New Delhi, May 21 -- Walk into any boardroom conversation about talent today and one anxiety surfaces almost immediately: companies are spending heavily on reskilling, yet the skills gap keeps widening. It is an uncomfortable paradox - and one that sat at the centre of the 15th L&D Confex and Awards 2026, held at Hyatt Centric Hebbal, Bengaluru, where HR heads, learning strategists, and business leaders gathered to confront it head-on.

The diagnosis is not flattering. Most corporate reskilling efforts are structurally misaligned - not for lack of intent or budget, but because training programmes are built around content delivery rather than business outcomes. Organisations design learning around what is convenient to teach, not what the ...