India's Most Exclusive TA Leadership Forum

Where India's
Sharpest Minds
in Talent Come Together

A closed-door dinner roundtable for ten senior TA leaders — no panels, no PowerPoints, no noise. Just the conversations that actually move the needle on how India hires.

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TalentDNA by HiringEye
India's Premier TA Forum
Hyderabad · Knowledge City
By Invitation Only
10 Seats · No Exceptions
Dinner Roundtable Format
Senior TA Leaders Only
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TalentDNA by HiringEye
India's Premier TA Forum
What is TalentDNA

Not a conference.
A conversation worth having.

Most industry events leave you with a tote bag, a badge lanyard, and a LinkedIn connection you'll never message. TalentDNA Roundtables are built differently.

Each session is capped at 10 senior TA leaders, curated by invitation, and structured so every voice in the room carries genuine weight. This is a private forum where India's most thoughtful talent leaders share what actually works — and what quietly fails — without the performance of a stage.

TalentDNA is a TA community. It exists purely to bring senior TA leaders and founders into honest, high-quality dialogue about the real challenges shaping how India hires. Just the right people in the right room.

"The quality of your hiring decisions tomorrow depends entirely on the quality of your thinking today. This is where that thinking happens."
— The TalentDNA Philosophy
10Max Per Session
100%Tech Hiring Focussed Discussions
100%Senior Practitioners
∞Candour
Current Roundtable Theme

The Question Every Indian TA Leader
Is Quietly Wrestling With

Each TalentDNA session takes on one defining challenge in Indian talent. No generic topics. No recycled panel themes. We go deep on what is real right now.

Featured Discussion Theme
"The Quality vs. Speed Paradox — 8th May 2026, @Knowledge city, Hyderabad.
How Indian TA Leaders Are Navigating the Pressure to Hire Fast Without Breaking What Hiring Is For"
Businesses want roles filled yesterday. Leadership wants zero hiring mistakes. Hiring managers want their exact brief met. And candidates want a decision in 48 hours. You're caught in the middle — expected to be both fast and right, under budgets that demand more with less, with tools that promise everything. This evening, we unpack what's real, what's noise, and what TA leaders across India are actually doing about it.
When speed becomes the primary metric, what does quality silently lose — and how do we actually measure that gap?
AI screening tools claim to accelerate hiring. But are they compressing the right parts of the funnel?
What does a "good hire" actually mean in 2026 — and who in your organisation gets to decide?
Hiring manager buy-in: how do you hold the line on quality when urgency comes from the very top?
The candidate experience paradox — fast pipelines that systematically repel the candidates most worth having.
Where does the "bar-raiser" model work in Indian organisational culture, and where does it silently fail?
The Person Behind TalentDNA

Built by Someone Who's
Lived It — Not Just Studied It

Rajeev Reddy
Founder · TalentDNA Community & HiringEye
🧠 TA Community Builder 🎙️ Roundtable Curator 🤖 AI Enthusiast 💼 Entrepreneur 🔗 Connector of People
18+Years in TA
100+Leaders in Network
2Brands Built
∞Candour

A TA Practitioner Who Decided
to Build the Community He Wished Had Existed

Rajeev has spent close to 2 decades inside the world of talent acquisition — not as an observer, but as someone who has shaped hiring strategy, navigated impossible briefs, and watched organisations succeed or stumble based almost entirely on the quality of their talent thinking.

What frustrated him most wasn't the work. It was the isolation. Senior TA leaders in India were solving the same hard problems independently, making the same expensive mistakes quietly, and had no trusted space to actually compare notes. Every forum was either too big, too vendor-driven, or too performative to produce anything real.

"I wasn't looking to build another networking event. I wanted to create the room I never had access to — where the most experienced TA minds in India could speak completely honestly, without an audience and without an agenda."

TalentDNA was born from that gap. It is a TA community — built specifically for senior talent acquisition leaders and founders who shape how organisations hire. The format is intentional: small, curated, closed-door, and built around dialogue rather than presentations.

Alongside TalentDNA, Rajeev leads HiringEye — an AI-powered hiring firm serving tech, engineering, and leadership search mandates. His experience running a hiring firm gives him a sharp, practitioner-level understanding of what TA leaders are actually up against. That's what makes the conversations he curates different.

His conviction: Indian TA leadership is full of brilliant, battle-tested practitioners. They just need the right room to think together. TalentDNA is that room.

The Room

Every Seat Is Curated.
Every Voice Matters.

Access to TalentDNA Roundtables is by invitation only. We look for a specific profile — not seniority for its own sake, but practitioners who bring genuine perspective and something real to contribute.

👑
C-Suite HR & TA Leaders
CHROs, VP-TA, and Director-level leaders from mid-to-large enterprises shaping hiring strategy at scale
🚀
Startup & Unicorn Heads of Talent
Leaders navigating hypergrowth hiring — building culture and quality at speed with limited resources
🤖
AI-Forward TA Practitioners
Innovators already experimenting with AI-augmented hiring in the India context with real outcomes to share
⚡
High-Volume Hiring Leaders
Those managing 50+ hires per quarter who live the quality-speed tension every single day
🏦
Cross-Sector Senior Practitioners
Leaders from tech, engineering, BFSI, consulting, and product companies across the Hyderabad ecosystem
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The Plainly Honest
Those willing to speak candidly about what doesn't work — not just what looks good on a LinkedIn post
Why It Matters

What You'll Leave With That
No Conference Can Give You

01
Clarity You Can Act On
Not frameworks. Not theory. Peer-tested thinking from leaders who have tried what you're considering — and know what works specifically in the India context.
02
Relationships That Last
Ten senior TA leaders in an intimate dinner setting create bonds that LinkedIn connections never do. You'll still be referencing this conversation months from now.
03
A Voice, Not a Seat
No keynotes. No passive rows. Every perspective shapes where the conversation goes. Your experience is part of the curriculum for the evening.
04
Documented Thought Leadership
A post-roundtable LinkedIn article authored from the room's collective intelligence — crediting every participant and amplifying your ideas to thousands.
05
Rare, Unrepeatable Access
TalentDNA Roundtables happen a limited number of times per year. Each is unique in composition, topic, and outcome. You won't get this anywhere else in India.
06
100% Tech Hiring Focussed Discussions
Fully focused on tech hiring discussions—delivering top engineering and AI talent with speed and precision.
The Evening

An Agenda Built for
Real Conversation

Every minute of a TalentDNA roundtable is designed to create conditions for genuine dialogue — not structured networking, not keynote downloads. Real talk, over a real dinner.

1
Arrival & Welcome
Introductions in a setting designed for candour, not credentials
2
Setting the Stage
A sharp provocation on where Indian TA stands — no fluff, no slide decks, no slides
3
Dinner & Open Discussion
"What's actually breaking?" — the war stories that never make it to LinkedIn posts
4
Structured Roundtable Debate
Facilitated discussion: frameworks, failures, and what peers are actually doing differently
5
The Room's Verdict
Collective synthesis — what the sharpest TA minds believe should change, and how
6
Desserts & Open Floor
The conversations that always continue long after the structured session ends
The TalentDNA Promise
✓
Fully off-the-record
What's shared in the room stays in the room. No attribution without explicit consent.
✓
Personally curated
Every seat reviewed by Rajeev himself. No random registrations accepted.
✓
Your ideas published
A post-roundtable article credits and amplifies every participant's contributions.
✓
Hosted with warmth
Fine dinner, premium venue, a room that genuinely feels worth being in.

This Is the Room
You Didn't Know You Needed

We review every request personally. If you're the right fit for this conversation — and if space remains — you'll hear from us within 48 hours.

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"The conversations that change careers rarely happen in conference halls."

— Rajeev Reddy, Founder · TalentDNA by HiringEye