The SHRM MENA Annual Conference & Expo 2025 — held at the iconic Madinat Jumeirah in Dubai on 17-18 September — brought together HR leaders, TA heads, tech innovators, and business executives from across the Gulf and beyond.
SHRM MENA Annual Conference & Expo 2025
“The future of HR in MENA isn’t about adopting AI — it’s about designing experiences that make work human again.” — RippleHire at SHRM MENA 2025
What we showcased in Dubai
• The AI Experience Layer for Hiring: How enterprises across the Gulf are building connected, intelligent recruitment systems for scale and speed.
• Fairness meets performance: Demonstrating how RippleHire’s AI architecture ensures bias-free shortlisting, transparent evaluation, and measurable impact.
• Future-ready workflows: Exploring no-code automation, multi-channel candidate engagement, and analytics that empower recruiters to lead with data.
• The AI Experience Layer for Hiring: How enterprises across the Gulf are building connected, intelligent recruitment systems for scale and speed.
• Fairness meets performance: Demonstrating how RippleHire’s AI architecture ensures bias-free shortlisting, transparent evaluation, and measurable impact.
• Future-ready workflows: Exploring no-code automation, multi-channel candidate engagement, and analytics that empower recruiters to lead with data.
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RippleHire participated as an exhibitor at Booth 39, showcasing its vision of hiring reinvented through AI that amplifies human capability rather than replacing it. Attendees experienced live demonstrations of fraud-proof employee referral engines, AI interview agents, and adaptive workflows designed for enterprise-scale hiring across volume, niche, contract, gig and leadership segments.
On 17 September at 15:30, Founder & CEO Sudarsan Ravi delivered a keynote titled “Beyond Hiring: Building a True Skills-Based Culture for Sustainable Talent Success”, exploring how organizations must evolve their hiring ecosystem to align with dynamic business models and talent supply chains.
Key takeaways from the event included how companies can move from reactive to strategic feeding of talent supply chains, how AI and data can elevate recruiter productivity, how candidate experience becomes a differentiator at scale, and the importance of integrating hiring systems into end-to-end talent workflows rather than treating recruitment as a silo.
RippleHire’s presence reinforced its philosophy: AI that supports, not replaces. The platform is designed to take over the repetitive and operational tasks—screening, scheduling, feedback aggregation, initial shortlisting—while leaving the human decision-making, relationship building, and strategic judgment to the people. In this way, enterprises can hire faster, fairer, and smarter without sacrificing the human element.
If you couldn’t meet us in Dubai, you can still explore how RippleHire is enabling global enterprises to build high-performance hiring engines — see our enterprise stories or talk to our team.
