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4th EditionNew DelhiNovember 2026
The AI Payoff Summit 2026
Deriving Business Value from New-Age AI Technologies
What worked, what didn’t, and what’s next.
What worked, what didn’t, and what’s next.
The AI Payoff Summit 2026
About the summit
The AI Payoff Summit 2026 brings together technology leaders, business leaders and AI practitioners to examine what new age AI technologies are delivering in practice. Guided by the theme “Deriving Business Value from New Age AI Technologies,” it connects enterprise experience with the decisions shaping the next phase of adoption. The programme considers emerging AI capabilities through the business problems they solve, from assistants that support individual tasks to agents that execute multistep workflows. It examines what has worked, what has fallen short and which opportunities merit further investment.
At the intersection of technology and business, the summit explores how AI can support commercial priorities, improve operational performance and create competitive advantage. The focus is on aligning technical capabilities with business needs and turning investment into sustained results. Security and workforce readiness are essential to that value. Discussions consider how organisations protect data and retain oversight as AI acts across systems, while preparing people for changing roles and preserving human judgment where it matters.
By bringing together perspectives from technology, business, finance and policy, the summit creates space for candid discussion and practical learning. Participants will understand what delivered results, why some initiatives fell short and how those lessons can inform what comes next.
The AI Payoff Summit
Who should attend?
The AI Payoff Summit brings together the people leading, building and implementing AI across organisations of every size. Delegates will hear from CIOs and CTOs and connect with:
- Technology and transformation professionals
- AI, data and automation teams
- Product, engineering, cloud and security professionals
- Business and operations leaders applying AI
- AI startups and emerging technology companies
- Consultants, solution providers, investors and ecosystem enablers
- Early career AI and technology professionals
From pilot to payoff
What will you take away?
Enterprise technology and policy on one platform
Understand how enterprise priorities, technology readiness, data, security and policy considerations are shaping responsible AI adoption and business growth.
Clarity for your next AI move
Gain a clearer view of which AI capabilities are ready for wider adoption, where investment can deliver meaningful returns and which technologies need more time or a different approach.
Networking with the people shaping the sector
Connect with a carefully curated community of CIOs, CTOs, technology architects, business leaders, policy voices, AI practitioners and emerging AI companies facing similar decisions over AM tea, lunch and PM tea.
The format
Three kinds of conversation
01 / What worked
What worked?
Case studies with numbers: what shipped, what it cost, what it returned.
02 / What didn’t
What didn’t?
Candid post-mortems from leaders whose AI bets didn't pay off. Yet.
03 / What’s next
What’s next?
Where to put the next rupee: agents, data, talent and governance.
The track record
Three editions in. The fourth is the payoff.
- Editions
- 3
- Attendees
- TBD
- Speakers
- TBD
- Companies
- TBD
Tracks
What will we cover?
Six summit tracks. The full agenda is announced soon.
AI in Action
Proven Results. Next Frontiers.
Emerging AI capabilities viewed through the enterprise problems they solve. What delivered in real deployments, what fell short and what deserves attention next, with proven results kept distinct from future promise.
Agents at Work
Autonomy Where It Pays. Control Where It Counts.
Where agents can own multi step tasks within business processes. Workflow selection, human review and exception handling, and when agents truly beat simpler automation.
Choosing the AI Stack
Build. Buy. Scale. Technology Choices That Shape Value.
Licensing or consumption, build or buy, large model or small. How choices in models, compute, integration and infrastructure decide what AI delivers and what it takes to run at scale.
Proving the Return
From Better Performance to Measurable Value.
How organisations establish whether an AI investment delivered. Baselines, evaluation periods and the gap between hours saved, capacity released and financial returns, plus the evidence to continue, expand or rethink.
Securing the AI Enterprise
Protect Data. Preserve Privacy. Stay in Control.
How security and privacy change when AI can access data and act across systems. Data exposure, permissions, third party risk, and how to detect failures and respond while adoption grows.
The AI Workforce Shift
Redefining Roles. Reskilling for What’s Next.
How work changes when AI takes over tasks, not just assists. Where human judgment still matters, which new roles are emerging and whether reskilling shows up in everyday use.
Speakers
Who’s on stage
17 leaders who decide where AI budgets go next. Scroll to meet each one.
Sh. Vinamra Mishra
Joint Secretary
Speakers
Who’s on stage
Sh. Vinamra Mishra
Joint Secretary
Ministry of MSME, Government of India
Dr. Panneerselvam Madanagopal
Chief Executive Officer
MeitY Startup Hub
Neetan Chopra
Chief Digital and Information Officer
IndiGo (InterGlobe Aviation)
Dr. Kamal Karnatak
Group CIO and Enterprise AI Leader
RJ Corp
Vinod Sivarama Krishnan
Chief Information Officer
Birlasoft
Amit Pradhan
Chief Information Officer
Dixon Technologies
Vipin Kumar
Chief Information Officer (Global)
UFLEX Group
Sandeep Rajoriya
Deputy Director General of Foreign Trade
Government of India
Sunil Pandey
Chief AI and Digital Officer
HFCL Limited
Binu Lakshmanan
Enterprise IT and AI-DX Leader
Honda Cars India
Harnath Babu
Partner and Chief Information Officer
KPMG
Anandarup Basu
Global CIO
Usha International
Gyan Gupta
Chief AI Officer
Jindal Steel
Mudit Krishna
Head of AI
JK Cement
Abhishek Bansal
Chief Information Security Officer
Max Life Insurance
Ankit Gupta
Chief Technology Officer
PolicyBazaar for Business
Yogendra Singh
Chief Information Officer
Barista Coffee Company
Agenda
The day, in outline
Registration
Time TBA
Opening keynote
Time TBA
Tracks
Time TBA
Networking lunch
Time TBA
Closing
Time TBA
Past editions
The road to the payoff
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Agentic AI India Summit 2026
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Who should attend?
The summit brings together technology and transformation professionals; AI, data and automation teams; product, engineering, cloud and security professionals; business and operations leaders; AI startups; consultants, solution providers, investors and ecosystem enablers; and early career AI and technology professionals.
When and where is the summit?
November 2026 in New Delhi. Exact dates and venue are [TBD]. Sign up for the venue alert to hear when they are announced.
Which passes are available?
The proposed tiers are Delegate, CXO / VIP, Group and Startup passes. Final prices, benefits and availability are awaiting organiser confirmation.
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