Eli Gunduz is the founder of Careersy Coaching and a Principal Technical Recruiter at Atlassian. Australia's go-to career coach for tech professionals across ANZ. With 13 years recruiting for the likes of Atlassian, Macquarie, and Airwallex, Eli has reviewed 26,000+ resumes, sat through 5,200+ interviews, and coached 300+ people into roles they actually wanted. He works at the intersection of recruiter signal and candidate strategy, and he's on a mission to help startups hire smarter and candidates show up more effectively, especially as AI reshapes how talent gets found, filtered, and chosen.

The confidently incompetent are getting the roles, the raises, and the top talent, not because they're better, but because they're visible. AI agents are now a primary way people and opportunities find you, which means an absent presence, online and offline, is no longer neutral; it's a liability. Vinisha Rathod (author of The Briefcase Effect) will unpack this with panellists Lisa Young, Edan Haddock, and Eli Gunduz: a working definition of personal brand, real stories of what showing up unlocked, and one practical step to start this week (no existing audience required).

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What you'll leave with:

1. Why "invisible but capable" no longer works: as AI agents become a primary discovery channel, presence (online and offline) shifts from optional to structural. Attendees leave understanding why now is the urgent moment, not just that it'd be nice to have a brand.
2. Proof the payoff is real: specific commercial and personal opportunities panellists received without applying for them, so "this doesn't work for people like me" stops holding up.
3. One action doable within a week, zero existing audience required: and the explicit prompt to message a panellist on LinkedIn that week. Removes the "I'd need to already be someone" excuse and gives you your success metric back as a stated CTA.