PeopleStrong

A BIG CONGRATS TO OUR CUSTOMERS! 🎉

We’re beyond thrilled to celebrate the incredible awards our customers have won alongside us at the 17th CHRO Confex & Awards 2026! A huge shoutout to the organizations that are driving change and setting new benchmarks in HR:

🏆 DS Group - Best HRM Strategy of the Year - Subrat Chakravarty, Jay Vachharajani, Rounak Singh Oberoi
🏆 Compass Group - Women CHRO of the Year - Manika Awasthi, Nainsee Garg, Gauri Singh
🏆 Provana - HR Rising Star of the Year - Dipankar Kalita, Deepika Tanwar, Subhash Kumar Choudhary
🏆 Nahar Industrial Enterprises Limited - Best Talent Acquisition Leader of the Year - Rohit Dua

These wins are proof of the bold moves our customers are making to push the boundaries of HR, foster innovation, and drive people-first transformations.

We couldn’t be prouder to be part of these success stories! Here’s to more milestones and continued collaboration as we drive impactful change in the HR landscape together.

We're live at the Gain Skills Business Media Pvt Ltd. 17th CHRO Confex & Awards Delhi, as Presenting Partner.

One question keeps surfacing across every conversation today: Is your HR stack AI-ready, or AI-adjacent?

Most organisations assume the former. The data says otherwise. Closing that gap between automation and actual intelligence is exactly what our unified, AI-first HR tech platform is built for. One system across the full employee lifecycle, so compliance, workforce decisions and employee experience run on the same intelligence layer, not on parallel tracks held together by Excel.

Mrigank Tripathi just took the keynote stage with "The Reality of AI in HR: A Study Across 500+ Enterprises in India", the ground truth on where Indian enterprises actually stand on AI adoption in HR.

More sessions to come throughout the day.

Come find us at the PeopleStrong booth; we're here all day at The Lalit, New Delhi. Let's talk about what's actually working.

Nitin Khindria | Sanjeev Sharan | Preeti Ahuja | Kanika Pandey Tewari | Prerna S | Aseem Nath Tripathi | Mrigank Tripathi | Bhalaajhee Madhanagopal | Adishri Charla | JITHIN P GOPAL | Ajay Kadian | Megha Sharma | Tushar Mishra | Anuj Nagpal | Atul Kumar Singh | Palak Patel | Manoj Sharma | Ankit Govil | Rahul Mishra | Ashish Gunwal | Anish Sharma | Shristi Maurya | Zohair Hussain

That's a wrap on the People Matters BFSI Talent & Tech Summit 2026.

Conversations that went well past the surface. For BFSI, that future is anything but simple - a workforce of staggering complexity and a regulatory reality that never stands still. It's exactly what our unified, AI-first HR tech platform is built to solve. Bringing the entire employee lifecycle onto one intelligent system, so compliance, scale and talent stop working against each other and start working as one.

A few highlights:
- Our CEO, Sandeep Chaudhary, on the keynote stage with 'Banking's Second Digital Era' - making the case that BFSI's first digital wave reinvented the customer experience, but the next will be won on people, leadership and how institutions are designed.

- A candid fireside chat ‘The Reinvention of BFSI: People, Products & Possibilities’ between Mr Dinesh Khara, Chairman, PeopleStrong, and Pushkaraj Bidwai, CEO, People Matters. As AI, digital acceleration and new business models redefine the economy, BFSI mirrors the conversation reflected on leading through transition: from product reinvention and shifting customer expectations to new workforce models and emerging skills.

- And an evening with Mr Dinesh Khara and the sector's senior-most talent and tech leaders - where the conversation ranged across AI in HR, compliance and the new Code on Wages, and reskilling at speed.

Thank you to People Matters for bringing this room together, and to everyone who stopped by, shared a perspective, or pushed a conversation forward.

The work continues. Let's keep building.

Mrigank Tripathi | Anish Sharma | Akanksha Mishra | Neel Mandavia | JITHIN P GOPAL | Siddharth Singh Tomar | Bhakti Pathare | Jitendra Nirwani | Adishri Charla | Prakash Rao

The planet doesn't need another pledge. It needs the small choices we make, together, every day.

The reused cup. The switched-off light. The commute we rethink without making a speech about it.

This World Environment Day, we're reminded that an organisation is really just its people - and the small stuff, done quietly and consistently, is what actually adds up.

Small choices. Every day. That's the difference.

We're live at the People Matters BFSI Talent & Tech Summit 2026 - and the energy in the room says it all.

Moments ago, our CEO Sandeep Chaudhary took the keynote stage for Banking's Second Digital Era - a sharp look at what comes next, and why people, not just platforms, will define it. It was followed by an engaging fireside chat with Vishal Kukreja, CHRO, RBL Bank, on the future of workforce transformation in BFSI.

And our booth is where it's all coming together - drop by to meet the team, see what we're building, and talk about how capability is reshaping BFSI.

There's still plenty more to come today. If you're here, come find us. The best conversations happen face to face.

Mrigank Tripathi | Anish Sharma | Akanksha Mishra | Neel Mandavia | Jithin P Gopal | Siddharth Singh Tomar | Bhakti Pathare | Jitendra Nirwani | Adishri Charla | Prakash Rao

BFSI's first digital wave transformed the customer experience. But that won't be what defines its future. With digital-first consumers, changing risk equations and transformation in full flight, the edge now belongs to those who get people, leadership and institutional design right.

That's exactly the conversation PeopleStrong is bringing to the People Matters BFSI Talent & Tech Summit 2026 - a gathering of the CHROs, transformation leaders and decision-makers shaping what comes next for financial services.

Here's what we have lined up:
• Keynote Session | Banking's Second Digital Era. Our CEO Sandeep Chaudhary takes the stage to unpack what comes next - and what it means for people, not just platforms.
• Fireside Chat | The Reinvention of BFSI: People, Products & Possibilities. A candid conversation between Dinesh Khara, Chairman, PeopleStrong, and Pushkaraj Bidwai, CEO, People Matters.
• Exclusive BFSI Talent & Tech Leaders' Soiree - an evening of sharp ideas and great company, hosted with Dinesh Khara.

Attending the Summit? Come say hello to the team at the PeopleStrong booth. Let's talk about what's next.

Mrigank Tripathi | Anish Sharma | Akanksha Mishra | Neel Mandavia | JITHIN P GOPAL | Siddharth Singh Tomar | Bhakti Pathare | Jitendra Nirwani | Adishri Charla | Prakash Rao |

84% of HR teams have started their AI journey.

Fewer than half are satisfied with where it’s taken them.

That’s not a technology problem. That’s a foundation problem.

The AI Ground Report 2026 is built on 500+ real conversations with HR leaders across India, and the findings don’t flatter the narrative. It unpacks why the fastest movers are often the least satisfied, why data silos are killing more pilots than bad models ever did, and what the organisations actually seeing results have in common.

If your AI pilot is live but stuck, or you’re about to make a platform decision, the gap between those two outcomes is documented here.

👉 Download the AI Ground Report 2026 now: https://www.peoplestrong.com/white-paper/ai-ground-report-2026/

Most BFSI HR leaders walk into vendor conversations with the wrong questions.

Not because they’re unprepared.
Because nobody told them what to actually ask.

The BFSI HR Tech Readiness Index isn’t a report. It’s a scoring framework, six diagnostic benchmarks built for the exact decisions CHROs, CIOs, and CFOs are making right now.

It unpacks why employee data is now regulated data (and probably lives in too many places), why attendance and payroll still don’t talk to each other, and why your last implementation didn’t fail because of the technology.

If you’re heading into a vendor conversation before March 2027, score yourself first.

👉 Grab your copy now: https://lnkd.in/gPac2Usb

PeopleStrong wishes you and your family a blessed Eid filled with love, joy, and prosperity.

Eid al-Adha Mubarak!

Mumbai, the room brought the energy. ✨

At SHRM Tech 2026, PeopleStrong hosted an exclusive roundtable at the Jio World Convention Centre on a theme that's quietly becoming every CHRO's boardroom question:
*𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐇𝐑 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐈-𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐇𝐑 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧*

Here's what unfolded:

🧠 𝐁𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Most organisations have digitised processes but the gap between operational efficiency and real-time workforce intelligence is where the next competitive edge sits.

📊 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐚𝐬 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞: How do you integrate people data across the entire employee lifecycle, hiring, performance, engagement, exits and turn it into something the CEO actually acts on?

🏗️ 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐑𝐞𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝: Using AI not just to report what happened, but to anticipate talent risks before they become business risks.

🔍 𝐇𝐑'𝐬 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞: A candid conversation on what it takes for HR to move from a support function to a strategic decision-making partner in the enterprise.

The takeaway was clear: AI-native HR isn't about replacing human judgement. It's about giving leaders the intelligence to make better, faster workforce decisions.

Mrigank Tripathi | Adishri Charla | Nikhil Khattar | Jitendra Nirwani | Jeemit Kothari | Ankit Govil | Bhakti Pathare | Anand Pandya | Anish Sharma