Tell Your Story at Talent Connect 2025
Attention all talent leaders: If you’ve found success navigating the always evolving and shifting world of work, we want you to share your story at Talent Connect 2025.
We’re looking for talent and recruitment leaders who have tackled the big issues of the day — including AI readiness, change management, skills transformation, and more — and turned their hopeful vision into an inspiring reality.
Talent Connect is LinkedIn’s annual gathering at which industry leaders come together to co-create the future of work and share insights, best practices, and success stories.
The event, which will take place the week of October 20 at the Marriott Marquis in San Diego, California, features both an in-person Summit for invited industry leaders and an online broadcast that’s viewed by tens of thousands of talent and HR professionals around the world.
Speakers will lead breakout sessions where participants will tackle the most pressing issues facing talent and recruitment leaders today. Presentations will take place in various formats, including talks, workshops, and fireside chats to provoke thoughtful conversations. We’re also hoping to find speakers who thrive in front of a camera and can meaningfully engage with the global audience that tunes in for our virtual broadcast.
Speaking at Talent Connect is a proven way to elevate your personal brand. But you’ll also be elevating your professional community by sharing your hard-earned insights or workshopping a thorny issue facing the industry and finding innovative tactics to address it.
The four overarching themes for this year’s event — in-person and virtual — are:
Strategic Workforce Planning
- Building a holistic plan that turns a vision of what hiring and talent development can look like into a reality
- Managing the accelerating skills transformation brought on by AI
- Finding innovative approaches to talent management, talent architecture, and employee career development to drive efficiency and growth
Business and Organizational Leadership
- Developing innovative leadership frameworks that build trust and resilience within organizations
- Mastering leadership skills that help drive business growth and fuel innovation
- Creating a supportive work culture that prioritizes attracting and growing top talent
The New Way of Work
- Leveraging change management frameworks to responsibly integrate AI and emerging technologies into talent attraction and development processes
- Tackling AI risk mitigation, data security, and compliance
- Fostering adaptability and a human touch in times of change
The Full LinkedIn Ecosystem
- Sharing best practices of how to get the most value from LinkedIn’s tools, including Hiring Assistant and AI-powered role play for career development
- Unlocking LinkedIn’s Economic Graph to learn industry insights and drive organizational success
If you’re excited to share your story in one of the themes mentioned above, there’s only one thing left to do: Apply here. Submissions for speakers will remain open until June 30, 2025.
