The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Raipur is organising the 2nd HR Summit and International Conference on August 21 to 22, 2015 in Raipur.
The topic of the summit is “Emerging Challenges for HR: VUCA Perspective”.
VUCA has become a popular managerial acronym that describes volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity of general conditions and situations, stated a press release.
“Today's turbulent environment of VUCA means new challenges for leaders. The contemporary business organisations have been characterised by changes in demographics, customer profile, technology, and innovations,” it added.
The growing business complexities and changes at various levels in the organisations have triggered business leaders to find out more innovative ways to lead change in the VUCA world. Through this grant programme the institute aims to set a platform for deliberations on best practices, experience sharing, and cross-fertilization of ideas to succeed in a VUCA environment, the press release stated.
Over top 35 HR Directors and Vice-Presidents from MNCs, public and private sectors will address the two-day Summit which is likely to see participation by over 300 delegates.
The summit features four panel discussions on themes of leveraging Diversity, leadership in a VUCA World, HR Analytics & Metrics and Competency Management.
This programme aims at creating a collaborative forum where corporate leaders from multiple industries will discuss in panels and academicians will present their research papers on the related conference theme.
Summit also aims to bring together the sharpest HR minds from leading companies who are perceived as 'preferred employers'. A few key speakers at this year’s summit are Narendra Kothari, Chairman & Managing Director, NMDC ltd; K. D. Diwan Chairman & Managing Director, Hindustan Copper ltd; Anupam Anand, Director (Personnel) Hindustan Copper ltd; .T. Sherpa, ED (P&A), Bhilai Steel Plant, SAIl; K. Ramkumar, Executive Director, ICICI; R.K. Srivastava, Chairman, Airports Authority of India; Dr Manas K Mandal, Director General, DRDO; A. Thirunavukkarasu, President (Corporate HR) JK Organization; Murli Padmanabhan, VP (l&D) Virtusa; Muthiah M, Executive VP (HR) Murugappa Group; Kumar Priyaranjan, Head (HR), Hikal; Mr. Shantanu Das, VP (HR), Emami ltd.; Ms. Kavita Kulkarni, VP & Head (HR) Infosys; Ranji Abraham, Director-HR, Delphi Automotive; Nivedita Nanda, Head-People Office Future Group; R Anand, Global Head (People Practices) HCl Technologies; Sunil Ranjhan, Group Head (HR), Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa Apollo Tyres; Vinod Chelambathodi, CHRO Polaris; Dayanand Allapur, VP & Head (HR) Capgemini; Mr. Amanppreet S Bhatia, Senior VP (HR), VOlVO Eicher Commercial Vehicles; Ajay Nair, CHRO, Housing.com; Anil K Misra, CHRO, Fidelity National Financials; Sanjay Singh, EVP & Global Head (HR) Crompton Greaves; Murlidhar, VP (Group HR) RJ Corp Healthcare; Micky Chopra, VP (Human Capital) Taction Software llC; Sandeep Tyagi, Director (HR) Samsung; Prashant Srivastava, President (Group HR and People Excellence), Reliance ADA Group; Simin Askari, VP (Corporate HR), DS Group; Anju Malhotra, Business Head (HR) JK Cement; S Ramesh Shankar, EVP & Head HR Siemens; Rajesh Tripathi, VP (HR), GHCl; Yogesh Misra, VP (HR) Thomas Assessments Pvt ltd. Shitanshu Prasad, ED (P&A) SAIl.
The Summit will go a long way in kindling the minds of HR practitioners on the best practices of HR. The summit is likely to bring about a paradigm shift in HR processes, practices and procedures, it stated.