
Dr. Kamal Karnatak
Group CIO
RJ Corp
Edition 02, June 2026
Learn. Engage. Adopt. Scale.
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Overview
This national forum brought policy makers, technology leaders, industry, startups and talent together around a practical question: how to move agentic AI from pilots into production at scale.
The programme focused on scale, trust, governance and integration. Discussions examined how organisations could put agentic AI to work within their existing systems and responsibilities.
The conversations
The programme
All times in IST
Ateesh Kumar Singh
Additional Secretary, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Government of India
08:00–09:00
09:15–09:30
09:30–10:30
Dr. Kamal Karnatak
Group CIO, RJ Corp
Manas Mehra
Global CIO, Dabur India
Anil Sharma
CTO AMESA, PepsiCo
Harnath Babu
Partner and CIO, KPMG India
10:30–11:15
Sunil Dahiya
Executive VP, Wadhwani Foundation
Debajit Das
National Project Coordinator, UNIDO
Yadu Yadav
DPIIT, Government of India
Aman Gulati
DPIIT, Government of India
11:15–11:45
11:45–12:30
Sushil Ostwal
CDO, BSE
Satyajeet Singh
VP Products, PayU
Abhishek Bansal
Head Investment Risk and CISO, Axis Max Life Insurance
Geetha Adhinarayan
Distinguished Engineer and CTO, IBM Consulting India and South Asia
12:30–13:15
Nikhil Malhotra
Chief Innovation Officer and Global Head AI, Tech Mahindra
Rahul Tandon
Managing Director, Deloitte Consulting
Gaurav Malik
Chief Strategy Officer and Managing Partner, Successive Digital
13:15–14:15
14:15–15:00
Amit Pradhan
VP IT and CIO, Dixon Technologies India
Dr. Rajan Gupta
Director, GenAI and Agentic AI, Deutsche Telekom Digital Labs
Sushant Jain
Senior Director AI, Hughes Systique
15:00–16:00
Geetha Adhinarayan
IBM Consulting India and South Asia
Prakash Sah
Managing Partner and Head, Data Analytics and AI Manufacturing, TCS
Dr. Narayan Panigrahi
Associate Director, Centre for AI and Robotics, DRDO
16:00–16:30
16:30–17:30
Rajiv Sikka
Group CIO, Medanta
Munender Soperna
Group CIO, Dr. Lal PathLabs
Prashant Singh
CIO, Max Healthcare
J. P. Dwivedi
CIO, Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre
Surjeet Thakur
Founder and CEO, TrioTree Technologies
Sandeep Gudibanda
Co-founder and CEO, HealthPlix
17:30–18:00
Speakers

Group CIO
RJ Corp

Global CIO
Dabur India

CTO AMESA
PepsiCo

Partner and CIO
KPMG India

Executive VP
Wadhwani Foundation

National Project Coordinator
UNIDO

DPIIT
Government of India

DPIIT
Government of India

CDO
BSE

VP Products
PayU

Head Investment Risk and CISO
Axis Max Life Insurance

Distinguished Engineer and CTO
IBM Consulting India and South Asia

Chief Innovation Officer and Global Head AI
Tech Mahindra

Managing Director
Deloitte Consulting

Chief Strategy Officer and Managing Partner
Successive Digital

VP IT and CIO
Dixon Technologies India

Director, GenAI and Agentic AI
Deutsche Telekom Digital Labs

Senior Director AI
Hughes Systique

Managing Partner and Head, Data Analytics and AI Manufacturing
TCS

Associate Director, Centre for AI and Robotics
DRDO

Group CIO
Medanta

Group CIO
Dr. Lal PathLabs

CIO
Max Healthcare

CIO
Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre

Founder and CEO
TrioTree Technologies

Co-founder and CEO
HealthPlix

Group Chief Data and Analytics Officer
Aditya Birla Group

Joint Secretary, Ministry of MSME
Government of India
Councils
Vinamra Mishra
Joint Secretary, Ministry of MSME, Government of India
Pankaj Rai
Group Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Aditya Birla Group
Dr. Panneerselvam Madanagopal
CEO, MeitY Startup Hub, Government of India
Ananthanarayana Shanmugam
Senior VP and CFO, Invest India
Abhishek Lal
CDO, Marks & Spencer Reliance India
Geetha Adhinarayan
CTO, IBM Consulting India and South Asia
Councils
Neeti Gupta
Founder and CEO, AI Partnerships; Researcher, University of Cambridge
Kuljeet Singh
Engineering Lead and Product Owner, Hitachi Digital Services, Dallas
Ashish Sood
Director Engineering, SD-WAN Analytics and AI/ML, Cisco, California
Nitesh Gupta
Director Systems Engineering, Microsoft
Sharad Bajaj
VP Engineering, Microsoft, Agentic Data Platform
Prakash Sah
TCS
Dr. K P S Sandhu
Global Head of Strategic Initiatives and AI Security, TCS
Abhishek Lal
CDO, Marks & Spencer Reliance India
Geetha Adhinarayan
CTO, IBM Consulting India and South Asia
November 2026
Dates and venue are announced soon.