Smarter Background Checking: From Next to Now!
Friday 13th March 2026 | Central London | Free to Attend
As hiring models shift, fraud evolves and identity expectations rise, many organisations are still screening for the workforce they used to hire, not the one they’re hiring today.
Smarter Background Checking: From Next to Now is a practical, senior-level, in-person session focused on what organisations should already be acting on to protect themselves in today’s hiring landscape.
This is not a traditional conference. We are bringing together employers, screening providers and technology specialists to explore how background checking is changing in real time, and what “good” needs to look like over the next 12–24 months.
What we’ll cover
How hiring has changed: AI-driven recruitment and remote hiring and where new risk is actually emerging
What happens as screening moves upstream: legal, operational and cultural implications
A real employer case study: what worked, what we underestimated, and what we’d do differently if we were starting again
What a 2026-ready screening toolkit looks like (identity-first screening, biometrics, direct data access, orchestration and decision confidence)
Live demonstrations showing how different tools fit together as building blocks
This is not a traditional morning conference. Expect:
Short, high-impact speaker contributions
Live demos and open Q&A
Interactive table discussions and audience participation
Honest, experience-led conversations
Who should attend
Recruitment, HR, Talent, Security, Compliance, Risk and Trust & Safety leaders
Background screening and on-boarding professionals
Organisations rethinking their hiring and screening models for 2026
This session is designed for cross-functional leaders who rarely get time in the same room, but are now solving the same problems.
If you’re asking “Are our screening processes designed for the workforce we have today, or the one we used to hire for?” then this session is for you!
By the end of the session, you’ll have:
A clear view of where hiring risk is actually increasing
Practical examples of what other employers are doing
A working understanding of what tools matter for 2026 a
A clearer sense of what “good” looks like, not just what’s possible