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Innovate on the idea.
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Ideate the challenge

Start where the real problem is, the onboarding that drags, the skills nobody can see. Not a framework on a slide.

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Innovate on the idea

Pressure-test it against peers already running the experiment. Evidence from the field beats theory from a deck.

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Implement the innovation

Turn the conversation into practice. What holds up gets written down in the magazine and the talks, so the next leader starts a chapter ahead.

The Magazine

The quarterly, written by the people setting the standard.

Practitioner intelligence for capability leaders building skills-first organizations. Two editions out now, the next already taking shape.

Out nowSkillPulse Edition 01 cover, Skill Cataloging is Back
Edition 01 · June 2026 · Live

Skill Cataloging is Back

  • Skill ontology for the AI era
  • Voices from the field
  • AI-native cohorts
  • The L&D Diary
Out nowSkillPulse Edition 02 cover, Demystifying the Forward Deployed Engineer
Edition 02 · September 2026 · Live

Demystifying the Forward Deployed Engineer

  • What it takes to groom FDE capability in house
  • The CIO view on the blue-collar AI debate
  • Builders from Microsoft, Hexaview, Hazel AI and Quantzig
Coming soonSkillPulse Edition 03, Skill Visibility in the AI Era, coming soon
Edition 03 · Next in the quarterly

Skill Visibility in the AI Era

  • What skill visibility really means
  • Measuring capability, not credentials
  • More voices from the field

Latest on PulseTalks

Vishal Kuchanur at SkillPulse Live
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“A founder who still writes code and sits with the customer - so the outcome, not the ticket, is where his work ends.”

Vishal Kuchanur
Co-founder and CTO - Varaha
Srikanth Shivananda at SkillPulse Live
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“Building capability like someone who does it every day - not like someone describing it from a distance.”

Srikanth Shivananda
L&D Manager - MathCo
Tarang Vadalikar at SkillPulse Live
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“He has built capability across enough teams to know which questions are worth sitting with - and he brought a few.”

Tarang Vadalikar
Capability Partner - Tiger Analytics
Dr. Chetana Hegde at SkillPulse Live
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“Years spent where AI meets how people actually learn - and the clarity shows the moment she starts talking.”

Dr. Chetana Hegde
Lead AI/ML SME, Enterprise Learning Solutions - Fractal
SkillPulse Community Meet highlightsWatch · 2 minYouTube
Community Meet · Novotel, Bengaluru · 25 September 2026

One evening, one room, not a slide on autopilot.

We convened Data and AI leaders for an evening of unvarnished conversation about skills, roles and AI, and put Edition 02 in their hands the same night.

Who was there: practitioners from Microsoft, Sodexo, KPIT, Varaha and more, plus the voices you will find across this page.
Everyone who came to the September SkillPulse Community Meet, together on stage
The room, 25 September 2026
Four leaders holding copies of SkillPulse Edition 02 at its launch
Edition 02, out tonight
Panellists on stage at the SkillPulse community meet
The panel, in session
A practitioner presenting to the room at the community meet
The floor, taken
An attendee reading the new SkillPulse edition cover to cover
Cover to cover
A leader reading SkillPulse Edition 02 at the community meet
Edition 02, in hand
Leaders trading notes at the roundtable
Notes, traded
Roundtable on building an AI-native workforce
AI-native workforce, on the table
A panel discussion in progress at SkillPulse Live
The conversation
L&D and data leaders gathered at SkillPulse Live, Bengaluru
The gathering, 3 July 2026

Real voices. Real work. Real lessons.

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Write a piece

A field note, a strong opinion, or a lesson learned the hard way, for the next edition.

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Record a PulseTalk

A short, unscripted take on a question worth sitting with. Less webinar, more real conversation.

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Bring a challenge

Put a real skilling problem in front of the sharpest people in your field and let the conversation do the rest.

Arjun SivasundarTarang VadalikarAmit Choudhary
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Recent voices: Arjun Sivasundar, Dr. Chetana Hegde, Srikanth Shivananda, Tarang Vadalikar and a growing list of leaders across data and L&D.

The community

The pulse does not stop when the evening ends.

It keeps going in the open, in a community built for L&D and data leaders who would rather trade real notes than watch another webinar.

•Open and searchable•Practitioner-led•Real conversation
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Good questions, straight answers.

Everything leaders ask before they read the first edition or join the community.