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A narrative session to ignite reflection, intention, and action. This session invites leaders to lead the legacy of great work by balancing the precision of technology with the depth of human insight. It’s about moving beyond strategy rooms to influence the everyday tech experience, the systems, tools, and interactions that define how people collaborate, learn, and grow. We’ll explore how the most forward-thinking leaders are collaborating across functions (HR, technology, and business) to design cultures that are agile, inclusive, and AI-ready. And how they are harmonising tech and talent, ensuring that transformation is not just about scale or efficiency, but about unlocking human potential.

The enterprises that win next are those that learn not just what AI can do, but how to use it to work smarter, move faster, and innovate continuously. This keynote delivers a practical, no-nonsense roadmap to turn AI from a set of experiments into a true performance engine. We’ll explore how to redesign workflows with intelligence at the core, how to empower people to work at machine-level speed, and how to build the governance that keeps AI safe, ethical, and trusted – in short: How to use AI for enterprise success. Leaders will walk away with clarity on the capabilities that matter, the shifts to prioritise now, and the strategic moves that turn AI into a scalable advantage.

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The Gallup Culture Risks Survey 2025 found that Indian workplaces face risks in performance management, agility, and leadership inspiration, even while ethics and inclusion remain strengths. This panel reflects on the leadership culture imperative in the Indian workplace. How must leaders must evolve: from rule‑keepers to culture‑builders, driving resilience, trust, and adaptive value in fast‑changing times?

Grab your coffee, head towards the Ideas Of The Future Zone, meet our world-class HR & work technology partners & explore innovative solutions!

The CHRO role is being rewritten for an AI-first world. No longer just the custodian of culture or talent, the modern CHRO is the architect of interconnected systems where technology, data, and human behavior align to drive enterprise agility. This session explores how CHROs are evolving into Chief Systems Orchestrators, harmonising AI, automation, and human potential to build organisations that think, learn, and adapt in real time. It’s not just about leading people it’s about designing the ecosystem where people and intelligence thrive together.

As AI agents and automation enter the workplace, HR must rethink how work, roles, and systems are designed. With 53% of leaders focused on productivity and 80% of employees lacking time and energy (Microsoft 2025 Work Trend Index), this fireside chat examines whether HROS can balance efficiency with meaning, wellbeing, and trust. Leaders will discuss how AI-integrated HROS can support meaningful human work, evolving workforce models, sustainable HR architecture, and ethical guardrails around data, bias, and transparency, creating organisations that are productive, inclusive, and resilient by design.

Research by McKinsey consistently shows that organisational health is the strongest predictor of long-term value creation, outperforming strategy, structure, and even short-term financial performance.
Participants will gain insights into the core elements that define organisational health, including clarity of direction, effective decision-making, accountability, talent development, and the ability to renew and adapt over time. The session will also examine how leaders can move beyond episodic transformation to embed health into the organizational DNA, creating resilience and competitive advantage.

With roles changing faster than job descriptions can keep up, organisations are shifting toward skills-based talent models. This session will focus on how Indian organisations are practically moving from traditional, role-centric structures to skills-driven hiring, development, and deployment. The discussion will explore how skills are being identified, measured, and matched to work—along with the challenges of integrating these models into legacy systems. Panelists will share lessons learned, early wins, and pitfalls to avoid while building internal talent marketplaces and more fluid career pathways. Leaders will gain actionable insights into how a skills-first approach can improve agility, access untapped talent, and future-proof workforce strategies.

Recharge & connect! Enjoy a delicious meal and networking, paving the way for your next breakthrough.

Resilience does not come from titles, technology, or top-down mandates. It comes from ordinary people doing extraordinary things when it matters most. A story-driven session on how frontline employees, middle managers, and first-time leaders became the backbone of organisational resilience.

This is not a discussion on whether the right to disconnect is important. It is a practical, uncomfortable exploration of how to design systems, incentives, and leadership norms that make disconnection unavoidable—even for the most powerful people in the organisation. What leader behaviours silently cancel your disconnect policy? Who actually has the right to disconnect in your organisation and who doesn’t?

As India sets its sights on becoming a multi-trillion-dollar economy, the rapid emergence of artificial intelligence and automation is fundamentally changing the nature of work. For the nation to realise its ambitions, large-scale upskilling and reskilling are imperative—not just for corporate India, but for the entire workforce, including those in the public sector, MSMEs, and underserved communities. This high-profile panel brings together government leaders, policy architects, and skilling ecosystem experts to discuss how India can orchestrate a future-ready workforce, bridge skill gaps, and ensure inclusive growth amid the AI revolution.

It is time to move beyond AI adoption to AI impact—using technology to meaningfully enhance human performance and unlock workforce potential. It explores how AI can augment decision-making, personalize learning, and enable smarter, faster ways of working, while keeping people at the core. Leaders will gain clarity on where AI delivers real value in the employee lifecycle, what capabilities are needed to scale it responsibly, and how to prepare talent to work effectively alongside intelligent systems.

We no longer live in a world of isolated shocks, but in a state of polycrisis, overlapping, interacting disruptions that defy neat solutions. Yet many organisations remain stuck in a reactive loop, sprinting from one emergency to the next, draining capacity, creating change fatigue, and eroding resilience. This keynote argues for a bold shift: from crisis survival mode to collective, sustainable adaptability. You’ll discover how to instill the mindsets, practices, and systems to lead not just in turbulence, but through it. Learn how to develop vertical capacity, not just new skills, but deeper, more integrative thinking. Enhance the ability of your teams and systems to self-correct, learn, and evolve through change or disruption.

Across India’s best employers, inclusion shows up not in handbooks, but in how leaders listen, decide, promote, recognise, and show up for their people. Through real workplace stories, data-backed insights, and lived leadership experiences, this session reveals how inclusive leadership has become a competitive advantage—driving trust, performance, and belonging at scale.

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A Tribute To The Legacy: The day may be for ideas, but the night is for rhythm. Join us for an unforgettable night of music, dance, and celebration.

After a stimulating day of ideas and inspiration, let's relax, connect, and savour delicious food & drinks.

Centre Stage

India has become a global powerhouse in talent development, agile workforce management, and innovative HR practices. From its rich tradition of building resilient, resourceful teams to its rapid adoption of cutting-edge HR tech, the Indian approach to talent has unique lessons for the world. This fireside chat will bring together a global HR leader and a pioneering Indian CHRO to explore how India’s talent playbook—rooted in adaptability, diversity, and human-centric leadership—can inspire organisations everywhere to orchestrate growth with a human edge.

Leading global teams is no longer about proximity it’s about trust, clarity, and adaptability. This session examines how leaders are navigating the complexities of distributed, cross-border workforces, from compliance and collaboration to culture and performance. Discover the leadership capabilities required to manage global teams effectively, build inclusive cultures, and maintain alignment across geographies in an increasingly borderless world of work.

As AI becomes embedded into everyday work, HR is evolving into an intelligent system that powers productivity, decision-making, and trust at scale. This session explores how AI copilots, secure data foundations, and responsible AI frameworks are enabling HR teams to move beyond automation toward true intelligence. Learn how organisations are integrating AI into workflows while maintaining transparency, governance, and human oversight ensuring that innovation strengthens trust rather than eroding it.

Bringing together CEOs, CHROs, board members, and compensation leaders, the discussion will examine how progressive organisations are redefining executive pay to reflect workforce outcomes, cultural health, and long-term capability building, alongside financial performance. Explore how executive incentives shape leadership behaviour, risk appetite, and innovation culture. Learn how some organisations are linking human impact—from skills readiness and engagement to wellbeing and responsible technology adoption.

Join Us For A Networking Lunch & Connect With Industry Professionals Over A Delicious Meal

In an era defined by disruption, skills not roles are becoming the true currency of organizational success. This session examines how leading organisations are using skills intelligence to inform workforce planning, leadership development, and innovation strategy. Discover how treating skills as a strategic asset enables HR and business leaders to make better talent decisions, close capability gaps, and build sustainable competitive advantage.

HR technology investments continue to grow at an unprecedented pace, yet many organisations struggle to demonstrate clear returns on these investments. This session examines why increasing spend on HR tech has not translated into proportional business impact—and what leaders can do differently. Drawing on SHRPA 2025 insights, the discussion will unpack common pitfalls such as poor problem definition, low adoption, fragmented tech stacks, unclear ownership and weak ROI frameworks. Leaders will explore how to shift the focus from implementation to value realisation, align HR tech decisions with business priorities, and design success metrics that matter to the C-suite.

Let's confront confront the real risk facing modern enterprises: comfort with yesterday’s success. Drawing from Indian and global business stories, this session explores why some organizations reinvent themselves repeatedly while others slowly fade, even with resources, scale, and legacy on their side.

For decades, careers were built on predictable ladders—roles, titles, and timelines clearly defined by hierarchy. Gen Z is rejecting this model outright. They value speed, variety, purpose, and optionality over linear progression, and technology is accelerating this shift. This session explores how careers are being reimagined at the intersection of human aspiration and machine intelligence. As AI-powered talent marketplaces, skills clouds, and project-based work gain ground, experience—not tenure—is becoming the new currency of growth. Leaders must rethink how opportunity is discovered, matched, and experienced, blending AI-driven insights with human coaching, trust, and choice. The challenge is not just enabling mobility, but preserving dignity, autonomy, and motivation in a non-linear world. Learn how organizations can design career ecosystems where technology guides possibilities, humans retain agency, and Gen Z feels seen, empowered, and invested in shaping their own futures.

In 2026, hiring excellence is no longer measured by speed alone but by influence, intelligence, and impact. This session explores how recruitment teams can evolve into trusted talent architects, shaping workforce strategy rather than merely executing it. Discover how organizations are redefining recruiter roles through deeper specialization, data-driven advisory models, clear SLAs, and rebalanced hiring ownership between TA and business leaders. Learn how progressive companies are building consultative hiring cultures that attract scarce skills while improving quality, equity, and experience.

As organisations embrace digital transformation, women HR leaders are increasingly at the helm—driving the adoption of new technologies, fostering digital mindsets, and ensuring that tech initiatives amplify, not diminish, the human experience at work. Yet, their stories of vision, resilience, and innovation often go untold. This session shines a spotlight on women who are not only champions of HR technology but are actively shaping the future of work through bold, people-centric digital change.

In an age of AI, constant change, burnout, and shifting employee expectations, organisations are being forced to answer a deeper question—not about productivity, but about responsibility. What do organisations truly owe their people now? Are organisations prepared to trade control for care, efficiency for empathy? What does it mean to be a good employer when loyalty, tenure, and careers look radically different?

The next advantage lies in: Human judgment over automated answers. Context over computation. Creativity over optimisation. Ethics over efficiency. Meaning over metrics. In a world where machines execute faster, humans decide better. This theme challenges leaders to rethink value creation not through more technology, but through how work is designed, decisions are made, and people are empowered to apply uniquely human strengths at scale.

Growth Stage

AI amplifies both the opportunities and the risks around these networks. ONA helps leaders see what AI cannot automatically infer: the real, informal, complex dynamics of relationships inside an organisation. A thought-leadership masterclass that blends conceptual understanding with practical cases of social and org network analysis (SNA/ONA), this will help participants design a connected organisation in the age of AI.

Recognition today is no longer about annual awards it’s about building a culture where appreciation is frequent, visible, and embedded into everyday work. This session explores the evolution of recognition-as-a-platform, where technology enables peer-to-peer appreciation, leadership recognition, and value-aligned moments at scale. Discover how organizations are using recognition to strengthen culture, drive discretionary effort, and create a sense of belonging in hybrid and distributed environments.

Talent experience has emerged as a critical differentiator in competitive hiring markets. This session explores how organizations are delivering personalised, consistent, and engaging experiences across the entire hiring lifecycle from attraction and discovery to onboarding and mobility. Learn how AI-driven insights and experience design are enabling personalization at scale without compromising authenticity, fairness, or trust. The session will highlight how experience-led hiring strategies are shaping employer brand and long-term talent outcomes.

In today’s volatile environment, leaders must make fast, confident decisions while guiding teams through uncertainty. This immersive bootcamp puts participants into real-world scenarios to practice adaptive leadership in action. Through simulations, role-play, and rapid-response exercises, leaders will learn how to anticipate disruption, respond under pressure, and adjust plans without losing direction or team trust. The session focuses on building leadership agility, clarity in chaos, and the ability to navigate change with composure and collaboration.

As workplaces weave AI and automation into everyday work, with nearly half of organisations already deploying AI agents and 82% of leaders signalling a critical shift (Microsoft Work Trend Index 2025) - this session explores whether organisations can design employee experiences that combine machine precision with human empathy. Can the “human+tech” workplace truly deliver on wellbeing, engagement and dignity along with output and scale?

HR is not broken, it's outdated. Most HR organisations are still running in an old “service delivery model” with today’s ""product-led, AI-augmented, experience-centered HR. Modern HR is built by designers, technologists, and futurists, not administrators.
To mentally unshackle from legacy thinking, this interactive session will explore, how we can collectively paint the new HROS canvas for 2026 and beyond.

In a fast-changing workplace, leaders must navigate tough conversations with clarity, empathy, and confidence. This masterclass equips leaders with the skills to handle sensitive topics, performance, conflict, boundaries, feedback, and change, with greater impact and less friction. Participants will learn conversational frameworks, emotional cues, and language techniques that build trust, reduce defensiveness, and turn difficult dialogues into opportunities for alignment and growth.

Think Tank Lab

Live Chats, Big Debates & Experiential Sessions

This first experiential session is designed to shift leaders from doing to being, from reaction to awareness. Through guided energy-based exploration, participants are invited to open their senses, soften assumptions, and enter the day with presence and intention.

Fear, uncertainities and disruptions, let's move beyond these emotions and jargons! Explore what exciting trends are shaping a brighter present and future for talent. How can you make a difference and contribute to this positive side of change?

Through sharp questions and instinctive responses, this segment cuts through the hype to explore what it truly takes to move AI from experimentation to habit, and from curiosity to confidence—for leaders, managers, and employees alike.

As AI rapidly reshapes organisations, a critical question is emerging for HR leaders: should HR take the lead in defining the organisation’s AI strategy, or should it play an enabling role while business and technology teams drive the agenda? This session explores both sides of the debate, drawing on SHRPA 2025 insights that reveal high confidence in change readiness but limited preparedness for AI execution. Leaders will debate whether HR has the mandate, capability and credibility to lead AI strategy, or whether its greatest value lies in enabling scale, trust and people readiness.

Culture isn’t about perfection, it’s about listening, adjusting, and making space. In this session, step away from the noise to learn how you can create a better collaborative team with the power of presence.

What must humans uniquely bring to the duet? What happens when tech leads without human judgment? How does culture enable or block this collaboration? Learn how CTOs and CHROs together can drive more meaningful impact with AI.

Think you know AI? Think again. Welcome to The AI for HR Quiz Show, a fast-paced, laugh-out-loud, brain-stretching session where HR meets artificial intelligence… and humans still win!
This is not a technical masterclass. This is AI explained the fun way through myths, real-life HR dilemmas, ethical curveballs, and 'wait… is that actually AI?' moments.

Summarising and highlighting key takeaways, powerful statements and insights from the different sessions.

A music-based experience that brings collaboration to life by showing how teams function not as individuals, but as interconnected systems. In this immersive session, participants step into an orchestra-like simulation where every role — leader, contributor, pace-setter, and supporter — directly impacts the collective outcome. There are no instruments required and no musical talent expected — just presence, awareness, and a willingness to listen.

Unconference

In a world of compounding disruption, the organisations that will endure are the ones that bring their people with them. Learn from a real story of a leader who navigated transformation in conditions that had no precedent, a market shock, a merger, a forced pivot, a crisis and had to make consequential people decisions without the comfort of best practice. The session is about judgment under uncertainty: how you decide when the data is incomplete, how you hold the team when the direction keeps shifting, and what you wish you had known before you started.

The pace of business transformation has outrun the pace of people development. Workforce planning cycles that once ran annually now need to run in real time. This session is about what it looks like when HR stops reacting and starts orchestrating — connecting skills data, workforce planning, learning infrastructure, and business priorities into one coherent, fast-moving system. Learn how to build capacity dynamically, redeploying internal talent, running targeted reskilling sprints, and filling critical roles faster using analytics and mobility frameworks

What guides your most critical people decisions? Is it instinct, policy, or a clear philosophy? A company’s talent philosophy is the explicit expression of how it plans to manage people to achieve its strategy. High-performing organisations are explicit about what they believe when it comes to managing talent and those beliefs or the talent philosophy becomes the invisible force shaping culture and performance. In this session, leaders will explore the key behaviours and leadership mindsets that shape fair, consistent talent decisions. Drawing on proven frameworks and principles around performance, potential, and accountability, the keynote offers a fresh lens on how modern leaders lead to inspire confidence, drive engagement, and fuel organisational growth.

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This session explores how leading companies are moving from role-based talent models to internal talent marketplaces, where skills, not job titles, drive deployment, mobility, and growth. CEOs and CHROs will discuss how AI literacy becomes the foundation for faster reskilling, smarter internal mobility, and greater workforce agility, helping organisations fill critical capability gaps from within, improve retention, and respond to change at speed.

To move leaders beyond forecasting the future of work into actively experiencing it. This session invites HR and business leaders to recognise present-day signals, confront uncomfortable shifts, and take responsibility for the future they are already shaping. Hiring without resumes, AI-driven task allocation, Workforce composed of employees + freelancers + AI agents, Provocation Interjections Your org chart is obsolete. What replaces it? AI suggests rejecting your most loyal employee. What do you do?

As Asia’s workforce becomes more age-diverse than ever, organisations must move beyond stereotypes to build truly agile, multigenerational workplaces. This dialogue for change brings together diverse leaders to explore how culture, policies, and talent strategies must evolve to meet differing aspirations, work styles, and expectations across generations. From attracting Gen Z while retaining institutional wisdom, to redesigning learning, performance, flexibility, and career pathways, the panel will examine how organizations can create shared purpose without enforcing uniformity. The conversation will spotlight practical approaches to fostering inclusion, strengthening cross-generational collaboration, and building workplaces that are resilient, relevant, and future-ready.

Why most GenAI deployments stall at experimentation and what it takes to scale. This session throws spotlight on process reimagination, data infrastructure, and ROI tracking.

In a polycrisis world, heavily disrupted by AI, we are witnessing the emergence of the 'Superworker', an individual whose performance is amplified through intelligent collaboration with machines. But this shift raises critical questions. What truly defines a superworker in an AI-enabled workplace? How do organisations redesign roles, performance metrics, and leadership models to unlock augmented human potential? This panel explores how AI is transforming not just workflows, but the very nature of work, talent, and human capability. From reskilling at scale to redefining excellence, we examine what it takes to build a workforce that doesn’t compete with AI but thrives because of it.

For business, tech and talent leaders, one of the biggest challenge in 2026 is how to lead in a world where intelligence is abundant and constantly evolving. As automation accelerates efficiency and decision-making becomes increasingly data-driven, leaders must rethink what truly differentiates their enterprise. This candid, futurist-grounded conversation explores how growth strategies are being rewritten, how workforce models are shifting from headcount to capability, and how leadership itself must evolve. What does responsible growth look like when machines can outperform people in specific domains? How do CXOs balance scale with meaning, productivity with purpose, and innovation with accountability? At its core, this dialogue examines a defining challenge of our time: ensuring that as AI advances, human value does not diminish, it becomes clearer, sharper, and more intentional.

Google and Microsoft announced new commitments collectively amounting to over $32 billion into India's data infrastructure, with OpenAI in advanced discussions with TCS to build AI compute infrastructure. Inc42 Media When hyperscalers land at this scale, they reshape the entire talent market around them, pulling from the same pools that GCCs and IT services firms depend on, raising salary benchmarks, and setting new expectations for what good looks like. This session examines the second-order talent effects of hyperscale investment: how to compete, how to collaborate, and how India's broader tech ecosystem recalibrates.

The conversation about HR's strategic role has been ongoing for two decades. The question is no longer whether HR should create value, it is why so many still don't, and what distinguishes the ones that do. This session examines the structural, skill, and mindset shifts that separate HR functions genuinely driving business outcomes from those still managing processes and defending headcount. With real examples, real metrics, and real leaders who made the transition.

The math has changed. It is no longer human plus machine, it is human multiplied by machine. Organisations taking a tech-focused approach to AI are 1.6x more likely to not realize returns that exceed expectations compared to those taking a human-centric approach. deloitte This session unpacks what it practically means to redesign work around human-AI synergy, layering tools onto existing roles, but reimagining where human judgment ends and machine capability begins. Who owns the output? Who gets the credit? And what does performance look like when your team includes agents?

Most workforce planning is built on the assumption that the future will be a faster version of the present. It won't be. The convergence of agentic AI, demographic shifts, geopolitical realignment, and the collapse of traditional career structures is creating a future that requires HR leaders to think in scenarios, not projections to build workforces that can navigate multiple possible worlds rather than execute a single predetermined plan. This conversation with a thinker operating at the frontier of what is emerging invites the room to look further than the quarterly planning cycle and ask the harder question: what kind of human beings does the future of work require, and what are we doing today to build them? A conversation that expands the frame at exactly the moment when the conference is about to send everyone back to their desks.

Transformation fails when change isn't embedded. How do CHROs institutionalise new behaviours, build a culture of accountability, and treat culture as a product?

When an AI agent contributes meaningfully to a business outcome, who gets the reward and how does that change the conversation about human performance and pay? Reward systems need a complete overhaul, tied to skill sets and real contributions to projects rather than formal positions. This session explores how total rewards leaders are beginning to grapple with what recognition and compensation mean when the unit of performance is no longer a single human in a single role, but a human-AI pairing operating across fluid assignments.

By 2040, your digital/robot avatar might represent you at work, attending meetings, engaging colleagues, and executing tasks.
We discuss: What jobs could avatars truly perform vs where humans still lead, Leadership of virtual teams made up of avatars, and, Ethical ownership, accountability, and identity in avatar representation.

High-capability talent teams cut time-to-fill critical roles by 17–18 days. How do analytics, mobility frameworks, and emerging tech separate best-in-class from the rest?

From micro-credentialing AI literacy to green operations, how do companies embed learning into the flow of work and measure capability value, not just completion?
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Decision-making is getting complicated. AI is increasingly influencing organisational decisions and authority, treating decision-making as a strategic discipline, and intentionally designing how humans and AI share judgment and accountability, is important to maintaining trust and protecting human agency. deloitte This session tackles accountability head-on: who decides when the model is wrong, who owns the outcome when a machine and a human both contributed, and how leadership authority evolves in a world where algorithms have influence without titles.

Most organisations are not making this decision deliberately. They are drifting into it — hiring reactively when a gap becomes visible, launching a training programme because it looks responsible, or outsourcing because it is faster — without a coherent framework for when each approach is right and what the long-term talent consequences of each choice actually are.
This session is about making that decision intentionally.

What if digitally native currencies became the norm for compensation, bonuses, and rewards across workplaces in Southeast Asia? What happens when following becomes a reality: Crypto/ token-based incentives for freelancers and gig workers, Payroll in stablecoins vs local currency and Employer reputation economies and token reputation wallets. This futuristic conversation is linked with the current Reality, where Crypto payments and digital wallets are already expanding in remittances and digital finance systems today.

Learn through diverse case studies how some of the leading organisations are driving business growth with a human and tech edge.

It’s time to move from conversation to creation. In this high-energy hackathon, teams will take one broken HR process and reimagine it through the lens of the new HR Operating System (HROS). Using systems thinking, automation concepts, and AI tools, participants will rebuild their workflows for speed, intelligence, and human impact—then pitch their prototype in just five minutes. Collaborate, compete, and co-create the next generation of HR. Takeaway: A rapid-prototyped HROS Process Map—your first blueprint for HR reinvention.

India is sitting at the centre of a demand-supply mismatch that no amount of optimism will resolve on its own. Demand for AI talent is likely to cross one million roles by 2026, yet the country faces an AI skill deficit of nearly 53%, making large-scale upskilling a business necessity, not just an HR goal. Taggd This session is built for CHROs and capability leaders who need to act now — covering how GCCs are redesigning their learning architecture, partnering with universities, and building internal AI fluency programmes that move faster than the external talent market can supply.

Here at the People Matters TechHR Startup Program, we're bringing together emerging innovators ready to tackle your most pressing workplace challenges. Get ready to roll up your sleeves, because these aren't just ideas – they're actionable strategies and tech solutions to help you drive growth for your people and your business.

Most large organisations have GenAI running somewhere. Almost none have it running at the scale that changes business performance. The pilots worked. The enterprise rollout didn't. This session is for-company leaders who are past the experimentation phase and stuck at the scaling wall, examining why the gap between proof of concept and enterprise value is so persistent, and what it actually takes to cross it. Covers the three things that kill GenAI at scale that nobody wants to admit: change resistance dressed up as governance concern, data infrastructure that was never built for this, and a workforce that was told AI was coming but never told what to do with it. Practical, specific, and built for leaders who are tired of being sold transformation and need to deliver it.

Most organisations have a succession process. Very few have succession readiness. The spreadsheet exists. The nine-box exists. The annual talent review exists. And then a critical leader leaves and the organisation either promotes someone who wasn't ready or goes outside and pays a premium for someone who doesn't know the business. GCCs are hiring at unprecedented scale, creating 4.25 to 4.5 lakh jobs this year alone, yet leadership localisation remains a critical gap, with nearly 80% of GCCs having less than 10% of leadership roles based in India (Taggd report). This session names what is actually broken in succession: the conflation of high performance with leadership potential, the pipeline that is diverse on paper and homogeneous in practice, the feedback that never gets given, and the development that never happens between review cycles. Then it shows what fixing it looks like — with leaders who have done it in real organisations under real pressure.

Through real scenarios, hands-on activities, and proven frameworks, participants will learn how to balance AI-driven efficiency with human judgment, build confidence among employees, and create HR practices that are fair, clear, and trustworthy. Learn what’s working, what to watch out for, and how to build an AI-ready approach rooted firmly in people and integrity.

Immerse yourself in a hands-on exploration of what it takes to build a team of intelligent and highly capable HR leaders. In this workshop, designed for HR leaders, we will define the 6 factors that differentiate strong HR team members and the 8 Steps To High Performance.

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