Work Exponentiated by Technology

In a world transformed, we are facing unprecedented disruption. The future is filled with Volatility however, one thing stands out clearly – Tomorrow belongs to those who leverage Human Potential Exponentiated by Technology.

SHRM Tech is recognized as the definitive platform for identifying path breaking innovations, evolving people practices and cutting-edge technologies that shape Work, the Worker and the Workplace. Join #SHRMTech21 to explore the solutions and big ideas that will define success in the new world of work.

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WHY ATTEND #SHRMTech21

Learn about the latest and most relevant WorkTechsolutions and their impact on people practices at SHRMTech’21. Here’s what you’ll take back:

Confidence to navigate the future
Get Up close with Global Thought Leaders & Experts
Exponential Learning
Brave the new world with confidence and tools
Real and practical solutions that you can apply
Leverage technologies that will shape our workplaces
Peer Learning & networking
Showcase of the best and latest technologies at the hyper-interactive virtual expo

Work Exponentiated - Themes defining Worktech

Create your personalized learning experience. Attend parallel session on the key themes that are Exponentiating work

DECODING WORKTECH

Welcome to The New Frontier! Join sessions in this exciting track to get up close with breakthrough tech applications and solutions at our ever evolving workplaces. Welcome to the future of HR Tech and experience the Power of Work exponentiated by tech

AI POWERED TALENT

The future is all about viewing Talent as nucleus of [email protected] In this track we bring you sessions that focus on the Talent Lifecycle and AI’s role in augmenting the talent landscape like never before!

DIGITAL LEAP

The Evolving business landscape has led to a Talent Rejig. Automation and Big Data are paving the way for a shift in Jobs and skills alike in every field and sector. A Digitally savvy workforce is the way forward. In this track we explore the shifts that lie ahead and how we can we be prepared for the Digital Leap.

FLUID WORK MODELS

While defining workforce as Hybrid, Gig, Remote, Transient have become part of our everyday vocabulary. With Shifting work models questions around Optimising and managing Talent, role of technology in creating an engaged workforce in this emerging & evolving framework, addressing wellbeing, re-imagining Performance Management Models; Organisation Culture & much more, need to be answered. Get them all here!

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Learn the latest in WorkTech and how to leverage it for meaningful outcomes

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#SHRMTech21 SPEAKERS

Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., SHRM-SCP

President & CEO, SHRM

Ken Blanchard

Co-Founder & Chief Spiritual Officer, The Ken Blanchard Companies

Ken Blanchard

Co-Founder & Chief Spiritual Officer, The Ken Blanchard Companies

With a passion to turn every leader into a servant leader, Ken Blanchard shares his insightful and powerful message with audiences around the world through speeches, consulting services, and bestselling books. Universally characterized by his friends, colleagues, and clients as one of the most influential and compassionate leadership experts in the world, Ken is respected for his lifetime of groundbreaking research and thought leadership. In fact, few people have influenced the day-to-day management of people and companies more than Ken Blanchard.

When Ken speaks, he speaks from the heart with warmth and humor. No matter how large the audience, he is able to communicate with each person as if the two of them were alone and talking one on one. Ken is a sophisticated storyteller with a knack for making the seemingly complex easy to understand.

Dr. Ken Blanchard is the cofounder and Chief Spiritual Officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies®, an international management training and consulting firm that he and his wife, Margie Blanchard, began in 1979 in San Diego, California. In addition to being a renowned speaker and consultant, Ken is a trustee emeritus of the Board of Trustees at his alma mater, Cornell University, and he also teaches students in the Master of Science in Executive Leadership Program at the University of San Diego.

Ken’s impact as an author is far reaching. His iconic 1982 classic, The One Minute Manager®, coauthored with Spencer Johnson, has sold more than 13 million copies and remains on bestseller lists today. In the past three decades he has authored or coauthored 60 books whose combined sales total more than 21 million copies. His groundbreaking works-including Raving Fans, The Secret, and Leading at a Higher Level, to name just a few—have been translated into more than 42 languages. In 2005 Ken was inducted into Amazon’s Hall of Fame as one of the top 25 bestselling authors of all time.

Ken has received many awards and honors for his contributions in the fields of management, leadership, and speaking. The National Speakers Association awarded him its highest honor, the Council of Peers Award of Excellence. He was inducted into the HRD Hall of Fame by Training magazine and Lakewood Conferences, and he received the Golden Gavel award from Toastmasters International. Ken also received the Thought Leadership Award for continued support of work-related learning and performance by ISA, The Association of Learning Providers.

Born in New Jersey and raised in New York, Ken received his master’s degree from Colgate University and his bachelor’s and doctorate degrees from Cornell University.

Nitin Rakesh

CEO, Mphasis

Nitin Rakesh

CEO, Mphasis

Nitin Rakesh, a distinguished leader in the IT services industry, joined Mphasis as its Chief Executive Officer and Director in January 2017.

In the first year of taking on the mantle as the CEO of Mphasis, Nitin introduced Mphasis’ C= X2C2 =1TM formula for success, (hyper-personalization; drive n=1 powered by Cloud & Cognitive); driving multi-dimensions of business value with an integrated consumer-centric Front2BackTM Digital Transformation, enabling Business Operations, Technology Transformation and Service Transformation, driven by IP assets.

Under Nitin’s leadership, Mphasis set a record of highest deal wins in the history of the company, thus re-defining benchmarks and growing above industry rate. Mphasis' stock price observed an increase of 4x, in four years and revenue from digital projects increased substantially. His laser focus on quadra dimensional growth – consistent, profitable, competitive and responsible, led to enhanced shareholder value. His motto to accelerate value creation for customers, shareholders and employees builds a growth-focused culture within the company.

Prior to joining Mphasis, Nitin Rakesh was the Chief Executive Officer and President of Syntel (a NASDAQ listed IT Services Company). Nitin has a proven track record of delivering profitable growth at industry leading operating margins. Before he was appointed as the CEO, he served as President, Americas for Syntel, where he headed Business Development and North American operations.

Nitin has deep domain expertise in Banking, Financial Services and Insurance verticals. He has strong customer-orientation, large deal experience, and a track record of delivering transformative digital solutions. Nitin has an entrepreneurial mindset and is focused on launching innovative new service offerings, including in automation.

Nitin served at Syntel in various capacities (most recently as the CEO) between 2012 to 2016 and also before that between 2002 to 2008.

Between 2008 to 2012, he served as the CEO and Managing Director of Motilal Oswal Asset Management Company. During his tenure, the company was named "Most Innovative ETF, Asia Pacific" at the 2011 ETF Awards in New York, and the "Most Innovative Mutual Fund, India" in 2010 at the Crisil - S&P Mutual Fund Awards. He is one of the first 250 CEOs globally across 26 countries who has committed to build an inclusive work environment, end disability inequality through business performance and create social and economic value of people living with disabilities across the world. In addition, he has worked with the TCG Group, a transnational private equity and investments firm as the Head of Banking & Financial Services Sales at TCG Software Services between 1999 to 2002

Earlier in his career, Nitin worked for Unit Trust of India, setting up offshore mutual funds and secondary Market Research Cell, Product Development and Risk Management divisions.

Recently, Nitin co-authored an award winning book, ’Transformation in Times of Crisis- Eight Principles for Creating Opportunities and Value in the Post- Pandemic World’, a business playbook for leaders and businesses to transform a crisis into an opportunity. The book has been recognized as ‘Best Business Book’ in the ‘Publication Award Category’ of American Business Awards and has won the International Business Book title at 2021 Business Book Awards. Recently, Nitin won the 2021 American Business Awards®- Management Awards - Bronze Stevie under the ‘Tech Innovator of the Year – Services’ category. In the past, he has been recognized with ‘2019 American Business Awards & International Business Awards – Gold Stevie’ under the ‘Tech Innovator of the Year – Services’ category. The 2018 International Business Awards and American Business Awards 2018 recognized Nitin as ‘Executive of the Year - Computer Services’, felicitating him with Gold Stevie under the Management award category. Nitin recently won the ‘2018 Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business’ Award, recognizing him for the innovative growth strategy translating Mphasis into one of the fastest growing digital companies.

Nitin is also an active member of various institutions globally, such as US – India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) driving financial services council and business relations between US and India. He is the member of the NASSCOM executive council. He is also on the advisory board of the [email protected], The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania’s driving digital transformation discussions at grass root level. He is a member of The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) CEO Council and an industry expert and practitioner with the Forbes Technology Council (FTC). Nitin globally advises their readers on current, as well as future, technologies and trends.

Nitin is a founding member of Plaksha University, a new model of engineering education and research through collective philanthropy to transform higher education in India.

Nitin holds a Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Computer Science) from Delhi Institute of Technology, Delhi University and has received his Master’s in Management from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai and is also an alumni of Harvard Business School’s CEO Workshop.

Kabir Bedi

Bollywood & Hollywood Actor & Author

Betty Thompson

Executive VP & Chief People Officer, Booz Allen Hamilton

Betty Thompson

Executive VP & Chief People Officer, Booz Allen Hamilton

Betty serves as Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer at Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) and a member of its Leadership Team. In this role, she oversees the people services functions and strategy for a global workforce of more than 27,000 people.

Since joining the firm in 2008, Betty has been instrumental to Booz Allen’s workforce transformation as the firm has deepened investments in innovation, advanced technology, and highly skilled talent and reshaped its portfolio toward mission-critical, high-margin solutions.

A pioneer in human capital strategy, Betty drives forward-leaning workforce initiatives with a particular focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), culture and change, holistic employee wellness, employee engagement, and technical skill building. She led a complete reimagining of the firm’s employee value proposition and executive talent management processes, as well as the reshaping of recruitment, retention, and development programs. Under her leadership, Booz Allen has received numerous awards and recognitions for its workplace, culture, employer brand, DEI, and more.

Her prior corporate experience includes VP, Human Resources at Fannie Mae (1993 – 2008) and several senior Human Resource positions at IBM.

Betty holds a Master of Science degree in Human Resources and Personnel Management from American University in Washington, D.C. and is SHRM-SCP certified. She is member of the Board of Directors for SHRM, a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), and a founding member of Chief DC. She was recognized in 2019 as a Top 10 HR Exec to Watch by Washington Executive and in 2015 with the Activist Woman of Excellence Award by the National Association of Female Executive.

Sally Hornick Anderson

Workforce Diversity Director, Google

Aron J. Ain

Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of the Board of Directors, (UKG), Ultimate Kronos Group

Tim Sackett, SPHR, SCP

CEO, HRU Technical Resources & Top 10 Global HR Tech Infuencer

Jason Lauritsen

Key Note Speaker, Trainer & Author

Peter C. Evans

Managing Partner, Platform Strategy Institute & Course Leader, CalTech Executive Education

Pritha Mehra

CIO-Business & Technology Transformation Leader, United States Postal Service

Pritha Mehra

CIO-Business & Technology Transformation Leader, United States Postal Service

A catalyst for industry-defining innovation, Pritha oversees one of the world’s largest technology infrastructures. With breadth and depth of expertise across a range of verticals, from marketing to technology, she has been tapped to steward critical change in every role of her career. Today she serves as the Chief Information Officer of the United States Postal Service, where she is working to re-envision and transform the enterprise for greater performance and innovation at scale.

Pritha currently is focused on modernizing the USPS CIO organization to meet the demands of an increasingly competitive market environment, overseeing an operation that processes more than 90 petabytes of data a year. Recognized for her political savvy in a public organization that must perform like a private company, she builds win-win collaborations in a highly matrixed environment. As Vice President of Information Technology at USPS, she oversaw the organizational restructuring and evolution to Enterprise Architecture frameworks that embrace Cloud/Edge, Event Streaming, DevSecOps, Machine Learning, and AI models to drive its strategic goals for industry-leading customer experience, team collaboration, and performance. Pritha broke through silos and significantly boosted cross-organization collaboration through the introduction of future of work platforms, a multi-cloud environment, and modern collaboration tools, as well as stewarded a new focus on highly-skilled technologists from IT generalists.

Prior to that, as Vice President of Mail Entry and Payment Technology, she transformed the USPS business enterprise and mailing industry. Pritha oversaw widescale product and service innovations for end-to-end customer visibility and evolution to a modern mail supply chain, including electronic manifests, verification, and payment systems contributing to an annual of more than $40B revenue, $200M savings, more than $100M short paid revenue capture, and boosting customer satisfaction from a low 70% to 96%.

Pritha has been honored with numerous awards, including recognition for superior achievement and the Postmaster General Award., as well as being named a Top Boss in IT by Fedscoop in 2021. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from the University of Maryland and a Master of Business Administration degree from Georgetown University. She is a Lean Six Sigma Executive Green Belt.

Gianni Giacomelli

Chief Innovation Officer, Genpact

Gianni Giacomelli

Chief Innovation Officer, Genpact

Gianni Giacomelli serves as Chief Innovation Officer at Genpact. In this role, he drives and sponsors Genpact’s strategic initiatives aimed at sustaining clients’ transformation as digitally enabled companies. These initiatives include design-driven digital transformation initiatives and methods that take into account the human and organizational side of technological change.

He also plays a leading innovation role in Genpact’s initiative with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to establish a Collective Intelligence Design Lab aimed at exploring and designing combined people-machine groups that are able to generate radical innovation. Mr. Giacomelli is widely published and quoted, and is a frequent speaker at trade conferences. He has authored several scientific papers in collaboration with MIT researchers and is an active blogger on digital and workplace topics. In addition to leading many of Genpact’s portfolio extensions leveraging technology and analytics, Gianni chaired and launched Genpact’s Research Institute and was one of the main architects of the revolutionary Lean Digital approach intended to harness the power of digital technology in business operations. He joined Genpact in 2010 to lead New Product Innovation and also served as Chief Marketing Officer for three years.

His career spans more than 24 years across innovation strategy, marketing, and transformation consulting with global and emerging leaders in professional services (such as Boston Consulting Group, Everest and Datamonitor) and software (SAP). He started his career in marketing analytics with the Danone Group.

He holds a post-graduate degree in organizational and social behavior from the London School of Economics and a business administration degree from the EME Strasbourg Business School and the University of Florence. He has completed advanced education programs on innovation at Harvard University and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Gianni has lived in seven countries across Europe, North America and Asia.

Alexander Alonso, Ph.D, SHRM-SCP

Chief Knowledge Officer, SHRM

Kim Seeling Smith

Founder & CEO, Ignite Global

Achal Khanna

CEO, SHRM India, APAC & MENA

Dr. Ardhendu Pathak

Partner Management Alignment Partners, & Co-founder Koinvent Business Solution

Ashwani Prashara

CHRO, RIL - Hydrocarbons

Minaxi Indra

President, upGrad for Business

Stacey Harris

Chief Research Officer, Managing Partner, Sapient Insights

Kamal Dutta

Managing Director India, Skillsoft

Amaresh Singh

CHRO, GE South Asia

Ruchika Panesar

VP, Head of Technology, Asia Pacific, American Express

Ruchika Panesar

VP, Head of Technology, Asia Pacific, American Express

Ruchika Panesar is Vice President, CTO & Global Consumer Services Group, Head of Technology, Asia Pacific at American Express. Ruchika is also Director on the American Express India Pvt Ltd and American Express Banking Corporation company Boards and member of the India Leadership Team.

Ruchika is a deep Technologist and an inspiring Global Digital leader. With over 2 decades of experience in Product and Platform architecture and Engineering, she leads her Global teams to grow in their contributions, engineering muscle and innovations.

As part of her global role, Ruchika leads an engineering team across several locations responsible for Enterprise Communications and Conversational Intelligence. She is responsible for building products and platforms for the company that engage and delight our customers across the communication touch points and digital experiences in their membership journey. She is also responsible for research, development and engineering in partnership with Amex Labs. These capabilities are critical to backing American Express’s strong customer first approach. Ruchika’s Asia Pacific team is responsible for partnering with the region propreitary businesses and the American Express China JV to build best in class technology solutions along the Payments landscape and regulatory value chain and to provide technical intelligence and innovation.

One of her milestone roles, was Chief of Staff to the company’s Global CIO, where she was an integral part of the Global Technology Leadership Team based out of New York. As part of the role, she contributed to a range of strategic initiatives, including the company’s Global Technology Strategy, operating model, and numerous other critical strategies. In her prior roles, Ruchika has led innovation in launching products and platforms across the customer lifecycle, as well as led disruptive tech COEs in the Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning and Automation space.

Being a purpose driven leader, she passionately leads several causes that matter. As the leader of the Amex India’s Flagship Inclusion & Diversity program, she champions the vision.

She has been instrumental in expanding the program beyond Gender and include critically important pillars like Generations, LGBTQ and Differently Abled & Mental Health, thereby bringing in a true and holistic culture of Inclusion & Diversity. She is passionate about STEM education and is an active voice for ‘Women In Technology’ networks both inside and outside of American Express.

Ruchika’s rich experience and passion for Engineering & People fuels her mantra to be inspiringly ambitious for herself and others in the organization as she relentlessly coaches, motivates and empowers her family she calls – Team Amex!

Dr Shalini Sarin

Co-Founder & Executive Director, Elektromobilitat

Gaurav Lahiri

Partner - Leader, Human Capital Consulting, Deloitte

Yashwant Mahadik

President - Global HR, Lupin

Yashwant Mahadik

President - Global HR, Lupin

Yashwant Mahadik (Yash) a seasoned global HR professional with over 30 years of experience in top-notch multinational corporations. Has established a track record of success in all his roles and assignments. His experience is diverse and varies across industries/sectors (Technology, Consumer and Healthcare) and geographies (India, UK, Japan, USA, ASEAN and Europe).

His strengths and areas of expertise include; Strategy (Business, Workforce and HR functional), HR and Business Transformation, Leadership Development, Organization and Culture building, Capability Building, Workforce Design & Planning, Talent Management and Succession Planning, Merger/Acquisition Integration and Executive Coaching. He has led/is leading global transformation programs and initiatives in J&J, Philips, SunPharma and Lupin at enterprise level. He is proficient and enthusiastic about evolving social and digital technologies and has a strong presence on social media platforms such as Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook, etc and has a blog of his own (www.yashmahadik.com). He is recognized amongst top 50 most powerful HR professionals coming from India and is a leading HR thought leader who has worked in association with leading academicians in USA for conceptualizing and executing global strategic initiatives in areas of Human Resource Management.

Has a very high social (development sector) orientation - believes in sharing his earnings and time with social developmental causes related to education for the underprivileged. Is an avid golfer and enjoys travelling and reading. He is a very keen photographer and is a creator of many professional level, highly creative images using digital photography equipment and technologies. He is incubating his new and personal venture "Yash Mahadik Photography" in dedication of a noble wildlife conservation cause.

Sumeet Doshi

Country Manager - India, UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group)

R. Swaminathan

Chief People Officer, WNS Group

Dr. C. Jayakumar

Executive VP & Head - CHRO, Larsen & Toubro

Aadesh Goyal

Executive VP & CHRO, Tata Communications Ltd.

Aadesh Goyal

Executive VP & CHRO, Tata Communications Ltd.

Aadesh is an industry veteran and a global business leader with experience in P&L Management, Human Resources, Software Engineering, Operations, Product Management, Information Technology, Corporate Communication and Program Management. He has performed global roles spread over 5 continents.

He is considered as a thought leader in Human Resources, and was instrumental in designing and implementing various practices and systems, that became the benchmark of the IT industry in the 90s and enabled Hughes Software Systems (later Flextronics Software Systems, and now Aricent Technologies), a public company, to have an excellent brand as an employer and be amongst the Best Employers several times. He has significant experience in transformation, change and digital transformation.

Aadesh has been involved in more than a dozen M&A as well as played a key role in the integration of these companies spread across multiple countries. Since 2010, he is the Executive Vice President and the CHRO at Tata Communications, a leading global provider of a new world of communications, with employees in 40 countries and customers in 200 countries. In the last four years, Tata Communications has been rated as a 'Best Employer' and 'Great Place To Work' multiple times in several countries including Canada, Hong Kong, India, and Singapore. The company has also been rated as a Best Employer for Women.

As a Member of the Global Management Committee of Tata Communications, he is keenly involved in the development of the strategy of the company. He is also the Chief Ethics Officer of the company. He also has a business responsibility for Tata Communications Payment Solutions Limited, and serves as its Chairman. He is also a Director on the Board of Tata Communications Transformation Services Limited. In addition, he is also the global head for Environment, Occupational Health and Safety as well as Corporate Social Responsibility and Administration.

He was an angel investor and Director on the Board of PeopleStrong HR Services and then served as the Chairman and CEO during 2008-09. Aadesh has been an investor as well as Advisor and Board Director in multiple start-up companies. Prior to this, Aadesh worked with Hughes Software Systems for 16 years where he had joined as a part of the start-up team. He was also a Director on the Board of this public listed company. He played several roles including Global Head of HR, CEO of its BPO Business, Head of the Software Engineering Centre (leading a team of 3000 engineers), Product Manager for Soft Switch, led IT as the CIO and Corporate Communication.

He was also the Chief Ethics Officer at Hughes Software Systems and a Member of the Global Compliance Committee, and played a key role in developing the culture, which became one of biggest strengths of the company. After completing a Master's degree in Management from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Aadesh joined Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) which helped create a strong platform in the Indian telecom sector, and helped seed the telecom revolution. He started as an executive assistant to Sam Pitroda and later performed roles in Human Resources and Partner Program.

Over the last 20 years, Aadesh has been an active volunteer in a variety of roles. These include industry associations like Confederation of Indian Industry, National Association of Software Companies, and National HRD Network and involved in various roles including Task Forces. He has also served on the Boards/Advisory Boards of several educational institutes including Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology, Delhi School of Economics (MHROD) and Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management. He is a member of the Advisory Board of World Forum for Ethics in Business that's headquartered in Brussels.

Aadesh has a passion for community service and has been an active volunteer with The Art of Living since 2000. He has been involved in several community projects, served in several administrative capacities, and organized large events attended by more than 100,000 people. As a Trustee of Sri Sri Ayurveda from 2012 to 2017, he was keenly involved in the propagation of Aryuveda as wholistic life style system as well as for medical purposes. He is also an International Teacher of the Happiness Program of Art of Living that includes Yoga. He was the Co-chairperson of the Global Leadership Forum, an international conference held in Delhi in 2016 which had 3500 delegates and 100+ speakers including 35 Heads of State (present and former).

He has won several awards - In 1991-92, received the 'Great Contribution Award' from the Union Minister of Communications for contribution towards the success of the C-DOT Mission;
Was featured on the cover of Business Today magazine in 1999;
Received the Top5-CIO Award by the CIO Magazine in 2001 for being the best in Innovative use of Information Technology for Human Resource Development;
Was featured on the cover of CIO magazine in 2001;
Was awarded and recognized as the Best HR Head in India by National HRD Network in 2002;
Was chosen by HSS employees for various awards.

Aadesh lives in Delhi with his wife. His children live and work in the US.

Aditya Malik

CEO, Higher Ed business - Veranda Learning Solutions Ltd

S Venky Venkatesh

President-Group HR & Member-Group Management Board, RPG

Neil Solomon

Vice President, Asia Pacific & Latin America (UKG), Ultimate Kronos Group

Vishpala Reddy

CHRO, Philips

Vishpala Reddy

CHRO, Philips

Vishpala leads HR for Philips in India and Area countries. She is responsible for HR across Market Commercial Operations, Philips Innovation Campus, Healthcare Innovation Centre, Global Business Services and Factories located in India. As part of the India Management Team, she spearheads the people and talent agenda to support business growth enabling Philips to get closer to its commitment of improving 3 billion lives a year by 2030. Prior to Philips, Vishpala was with Uber Technologies where she was the Regional HR Director for Asia-Pacific leading HR across 12 countries and all lines of businesses like Rides, EATS, Engineering, Community Operations & Customer Support. She joined Uber in 2017 and was part of the leadership team responsible in driving the transformative growth in the region as well as enabling the HR function as the company went public in 2019.

Prior to Uber, she was with American Express for 12 year and her last role was Vice President & Head HR, where she was leading Human Resources for American Express in India across P&L, Servicing and Capability LOB’s comprising a diverse workforce of 12000+ employees. She has held positions in Hewitt Associates and Cognizant Technology Solutions prior to American Express. Her experience includes driving change, leadership enablement, employee brand communication, organization-effectiveness, diversity & inclusion and leading innovative HR programs.

Vishpala served as a Board member of the national executive board of NHRDN (National HR Development Network) 2015-2019 and led their Young Minds Advisory Board aimed at enhancing capabilities of young HR professionals in the country.

An avid proponent to the cause of developing women leaders across walks of society, she lends her time in mentoring women professionals. She is passionate about leading innovative and sustainable HR practices with measurable impact and being a strong talent advocate. She has been honored with the “HR Influencer Award 2019” by Jombay, “LinkedIn Power Profile in HR 2018” “Women Super Achiever Award” World HRD Congress in 2016.

She is based in Gurgaon with her husband and two children and loves to travel and experience different cultures. A sportsperson, Vishpala has represented Andhra Pradesh/University as a national level shuttle badminton player.

Kiran Menon

CEO & Co-Founder, Tydy

Gautam Kumar

Co-Founder & COO, FarEye

Antony J. Alex

Founder & CEO, Rainmaker

Antony J. Alex

Founder & CEO, Rainmaker

Antony founded Rainmaker in 2016 and is it’s Chief Executive Ofﬁcer. He oversees operations including learning, content creation and roll out, the sales & marketing function, building institutional relationships, conducting workshops and generally looking for ways to completely revolutionize the world of training and learning.

A serial entrepreneur and an alumnus of N.L.S.I.U., Bangalore, Antony started his career with ICICI Bank in 1998. The entrepreneurial bug bit him soon after and he moved in 2001 to set up Kochhar & Co’s Mumbai ofﬁce. After 5 years of rapid growth and establishing Kochhar & Co as a premier ﬁrm in Mumbai’s competitive law ﬁrm landscape, in 2006 he set his sights higher and took up the challenge of being part of the core founding team at Pangea3, the world’s largest and most successful LPO. Antony was instrumental in growing and scaling Pangea3 from 10+ lawyers and engineers to over 1000 professionals, delivering high quality services to Fortune 500 companies and top tier law ﬁrms, around the world.

At Pangea3, Antony was tasked with building out and overseeing operations as well as developing business in and opening up the European, APAC and Australian markets. The LPO business saw explosive growth and Pangea3 was ultimately sold to Thomson Reuters in November 2010.

Throughout his career, Antony has always been passionate about training and has conducted numerous workshops on topics ranging from prevention of sexual harassment, anticorruption practices, corporate governance, code of conduct etc. It is this passion for learning and training, that led him to set up Rainmaker.

When Antony is not thinking about turning the world of learning on it’s head, he likes to read and spend time with his wife, Rivya, his daughter Noyonika and his Lazy Lab, Jordy. Adventure sports and deep sea diving is his passion - Rishikesh (White water rafting), Kamshet (paragliding) and Dahab (deep sea diving) are his favorite spots.

Sana Nayyar

VP - HR, Urban Company

Gaurav Chaubey

Co-Founder, Mesh

Shobhna Bansal

Head - Data & Analytics, Digital Enterprise Transformation Unit, HiTech, TCS

M Lakshmanan

CHRO, L&T Technology Services

Prasad Rajappan

Founder & CEO, ZingHR

Prasad Rajappan

Founder & CEO, ZingHR

Prasad Rajappan is the Founder & CEO of ZingHR - a global enterprise cloud applications provider for Human Capital Management (HCM). ZingHR has successfully empowered over 7,00,000 users across 550+ companies worldwide with 24+ HRMS modules.

ZingHR's disruptive innovations for the modern workplace include - Machine Learning for Recruitment, Robotic Interviews, Digital Onboarding, Artificial Intelligence enabled Chatbot, Face Recognition for real-time employee authentication, Zero Touch Payroll for real-time payroll processing with ZERO efforts, gamified and personalized learning with Zing Learn, Power BI embedded for HR Analytics, Geo-fencing and tagging for the mobile workforce.

In 2002, Prasad founded FileMyReturns.com, for e-filing Income Tax returns, for the Department of Income Tax, GoI. He also founded Cnergyis - an enterprise HR Technologies, Outsourcing and Services Company, in 2000.

Prasad has over 25 years of experience in ERP, Operations, Business Process Reengineering, Information Systems and Human Resources. He has held a number of senior management positions at reputed companies like Reliance Industries, Ernst & Young, and Mahindra & Mahindra. He was a part of the SAP Project Directorate at Reliance, which managed more than 30 SAP implementations across various industry verticals like Petrochemical, Energy, Retail, Life Sciences etc.

His stint with the automobile giant Mahindra and Mahindra Limited as Senior Manager - Business Process Reengineering, gave him exposure to different functions like Production Planning, Operations, Information Systems, Human Resources and Business Process Reengineering.

He is a Production Engineer and has earned an MBA degree from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, (NMIMS) in (HR, Operations).

Dr. Vishwanath Joshi

Senior VP & Master Facilitator, Great Manager Institute

Rajeev Bhardwaj

VP & Chief Human Resources Officer, Sun Life Asia Service Centres

Kishore Poduri

Country Head - HR, DBS India.

Jayaram Philkana

President & Global CHRO, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals

Amogh Deshmukh

Managing Director, DDI

Hema Mani

Regional Director, Asia Pacific HR, Lennox International

Hema Mani

Regional Director, Asia Pacific HR, Lennox International

Hema Mani has over 26 years of experience in Strategic Human Resources Capacity , with wide ranging Multinational experiences from Kelly Consultants, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Jain Group of Institutions, i2 Technologies and Honeywell.

She is a Leadership Coach certified under Korn Ferry Leadership Architect & Marshall Goldsmith and certified OD Facilitator from International OD Federation

She is currently Regional Director, Asia Pacific HR at Lennox International, part of her responsibility in Lennox India & Asia sourcing leadership team. Her responsibilities include HR, Site Operational Management, Driving Community Engagement, External Communications for the company in this region

Under her leadership, Lennox India has won several honors for HR such as the 13 best workplaces in Tamil Nadu by Times of India, 100 Best places to work for women in India 2016 by Avatar, Best places to work in Chennai by Economic Times, Dream companies to work in 2016 by Times Ascent. Best Community engagement Award by Economic Times. Lennox India has been certified as Top Great Places to work twice in row, More recently Lennox was Certified as the Top 15 Great Places to work under her leadership

She is the current the Chairwoman for CII-Indian Women Network in TamilNadu and part of her role she is focused on develop Leadership talent among women, Mentoring initiatives, Gender Parity diagnostics & facilitation in corporations and POSH activities

She has represented on topics of Human sciences in forums of IHRD,NHRD, ISTD, CII and SHRM. She has published a couple of papers on Execution Excellence in HR which is compiled into a journal released by Indian Institute of Science and another one on Innovative learning strategies was recognized by Nasscom. She is recognized as one of the 30 Women Super Achievers by World HRD Congress

Blessed with 2 children, when she finds the time, she loves to cook & read and is also a Yoga Practitioner and Meditator with Isha Foundation

Saurav Mohanty

Business Head, Leaderbuild

Misha Nathani

Head Product Marketing, Gratifi

Prashant Parashar

CHRO, CleverTap

Paneesh Rao

CPO, Mindtree Ltd (A Larsen & Toubro group Company)

Dilip Pattanayak

President & CHRO Steel & Corporate, JSW

Maneesh Menda

Head - HR, India, NatWest Group

Ankur Dhingra

CEO, ProHance

Santosh Nair

Regional Head - IT Partner Management, Siemens

Geethaa George

Executive Vice President HR, HDFC Bank Ltd

Rinita Laskar

Director - HR, Emerson Innovation Center

Ritu Kochhar

Director HR, Perfetti Van Melle India

Margaret D’souza

Head HR, Zeta

Nishith Upadhyaya

Senior Director, Knowledge & Advisory Services, SHRM India, APAC & MENA

Neeraj Balani

Managing Director, International SOS India

Tanvi Choksi

Head - HR, India & JLL Business Services, Global

Sushma Kumar

Global Head - People Management & Career Academy, HSBC

Tania Chatterjee

Director HR India Lead - Inclusion, Wellbeing & Culture, NatWest Group

N Narendra Kumar

National Head Employee Relations & Compliances, Hindustan Coca- Cola Beverages Private Limited

Sandeep Chaudhary

CEO Saas, People Strong

Sandeep Chaudhary

CEO Saas, People Strong

Sandeep is the CEO and Board Member at PeopleStrong. An experienced business leader with deep functional expertise in Human Capital and Business Management, Sandeep is responsible for the growth and reach of PeopleStrong’s Work and HR Technology in markets globally. In addition to this, he works with the board and other executives to establish and execute the company’s vision, goals, and strategies.

With a career spanning over two decades, Sandeep spent 17 years at Aon (formerly, Hewitt Associates) and was the CEO for their India & South Asia region. As a part of the Global Executive Committee, he chaired the Emerging Markets Council (China, South East Asia, Middle East & Africa) at Aon.

Sandeep has worked in an advisory capacity with several Private Equity backed businesses to build and execute on a value creation plan focused on Talent and Organisation transformation. He has also advised them in special situations like M&A (due diligence, post-merger integration), pre-IPO, emerging-market expansion, and work closely with the CEO/ Owner to drive the business to scale and profitability.

Sandeep is an advisor on Human Capital issues to the Government of India & Sri Lanka and is serving on the Advisory Board of Centre of Corporate Governance & Citizenship at IIM Bangalore. He is also serving as an independent Director on the Board of Directors at Burger King India Limited.

He enjoys speaking at events and seminars where he can inspire and empower people at a group level. In addition to speaking at NASSCOM, Conference Board, People Matters, CII & various Educational Institutes, he passionately promotes the cause of Armed Forces veteran reintegration and hiring into the private sector. He is actively working towards incubating a social enterprise called NXT Command that will assist veterans in transitioning to meaningful corporate careers.

When he is not on the corporate treadmill, Sandeep is a fitness enthusiast, a marathoner, and a keen student of Sport.

Ashish Anand

CHRO, SAR Group of Companies

Abraham Zachariah

SVP HR- Leadership Development & Talent Management, GSCs & Tech, HSBC

Sriram Rajaram

Director-Total Rewards, India & APAC, Qualcomm

Anurag Patnaik

Director, HR, Nestle South Asia Region

Anurag Patnaik

Director, HR, Nestle South Asia Region

Mr. Anurag Patnaik is the Director, Human Resources Nestlé South Asia Region.

Through his current role, Anurag led the Human Resources function during the turbulent Covid 19 crisis. With people centric approach, introduced new policies and provided all best possible support for the employees & their family’s well-being. He is keenly driving some of the best-in-class benefit reviews for the organization, working to broaden the scope of diversity and bringing in renewed focus on employee engagement.

Prior to the current role Anurag was Head of Total Reward (COC) for Asia Oceania and Africa, and after completing a successful assignment in Malaysia, returned to Nestlé India. He was responsible for delivering important structural changes in the organization, improving Field Force Effectiveness and growing manager capabilities. In 2014, he became Head of Total Rewards Manager for the Market and drove major advances in the region’s pay and performance practices, overhauled sales incentives and medical plans, and deployed new communication strategies. In 2016, Anurag moved as the H2R Deployment Lead for Zone AOA, and enabled the transformation in CWAR, EAR, Japan, the Philippines and SAR, as well as in Italy.

Anurag has successfully led the Total Rewards COC for the AOA region. He has been instrumental in setting up the new structure and building a strong Rewards team. His collaboration with the markets to establish new ways of working, was key to unlocking the value of the COC and to enhance the Service Delivery. He has successfully led various initiatives in the markets to further improve the Total Rewards service delivery to our businesses. In addition to AOA region, Anurag also led the successful transition of Reward Service delivery for the markets of ESAR and CWAR, from the Dubai hub.

Anurag joined Nestlé as a Management Trainee in 2005 from XLRI, and since then, increasingly took on senior HR positions in Recruitment, Total Rewards & Senior HR Business Partner for Nestlé Nutrition, Nestle Health Science and Finance &Control.

Subi Nanthivarman

Founder & CEO, Stridez Pty Ltd

Dr. Vishal Shah

Vice President, Leadership & People Sciences, Wipro

Michael Good

Global Chief Operating Officer, ZingHR

Sandeep Kochhar

Storyteller & Founder, Blewminds

Sandeep Kochhar

Storyteller & Founder, Blewminds

Passion

Sandeep Kochhar is an MBA from IIM Bangalore, an Electronics & Telecommunication Engineer with more than 18 years of Corporate Consulting experience. He is an insightful innovative powerful inspirational Speaker & Storyteller. He loves using storytelling as an instrument to change & transform. He has 30+ years of experience in poetry, storytelling & creative writing. His authentic, very real ‘Wabi Sabi’ StoryTelling Leadership series have helped people make that big switch in their lives & radically improve their way of thinking. He has 200 million+ views on the stories he shares on LinkedIn. And, he has over 6,00,000 followers who trust him. He is the Founder CEO of www.blewminds.com, an eclectic Leadership Consulting practice that operates across geographies in the space of unconventional Learning in different areas of People Consulting, Coaching & Leadership. He is Certified Leadership Coach & has been a coach to Forbes 30 under 30 Ecommerce entrepreneur, Top Leaderships, CXOs of various industries/organizations as well as LGBTQ++ Community members.

Past Life

He has worked in various roles relating to Program/Project Management, Business/Process Transformation, Organization Restructuring & Change Management in companies like Aurea Software, HT Media, British Council, Honeywell, IBM, & HCL Technologies. In his last Consulting assignment as a Global Consultant with Aurea Software (Investment arm of Trilogy, USA), he was responsible for transforming 6 acquired companies (Revenue of $50 Million) by implementing Project/Program management best practices.

In his role with HT Media, he setup the Project/Program Management program to up skill Project/Program managers following the PMP® methodology. He is a Master Trainer who has trained several Project Management trainers to run trainings on the PMP® methodology. At HT Media, he was also responsible for the successful implementation of a business project of $3.3 Million following the PMP®methodology.

At British Council, he was responsible for completing the Global Restructuring & Change Program for 11 offices across India & Sri Lanka following the MSP™ (Managing Successful Programs) methodology. At Honeywell, he was responsible for setting up & managing the Project Management office (PMO) following the PMP ® methodology for over 500 people. He piloted & implemented Enterprise Project Management tools across the organization. He presented a Research Paper titled “Selecting an Enterprise Project Management (EPM) tool for a project-based organization” selected by PMI for presentation to PMI Bangalore Chapter.

He has also authored academic papers on applying Supply Chain Management principles to recruitment processes & Demand supply forecasting of human resources. He has successfully run several projects & programs ranging from small projects to large multi- million-dollar projects in his professional career following the PMP® methodology at IBM, Honeywell & HCL Technologies.

His other areas of expertise include Vendor Management, Customer Engagement & Quality Management. He has travelled & worked across 6 countries, 24 Indian states.

He is a Project Management Professional (PMP ®) from Project Management Institute (PMI), USA, MSP™ (Managing Successful Programs), Registered Practitioner (MSP™ Trade Mark of the UK Office of Government Commerce) from APMG-International UK, Certified Project Manager from Honeywell, Six Sigma Green Belt, Qualified MBTI Step II Practitioner from Asianic Psychologists Press (APP), NLP Practitioner, ITIL V2/V3 Foundation, ITIL Intermediate CSI/Service Design, has an ISO 27001 Implementation Training & Certification, Internal Auditor for ISO 9001:2000 & been through the BLHP, ALHP, PDP Phase A/B frameworks from Indian Society of Applied Behavioral Sciences.

Life Purpose

Sandeep’s journey as a StoryTeller has been a powerful one of surmounting odds, facing failures, staring at his fears straight in the eye & immense learning through practice. He is a TEDx Speaker & World’s Best Story Teller Awardee (World HRD Congress). He has been awarded with the title of LinkedIn Top Voice India 2019, for his highly influential & transformational stories on LinkedIn. He has also been honored with the REX Karmaveer Global Fellowship & Karmaveer Chakra Award, for his innovative & transformational contribution to the society. He is a Certified Intelligent Leadership Coach, he works with adults & youth alike to aid them become their best versions. He believes that change begins with him & he aspires to be the change he wants to see in the world.

In his own words, ‘I have finally discovered my life purpose after meandering around for years: it is to Touch & Transform 5 billion humans by 2030’. His dream come true is BlewMinds Consulting, which is a firm of passionate people who believe they can transform the world. He continues to scale this business & is currently in the midst of building his next innovative Learning platform to cater to individuals struggling to transform their lives.

He has carved his own path on Social Media, learnt through his failures & hence, loves helping people to find their mojo by sharing his experiences with them. You will often find him Coaching individuals on building their Personal Brand & Social media presence. His other areas of passion include Coaching, Entrepreneurship & Digital Marketing. In his leisure, he loves connecting with people, adding value to their lives & his, practices yoga, writes poetry & coaches students to pursue higher education programs.

Vijay Raghavan

Chief of Performance & Culture, ZingHR

Vivek Kulkarni

Executive President & Head HR, Entertainment Network India Ltd. (Mirchi)

Satish Rajarathnam

Sr. VP HR & Global Head - Strategic Resourcing, Mphasis

Satish Rajarathnam

Sr. VP HR & Global Head - Strategic Resourcing, Mphasis

With over 23 years of experience, Satish Rajarathnam is a seasoned Human Resources professional who has held various HR leadership positions across multiple industries. Satish has continually been at the helm of strategic resourcing, organization change management, HR Business consulting & Agile transformation, as well as leadership and talent management.

Satish is associated with several industry groups and associations such as SHRM, Agile Leadership, LEGO serious Play, PCMM, Six Sigma, ISABs India and NFNLP, among others from which he has received certifications marking him a qualified practitioner. He heads the global talent strategy team for Mphasis and currently responsible for OD, Build-Buy-Borrow talent strategy. In his previous role with Cognizant, Satish was responsible for Global Banking & Financial Services people strategy, aligning HR interventions to business priorities, and functioned as a strategic business advisor to the executive management.

Satish’s leadership experience spans across organisations such as Cognizant, HCL Technologies, and Siemens. He has also been the recipient of awards such as Indian Achievers Award 2021, the Top 100 HR Tech Minds Award, and the HR Excellence Award, from the Government of Rajasthan and Higher & Technical Education, Maharashtra. Outside his experience with HR, Satish has built a reputation as a TEDx speaker. As an entertainer and an illusionist, he has worked on over 1200 performances in association with various corporate houses and international workgroups. As part of giving back to the society he is associated with Udavum Karangal an Orphanage at Chennai and as a Corporate Advisory Board member with Chandigarh University.

Satish is a research Scholar from Swiss School of Management, Geneva and a postgraduate in General Management from the Indian School of Business (ISB) and National University of Singapore (NUS)

Rohit Dwivedi

Associate Professor OB & HR, Indian Institute Of Management Shillong

Mithlesh Razdan

Lead Solution Engineer, Salesforce

Prakash Rao

Chief Operating Officer - SaaS, PeopleStrong

Biplob Banerjee

CHRO, USV Pharma

Bill Bartow

President, Product Management & User Experience, (UKG), Ultimate Kronos Group

Akhilesh Tuteja

Global Cyber Security practice Co-leader & Heads-IT Advisory, KPMG

Brandon Pleaner

Global Talent Management Solutions Leader, SHL

Kalpana Bansal

Head - Careers, Competencies & Assessment, Reliance Industries Ltd

Manoj Agarwal

Co-Founder, Xoxoday

Alok Nidhi Gupta

Co-founder & Managing Director, Talent Recruit Software Pvt. Ltd.

Bruce Watt, Ph.D

Vice President, Europe, India, & Australia, DDI

Divyesh Sindhwaad

Regional Vice President, Skillsoft

Preemita Singh

Chief HR Officer & Head CSR, Hero FinCorp

Lexter Martin

Account Director - Strategic Accounts, Skillsoft

S V Kiran

Senior VP HR, Apollo Hospitals

Dedeepya Ajith John

Director, South & Advisory Services, SHRM India & APAC

Pramod Krishnaprasad

Director - Head of Compensation & Benefits, BNY Mellon & Pershing India

Anil Santhapuri

Director - Skills Solutions, Global Talent Management, FIS

Anil Santhapuri

Director - Skills Solutions, Global Talent Management, FIS

Anil Santhapuri is a values-based and results-oriented Talent & OD professional, with 20 years of professional experience in the areas of talent management, learning & leadership development and consulting. In his current role as Director of Skill Solutions, Global Talent Management at FIS, he is leading reinventing and re-imagining the global talent value stream through the application of skills-based architecture to all things 'talent’ by pivoting jobs towards skills (workforce planning, learning and development, recruitment, Rewards & succession planning). His career span includes organizations like Western Union, HCL Technologies, CGI Information Systems, Mahindra Satyam and iGate Global Solutions, where he has designed and delivered award-winning talent initiatives.

Anil is a 4-time Brandon Hall Gold winner (2020 and 2021).He is a 3-time “Learning in Practice award” winner both in 2017, 2018 and 2021 from Chief Learning Officer (CLO) Magazine, USA. One of his career best moment is when in October 2017, Western Union was recognized as “#1 Organization for Learning Globally” by ATD BEST. Some of his individual industry recognitions are:

2022, recognized as “2022 Asia's Top 100 Power HR Leaders”
2021, being recognized by TA PAI Management and ETHR World as “Young HR Leader in India”
2018, was listed as an Emerging HR Leader in India, by Jombay in their HR40Under40 list
2012, was recognized as one of the "Top 10 Training & OD Professional Globally" by Training Magazine USA.

He is a digital transformation enthusiast and is currently a Technical Advisory Board member for Global Skill Development Council (GSDC) - an independent, third-party, vendor neutral, international credentialing and certification organization for latest technologies like: Blockchain, Six Sigma, DevOps, Cloud, ITSM, ISO, Agile and L&D professionals. Anil is also contributing to Indian Society for Training and Development (ISTD) as an adjunct teaching faculty for L&OD topics.

Anil is a passionate believer in empowering people through learning and is a ACC certified coach from International Coach Federation (ICF). His other passions and interests include writing poetry, practice of Vipassana meditation and inculcating values-based leadership in all walks of life.

Ashissh Kaul

Director, Knowledge & Advisory & Business Head, PSE, SHRM India

Tina Rastogi

Head HR, Cybage Software Pvt ltd.

Arsh Talwar

Product Manager, Leaderbuild

Rajan Kalia

SHRM Advisor & Co-Founder, Salto Dee Fe

Rajan Kalia

SHRM Advisor & Co-Founder, Salto Dee Fe

Rajan works in the area of Business Enablement and Leapfrogging Organisations to the next orbit of growth. His ﬁrm focuses on 4 practice areas - Talent Management, Organisation Transformation, Executive Search and Leadership Skilling. He and his team has cre-ated the revolutionary One Minute Feedback mobile application tool, Karma Notes.

Rajan has a rich and varied 28 years experience in Human Re-sources . He does cuNng edge Talent Management work with Marc Eﬀron for Fortune 100 companies across the globe, closer home he is involved with Harvard Business Press, Stanford Seed and SHRM advising, consulting, teaching and coaching their clients.

For the past 9 years Rajan has been consulting, advising, training, coaching and launching organisations in their next growth orbit. He has worked with over 100 clients in varied sectors including Fortune 100 Global, Indian private and public sector companies. His clients seek his advice to solve complex Talent/ Performance Management issues, build robust Talent strategies and Transform Organisations.

Since 1992, Rajan has garnered his expertise through hard-won experience across multiple sectors – in manufacturing industry he worked with Eicher and Ballarpur Industries, in FMCG with Coca Cola, and in consul;ng with Eicher Consultancy Services (ECS), before geNng into ﬁnancial services with Max New York Life Insurance (MNYL). He spent over a decade in the ﬁnancial services industry.

In his corporate career, Rajan has been instrumental in seNng up HR functions, formulating the philoso-phy, strategy and policies of the function. He has speciﬁc expertise in the areas of Performance Man-agement, Compensation, Feedback & Talent Management. He has been instrumental in Transforming Organisations over the last 15 years. He regularly tweets and publishes on LinkedIn.

Rajan has been trained by Harvard Business Publishing in Case study methodology, DDI in Performance Management & Coaching, by SHL in OPQ Assessments. He is an international speaker, expert in the areas of Human Resources & Performance Feedback.

Rajan is Masters in Personnel Management & Industrial Relations from Panjab University, Chandigarh. He is certiﬁed in Organisation Design from IIMB and in Behaviour Economics 101 from Rotman School, Toronto.

Souvik Maity

Employee Experience & Operations Manager, Unilever

Harsha Vatnani

Head of Employee Engagement & OD, BSH Household Appliances (Bosch)

Unni K Gopal

VP-HR - Employee Relations & Labour Relations, Adani

Sanjev Vaid

Managing Director - HR, Natwest

Rajesh Rai

VP - People Team & Head HR, GlobalLogic

Rajesh Rai

VP - People Team & Head HR, GlobalLogic

Rajesh Rai is Vice President – People Team and Head of Human Resources, India at GlobalLogic. He is responsible for spearheading the company’s HR transformation, Learning & Development, Change Management, D&I and Sustainability initiatives for India. He is a highly formidable HR leader and plays an instrumental role in building new frontiers to bolster the company’s vision in establishing a ‘humans and people first’ culture, drive employee experience, nurture diversity and inclusion, and transform the employees’ and company’s growth journey.

With over two decades of experience in the HR industry, Rajesh has been deeply involved in working with global business & HR teams across multiple cross-cultural border teams effectively. He has led human resources, from strategy to implementation, for numerous leading global organizations such as Eicher Motors, Expedia, United Colors of Benetton, Adobe Systems, Ernst & Young, and Arthur Andersen. Prior to joining GlobalLogic, he was previously associated with Accenture as Head of HR for their Consulting business in India, along with India Corporate Functions. He enabled HR interventions & strategies for a huge workforce, that focused on crafting industry leading HR practices, commissioning large-scale transformational change and redefining employee experience through Human Capital strategies, Culture, Performance Achievement, Leadership, Diversity, and Inclusion.

Rajesh holds a Bachelors and Masters in Chemistry from Delhi University and an MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur. He is a GALLUP Strengths Coach and loves coaching teams and individuals for leveraging & applying their strengths. Rajesh loves to travel & experience local cultures. He enjoys doing Yoga, meditation, painting, sketching, music, soccer and is an avid reader.

Niharika Joshi

Head - Customer Strategy, South Asia, Workplace from Facebook

Rajat Luthra

Director - Customer Experience, ZingHR

Pritpal S. Kular

CHRO, Indus Towers

Sangeetha Gera

Learning & Development Head, Societe Generale

Sampada Inamdar

VP & Dean Anand U, Anand Group

Sampada Inamdar

VP & Dean Anand U, Anand Group

Sampada Inamdar is an ICF Certified Executive Coach. Along with this, she is also a Certified OD Practitioner & Psychometrician. Overall, she has over 25 years of experience, and is currently working as the VP & Chief Learning Officer at Anand Group India. With a certification in Design Thinking, and a thorough experience in facilitative programs across organizations, cultures and levels, she currently leads the Corporate University into talent development interventions for driving organizational effectiveness. Sampada develops and drives leadership development strategy at all levels of the hierarchy to enable growth strategy and culture.

Being an Executive Coach for fast-track talent, she leads people and brings about transformative changes. Sampada also leads and managed various assessment practices related to leadership development, talent and succession planning. Along with this, she grooms talent pipelines across all hierarchies, for all 19 JVs, and transition and senior roles. She aims to establish and revamp competency development frameworks and interventions linking to career and succession planning, and aligns long duration skill development interventions for work focre across junior, mid and senir management and shopfloor employees.

She steers many facilitative long duration programs across the organization locations and levels via via techno-structural interventions for HR processes, policies, Performance Management, Balanced Scorecard and Compensation systems. She has designed and institutionalized creative approaches to long duration leadership interventions for grooming business leaders and technocrats via Indian and International Interventions.

Sampada specializes in Organization Effectiveness, Leadership Development, Facilitating Change, Organization Restructuring, Employee Engagement, Career & Succession Mapping, Research and Analytics and Psychometrics. She is a Balanced Scorecard Professional and has trained in Position Evaluations by Mercers India as well as Business Process Re-engineering.