners (with various job titles and industries). This survey was designed to capture HR feedback to determine the level of understanding of what AI is, how it can be leveraged in HR, its implications, and whether or not HR professionals have a strategy to implementing AI tools within their HR teams.

Learning Objectives

• Highlight the history of Technology in HR, showing the progress made over the past 20 years, to use software and tools to help HR move the needle from being tactical and administrative to more strategic.
• Address the macro economic changes in the workforce (demographics, remote workers, gig economy, low unemployment, etc.) as well as the advances in technologies and related tools that have now provided HR an opportunity to use AI to work smarter, not harder.
• The results of the AI HR Readiness survey will be discussed to provide data points as to where we are (as described by HR peers who completed the survey) as to implementing AI in our companies.
• The presentation will summarize some use cases of AI in HR today, potential implications, and steps to begin an AI strategy in your organization.

Jessica Miller-Merrell is the Founder of Workology.com,a workplace resource destination for HR, recruiting professionals and business leaders. The site was listed twice as a top 75 career resource by Forbes Magazine and Jessica regularly contributes to Huffington Post, Forbes and Fortune Magazine in addition to HR and recruiting blogs. She is workplace change agent and author focused on human resources and talent acquisition, having worked with companies like Whole Foods, AT&T, OfficeMax, Home Depot and the Chickasaw Nation. Jessica holds both her Senior Professional in Human Resource designation and her SHRM Certified Senior Professional credentials, a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology and Business from Kansas State University and a Masters in Business Administration from Webster University.

As the Founder and Chief Bot at MeBeBot, Beth White is passionate about improving productivity in enterprise environments...to free up time to focus work that matters and provides value to organizations. That's why she created the HR TalkBot, a Virtual Assistant for HR that leverages chatbot messaging to give employees answers to frequently asked questions, anytime from anywhere. Having a career in Human Resources for over 20 years, she understands the challenges of growing organizations to attract, engage and retain the best talent. By creating a technology solution BY HR FOR HR, we can extend the goodness of HR to all companies, in an easy to use fashion.