Madhu Kurup is a Vice President, Engineering at Indeed.com, based out Seattle, Washington. He has over 24 years of experience building software systems and data pipelines across a variety of domains including advertising, b2c, b2b and the recruiting domain. Today, he works on match recommendations which includes multiple teams of engineers, data scientists and product managers. He works closely with partners across the company to help people get jobs with less effort using machine learning and artificial intelligence. Prior to joining Indeed in 2020, he spent 13 years at Amazon in a variety of roles, including AWS, duplicate detection and personalization and recommendations.
Hiring has long been trapped in a conundrum: move fast and risk quality, or protect quality and lose great candidates to slow processes. As application volumes surge, the real risk isn't just slow hiring — it's the right candidates getting lost in the noise.
This session explores how AI-powered screening is breaking that tradeoff, with Indeed Smart Screening as the live case study: structured, criteria-based evaluation that begins the moment a candidate applies, with early results showing speed and quality rising together — a 20% reduction in time-to-hire and 54% fewer applications needed per hire. The conversation will also tackle what senior HR leaders care about most: how structured screening raises the hiring bar, what keeps AI evaluation fair and explainable, and where human judgment remains non-negotiable.
Join us for two days of learning, discovery, and The Human Advantage in action across Bengaluru and Mumbai. Limited seats are available.
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