PeopleStrong

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.

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.

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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