RozeeGPT and NIC Islamabad jointly conducted a symposium on Agentic HR, bringing together more than 80 human resources professionals including some of Islamabad’s most senior Chief Human Resources Officers for a day of panel discussions, cross-sector learning, and frank conversation about what artificial intelligence adoption actually looks like inside Pakistani organisations. The event was recapped by Monis Rahman, Co-founder and Chairman of Recruit AI, Rozee, and Dukan, who noted broad consensus on several points that would have been considered aspirational just a year ago.
Among the areas of agreement were that HR professionals who do not adopt artificial intelligence tools risk becoming obsolete, that HR must lead the charge in its own artificial intelligence transformation rather than waiting for IT departments to grant permission, and that every manager within an organisation needs to function as the Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer of their particular domain. The call for decentralised artificial intelligence adoption reflects a growing recognition that the pace of innovation in the field is too fast to be managed through centralised gatekeeping, and that organisations that wait for top-down mandates will find themselves consistently behind.
On the practical side, attendees identified candidate screening and repetitive scheduling tasks as the most widely adopted artificial intelligence use cases in recruiting. Notably, the vast majority of the 80-plus professionals in attendance had already begun using artificial intelligence tools personally, and each had a concrete story of something they had accomplished with it, a detail that marks a meaningful shift from the theoretical conversations that dominated similar gatherings just twelve months earlier. Sayyed Ahmad Masud delivered a keynote connecting artificial intelligence transformation in HR with the need for corporates to actively partner with startups and co-create use cases that can eventually be taken to international markets.
The CHRO panel featured Sonia Farooq, Aleena Tanvir, Saira Shahid Hussain, and Sheraz Karim. The event was led by Syed Imran Raza and Osman Chohan from the Rozee and NIC teams, with ground coordination handled by Muazima Batool Agha. Rahman closed his account of the day by noting that Islamabad needs more HR community events of this nature, spaces where talent that rarely gets to connect with each other can share experience across organisational boundaries, and signalled that the teams intend to return.
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