What does it take for an idea to become a legacy?
The second edition of the People Matters Infini-T Awards India, held at TechHR India 2026 on 7th August at Yashobhoomi Convention Centre, Delhi, builds on last year’s vision with a sharper ambition: Crafting a Legacy Worth Applauding.
As India enters a defining decade for talent, technology and transformation, Infini-T moves beyond recognising processes to celebrating work that creates lasting impact – initiatives that build future-ready capabilities, scale innovation and shape the future of People & Work.
What began as an awards platform last year has now grown into a movement celebrating the leaders, teams and organisations whose work has the potential to endure.
Moving beyond process to progress
As India enters a defining decade for talent, the expectations from organisations and their people functions are changing rapidly.
AI is reshaping jobs and skills, technology is transforming how work gets done, and leaders are being asked to build organisations that can continuously adapt. In this environment, recognition cannot stop at HR processes or programmes.
The Infini-T Awards seek to spotlight organisations and leaders demonstrating future-readiness, measurable impact, innovation and the ability to create sustainable change.
The awards recognise excellence across three interconnected dimensions - Talent, Tech and Transformation, while placing equal emphasis on purpose and practice. That distinction lies at the heart of Infini-T.
It is not about celebrating an initiative simply because it is new. It is about recognising work that has created meaningful impact, can scale beyond its immediate context and has the potential to influence how organisations approach people and work in the years ahead.
Crafting a legacy worth applauding
The second edition carries a larger ambition: to establish Infini-T as one of India’s most credible platforms for recognising excellence in People & Work.
The awards are designed around the belief that a trophy should be more than a symbol of achievement. It should represent an idea worth sharing, a journey worth learning from and a transformation worth replicating.
This year, the spotlight is therefore on initiatives that embed long-term thinking into transformation strategies; invest in capability-building across people and technology; create scalable and sustainable models of talent innovation; and demonstrate learning, humility and growth through both successes and failures.
In other words, Infini-T is looking beyond the polished outcome to understand the journey behind it.
That includes the experiments that worked, the ones that did not, the lessons that emerged and the leadership choices that enabled transformation to take root
The credibility of the Infini-T Awards is strengthened by a jury of seasoned CXOs, Chief People Officers, HR practitioners, transformation leaders, technology experts, academics and domain specialists.
The Grand Jury brings strategic leadership expertise, while the Assessment Jury evaluates entries through a practitioner-led lens, assessing their impact, scalability, sustainability and innovation.
Together, the panels ensure that Infini-T recognises not just compelling ideas, but meaningful work that delivers lasting impact.
- P Dwarakanath
- Dr Alka Mittal
People Matters CEO of the Year 🏆
Winner | Metal |
Sony Pictures Networks India Private Limited | Gold |
UBS | Gold |
Myntra Designs Pvt. Ltd. | Silver |
Best Talent Attraction Strategy 🏆
Winner:
Niva Bupa Health Insurance | Silver |
Candidate Experience Innovation 🏆
| Persistent system | Gold |
| INFOSYS BPM LIMITED | Silver |
| Nuvama Wealth Management Ltd | Silver |
First-Mile Employee Experience Innovation 🏆
| Aarti Industries Limited | Gold |
| Jindal Stainless | Silver |
Onboarding Excellence 🏆
| TVS Credit Services Ltd. | Gold |
| MAKEMYTRIP (INDIA) PRIVATE LIMITED | Gold |
| Tiger Analytics India Consulting Private Limited | Silver |
| Micron Technology Operations India LLP | Silver |
| Persistent system | Bronze |
Learning Strategy of the Year 🏆
| Tata Consultancy Services | Gold |
| Vodafone Idea Limited. | Gold |
| Sony Pictures Networks India Private Limited | Silver |
| R Systems International Ltd | Gold |
| Tata Consultancy Services | Silver |
| Rategain | Bronze |
| Jakson Group | Bronze |
| Axis Bank | Gold |
| Bosch India | Gold |
| Persistent system | Silver |
| SUN PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES LTD | Bronze |
| Jindal Power Limited | Silver |
| NTPC Limited | Gold |
| TBO.com | Gold |
| TVS Supply Chain Solutions Limited | Gold |
| Axis Bank | Bronze |
| NTPC Limited | Silver |
| TVS Motor Company | Gold |
| LatentView Analytics | Bronze |
| Raymond Lifestyle | Silver |
| HDFC securities Limited. | Silver |
| TVS Motor Company | Gold |
| Algoleap | Bronze |
| DR REDDYS LABORATORIES LIMITED | Silver |
| National Stock Exchange of India Limited. | Gold |
| Caizin (4E Software Private Limited) | Silver |
| NoBroker Technologies Solutions Pvt. Ltd. | Silver |
| Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd | Gold |
| CME Group | Bronze |
| Axis max Life insurance | Silver |
| IndiaFirst Life Insurance Company | Silver |
| Boeing India Pvt. Ltd. | Gold |
| Five-Star Business Finance Limited | Gold |
| Spinny | Gold |
| Reflections Infos System Pvt Ltd | Bronze |
| SpaceMatrix | Bronze |
| LatentView Analytics | Silver |
| ITC Life Sciences & Technology Centre | Gold |
Total Rewards Strategy of the Year 🏆
| National Stock Exchange of India Limited. | Silver |
| Policybazaar | Silver |
| LatentView Analytics | Gold |
| TVS Credit Services Ltd. | Bronze |
| Persistent system | Silver |
| Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited | Silver |
| ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India Limited | Gold |
| Tata Consultancy Services | Gold |
AI in HR Transformation 🏆
| (Yubi) Credavenue Private Limited | Bronze |
| Welspun Transformation Services Limited | Bronze |
| Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd | Silver |
| JLL India | Gold |
| Novel Jewels Limited | Gold |
| Harbinger Systems Pvt. Ltd. | Bronze |
| Axis Bank | Bronze |
| TVS Motor Company | Silver |
| Bikaji foods International Ltd. | Silver |
| Myntra Designs Pvt. Ltd. | Silver |
| Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited | Gold |
| Persistent system | Gold |
| Ericsson India Ltd | Silver |
| Vedanta Aluminium Metal Limited Jharsuguda | Silver |
| Nagarro | Gold |
| SUD Life Insurance | Gold |
Workforce Automation & Productivity Systems 🏆
| Digit Insurance | Bronze |
| Kotak Life Insurance | Gold |
| Vedanta | Silver |
| Bosch Limited | Silver |
| Straive | Silver |
| Max Healthcare Institute Limited | Gold |
| SpaceMatrix | Silver |
| Noventiq | Silver |
| Havas | Gold |
| Glenmark pharmaceuticals limited | Gold |
| Bounteous | Silver |
| Emcure Pharmaceuticals | Gold |
| Text And Clicks Learning Solutions | Gold |
Enterprise HR Consolidation & Integration Excellence 🏆
| Cars24 | Gold |
| IIFL Finance | Gold |
| HDFC Securities | Gold |
| Benepik Technology Pvt. Ltd. | Bronze |
| SpringVerify | Bronze |
| TKIL Industries Pvt Ltd. | Bronze |
| REA Cyber City | Bronze |
| TP | Silver |
| Wipro Limited | Gold |
| Amazon | Gold |
| Ipas Development Foundation | Bronze |
| Axis Bank | Silver |
| Myntra Designs Pvt. Ltd. | Gold |
| One.Com | Gold |
| Lohia Group | Bronze |
| Cognizant Technology Solutions. | Bronze |
| Vedanta Aluminium Metal Limited - Lanjigarh | Silver |
| Myntra Designs Pvt. Ltd. | Gold |
| Talent Fourth Gen Group | Gold |
| Lulu Group India | Gold |
Talent Acquisition Team🏆
| O9 Solutions Management India Private Limited | Bronze |
| R Systems International Ltd | Bronze |
| Merit Data And Technology Private Limited | Silver |
| Bosch Limited | Gold |
| Persistent system | Gold |
| Persistent system | Bronze |
| NLC India Limited | Silver |
| Reliance Industries Ltd | Silver |
| Lohia Group | Gold |
| Godrej Infotech Limited | Gold |
| HCL Healthcare | Silver |
| Shree Cement Ltd. | Silver |
| Nuvama Wealth Management Ltd | Gold |
| R Systems International Ltd | Silver |
| Wonderla Holidays Ltd. | Bronze |
| Polycab | Silver |
| Jindal Stainless steel | Gold |
Beyond the trophy
The Infini-T Awards may culminate on an awards night, but the larger proposition extends beyond the stage.
Winners enter an exclusive community of organisations and leaders who can share their journeys, exchange ideas, collaborate and contribute to a growing body of knowledge around the future of work.
That makes Infini-T less about a moment of recognition and more about creating a collective legacy.
As India’s talent ecosystem enters a period of unprecedented change, the organisations that stand out will not necessarily be those with the loudest claims or the newest technology. They will be those capable of turning ambition into capability, technology into impact and transformation into lasting organisational progress.
That is the space the People Matters Infini-T Awards seek to celebrate.