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Step outside the familiar, break through your usual ways of seeing and doing, and get ready to experience a different world of possibilities. Through an immersive opening activity, Box Breakthrough gets you to literally and mentally step outside your box, challenging assumptions, sparking curiosity and opening your mind to what lies beyond the obvious. This is more than an opening session. It sets the tone for the entire day—inviting you to question, explore, experiment and look at the future of work through a new lens.

Explore how Strategic Orchestration can help HR and Learning leaders move beyond simply managing skills to actively shaping how work gets done. From Skills Intelligence 1.0 to 2.0, discover how data, technology and smarter talent decisions can help organisations build a more agile, adaptable and high-impact workforce.

In this session, leaders will get a rare, unfiltered look at how two CEOs — from auto and logistics, two industries transforming at very different speeds — are rethinking talent at the very top. Attendees will walk away understanding how transformation reshapes what CEOs look for in talent, what big, unproven bets they're placing today, and how to translate that thinking into their own talent strategy.

A curated pause to connect, exchange perspectives, and build meaningful conversations.

What if HR is no longer fit for the future it is being asked to lead? As work, technology, talent and business models change, simply adding new skills to the existing HR playbook won’t be enough. The function itself needs to evolve. This conversation challenges HR leaders to rethink what HR should own, how it should operate and what capabilities its leaders need to build next. From data and AI fluency to business acumen, workforce strategy and organisational design, explore the critical investments needed to move HR to a function that actively shapes how the business works and grows.

This session explores how organisations can move from succession planning to continuous leadership readiness—identifying high-potential talent early and deliberately building the capabilities, experiences and exposure they need to take on larger mandates. The conversation will examine the role of executive education, targeted upskilling, coaching, mentoring, cross-functional exposure, P&L experience and stretch assignments in preparing leaders for what comes next. It will also look at how organisations can take these interventions beyond small CXO cohorts and build scalable leadership development journeys for business-unit heads, functional leaders and mid-management—the critical feeder layer for future enterprise leadership.

Purpose is often spoken about as a guiding principle. But what happens when it becomes embedded in the way a business leads, creates value, and engages its people? Jaipur Rugs offers a distinctive perspective on building a purpose-led business where people, craft, community, and growth are deeply interconnected. This keynote will explore how human-centric leadership and a strong sense of purpose can shape the way organisations build their culture, engage their wider ecosystem, and create sustainable value. It will unpack what it means to put people at the centre of business — and how purpose can move from an aspiration to something that is lived through everyday leadership and organisational choices.

Recharge & connect! Enjoy a curated lunch while building meaningful connections and exchanging fresh perspectives.

Everyone is talking about AI these days. But our conversation is not about the technology. It is about something more enduring: how will leader personality still be relevant? As AI makes knowledge and answers increasingly abundant, the question is not whether it will replace humans, but what humans will need to contribute when "intelligence" is no longer scarce. Organizations still depend on people to make difficult decisions, build trust, navigate uncertainty, discover new possibilities, and take responsibility for outcomes. Drawing on decades of Hogan personality research, Dr. Pradnya Parasher will share how leader personality will be a differentiator to drive success. Join us to think through what HR and Talent Leaders should assess and develop to prepare for the future.

Gen Z is questioning hierarchy, loyalty, and what leadership itself should look like — and many leaders are still leading with a rulebook written for a different generation. This panel brings together leaders who are rethinking authority, feedback, and career progression for a workforce that wants purpose and transparency over titles and tenure. Attendees will learn what's actually working to earn trust and drive performance with Gen Z talent — and what old leadership habits need to go.

Leaders are operating in an environment where teams, technologies and business priorities are continuously reconfigured. They need the ability to combine strategic thinking, technological fluency, empathy and execution according to the challenge at hand. This session explores how leadership development can move towards shorter, applied capability cycles that help leaders learn, unlearn and adapt continuously.

When Ankit Gupta set out to build India's first dedicated Burmese restaurant, he was betting on a cuisine nobody had heard of, with no playbook to follow. In this candid keynote, Ankit takes us behind the scenes of building Burma Burma: the early struggles of sourcing, training, and winning over an unfamiliar market and the deliberate culture-building that turned a single unlikely restaurant into a movement scaled across cities. At the heart of the session is a question every leader wrestles with: how do you actually translate culture into lived experience? Ankit unpacks how Burma Burma turns its values into small, intentional moments and nudges for every guest, the details most brands overlook but that quietly build loyalty and distinction. He draws a parallel for leaders in the room: the same principle applies inside organizations, where culture goes beyond a mission statement and is built one small, repeated moment at a time for employees and teams.

A curated opportunity for meaningful connections and conversations over high tea.

Join to celebrate a new era for India Inc—where learning is a strategic weapon, leadership is deliberately engineered, and culture is a force that shapes organisations’ destiny