As the employer brand landscape continues to evolve, practitioners must stay on top of the latest trends, strategies, and tools to build an authentic and compelling employer brand. Conferences provide a unique opportunity to learn from industry experts, connect with peers, and gain insights into emerging trends that can shape the future of talent attraction and retention.
In 2025, several key conferences will offer invaluable learning experiences for employer brand professionals. Whether you’re focused on digital transformation, employee experience, diversity and inclusion, or recruitment marketing, these events will offer the latest innovations, proven best practices, and inspiring case studies to elevate your employer branding efforts. In this article, we’ll explore some of the best conferences we feel are worthwhile exploring in 2025, including the confirmed or estimated dates and locations for each.
FEBRUARY
1.Talent Acquisition Week – February 3-6
Location: Paradise Point Resort, San Diego, CA
Description: Talent Acquisition Week is a conference that brings together HR professionals and Talent Acquisition leaders to discuss and learn about the latest trends in recruiting, sourcing, and employer branding, offering sessions on best practices, case studies, and panel discussions focused on practitioner-to-practitioner knowledge sharing, all within a single week. Topics covered include global recruiting trends, candidate engagement, and recruitment marketing tools and technology. TA Week is described as a platform to access the most recent strategies for attracting and acquiring top talent across various aspects of the hiring process.
2.TA Tech Leadership Summit on Recruitment Marketing – February 26-27
Location: Tampa, FL
Description: Charting the future of recruitment marketing, this conference explores the evolution of employer brand strategies and their critical role in attracting top talent. Trends shaping the next era of recruitment marketing. The Summit is designed specifically for Talent Acquisition and HR leaders in enterprise employers. It is a conference that offers decision-makers both strategic insights and business-building connections for 2025 and beyond.
MARCH
3.IAMPHENOM 2025 – March 11-13
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Description: IAMPHENOM 2025 is an event that focuses on the latest advancements in talent experience, AI-driven HR technology, and strategies for optimizing the entire employee lifecycle. This conference is ideal for HR professionals, talent leaders, and anyone interested in leveraging AI and technology to enhance talent management and employee experience. In addition to talking about candidate attraction topics, there are also various sponsors at the event with information booths around the main event that focus on a variety of services, including employer brand creation and activation.
4.Transform 2025 – March 17-19
Location: Wynn Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Description: Transform 2025 brings together innovators, investors, and HR leaders to explore cutting-edge strategies and technologies shaping the future of work, with a focus on workforce transformation, digital workplace, and leadership.This conference is ideal for HR professionals, tech innovators, entrepreneurs, and investors focused on advancing the future of work and workplace technologies.
5.SHRM Talent 2025 – March 24-26
Location: Music City Center, Nashville, TN
Description: SHRM Talent 2025 focuses on enhancing talent management strategies by integrating skills development and AI tools to empower organizations in a rapidly changing job market. This conference is ideal for HR professionals, talent management leaders, and anyone involved in recruitment and workforce development.
APRIL
6.Employee Communications & Culture Conference – April 9-11
Location: Chicago, IL
Description: This conference focuses less on the intricacies of communicating your external brand, but more on how to leverage tools to supersize your strategies and elevate your comms, while forging connections and sharing knowledge with industry peers and informed colleagues.
From change communications to interdepartmental collaboration to ways to incorporate AI into your workflow, you’ll leave this conference with valuable blueprints that will help you create a compelling narrative to both internal and external stakeholders about your company as an employer of choice for top talent.
7.Experiential Marketing Summit 2025 – April 14-16
Location: MGM Grand, Las Vegas
Description: This conference is particularly valuable for any employer brand practitioner who manages branding related to recruitment events, such as on-campus early hiring or any other in-person program where your company is trying to promote your brand as an employer of choice to future talent. EMS is designed to prepare corporate event and trade show marketers for what’s next. This is where you have a chance to hear from brand-side event executives leading the ultimate three-day conversation. Commiserate with your peers and meet new partners inside the Hall of Ideas. Address your challenges and find the solutions you need to lead and thrive in the next era of experiential marketing.
MAY
8.Unleash America 2025 – May 6-8
Location: CAESARS FORUM, Las Vegas, NV
Description: UNLEASH America 2025 is a leading HR conference that focuses on the latest innovations in HR, workforce technology, and the future of work. It will bring together global leaders and tech enthusiasts. This conference is perfect for HR professionals, tech innovators, and business leaders seeking to stay ahead in the rapidly evolving HR and workforce management landscape.
9. Workhuman Live 2025 – May 12-15
Location: Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center, Colorado
Description: Workhuman Live 2025 is a dynamic event that focuses on creating more human workplaces through meaningful conversations, inspiring keynotes, and actionable insights.
This conference is ideal for HR professionals, leaders, and anyone interested in fostering a positive, human-centered workplace culture.
JUNE
10. In-House Recruitment (IHR) – Talent Attraction Conference UK – June 11
Location: London
Description: #IHRTA25 is designed to address all aspects of talent attraction, ensuring you gain a well-rounded understanding of the field. This conference format will offer broader perspectives and deliver greater value for every attendee. With a blend of expert-led sessions and roundtable discussions, you’ll leave with a wealth of knowledge and practical strategies you can implement immediately.
OCTOBER
11. World Employer Branding Day 2025 – October 8-9
Location: Amsterdam
Description: World Employer Branding Day is a global event that brings together leaders in the field of employer branding to share best practices, discuss industry trends, and advance excellence in how companies portray themselves as workplaces. The goal is to attract and retain top talent. It’s considered the largest gathering of its kind, connecting companies from around the world with top agencies and communities focused on employer branding.
12. RecFest USA, – October 15-16
Location: Nashville, TN
Description: RecFest is designed for TA and HR specialists, hiring managers, and resourcing leaders. Some say it celebrates the industry, its people, and its contributions. Others say it is a festival experience that provides actionable insights and helps attendees level up their TA game. RecFest is designed to focus on multiple learning tracks, and one of those tracks is employer brand, which will be an opportunity to hear real-life examples and insights from companies and practitioners in this field.
13. LinkedIn Talent Connect – week of Oct. 20
Location: To be announced
Description: Talent Connect Summit is an immersive, invitation-only experience designed for talent and HR leaders to solve the biggest challenges facing us today. Attendees gathered in Phoenix, Arizona, USA to join like-minded peers to network and build possibility through collaborative ideation and peer-to-peer problem solving.
NOVEMBER
14. ERE Recruiting Conference – As of the date of this article, Date and Location TBD, but in 2024, it was held in Anaheim Nov. 12-14
Description: At the ERE Recruiting Conference, global talent acquisition leaders converge to tackle today’s most pressing challenges in staffing, talent attraction, and hiring. Gain insights from a diverse mix of TA pros and discover how to become irreplaceable strategic advisors in a rapidly changing environment. Support and celebrate your peers in person and online as you navigate the tides of change and embrace technology and candidate experience.
For those teams with limited budgets or ability to travel for in-person conferences, we will be publishing our top picks for online learning for employer brand practitioners in the coming weeks.
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