About HCI Talks
Leadership gets built in India. This is the room for it.
HCI Talks is a reviewed forum and a free-to-read source of insight for the Heads, Directors, VPs and CXOs who run global work from India: the leaders inside GCCs and enterprises who carry decisions headquarters can't see.
IllustrativeWhy it exists
Decisions get made in headquarters. Ownership gets decided here.
Headquarters approves the move.
Strategy, budget and a deadline, signed in another time zone.
The decision lands on a desk in India.
The capability moves. So do the calls nobody wrote down: who proposes, decides, acts and signs.
The best answer is usually a peer who has made it.
Not a vendor and not a consultant. Someone at the same table, with the same kind of mandate.
What we do
Four ways in. One standard.
IllustrativeSeven functional forums
People, technology, finance, operations, product, governance and strategy. Small, reviewed circles built around real questions.
See the forums
IllustrativeTake the Floor
Host-led 30–45 minute sessions on Google Meet: Ask the Expert, Leadership Roundtable and Leader Spotlight.
Request a session
IllustrativeInsights, free to read
Explainers and research for leaders who run global work from India, starting with what a GCC is and who runs it.
Read the insights
IllustrativeFor companies
A bounded HR decision review for India GCCs: one people decision, mapped from proposal to sign-off.
Discuss a people decisionRules of the room
Same table. Same rules.
Chatham House by default
What is said stays unattributed. The lesson travels, the name never does.
Reviewed, not purchased
Core membership is free. Every place is reviewed. Nobody buys a seat.
No one sells in the room
Including us. Sessions are for peers, not pitches. No cold outreach.
Read the full community guidelines.
“The leaders running India's GCCs carry decisions headquarters can't see. They deserve a room of peers who can.”
Bhaskar Anand · Founder, HCI Talks and Talpro · 15+ years in HR technology and leadership hiring
The small print, in plain words
- Core membership is free for approved leaders. Network Plus is an optional ₹9,999 a year add-on.
- Applications are confidential. Your employer is never contacted.
- Programmes open as forums reach readiness; we say so on each page rather than promise dates we can't keep.
- HCI Talks is operated by Talpro India Private Limited, Bengaluru. It is a leadership forum, not affiliated with the human-computer interaction academic discipline.
Applications open
Bring one decision. Leave with a circle.
Core membership is free. Every application is reviewed for role and relevance, and stays confidential.