Agenda for 17th March

All Day Innovation Showcase

1000 hrs. – 1050 hrs. Session I: CXO Panel Discussion

Inclusion at the forefront: A boardroom perspective

Diversity is no longer about Gender, it is about representation. Representation is the lowest level of diversity; the pandemic

has been able to cause disruption in this. The panel is a reflective note which look into the aspects if leaders are really

reflecting about the nature of behaviours and what it is that they could do more on this inclusion.

Speakers: Hema Parikh, Senior Director, Business Operations, Ajuba

Ushasri Tirumala, SVP & GM, Manhattan Associates

Ramkumar Narayanan, VP Technology & Managing Director, VMware

Manas Fuloria, Chief Executive Officer, Nagarro

Moderator: Prof. Vasanthi Srinivasan, Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management, IIM Bangalore

Workshops

1100 hrs. – 1150 hrs. Workshop I

LGBTIQ+ Allyship Workshop

With workplace and workforce going virtual, businesses are

facing a big challenge to build inclusive culture, inculcate

values and tenets of organization.

Workshop II

Neuro Diversity

Neurodiverse employees provide companies with unique

perspectives and skills that are beneficial to business goals.

This workshop focuses on raising awareness on the spectrum

of neurodiversity, value of hiring neurodiverse talent, the

The organizations will face significant headwind in attracting

talent and revenue growth if they don’t get ready for the future

workforce and build allies across various diversity groups.

Attend the hour-long session to future-ready your organization

today and win the game talent, growth, and innovation.

Speaker: Vieshaka L Dutta, Director – Diversity, Equity &

Inclusion, Publicis Sapient

Chandra Duraiswamy, Global Communications Leader, LM Wind Power

opportunities and barriers to the same. The workshop will

also include real life case studies of organizations on this

journey across industries.

By Saul Van Beurden, Global Technology Head, Wells

Fargo Sajid Ahmed, Technology Head, Wells Fargo India &

Philippines Shanti Raghavan, Co-Founder, Enable India

Dipesh Sutariya, Co-Founder, Enable India

1200 hrs. –1250 hrs. Workshop III

When Women Thrive Businesses Thrive

This workshop will focus on Intent Vs action oriented strategy

for D&I, Equity in opportunities for leading business / P&L

roles for equity in pay, career growth, 6P framework for

sustainable D&I framework, macro shifts driving towards a

more equitable world- Crystal ball gazing.

By Mansee Singhal, Rewards Consulting Leader, Mercer

Workshop IV

Building Equity at the Workplace

Building a level playing field by employing diverse talent

and creating equal access to opportunities.

By Leandra Mendonsa, Director & Head of DEI, BNY

Mellon Rutu Vijapure, Regional Director of Recruitment, BNY

Mellon

Vishwanathan Gopalan, Director - Finance - Global

Delivery Centre, BNY Mellon

1300 hrs. – 1500 hrs. Networking Break

1500 hrs. – 1550 hrs.

Workshop V

Focused Development Matters

Nurturing women at all layers

Learning – Development – Growth: 3 big mantras for

success in corporations.

So how exactly can organizations sustain learning cultures?

Join this exciting session to explore, share and learn about

ways we can make our organizational ecosystems supportive

of learning, development and growth.

By Aruna Newton, AVP- Global Head- Diversity &

Inclusion, Sustainability Governance and Reporting, Infosys

Limited

Workshop VI

Gig Economy 1 – 0 – 1. An Inclusion Imperative.

We have 5 generations of people in the workplace. 75% of

the workplace will be millennials by 2025 and 75% of

millennials want the ability to work flexibly. With COVID-19

disrupting almost all the industries, the talent supply chain

is under pressure like never before. Board rooms are

discussing Hybrid Workforce and are exploring various

ways to respond to this war of Talent. Is adopting an

approach to tap in to Gig economy an answer? What is Gig

Economy? How can it help individuals and organisations?

Does it make organisations more inclusive? How to

overcome traditional biases about Gig economy around

security, privacy etc. We will talk this and a lot more in this

discussion!

By Sreekanth K Arimanithaya, Global Talent and

Enablement Services Leader, EY GDS

Gopal A Iyer, Associate Director - Talent - EY GDS

GigNow Global Program Leader, EY

1600 hrs. – 1605 hrs. Session II: The Opening Welcome: The NASSCOM Perspective

Speaker: Ashok Pamidi, CEO, NASSCOM Foundation

1605 hrs. – 1625 hrs. Session III: Guest Fireside Chat

Inclusion in the borderless world

Embracing individuals with different backgrounds, experiences and culture help bring in ideas to bring in better future.

Recovery from pandemic will open new doors to gender parity. The why behind this is too powerful for organizations to

ignore. The emerging technologies is acting as a big leveller for work life integration and improving inclusion.

Speakers: Martine Ferland, President & CEO, Mercer & Vice Chair, Marsh & McLennan Companies

Arvind Laddha, CEO, Mercer India

1625 hrs.- 1715 hrs. Session IV: Leaders’ Discussion

DE&I: The New Link Between Organizational Culture for Business Success

As businesses emerge into a new world, the fight for survival will be determined by a set of key differentiators. Businesses

with DE&I at the forefront of their strategy could be in the fittest shape to survive. This is a time for authentic, inclusive and

value-driven leadership to bring out the best in an organization’s people and create these much-needed inclusive cultures.

Previously valued leadership characteristics may become redundant. The Panel discussion aims to bring in the leadership

reflections on DE&I as a link for business success.

Supria Dhanda, Vice President & Country Manager, Western Digital

Nachiket Sukhtankar, Managing Director – India, DXC Technology

Rajesh Nambiar, Chairman & Managing Director, Cognizant India

Hari Vasudev, Country Head & SVP – Technology, Walmart Global Tech India

Moderator: Arjun Singh, Managing Director, Asia, Yodlee Infotech Pvt. Ltd.

1715 hrs. – 1725 hrs. Networking Break + Entertainment

1725 hrs. – 1730 hrs. Session V: Virtual Show & Tell

1730 hrs. – 1820 hrs. Session VI: Rising Together: Best Practices in Tech Industry

5 Mins: Context setting by Accenture & Compendium launch

Mohit Shukla, Managing Director & Head - India Legal & Compliance, Barclays Global Service Center

Gayathri Swaminathan, Director, Ford Credit Global Business Center

Ruhi Ranjan, Managing Director, Accenture

Pradeep Thozhakkat , Director – Head of Risk Hub India, NatWest Group

Ramasubramanian Radhakkrishnan, Executive Director, Verizon India

Moderator: Achyuta Ghosh, Research Head, NASSCOM

1820 hrs. – 1835 hrs. Session VII: Expert Keynote

Breaking Stereotypes: Rewriting the rules of Inclusion

For long years Inclusion has been driven in a traditional manner where set parameters or approach have been followed

however, in recent years it has been broken down further and focus has been shifted towards newer and innovative methods

of building inclusivity in an organisation.

The keynote talk aims to highlight how organisations can break the conventional approach when we talk about inclusion from

an organisations’ perspective.

By Roger Crockett, Vice President, Global Diversity & Inclusion, Western Digital

1835 hrs. -1840 hrs. Session VIII: Virtual Show & Tell

1840 hrs. – 1925 hrs. Session IX: A Women CIO Discussion

D&I for Innovation and Innovation for D&I

Inclusive environment and behaviour translates to its business results and can drive the level of innovative thought that

leads to organizational growth, one benefit of becoming more inclusive organizationally is a corresponding improvement in

the ability to quickly leverage the diverse perspectives and experiences of each member of the workforce to innovate new

products and user experiences but innovation also plays an equally important role in fostering inclusion in organizations.

Let’s hear from the influential Women leaders to understand how we can innovate to include and accelerate inclusion

through innovation.

Hema Chandrasekhar, APAC Regional CTO, Northern Trust Corporation

Vidya Laxman, Technology Director, Tesco

Sheenam Ohrie, Vice President, Dell Digital Services – Self Service, Dell Technologies

Moderator: Rakesh Aerath, Senior Vice President and Business Unit Leader, CGI

1925 hrs. – 1940 hrs. Session X: Guest Keynote

Dream Big: Build them in your heart, not your eyes!

Hear one of the most inspiring coaches on dreaming big, overcoming hurdles, leadership and success.

Dr. Rajdeep Manwani, An academician, trainer, motivational speaker.

Recipient of the National award as role model for empowerment of persons with disability from the honourable President of

India and special award by the Chief Minister of Karnataka.

Agenda for Day 2 (18th March)

All Day Innovation Showcase

1000 hrs –1050 hrs. Workshop VII

Building Inclusion culture in Organisation

Inclusion is about recognizing individual

differences to honestly engage, understand, and

draw on a variety of unique perspectives. This

workshop gives the essence of co-creating, guided by

our values, defines inclusion and diversity.

By Sarika Pradhan, GM & Head of Behavioral

Learning, Wipro Ltd.

Rashmi Devanath, Senior Manager – Learning & Development, Wipro Ltd.

Amit Haldar, Senior Manager – Learning & Development, Wipro Ltd.

Workshop VIII

Keeping it Real: New Paradigms in Authentic Leadership

Driven by passion, purpose and commitment, authentic Leaders combine self-awareness and personal courage with ethical decision-making and compassion to deliver successful, sustainable and meaningful business results. This workshop covers Inclusive/ Balanced Leadership, Identifying your blind spots and biases as a leader, Your personal brand and the importance of authentic networking, Striving for authentic leadership in times of ever converging digital age, Rediscovering and sustaining organisational culture, New leadership model for authentic leadership

By Supria Dhanda, Vice President & Country Manager,

Western Digital

1100 hrs. – 1150 hrs. Workshop IX The Future is now: Women in STEM

Women have been left out of much more than

innovation, science, technology, engineering and

mathematics careers, yet these are the sectors that

imagine, design, build and code our foreseeable

Workshop X

Return to Work (Vapasi)

This workshop talks about Vapasi, a free technical training

program for women technologists who are on a career break

to resume their tech journeys. It helps sharpen the attendees’

programming and testing skills. The hands-on session

future. It is high time that we change the narrative on

women in STEM careers and get more women working

in the fields of technology and innovation, the

technological advancement in communication, work,

food, healthcare and education will continue to be

skewed with a single dimensional growth.

This workshop will talk about building strategies to

enrich, empower and educate more women in STEM

to correct the curve of development which is fuelled by

the efforts of women.

By: Angelyn Jayaseelan, Lead - CSR, DXC

Technology India Rashmi Chandrashekhar, Director- Security

Service Line, DXC Technology, India

includes mentoring engagements, multiple interactions with

leadership and fellow participants. Many of our Vapasi

graduates are enjoying productive career paths.

By Sunita M ,General Manager, ThoughtWorks

Bangalore

Tina Vinod, Head of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

ThoughtWorks India

1200 hrs. – 1250 hrs. Workshop XI

Women Leadership

This workshop speaks about a unique program

‘Unnati’ exclusively curated for women at mid-career

levels that help in equipping and empowering them to

continue their professional journey, supporting the

over-arching gender diversity strategy of creating a

more diverse organization at all levels.

By CGI

Workshop XII

Speaking the unspoken: Mental Health & Diversity

This workshop will define the problem statement around

mental health and wellness, Importance of mental health and

wellness in the current scenario, Impact of this on our daily

lives and organizations, Anecdotes from real world, Speaking

Up and seeking for help and discuss on steps that can be taken

by organizations and individuals to promote mental

wellbeing. By Soumitra Saha, SVP, Northern Trust Corporation

Erinda Shah, Founder – Director, Mental Health First Aid India Devika Dharmaraj, Mental Health Advocacy, Mental Health First Aid India

1300 hrs. – 1400 hrs. BREAK

1400 hrs. – 1450 hrs. Masterclass: Accelerating To Equality

By Accenture

1450 hrs. – 1505 hrs.

Session XI: Opening Keynote + W2RT Cohort 3 Launch

Building an Inclusive Leadership culture Each of us has a story – the question for reflection is - do we have an interest in others’ stories?” That’s at the heart

of being inclusive. Inclusion is about the colors Blue and Yellow coming together to make a new color Green – so it’s

not just about accommodation of differences or minorities, it is also about embracing and adapting to create a more

vibrant hue of the world we live in. We will be richer in many ways for it.

Keynote by Pravin Rao, Chairman, NASSCOM, COO, Infosys Followed By W2RT Cohort 3 Launch- 10 Mins

W2RT Cohort 3 Structure unveiling by Ashok Pamidi, CEO, NASSCOM Foundation & Architect W2RT Program

1505 hrs. – 1545 hrs.

Session XII: Panel Discussion

Learn to ride a rising tide: Women in Business Excellence

Skilling plays an imperative role in cultivating inclusion, it one of the most effective means to drive inclusive growth

in an organization and to build diverse workforce. Connecting aspirations with skills empowers women to achieve

their full potential. Nurturing and skilling women is the need of hour to bring a ground breaking impact. Let’s hear

from the real change makers that how skilling is the key to a diverse & inclusive world.

Binu Midhun, Data Scientist & Developer Advocate, IBM

Manas Das Gupta, Head of Wealth Technology India, ANZ

Madhavi Singala, Vice President, NTT Data

Ramma Shiv Kumar, BPS Merger and Acquisition Lead ,TCS

Moderator: Archana Eshwarlal, Diversity & Inclusion Head ,Verizon India

1545 hrs. – 1635 hrs.

Session XIV:

Women in Leadership: Learning from the Leaders

A special mentoring session for women professionals that are part of our women-centric programs along with women

from the Inclusion ecosystem. The session aims at bringing out Learnings from strong women leaders to help

understand imperative lessons for the growth journey towards leadership roles.

Debjani Ghosh, President, NASSCOM

Sindhu Gangadharan, SVP and Managing Director, SAP Labs India

1635 hrs. – 1645 hrs. Networking Break + Entertainment

1645 hrs. – 1650 hrs. Session XIII :Virtual Show & Tell

1650 hrs. - 1705 hrs.

Session XV: Keynote

Technology as an enabler for an Inclusive Culture: A Global Perspective

A world that has changed and taken human connect to a window screen, how are we still striving to become inclusive

and are using Technology to become an enabler for an Inclusive organisation. How are we also looking at creating a

right fusion of using power of technology and human emotions, intellect, cognitive thinking for better output and

enhanced decision making.

By Jeremy Dobrick, Head of Asset Servicing – Operations and Technology, BNY Mellon

1705 hrs - 1750 hrs.

Session XVI: Panel Discussion

Technology as an enabler for an Inclusive Culture: India Perspective

An interesting panel discussion where we aim to highlight how experts and leaders are using Technology as an enabler

to become more inclusive in their approach. The conversations and case studies can cover approaches internal to an

organisation as well as any impact that is being created in the society. It will be interesting to see how leaders are

seeing Technology as an important enabler that has impacted the overall Inclusion ecosystem.

Speakers:

Sarita Chand, Founder, Indic AI Foundation for Social Good

Biju Menon, CEO, FairHire

Prerana Nayak , Principal Program, Microsoft

Ganes Kesari, Co-founder & Chief Decision Scientist, Gramener

Moderator: Smita Tharoor, Co-founder, Culturelytics

1750 hrs. – 1755 hrs. Session XVII: Virtual Show & Tell

1755 hrs. - 1840 hrs. Session XVIII: CXO Panel Discussion

Remote Inclusion: Inclusion in the Hybrid working model

Coronavirus has brought on history’s largest ever remote working experiment. As businesses emerge into a new world,

the fight for survival will be determined by a set of key differentiators. This represents a tremendous opportunity for

companies to diversify their workforces, improve employee work-life balance, and reduce their carbon footprint. The

panel will seek to answer how they are going on this journey – their personal challenges, how they are driving their

leaders & managers to get better, practices they have introduced, what they have seen works/ or doesn’t work and why

in their own opinion going down this path is important – Why Inclusion matters in this new Hybrid Operating Model

and why this is the agenda for Leaders to address and take charge of.

Ajay Prabhu, President, Technology Services, QuEST Global

Kalavathi GV, CEO, Philips Innovation Campus, Bangalore

Lula Mohanty , Managing Partner, Asia Pacific Global Business Services, IBM

Prameela Kalive, COO, Zensar Technologies

Moderator: Nitin Sethi, CEO, Human Capital Solutions, Aon, India & South Asia

1840 hrs. – 1855 hrs.

Session XIX: Closing Keynote

Towards a kinder, more caring organization

Thomas South, Global Chief Information Officer, Northern Trust Corporation