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Key SpeakerRajesh Swaminathan
Global Talent Partner
Diligent Global
Great leaders fail in the wrong context. Rajesh Swaminathan on assessing judgment over track record and where AI genuinely helps executive search.
Key SpeakerPhil Strazzulla
Founder
SelectSoftware Reviews
Most HR tech stacks are built for a company you are not. Phil Strazzulla on evaluating tools honestly and getting more from the ones you already pay for.
Key SpeakerChetan Swaroop Sharma
Chief Human Resource Officer
Caballo Commodities DMCC
Policy never fixed a culture. Chetan Swaroop on what breaks past 100 employees and how to move a family run business toward merit without a revolt.
Key SpeakerIndwin Edwin Joel
Senior Manager, People Development
Anubavam Technologies
Buying an AI tool is not an AI strategy. Indwin Edwin Joel on building it as a capability, turning gut feel into evidence and hiring across borders.
Key SpeakerDeepali Jain
HBR Advisory Council Member
Harvard Business Review
Human bias or AI bias, which does more damage? Deepali Jain on why hiring is rarely objective and what TA teams can actually control.
Key SpeakerRishabh Shrivastava
Business Excellence and Sustainability Manager
EMICOOL
ESG is landing on HR's desk. Rishabh Shrivastava on diverse pipelines, AI in hiring and the sustainability metrics leadership will soon ask you for.
Key SpeakerDr. Mostafa Ghanima
Group Total Rewards and Wellbeing Director
Saudi German Hospital
A cheap hire is usually the expensive one. Dr. Mostafa Ghanima on salary quartiles, cost of vacancy and making the CFO listen to HR.
Key SpeakerAbhishek David
Doctoral Research Student
Indian School of Business
HR is adopting AI faster than it is writing the rules. Abhishek David on the ethics, data and governance framework you need before the next tool goes live.
Key SpeakerNikunj Verma
Co-founder and CEO
Cutshort.ai
Recruiters lose their week to work that changes nothing. Nikunj Verma on where AI buys that time back and why joining ratio problems start at the offer stage.
Key SpeakerMark Smith, Ph.D.
Principal Consultant
A Better Choice Hire
Degrees predict almost nothing. Mark Smith, Ph.D. on how validation really works and why skills based hiring now has the attention of the US Congress.
Key SpeakerFinian Toh
Managing Director
ChapmanCG
HR takes care of everyone. Finian Toh asks who takes care of HR, and what fifteen years in recruitment taught him about surviving the role.
Key SpeakerBen Eubanks
Chief Research Officer
Lighthouse Research and Advisory
Ben Eubanks has the data most HR opinions lack. He challenges the popular answers on AI, talent and sourcing, and shows what the research actually says.
Key SpeakerSwechha Mohapatra
Assistant Director, Workplace Transformation
Institute for Human Resource Professionals (IHRP)
HR buys AI tools the wrong way. Swechha Mohapatra on the questions to ask vendors before the demo dazzles you into a bad contract.
Key SpeakerGovind Singh Negi
Head of Talent for Europe and India
Three Pillar Global
Your talent pool is growing faster than your process can handle. Govind Singh Negi on the hiring workflows that quietly break at scale.
Key SpeakerEnrique Rubio
Founder
Hacking HR
Fired for a side project, then straight into the HR manager's office to ask why nobody spoke up. Enrique Rubio on the moment that built Hacking HR.
Key SpeakerJulie Turney
Founder and Chief Impact Architect
HR at Heart Consulting
98% of HR leaders report burnout. Julie Turney on compassion fatigue, protecting your own team and why neurodiversity belongs in the plan.
Key SpeakerSu Patel
Founder & CEO
HRPro
HR keeps waiting for a seat at the table. Coach Su Patel on the self imposed ceilings that hold HR professionals back and how to break through them.
Key SpeakerMike Cohen
Founder
Wayne Technologies
AI in hiring doubled in a year. Sourcing veteran Mike Cohen skips the hype and shows exactly what ChatGPT can and cannot do for a recruiter's day.
Key SpeakerDaniela Herrera
Workplace Culture, DEI & Talent Consultant
Kay & Partners, Talent Management
Most DEI programs quietly fail. Award winning consultant Daniela Herrera on where the money goes wrong and how to spot bias hiding in your promotion data.
Key SpeakerDeepika Pundir
HR Manager
Bizdesire
Most guests here have 25 years and a Fortune 500 badge. Deepika Pundir does not, and her take on early career HR is refreshingly honest about what nobody warns you about.
Key SpeakerSharmilaa K
VP-HR
Kensium
36 more women hired in a single year. Kensium's Sharmilaa K on the blind screening, AI and returnship program that made those numbers real.
Key SpeakerAndre Oentoro
Founder
BreadnBeyond
One recruitment video is not employer branding. Andre Oentoro breaks down what actually shifts perception and which numbers prove it is working.
Key SpeakerChirabrata Das
Head of Customer Success
CogniSaaS
Building customer success from zero. Chirabrata Das of CogniSaaS on the first KPI to set, what to probe in a CSM interview and how to hand over accounts without losing them.
Key SpeakerPratibha Wadhwani
Senior Customer Success Manager
Birdeye
Retention above 120% can double your valuation. Birdeye's Pratibha Wadhwani on how CS skills, metrics and hiring shift completely between SMB and enterprise.
Key SpeakerAnu Dudhat
Associate Director of Customer Success
Syndigo
Customer success is not glorified support. Anu Dudhat of Syndigo explains what the role really owns, who to hire first and how CS teams lift retention.
Key SpeakerMadhavan Unni
Practice Director, Microsoft Cloud Practice
Wipro Technologies
Die Beschäftigungsfähigkeit indischer Hochschulabsolventen sank 2024 auf 42,6 %. Madhavan Unni von Wipro erklärt, wie die klügsten Unternehmen die Lücke zwischen Wirtschaft und Hochschulen schon vor dem Abschluss schließen – und warum die gezielte Einstellung von Berufseinsteigern weiterhin überzeugt.
Key SpeakerNeha Kothari
HR Manager
Applicate AI (SalesCode.ai)
Hiring AI and data talent without a famous logo on your careers page? Neha Kothari shares the repeatable process SalesCode.ai built to win those candidates anyway.
Key SpeakerTeju Nageswari
Founder and CEO
nSmiles
86 % der indischen Angestellten in Unternehmen kämpfen mit psychischen Problemen (CII-MediBuddy, 2025). nSmiles-Gründerin Teju Nageswari erklärt, wie echte betriebliche Gesundheit aussieht – und warum das Thema inzwischen ein finanzielles ist.
Key SpeakerArun Karthik
AVP - HR
Equitas Small Finance Bank
Nur 51 % der indischen Absolventen gelten als arbeitsmarktfähig. Arun Karthik, AVP HR bei Equitas Small Finance Bank, erklärt, wie man gezielt Hochschullisten erstellt, das Team passend dimensioniert und durch gezielte Pre-Joining-Maßnahmen die Abwanderung von Berufseinsteigern verhindert.
