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.

Long before "AI versus human" became a boardroom conversation, it was Viswanathan Anand's daily reality. Chess was the first field to be truly mastered by a machine — and Anand competed at the very top through the whole arc of it, from Deep Blue to engines that no human can beat, to a generation that now trains with AI from childhood.

In this conversation, the five-time World Champion reflects on what actually happened after the machines won: what human judgment turned out to be for, how the best players used AI to get sharper rather than smaller, and what a room full of leaders facing the same reckoning can learn from the one domain that's already lived through it. The most grounded take you'll hear all day on staying valuable when the machine is better than you at the thing you do.