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Track: Cause The Effect

Welcome Address | by Achal Khanna, CEO, SHRM India, APAC  & MENA

Track: Leadership

Opening Keynote | Each day, leaders actively look for ways to use their employees’ capabilities; but as they do this, there is a tendency for a bulk of organizational talent to go untapped. A large part of leadership success is understanding how to reimagine the role of leaders with a focus on the organization’s biggest priorities. Know more about what power to unleash as leaders, and what capabilities to nurture in others to create winning organizations of the future.

Track: Business & Strategy

CEO Panel | As the 'Great War for Talent' takes centre stage, the C-Suite is becoming increasingly reliant on the HR function for business sustenance. Employees are now in the driving seat, and priorities such as connecting through culture, providing flexibility at work and investing in the workforce are at the core of leaders' vision for their people. This session takes a look at what it takes to maximize the potential of this reinvigorated suite of resources, from the CEOs’ lens.

Track: People & Talent

Spotlight | Several organizations continue to face recruiting and hiring challenges characterized by record-level turnover, increased stress, high interview to hiring ratio, low joining ratio and significantly changed candidate expectations, it is innovative employer branding practices that can make all the difference. Join this session to explore ways to move to the next curve of leveraging technology to support an organizational strategy by improving hiring decisions.

Track: Culture & Experience

Masterclass | Life may prepare us for success, but seldom does it prepare us for failure. When faced with life-changing circumstances, it is positivity, grace and gratitude that one needs to hold high, to tide over rough times. No one else has lived this approach to life better than this household name in the entertainment industry.

Track: Culture & Experience

Spotlight | Earned Wage Access (EWA) is soon becoming a boon in the everchanging worokpace. Not only is this easy to implement, but is also a welcome move for most employees, since it helps them to align their income and expenses better, as well as reduce their need for high-interest credit schemes – all this at no additional cost to the employer! This session discusses the feasibility of implementing practices such as this to improve the overall well-being of employees.

Track: Culture & Experience

Improv Theatre Workshop: Bring a Brick, Build a Castle - Using Improv to Build a Fabulous Work Culture

The session will highlight Improv tenets and their relevance in the workspace.

Each tenet will be explained, and the audience will get to practically experience it through games and exercises. This will help them understand how Improv lessons can be applied in the workspace towards a better work culture. The session will be interspersed with on-the-spot Improv Theatre performances by the facilitators to provide a live experience of how it works.

Track: Leadership

Creating an employee experience that fosters engagement, job satisfaction, collaboration and productivity is among the main goals for any organization. This delves into a core human need – the need to create value through work and utilize own potential. 

In this Design Thinking Master Class, we explore an application- based approach to how HR can leverage Design Thinking approach for designing superlative employee experience across people processes. 

Track: People & Talent

Spotlight | Platforms that can better understand the unique needs of individual employees are critical to success. Effective and memorable recognition will experience that align with an individual’s sense of purpose and are also authentic and personalized. Know more about creating those effective experiences is a skill that will need to be developed among leaders and across entire workforces as part of this session.

Track: WorkTech

Panel Discussion | The Great Reshuffle has put talent strategy on every executive team’s priority list. While technologies like AI, predictive analytics, and automation are fast reshaping how companies hire, their applicability in a labour market as diverse as India's remains limited. Such challenges don't exist when it comes to employer branding engagements focussing on hiring and getting the right mind share of a candidate. Gain insights on ways to leverage gamified engagements for the right talent strategy as part of this session.

Track: People & Talent

Today's turnover crisis has almost mandated a comprehensive and creative total rewards strategy-one that focuses on more than compensation alone. Understanding that total rewards starts with deep insight into the employee experience is crucial to succeed. Know more about finding the perfect balance between supporting employees' needs and wants in an affordable, competitive and attractive way as part of this session.

Track: DEI&B

Divyanshu is India’s first solo blind pilot, trekker, mountaineer, scuba diver, marathoner, and first blind pillion cyclist to ride from Manali to Khardung La. An all-new take on the need for resilience and innovation, he shares his experience of losing eyesight at 19 years of age. This session on finding purpose despite unfavourable circumstances is aimed at helping attendees become role models in their respective walks of life. 

Track: WorkTech

Automation is everywhere, and its impact on human resources is expanding. Technology is transforming traditional HR functions such as hiring, training and benefits administration, and the execution of all these changes demands a strong HR role. HR automation to harness the power of automation is the topic of discussion in this session. 

Track: People & Talent

Over the years, organizations have spent large sums of monies in budgets on leadership development. Not investing in leadership development and adapting to changes in the workplace is why leadership development fails. It’s clear that companies with evolving leadership development programs are a step ahead in this economy. But there’s always room for improvement. So, join us to know what are some of the most common missteps we see? And what should HR and L&D teams do to ensure success of their leadership development?

Track: People & Talent

The need for an integrated approach towards total talent management cannot be emphasized enough in today's BANI world of work. Organizations that implement a multi-pronged approach to creating a wholesome talent strategy are more likely to build effective plans and execute their business strategies with distinction. This discussion explores ways to build and sustain agile businesses. 

Track: People & Talent 

As organizations continue to face recruiting and hiring challenges characterized by record-level turnover, increased stress, high interview to hiring ratio, low joining ratio and significantly changed candidate expectations, it is innovative employer branding practices that can make all the difference. Join this session to explore ways to move to the next curve of leveraging technology to support an organizational strategy by improving hiring decisions.

Track: Leadership

Talent has become an increasingly critical pillar for success for most organizations. However, events in the last 2-3 years have put a lot of pressure on the existing talent pipelines. In this session, we will explore how organizations are re-crafting talent pipelines using newer conceptual frameworks and operating assumptions and leveraging democratization of learning to pursue a fresh talent management agenda.

Track: DEI&B

Research points towards the fact that often, many HR leaders think that certain kinds of work can't be performed by someone with a disability, and that prevents people in this talent pool from being recruited, hired or promoted. This session will help dispel inaccurate perceptions pertaining to hiring for disability.

Track: Culture & Experience

As the world of work transforms at a rapid pace, and the workforce of the future continues to diversify, better strategic planning and people management, enabled by technology can be the game changer. By ensuring upskilling of a diverse workforce and preparing them to embrace disruption, the people agenda in alignment with organizational values can help create a win-win.

Track: People & Talent

As we emerge from a turbulent period and move ahead to 2023, there are continuous changes challenging the resilience of business and the way talent wants to work. Human Resources plays an indispensable role in understanding the new models of work to recalibrate life-work balance for talent through employee experience, DEI and more. It more important now than ever to reimagine and align the future of work to advance business outcomes and growth.

Track: Culture & Experience

It's time to invest in the right solution to help your organization save time while helping personalize benefits and perks better. Especially in today's age when employees are constantly asking what more can their organization do for them beyond the CTC, the HR team is often faced with a dilemma - to hire more resources in their team (increasing administrative expenses) to manage more employee rewards better or risk losing people for want of additional hands. This session explores ways to free up the HR function for more time to focus on strategic initiatives.

Track: People & Talent

What can be better than collecting and analyzing data regarding competition's talent, discovering what makes their workers happy, their successful business practices and efforts and then use those to achieve a distinctive competitive edge? This session explores how talent intelligence can be leveraged in more ways than one, to ensure business success.

Track: Leadership

The world is slowly but surely recuperating from the shock of the pandemic in 2020. Top of mind for organizations is to reinvent and reset themselves for the "new" world, from business, technology, and talent standpoints. Over four-in-five organizations have settled for a flexible work arrangement, most still trying out different combinations of workplace discretion. This discretion that employees have around workplace is termed as hybrid work, or hybrid world, or Work 3.0. This session discusses nuances of WORK 3.0.

Track: People & Talent

New age leaders work with highly volatile, complex and uncertain landscapes where disruption is the norm and staying ahead of the curve means to continuously evolve, predict, and adapt to change. This sort of adaptability and flexibility comes with continuous learning and adding the relevant skills at the opportune moment. At a time like this, skills like critical thinking, strategy, emotional intelligence, data-driven decision making, analytics and leading through crises are extremely important. What will it take to be future-fit?

Track: WorkTech

The experience that a job seeker has with a recruiter can make all the difference. Tools that help automate recruitment processes and improve the candidate experience by saving time and money on manual efforts are in huge demand for obvious reasons. Beyond these, this session explores how organizations may up their employer branding game by tapping into technology.

Track: Culture & Experience

The need for security is particularly relevant as employers and their workers face unprecedented economic disruption and uncertainty. In such scenarios, a robust benefits offering with enough choices to empower employees is attractive. Personalized benefits have been found to contribute to employees’ sense of security and well-being. This session explores ways to provide security with personalized employee benefits.

Track: People & Talent

Recent disruptions in the world of work demonstrated how sourcing the best talent need not be retricted to any geographical location. While hiring talent from across borders may be the answer to several woes faced by organizations, the practical aspects of it may get daunting. Join this discussion to know more about the various aspects of expanding businesses across borders. 

Track: DEI&B

Employers often understand the value in highlighting diversity, equity and inclusion, yet many organizations fall short in creating environments where employees feel a real sense of belonging. People leaders need to consider the aspect of ‘culture-add’ instead of ‘culture-fit’ and make the most of the sense of community. This is easier to accomplish when unconscious bias is acknowledged rather than pretending to be all-inclusive, all the time. Explore these, and many more ways to co-create inclusive workspaces by leveraging workplace culture as part of this session.

Track: Leadership

Great Resignation; Quiet Quitting; Revenge Travelling are words that have just got added to the dictionary over the past few months. Earlier to that we were all reeling under and dealing with an unprecedented catastrophe. Yet it has made better people out of us.

At work we have unlearnt and relearnt at an unimaginable rapid pace. Rules of engagement got changed overnight. Functions and organizations that never even thought of remote, hybrid work turned around innovative and employee friendly (unfriendly) working methods. 

Despite all the turbulence what remained constant and will continue to remain forever is the role of “The People Manager”. 

By attending this Masterclass participants will be able to 

a) Differentiate between the roles of a people manager a project/program functional manager

b) Identify the different roles of a people manager

c) Create a plan to become a successful people manager and lead their teams through turbulent times

Track: DEI&B

Spotlight | We all know Disability Inclusion is Important. A lot needs to be done to chart out the Future road map to disability and inclusion and collectively figure out ways to overcome the biggest challenges of attitudinal barriers and stereotypes. Is there a need to wipe the board and start afresh? Let's hear from Divyanshu Ganatra on what the road ahead looks like for DEI for Persons with Disabilities.

Track: People & Talent

Report Launch | Work 3.0 presents a comprehensive point of view on the evolution of work and workplaces in Asia Pacific, and how leaders must align with the realities of the ‘new’ World of Work. Gain access to the report findings as part of this session.

Track: Culture & Experience

Special Talk | Employee rewards and recognition tools are no doubt huge enablers to motivate and engage employees. But how do we ensure the adoption of such tools among employees and embed them in the DNA of the organization's culture? Can we even measure and quantify the success? Know more about how the Vantage Circle's AIRe framework can help you measure and ensure successful adoption.

Track: DEI&B

Book Launch | Beyond individuals, organizations have the power to drive initiatives that can further career aspirations of each of its team members. Learn more about career catalysts for the professional woman, by reflecting and introspecting on gender equality and revisiting outdated mindsets in this conversation.