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The workplace has changed. Disability inclusion can no longer sit at the margins of HR, CSR, or compliance. Enterprises must now design workplaces where accessibility, technology, talent, leadership, culture, and lived experience converge to create participation at scale.
Inclusion is being rewritten. It is no longer about hiring persons with disabilities, but about building systems that enable people to enter, contribute, progress, lead, and thrive.
THRIVE Inclusion Collective 2026 brings together business leaders, disability experts, innovators, practitioners, and persons with disabilities to move the conversation from intent to infrastructure, and from isolated initiatives to enterprise-wide change.
Because the future of inclusive work will not be defined by accommodation alone, but by whether inclusion becomes business as usual.
WHY NOW?
OutcomesThe question is no longer “Are we committed to disability inclusion?” — it is “What has changed? Where has the needle moved?”
Systems18M+ PwDs live in rural India. This needs systems across the ecosystem, not one more programme or one organisation solving for it.
Action21 categories of disability recognised under the RPwD Act. We know inclusion is needed. Time to get better at delivering it.
Convergence2.68 crore lives with disability. Multiple barriers. One ecosystem. No one solves this alone anymore.
Tomorrow's WorkAI is redesigning work itself. The goal isn't access — it's inclusion, by design.
WHAT YOU WILL EXPERIENCE?
Practical solutions to real problems — top 3 teams presenting ideas that actually help corporates make their workplaces inclusive. Tools & strategies that could ship on Monday!
Corporates on one side. Persons with Disabilities on the other. Two perspectives that need to hear each other, going head-to-head in the open.
Diverse, intersectional, and honest voices, taking on the mic and sharing innovative solutions that usually go un-shared. We step away from the podium & go in open-mic style!
Walk the floor where accessibility stops being a concept and becomes something you can touch, test, and try — assistive tech, AI tools, and platforms already changing workplaces.
Look around the room and you'll find it everywhere — PwDs behind the camera, at the gifting desk, running registration. This is what inclusion looks like when it's not limited to a panel topic.
Some of it we're saving as a surprise. All of it is worth being in the room for.
23 OCTOBER 2026
Richa Bansal to set the context for THRIVE 2026: leadership, business, talent, technology, accessibility and lived experience coming together to move disability inclusion from individual initiatives towards sustained enterprise change.
Dr Amit Sen invites leaders to reconsider ability, potential and performance—and what different minds, abilities and ways of experiencing the world can teach organisations about the workplaces of the future.
Three CEOs + moderator explore why disability cannot be treated as a single experience—and how gender, geography, socioeconomic context, education and visible or invisible conditions shape access to opportunity.
Two sharp ideas on enabling independence: adaptive clothing and tools; and assistive technology that can expand confidence, livelihood and participation. Featuring Soumita Basu founder of Zeynika and Prateek Madhav founder of AssisTech Foundation(ATF)
An informal pause for participants to connect around the ideas and provocations surfaced in the opening sessions.
A candid exchange between industry and lived experience: are PwDs expected to become more ‘job ready’, or must employers and systems become better prepared to recognize and enable diverse talent?
Two perspectives on whether we are preparing talent for work—or workplaces for talent—and how accessibility can be designed into everyday life. Featuring Jo Chopra from Latika and Anhad Kashyap (IWA).
Future Works Challenge — 3 Tracks. Innovations and practical solutions demonstrate how inclusive design can reshape workplaces, tools and everyday experiences—benefiting people with disabilities and often everyone else. Presented by EY
An extended networking lunch designed to allow the morning’s conversations to continue informally across leaders, practitioners, innovators and lived-experience voices.
Vieshaka Dutta: What Disability Taught Me About People, Potential and Perspective. Nipun Malhotra: Stop Fixing People. Start Redesigning Systems.
Gaurav Jain: An action-oriented conversation focused on practical shifts in leadership, hiring, manager capability, accessibility and workplace practices that can turn ambition into repeatable enterprise practice.
Arjun Vishwanathan launches Saarathee’s research examining where organizations stand today, what constrains inclusion at scale, and the capabilities required to move from isolated initiatives to sustained enterprise practice.
A final reflection by Sandeep Bidani bringing together human difference, organizational readiness, inclusive design and enterprise responsibility—leaving leaders with one question: what must we now change in the organizations we lead?
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WHO BELONGS HERE?
Shape workforce strategy. Own the mandate.
Make inclusion a growth lever, not an HR line item.
Turn commitments into frameworks that scale.
Redesign hiring, onboarding, career pathways.
Build the systems everyone can actually use.
Bring lived experiences and be co-authors of the decisions.
Connect policy, industry, and impact.
Whether you're building the future of work or being invited to help shape it, THRIVE Inclusion Collective 2026 is where the conversations actually moves. Seats are limited, and they go fast. Be the the first to hear as we announce speakers, roundtable leads, FutureWorks Challenge finalists and lots more!
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TWO EDITIONS OF THRIVE
Inaccessible tech, unprepared managers, and rigid processes quietly undo even the best recruitment intentions. Readiness is the real work.
Programmes designed for persons with disabilities, without them in the room, keep missing the mark. The room needs co-designers, not just beneficiaries.
Every time we watched assistive tech or accessible design solve for one person, it ended up making things better for everyone. Constraints don't limit innovation — they spark it.
Two years in, one thing is clear: this only scales when leadership, business, HR, tech, and lived experience stop working in parallel and start working together. That's the conversation THRIVE 2026 is built to lead.
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