IAMPHENOM 2026 Unveils Agent Center Inside Expanded AI & Automation Learning Lab

PHILADELPHIA, February 25, 2026 — Phenom, the leader in applied AI that helps organizations hire faster, develop better and retain talent longer, today announced an expanded AI & Automation Learning Lab will return to IAMPHENOM 2026, now featuring the new Agent Center dedicated to agentic AI at work. The lab will showcase more than 75 HR use cases across job roles and industries on the exhibit floor of IAMPHENOM, taking place March 10–12 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia.

Building on the hands-on learning experience first introduced at last year’s conference, the 2026 edition of the lab reflects how quickly AI and automation are reshaping talent operations and how far most organizations still have to go. According to Phenom’s inaugural State of AI & Automation for HR: 2026 Benchmarks Report, 83% of organizations demonstrate low AI and automation maturity in human resources, and 30% of HR professionals report limited knowledge of how to apply AI in talent acquisition and management.

The AI & Automation Learning Lab delivers immersive, station-by-station experiences across industries including healthcare, manufacturing, financial services, retail and hospitality. The new Agent Center spotlights agentic AI capabilities, showing how AI agents work alongside talent acquisition and management teams to automate multi-step workflows, surface intelligence and act on behalf of recruiters, HR business partners and hiring managers, without sacrificing the human judgment that matters most. IAMPHENOM attendees will explore AI and automation technologies and their impact throughout the talent lifecycle:

NEW: Agent Center Dedicated to Agentic AI at Work

The Agent Center demonstrates how talent teams can best work with agents to orchestrate hiring workflows, automate busywork and deliver hyper-personalized experiences; all governed by industry-specific ontologies and compliance guardrails. Featured agents will include:

• Voice Screening Agent: Conducts live phone and desktop interviews 24/7, giving candidates the flexibility to screen without needing a recruiter on the line. The agent adapts conversations based on role type to surface best-fit candidates to hiring teams.

• Candidate Fraud Detection Agent: Detects identity mismatches, AI-generated interview responses, and imposter behavior, providing recruiters with explainable insights and human-in-the-loop control to eliminate fraudulent candidates with confidence.

• Intake Agent: Runs intake meetings with hiring managers on behalf of recruiters to automatically refine requisitions, capture emerging requirements and launch stronger job descriptions.

• Interview Agent: Extends recruiter capacity at scale by deploying tailored AI avatar interviews that evaluate candidates against role-specific benchmarks, replacing manual live interviews with consistent, configurable evaluations across every role type.

• Sourcing Agent: Finds, segments and nurtures candidates at scale across the talent CRM and external channels, adapting outreach based on role type and talent profile to replace manual sourcing with continuous pipeline building.

The AI and Automation Lab for Human Resources

The AI & Automation Lab will also feature eight self-service stations, including a new mobile station, highlighting use cases across hiring, development and retention:

• New: On-the-Go Hiring: Brings AI and automation to wherever work happens, giving hiring managers the ability to review and advance candidates from anywhere, recruiters the tools to manage events on the go and candidates conversational AI experiences that connect them to the right jobs.

• AI for Candidate Attraction: Connects candidates to the right jobs through personalized career site experiences and talent companion chatbots, while giving recruiters the tools to create on-brand career site copy and graphics with natural language prompts.

• AI & Automation for Sourcing: Empowers sourcers to find best-fit talent using conversational search and intelligent pipeline building, eliminating complex Boolean searches and complex filtering to identify top candidates.

• AI & Automation for Campaigns: Enables recruiters to create hyper-personalized, multi-step email and SMS campaigns that turn passive leads into qualified candidates.

• AI for Events: Gives recruiters the ability to instantly create and promote virtual and in-person events while delivering personalized candidate experiences through customized lobbies, sessions and communications.

• AI for Hiring Manager Coordination: Bridges recruiter and hiring manager collaboration to automatically schedule meetings, capture notes and refine requisitions, giving hiring managers a curated dashboard to review candidates and move them through the hiring process with speed and simplicity.

• AI & Automation for Screening and Scheduling: Helps recruiters build screening templates for text, audio or video assessments, and moves qualified candidates forward with automated interview scheduling.

• AI for Interviewing: Equips hiring managers with AI-guided structured interview guides, real-time note-taking and scorecards to improve preparation and consistency.

• AI for Onboarding: Personalizes offer and onboarding communications using AI-generated content, accelerating the transition from candidate to contributing new hire.

• Automation for High-Volume and Niche Hiring: Tailors hiring automation by role type (e.g., frontline, knowledge, fast track, moderate or niche) leveraging assessments, screening and interview scheduling to move the right candidates forward at the right pace.

• AI for Skills: Enables HR to build role and skills frameworks that power talent decisions and support effective upskilling and reskilling of current and future employees.

• AI for Career Growth: Provides HR professionals, people managers and employees with insights and tools to evolve careers through personalized AI-driven career paths, gigs and mentorships.

• AI for Talent Development: Empowers employees to shape personalized development journeys, including AI-recommended learning paths based on self-reported skills, while enabling managers to coach and optimize team performance using skill-level insights.

• AI for Workforce Planning: Generates workforce plans that align talent with business goals, identifies internal candidates for open roles and pinpoints upskilling opportunities to advance internal mobility.

New: Levels of AI & Automation Maturity Center

A dedicated AI & Automation Maturity Center will help HR and TA leaders understand exactly where they are today, and where they need to be next. Built on Phenom’s proprietary AI & Automation Maturity Model, the center measures adoption across two dimensions: Intelligence, ranging from No Intelligence (Level 0) to Fully Integrated (Level 5); and Automation, ranging from No Automation (Level 0) to Fully Integrated Automation (Level 5). Attendees can get expert guidance on their current level of AI and automation maturity across talent acquisition and talent management, identify gaps, and prioritize next steps toward a future‑ready operating model.

“The data makes clear that most organizations are still in the early stages of putting AI to work in HR, and there’s enormous upside for those who become educated and move deliberately,” said Jonathan Dale, Vice President and General Manager, Global Marketing at Phenom. “The expanded Learning Lab and new Agent Center put real solutions in their hands so they can see exactly what’s possible.”

To register and explore the full agenda, speakers and conference details, including the expanded AI & Automation Learning Lab and Agent Center, visit IAMPHENOM.com. Register before February 28 and save 25% with Go Birds! Pricing.

About Phenom

Phenom is an applied AI company with the only AI infrastructure built specifically for HR. Powered by Engines that harmonize data, Ontologies that guide every decision, X AI that hyper-personalizes experiences, Agents that work alongside teams, Phenom’s platform uses industry and business context to automate workflows, eliminate busywork, and enhance every experience while remaining compliant. Driven by a purpose to help a billion people find the right work, no other company is as dedicated to helping organizations hire faster, develop better and retain longer.

Phenom has earned accolades including: Inc. 5000’s fastest-growing companies (6 consecutive years), Deloitte Technology's Fast 500 (5 years), 11 Brandon Hall ‘Excellence in Technology’ awards including Gold for ‘Best Advance in Generative AI for Business Impact,’ Business Intelligence Group’s Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards (3 consecutive years), The Cloud Awards 2025/2024, The A.I. Awards 2024, and a regional Timmy Award for launching and optimizing HelpOneBillion.com (2020).

Headquartered in Greater Philadelphia, Phenom also has offices in India, Israel, the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom.

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