Name: The Power of I, August 26, 2022
Start: 26/08/2022 08:00 AM +00:00
End: 26/08/2022 02:30 PM +00:00

Pega is a low-code platform that builds agility into the world&rsquo;s leading organizations so they can adapt to change.&nbsp;
Clients use our AI-powered decisioning and workflow automation to solve their most pressing business challenges &ndash; from personalizing engagement to automating service to streamlining operations. Since 1983, we&rsquo;ve built our scalable and flexible architecture to help to help enterprises meet today&rsquo;s customer demands while continuously transforming for tomorrow. Find your next role at Pega Wondering which Pega Role best matches your interests and skillset? You can answer a few questions to discover your recommended Pega path! <a href="https://community.pega.com/roles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Learn about pega roles</a> Are you ready to join us as we help the world&rsquo;s biggest brands simplify how they do business? <a href="https://www.pega.com/about/careers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Find where you belong at Pega</a>

Pegasystems

What is Salesforce? Salesforce is the global leader in CRM, bringing companies and customers together in the digital age. Founded in 1999, Salesforce enables companies of every size and industry to take advantage of powerful technologies&mdash;cloud, mobile, social, voice, and artificial intelligence&mdash;to connect to their customers in a whole new way. Companies trust Salesforce to help them transform their businesses around the customer in this digital-first world.
Salesforce Customer 360 is our vision for how we help customers with their digital transformations. With Customer 360, every team &mdash; sales, service, marketing, commerce, and beyond &mdash; can have a single, shared view of their customers on an integrated CRM platform powered by AI. This single source of truth enables employees to work together to build lasting, trusted relationships and deliver the intelligent, personalized experiences their customers expect.
Salesforce is committed to a set of core values&mdash;trust, customer success, innovation, equality of every human being, and sustainability. Salesforce is one of the leaders on Fortune's Change the World list, and has been one of Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For, for twelve years in a row. For information, please visit <a href="https://www.salesforce.com/in/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.salesforce.com.</a>
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Diversity and Equality at Salesforce
Everyone deserves equal opportunities. We believe everyone should be seen, heard, valued, and empowered to succeed. Hearing diverse perspectives fuels innovation, deepens connections between people, and makes us a better company.
Building a Workplace That Reflects Society Equality is a core value at Salesforce. We believe that businesses can be powerful platforms for social change, and that it is our responsibility to further equality for all. Creating a culture of equality isn't just the right thing to do; it's also the smart thing. It empowers us to innovate, build deeper connections with our customers, and ultimately become a better company.
We strive to create a workplace that reflects the diverse communities around us and where everyone feels seen, heard, valued, and empowered to succeed. Clearly, there is more work to be done, but together we can build a more equal workplace and world for all. For more information <a href="https://www.salesforce.com/in/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.salesforce.com/in/</a>
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Salesforce India Pvt Ltd 

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are the most relevant in our times - we foresee how the Business Case for DEI will soon be replaced by the Risk Case - companies will ensure DEI processes to mitigate risks. Across the globe, the awareness, sensitization and training around diversity and inclusion will become a critical aspect of company culture, and not a check in the box item. Millennials and Generation Z employees are growing up in a world that is more diverse and less tolerant to inequality. Younger generation of employees will demand more formal policies, processes and systems that enable diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace. With the changing workforce, employers will become more proactive in embracing diversity. DEI will drive recruitment, talent development and retention in the futuristic workplace. Employees will start taking greater stands against what they perceive as unfair practices or injustices and will expect their employers to do the same especially because social media provides a greater opportunity for engagement with the larger community. We, at Avtar, are ready for the future of DEI - to partner you in your journey towards creating diverse, equitable and inclusive workplaces.

Avtar - The Power of Diversity

About Project Puthri&nbsp;
Puthri is India&rsquo;s first ever developmental project that seeks to create Career Intentionality among underprivileged girl students. It is an initiative by AVTAR Human Capital Trust (AHCT), a not for-profit public charitable organization, working in the field of economic empowerment of women. Puthri&rsquo;s mission is to make 10,000 corporation school girl students across Tamil Nadu &amp; Pondicherry &lsquo;Career intentional&rsquo; every year, facilitate girl students into tertiary education and ensure they pursue a white-collar job upon graduation.
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Puthri is India&rsquo;s daughter from an underprivileged family, studying in Corporation or Government School, between the age group of 13 &amp; 18 years, studying in classes 8th to 12th who will be trained through a combination of classroom sessions, games and corporate exposure, to understand her capabilities better, prevent her from dropping-out of school, helping her build meaningful relationships and developing the necessary skills to be successful in her career.
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Desire and potential to study alone are not enough to be successful in life. Timely guidance and inspiration to graduate and take up tertiary jobs are also required to make every girl student career intentional. She may successfully complete her schooling, may lack the right support, guidance, motivation and encouragement from family and friends to inspire her graduate with good grades, to pursue tertiary education at college and eventually settle in a white collar job. Project Puthri&rsquo;s key enablers step in at this crucial phase of her life to guide &amp; support her aspirations in the form of mentors, role models &amp; career coaches and help her become Career intentional for life. Career Intentionality, will give girls like her the much needed confidence &amp; opportunity to take up white collar jobs in big companies, earn well and contribute to the country&rsquo;s GDP. In addition, it will provide her with a safe and conducive environment, free from any kind of abuse and bring her and her family out of poverty to lead a healthy life, with good &amp; nutritious food. Not just that, she will begin to make informed decisions about her marriage, childbirth etc and help her family &amp; future generations to live a life of fulfillment in a world of endless positive possibilities.
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Project Puthri 

Help Desk 

Bhavani Balasubramanian

Welcome Address by Bhavani Balasubramanian, Chief Strategist, Diversity Evaluations, Avtar Group 

Smriti Mathur

Opening Keynote Address by Smriti Mathur, Senior Manager, Sr Director, Head HR, for Pega India, Global Co-chair for Women, Pega ERG.  

A connected workplace is one where every employee relates to the over-arching vision, deep-rooted culture, and values of the organization that the person is part of. It is also about people relating to one another at work, to the ideas, objectives, perspectives and backgrounds. This esteemed panel will dwell upon the importance of building connectedness at workplaces. The conversation will explore strategies and tactics inclusive leaders use effectively to implement an approach that embeds connectedness in an ongoing, daily culture and interactions.&nbsp;

Deepa Narayan

Kannan Hariharan

Tarun Sareen

Vanitha Datla

A Rhythm of Inclusion: Creating an Inclusion Cadence by building connectedness  

This session will explore ways and means through which individuals can promote allyship and have a shared accountability and therefore empower colleagues and managers to be part of the larger thread of building connectedness. Real connection is established when every individual has an equal share of voice. Staying connected to the organization&rsquo;s values and mission matters. Individuals when aligned with their company&rsquo;s values, care about the work the organization does become culture champions or the Inclusionists for the organization. The panel will unravel the layers of culture champions and how they can be utilized to have other employees&rsquo; care for the company&rsquo;s culture, build confidence, increase morale, and eventually build connectedness.&nbsp;

Anju G Parvathy

Sanket Atal

Yatish Shivaprasad

Pooja Mehtani

Smita Menon

B-Inclusionist: The art of Listening to your colleagues and leaders to drive inclusion 

The early career talent or the Gen Z needs to be provided with the technical, and behavioural skills, to ensure they feel connected. Fostering a sense of autonomy (focusing on the controllable) is also critical for this population. It is connectedness that is more important than ever. Leaders looking to support the early career talent to thrive are putting a great deal of thought and care into building this connectedness for their incoming cohorts. It&rsquo;s not only the right thing to do, but it will increase the speed to value of this talent and will build loyalty with your organisation.&nbsp;

Dhruv Sawhney

Suvarna Goel

Nandini Murali

Balaji Sethuraman

Generational remixing in India Inc.  

One of the imperatives that the Pandemic has enforced is the learning continuum. An individual can influence on learning in a team that is culturally diverse by way of leveraging formal informal ERGs. It is about creating an opportunity for everyone to learn, be welcomed and engaged in their teams that is not so closely related.&nbsp;

Sasi Ambatipudi

Deepak Visweswaraiah

Role that ERGs play in building connectedness

Networking Break

With the pandemic normalizing remote work and hybrid work models, many companies are quickly realizing the benefits and cost-savings of remote work. But what are the covert costs the organizations must incur? Should there be extra effort taken by the origination and the employees to ensure and enhance bonding and connectedness. &ldquo;Working in silos is more natural than working collaboratively. It&rsquo;s a tribal mentality,&rdquo; &ndash; Ron Ashkensas, co-author of the Harvard Business Review Leader&rsquo;s Handbook. When the organization operates in silos, there will be inter-departmental, inter-team information breakdowns leading to slow transfer of information and minimal amount of collaboration which makes an immense lack of efficiency in the organization. Can connectedness be a tool to break the Silo Effect? This session brings out how employees can overcome the fatigue and isolation that employees feel that arises due to missing the in-person, human interaction.&nbsp;

Agenda

Speakers22 Speakers

Anandi Shankar

Anju G Parvathy

Balaji Sethuraman

Bhavani Balasubramanian

Deepa Narayan

Dhruv Sawhney

Kannan Hariharan

Karthik Ekambaram

Nandini Murali

Pooja Mehtani

Rahul Ghosh

Sanket Atal

Sasi Ambatipudi

Smriti Mathur

Suvarna Goel

Tarun Sareen

Valli Bollavaram

Vanitha Datla

Umasanker Kandaswamy

Yatish Shivaprasad

Deepak Visweswaraiah

Smita Menon

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Pegasystems

Salesforce India Pvt Ltd

Avtar - The Power of Diversity

Project Puthri

Help Desk

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Help Desk

Agenda

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Anandi Shankar

Anju G Parvathy

Balaji Sethuraman

Bhavani Balasubramanian

Deepa Narayan

Dhruv Sawhney

Kannan Hariharan

Karthik Ekambaram

Nandini Murali

Pooja Mehtani

Rahul Ghosh

Sanket Atal

Sasi Ambatipudi

Smriti Mathur

Suvarna Goel

Tarun Sareen

Valli Bollavaram

Vanitha Datla

Umasanker Kandaswamy

Yatish Shivaprasad

Deepak Visweswaraiah

Smita Menon

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Pegasystems

Salesforce India Pvt Ltd

Avtar - The Power of Diversity

Project Puthri

Help Desk

Avtar Help Desk1 Avtar Help Desk

Help Desk

Speakers22 Speakers

Sponsors Hub5 Sponsors Hub