People ops & talent in the agentic era: What to buy and what to build?
Slush side event co-hosted by Ashby & Taito.ai
AI is changing how people and talent teams work: how they're structured, which tools they use, and what the rest of the company expects from them. Join us for a breakfast session with People leaders from fast-growing tech companies. They'll share what they changed, what they built themselves, and what they learned from leading AI change across the whole company.
What we'll discuss
Becoming an AI-native company, and how AI changes the role of People & Talent
What tools to buy and what to build yourself
Building your own tools, and what it takes from the People team
Real examples of workflows automated with agents
Speakers
Kristi Alumets, VP People & Culture, Katana
Kristi has 15+ years in People leadership, building and scaling People & Culture functions from the ground up at tech startups and scaleups. At Katana, an AI-first B2B SaaS company, she builds the People systems for an organisation where requirements change week by week. LinkedIn
Mikaela Lewander, People Success Lead, Legora
Mikaela has helped scale People teams at Pleo and Legora. At Legora, she leads People Success across People Ops, Talent Ops and People Tech, building the systems that took the team from 100 to 1,000+ employees across 20 markets. She's passionate about removing friction with AI and automation. LinkedIn.
Moderated by Kristo Ovaska, Co-Founder & CEO, Taito.ai
Kristo is the founder and former CEO of Smartly.io, which he led to $100M+ in revenue and $5B in ad spend. Today he leads Taito.ai, an agentic people ops system that replaces the spreadsheets, Slack DMs and clunky HRIS tools that slow growing companies down. LinkedIn
Who should attend
People, HR and Talent leaders, founders, and operators at growing companies who are working out how AI fits into their people strategy.
What to expect: an honest, practical conversation. You'll hear what worked and what didn't, ask your own questions, and meet other People leaders over coffee during Slush week.
Agenda
8:30 Doors open, coffee and light breakfast
8:50 Panel discussion + audience Q&A
9:30 Networking over coffee + demos of self-built tools and vendor demos
10:30 Event ends
Hosted by
Taito.ai is an AI-first people operations system for founders, operators, and people builders at growing companies. From onboarding to time off and performance, AI handles the admin so leaders can focus on people.
Ashby helps scaling companies achieve their ambitious growth targets. With Ashby, teams of all sizes can run a fast and efficient hiring process.
Location
Maria 01, Building 5, Arcade Event Space Lapinlahdenkatu 16, 00180 Helsinki, Finland