Future Talent & AI Working Group
Supporting leaders to govern, deploy, and scale AI systems that act with autonomy — safely, responsibly, and competitively.
Why This Group Exists
The future of work is being rewritten by AI. Every organisation is grappling with how automation and intelligent systems are changing recruitment, career pathways and workforce design. What employers look for, how candidates are assessed, and how people progress inside organisations is shifting faster than ever before.
This change is not abstract. AI-enabled hiring tools are already screening candidates. Agentic systems are influencing workflows. New roles are emerging while others are being reshaped. For talent leaders, the question is no longer whether AI will affect strategy but how quickly and on what terms.
The Future Talent & AI Working Group exists to answer that challenge. It is where senior leaders come together to share what is working, address risks, and design smarter approaches to attracting, supporting and developing people in the age of AI.
What we do
The group focuses on the issues that matter most
- How AI is used in recruitment and candidate screening, and how to ensure fairness and transparency
- How graduate and early careers pathways evolve to meet new expectations
- How AI influences internal mobility, progression and career development
- How organisations build an employer brand that attracts and retains AI fluent talent
- How new roles and team structures emerge as AI becomes embedded across operations
Outputs include practical frameworks and guidance notes, curated UKAI roundtables, policy briefings, and contributions to national workforce and skills strategies.
How the Group Works
The Future Talent & AI Working Group leads a focused programme of activity that runs throughout the year. All participation is designed to be low-lift, high-value, and led by the people doing the work.
Roundtables
Regular member-led roundtables, deep dives, and strategy sessions
Fireside Conversations
Private, invitation-only fireside conversations with sector leaders to explore frontier issues confidentially
Collaborative Outputs
Co-development of practical tools: checklists, frameworks, templates, and guidance documents
Policy and Regulator Engagement
Active engagement in policy, ensuring real-world insights shape UKAI’s advocacy and external work
Strategic Collaboration with Other UKAI Groups
Activities designed to be efficient and outcome-focused, grounded in what practitioners need and do
Why we are doing this
There is plenty of debate about AI and skills, but very little practical support for those who actually run recruitment, early careers programmes, and internal progression pathways. Organisations are being asked to respond to new expectations without clear guidance on fairness, transparency or readiness.
This group was created to fill that gap. It connects those leading change inside organisations, providing a trusted space to exchange insights and shape the frameworks that will guide how people are hired, developed and progressed in the AI era.
Who’s Involved
Membership is deliberately small and senior. It brings together leaders responsible for talent acquisition, early careers, workforce strategy and organisational development. Members work alongside peers, contribute to UKAI’s wider policy and advocacy, and lean on the network for support in tackling shared challenges.
Katie Pinder – Chair of the Future Talent & AI Working Group
The group is chaired by Katie Pinder, Group Emerging Talent Lead at MACE, who brings deep experience in shaping future-focused talent strategies at scale. Under her leadership the group ensures discussions stay grounded in real organisational challenges while pushing the boundaries of what the next generation of workforce planning should look like (holding bio for now).
Why join
Membership of the Future Talent & AI Working Group puts you directly at the centre of redefining how organisations attract, assess and grow people in the age of AI. The value lies in the practical work this group delivers together.
By joining, members
- Shape new approaches to recruitment and early careers by contributing directly to frameworks, toolkits and guidance notes that are applied across industries
- Share real-world experience of AI in hiring, progression and workforce design with peers facing the same challenges, creating practical insight that can be taken back into their organisations
- Influence how UKAI positions issues of recruitment, internal mobility and employer brand in policy discussions with government and industry stakeholders
- Contribute to thematic roundtables and workshops curated from the group’s discussions, ensuring members’ priorities are reflected in UKAI’s wider activity
- Gain visibility as leaders in future workforce design through UKAI reports, podcasts, and case studies showcasing the group’s outputs
This group is not about theoretical debate. It is about creating tangible outputs that help members respond to fast-moving changes in recruitment, progression and workforce strategy.
Get involved
The Future Talent & AI Working Group is the space for leaders who want to shape the future of work rather than wait for it. We are now welcoming new members. If you would like to be involved, please get in touch.
Golden Cross House
8 Duncannon Street
London WC2N 4JF
020 3488 3612
contact@ukai.co
