Whether you're navigating recruitment, sales, or leadership, this information-packed week delivers real-world insights, actionable tools, and thought-provoking discussions to help you confidently integrate AI into your daily operations.
From live Zoom sessions to interactive workshops and online discussions, each day will spotlight key topics including prompt engineering, ethical considerations, cybersecurity risks, and AI-powered tools in action.
At the end of the week, you can look forward to AI-generated summaries of each session, peer-created prompt libraries, and additional takeaways.
Get ready to explore how AI can work for you, not replace you.
Brought to you by the ASA staffing technology taskforce
2026 Schedule of Events
AI is Changing Staffing. People Still Come First.
Aug. 17, 1 p.m. Eastern time
Every staffing firm is being told to adopt AI, but most of the advice being offered focuses on how–which tools, what sequence, how fast. This session steps back to the harder question of why–and what gets lost when a firm skips it. Drawing on the latest industry and global workforce data, we make the case that the firms winning the AI era are the ones routing the time it gives back toward people, not away from them.
Modern AI for Staffing Leaders: From Tools to Teammates
Aug. 18, 2 p.m. Eastern time
A grounded framework for adopting AI as a managed workforce. Covers: the management discipline behind AI, the three pillars of AI Workforce Management, low-risk/high-impact use cases, and advising clients on blended human/AI workforces.
The E2E Podcast LIVE: The Great Staffing AI Debate—Believers, Skeptics, and the Undecided
August 19, 12 p.m. Eastern time
As part of AI in Staffing Week, a panel of staffing leaders with sharply different views will take on the questions dividing the industry: whether AI will displace recruiters or make them more productive; whether algorithms can match candidates better than people can; and what becomes of a relationship-driven business when the first point of contact is automated.
AI Agents, Explained: What Staffing Firms Need to Know
Aug. 19, 3 p.m. Eastern time
Get a clear, plain-language explanation of what separates an AI agent from an AI assistant, where agents are showing up across the recruiting technology landscape, and an honest look at what these tools can actually do today versus what’s still on the horizon.
Beyond the Prompt: Achieving More Effective AI Interactions
Aug. 20, 12 p.m. Eastern time
Join this hands-on virtual workshop designed for staffing professionals who are ready to move from casual AI users to confident, strategic ones.
Build Your AI Assistant
Aug. 20, 2 p.m. Eastern time
In this hands-on workshop, you’ll move step by step through the process of building a custom AI assistant choosing a use case, crafting the right instructions, and testing it in real time.
The Authenticity Advantage: Keeping Your Human Voice in the Age of AI
Aug. 20, 3 p.m. Eastern time
In this lively session, Kelli Schutrop shows staffing and recruiting professionals how to use AI as a force multiplier without taking away what makes you uniquely advantageous to your audience.
From Guardrails to Guiderails: Building Ethical AI Practice in Staffing
Aug. 20, 4 p.m. Eastern time
AI is moving faster than the regulatory frameworks designed to govern it but that doesn’t mean compliance can wait.