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A BESPOKE ASSEMBLAGE OF BY-INVITE 100+ GCC COUNTRY LEADERS

Strategic Dialogues | Masterclasses | Workshops | High-Impact Networking

Thursday, 3rd September 2026 | 2 PM IST onwards

T-WORKS, Hyderabad

AGENDA

2:00 PM

Registrations & Networking over Tea/Coffee

3:00 PM

Setting the Intellectual Compass

Opening remarks and CEO pulse — what must India's GCCs own, influence and transform to become indispensable to the global enterprise?

Sameer Dhanrajani

CEO, 3AI

3:15 PM

From Arbitrage to Agency: Recasting the GCC Mandate

Strategic perspective – what will be the construct for an AI-first blueprint. What will India own?

Vikram Ahuja

Co-founder @ ANSR & CEO @ 1WRK

3:35 PM

Escaping Pilot Purgatory

Practitioner keynote — converting AI investment into enterprise value: one initiative that scaled, one that was discontinued — and why AI-readiness of data, workflows and people decided the difference.

Chandra Vijjhala

President, Tech Hub in India

American Airlines

Neil D’silva

Managing Partner & Chief Client Success Officer

ANSR

3:50 PM

Rapid Pace Masterclass 1

Every Aisle Is Now an Algorithm: Retail's AI Playbook, from the Companies Writing It

Rajeev Mall

Chief Executive Officer

Costco Wholesale India

4:05 PM

The Discipline of Scale

Enterprise keynote — building capability without multiplying complexity; lessons from building and expanding the India centre.

Sandheep Sharma

Founder & CEO

Summit Consulting

Santhanam Govindaraj

Chief Technology Officer

Broadridge India

Arun Subramanian

Global Head of Technology,

Zurich Insurance

4:25 PM

The GCC Verdict: An Anonymous Research Pulse

Live polling and moderated interpretation — an anonymised dataset on mandate, AI value, accountability, workforce and capital allocation, analysed post-event by 3AI and ANSR.

Vikram Ahuja

Co-founder @ ANSR & CEO @ 1WRK

4:45 PM

Spotlight Talk

Re-imagining the Enterprise with AI - The strategic shift from "AI in the Enterprise" to "AI for the Enterprise

Ankur Banerjee

Partner

Tiger Analytics

4:55 PM

CEO Panel: The Great Recalibration

Can India's GCCs become the brain of the global enterprise? Provocations, mandate and power, AI and accountability, and the unvarnished verdict. Four panellists and one moderator — GCC CEO, global business leader, AI-native enterprise leader, risk & workforce transformation leader

Moderator

Smitha Hemmigae

Chief Market Officer

ANSR

Vijayaraman Subramanian

MD and VP

Verizon India

Shalini Pillay

Partner & India Leader - GCCs

KPMG

Amit Verma,

Country Head & Managing Director

The Citco Group

Jagadish Reddy

EVP, CIO - Technology & Products

LPL Financial

5:30 PM

Networking Break over tea/coffee

6:00 PM

Unplugged Debate

AI-Native GCCs Intertwined with Enterprise AI Strategy

Sameer Dhanrajani

CEO

3AI

Lalitha Indrakanti

CEO

Jaguar Land Rover - TBSI

Rajesh Puneyani

GCC Site Leader

Kenvue India

Gokulnath Niranjanan

Senior Director - Head India & Middle East Business

Tiger Analytics

6:20 PM

Rapid Pace Masterclass 2

The Agentic Cure: How Optum Insights Rebuilt Healthcare's Hardest Problems into an AI Platform

Harish Gudi

SVP, Optum Insight – Products & Optum.ai,

OPTUM

6:35 PM

Rapid Pace Masterclass 3

Innovation Inside the Guardrails: How the World's Largest Banks Ship AI Under the Regulator's Gaze

Kaustubh Deshpande

MD & India GCC Head

SAP Fioneer

6:50 PM

The Talent Palimpsest: Enter the FDE

Fireside and working session — rewriting work for the human-and-machine enterprise; from job descriptions to capability portfolios. Why the Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) is becoming the unit of AI delivery — and the two routes to building the bench: hiring AI engineers and FDEs, or upskilling your own engineers into both.

Monica Jamwal

Chief Talent Services Officer,

ANSR

Vipul Singh

Head of HR

Lloyds Technology Centre India

Swathi Awasarala

HR Leader

LPL Financial

7:10 PM

GCC APEX AWARDS 2026 - Felicitation Ceremony

Guests of Honour

Joginder Tanikella

CEO

T-Works

Sri Badri Voona

CRO

Government Of Telangana

Vikram Ahuja

Co-founder @ ANSR & CEO @ 1WRK

Sri Badri Voona

CRO

Government Of Telangana

7:30 PM

Closing Remarks & Conclusion of GCC X…Hyderabad

7:40 PM

CURATED BUSINESS MIXER DINNER & DRINKS