We begin Day 1 by setting the tone for what lies ahead

Conversations that challenge norms, ideas that inspire action, and a community that’s shaping the next era of work. This session is designed to align everyone on the vision driving this year’s gathering.

Benchmarking India’s People Leaders in 2025

HR professionals are often the stewards of pay equity for everyone else, but when it comes to their own pay, the ranges are vague, opaque, and contentious. In this candid session, we’ll dive into actual salary data across metro vs non-metro, government vs private, and startup vs enterprise. We’ll understand how to negotiate variable pay, stock, and perks. The goal? Empower HR leaders to ask for what they deserve, armed with market insight and a framework.

You invested in training, upskilling, and development , and yet, your best talent walked out the door. What went wrong? In this masterclass, we’ll explore the great mystery of employee retention: why your best efforts to develop your people still ended in a “See ya later!” We'll take a hilarious and brutally honest look at what really keeps employees from jumping ship

What AI Can (and Can’t) Do in Hiring

AI promises to make hiring faster, cheaper, and more precise: it can sieve through thousands of résumés, auto-score candidates, engage with queries, and flag bias trends. But beneath that promise lie blind spots , culture, nuance, explainability, cross-cultural fairness, and AI’s own hidden preferences. In this session, we peel back the hype and show HR leaders where AI is a powerful assistant , and where it must never be trusted alone. Walk away with a maturity roadmap: how to safely partner AI with human judgment rather than letting it gatekeep your talent.

How HR's Obsession with Data Is Killing Innovation

OKRs, KPIs, dashboards, HR swears by them. But what happens when the very metrics you chase flatten the real impact? That content marketer tied to demand-gen numbers? Their true influence lies in quality, resonance, and reputation , all maddeningly subjective. When metrics fail to capture nuance, HR risks misjudging talent, burning out innovators, and rewarding only the easily quantifiable. We're measuring the measurable and missing the magic. This session asks: how do you measure the unmeasurable without reducing everything to noise?

Yes, AI can churn out policies faster than any HR team. But when algorithms start drafting the rules of work, what gets lost? Context? Compassion? Common sense? This session throws open the debate on whether AI-written policies are the future of HR or just a fast track to a cold, cultureless workplace. If you've ever wondered where efficiency ends and empathy begins, this conversation will hit you where it hurts... and where it matters.

Let's demo 10 AI tools every HR leader must have in their stack, covering recruiting, onboarding, compliance, performance management, and employee experience. Walk away with a vetted shortlist and a roadmap to deploy them without breaking trust, budgets, or culture.

How to stay relevant in the next 3 years

You don't need to become a techie- but you do need to become fluent. Listen to personal roadmaps from CHROs who have made the leap.

Building an Employee Listening Strategy that Actually Works

From predicting flight risk to decoding mood swings, this session explores next-gen tools that help you listen between the lines of your workforce. Ready to build a listening strategy that goes beyond the surface? Let’s talk predictive analytics, sentiment tracking, and understanding what your people actually want before they take flight.

Building a New HR Scorecard That Actually Matters

Identifying and reporting the metrics that CEOs actually listen to.