BEYOND26 - Agenda

#TheAIsupremacy

4th Edition Unfolds

Friday, 24th April 2026, 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM IST

Radisson Blu ORR, Marathahalli, Bengaluru

BEYOND2026

AGENDA

Transformation Zone

Innovation Zone

08:00 AM

Registrations & Networking over Tea/Coffee

9:00 AM

Unveiling BEYOND 2026 – event showreel & day flow construct by Emcee

9:30 AM

Opening Address

Welcome to 3AI BEYOND 2026

Sameer Dhanrajani

CEO, 3AI

10:00 AM

Spotlight Talk

High Agency Transformation

Sheenam Ohrie

Managing Director, Broadridge India

10:15 AM

GCC Leaders Roundtable

Building AI-Native Global Capability Centers (GCCs) Intertwined with Enterprise AI Strategy: New Ruminations

Anchor

Smitha Hemmigae

Managing Director, ANSR

Amit Kapur

Vice President - AI, Data and Analytics | Board Member, Lowe's India

Kaustubh Deshpande

Managing Director, India Centre, SAP Fioneer

Pawan Sachdeva

Sr. Managing Director and Technology Head - India, Carelon

Samyak Jain

Head - Standard Chartered Modeling and Analytics Centre (SCMAC), Standard Chartered

Kaustubh Deshpande

Managing Director, India Centre, SAP Fioneer

AI has awakened the senior leaders & the business lexicon has risen to be the epicentre of the boardroom & is the C-suite agenda. Pursuit for building AI-native GCCs is invoking massive shifts in the enterprise AI strategy and ensuing business value chain and is redefining what it takes for GCCs to build AI- Native GCCs and upping their value , capability and innovation quotient. Further, AI practices in GCCs are evolving from being mere POC driven exercises to pure play AI capability hubs and becoming value drivers of transformation, innovation & business impact. This no holds barred GCC roundtable session consisting of senior GCC leaders will dwell upon the strategic narrative of building AI-Native GCCs intertwined with enterprise AI strategy.

Intense Ruminations & Deliberations guaranteed !

10:55 AM

Spotlight Talk

Systems That Act: The Operating System Has Changed

Anirban Nandi

Vice President, AI and Data, Albertsons Companies India

Over the past few years, AI has evolved through clear phases. It began with automation, making individual tasks faster and more efficient. This was followed by agents that could support more complex, multi‑step workflows. Yet in practice, work still requires people to move across multiple tools and systems to deliver outcomes.

We are now entering the next phase of Agentic Operating Systems where we shift the focus from isolated tasks to coordination. They bring together data, context, workflows, and tools into a connected layer that helps turn intent into action across systems. In this model, agents become the new operating system, where coordination, rather than applications, becomes the primary interface for work.

11:10 AM

Networking Break over tea/coffee

11:30 AM

Spotlight Talk

From Unstructured to Unstoppable: The GenAI Shift in Insurance

Ashok Shetty

Global Lead, Underwriting Analytics (Senior Vice President), Swiss Re

11:45 AM

Leaders Exclusive Session

AI Epiphany for Enterprises & Provider Firms – Emergence of New Age AI Capabilities, Solutions & Offerings Playbook

Anchor

Madhavi Kanumoory

Chief Digital & Information Officer, Birla Carbon India

Pankaj Kakkar

Managing Director, Symplr

Itti Singh

VP - Head of Analytics and Data Science - DLL, Landmark Group

Rahul Bharde

SVP & Chief Analytics Officer, Jubilant Foodworks

Prabhakar Vijayaprakash

Director - Customer Partner GCC, Kyndryl

Rahul Bharde

SVP & Chief Analytics Officer, Jubilant Foodworks

Over the previous few years, AI is being touted as the game changing phenomena and has upended the level playing field in the classic analytics segment; however, AI applicability, adoption and usability is amorphous & still lacks structured approach ; strategically, enterprises and associated leaders are still looking for enterprise grade AI adoption to transform their businesses and operating models with AI.

Further, Enterprise & Provider Firms leaders will have to unleash new age AI capabilities, solutions & offerings to usher business growth, innovation and disruption through new lens of AI and the new playbook of AI is to be rewritten with topical capabilities and solutions.

LEADERS EXCLUSIVE will focus on bringing the not so often discussion on AI epiphany for enterprises and provider firms.

EXPECT HOLISTIC & WHOLESOME DISUSSIONS!

12:25 PM

Spotlight Talk

From Assistants to Autonomous Decision Making – How is AI Impacting Business with Insurance as a Proof Point

Sarat Varanasi

Global Insurance Data, Analytics, AI & Platforms Leader, EXL

12:40 PM

3AI Special Announcement

01:00 PM

Lunch

02:00 PM

Special Address

02:20 PM

Lounge Specials

Evolving Leadership Archetypes & Attributes of AI Leaders : Do you have it in YOU?

Anchor

Pankaj Rai

Group Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Aditya Birla Management Corporation

Prithvijit Roy

Growth Advisor & Investor in AI Startups

Akta Jain

Executive Vice President, Broadridge India

Titir Pal

Managing Director, Citi

Divesh Singla

GCC & Transformation Leader

Titir Pal

Managing Director, Citi

It’s a question of AI LEADERS RELEVANCE.

Amongst the burgeoning buzz in the AI segment; building scalable & ever evolving leadership capabilities for AI leaders for sustained performance is the need of the hour & highly critical. The jobs of today will not be the jobs of tomorrow…..Gen AI & Agentic AI have rephrased the leadership & talent code architecture of AI leaders at high speed.

Build to Scale approach for AI leaders from GCCs, Enterprises & Provider Firms requires out-of-the-box outlook and strategic perspectives as the winds of change needs a rethink of new career pathways & lattice, agile & fungible capability learning, deep & topical leadership attributes for AI leaders to stay relevant. With the new renditions of AI adoption evolving; AI leaders need to reimagine the new age skills, competencies and attributes that are required to build top notch AI teams, devise novel AI native processes & workstreams to stay relevant.

Hear it from the AI leaders from multidimensional backgrounds as they trigger the not at all spoken discussion.

Exciting debate guaranteed !!

03:00 PM

Spotlight Talk

Beyond AI Pilots

Sreekrishnan Venkateswaran

Chief Technology Officer, Kyndryl

Enterprises have made rapid progress in building AI pilots and demos, yet few systems operate reliably in real-world environments. This talk explores what changes as AI moves from experimentation to production — where legacy constraints, cost economics, scale, and trust become first-class concerns.

Drawing on field deployments across sectors, it highlights a deeper shift from engineering deterministic software to managing probabilistic AI systems and argues that success in this new paradigm depends on platform thinking, frugal architectures, and stronger engineering discipline.

03:30 PM

Strategic Leadership Dialogues

Envisioning Path for AI Supremacy for India: The Quest to Ace AI Capability, Compute and Capital

India’s renaissance in technology is significant and AI in India constituting GCCs, Enterprises, Startups and Provider Firms have taken pole position to not only develop novel AI capabilities & solutions to resolve large, complex & unresolved problems across sectors & segments in Indian enterprises but for global organizations as well.

Indian enterprises are fast deploying enterprise wide AI initiatives, GCCs are building innovative products & solutions for the global organisations, provider firms are curating novel capabilities in AI that can drive business transformation & innovation and AI startups in India are going ahead with inch wide- mile deep approach of developing top of the line AI platforms & solutions to solve large , complex & unresolved problems.

AI in India supremacy is also fostering creation of an integrated ecosystem along with generating significant opportunities for talent professionals . What net new capabilities, solutions & capabilities are being developed and deployed by Indian enterprises, GCCs, startups and provider firms? what are the noticeable areas wherein AI in India outweighs other countries? What are the allied concerns and challenges in proliferating the AI in India prowess and trajectory?

Strategic Leadership Dialogues consisting of eclectic & marquee leaders from enterprises, GCCs, startups and provider firms will unravel the path to build AI Supremacy for India: The Quest to Ace AI Capability, Compute and Capital.

A New AI Era waiting to be unfolded !

03:15 PM

Experts Panel

Blueprints for Deploying & Scaling AI Agents: Strategic Approaches for Transformation & Innovation

Anchor

Rajat Mathur

Partner, Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

Param Devireddy

Group Vice President of Engineering & Technology, Albertsons Companies

Shwetha Kumari

Global Head, GDM Analytics & Infrastructure (Senior Vice President), Swiss Re

Nishant Chandra

Industry Co-pilot Leader & Head, Microsoft

David Zakkam

Senior Vice President - Analytics and Data Strategy, JioHotstar

Bhargab Dutta

VP and Head of AI, Analytics and Data Strategy, UltraTech

Agentic AI is the new strategic capability for achieving business value and efficiency. It moves beyond basic automation by using intelligent systems that can independently plan and execute complex tasks with a level of autonomy, unlike traditional AI. Agentic AI leverages agentic systems to tackle problems by analysing data, optimizing processes, ultimately enabling enterprises to focus on more strategic and creative endeavours. Further, multimodal Agentic AI frameworks has emerged as transformative catalysts, enabling businesses to accelerate process automation at an unprecedented scale.

However, the key question is not whether to adopt the Agentic AI, but how swiftly organisations can build blueprints to integrate it in the workflows to stay ahead of the competition and create new framework that explores how organisations can leverage agentic AI at scale to boost operational efficiency, enhance customer experience, and drive revenue growth.

The Experts Panel consisting of seasoned leaders will explore and navigate the creating a blueprint approach for deploying & scaling AI Agents.

Strategic Deliberations & Contrarian view guaranteed !

03:55 PM

3AI Signature Forum Updates

04:15 PM

3AI ACME Awards 2025 felicitation ceremony and AI Makers 2026 celebration showreel