ROTY Award – Online Ceremony

You are invited to join us on Wednesday 23rd September 2026 12pm-12.30pm for a virtual award ceremony where we will proudly present this year’s winner of The Gillian Young Memorial Award for the Researcher of the Year.

The ceremony is open to all award applicants and ERA members.

Applications for the award are now closed, but as a reminder, further details on the award can be found here: https://theera.org/the-gillian-young-memorial-award-for-the-researcher-of-the-year/

With special thanks to our generous sponsors, Parkhouse Bell.

ERA Webinar with Vanessa Raath

Wednesday 2nd December 2026 @ 12pm-1pm GMT

Year in Review: AI, Search, and What Comes Next with Vanessa Raath

2026 moved fast. Not everything that got attention deserved it, and not everything that mattered got enough of it. This webinar is a no-nonsense look at the AI developments that actually affected search and executive search firms this year, what they signal for 2027, and how to walk into the new year with a clear head and a sharper plan.

ERA Members free, webinar invitations have been sent.

Guest/Non-member tickets £50 – tickets & registration available here

ERA Members free

Guest non member £50

ERA Webinar with Adam Kovacs

Thursday 5th November 2026 @ 12pm-1pm GMT

AI in Executive Search: Where It Pays Off, Where It Doesn’t, Where You Should Start, and What Not to Touch

Set up the AI Opportunity Finder agent which interviews you about the work and ranks each task by impact, effort, feasibility, and readiness. This agent uses design thinking, first principles, and second order thinking to help you identify where AI pays off in your research week, which high-ROI opportunities to prioritise, and how to measure and prove impact.

We’ll go through a few examples of what you can build for the tasks that rank highest. These examples come from our open-source recruiting stack, including recruitment task automations and market research agents.

But it’s important to ask: just because you can, should you? We’ll close up by introducing an Automated Decision Making Auditor Agent, which shows where UK data protection law and the EU AI Act can apply.

Everything shown is open sourced by the AI Enablement Academy and will be free to use.

Key takeaways and what you’ll learn:

How to set up the AI Opportunity Finder in Claude and ChatGPT Codex
Half a dozen pre-identified and ready-made agentic solutions for research and recruitment tasks
EU and UK rules, and the associated risks that you should know about before you hand over the wheel to AI

BIO:

Adam Kovacs is Co-Founder and Chief AI Strategist of the AI Enablement Academy, helping companies enable their non-engineering teams with agentic capabilities, roll out AI solutions, and build everyday AI skills across their teams. He is also the International Ambassador for the Agentics Foundation, Executive Director of the OPEN Talent Society, and CEO of The Talent Foundation. Before that, he led global recruiting programs at Amazon and AWS, from targeted searches to hiring at scale, and was a founding member of AWS Talent Intelligence program. There he built the recruitment data intelligence service for AWS talent acquisition worldwide, scaling it into a global program serving thousands of internal stakeholders and impacting tens of thousands of hires. He is trained in ISO 56001 innovation management and builds the tools he teaches.

ERA Members free

Guest non member £50

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