46.3M
Young workers projected to relocate across state lines by 2061
Nia Labs projection on SRS 2024 & UN WPP 2024
Invitation to speak · August 6, 2026
The factory needs her. The system does not yet know how to keep her.
On August 6, we are bringing the people who can change that into one room. Not to discuss workforce inclusion in the abstract. To walk the corridor, see the gap, and decide what changes before dinner.
Nia Śram Park, OragadamSriperumbudur Manufacturing HubConfirm by August 1
The backdrop
India is building its factories where its workers are no longer being born.
Capital clusters in the south and west. The next workforce arrives from the north and east. The two maps no longer overlap. Migration is not a side effect — it is the balancing mechanism. And the lines cannot run on men alone.
3.2M
Manufacturing roles sitting unfilled in 2024
Nia Labs estimate on ASI & national skilling data
45–50%
Women among new apprentice hires — up from 19.7% of the workforce
PLFS 2023–24 & NAPS apprenticeship data
$700B
Potential GDP addition with a 10-point rise in women’s manufacturing participation
McKinsey Global Institute; World Bank
The room
An unusual gathering for an unusual coalition.
The offer to a panellist is influence, not visibility. You will sit across from the person who can approve your pilot, sign your policy ask, or co-invest in your corridor.
- Former state police chiefs now serving on major corporate boards
- CHROs running India’s largest manufacturing workforces
- Industrial operators treating living infrastructure as an operating system
- Investors and technology leaders bridging the gap
- Researchers with evidence that changes regulation
The format
Walk first. Then decide.
Before you enter the panel room, you will walk Nia Śram Park — the physical form of the problem. See where 7,000 women decide whether to stay or leave. Then sit down with the people who can change what happens next.
The conversations
Three panels. Three commitments.
Each panel produces two or three commitments, pilots, or policy asks. The best are published as the WWDC 2026 position and submitted to the Ministry of Labour.
01
Public Policy & Inclusive Growth
What must change for women to migrate for industrial work safely and continuously? Labour, mobility, regulation, and governance — seen from the woman worker outward.
Leave with: A shared regulatory framework you can reference in your next state negotiation.
02
Talent Leadership
How companies recruit, settle, train, retain, and advance workers through living infrastructure. Moving women from one in five of the line to nearly half of new hires.
Leave with: A signed commitment on living infrastructure from at least two major employers.
03
AI, Data & Better Decisions
How AI and data widen women’s access to industrial work and help them train into larger roles. Not whether the tools are used — whether they make better decisions for the worker household.
Leave with: Principles for AI procurement that your compliance team can adopt Monday.
The ask
This is not a conference. It is a decision room.
The gap between scarcity and opportunity is real. But it is solvable — if the people who control capital, policy, and operations decide to act in the same afternoon.
Confirm your seat by August 1RSVP required · The room is capped