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# You Can't Automate Trust — The Future of Recruiting is Still Human


- **Date:** Thursday, Jul 9, 2026
- **Time:** 10:10–10:40 (30 min)
- **Room:** Stage 4
- **Event:** World Congress 2026 Europe

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100008-you-can-t-automate-trust-the-future-of-recruiting-is-still-human)

## Description

AI is transforming talent acquisition at a speed no one predicted. And yet, candidate experience is declining, and recruiters' productivity is not 'supercharged' yet. Somewhere in the race to automate everything, we forgot about the person on the other end of the process, and we forgot about what talent leaders' true edge is.

In this keynote, Mahmoud will make the case for the hardest thing in hiring, and the most overlooked. Trust takes time, intention, and a human being willing to show up. It can't be generated, scaled, or prompted. And in an era where everything else can be automated, it's the only thing that actually wins.

## Speaker

### [Mahmoud Aly](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@mahmoud-aly)

TA Business Partner at Semrush


## Related talks at this congress

- [The Future of Knowledge Retention: AI-Driven HR Transformation](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1047-the-future-of) — Trecilla Lobo
- [AI in Recruiting: What Works, What Fails - Real Lessons from Office & Volume Hiring](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1036-ai-in-recruiting) — Barbara Kryslak
- [From conversational job search to AI agents, must we reinvent recruitment?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1283-from-conversational) — Robindro Ullah
- [What if your HR software adapted to you, not the other way around?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1449-what-if-your-hr) — Christian Voigt