TA Dialogues MasterClass

14 Aug 2026 · Bengaluru · Limited seats

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TA MasterClass 2026 · Bengaluru

From Recruiter
to Leader

Building the next generation of Talent Acquisition leaders. One room, forty people, and two leaders who have already made the move — spending a morning on exactly how they did it.

14 August 2026
8:30 AM – 2:00 PM
Royal Orchid Central, Bengaluru

Session floor
30–40 practitioners
5–10 senior TA leaders

The room

Most events optimise for attendance. This one optimises for the conversation.

Forty seats is not a constraint we apologise for. It is the reason a senior leader will answer the question you actually came with, rather than the one that fits the format.

Every seat is reviewed before it is confirmed, so the person beside you is at the same point in their career as you — or one step ahead of it. Practical learning over presentations, for a morning.

30–40TA professionals
5–10Senior TA leaders
2 × 90Minutes per session
5.5Hours, one morning

The theme

Future-ready talent leadership

Talent Acquisition is changing faster than the job descriptions written for it. AI is rewriting how hiring gets done, leadership expects a commercial argument rather than a requisition update, and the function is being handed decisions it was never previously asked to make.

The capabilities that made someone an excellent recruiter are not the ones that make them a credible leader. This MasterClass is built around that gap — what changes, when it changes, and what to start doing about it on Monday.

Two sessions, 90 minutes each

Learn from two of the industry’s most respected leaders

Session 01 — Leadership Journey

Beyond hiring: how great Talent Acquisition leaders build businesses

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Ajay Krishnankutty
Head of Talent Acquisition, APJ
Siemens Healthineers

The career milestones, the decisions that looked wrong at the time, and the lessons that turned a recruiting career into a leadership one. Ajay walks through his own path across the APJ region — where the shift from filling roles to shaping the business actually happened, and what he would tell someone standing at the same point today.

Expect specifics: the conversations that earned a seat at the table, the metrics that stopped mattering, and the ones that started to.

Session 02 — Leadership Readiness

The capabilities that define tomorrow’s talent leaders

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Indrajeet Chatterjee
Director & India Leader, Talent Acquisition
RSM US LLP

Readiness is rarely a skills problem. It is a judgement problem — knowing which decisions are yours to make, which arguments are worth having with the business, and how to build a function that holds up when hiring plans change mid-quarter.

Indrajeet unpacks the mindset and strategic thinking that separate a strong operator from a leader the business consults early, and how to build that credibility before the title arrives.

Agenda · 14 August 2026

The morning, hour by hour

8:30 – 9:15 AM
Registration and networking breakfastArrive early — the room is small enough that first conversations matter.
45 min
9:15 – 9:30 AM
Welcome and framing the dayTA Dialogues opens with the question the morning is built around.
15 min
9:30 – 11:00 AM
Session 01 · Leadership JourneyAjay Krishnankutty, Siemens Healthineers — including open Q&A.
90 min
11:00 – 11:30 AM
Networking breakStructured introductions across the room.
30 min
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Session 02 · Leadership ReadinessIndrajeet Chatterjee, RSM US LLP — including open Q&A.
90 min
1:00 – 1:30 PM
Open floor and closing reflectionsBoth leaders take questions from the room together.
30 min
1:30 – 2:00 PM
Networking lunchRoyal Orchid Central.
30 min

Why attend

What you take back to your desk

01

Leadership and hiring strategy learned directly from leaders running the function at scale, not from a framework deck.

02

A clear read on how AI is changing Talent Acquisition work — and which parts of the role it is not going to touch.

03

Direct access to senior TA leaders in a room small enough to ask a real question and get a real answer.

04

A peer network of Talent Acquisition professionals from across Bengaluru’s largest employers, built through conversation rather than a badge scan.

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Actionable decisions you can apply immediately — on team design, stakeholder management, and where to spend your credibility.

06

A premium learning environment at a 5-star venue, with breakfast and lunch included.

Why TA Dialogues

A decade of building India’s Talent Acquisition community

Over the last decade, TA Dialogues has built one of India’s largest Talent Acquisition communities — and the MasterClass is where that network gets small enough to be useful.

100,000+TA professionals
1,500+Senior TA leaders
100+Leadership events
200+Industry speakers

Trusted by professionals from

MicrosoftAmazonSAPUber
DeloitteLenovoQualcommInfosys
WalmartEYIBMOracle
and many more

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Seats are limited by design

Registration closes when the room is full, not when the date arrives.

PayDay offer · Flat ₹500 off

TA MasterClass 2026

14 August 2026 · 8:30 AM – 2:00 PM · Royal Orchid Central, Bengaluru. Both sessions, breakfast, networking lunch and materials included.

Standard seat
₹3,499+ GST
PayDay price · flat ₹500 off
₹2,999+ GST
Team of 3 or more · ₹200 off each
₹2,799+ GST / seat



Total before GST
₹2,999

Add 2 more seats to unlock ₹200 off every seat.

The ₹500 PayDay discount applies automatically at checkout, for a limited period.
Teams of 3 or more receive a further ₹200 off every seat — to book together, write to connect@tadialogues.in.
GST is charged additionally at checkout. Confirmation is subject to profile review, so that the room stays curated.

Partnership

Reach the room, not the mailing list

A MasterClass partnership puts your brand in front of 30–40 hiring decision-makers and 5–10 senior TA leaders over five hours of unhurried conversation — the audience most sponsorship budgets spend a full conference trying to reach.

  • Speaking and session-association opportunities
  • Branding across the venue, agenda and pre-event campaign
  • Delegate introductions and curated on-site meetings
  • Post-event visibility across the TA Dialogues community