AGENDA
08:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Registrations & Networking over Tea/Coffee
09:00 AM
Unveiling BEYOND 2025 – Event Showreel, 5th Anniversary Celebrations & Day Flow Construct by Emcee
09:15 AM
Welcome to 3AI BEYOND 2025
Sameer Dhanrajani
CEO, 3AI
09:45 AM
Riding the Wave: The Gen AI Imperative for Leadership
Sanjay Menon
Managing Director
Publicis Sapient India
10:05 AM
Building a Robust Digital Technology Strategy – A Sneak Peek into a Digital’s Leader Mindset
Madhavi Kanumoory
Chief Digital & Information Officer
Birla Carbon
10:15 AM
Building Future-Fit & Resilient Global Capbaility Centers (GCCs) through Data, Analytics & AI: New Ruminations
Moderator
Lalitha Indrakanti
CEO,
Jaguar Land Rover TBSI
Arindam Banerrji
Executive Vice President & Country Head,
State Street India
G N V Subba Rao
Global Head Operation Centers and IM&S,
ABB
Amit Kalra
Managing Director, Head Global Business Solutions,
Swiss Re
RB Rajendar
Managing Director - Analytics and Information Management,
Citi
Abhijit Naik
Managing Director,
Morgan Stanley
Global Capability Centers(GCCs) are at an inflection point as the pace at which AI & Analytics is changing every aspect is exponential and at high velocity. GCCs are contextually empowered with critical and strategic business capabilities. They are rapidly evolving as enterprise transformation hubs and are beginning to be in the center of AI & Analytics driven transformation wave. GCCs ability to provide strategic AI & Analytics capabilities & solutions at scale and play a key role in future proofing enterprises equipped with top of the line business driven Data, AI & Analytics output and value impact is proving out to be the secret sauce for the success of the GCCs.
Building Future-Fit GCCs template through Data, Analytics & AI will be driven by strategic planning, complex capability building, designing bespoke architecture, Value & Transformation accentuation and building AI fluency amongst leadership. What does it take for a GCCs to be Future-Fit scale and create value through Data, AI & Analytics in the disruptive times? How does the right amalgamation of the New Age Capabilities in Data, AI & Analytics looks like for GCCs?
Unplugged debate session brings together GCC leaders with multifarious background and they will discuss and unravel aspects on defining Future-Fit GCCs.
10:55 AM
The Theory of Constraints
Ajey Kumar
Executive Client Partner
Publicis Sapient India
11:10 AM – 11:30AM
Networking Break over tea/coffee
11:30 AM
AI Epiphany – Unleashing the Transformation of Businesses & Operating Models in Indian Enterprises
Moderator
Pankaj Rai
Group Chief Data and Analytics Officer,
Aditya Birla Group
Ganesh Lakshminarayanan
MD and GVP,
ServiceNow India & SAARC
Madhavi Kanumoory
Chief Digital & Information Officer,
Birla Carbon
Guru Ananthanarayanan
Managing Director - India,
Cognite
Srivatsa Subbanna
Senior Vice President and Head - Intelligent Automation & AI,
Axis Bank
Indian Enterprises are looking at embracing Gen AI in business strategy, automating critical tasks, reimagining functional processes and redefining their competitive landscape. Generative AI has the potential to dramatically improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Indian enterprises. However, Gen AI Strategy needs to be curated for Indian firms that can plan and implement quickly to capture top-line and bottom-line growth.
Indian Enterprises that are early adopters of Gen AI strategy will be best equipped to identify and seize
opportunities across their organisation and markets.
The leaders panel discussion will conceptualise Gen AI strategy for Indian Enterprises with a framework driven approach and will articulate guided approach to Gen AI adoption.
A must attend session…
12:10 PM
Unboxing AGI – Building Reasoning & Intelligence Systems – What’s under the hood ?
Bhaskar Roy
Client Partner APAC
Fractal Analytics
12:20 PM
Quest for Building AI-Powered Organisation & GCCs – Strategic Approaches for Boards, CXOs & Senior Leaders
Moderator
KS Viswanathan
Kalpana Balasubramanian
CEO and Chief Thinker dGTL,
Grant Thornton Bharat
Sanjeev Jain
Chief Operating Officer,
Wipro
Balaji Narasimhan
Head, GCC India Operations,
TransUnion
Avinash Vashistha
Chairman & CEO,
Tholons
Gen AI has awakened the boards & leaders & the business lexicon has risen to the top of the boardroom & is the C-suite agenda. Quest for building AI-Powered Organisations is invoking massive shifts in the business value chain of enterprises and is redefining what it takes to accomplish competitive advantage and upping the innovation quotient.
Further, AI & Analytics practices in GCCs are evolving from being mere POC driven exercises to AI CoE & hubs and becoming value drivers of transformation, innovation & business impact. How is C-suite, Boards and senior leaders are gearing up to the onslaught of Gen AI tsunami? and what new strategic approaches will emerge amongst Boards, CXOs and Senior Leaders to strategize and build AI-Powered Organisations & GCCs.
This unique strategic discussion set up as leaders special consisting of senior leaders will dwell upon the changing dynamics & future forward scenario of boards, CXOs and senior leaders in the Gen AI era.
01:00 PM – 02:00PM
Lunch
02:00 PM
Dattatri Salagame
CEO, President, Managing Director,
Bosch Global Software Technologies
Sameer Dhanrajani
CEO,
3AI
02:25 PM
Discover the Unbound Possibilities with AI – Innovative Adoption Models & Approaches for GCCs, Enterprises & Provider Firms
Moderator
Srikant Sowmya-
narayanan
Head of Solutions - Generative AI Business Services,
Happiest Minds
Ganesh Rao
Head of R&D ADAS Engineering,
Continental
Prasad Sristi
Chief AI Officer
Ascend
Itti Singh
Head of Analytics and Insights Advisory,
Landmark Group
Vinodh Ramachandran
Director, Data Science & Analytics,
Neiman Marcus Group
Unbound AI : A confluence of bringing Gen AI, AI, Digital, Data Engineering, Cloud, Quantum computing & Human design will unleash the true power of AI & Analytics adoption. Unbound AI will accelerate disruption of entire business value chains, reimagining the customer experience, innovating new products & services and transforming the businesses. Unbound AI will usher new operating models, influence the business decision making and become a trojan horse for triggering innovation & disruption. Whilst, several businesses are still focused on siloed use cases and disparate POCs, the full potential of Unbound AI adoption can only be realized if the enterprise, GCC and Tech firms evolve and implement innovative models & approaches for wide adoption.
The session brings together practitioners and they will focus on strategic discussions on various possibilities of Innovative Adoption Models & Approaches for GCCs, Enterprises & Provider Firms with Unbound AI.
03:10 PM
Pranav Padode
CEO,
DSJ Keep Learning
03:10 PM
Slaying the Talent Game: Who’s Mastering People Strategy in Data, Digital & AI?
Moderator
Ganga Ganapathi Poovaiah
India Marketing Leader,
Publicis Sapient India
Sanjeev Rastogi
Chief Executive Officer- GCCr,
Adani Group
Rajat Mathur
Partner,
BCG
Anu Thomas
Senior Director,
Sony India
Phani Pattamatta
COO,
HYSEA
Vinay Simha
Director & Principal Enterprise Architect,
Philips
03:50 PM
ACME AWARDS 2025 (4th Edition) – WINNERS ANNOUNCEMENT & FELICITATION
Guest of Honour
Sarika Naik
Group Chief Corporate Responsibility Officer
Capgemini Group
4:45 PM
Closing Remarks
4:55 PM – 5:30 PM
High Tea & Networking & Conclusion of BEYOND 2025
6:00 PM onwards
LEADERS EXCLUSIVE EVENING 2025
11:10 AM – 11:30AM
Networking Break over tea/coffee
11:30 AM
Vidhya Veeraraghavan
Biddappa Muthappa
11:45 AM
AI-Driven Pricing in the B2B Manufacturing Industry
Namrata Nerurkar
Aditya Birla Group
Pearl Motwani
Aditya Birla Group
12;00 PM
AI & Gen AI Adoption in Banking and Financial Services
Sangita Samanta
Vice President
EXL
12:15 PM
AIOps trends in autonomous IT environments
Sowmya Sundararagavan
Senior Director of Product
Freshworks
12:30 PM
AI Driven Brain Imaging Analysis Solution for Cohort Research
Bebi Negi
Sr Lead Data Scientist
Happiest Minds
12:45 PM
Rethinking the NextGen Capability Maturity Framework – for Staying Relevant
Vivek Mahendra
Managing Partner
Vivikta Advisory & Creatives
01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
Lunch
02:00 PM
How a Prominent Global Retailer used Gen AI to Personalise Marketing & Improve Customer Engagement
Suvro Shankar Ghosh
Head Of Data Science
Mahindra Group
02:15 PM
Determining ROI for GenAI investments
Ashok Kalra
Head - Analytics and Insights
The Economist
02:30 PM
“Wait, there’s an App for that!”
Lakshminarasimman Raghavan
Group Vice President Technology
Publicis Sapient India
02:45 PM
Pioneering the Future: AI driven excellence in Higher Education
Lakshmi Shankar Iyer
Area Chair - Business Analytics
Chirst University
03:00 PM
Bridging the Gap Between ‘Health’ and ‘Care’ – How AI plays a key role in improving User Experience in Healthcare
Vijay Gowtham
Consultant - Data & Gen AI
Poorna Health
03:15 PM
Retail: Harnessing the Power of AI and Human Collaboration
Seema Agarwal
Vice President, Retail
Fractal Analytics
03:50 PM