The programme for RecruitTECH 2011 is taking shape and we are lucky to have assembled an outstanding group of presenters (and a couple more soon to be announced).  The topics bring new ideas and angle to the HR and Recruitment domain and are sure to make for an entertaining, interesting day this September.

Doug Blue, Seek

Doug Blue is an online media professional with over 11 years experience leading product development programs for some of Australia’s largest online brands including SEEK, realestate.com.au, Trading Post and Yellow Pages. Currently he is the Product Director at SEEK.

Among Doug’s accomplishments, he has successfully led teams that:
• Designed, developed and launched SEEK Mobile
• Repositioned the advertiser products for an entire redesign of realestate.com.au
• Designed and launched a transformed tradingpost.com.au
• Designed, developed and launched a new yellowpages.com.au including Australia’s first map-based directory search
• Introduced value-based pricing across several leading brands

Bringing a unique twist to his already extensive experience in the online space, Doug has also worked in the IT sector at Unisys and is a qualified Nuclear Engineer where he worked for the United States Navy as a submarine officer.

Elizabeth Gaunt, Slade Partners

As Practice Manager of Digital Media, Elizabeth is actively involved in finding and connecting the best digital media professionals with the most innovative and progressive digital media companies, agencies, internal digital departments and publishers in Australia and globally. Key roles include Executive General Managers, General Managers, Heads of Digital, Heads of e-Commerce, Digital Marketers, Creative Directors, Digital Strategists and Planners, Media Managers and Directors, Media Sales, Sales Directors, User Experience Leads, Search Engine Marketing Specialists and Managing Directors.

Elizabeth joined Slade Partners after two years at NewsDigital Media – CareerOne.com.au (a joint venture between News Limited and Monster.com). as the National Key Accounts Manager acquiring, developing and maintaining a diverse portfolio of relationships with national key recruiters, corporations and government departments and entities.

Matthew Sigelman, Burning Glass

Matthew Sigelman is CEO of Burning Glass Technologies.   For more than a decade, he has leveraged his expertise in human capital management, data, and analytics to advise clients and guide solution design and implementation.  By harnessing the power of artificial intelligence, Matt has led the company’s development of leading-edge tools that help users gain critical insight on the skills and credentials demanded by employers worldwide.  Burning Glass equips its clients – job seekers and employers as well as HR professionals, educators, analysts, and workforce and economic developers – with the actionable intelligence they need to succeed in today’s complex and dynamic labour market.

Matt previously served as CEO of M4 Financial, a developer of real-time financial analytics technologies, and with Capital One, Mesa Air Group, and McKinsey and Company. He holds an MBA from Harvard University and a BA with Honors in Public Policy from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Sylvia Vorhauser-Smith, Pageup People

Sylvia Vorhauser-Smith  is General Manager, Integrated Talent Management at PageUp People. Sylvia holds degrees in business and psychology and is currently completing a Master of Science in NeuroLeadership. Sylvia has 25 years experience as a senior talent management and human resources practitioner  and  consultant. Her corporate career included roles in corporate finance and human resources at Citibank and Westpac. Sylvia established  talent management consulting firm, Talent Edge, which was acquired by PageUp People in 2007. Sylvia is committed to thought leadership in the field of talent management, and is a regular national and international speaker on neuroscience and talent management.

Sarah Nguyen, Atlassian

Sarah Nguyen manages the Sydney Talent Team at Atlassian, a software development company that creates tools for developers and technical teams. Atlassian’s approach to recruitment and HR is as unconventional as its approach to business. Atlassian’s recruitment campaigns have caused much conversation (and controversy!) and have seen the company recognised with an HR Leader award for Innovation in Recruitment and Retention (2010). The team’s ’32′ recruitment campaign won a Fairfax FEMA award for Best On-Site HR team (2010).
Sarah is an HR professional who has held a number of generalist HR roles within Atlassian’s Sydney head office, all incorporating recruitment management. Since joining Atlassian, Sarah has played a significant role in helping the company grow its head-office staff numbers by 400% over four years. Sarah holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business with majors in Human Resource Management (HRM) and Industrial Relations.

Ben Kilsby, Holopoint Interactive

Ben Kilsby is the co-founder and CEO of Holopoint Interactive, a serious games company based in Adelaide Australia. Ben has worked extensively with Holopoint to create a number of simulations, serious games and game based marketing applications for a diverse range of industries including transport, security, music tuition, medical, defence and mining.

He is a passionate advocate of serious game developments and has a strong interest in developing a future capability in the interactive space as demonstrated in the founding of The Indie Games Room in 2007, and his numerous appointments in state level round tables, steering committees and advisory boards.

David Smith, Peoplebank

David Smith joined the Peoplebank team in February this year after running GMT People, a Canberra based recruitment firm for the past 8 years. He previously was a Project Manager, Organisational Change Manager and Business Analyst on contract to the ATO, DFAT, ACMA and the AEC.  Prior to this he worked in Brisbane from 1999-2003 as a consultant for Energex, Ergon Energy and QLD Health.  David was also the National Manager for Sylvan Learning Systems in 1997-1999 in Australia and India, delivering IT and Academic Certification exams.
David’s early career was in the Royal Australian Navy as a Seaman Officer and Training Manager. He has a Masters Degree in Organisational Development and Training, a BSc and is an ITCRA Certified Recruitment Professional.

Michael Young, Transformed

Michael is the Managing Director of Transformed, a specialist firm that works with individauls to develop their project management skills and with organisations to enhance their program delivery and strategic implementation capabilities. Transformed was recently recognised by BRW as one of Australia’s fastest growing companies.

He is an award winning project and program manager with over 15 years’ experience managing projects and programs in Australia, Asia and globally in the technology, logistics, government and facilities sectors. He has taught project management at vocational and university levels for over 10 years.  Michael was the lead author of the AIPM Competency Standards for Portfolio Managers and is a member of the PMI Portfolio Management Standard (3rd Edition) Sub-Committee.  Michael is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Project Management and Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, and is currently undertaking doctoral studies in strategy implementation using project portfolio techniques.

Clayton Wehner – Host

Clayton Wehner is the joint founder of Canberra online jobs board, CapitalJobs.com.au. An ex-Army officer, Clayton has worked in various fields including the Commonwealth public service, several national intelligence agencies, management consulting and recruitment firms. He is formerly the CEO of Canberra-based recruitment company Frontier Recruitment. Clayton currently operates several web-based businesses, including popular Australian online bookstore Boomerang Books, eBook download website Booku, and consults and delivers training on a variety of topics including social media and search engine optimisation. Clayton has a Bachelor of Arts in political science and a Masters of Management in human resource management. Clayton speaks Indonesian, loves Australian Football and, when he’s not in front of the computer, enjoys spending time with wife Jodi, daughter Madeleine, son Alex and Barney the dog.

Website: http://www.capitaljobs.com.au