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Be there to hear Uma Rao share interesting insights on what an advisory role is for HR professionals, what kinds of situations present opportunities to play that role, how can we equip ourselves to be the trusted advisors

Speaker’s Profile

Uma is a HR professional with experience in a wide gamut of HR areas over the last 2 decades. She has worked in leading organizations in IT, Manufacturing, Telecom and FMCG space in companies like Tata Consultancy Services, IBM , Mars International India, Idea Cellular, Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd,. She has been in leadership positions for the last 15+ years working very closely with business leaders.
Uma has had a fair exposure in public and private sector environments, corporate as well as Industrial relations roles and has worked largely in multi cultural environments with diverse people and thinking. Her international assignments have made her more experienced in the aspect of working with diversity. Currently she works as VP HR at Ashok Leyland Limited, a Hinduja Group Company.
Uma is a post graduate from Tata Institute of Social Sciences. She is also the L&D Convenor of CII, IWN. Interacting with students, women and young talent is a passion and she mentors a few of them for their development.

P.S.
Registration Fee of Rs. 400/- will apply to Non-Members attending the program.
Networking over tea begins at 6.30 pm.

We are witnessing a wave of Automation in the Technology industry. The industry that disrupted many jobs over last couple of decades is experiencing a churn within. It is best to understand this in depth from a technologist’s perspective. on the challenges faced in software development in past, present and future. The reality through multiple lenses highlighting what worked and more importantly what haven’t and the lessons learned by peeling each levels of abstraction we have built over silicon.

Speaker – Bharani Subramaniam

Bharani is the Technology Principal at Thoughtworks for India / Europe. His passion is to simplify system design and constantly rethink the choices made in the past with new possibilities that could push design towards simplicity.

P.S.
Registration Fee of Rs. 400/- will apply to Non-Members attending the program.
Networking over tea begins at 6.30 pm.

There is enough scientific research and evidence to prove that happy employees lead to profits. Employee engagement is key to happy employees. What are some of the key elements that we , as an organization can do to help our employees interested in their work, enjoy working and succeeding with their colleagues, collaborate and achieve the organizational goals? HR has moved from an administrative role to being a Business Partner and although the responsibilities of achieving all of the above rests with every leader in the organization, HR plays a very strategic role in this initiative.
The topic is going to explore all of this in a short talk by the speaker, which will be followed by question and answer session.
Ms. Lakshmi Kruti Vasan’s career spans over 30 years of work experience in varied fields and capacities. Her initial experience was in manufacturing before she moved into sales and marketing. She started her illustrious sales career with ITC Hotels before branching off into the Realty sector.
She has pioneered many concepts and successfully handled multi crore Project portfolio as well as a large sales team. Her thirst to be an entrepreneur took shape when she, along with Naresh Purushotham, co-founded Crestcom franchise “Crestpoint Consultants ” in India. She has been singularly responsible for building a 300 plus strong client base for Crestpoint Consultants with an enviable track record of repeat and referral sales in excess of 60% year on year. Across the training landscape in India, Lakshmi Vasan is respected as a Sales leader par excellence.
She is a member of the TNCA Women’s Cricket selection committee and is actively involved in promoting women’s cricket. Apart from sport, Lakshmi Krutiasan is interested in social causes particularly related to women empowerment. She is a Rotarian a she is deeply involved in CSR of a few corporates to create employable youth. She is also an consultant with another NGO to help empower women through education called Pudumai Penn.

P.S.
Registration Fee of Rs. 400/- will apply to Non-Members attending the program.
Networking over tea begins at 6.30 pm.