HR Summit 2020: Your all-in-one platform for gaining insights

HR Summit, an annual conclave organized by Symbiosis Institute of Operations Management (SIOM) Nashik provides a platform for sharing best practices, insights, industry experiences, and latest breakthroughs in the field of HR by facilitating an environment for the exchange of ideas amongst eminent industry professionals through HR Summit.

In these dark times, making a decision can be nerve-wracking, and if these turbulent times compel you to act too slowly, the business might go under. And hence the need for an HR Summit to reflect on the changing and demanding scenario. Because as the situation nears a semblance of normalcy, business leaders will find ways to recalibrate strategies and keep the engine running.

Keeping this in mind, SIOM Nashik has introduced its 12th edition of the digital HR Summit 2020 with a motif “The unprecedented routes: Continuity amongst chaos”. The summit includes 9 episodes with different themes, each giving a new perspective for dealing with uncertainty starting from 22 August till 6 September 2020.

Save the date

To date, every episode of the HR Summit 2020 has seen the participation of over 200+ people comprising of HR delegates and students eager to gain knowledge and perspective of the current scenario of HR management. 

So, get ready for the remaining two final episodes of HR Summit 2020 on 5th and 6th September 2020.

• Date: 5 September 2020
• Speakers: Mr. Saraju Dutta, Joint Managing Director, Delhivery, Realignment of HR Operations and Mr. Hari T.N., Head HR, Bigbasket
• Topic: Importance of authentic workplace cultures: The Only Truly Sustainable Competitive Advantage

Details of the last episode,

• Date: 6 September 2020
• Speakers: Mr. Ajith Mani, VP HR, Indian Broiler Group, Ms. Indrani Chatterjee, CHRO, AllCargo Logistics Ltd., Mr. Yasmeen Shaikh, Senior Director HR, Member of Board, NextGen Healthcare, Mr. Ajay Kumar, Country Head HR, Continental India, and Ms. Pratiksha Jain, Senior HR Business Partner, Britannia
• Topic: Bringing Together Planet, People & Profit

A quick recap of the enlightening sessions

The HR Summit 2020 flagged off on 8 August 2020 by Dr. Vandana Sonawane, Director SIOM. The details of all the episodes are as follows:

EPISODE 1

Date: 8 August 2020

Speakers: Mr. Anil Bhasin, President, Havells India and Ms. Nandini Mehta, VP HR, Landmark Group (Lifestyle International)

Topic: How Bad Times Bring out the Best In People and Fail Fast, Learn Fast, Improve Faster

With massive experience handling people, Mr. Bhasin said that ‘’People don’t follow leaders, people follow followers’’ stating that it is people who are the biggest assets and actively engaged people are assets. In this current architecture and hierarchy, he stated that it is not B2B or B2C but people to people the way ahead, which will create and pave the way ahead to organizational success. 

Ms. Nandini Mehta took center-stage and shared the words of wisdom. She stated that with business prospering ahead, there is a growing notion of how as organizations go big, they are scared to tamper with their success hence not taking new choices and ideas, something a small-scale business will love to adapt. There will be times when success might turn to failures if we do not adapt, learn from other people’s mistakes, and powerfully stated that this learning, adapting will stay a continuous process.

EPISODE 2

Date: 9 August 2020

Speakers: Mr. Barttanu Das, Head, Human Resources, Larsen &Toubro, (Heavy Civil Infrastructure, IC), Dr. Dinesh Kumar Murugesan, Country Head HR, DSM, Mr. Sushil Tripathi, Head HR, Siyaram, and Mr. Renjith K K, HR Site Lead, India Operations, AstraZeneca.

Topic: Leveraging Compensation and Rewards for Sustainable Business Growth

In this episode, Dr. Dinesh Kumar Murugesan devised the concept of Total Rewards which includes everything that an organization can offer to its employees, not just in monetary terms but also in the form of other incentives. He very aptly mentioned that the right talent can take the organization to the right path of growth. Moreover, spending money in the right places and ensuring the efficiency of the workforce can lead to optimized cost spending. 

While in a panel discussion with other HRs, Mr. Barttanu Das stressed the 3 S to tackle workforce planning in a crisis - Safety, Survival, and Stabilization. The employee safety should always be the prime concern along with the business survival and stabilization plans. It is pertinent for the organization to compensate well for its employee’s time and efforts to strengthen their commitment.

EPISODE 3

Date: 16 August 2020

Speakers: Ms.Sandhydeep Purri, Chief People Officer, Sapphire Foods, Pizza Hut & KFC 

Topic: Importance of authentic workplace cultures: The Only Truly Sustainable Competitive Advantage

Ms. Purri described the real meaning of culture in an organization as “culture is not something which is hanging on the walls, it is everything what we do”, it is the responsibility and in the custody of each and every employee of the organization to uphold and exemplify the culture of an organization. “Communication always plays a vital role in dealing with uncertain conditions”. This episode also had a panel discussion with Ms. Vidya Munirathnam, Director HR, Lowe's India, Mr. Sanjay Srivastava, Director, HR, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Ms. Sanchita Sanyal, Senior Manager HR, PwC, and Mr. Sharad Chandra, Senior Manager, Human Resources, Granules India Ltd on the same topic.

EPISODE 4 

Date: 22 August and 23 August 2020

Speakers: Mr. Pranav Prasoon, Head HR, Renault India and Mr. Jagan Reddy-Vice President Group Technology Office, Mahindra & Mahindra 

Topic: Test of Time - The Ultimate Pressure Test and High Precision HR Service Delivery to the Business with Intelligent Network

EPISODE 5

Date: 23 August 2020

Speakers: Ms. Shalu Manan, VP,  HR Transformation, Genpact, and Mr. Ajay Kumar, Country Head HR, Continental India

Topic: Today's Response is Tomorrow's Image and New World Order - The Corporate Renaissance

In this episode, the speakers focused on the importance of organizations becoming more open and transparent which leads to trust and collaboration among customers as well as employees. 

EPISODE 6

Date: 29 August 2020

Speakers: Dr. Chandrashekhar Deshmukh, CHRO, Kokuyo Camlin and Mr. Shrikant Lonikar, CHRO, Pernod Ricard

Topic: Path to Succeed: Generalist vs Specialist and Remaining resilient and envisioning - Driving Innovation in a challenging labour market

According to Mr. Deshmukh, from a wider perspective, generalist and specialist is the relative term where, generalists have the ability to work outside of the core area and specialist have an ability to work in functional areas, discipline or specialty. 

EPISODE 7

Date: 30 August 2020

Speakers: Ms. Lopamudra Banerjee, CHRO, Carrier Midea

Topic: Will the new blended workforce lead to 50-50 reality

Followed by Ms. Lopamudra, we had a panel discussion on the same topic with 3 panelists - Mr. Atulaya Goswami, HR Head, India Sub-Continent, UPL Ltd., Ms. Subhashini Panyam, Country Director India and Vietnam, Hitachi Vantara (erstwhile Hitachi Consulting), and Mr. Surya Prakash Mohapatra, Global Head, Talent Transformation and Learning & Development, Wipro Ltd.