Celebrating Work

A Whole New World

A Global CEO's Perspective

Timely and authentic recognition has emerged as a strategic driver of engagement, morale, and performance in today’s dynamic workplace. This session explores how recognition shapes leadership behaviors and reinforces organizational values. It also examines how technology and AI are helping make recognition more meaningful, measurable, and human at scale.

An Improv comedy show on workplaces

SHRM India Unveils Landmark Research on Agentic AI and the Future of Work in Collaboration with Google Cloud and Quantiphi

India HR Salary Benchmarking Report 2025

As talent increasingly chooses employers before applying, hiring is being redefined. This session explores how leading organizations build a modern hiring stack - anchored in authentic employer branding, employee voice, and AI-driven decision-making that enhances speed, trust, and culture, offering practical insights to attract and engage right-fit talent at scale.

Talent Strategies for the Future of Work

CXOs on Culture & the New Code of Work

Financial anxiety has become a silent productivity killer across India’s workforce, and organizations are realizing that pay alone doesn’t create financial confidence. This session explores how financial well-being has evolved from a 'nice-to-have' benefit to a strategic HR priority that directly impacts retention, productivity, and employer brand.

In today’s dynamic, distributed workplaces, collaboration is the cornerstone of a strong culture. This session explores how empathy, inclusion, and shared purpose come alive through team rituals and recognition, and what leaders are learning about co-creation, trust-building, and people-first practices that drive connection, performance, and collective success.

In this interactive masterclass, SHRM unveils the new HRX Model for HR Excellence - a cutting-edge framework that defines how HR functions can evolve from operational efficiency to strategic impact. Building on SHRM’s latest global research, this session explores what is Agentic AI and how it can help organizations fast-track their HR maturity journey. This engaging session will demonstrate how Agentic AI can move beyond automation to become an intelligent collaborator - one that senses, reasons, and acts to optimize HR performance. Through interactive discussions, mini-workshop exercises, and peer insights, participants will:

• Understand HR maturity excellence model and its impact on business performance
• Explore practical Agentic AI use cases across talent, learning, analytics, and organizational strategy
• Design a roadmap to harness AI as a catalyst for HR excellence and sustainable business impact

This workshop-mode masterclass is ideal for forward-thinking HR leaders seeking to move from transformation to true intelligence — where technology doesn’t just support HR, it helps lead it.

AI is no longer a promise for HR, but a practice shaping talent, engagement, and performance today. This masterclass will showcase the true power of AI with live demonstrations, share success stories and dominant use cases, and provide practical guidance on building an AI First HR organization. The path forward is clear. CHROs and HR leaders must evolve into architects of a frontier workforce where humans and AI collaborate to unlock scale and innovation.

• Understand what it really means to align culture with strategy
• Culture as a Strategic Accelerator
• Gain clarity on which legacy practices may hinder strategic agility
• See how specific cultural choices can directly accelerate business outcomes

• Bridging the Gap for New Graduates: Degrees alone aren't enough-finance employers seek candidates with practical, job-ready skills from day one.
• Future-Proofing Finance Teams: Investing in skills development today builds resilient, adaptable teams ready for evolving financial technologies and regulations.
• Hiring for Potential: Prioritize problem-solving skills and commercial acumen - opening doors for adaptable talent from diverse backgrounds.

• From Diversity to Experience: How organizations can move beyond diversity metrics to create meaningful, personalized employee experiences that drive engagement and retention.
• Technology as an Enabler: The role of unified HCM and digital tools in fostering equitable opportunities, transparent communication, and connected workplace cultures.
• Shaping the Future Workforce: Using data, AI, and automation to shape adaptive, inclusive workforce strategies aligned with evolving business models.

• Championing continuous learning, unlearning, and reinvention
• Redefining talent beyond traditional labels
• Creating ecosystems that enable adaptive growth at every level

Charismatic leaders often appear charming and inspirational, but charisma can mask important performance risks. This session explores the dark side of leadership charisma and the related personality derailers that can undermine success. Using real-world examples of charismatic leaders, attendees will learn about dark-side personality characteristics and practical strategies to recognize, manage, and mitigate leadership risks before they become a problem.

• From Automation to Autonomy: How agentic AI is shifting work from task execution to intelligent decision-making.
• Human + Machine Synergy: Redefining collaboration, creativity, and control in AI-driven workplaces.
• Ethics and Empowerment: Balancing trust, transparency, and accountability in the age of autonomous intelligence.

• Beyond Bureaucracy: Reimagining employee experience to drive purpose, pride, and performance.
• Digital and Cultural Transformation: Leveraging technology and mindset shifts to modernize engagement.
• Future-Ready Workforce: Building agility, continuous learning, and leadership for the next era of public service.

• Risk vs. Reward: Balancing employer brand visibility with potential reputational risks in candidate screening and outreach.
• The New Background Check: Leveraging social media insights ethically and effectively in hiring decisions.
• From Hashtags to Hires: Using social platforms strategically to attract, engage, and retain top talent.

• Why most Gen AI pilots stall — and what it takes to move from experimentation to enterprise adoption.
• How CHROs are balancing innovation, ethics, and workforce readiness in the age of AI.
• Building the foundations for scale: data, integrations, governance, and human-centered design.
• Real stories and frameworks from leaders transforming HR and business operations through agentic AI.

This fireside chat will highlight how academia and industry can collaborate to develop industry-ready professionals, and address the hiring and skills challenges emerging in today’s dynamic environment.

• Stay competitive in a shifting talent market: Benchmarking ensures your pay practices attract and retain top talent.
• Expose and close pay gaps before they become brand risks: Uncovers pay gaps, promotes fairness, and strengthens employer brand.
• Align compensation with business strategy and market movement: Enables agile decision-making in fast-changing talent landscapes.

• Stay Ahead of Rapid Skill Shifts: Understand how AI is transforming work at the task level and why keeping up with skill demands requires new, agile approaches.
• Unlock Workforce Intelligence: Learn how to turn fragmented skill data into a unified, actionable view that supports faster, smarter talent decisions.
• Amplify HR's Impact with AI: Explore how AI & digital agents can deliver personalized development at scale, enabling HR to drive change without increasing headcount.

• Beyond Motivation: R&R as a driver of revenue, productivity, and retention.
• Measurable Impact: Linking R&R to KPIs like sales, satisfaction, and performance.
• Recognition that Reinforces: Shifting from emotional rewards to behavior-based outcomes.
• Strategic Fit: Aligning R&R with business goals for measurable results.

• Holistic Health: Integrating physical, mental, and financial wellbeing into one strategy.
• Culture of Care: Embedding wellbeing into leadership, policies, and everyday work.
• Sustainable Performance: Linking employee wellbeing to productivity, retention, and growth.

Financial Wellness is no longer a nice-to-have for HR, but one of the biggest differentiators for companies closing the gap between employer priorities and employee needs. This workshop will provide practical guidance on how to help employees put their money to work to cover their needs and build their legacy. Democratize access to financial advice with Nobias, a SEBI RIA - from budgeting to goal-based investing - all delivered in one modern platform. Solve your greatest business challenges with Financial wellness.

A high-tea where global leaders connect over the future of work, AI, and a cup of India’s finest hospitality.

(Exclusively for LinkedIn invitees)

Session Overview

• Explore how AI is reshaping leadership capabilities
• Hands-on workshop with real-world case studies
• Interactive skill-building exercises

Session Overview

• Learn to leverage data for strategic HR decisions
• Tools and techniques for workforce analytics
• Practical examples and live demonstrations