Introduction

Keynote 1: Tech Recruiting in 2020 and Beyond by Sachin Gupta, CEO, HackerEarth

RIP traditional recruiting! You had some good days and helped us get some good ones. Now though, it's the age of the specialist who uses AI to screen and assess, has the heart of a marketer, and knows how to sell a 'brand' in a market dominated by a spectrum of players. As industries world over recognize the importance of their nerdy backend guy, recruiters and TA managers have to upskill and change their tactics to stay ahead of the competition.

Panel 1: Kicking racial stereotyping and bias out of tech recruiting

Speakers: Domina McQuade, Kimberly Haught, Noel B

Tech's race problem first came to the fore in 2014 when giants like Facebook and Google first disclosed how few people of color they had on their ranks. In this panel discussion, we ask the pervading question: what can we do to balance the racial scales in Silicon Valley, and create a more inclusive community based on merit?

Keynote 2: Women in Tech: Where are we in terms of gender gap in tech in 2020 by Monica Bajaj, Sr. Director of Engineering, Workday

Tech was a hot sector, even before COVID gave an unexpected boost to the Zooms and Google Meets of the world. It, however, has an ugly truth: gender equality in the tech sector is still a unicorn (the mythical kind that is). Worldwide, women are in a minority within tech leadership - accounting for less than 20% of jobs in their respective countries. Here's an insider's perspective on the issue, from someone who knows what it means to break gender-based stereotypes with elan.

Lunch + networking

Panel 2: How to build effective engineering teams for the future?

Speakers: Jonathon Hansen, Madhu Vohra, Isaac Hepworth, Srivatsan Ramanujam

From working in pods to working out of your PJs, the engineering teams of the world have seen a drastic makeover. As we crawl back to what was, it is but normal to wonder if the engineering teams of the future can Agile anywhere. What would it take to build processes in a post-COVID world with the innate capacity to withstand unforeseen crises, and still fuel innovation?

What's next in HackerEarth?

Catch our CEO, Sachin Gupta and VP of Engineering, Vishwastam Shukla talk about what’s next in our technical recruiting software and much more.

Closing/thank you note + networking