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Starting TechHR Pulse Mumbai 2026 with a power-packed roundup of the must-know shifts, highlights, and stories that frame today’s dialogue.

In a world defined by constant disruption, leaders are being called to navigate uncertainty with clarity, courage, and compassion. This welcome note sets the tone for a day focused on embracing the unknown, not with fear, but with informed fearlessness. It highlights how awareness of shifting realities, clarity of purpose, and collaborative strength can transform ambiguity into opportunity. By leaning into change with openness and collective intelligence, leaders can chart new paths, inspire resilience, and unlock possibilities that traditional playbooks often overlook. This session invites everyone to step forward boldly, together, into what’s next.

According to Deloitte’s 2025 Human Capital Trends, over 70% of organisations are rethinking their workforce architecture to enable faster movement of skills and people across projects, functions, and even geographies. As boundaries between industry, technology, and talent dissolve, the enterprise becomes a living network of intention and intelligence. Leadership now is about orchestrating flow of ideas, trust, and capability through continuously evolving systems. This session will explore how organisations can design and activate this new architecture of work. We will examine the mindsets and mechanisms leaders need to cultivate fluid talent ecosystems, enable cross-functional and cross-border mobility, and harness real-time skills as strategic advantage.

As the talent landscape evolves, hiring is no longer about filling roles — it’s about engineering an AI-powered talent engine that blends speed, precision, and human connection. This keynote explores how forward-thinking organisations are shifting from transactional hiring to dynamic talent ecosystems, accelerating decisions with AI, and crafting seamless, personalised candidate journeys. Learn how Talent Acquisition is being redefined by three core pillars: Talent Communities, Talent Velocity, and Talent Experience.

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Skills are expiring faster than ever, and organisations are struggling to keep talent relevant in the face of automation, AI transformation, and evolving customer expectations. The result? A dangerous gap between what companies need and what employees can deliver leading to a new era of skill scarcity. This session addresses the urgency of preventing skill decay and building adaptive, future-ready workforces. Learn what HR must prioritise today to avoid being outpaced by competitors and technology.

Despite massive investments in HR technology, many systems remain underutilised, poorly adopted, or outright disliked. The problem isn’t always the tool it’s the experience. This session explores why HR tech often fails and how organisations can design or select systems that employees actually want to use. From broken workflows to confusing interfaces to misaligned use-cases, participants will learn how to fix, redesign, or reimagine HR technology for high impact and high adoption.

This session reframes DEI as a lived cultural practice shaped through voice, presence, and everyday behaviours. Through real scenarios and guided reflection, participants will learn how to notice and shift the subtle power dynamics that determine who speaks, who is heard, and how shared decisions take shape. Walk away with practical tools for building cultures where contribution is real, authority is shared, and inclusion is experienced.

As talent markets shift at unprecedented speed, organizations are grappling with one of today’s toughest rewards challenges: pay compression. With new hires demanding aggressive salary jumps and existing employees expecting fairness and transparency, HR leaders must strike a delicate balance between market competitiveness and internal equity. This session explores how companies can manage salary parity across generations, roles, and skill segments while navigating changing expectations around fairness, inflation, and career progression. Leaders will uncover strategies to redesign pay structures, communicate transparently, and protect trust within teams.

India’s digital finance ecosystem is projected to cross $200B by 2030. BFSI is among the top 3 hiring sectors for 2025. Nearly 50% of Indian enterprises now run multiple AI systems in production (EY–CII 2025).  Fintech has changed customer expectations, speed, and product cycles. But its biggest influence is on talent. This session explores how BFSI leaders can borrow from the fintech playbook, agile teams, rapid skill-building, cross-functional careers, and tech-first mindsets, to build a workforce ready for real-time digital finance. We unpack what it takes to build hybrid talent, capability academies, and mobility pathways that match the velocity of Mumbai’s financial ecosystem.

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Building a fully sustainable value chain requires new skills, new mindsets, and new ways of working across the workforce. This session explores how HR plays a pivotal role in enabling this transformation: from developing green skills and sustainability literacy, to shaping ethical labour standards across partners, to fostering cultures that prioritize responsibility, transparency, and long-term thinking. By linking environmental stewardship with people development, this session demonstrates how HR is becoming the driving force behind sustainable value chains that are not only efficient and ethical, but also future-ready and aligned with the values of today’s workforce.

Talent expects wellbeing to be seamlessly woven into the fabric of work itself, not treated as a perk, but as a core part of culture. This panel explores how progressive organisations are integrating physical, mental, and social wellbeing into daily employee experience, leadership behaviors, team rituals, and workplace norms. HR leaders will uncover how embedding health into culture drives real impact: stronger engagement, lower burnout, higher performance, and improved retention. The conversation will highlight the strategies companies are using to build workplaces where people feel energised, connected, and genuinely cared for.

Despite historic investments in learning, technology, and talent systems, a widening leadership reality gap is emerging across organizations. Managers who sit at the frontline of culture, performance, and engagement are increasingly underprepared for the complexity of today’s workplace. From remote team dynamics to burnout management to empathetic performance conversations, the capability demands on managers have multiplied, but support systems haven’t kept pace. This session uncovers the root causes of this crisis and outlines pragmatic strategies HR leaders can adopt to build manager capability at scale quickly, sustainably, and meaningfully.

Organisations don’t struggle because they lack technology, but for too much of it. Performance sits in one system, payroll in another, learning somewhere else. Every tool solves a slice of the problem, but together they create complexity and digital fatigue. With unified, end-to-end platforms now emerging in the market, CHROs are at a crossroads: keep adding more tools, or reimagine the ecosystem altogether. This panel opens the conversation on how leaders can evaluate what to simplify, what to integrate, and what to eliminate: so technology enables people, instead of overwhelming them.

India’s manufacturing output grew 4.26% in FY 2024–25, with Maharashtra leading several sub-sectors. And blue-collar and frontline roles are being reshaped by automation, ergonomic monitoring, and digital workflow tools (Deloitte 2025). These insights indicate how Mumbai’s industrial corridor: spanning automotive, pharma, chemicals, engineering is entering a phase where intelligence matters as much as infrastructure. This session explores how leaders can redesign work, training, and mobility pathways for Industry 4.0 and 5.0 environments. We unpack how AI-assisted operations, digital twins, and predictive safety systems will redefine frontline jobs, and what it will take to build a workforce that is digitally capable, safety-first, and ready for continuous upskilling.

As the world races toward an AI-driven, hyperconnected and increasingly unpredictable 2030, the demands on leaders are being rewritten in real time. Drawing on insights from the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs outlook, this power-packed panel explores the essential skills that will define high-impact leadership in the decade ahead. From digital and AI fluency to empathy, culture-building and talent magnetism; from resilience and agility to ethical and sustainability leadership, today’s leaders must transform not just what they know, but how they think, decide, and show up. This session brings together leaders who are already leading at the edge of disruption to decode the new leadership blueprint: one that blends technology with humanity, data with intuition, and strategy with self-mastery. Walk away with a clear view of the competencies that matter, the mindsets that differentiate, and the actions required to build truly future-fit leaders.

Organisations face an unique, unprecedented challenge in 2026:  the presence of just diverse human capabilities and intelligences but also machine and artificial ones. Those that are able to forge new ways to create business value and lead the rest will have to first harmonise all these different types of 'intelligences' and rewire their structures to truly enter the AI era. This keynote peeks through the looking glass and predicts what the future holds and tells you how you can navigate this new frontier of intelligence.

Well-being isn’t created through yoga hours, meditation apps, or “eat clean” reminders — it’s created through how work is designed. This panel brings together leaders to unpack how different organisations are redesigning decision-making, meeting cadence, workload distribution, and recovery rhythms so well-being becomes a system outcome, not an individual burden. The discussion will surface practical approaches from CHROs, business heads, and workplace experience leaders on shifting from wellness activities to work design that protects energy and drives sustained performance.

AI is everywhere but not everyone is ready for it. Employees are anxious about being replaced, overwhelmed by constant tech rollouts, and struggling to keep up with new digital expectations. HR teams face the difficult task of driving tech adoption while managing fear, fatigue, and capability gaps. This session explores the human side of digital transformation how to reduce AI anxiety, build confidence, close digital skill gaps, and design adoption strategies rooted in empathy and clarity.

Gen Z is redefining the very idea of a career. They don’t move in straight lines they move in hops, skips, and leaps across roles, skills, industries, and interests. Traditional career ladders no longer resonate with a generation that seeks accelerated growth, meaningful variety, and opportunities to build multi-dimensional skill portfolios. This session explores how organiations can architect career systems that embrace fluidity, support cross-functional exploration, and empower young talent to grow through nonlinear trajectories. Leaders will learn how to build dynamic career pathways that meet Gen Z where they are and where they want to go next.

Belonging can’t be declared, it must be designed. In this high-energy, hands-on experience, participants step into The Belonging Experiment, where they co-create micro-cultures that make connection tangible. Through live simulations, storytelling, and design sprints, this session explores how teams can turn values into experiences and empathy into systems. The goal: to make culture something people don’t just talk about, but actually feel.

AI agents are fast rewriting the script to prodcutive workflows, enabling leaders focus on quality and impact without being booged down by quantity. But it's growth within the HR function needs closer attention. While promises of revlutionised decision-making and strategic results remain, HR leaders need answers to 'how'. This masterclass offers you guidance and frameworks across key areas: achtiecture, frameworks, governance to ensure you remain ahead of the curve.

The velocity of technological advancement is creating roles faster than organisations can define, recruit, or develop for them. From AI ethicists to prompt engineers to digital product orchestrators, the talent market is shifting daily and HR is racing to keep up. This session dives into the real-world challenges of hiring for emerging, ambiguous, and fast-evolving roles. It highlights what traditional hiring models fail to capture and explores practical solutions to build talent pipelines for jobs that are constantly being reinvented.

Leaders often solve problems by analysing symptoms, communication gaps, misalignment, conflict, low motivation, without fully seeing the system creating them. Systemic Constellation offers a breakthrough approach: it visualises the hidden dynamics shaping behaviours, culture, and performance, making the invisible visible. In this immersive workshop, participants will learn how to apply Systemic Constellation principles to unlock their own and their team’s potential. Through a blend of short inputs, live demonstrations, and hands-on exercises, attendees will experience how systemic insights lead to clarity, alignment, and better decision-making.