Recruitment Intelligence Exchange | Sydney | 2026

Martin is the CEO of JobAdder, with over 20 years experience launching and scaling tech businesses across the globe. Adept in fostering customer-centric cultures, Martin’s vision for JobAdder is to provide a recruitment platform centred on design-led usability, enhanced by e-learning and support and augmented by the transformative power of AI, thus fulfilling the company's purpose to make recruitment more efficient and joyful for everyone.

Dan is the Senior Director of APAC Sales and Global Customer Success at JobAdder, bringing 15 years of experience across SaaS, Digital Transformation, IT, and Talent. With a strong focus on recruitment technology, Dan is committed to helping teams streamline their recruitment processes and enhance candidate engagement. Known for successfully launching new products and building impactful client relationships, Dan combines his passion for innovation with a deep understanding of recruitment challenges to support businesses in navigating today’s talent landscape.

Steve is the Founder and CEO of Stolen+Co, a fractional sales and growth partner for business leaders who want to elevate their sales capabilities. Steve's tagline is 'Change the Game,' and with over 20 years of experience in sales leadership, events, and strategic growth, he has helped businesses break into new markets, build high-performing teams, and deliver real results.

Lesley has had a long relationship with the global recruitment sector dating back to her capacity as Owner of Recruitment Extra magazine which was founded over 20 years ago. Lesley is well respected as having an incredible knowledge of the recruitment sector, maintaining a reputation for being at the forefront of current issues through her management of multiple publications relating to the sector and as founder of the Recruitment Excellence Awards (REA’s) in 2008. She joined APSCo in 2019 as Managing Director and has since taken the Association through a transformation that has led to significant member growth, the launch of a series of successful content channels and a growing reputation for excellence in compliance and operational information across the professional recruitment market.

With more than 20 years' experience in the workforce solutions industry, Charles’ experience spans across economics, advocacy, risk management, lobbying, compliance and professional standards. Before taking on the role of Chief Executive at RCSA, Charles was a Partner with Australia’s largest dedicated workplace legal and consulting firm, prior to which he established and grew his own professional consulting firm which specialised in workplace law and risk management. He gained invaluable experience working with one of Australia’s most established recruitment firms, where he was the Workplace Relations and Safety Manager as well as 7 years working as an Advisor and Advocate for Australian Industry Group (Ai Group).

Ben Boulos is Managing Director of West Recruitment and Enertia Talent, leading specialist teams across accounting, technology, engineering, HR, operations and energy. Ben champions AI, automation and data to help his teams work smarter, make better decisions and deliver stronger outcomes without losing the human touch. His focus is using technology to give consultants more time for meaningful conversations, deeper relationships and understanding the people behind every placement.

Eight years ago, John founded Start In Recruitment (a rec2rec agency), using JobAdder and Zapier to build a heavily automated business model. That early innovation laid the groundwork for RecView, which started as a video candidate profiling tool and has grown into the leading AI meeting assistant for JobAdder. Today, RecView captures team conversations and updates ATS records in real time, earning recent backing and growth investment from the RCSA. A recognised leader in recruitment tech, John has guided AI rollouts for agencies across Australia and partnered with Greg Savage to transform the Savage Academy into an AI-native platform.

Guy is the CEO of Kamal, the only consolidated data & insights platform built specifically for recruitment agencies. With 13 years of recruitment experience under his belt, Guy brings a wealth of knowledge around how to leverage data to navigate the winds of change within recruitment. With Kamal’s agency benchmarking tool going live in 2025, Guy will look to share some key insights on agency performance and trends across ANZ as well as talk to the metrics that agencies should be tracking to genuinely understand business health and performance going into 2025.