Event Details
One day, one room, one sharp agenda for leadership outcomes.
Date
14 August 2026
Venue
Hyatt Ahmedabad
Format
Full-Day Summit
Access
By Invitation Only
Sector Focus — Non-IT Enterprise India
Manufacturing · EPC · BFSI · IT · Building Materials · Real Estate · Power & Energy
Full-Day Agenda
How the Day Is Designed
The Lens
A single, uncomfortable truth about people measurement - delivered by a leader who has felt its cost.
The Architecture
Original IP, demonstrated live - a framework for predictive people analytics that most Indian boardrooms have never seen.
The Reckoning
Sector-coded tables, one hard question, and every group brings their answer back to the floor.
The Mirror
Numbers first, opinions second -a panel that opens with data and asks the room why theirs looks the way it does.
08:30 — 09:30
Registration, Welcome Coffee & Open Networking
09:45 — 10:00
Inaugural Address
Rishikesh Raval
President - Group HR & Corporate Communications,
Zydus Group
10:00 — 10:15
Confluence — Why This Room, Why Now
Padma Luhana
Chief Business Officer,
HiveStrat HR Consulting LLP
10:15 — 10:40
Keynote I — The Performance Intelligence Imperative: Measuring What Has Always Mattered
Ajay Bhatt
Strategic Initiatives Officer,
Eris Lifesciences
10:40 — 11:00
Keynote II — The Metrics That Move the Boardroom: A CEO's Navigation System
Mayur Patel
Chief Executive Officer,
Proflex
11:00 — 11:20
Networking Break — Structured Peer Intelligence Exchange
Table-based exchange: two curated questions, one insight per sector reported back to the room
11:20 — 12:30
Roundtable Diagnostics — 'The 11th Metric: What Your Business Actually Needs'
Richa Shah
Founder and Principal Consultant,
HR Catalogue
Aishwarya Jivrani
Lead - HRBP & Talent Acquisition,
HyFun Foods
13:15 — 14:15
Strategic Lunch & Sector Networking
14:15 — 14:30
NHRDN - Ahmedabad Chapter - Overview and Initiatives
Hemal Gajjar
Secretary, NHRDN Ahmedabad Chapter,
Sr. Vice President - HR, Emcure Pharmaceuticals
14:30 — 14:50
Keynote - Engineering Soul into Performance : The Architecture Before the Metric
Himanshu Bhavsar
Chief Transformation Officer
Spectrum Impact
15:45 — 16:15
Networking Break
17:00 — 17:30
Closing Address — What Confluence Means Next
Padma Luhana
Chief Business Officer
HiveStrat HR Consulting LLP
Bimal Vyas
Founder & Chief Strategist
HiveStrat HR Consulting LLP
17:30 — 18:00
Commemorative Photograph & Close of Summit
Speakers & Panelists
The room that speaks for itself.
Every voice at Confluence is here because of what they have built — not what they represent.
Rishikesh Raval
President - Group HR & Corporate Communications
Zydus Group
Ajay Bhatt
Strategic Initiatives Officer
Eris Lifesciences
Mayur Patel
Chief Executive Officer
Proflex
Dr. Parag Bhatt
Head - Human Resources
Zydus Hospitals
Birju Trivedi
Senior Vice President - Corporate HR
Zydus Group
Subhanish Malhotra
Group Chief Human Resources Officer
Simpolo Tiles & Bathware
Viral Mankodi
Senior General Manager - HR
Astral Ltd.
Apurva Shah
Vice President - Head, Plant Operations
Bosch Home Comfort Group
Hemal Gajjar
Senior Vice President - HR
Emcure Pharmaceuticals
Himanshu Bhavsar
Chief Transformation Officer
Spectrum Impact
Hemang Desai
HR Stratagies & Business Coach
Abhimanyu Sharma
General Manager - Human Resources
Astral Ltd.
Jayesh Saluja
Senior Vice President - Group HR
Ratnamani Metals & Tubes Ltd.
Sandeep Purohit
Former: Senior Vice President HRS
Gujarat State Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd. (GSFC)
Sandeep Mudaliar
Senior Vice President & Head - Human Resources
Analytix Solutions
Yogesh Pawar
Senior Vice President HR
Cadila Pharmaceuticals Limited
Bimal Vyas
Founder & CEO
HiveStrat HR Consulting LLP
Sanket Shah
Associate Vice President - Finance
Astral Ltd.
Vishal Bhatt
Co-Founder & Director
ZealousWeb Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Mayank Jaju
Chief Financial Officer
HyFun Foods
Nikhil Jhanwar
Chief Financial Officer
Ratnamani Finow Spooling Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Richa Shah
Founder & Principal Consultant
HR Catalogue
Aishwarya Jivrani
HRBP & Talent Acquisition
HyFun Foods
Padma Luhana
Chief Business Officer
HiveStrat HR Consulting LLP
Knowledge Partner
National HRD Network (NHRDN) is a professional association of Human Resource and Learning & Development professionals in India.
It is a not-for-profit organization that aims to promote the development of human resources in India through various initiatives, including conferences, workshops, and research.
Talent Partner
ELIGEN Talent Advisors is an Executive Search & Advisory firm that works with CXOs and CHROs of India's largest
enterprises.
We partner with organisations to find the leader the moment demands — not the most available candidate, but the precise
individual whose calibre, character, and depth match the specific weight of each mandate.
At critical inflection points — rapid growth, succession, structural transformation — the quality of a single leadership
hire changes outcomes.
ELIGEN brings a calibre-first advisory approach to these decisions, working alongside HR leadership as a strategic
partner, not a search vendor.
Community Partner
TAEN — Talent Acquisition Excellence Network — is India's first apex network for recruitment and talent acquisition professionals.
Built for independent recruiters, in-house TA teams, and senior hiring leaders, TAEN brings together training, certification, peer learning, and community under one ecosystem.
In Association With
Presents
Dr. Parag Bhatt
Birju Trivedi
Subhanish Malhotra
Viral Mankodi
Apurva Shah
Hemang Desai
Abhimanyu Sharma
Jayesh Saluja
Sandeep Purohit
Sandeep Mudaliar
Yogesh Pawar
Sanket Shah
Vishal Bhatt
Mayank Jaju
Nikhil Jhanwar
