The Hourly Collective: Bellevue
An exclusive, in-person session for people who live frontline hiring day to day. No booths, no decks. Small group, real conversation about what is actually breaking in hourly hiring right now: talent availability, hard-to-fill roles, candidate drop-off, and where AI is starting to earn trust in sourcing and screening (and where it is not).
Why This Exists
If you hire for hourly and frontline teams, you are solving the same problems as a hundred other people doing this work, mostly alone. The Hourly Collective brings together a small group of TA and HR leaders in healthcare, franchise, hospitality, and logistics to work through it together. This is not a networking event. It is a working session: you come to contribute, hear how other people are thinking about the same problems, and leave with a few concrete ideas and a few people you can actually call the next time something comes up.
What You're Signing Up For
An honest look at where hourly hiring is breaking down today, and where current recruiting models are creating friction
Two working roundtables: one surfacing where the friction actually lives, one asking what you would build if you designed hourly hiring from scratch
A live synthesis of the morning into a small set of opportunities worth continuing to explore as a group
Talks from people doing this work inside their own teams, not vendors
Real time with peers solving the same problems
Breakfast and lunch, on us
Details
Tuesday, September 8, 2026
8:30 AM – 2:30 PM
Humanly HQ, 10900 NE 8th Street, Suite 200, Bellevue, WA 98004
Featured Speakers
Rajamma Krishnamurthy - former Enterprise AI leader at Microsoft, now Adjunct Faculty at NYU. She'll open on rethinking hiring from the ground up rather than bolting AI onto old processes, and on keeping hourly workers' skills in step with rising demand.
Prem Kumar - Co-Founder and CEO of Humanly
RSVP
We're keeping this room small on purpose. The right room, not a full one. Spots are limited, we'll confirm within 48 hours.