​About This Event

​AI changed the headcount conversation. Teams are doing more with fewer people, and that quietly raised the stakes on every hire. Get one wrong, and you're carrying the cost for the rest of the year.

​When you only have a handful of seats, every hire has to count. So the question is no longer just "did we pick the right person?" It's "will they stay, grow, and still be the right person a year from now?"

​Join impress.ai and Penbrothers for a small, invite-only afternoon with founders, COOs, and People and Talent leaders from some of Singapore's fastest-growing companies. One short talk, good food, and time to compare notes with peers. No product pitches.

​What we'll talk about

• ​The new math of a bad hire: Why a mis-hire costs more when headcount goes down, what that means for how you hire, and why looking beyond Singapore can mean more capacity for the same budget

• ​Choosing right: Your shortlist doesn't have to stop at Singapore. How to widen the pool without lowering the bar, and where AI screening and human judgement each have to make the call

• ​Keeping right: What happens after day one, and how lean teams make every hire stick, whether they sit in your office or offshore

​Who is this for?

• ​Founders, COOs and Heads of Operations at scale-ups hiring across multiple functions at once

• ​CHROs, Heads of People and Talent Acquisition leaders being asked to do more with a leaner team

​The room is kept to Head or Director level and above, at Singapore-based companies.

​Agenda

• ​4:00 – 4:30 pm | Arrival, drinks and networking

• ​4:30 – 4:50 pm | Welcome from the hosts

• ​4:50 – 5:10 pm | Short talk: Why Bad Hires Cost More When AI Shrinks Your Team

• ​5:10 – 6:30 pm | Food, drinks and networking continues

​This is an invite-only event. Spots are limited to keep the room small and the conversations useful, so all registrations are subject to host approval.

​About impress.ai

​impress.ai is a Singapore-based, AI-native talent acquisition platform that helps enterprises screen, assess, and engage candidates at scale. By automating early-stage screening and structured assessment, impress.ai helps HR and TA teams cut time-to-hire, reduce manual recruiter workload, and bring more consistency and fairness to candidate evaluation, while giving leadership clearer, data-backed visibility into hiring outcomes.

​About Penbrothers

​Penbrothers helps companies find, hire, and manage dedicated employees in the Philippines. As an offshore staffing company, we source and vet candidates and handle employment, payroll, and benefits, while clients choose their hires and direct the work.

​What sets us apart is what happens after the hire. New hires are supported through Hypercare, a six-month program with formal performance assessments in months 1, 3 and 5, and coaching for both the employee and the client. In H1 2026, we achieved 90%+ 90-day placement success.

​Since 2014, Penbrothers has served 260+ businesses and hired 5,000+ team members.