Last updated: January 23, 2026 at 5:35 PM GMT+0530
Session Hall
Session Format
Speakers
Founder (CEO + CTO), CoRover
President, MapMyIndia
General Manager & Country Leader, Eleven Labs
COO, Times Internet
With AI adoption across sectors expected to add USD 17-26 trillion to the global economy, building a National AI Stack is critical for India's competitive advantage. Such a stack will enable secure data exchanges, scalable compute infrastructure, and the development of indigenous AI models, thereby strengthening the nation's technological self-reliance. The discussion will focus on key commercial opportunities to build the AI stack through advanced compute infrastructure, leverage industry-driven innovative implementations, and explore strategic considerations for companies aiming to capitalise on a sovereign AI ecosystem.
Session Hall
Session Format
Speakers
Partner Cyber Security, EY
COO & Co-founder, LdotR
AI is reshaping cybersecurity operations, from faster detection to more efficient incident response. This session brings together security leaders and solution providers to discuss the current maturity of AI-driven capabilities, emerging innovations, and practical ways automation can enhance SOC performance, reduce response times, and strengthen an organisation's overall security posture.
Session Hall
Session Format
Speakers
Associate Vice President - Strategy, YAAP
Generative AI has officially moved past the peak of the hype cycle. As the excitement cools, a clear divide is emerging between companies that were experimenting for attention and those ready to build something that truly lasts. This moment marks a turning point. The drop in hype is not a setback, it is an opportunity.In this masterclass, we explore what it takes to move beyond demos, pilots, and buzzwords and meaningfully integrate AI into the core of your business. You will learn how leading brands are using AI to solve real problems, create measurable impact, and unlock sustainable value. This is a practical, strategic session for leaders who want to turn AI from an exciting idea into a powerful business advantage.
Session Hall
Session Format
Speakers
Founder & CEO, gAI Ventures
Founder & CTO, gAI Ventures
As enterprises increasingly embed AI into their core operations, certain applications are already delivering measurable efficiency and impact. In this fast-paced session, gAI Ventures will showcase proven AI products and tools through short demo videos and visual walkthroughs, highlighting real-world industry use cases. The session offers practical insights into how AI is being deployed today across functions, while opening new perspectives on the possibilities AI can unlock for modern enterprises.
Session Hall
Session Format
Speakers
Co-Founder, consumr.ai
Commercial Lead Consumer Insights, consumr.ai
In a world flooded with data, the secret isn't more information - it's better insight. Join this interactive session featuring a live walkthrough of Consumr.ai and compelling case studies and discover how AI-driven consumer intelligence reveals actionable trends, accelerates innovation, and drives competitive advantage. consumr.ai helps transform every consumer-facing decision for media optimization, creative development, content creation, influencer selection, product innovation, market entry & expansion etc. from educated guesswork into data-driven strategy backed by real consumer intelligence.
Session Hall
Session Format
Newsrooms today face two parallel pressures an explosion of synthetic content and a newsroom workflow that hasn't kept pace with the speed of information. This session looks at practical ways editors and reporters are using AI to verify sources faster, triage large volumes of leads, surface hidden storylines, and strengthen investigative work. The discussion focuses on tools that support-not replace-editorial judgment, and what it will take for journalism to stay credible when the information environment becomes harder to trust.
Session Hall
Session Format
Speakers
Director Government Affairs, Mastercard
CMO & CPO, IDfy
Moderator
Partner, Saraf & Partners
As India moves towards operationalising its data protection framework, AI companies and AI-enabled enterprises will need to adapt how personal data is collected, used, and integrated across AI-driven products and business processes. This session will examine what India's data protection regime means for the development, deployment, and scaling of AI in practice - covering key considerations for product design, data strategies, cross-functional alignment, and future-proofing AI use cases. The discussion will focus on how industry can navigate the evolving regulatory landscape while continuing to innovate and deploy AI at scale.
Session Hall
Session Format
Speakers
CTO, PayU
CEO & Co-founder, JISA Softech
Partner, Infollion
Moderator
Partner, Deloitte
As more sensitive workloads move to cloud, India must ensure sovereignty, redundancy, and trusted infrastructure. Leaders debate multi-cloud strategies, sovereign cloud models, and risk mitigation.
Session Hall
Session Format
Speakers
Founder and CEO, Zanopy AI
This is not your typical masterclass. We're not going to just talk about landing pages. We're going to build them. Live. One for selling D2C products. One for SaaS Software business. You'll Learn Why landing pages beat websites for sales every single time The must-have elements that make visitors actually convert Best practices the top 1% of marketers use (but rarely share) How to use AI tools to build pages in minutes, not days The exact process we follow to create pages that convert 5x better
Session Hall
Session Format
Speakers
Chief Operating Officer, Jagran New Media
Partner,Private Equity, Premji Invest
Global Head - Unicorn Startups, Neysa
Head - App Partnerships, Indus Appstore & Director - Revenue & Ads Monetization, PhonePe
Moderator
Executive Editor - Technology & Startups, moneycontrol.com
This session will focus on what AI startups in India need to grow, from affordable compute and access to quality data, to regulatory clarity, funding support, and faster pathways to deployment. It will explore practical challenges faced by founders, scalable solutions, and ecosystem enablers that can accelerate innovation and help Indian AI companies compete globally.
Session Hall
Session Format
Speakers
Director General of Police, Government of Karnataka
Board Member, International News Media Association
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Neural Defend
Head of Public Policy- India & South Asia, Snap Inc.
Moderator
Partner, AP & Partners
With 900 million internet users in India, the rapid rise of deepfakes poses significant risks of public disruption, panic, and widespread misinformation. As these threats constantly evolve, a single regulatory framework is insufficient. This discussion will explore why different platforms require tailored protective measures and how industry can continuously innovate with advanced detection tools, responsible content practices without excessive compliance pressures.
Session Hall
Session Format
Speakers
Senior Director of Policy, ByBit
VP - Engineering, Target
VP - Customer Experience, helo.ai
Chief Product Officer and Founding Member, FirstHive
Moderator
Founder, Adya.ai
Most organisations remain stuck at the "pilot purgatory" stage. This discussion focuses on shifting from small-scale experiments to large-scale operational AI platforms-covering data maturity, talent, workflows, and change management.
Session Hall
Session Format
Speakers
Chief Marketing Officer, TransUnion CIBIL
Executive Vice President - South Asia, Route Mobile Ltd
Director Marketing Brand and Growth, NoBroker
Conversations are becoming the new storefront for digital-first brands. This session looks at how RCS-powered interactions are driving intent, enabling in-message actions, and scaling personalised experiences that translate directly into revenue.
Session Hall
Session Format
Speakers
Founder and CEO, Clevrr.ai
India's AI story is no longer limited to research labs or Big Tech platforms. A new wave of Indian startups is building practical, scalable AI solutions across voice, productivity, enterprise automation, and Indian-language intelligence.
Session Hall
Session Format
Speakers
CTO - Investment Products, INDmoney
COO, Kfin Technologies
CTO, MCX
CEO & Co-founder, Zoven.ai
Moderator
Head - Policy & Governance, Dezerv
As WealthTech platforms increasingly shape investor behaviour through nudges, model portfolios, and algorithmic recommendations, the boundary between execution-only services and advisory responsibility is becoming harder to defend. Firms are facing growing regulatory scrutiny around suitability, mis-selling risk, and outcome-based accountability, often without clear guidance on where liability begins and ends. This panel focuses on the practical challenges WealthTech firms face in navigating this grey zone- determining when digital journeys cross into advice, managing suitability at scale without aligning product design with fiduciary expectations, and assigning responsibility across platforms, distributors, and technology providers. The discussion will explore how WealthTech players are adapting governance, controls, and internal decision frameworks to scale responsibly while protecting investors and regulatory trust.
Session Hall
Session Format
Speaker
Chief Product Officer, JioStar
Moderator
Editor- Emerging Tech, India Today
Session Hall
Session Format
Speakers
Founder, Sales Centri
Global Head - Industry AI Solutions, HCLTech
COO, Razorpay
Founder & CEO, rumik.ai
Moderator
VP - Conversational AI, helo.ai
How do organisations measure where they stand in the AI adoption curve? Experts discuss frameworks for assessing technical readiness, data governance quality, risk preparedness, and workforce capabilities.
Session Hall
Session Format
Speakers
Chief Legal & Strategy Officer, Slice
CDO, LEI Register India
Founder & CEO, Dice (a Zaggle company)
Founder & CEO, Getepay
Moderator
CEO, Digio
AI is rapidly reshaping how compliance, risk, and supervisory functions are designed and executed. While automation promises speed, scale, and deeper insights, it also introduces new questions around explainability, accountability, bias, and regulatory confidence, especially when critical decisions are increasingly influenced by algorithms.This panel examines what responsible adoption of AI in RegTech really looks like in practice. The discussion will focus on where AI meaningfully enhances regulatory outcomes, where human judgment remains indispensable, and how firms and regulators are approaching governance, auditability, and oversight of AI-driven systems. As regulatory expectations evolve, the session will explore how the ecosystem can balance innovation with trust, transparency, and control.
Session Hall
Session Format
Speakers
Executive Vice President & Head Legal, Jio Star
Moderator
Partner, Saikrishna & Associates
As AI systems increasingly interact with copyrighted material across creation, training, and distribution, existing copyright frameworks are being tested in new and complex ways. This session examines how copyright policy may need to evolve in an AI-driven economy, exploring questions around attribution, licensing, liability, and enforcement. The discussion will focus on future policy directions, institutional expectations, and the balance between fostering innovation and sustaining creative ecosystems.
Session Hall
Session Format
Speakers
Founder, Skydo
Head - Digital Payment Solutions and Agentic AI Payments, India and South Asia, VISA
Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer, In-solutions Global
As India's payment ecosystem continues to set global benchmarks, the way agentic AI is integrated into payment infrastructure will shape the next decade of digital payments-not just domestically, but globally. This discussion offers a rare infrastructure-level view into how leading institutions are thinking about autonomy, risk, and control in AI-driven payments.
Session Hall
Session Format
Speakers
Director & Chief Revenue Officer, Equifax India
CEO and Co- founder, FinBox
Co-founder, PaySprint
Head of Strategy & business head for the consumer loans, L&T Finance
Moderator
Partner, PwC
AI is reshaping credit scoring in India by enabling faster, more inclusive, and data-driven lending decisions. From alternative data and real-time analytics to explainable and compliant models, AI is helping lenders reach underserved and thin-file customers while managing risk responsibly. This session explores how financial institutions and fintechs are balancing innovation with fairness, transparency, and regulatory expectations to build scalable and trustworthy credit ecosystems in India.
Session Hall
Session Format
Speakers
CTO, Infinity Learn
CEO, Higher Education, Upgrad
Sr. Vice President - Engineering, PhysicsWallah
CEO, EkStep Foundation
Moderator
Partner and L&D Head, EY
Personalised learning is often talked about but rarely implemented effectively. This session examines real models being deployed across K - 12 classrooms, universities, test-prep platforms, and skilling ecosystems. From adaptive assessments to AI-driven learning paths and teacher-augmentation tools, experts break down what true personalisation looks like at scale - and how institutions can adopt it responsibly and affordability
Session Hall
Session Format
Speakers
VP- User Experience, MakeMyTrip
Vice President, Revenue Management, Zykrr
Growth, Eleven labs
Moderator
CMO, Elevation Capital
Shopping will move beyond clicks-toward voice, image, and multimodal queries. This session explores interface innovation and consumer behaviour shifts.
Session Hall
Session Format
Speaker
Co-Founder & Group CEO, MakeMyTrip
Moderator
CEO, Vidic
Session Hall
Session Format
Speakers
Co-Founder & CTO, Parallel Dots
Chief Digital Transformation & Information Officer, Shoppers Stop
Head of Omnichannel Product, Lenskart
Moderator
Group Product Manager - ai.Retail, Accenture
India's retail sector is undergoing a fundamental transformation as physical and digital worlds converge. This session explores how AI is enabling an intelligence-first retail ecosystem, powering predictive demand, hyper-personalised customer journeys, smart stores, and resilient supply chains. Industry leaders unpack how data, AI, and omnichannel strategies are redefining value creation for consumers, brands, and small retailers alike, while addressing challenges of scale, trust, and inclusion in India's diverse retail landscape.
Session Hall
Session Format
Speakers
CIO, Duroflex
Vice President - AI, Paypal
Founder & CEO, TripGain
Head of Research - Venture Fund, Varanium Capital Advisors
Moderator
Senior Director of Engineering, PayU
Agentic AI will reshape how consumers discover, compare, and negotiate purchases. This session dives into autonomous shopping, price optimisation, and personalised buyer journeys.
Session Hall
Session Format
Speakers
Head - Product Initiatives, Ignosis
Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI)-built on open standards like India Stack-provides the "rails" for seamless data exchange, identity verification, and payments. By layering Predictive AI and Generative AI onto these rails, the BFSI (Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance) sector is moving from passive transactions to proactive intelligence.
Session Hall
Session Format
Speakers
CMIO, Docstribe
COO, Meghmani Lifescience
MD-India & South Asia, Fujifilm
Group CAIO, Narayana Health
Moderator
Vice President- Compliance, Tricog
Hospitals are adopting AI for triage, imaging, bed management, and diagnostics. This session explores use cases, safety standards, and integration challenges in clinical settings.
Session Hall
Session Format
Speakers
Solution Engineering Chapter Lead, Infobip
We're stepping into a world where conversations are no longer scripted - they're intelligent, personal, and goal-driven. In this session, we'll explore how Conversational AI has evolved from simple chatbots into powerful AI agents that can guide customers across buying, onboarding, service, and beyond. We'll look at why this shift matters now, how brands are using AI to create more engaging, interactive experiences, and how knowledge-driven AI builds trust at scale. Because the future of customer engagement isn't just digital - it's conversational, connected, and human.
Session Hall
Session Format
Speakers
Founder, revrag.ai
Chief Executive Officer, Bsharp Sales Enablers
Co-Founder, Concerto AI
Country Head, Amazon Web Services
Moderator
CEO, i4 Digital Value
As AI systems evolve from tools to autonomous agents, critical questions emerge around decision-making, control, and accountability in the digital economy. This session examines the shifting balance of power between AI agents, platforms, and human oversight. Panelists discuss governance models, market dynamics, and regulatory implications as AI increasingly mediates commerce, content, and consumer choices, reshaping who truly "decides" in an AI-driven economy.
Session Hall
Session Format
Speakers
VP-Brand, Pocket FM
VP-Marketing Head, Rapido
Head - Social & Content, TVS EV
Founder, Consumer.ai
Moderator
CEO, Team Pumpkin
AI is collapsing the distance between idea and execution, turning brands into always-on content studios. This session explores how marketers are using AI to bring in efficieny and speed in production, scale video and display creatives, and still protect the brand idea at the center.
Session Hall
Session Format
Speakers
CTO, Perfios
COO, SBI Payments
Founder and CEO, crediWatch
AI enables predictive lending but also raises risk and fairness concerns. This session examines the next generation of credit models and regulatory expectations.
Session Hall
Session Format
Speakers
Chief Marketing Officer, JioStar
Moderator
Founder & Managing Director, House of Cheer Networks
Live sports are no longer defined by a single feed or fixed viewpoint. This panel explores how remote and cloud-led production, multi-camera workflows, and personalized viewing experiences like My View and hero cams are reshaping how sports are created and consumed at scale, unlocking immersive, real-time experiences for fans across India.
Session Hall
Session Format
Speakers
Co-founder, iThink Logistics
CTO, Licious
From warehouse automation to smart factories and last-mile delivery, AI is redefining how operations scale in the real world. This session dives into practical deployments of AI across logistics and manufacturing, covering robotics, computer vision, predictive maintenance, and route optimisation. Leaders share lessons from implementation at scale, highlighting productivity gains, workforce augmentation, and the challenges of integrating AI into complex, offline operational environments.
Session Hall
Session Format
Speakers
Co Founder and CEO, Studio BLO
Head - Sports & Live Experiences, Production Technology & Services, Jiostar
CEO, Assemblage Entertainment
Co-Founder and CEO, Teevra Studios
Founder, Astra Studios Assemblage Entertainment
AI is rapidly automating the content production lifecycle, from pre-production planning and asset creation to post-production, localisation, and delivery. This session examines how AI-driven tools are improving efficiency, enabling scale, and reshaping production workflows, while raising new questions around creative ownership, quality control, and human oversight.
Session Hall
Session Format
Speakers
Co-Founder, Surepass.io (M)
Co-Founder, FreoCon
CEO, Muthoot FinCorp One
CTO, Cashfree
Co-Founder & Executive Director, Saarathi Finance & Credit
Fintech innovation is moving faster than traditional compliance frameworks were ever designed to handle. As products become more modular, data-driven, and partnership-led, fintechs are increasingly navigating fragmented regulatory expectations, overlapping accountability, and rising supervisory scrutiny often without clear implementation playbooks. This panel talks about the real friction points at the intersection of fintech growth and compliance- unclear ownership across value chains, translating regulatory intent into operational controls, balancing speed with safeguards, and avoiding both over-compliance and regulatory blind spots. Through practitioner perspectives, the discussion will focus on how fintechs and ecosystem partners are evolving their compliance approaches to remain resilient, trusted, and scalable in an environment of continuous regulatory change.
Session Hall
Session Format
Speakers
Chief Executive Officer, Coto
Founder, SondeConnect
Angel Investor
Session Hall
Session Format
Speakers
Co-founder, Sarvada Legal
Partner and Practice Lead, Bharucha & Partners
Partner, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Co-Founder, Chaupal OTT
Partner, LawNK
Director - Public Policy, Zupee
India's digital media ecosystem is powering creativity, innovation, and global reach for Indian voices. As regulatory frameworks evolve across diverse platforms, this session explores how flexible, platform-aware approaches can support growth and trust while preserving freedom of expression. The discussion draws lessons from self-regulatory models that recognize the distinct nature of digital-first media.
Session Hall
Session Format
Speakers
CEO, Ixigo Trains & ConfirmTkt
Senior Vice President - Strategy Consulting and Analytics, Epsilon
VP-Marketing, Heritage Foods
VP and Global Head of Marketing, Exotel
Moderator
Country Director, M&C Saatchi Performance
Customer journeys are no longer linear; they are stitched together in real time by data and algorithms. This session dives into how brands can use AI and first-party data to orchestrate journeys across search, social, video, app and offline touchpoints, driving growth