Moncton-based online recruitment and talent management website CareerBeacon has announced that it will present a live event in Halifax in May called MoveFwd, which will focus on leadership and management strategy.

Slated to be held at Pier 21 on the waterfront, the day-long conference will be headlined by HRU Technical Resources President Tim Sackett, whose Missouri-based recruiting company services clients nationally and has a staff numbering in the high double digits.

Other speakers will include Kevin Yip and Taylor Smith, president and CEO respectively of San Francisco-based human resources startup Blueboard, as well as Ilana Ben-Ari, founder of Toronto-based social enterprise Twenty One Toys.

“One of our priorities at CareerBeacon is to lead and participate in the conversation on the future of work in Atlantic Canada,” said the company, helmed by CEO Yves Boudreau, in a statement. “MoveFwd is a chance to reintroduce ourselves to the community and bring in some seriously talented people to share how they tackle leadership challenges and opportunities head-on.

“While we have global aspirations, Atlantic Canada will always be our home, and MoveFwd is the first of many commitments we are making here.”

CareerBeacon bills the event as being focused on leadership and management strategy for the post-pandemic era.

Co-founders Boudreau and Benoit Bourque started CareerBeacon in 2014 to make backend software for online jobs boards. The company was originally called Qimple, but has since undergone two rebrandings, with the latest having been to adopt the name of another business it acquired earlier this year.

The CareerBeacon acquisition, before which Boudreau and Bourque’s company was called Alongside, was paid for with the help of an $8 million capital raise comprised of 40 percent equity funding and a loan from TD Canada Trust.

The move into live events comes just two months after the company also bought Toronto’s Ruutly in a bid at consolidating pieces of technology that work better as a software suite than as individual tools, according to the heads of both companies.

Tickets will cost $159 until Jan. 30 and $266 thereafter. More information and a registration form can be found here.