Day 1
Time: 5.45 p.m – 6.15 p.m IST
KPMG in India is knowledge partner for this event.
Workforce expectations are evolving faster than organisational structures, the CHRO stands at the centre of enterprise reinvention. As the race to integrate talent and AI agents into the workplace accelerates, people leaders must realign policies, governance frameworks, and capability models to ensure human potential and intelligent systems operate in harmony – without compromising ethics, compliance, or culture.
KPMG in India collaborated with ET HR as Knowledge Partner for the 5th Edition of ET HR CHRO Conclave. ‘Re-think, Re-design, Re-align’ - A two-night immersive conference for CHRO’s HR and business leaders will come together shape the dialogue on leadership, innovation, and the future of work. A symposium of over 100 CHROs was a high-impact gathering that served as both a sanctuary and a crucible for the minds shaping the future of work in India’s most dynamic organisations.
Agenda and Sessions
Panel 1
Mega panel on people metrics to business metrics: How HR leadership is navigating the future of work
Traditional HR metrics have long focused on hiring volumes, engagement scores, attrition, and training hours. Business leaders demand stronger evidence of HR’s contribution to growth and performance, the function must rethink what it measures and how it tells its story. The real question is no longer what HR has done, but how it has influenced productivity, profitability, innovation, and customer outcomes. From leveraging AI-powered analytics and predictive insights to identifying the workforce indicators that truly drive value, the discussion will examine how HR leaders can build measurement frameworks that position the function as a strategic driver of business outcomes.
Key discussion points:
- What does it take for HR to turn data into strategic decisions?
- As organisations rethink performance, productivity, and workforce investments, which metrics will define HR’s value in the future?
- What new strategic insights is HR technology unlocking for HR to better support business decisions?
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Day 2
Time: 3.25 p.m – 3.45 p.m IST
Panel 2
The flash talk -Is Productivity Becoming a Euphemism for ‘Do More With Less’
Every CHRO dashboard today has a productivity metric on it – and almost every organisation is asking employees to deliver more, often with flat or shrinking headcount, budgets, and bandwidth. The language of "productivity" has quietly absorbed a harder reality: doing more with less has become the operating norm, not the exception. This flash talk interrogates whether the productivity conversation in India Inc. is genuinely about enabling people to work smarter – or whether it has become a sanitised way to justify sustained pressure, invisible overtime, and quiet burnout. As AI enters the productivity equation, the stakes get sharper: are CHROs measuring output, or are they measuring endurance?
Key discussion points:
- What are organisations actually measuring output, hours, responsiveness, or genuine value creation?
- AI tools promise to free up capacity, but is that capacity being reinvested in meaningful work, or immediately absorbed into higher targets?
- How do CHROs distinguish healthy performance pressure from a culture quietly running on unsustainable effort?
- Are leaders modeling sustainable productivity, or are they the ones setting the "more with less" tone from the top?
- Is HR complicit in dressing up resource constraints as a productivity culture and what would it take to call that out internally?
Moderator
KPMG in India leaders on ETHRWorld Annual Conclave 2026
- Sunit Sinha
- Maneesha Garg
- Sharad Maloo
Maneesha Garg
Partner & Head – Managed Services, Forensic, F&A, HR, Learning, Insight Led sales, Digital business operations and Sourcing
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Sunit Sinha, Partner, KPMG in India shares how workforce expectations, AI, and business demands reshape the future of work, Human Capital Advisory is evolving to help organisations build future-ready talent, leadership, and culture.
From leadership hiring to employee onboarding and ethics reporting
Maneesha Garg, Partner, KPMG in India shares about how we help HR leaders make informed, confident people decisions at every stage of the employee lifecycle.
Developing leaders to accelerate organisational transformation
Vijay Gogoi, Partner, KPMG in India, discusses why leadership transformation must precede organisational transformation.
Redesigning work for the age of AI
Arun Sharma, Partner, KPMG in India, explores how HR can lead workforce transformation by combining technology, talent, and governance to deliver meaningful business outcomes.
Driving productivity through organisation design and workforce intelligence
Sharad Maloo, Partner, KPMG in India, discusses how leadership, organisation design, automation, and AI-enabled diagnostics help enterprises simplify decision-making, clarify accountability, and unlock sustainable productivity gains.
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