Dr. Anil has over 23 years of experience across diverse industries, from Manufacturing to Hospitality, IT, E-commerce, Title Insurance & Mortgage and Consumer Internet Services. He have been the CHRO of one Fortune 500 New York Stock Exchange listed company and also the CHRO of Indian promoters-led consumer Internet companies.
His past associations have been with top organizations like Fidelity National Financial, Just Dial Limited, Tesco HSC, Patni Computer Systems Limited (CapGemini), Oberoi Hotels and Denso. He have a proven track record of managing 10,000 employee base organizations with a team of about 100 HR colleagues.

Naveen Narayanan, Managing Director - Human Capital Consulting, Solutions & Transformation at KPISOFT. An experienced professional bringing a rich understanding of global Human Capital Strategy, assisting businesses with the challenging task of navigating the digital economy. His experiences can be summarized in 3 broad themes with Human Resources function as anchor.

• The first in People, Talent & Culture leading large scale & global functions for Accenture India, HCL Global, Al Futtaim UAE and Standard Chartered GDS.
• The second in Consulting, platform selling, driving revenue & client success with Arrows (UK, NL), KPISOFT (Asia, EMEA) and Accenture (India) Consulting.
• The third theme in driving digital strategies for Accenture as CIO and other technology led transformations. In my current assignment I have primary accountability to design & deploy enterprise talent solutions for the UAE government (63 departments, 90,000 people)

Shalu Manan is passionate about leveraging the power of process, people & technology to generate results. It takes collective wisdom to create meaningful experiences for people at the core of any business, work or society. As a practitioner of design thinking, she has helped clients and social entrepreneurs reimagine & innovate processes and create better experiences across finance, procurement, supply chain & HR domain.
As a collaborative problem solver, leading cross functional global teams, she has leveraged her deep understanding of lean, six sigma, design thinking and love for technology to drive results and embed change across people supply chain, leadership development and performance management.
Shalu is leading a Genpact wide talent supply chain transformation program that will accelerate revenue realization, tremendously reduce cost of fulfilment and significantly reimagine employee experience.

Chaitali is a Senior Partner with the Management Consulting division of PwC India, and leads the People & Organization Practice for India. Additionally, she is PwC India's Territory Leader for Upskilling for the Digital World and works with clients to help them get ready for the Future of Work.
In her most recent role, Chaitali was a Partner with Korn Ferry Hay Group, and worked extensively with clients in the Technology & Financial Services, partnering with Promoters and CXOs in their leadership journey.
Prior to this, she was operating as the Managing Director of Experis, part of the USD 21BN Fortune 110 – ManpowerGroup, where she was responsible for building and expanding the Professional Services staffing business of the Group across 13 countries in the APME region through both inorganic and organic growth opportunities.
Chaitali has been awarded ‘The Young HR professional of the Year Award’ and the ‘Women at Work Leadership Award’ at the Asia’s Best Employer Brands Awards 2012, Singapore.

Amit Sharma, Chief Human Resources Officer at Volvo Group.
In a career spanning more than 2 decades, he has worked across various HR roles with top of the line organizations, in diverse set of industries such as Indian Oil, Johnson & Johnson, Philips and TE Connectivity.
With focus on Business HR, his experience spans across Talent Acquisition & Management, Organizational Development & Culture, Capability Building and Employee Relations. He is a proponent of bringing technology to HR processes while retaining the human connections in the organization.
As an HR Leader, Amit has been instrumental building a sustainable high performance People Culture in the organizations he has worked for. He has devised and launched some high impact Talent Management & Capability Building programs, Employee Recognition programs and initiatives towards enhancing Employee Engagement and connect of employees with the organizations. Currently, he is also Hon. Vice President of the National HRD Network, Bangalore Chapter.

Vikas Vats is India’s most Sought HR Consultant, Corporate Trainer and Keynote Speaker. Vikas has conducted over 1,900 Corporate Training programs on over 40 topics spoken over 15,000 hrs for over 3,50,000 employees. He has received over 50 Awards and has awarded over 300 Awardees.
As Corporate Trainer Vikas Vats has unique advantage of being Expert in very diverse fields, providing him with the advantage of relating with employees of all levels / types / kinds / functions. He is expert in Psychology, HR, Management, Andragogy, NLP, Quantum Mechanics, Religions, Geeta, Sanskrit, Analytics, Astrology, IT, Computer Programming and much more.

As the Founder of Distribute Consulting and the Remote Work Association, Laurel Farrer starts, strengthens, and leverages virtual workforces to solve corporate and socioeconomic concerns. A global thought leader on the topic of remote work, Laurel collaborates with the world's leading businesses and governments to eliminate virtual worker discrimination, prevent policy retraction, increase remote job accessibility, train distributed leaders, and design economic initiatives. Additionally, she also shares her expertise as a Forbes contributor, subject matter expert for business education curriculum, and virtual software product advisor.

Saptarshi Chatterjee is the Director - Management Consulting, People and Change at KPMG India. Focused on Human Resource consulting professional committed to achieve business excellence through a combination of sound business understanding and passion for HR. With more than fifteen years of experience in both Corporate HR and Human Capital Consulting, possesses significant global exposure on projects in multiple countries across various sectors.

Mukesh Jain is the CTIO - Insights & Data India at Capgemini. An Techno-Biz Leader with ~25yrs experience leading multinational organizations (13yrs MICROSOFT, JIO, NICE & VFS Global) in Digital Transformation, Product Engineering, Large-Scale Development, Big Data Analytics, AI, IoT, Blockchain, Chatbots, Advertising, FinTech, MarTech, Social, Media, Cloud, SaaS, Mobility, Product Quality, setting up & managing Large GIC in India and leading business globally & delivering innovative results.

Sheetal is an HR transformational leader with HR core competencies delivered in cross sector (BFSI, IT & ITES, Consultancy) and cross-cultural environment (Americas, EMEA, APAC) over 20 years.

1. Delivering HR and General leadership results aligned to business strategy and results
2. Digital HR leading to business and people transformations
3. Executive Coach to CXOs and CEOs
4. Talent Management- Succession Planning, Leadership Development, Onboarding and integration
5. Driving Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives

Ranjan works with EXL as their Vice President HR & HR Leader for Healthcare. During his time with EXL he has led multiple assignments within the HR function as the Business HR lead for EXL’s Insurance P&C vertical, the head of Digital Talent Strategy and the BHR and Recruitment lead for EXL’s Digital Business.

Ved Prakash is a well-recognized senior industry professional with a global experience of 28 years in a variety of leadership roles with strategic, business and operational responsibilities in the IT and Management Consulting sectors. He is passionate about Knowledge Management and Collaboration as a key pillar for business excellence and building a sustainable digital workplace. As a Chief Knowledge Officer at Trianz (current), CGI Group and Wipro, he has set up globally recognized KM programs, both internally and for clients. Ved is also an independent consultant to other organizations, guiding them on their digital and people-centric transformation journeys. Ved is a member of CII National KM Committee, core member of KM Global Network, and is on the KM Advisory Board of National e-Governance Division. He has been recognized with Most Impactful KM Professional, Most Influential KM Professional, and Global KM Leadership Awards in the recent past. Under his leadership, Wipro was the proud recipient of Global, Asian and Indian MAKE (Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise) Awards. Ved holds an MBA from Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, and is a B.Tech in Computer Engineering where he was a Gold Medalist.

Chase Warrington is the Head of Business Development at Doist, the remote-first team behind the popular productivity apps, Todoist & Twist, with 80+ employees in 30+ countries. Having worked remotely for more than 10 years, and managed teams spanning all time zones, he is happy to share his experiences about how to make remote work, work. He’s a regular contributor, instructor & consultant to many of the leading remote work courses and publications, as well as the host of his new podcast, About Abroad. Chase is from the US, but is currently calling Spain his home. When not nerding out about remote work, he loves traveling, spending time in the mountains, and taking his husky pup on a jog from time to time.

Magesh Kumar is India's respected Physical Security Professional. Presently, he is Chief Security Officer at Sun TV Network Limited which is owned by Sun Group, one of the largest media conglomerates in India with operations in multi-diversified sectors. Sun TV Network has 33 power packed Television Channels with a reach of more than 95 million households in India.

Rohit Kalro has 20+ years of experience in building teams, products and launching new digital ventures. Leveraging lean, agile and design thinking methods to drive success in launching & scaling businesses in India, Europe & China. Currently leading the digital transformation & strategy consulting practice for ThoughtWorks in India.

Bhagyashree Pancholy is a lawyer and operations expert turned to a SaaS marketer with 8+ years of remote work experience.
Bhagyashree started her career (remote and in a SaaS company) in 2012 as remote law consultant on contract. She have led hybrid and remote teams for 3 years, managing a team of 62 across 8 time zones. She has published India’s first remote work survey in 2018 and then the second one in 2019.
At All Remotely, She help co-located and office-based teams to transition to remote teams and help remote teams understand their teams better with the help of her proprietary assessments.
Their belief that technology should help employees to be productive and safe is the core of our business at All Remotely.

A digital transformation strategist, Atma Godara is a business executive with over 9 years of experience in the field of human resources management, R&D, Networks and ERP. He has worked in HR Transformation, Rewards, Talent Management, Organization Development, Design and Change Management in various sectors such as Robotics, Oil & Gas, Heavy Industries, Consumer Electronics, Energy Management, Banking and Consulting. Atma has been identified as an official SHRM influencer 2020 and is among top 10 HR influencers by Economic Times HR. Atma has also been identified as 40 under 40 budding HR leaders by Jomaby and he volunteers with NITI Aayog in the Mentor India initiative. Atma has been responsible for major change initiatives in his stints with various organizations. His focus is on aligning people strategy, business strategy and organization culture, values and purpose. His mantra being “People is key to running any enterprise successfully”.

Puja is currently channelizing Strategic Finance for Asia region at American Tower Corporation. She is a seasoned finance & accounts professional with more than 15 years’ experience in the domain covering Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Finance, Strategic business finance, Business Transformation, Financial Planning & Analysis and Controllership. She has been associated with various industries including Steel, Power, Telecom Tower Infrastructure, FMCG, Life Sciences and BFSI.
Puja is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and Institute of Company Secretaries of India.
At American Tower, she supports strategy development and business decision making with strategy planning & modelling through financial analysis while being customer centric. Puja plays a key role in M&A across Asia-Pacific, negotiating customer MSAs, evaluating investment proposals and critically analyzing competitors’ & peers’ financial strategies.
Before American Tower, Puja was the Assistant Vice President at GENPACT in the role of Global F&A Subject Matter Expert. And prior to that she worked for Jindal Steel & Power Limited.

Manoj Kumar Shrivastava is an information and cyber security professional and into Information Technology field for about two decades. He is working as “Chief Information Security Officer” in one of largest general insurance company in India. His articles on cyber security and privacy are published on various platforms, he has been awarded by different forums in cybersecurity era for his professional works.
He strongly believes in simplifying approach and bringing change in culture, educate employees and people. He also believe in efficient operations and effective governance with strategy.

RECOGNITION
• Articles on cyber security and privacy published on various platforms
• Eminent speaker on various seminars/ webinars and forums
• Awarded by Enterprise IT World as “Cyber Sentinel Awardee of 2019 and 2020”
• Awarded as “Top 100 CISO of the year 2020” and community contributor
• Won “COVID-19 SUPER HERO CISO” award

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Mayur Sontakke is a remote work expert and the Co-Founder at NomadGao, a remote co-living startup. Before starting NomadGao, Mayur built and led remote teams while travelling full time and living in various places in India and SE Asia. Mayur has also advised the Goa government on making the state popular among the remote workforce.

Shambhavi Solanki is an HR thought leader with 16 years of experience across varied roles in HR and Product Management. Her focus has been on Organizational development, transformation and change management. She has worked closely with business leadership across people partnering and culture to drive high impact programs for deep learning, talent management and digital transformation of HR processes. She currently heads strategic HR for the PolicyBazaar.com group and is an alumnus of SRCC and GIM.

Ramakrishna is a passionate Human Resource professional, who see the function as a science rather than art. Focused on ensuring consistent delivery of superior employee experience, he tries to bring in innovation into each intervention. Having been blessed with working under great mentors right from his early days, he believes in mentoring and nurturing teams and individuals he works with. Outside of work, cricket plays a very important role in keeping him physically and mentally agile, which he tries to squeeze in to every weekend.
Ramakrishna currently heads the HR Function for one of the fastest growing housing finance providers in the country, HomeFirst. In his role he works with the business in developing people strategies that ensures business growth while ensuring the organisation becomes one of the first choices for emerging talent.
Prior to this he worked with IDFC (currently known as IDFC First Bank). He lead various interventions in the areas of compensation, benefits, reward strategies, HR Technology, business partnership and HR Operations across all the businesses of IDFC and also played a key part as founding member in the set up of IDFC Bank and its merger with Capital First later. In his last role as Senior Director at IDFC First Bank, he was leading the entire HR Shared Services, consisting of Rewards, Operations, Technology and also Heading HR for the Corporate Services Unit.

Sanil Nadkarni is an executive level management professional with more than 16+ years of core Information Security, Fraud & Risk Management experience with leading Fortune 500 multinational companies like Symantec, Convergys, MphasiS an Hp company , and Capita. His professional experience spans across Banking, Financial, Telecommunications & Information Technology services industries in India, USA, UK, Australia, Canada, and EMEA countries. He has experience from high-end security product implementation to the deployment of process controls and managing information security Risk and managing risk across various geographical regions.
He has extensive experience in building robust information security framework and foundation for IT/ITES/Banking across different geography. He has extensive exposure to Core Security implementation, Vulnerability Assessment, Penetration Testing (Ethical Hacking), Application security, Surveillance audits, Legal & Regulatory Compliance Consulting, Computer Forensics, IT Act & Cyber laws, Security Advisory, Law & Enforcement Cyber Crime prevention

Rajeev has 15+ years of experience in ITES, BPO and KPO industry. As a practitioner of Servant Leadership, he believes in serving his team while helping grow those he leads. Having handled diverse business roles in his career, (Marketing, Business Development, Key Account Management, Operations and Building & Managing Profit Centers) Rajeev has experienced various facets of running a business. In his current role at Flatworld, he leads a team of 2000+ people across multiple locations and has accounted for 200+% of growth in business over the last 3 years. His experience in the US Mortgage & Insurance domain has honed him into an industry expert. Besides helping mortgage lenders & insurance companies overcome operational challenges, he works closely with the tech team of Flatworld to build next-gen solutions for these industries. An MBA in Marketing and alumni of UC Berkeley, Rajeev provides leadership to the largest profit center at Flatworld

She has 30 years of experience most recently leading Strategy and Transformation of the Frontline worker, Employee Experience Journey Simplification, Digital Workplace, Application Rationalisation, SaaS transformation, Service Development and Delivery for 100K users globally in Unilever.
Prior to Unilever, she has worked in IT Services, leading Capability Building, Business Consulting, Account Management and Services Delivery for many Fortune 500 enterprises.
She is passionate about Working Women especially those mid-career, who face challenges in balancing work and home. Her purpose in life is about “Growing Better Together” in all her relationships.

Deepak Talwar is a National Cyber Security Officer for Microsoft India. He is a passionate cybersecurity leader responsible for Microsoft’s security engagement with customers, industry partners, policymakers.
At Microsoft, he is responsible for transforming organizations to adopt an intelligent cloud, building security strategy with advanced technologies such as IoT, AI, Blockchain. As a security expert empowering organization’s solving security challenges within the business environment to remain always safe, secure, and agile to do business. He is an enthusiast to mentor, enable the next generation for accessing technology at ease, share the latest trends and empowering them to be more resilient.
Deepak is a Co-Chairman of ASSOCHAM Security Council and Advisory member at various educational institutes and startups. He completed executive business management from IIM Lucknow. Before joining Microsoft, he spent his 20 years career as a technical leader and business leadership positions at Symantec Corporations, EY, Mcafee, Trend Micro, Convergys India as well as his initial career setting up Cisco Networking academies across India. Hand on technical expertise with the right blend of management skills in the field of Information security, cloud security, data privacy & protection, Governance Risk compliance strategies.

Arti has Over 20 years of experience in Human Resources and Employee Relations ranging from Banking, Financial Services, Technology services and Outsourcing companies across multiple geographies. She is highly driven by values of respect and Integrity. Expert in formulating and streamlining HR policies, talent management practices, performance management systems, leadership development programs and workforce re-engineering programs. Well versed with the employment laws of the country

Girish Rowjee is a co-founder & CEO of Greytip Software. Girish has guided Greytip into the position of a premier HR & Payroll solutions provider that today enables processing of 10 Lakhs+ employee records on a monthly basis. One of the early movers in the Cloud B2B space in India, he’s been instrumental in positioning Greytip as a market leader in the cloud Payroll & HR space with around 9,000+ paying businesses in India and GCC countries. Girish has done his Engineering from SJCE Mysore. He is one of founding members of iSPIRT (Indian Software Product Industry Round Table) and is a Mentor at the Founder's Institute, India.

An alumni of XLR Jamshedpur, Anuja is a dynamic HR leader with over 20+ years of experience working in companies like Wells Fargo, Standard Chartered Bank, SAP Labs, Hewitt Associates and HP. She has worked in almost all areas of HR - HR generalist, Compensation and Benefits, Service delivery and recruitment operations, HR consulting, Talent development, HR change, HR Risk and program management, and in HR transformation.
She currently consults with companies advising clients on their HR set-up and in helping improve employee output.