PeopleStrong

Every employee touchpoint is a trust decision. And most organisations are still designing them in silos.

From the credibility of a hiring decision to the intelligence behind performance conversations to the recognition moments that shape culture, the employee lifecycle is where trust is either built or broken.

Join us at the SHRM Tech 2026 Conference & Expo, for a panel discussion on: 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭, 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐎𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐀𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐲𝐜𝐥𝐞

📍 Jio World Convention Centre, Mumbai
📅 22 May 2026
⏰ 12:30 PM – 1:00 PM

Panelists:
⭐ Mrigank Tripathi, President - Growth, PeopleStrong
⭐ Biplob Banerjee, Chief Human Resources Officer, Emami Ltd
⭐ Sumit Neogi, Managing Director Human Resources – MEISA Region, FedEx
🎤 Moderated by Atma Godara, SHRM SCP, Vice President, Head – People & Culture, ACME Group

Here's what they'll unpack:
✅ How to build trust right at the point of entry making hiring decisions credible and risk-aware
✅ Where AI and data are driving smarter performance, growth, and people decisions
✅ What it takes to design recognition and engagement moments that actually move the needle
✅ How to connect people practices to measurable business outcomes across the lifecycle

If you're attending, this is one conversation you don't want to miss.

Come say hello to us at the PeopleStrong booth or pre-book your meet now: 👉🏻 https://lnkd.in/gkYrTtFy

Trust is the invisible architecture of the employee lifecycle.

You can digitise every touchpoint, hiring, onboarding, performance, engagement, but if the systems behind them don't inspire confidence, the experience falls flat.

At SHRM Tech26 in Mumbai, PeopleStrong is bringing this conversation to the stage and to our booth.

📍21st - 22nd May 2026 | ⏱️ 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM

On Day 2, catch Mrigank Tripathi, President – Growth, PeopleStrong, in a panel discussion on "Designing Trust, Experience, and Outcomes Across the Employee Lifecycle", exploring how intelligent systems, meaningful experiences, and credible hiring decisions come together to move the needle on culture and business impact.

Joining him on the panel:
- Atma Godara, SHRM SCP, VP & Head – People & Culture, ACME Group (Moderator)
- Biplob Banerjee, CHRO, Emami Ltd
- Sumit Neogi, MD, Human Resources – MEISA Region, FedEx

In this session, we'll unpack:
🔹 Why trust at the point of hire shapes everything that follows
🔹 How data and AI can drive performance and growth without replacing human judgement
🔹 What it takes to design recognition and engagement moments that actually land
🔹 Connecting people practices to measurable business outcomes across the lifecycle

📍 Drop by the PeopleStrong booth across both days to see how 500+ enterprises are building smarter, more connected employee journeys powered by AI.

We're excited to welcome Siddharth Singh Tomar to PeopleStrong as Regional Sales Director.

Siddharth brings over 8 years of enterprise sales experience across SaaS, cybersecurity, and greenfield projects with niche startups in the Indian market. With a sharp understanding of the B2B ecosystem and strong on-ground ex*****on, he has driven significant impact in the BFSI sector — consistently engaging with CXO stakeholders, building long-term business relationships, and delivering results in highly competitive markets.

At PeopleStrong, Siddharth will lead growth in the BFSI vertical across the West region, further strengthening our presence in one of our most strategic sectors. A recent graduate of the Indian School of Business, he was awarded the Flagbearer Medal for his exemplary contribution to his class and institution.

Welcome to the PeopleStrong family, Siddharth. 🚀

They shaped our strength, our stories, our stride.

This one's for the moms.

Hyderabad, you brought the depth tonight. ✨

"What does AI-native HR actually look like for an industry where every minute matters?"

That was the question on the table tonight as pharma and healthcare leaders gathered with us to look past the AI hype and into the operating model.

At our exclusive roundtable at The Quorum, we explored: 𝐀𝐈-𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐇𝐑 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡 — 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐚 & 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞.

Here's what unfolded through the evening:

🧠 𝐀𝐈 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐬: A clear, layered journey, AI for your personal life, AI for your work beyond HR, and AI for your HR function, showing leaders exactly where the next 90 days of value live, not just the next 3 years.

🩺 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐅𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐦𝐬: A reflection on how the next breakthrough in pharma and healthcare will not come from a single discovery but from organisations that learn to operate at AI speed without losing clinical rigour.

📊 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐏𝐲𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐝: A practical framework on where pharma and hospital HR leaders should invest first and what to deliberately not fund, yet mapped on Effort × Impact.

🔍 𝐎𝐫𝐠 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 → 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬: A candid discussion on the emerging "Frontier Firm", what changes when AI agents become genuine teammates, and what that means for compliance-heavy, regulation-driven industries like ours.

🚀 𝐌𝐀𝐀𝐗 · 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨: Not a slideware moment. A live walkthrough of how AI is already running across the HR value chain at PeopleStrong customer enterprises, from talent to learning to performance.

Hyderabad reminded us that this industry has always run on rigour, evidence, and trust. AI doesn't change that. It compounds it if we lead the design.

📘 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐨𝐨𝐧. We surveyed 500+ organisations to cut through the hype and surface where AI adoption in HR actually stands, what's driving outcomes, and what's quietly getting in the way.

Pre-register here 👉 https://hubs.li/Q04fWWjG0

Dr. Shailesh Ayyangar | Mrigank Tripathi | Ankit Bhatnagar | Adishri Charla | Pradeep | Bhalajhee Madhagopal | Abhishek Dey

Consumer spending in the UAE is down 𝟐𝟓–𝟑𝟎% since February
Tourism-linked transactions have fallen by 𝟔𝟎%
𝟐𝟐𝟔,𝟓𝟎𝟎 short-term bookings cancelled in a single month
The region could lose $𝟑𝟒–𝟓𝟔𝐛𝐧 in visitor spend this year

The workforce decisions that used to happen annually are now happening weekly. Retention conversations. Goal resets. Redeployment calls. Pay cut trade-offs. All of it, compressed into real time.

The organisations holding steady aren't operating on different instincts. They're operating on different infrastructure.

⚡ We've just released 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐇𝐑𝐎'𝐬 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐍𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐂𝐂 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐬 built for exactly this moment.

Inside:
📌 The crisis that reshaped the GCC workforce overnight, what the data actually says
📌 Who is losing headcount and who is holding steady, by sector
📌 How CHROs are navigating layoffs, pay cuts, and leaves in real time
📌 What HR priorities look like now; the before/after scorecard
📌 Six things your HRMS must be able to do in a crisis
📌 How to ready your talent pipeline before recovery hits

📘 Download your copy here: https://hubs.li/Q04fpbg80

We're excited to welcome Ashish Gunwal to PeopleStrong as the Director of Marketing.

Ashish brings over 15 years of experience in B2B technology marketing and communications across the IT and Telecom sectors, having worked with leading organizations including Iron Mountain, Bharti Airtel, and other top B2B brands. He is passionate about emerging technologies and has a strong track record of building impactful brand strategies, driving product marketing, crafting compelling content, and accelerating demand generation through integrated, high-impact campaigns.

At PeopleStrong, he will lead our brand and marketing charter, shaping how we show up in the market, sharpening our category narrative, and scaling integrated campaigns that fuel pipeline and growth across our regions.

Welcome to the PeopleStrong family, Ashish. 🚀

How do you centralise HR for a 90-year-old pharmaceutical company with 45,000 employees across 85 countries...

when the starting point is 10% digitisation and every manufacturing site running its own operations?

That was the challenge Cipla faced.

The answer was building the One Cipla experience: one platform for pay, leave, attendance, queries, and every people process, deployed across 24 entities in India, Africa, Europe, and emerging markets.

For a manufacturing workforce where half the employees work from plant floors, this meant configuring a single system that could handle diverse shift patterns and attendance rules across regions without forcing artificial standardisation.

Today, the platform processes 10 million+ transactions a month.

Read the full story of Cipla's HR transformation with PeopleStrong.

https://lnkd.in/gMXWYakB



Nikhil Morade | Prakash Rao | Ritu Bhardwaj | Nikhil Khattar

We're excited to welcome JITHIN P GOPAL to PeopleStrong as Regional Sales Director.

Jithin brings over 11 years of experience in sales across IT products, services, analytics, and martech in the India region, with a strong understanding of the SaaS ecosystem and a consistent focus on the BFSI sector throughout his career. He has a proven track record of driving business growth, building strategic client relationships, and delivering value in highly competitive markets.

At PeopleStrong, he will be leading the South BFSI pod, playing a key role in expanding our presence and strengthening client partnerships across the region.

Welcome to the PeopleStrong family, Jithin. 🚀