Extraordinary times call for exceptional measures – a macro shift in perspective and ideology. Discernible change at the core of what we do can be the dealmaker for quantifiable progress. When combined with the limitless resources that humans are known for, the results are bound to be nothing short of sensational.
SHRM India Tech23 is all about preparing grounds to revel in collective knowledge and all it takes to be ready for the vagaries of existence, equipped with the best of WorkTech. Join #SHRMTECH23 to change the very DNA of our being – to identify path-breaking innovations, evolve people practices and explore cutting-edge technologies, and to cause a Quantum Shift in all that shapes the world of work.
Learn the latest in WorkTech and how to leverage it for meaningful outcomes
Engage with peers in group chats, one-on-one conversations and grow your network
Stay current with your SHRM CP® or SHRM SCP® certification
For over 75 years, SHRM has been elevating HR – in this time of flux, SHRM TECH23 will equip you to navigate the Future with knowledge and confidence
Learn about the latest and most relevant WorkTech solutions and its impact on people practices at SHRMTech’23.
Here’s what you’ll take back:
Founder, Tech Whisperer Ltd
Jaspreet Bindra is the Managing Director and Founder of Tech Whisperer Limited UK, which does Advisory and Consulting work on Digital Transformation and Digital Technologies like AI, Blockchain, and the Future of Work. Jaspreet was the Group Chief Digital Officer at Mahindra Group, a $20bn conglomerate, a Regional Director at Microsoft India, and a part of the Tata Group through Tata Administrative Services. He is the author of the bestselling book ‘The Tech Whisperer: On Digital Transformation and the Technologies that Enable it’, published by Penguin Random House, as well as a long-standing fortnightly column on technology and business with Mint. Jaspreet was recognised as the inaugural ‘Digitalist of the Year’ by Mint and SAP in 2017, is a Global Moderator/Educator for Harvard Business, Educator for Duke, Expert at Singularity University, Visiting Faculty at Ashoka University and was a Scholar-in-Residence at the Indian School of Business. He is also pursuing his (second) Masters in AI, Ethics and Society at Cambridge University. He divides his time between Cambridge, UK and Gurgaon, India.
Executive VP & Head - CHRO, Larsen & Toubro
Vice- President & Head – Corporate Human Resources, Larsen & Toubro Limited, an Indian Multi-national Conglomerate with varied interest in basic and heavy engineering, construction, realty, manufacturing of capital goods, information technology, and financial services.
A highly result oriented, HR professional with 32 years of experience in Engineering & Construction Industry with proven experience in successfully planning, designing, implementing and managing various Strategic HR Initiatives. He has varied experience including International exposure in Middle East & Africa Region. Has expertise in the area of Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Leadership Development, Change Management and OD processes. Has implemented various new age digital solution in HR for delivering business results.
CPO, Bharti Airtel
Amrita Padda, Chief People Officer – Bharti Airtel, is a dynamic HR leader with over 21 years of experience across the entire spectrum of HR roles. In her previous experience in Unilever, she joined as a management trainee in 2000 and spent the first 14 years of her career based in India. During that time, she has supported many different teams in Hindustan Unilever Limited including marketing and supply chain and was the HR Transformation Lead throughout one of the most significant periods of transformation for the function.
Amrita was appointed as General Manager Marketing in 2011 where she led significant organization transformation across the Marketing teams in South Asia before taking up her first appointment in a global role as Human Resource Director Procurement in January 2015. In that time, she has many notable achievements including landing the Connected 4 Growth (C4G) Procurement organization, driving capability building and ways of working workshops for leadership teams globally and leading the delivery of the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan for Procurement.
In 2017, Amrita was appointed as VPHR Philippines where she has played a very significant role in building business critical capabilities and accelerating local leadership pipeline. Amrita’s spirit of pioneering can be seen in the many business initiatives led by her – Laundromat business via a start-up, Service improvement via Agile methodology, setting up of the Omni-channel U-shop, and taking the lead in implementation of the Future of Work framework.
In her last role, as the Chief People Officer, Unilever Marketplace, a global business unit to help transform their distributive trade business, she was responsible for setting up the Organization and bringing in the leadership team for the business. In addition, she also held a global role as a cross functional team lead working with the Unilever CEOs office for COVID management. Here she was able to work through many complex challenges faced by the organization due to the global pandemic. Her experience of working in and leading global market teams and her collaborative approach has been of great value to Unilever as they navigated the various nuances of the impact of the pandemic.
Prior to her Post Graduation, she has a brief experience in the Hospitality industry, when she joined the Taj Group of Hotels as a Management Trainee. While she did not pursue that line of work for long, her love for food, the culinary arts, and service continues.
Amrita is married to Rakesh who works in banking and they have 2 boys Aadiv and Abeer.
She holds a Master’s degree in HR from XLRI, Jamshedpur and is a Hotel Management Graduate from Institute of Hotel Management, Pusa. She has also completed her of Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com) from University of Delhi
Senior VP - Group HR & Director, Tata Management Training Center
Anand brings extensive and rich industry experience to his role at TMTC. Before joining TMTC, he was Senior Partner with Deloitte and leader of the firm’s HR Transformation practice. An alumnus of The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, he is a seasoned strategist who has helped organizations across the globe in navigating business challenges by driving transformational change, building talent excellence, critical capabilities, and future leaders. He brings with him over three decades of experience, and has curated some of leading research studies in the field of HR. He joined Deloitte in India in April 2018 and served in this capacity for 3 years. During this time amongst other assignments, he anchored one of the largest Learning Transformations and Integrated Talent Management for one of India’s largest commercial organisations, a large Financial Services Company, A global multi business conglomerate.
Anand moved back to India in 2018 after having spent over 25 years working across 5 countries in 3 continents with 3 leading consulting firms. During that time, he has worked on a wide variety of areas focused on leadership development, establishing corporate universities and learning academies, organization design and structuring, HR Transformation and Technology and Organisation Vision, culture and values.
Immediately before Deloitte, Anand was the Global Chief Commercial Officer for Aon Hewitt setting up of a commercially focused team, which would enhance the firm’s focus on profitable growth and was instrumental in enabling agile, fast, and innovative growth for Aon Hewitt, playing an active role in client, solution and portfolio development across geographies and regions.
Anand is a Global expert in Human resource, Future of Work, Future of HR, Global Talent & HR market knowledge, APAC & MEA cultural and geographic market and market intelligence, a Marshall Goldsmith certified Coach and Mentor.
Anand started his career 32 years ago as part of the pioneer batch of Management Trainees with the Taj Group of Hotels. He then left India to work with a Western European Retail Chain and subsequently switched to management and HR consulting.
Group CHRO, Adani Group
Vikram is a seasoned Human Resources professional with over three decades of experience across a range of diverse businesses, geographies, and cultures. His expertise lies in thoughtful management of the intersection of strategy, talent, and organization culture, with extensive outcomes in organizational effectiveness, talent management, succession planning and leadership development.
Prior to joining the Adani Group, Vikram was the Head of Human Resources at HSBC India, one of the world's largest banking and financial services organizations. Before HSBC, Vikram was at the American International Group as the Regional Human Resources Director for the Mediterranean, Middle East and South Asia region and participated in AIG’s rapid growth through several startup joint ventures and acquisitions. His career also included several years at Inchcape Plc, Dubai, the ANZ Grind lays Bank, India, and Indian Hotels Company Ltd, where he has held multiple roles in HR.
Vikram holds a master’s degree in Human Resources from XLRI Jamshedpur and has certifications in Leading Change, Management & Innovation from the Harvard Business School. Vikram is the President of the National HRD Network, Mumbai Chapter and has been a recipient of the GNOSIS Excellence award from XLRI.
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
Global Chief People Officer & Head Marketing, Tech Mahindra Ltd
Harshvendra Soin is a Gold Medalist in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations from University Business School, Chandigarh. He has also completed his Bachelor of Law from Punjab University and has 28 years of experience in Indian and Multinational Companies.
Harsh currently heads the Human Resources and Marketing function as Global Chief People Officer and Head- Marketing at Tech Mahindra Ltd
Before his current role, he was in a business role as CEO and Country Head at Tech Mahindra (Canada), prior to which he led Global Leadership Acquisition and Development & was also the Head - Business HR for APAC & IMEA (Telecom & Enterprise) for Tech Mahindra.
Prior to Tech Mahindra, Harsh was the Chief People Officer at Fortis Healthcare Limited. He was working with Aditya Birla Retail Limited as Chief People Officer before Fortis, and was responsible for the rapid scale up of the Organization.
Prior to Aditya Birla Retail Limited, Harsh has worked with Bharti Enterprises where he held many senior positions at the Corporate Office where he was designated as Senior Vice President – People Excellence before moving as the Head – HR for Bharti Retail Ltd. He has also worked with the Oberoi Group and Punwire Limited.
Some of the recent awards/recognitions he has received are :
Harsh is passionate about sports, loves to travel and describes himself as a creative and a high energy person.
Harsh is married to Mansi and they have two lovely children, Inayat and Harman Veer.
HR Head, Global Generics, Dr. Reddy’s Labs
Swatee has driven several organizational change initiates with focus on skill building, leadership development, creating a learning culture and enabling the digital transformation agenda. She has over two decades of rich experience encompassing teaching, research, training, consulting and leading people development practices. She has driven several strategic interventions for business advantage and has extensively worked in areas of talent modelling, learning, leadership, change and work practice innovations.
Swatee is an accomplished HR thought leader with a Ph.D. in the area of Talent Management and Organizational Development
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)
CHRO, Lead School
With over 25 years of industry experience under his belt, Rohit has been the leading the HR function for various organizations. In his last role he was the CHRO for Paytm since December 2019 where he led the strategic HR agenda for the company.
Prior to this role, Rohit was with Accenture where he was responsible for Accenture’s talent strategy and HR service delivery & operations across all businesses in India..
Rohit has previously also worked with Microsoft, where he served as head of Human Resources for Microsoft India. Prior to this, Rohit spent 11 years at GE in various HR leadership roles across multiple businesses like Energy, Capital, Engineering, Corporate and Aviation both in India and the United States. He has also worked with Eicher Tractors, Cadence Design Systems and Bausch & Lomb.
Rohit is a graduate of SRCC Delhi. He has subsequently also done his MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur. He is married to Swati, who is also an MBA from XLRI and is currently working with SHRM in India. They have 2 children, Dhruv (who is an undergraduate in CS from UCLA, working with Amazon in NY) and Kanhav (who is an undergraduate from Swarthmore in Mathematical Statistics & Economics) and is working with Charles River Associates in Washington DC.
Partner - Leader, Human Capital Consulting, Deloitte
Gaurav Lahiri is a Partner with Deloitte Consulting. He leads the Human Capital Service area based out of Delhi. He brings significant experience in consulting, focusing primarily on organization transformation, leadership development and M&A.
Gaurav works with clients to align their organizations with their strategic agenda – this includes reviewing strategies, designing organization structures, implementing talent management programs and formulating reward strategies to drive performance and motivation.
While Gaurav’s expertise is in Organization Effectiveness, he has also helped clients research and develop competency models for outstanding performance. He managed a seminal Indian CEO research study sponsored by Bharat Petroleum under the aegis of India’s Public Enterprises Selection Board and co-authored the book “The Indian CEO : a Portrait of Excellence” published in 2007.
Gaurav has authored several papers on Post Merger Integration, Change Management and has won several prizes and awards, including the McKinsey Best Management Paper of the year.
CIO, UNO Minda Group
Mr. Parna Ghosh is associated with UNO Minda Group as Group CIO. Overall 32 years of experience in IT leadership capacities in different organisations. Has an accomplished career with huge Digital Transformation initiatives in the areas of Customer Relationship, Supply Chain automation, Shopfloor automation including Industry 4.0, HRM, Finance Transformation.
Prior to Uno Minda, was associated with CNH Industrial, Honda Motorcycle & Scooters India, Tata Group (TACO) & Pricol. He is a winner of 100+ IT & Digital awards including CIO 100 Hall of Fame, CXO TV Hall of Fame.
Mr. Ghosh is a distinguished speaker in various IT Forums. Represents various national forums – National Digital committee of ACMA; Governing Council of CII – Center for Digital Transformation; Core Committee Member for CII- Institute of Quality; Director – Special Interest Group – Manufacturing – INDUS (SAP User Group, India).
He holds Post Graduate Degree in Information Technology & an MBA in Finance. Holds certifications from IIM Bangalore, IIT Delhi, ISB Hyderabad & Harvard Business School.
*Membership will be activated within 2-3 weeks of receipt of payment
* 18% GST applicable. | USD Pricing Available
Co-Powered by
