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Session Events
POWER26- Homecoming
Learning Sessions
Your badge gives you total access to every session and event in our multi-level campus. Pick and choose the ones that fit your goals, attend just a few, or experience them all. Each session delivers expert insights, practical tools, and actionable takeaways to help you thrive in today’s evolving workplace.
Learning Tracks:
The Business of You
Transform your expertise into a thriving consulting business by learning directly from seasoned consultants and business owners who will help you master your model, brand, and client strategy.
Road to CHRO
Access HR bootcamps, workshops, keynotes, and strategy sessions designed to strengthen your competency and support your growth at every stage of your HR journey.
The Career Lab
Elevate your career by working with our coaches on campus to refine your goals, build new skills, and design a strategy for long-term growth.
Brand Activation & The Media Lab
Work directly with our business and marketing consultants, shop our website store, and partner with our in-house production and media team to strengthen your brand, elevate your visibility, and create professional commercials and studio-quality headshots that position your business for next-level growth.
Presented by
50
Sessions
3
Days of Activations
30
Recertification Credits
6
Months Replay Access
Relive the Experience: Highlights from POWER25
The Experience: Day-by-Day
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Day One: Welcome to Campus
Start your POWER26 Homecoming with energizing virtual pre-sessions designed to warm up your mindset and set your goals for the week. Then meet us on campus for the Kickoff Block Party with food, a full bar, a live band, and that classic Homecoming energy. It’s the perfect way to connect, celebrate, and kick off an unforgettable week.
Day Two: Class is in Session
Dive into a full day of high-impact learning across four immersive tracks. Choose your own guided journey — from business and leadership development to career growth and brand activation. Between “class periods,” enjoy networking breaks, interactive labs, and hands-on coaching designed to help you apply what you learn in real time.
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Day Three: Graduation
The final day brings everything together with live panels, VIP rooftop experiences, and special activations that celebrate your growth and connections. Capture the moment in our photo booths, drop into the podcast studios, and close out the weekend with a high-energy Homecoming Celebration that feels more like a reunion than a conference.
Speakers and Contributors
The Black In HR
Kimika Banfield
Consultant, UpHR Lab
Kimika Banfield transforms workplaces through coaching and training rooted in emotional, positive, and cultural intelligence. Using science-backed strategies and positive psychology, she helps leaders move beyond checkboxes to create thriving, well-being-focused cultures that deliver measurable, profitable results and lasting organizational impact.
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The Black In HR
Camuriel Carpentar
HR Business Partner, ADP
Camuriel Carpenter, HR Business Partner at ADP, delivers strategic HR solutions that align people and performance. With expertise in employee relations, compliance, and talent strategy, she guides leaders through change and workforce planning—driving engagement, mitigating risk, and fostering inclusive, scalable practices that fuel organizational growth across diverse industries.
Tanicka Kirk
HR Director, Ad Astra
Tanicka Kirk, a strategic Global HR Leader and U.S. Army veteran, brings 15+ years’ experience in tech, finance, and aviation. She drives workforce planning, talent development, and culture alignment, leads global HR initiatives, and empowers teams—while also impacting communities as a real estate investor, author, and veterans’ advocate.
The Black In HR
Willena Long
Career Coach, The Black In HR
Willena has 12+ years recruiting top talent for Meta, Roblox, Amazon, and Lowe’s. A strategic force in recruitment marketing, branding, and coaching, she’s also a coach for Black In HR, accelerating diverse hiring, building high-performing teams, and aligning talent strategies with bold business growth and transformative results.
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Daily Events
Your conference ticket gives you access to all evening events — no extra fees, no FOMO.
Experience a reimagined, three-story campus in the heart of downtown Atlanta with stunning views of Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Designed to bring the homecoming collegiate vibe to life, the venue features conference rooms, a main stage, rooftop lounges, photo booths, podcast studios, and an open-air amphitheater. It’s a dynamic space where every floor offers something new, learning, connection, and creativity, as you design your own guided journey alongside fellow professionals.
Venue
The Venue:
Your Homecoming Campus
Become a POWER26 Sponsor
Partner with Black In HR at POWER26: Homecoming and connect your brand with one of the fastest-growing professional communities in the country. Sponsorship offers high-visibility marketing, direct access to HR leaders and decision-makers, and opportunities for custom activations that elevate your brand. To explore sponsorship packages and partnership options, complete the form and our team will follow up.
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Join the Tribe
Conference App
Connect and Stay Informed with the Conference App to access everything you need to enhance your event experience—before, during, and after the week.
Inside the app, you'll unlock: private job board, easy event and lunch scheduling, session replays, photo galleries, attendee profiles, direct messaging and a community chat.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Atlanta HR Takeover Conference is all about movement — across neighborhoods, across disciplines, and across the career moments that matter.
Each organization is hosting a signature event, packed with game-changing insights, networking, and fresh professional energy.
Choose Your Experience
Your badge gets you access to any location. Pick your sessions. Follow your vibe.
Sponsorship Opportunities
Partner with Atlanta’s Leading HR Organizations.
Sponsoring the Atlanta HR Takeover Conference means more than brand placement — it’s a chance to stand beside ATD, Black In HR, NAAAHR, and SHRM Atlanta in a one-of-a-kind experience that blends business, culture, and community.
Your partnership gives you direct access to a highly engaged, diverse audience of HR professionals, talent developers, executives, and people-first leaders.