AI Day 2025: Registration Opens for the Only Deep Dive into Applied AI & Agents for Human Resources

PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 20, 2025--

Phenom, an applied AI company that helps organizations hire faster, develop better and retain longer, is hosting its annual AI Day, demonstrating the sophisticated engineering and multilayered data frameworks that enable AI solutions for complex HR challenges. Thousands of HR, IT and AI professionals across all industries will examine how AI, Generative AI and AI agents can be applied to transform talent acquisition and management processes, driving operational efficiencies while reducing costs.

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As organizations face increasing misalignment between evolving business requirements and HR capabilities, traditional workforce strategies prove inadequate for competitive talent markets. Effective talent acquisition and retention at scale requires AI and agentic AI that enables real-time strategic alignment.

On October 1, AI Day attendees will get a unique look at the advanced AI frameworks that are driving innovation and growth during sessions that will cover:

Architecting Enterprise AI for HR & IT

Advanced AI Infrastructure Supercharging Hiring Efficiency for Talent Acquisition

Context-Aware AI Frameworks Powering Intelligent Onboarding Automation, Talent Management & Beyond

Responsible AI Governance and Compliance Frameworks

“The time to experiment with AI is now. Organizations that delay embracing artificial intelligence will fall behind those who are learning quickly and building confidence in AI and AI agents to future-proof their workforce,” said Kumar Ananthanarayana, VP, Product Management at Phenom. “AI Day provides impactful, real-world use cases for safely applying intelligence, agentic AI and automation across HR operations — and how it’s ethically built to ensure they address every organization’s unique business and industry challenges.”

Phenom’s proprietary data infrastructure, developed over a decade, processes contextual workforce data to enable industry-specific AI applications that address unique organizational challenges and measurable business outcomes. As a result, candidates find and choose the right job faster, employees develop their skills and evolve, recruiters become wildly productive, talent marketers engage with extreme efficiency, talent leaders optimize hiring and onboarding processes, managers build stronger-performing teams, HR aligns employee development with company goals, and HRIT easily integrates existing HR tech to create a holistic infrastructure.

The SHRM-accredited live event begins at 11 a.m. ET (5 p.m. CET) on October 1.

Register here.

About Phenom

Phenom is an applied AI company that helps organizations hire faster, develop better and retain longer. By uniquely combining proprietary industry-specific AI, agentic AI, automation and personalized experiences, its Intelligent Talent Experience platform helps companies fundamentally reshape their HR processes and strategies for scalable and sustainable transformation. Driven by a purpose to help a billion people find the right work, Phenom takes a holistic approach that unifies the entire talent journey, augmenting human capabilities and creating a symbiotic relationship between technology and talent.

Phenom has earned accolades including: Inc. 5000’s fastest-growing companies (6 consecutive years), Deloitte Technology's Fast 500 (4 consecutive 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.

For more information, please visit www.phenom.com. Connect with Phenom on LinkedIn, X, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and TikTok.

Phenom is hosting its annual AI Day, demonstrating the sophisticated engineering and multilayered data frameworks that enable AI solutions for complex HR challenges.

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong's biggest pro-democracy party voted Sunday to dissolve after more than 30 years of activism, marking the end of an era of the Chinese semiautonomous city 's once-diverse political landscape.

Democratic Party chairperson Lo Kin-hei said about 97% of members' ballots were in support of its liquidation and it is the best way forward for its members.

“Yet as the times have shifted, we now, with deep regret, must bring this chapter to a close,” he said.

Lo earlier said the decision to move toward disbandment was made based on the current political situation and social climate. But party veterans told The Associated Press that some members were warned of consequences if the party didn’t shut down.

Its demise reflects the dwindling freedoms promised to the former British colony when it returned to China’s rule in 1997.

China imposed a national security law in June 2020, following massive anti-government protests the year before, saying it was necessary for the city's stability. Under the law, many leading activists, including the Democratic Party's former chairs Albert Ho and Wu Chi-wai and other former lawmakers, were arrested.

Jimmy Lai, founder of the pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper, was also charged under the law. Lai will hear his verdict on Monday. Apple Daily was one of the vocal independent outlets shut down over the past five years.

Dozens of civil society groups have also closed, including the second-largest pro-democracy party, Civic Party and a group that organized annual vigils commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.

In June, the League of Social Democrats, which had remained active in holding tiny street protests in recent years, announced its closure, citing immense political pressure.

The Democratic Party, founded in 1994, was a moderate opposition party that pushed for universal suffrage in electing the city's leader for decades. Prominent party members include Martin Lee, nicknamed the city’s “father of democracy,” Ho, former leader of the group that organized Tiananmen vigils, and journalist-turned-activist Emily Lau.

It once held multiple legislative seats and amassed dozens of directly elected district councillors who helped residents with issues in their households and municipal matters. Some of its former members joined the government as senior officials.

Its willingness to negotiate with Beijing led to its proposal being included in a 2010 political reform package — a move that drew harsh criticism from some members and other democracy advocates who wanted more sweeping changes.

As new pro-democracy groups grew, the party’s influence declined. But when the 2019 protests swept Hong Kong, the party’s activism won widespread support again.

During Beijing's crackdown, the Democratic Party has turned into more like a pressure group. Electoral overhauls that were designed to ensure only “patriots” administer the city effectively shut out all pro-democracy politicians in the legislature and district councils.

The party pressed on by holding news conferences on livelihood issues. It even submitted opinions on a homegrown national security legislation before it was enacted in March 2024.

Earlier this year, the party decided to set up a task force to look into the procedures involved in dissolving itself, and its leadership secured members' mandate to move closer to this goal.

FILE - Signage is displayed at the office of Hong Kong's Democratic Party in Hong Kong on Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei, File)