Watch Laurens in action.
Start with the full keynote at the Global Talent Strategy & Intelligence Conference in Amsterdam, on how AI is changing workforce planning, talent intelligence and internal mobility. Thirty-one minutes, in English. Below it: the talk at Zukunft Personal Europe, a second English recording, and the two strongest Dutch sessions.
Why a forklift driver could become a drone pilot
One example from the stage about what happens when you look at skills instead of job titles.
Someone who drives a forklift reads space, keeps an overview and works with precision. Those are the same skills a drone pilot needs. The job title hides that. The skills reveal it.
More short clips are on YouTube @LaurensWaling.
Skills, matching and what AI changes
Two recent clips in English, each under a minute.
Why skills can still be too broad
Matching people to work based on skills sounds smart. But what does project management actually mean, and which underlying capabilities and tasks sit behind it?
Watch on YouTube →
What if companies applied to talent?
Most talent pools are passive databases. People join, upload a CV and then mostly wait. AI matching can turn that around.
Watch on YouTube →AI & Skills: Building the Future of Work
On stage in English at Zukunft Personal Europe 2025, one of the largest HR conferences in Europe.
Solving job market problems with skills and AI
How 8vance uses skills and AI to match people and work across the labour market.
The two strongest Dutch recordings
Both are in Dutch, but they give the clearest picture of what a full keynote and a webinar look like.
The full keynote. AI, work and organisational change. In Dutch.
Agentic HR. What changes when AI stops advising and starts acting. In Dutch.
What I am really building.
Not a keynote and not a showreel, but the personal story underneath my work. About entrepreneurship, boxes, and why I believe technology should above all give us more choice. Spoken in Dutch, with English subtitles.
Freedom is having a choice.
From the documentary
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