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About the Conference

The CIO&Leader Annual Conference, now in its 26th year, is the leading platform for India’s Top CIOs, IT leaders & IT decision makers to come together, engage, and shape the digital future of enterprises.

In 2025, the conference takes a bold leap forward with the theme “AI: From Pilot to Production.” As artificial intelligence moves beyond experimentation, enterprises are now facing the real challenge: turning successful pilots into scalable, secure and sustainable production deployments. This year’s edition is designed to empower CIOs to lead this transition confidently.

Over three power-packed days, the conference will bring together 200+ top CIOs & IT leaders (100+ CIOs & 100 Future AI ready CIOs) for Insightful Keynotes from global experts and visionaries, practical Case Studies showcasing AI success stories and learnings, Curated Rapid Roundtables for real-time sharing of strategies and roadblocks, Deep-dive Workshops, curated networking experiences to build lasting connections. Whether you're piloting AI in silos or scaling enterprise-wide deployments, the CIO&Leader Annual Conference 2025 is your gateway to actionable insights and transformative conversations that matter.

Join us as we explore how to move from AI pilots to enterprise-scale impact—confidently, responsibly, and strategically.

When

1st - 3rd August 2025

Location

Ritz Carlton, Pune

Key Discussion Points

AI Implemention strategy

  • The AI Transformation Imperative
  • AI Engineering: Scaling AI from Pilot to Production

Infrastructure for AI

  • Next-Gen Architecture for AI: Cloud to Edge
  • Enterprise AI Architecture: Build vs Buy

Data Management for AI

  • Enterprise Data Architecture for AI Success
  • Aligning Data Architectures with Your Operating Model

Integrating AI into Enterprise Processes & Systems

  • Integrating AI into Enterprise Processes & Systems
  • Automating Workflows with AI

Driving Value with AI

  • Creating a Business Case for Generative AI
  • The Economics of Enterprise AI

Use Cases: AI Transformation

  • Industry Transformation
  • Implementation Focus

AI Governance, Security & Compliance

  • Securing AI: Privacy, Ethics, and Risk Management
  • Compliance with regulations like GDPR and India’s DPDP Act

Who Should Attend

  • Chief Information Officer
  • Chief Technology Officer
  • Chief Digital Officer
  • President IT
  • Senior Director/Director IT
  • SVP/Vice President - IT

Why Should You Attend the 26th Edition CIO&Leader Annual Conference in Pune?

Be part of a legacy. This is the 26th edition of India’s most trusted and influential congression of enterprise IT leaders.

3-day residential conference set against the picturesque landscape of Pune.

Congression of 200 Senior IT Leaders (100+ CIOs & 100 Future AI ready CIOs) from 5000+ crore enterprises

36 hours of Agenda [19 hours of Networking & Social Activities, 12 hours of Active Engagement, 5 hours of Knowledge Sharing]

NEXT100 Program - India’s only community-driven program to identify 100 future CIOs

India’s only platform to honour veteran CIOs – 7th edition of CIO&Leader Samman

Enterprise tech survey for CIOs '2025 - 26

Gain actionable insights from renowned technology thought leaders, innovators, and industry experts.

Motivational & Celebrity speakers

Enjoy the camaraderie, laughter, and shared moments at the Pune Club Golf Course

Experience the Iconic luxury of RITZ Carlton

Relish the authentic Peshwai thali

Relive the rich history and culture of the Peshwas at the Sound & Light Show at Shaniwar Wada.

Electrifying Musical Performance Chaitanya Devadhe Indian Idol Season 15 finalist

Magical “Kishore Kumar” NightMohan Radhakrishnan Yodelling his way into a million hearts with Kishore Kumar’s legacy

Innovative Engagement Strategies

Humsafar on Wheels

Start engaging at the onset of the journey

Speed Dating

Break the ice and make connections

Case Study Workshop

Convert CIOs into your brand evangelists

Exclusive Captains Lunch

Formal Sit-down Lunch with your key prospects

Partner Keynote

Elevate the vision of CIOs

Ideas Cafe

Conversational leadership to cross pollinate ideas & co-create solutions

Boardroom Discussions

Executive insight exchange

Panel Discussions

Harness diverse perspectives - advance your agenda

Customer Case Study

Share client success stories to demonstrate the impact of your solutions

CIO Prestige Program

It's exclusive and only one of its kind!

The CIO&Leader Prestige Points program: Designed to motivate CIOs to stay focussed and actively engage with the conference agenda.

Top CIOs go head-to-head for the ultimate reward—an exclusive

Celebrity Speakers @26th Annual CIO&Leader conference

Partha Iyengar

Ex-Gartner Fellow, Country Manager Research (India), Gartner, HBR Author, Ex Board Member SBI, Speaker, Advisor

Prof Balaraman Ravidran

Head: Wadhwani School of Data Science & AI / Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science & AI / Centre for Responsible AI
IIT Madras

Janhavi Chitale

CIO, Chitale Bandhu Mithaiwale
Co-founder of Intellixente Solutions, an analytics start-up

Confirmed Delegates

Aashish Kshetry

VP & CIO,
Asian Paints

Abhijit Bhalerao

CIO,
Raymond

Abhishek Kumar Singh

Chief Information Officer,
Radico Khaitan Limited

Ajay Bharwani

Global/Group CIO & EVP - Digital Transformation,
Writer Corporation

Ajay Rambal

Head - IT (CIO),
LG Electronics India

Ajay Vernekar

Chief Information Officer,
SBI Life Insurance Company

Ajitsingh Nawale

Head - IT (CIO),
Advik Hi-Tech

Amit Pradhan

Chief Information Officer & Vice President - IT,
Dixon Technologies (India) Limited

Amit Sethi

Executive Vice President - Chief Digital and Information Officer,
Thermax Global

Amit Shukla

VP - IT (CIO),
Crystal Crop Protection Limited

Amol Deshpande

Group Chief Digitial Officer & Head - Innovation,
RPG Group

Anand Aggarwal

Group CTO,
Bennett, Coleman & Co

Anand Das

Chief Digital & AI Officer - Engineering,
TVS Motor Company Limited

Anand Deodhar

Group Chief Digital & Information Officer,
Force Motors

Anand Sinha

Chief Information Officer & Director - IT,
BirlaSoft Limited

Anant Deshmukh

Chief Technology Officer & Head - IT,
ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company

Anil Kuril

CISO & DPO,
Union Bank of India

Apurva Dalal

Vice President & Head of Digital Transformation,
Adani Airport Holdings Limited

Ashish Desai

Chief Information Officer - Textiles,
Grasim Industries Limited

Ashish Thakur

Chief Information Officer,
Cummins India Limited

Ashok Jade

Group Chief Information Officer,
Kirloskar Brothers Limited

Ashok Nayak

Chief Information Officer,
Ipca Laboratories

Ashok Tiwari

Chief Information Officer,
Finolex Cables Limited

Atanu Pramanic

Chief Operating Officer & Vice President - IT,
RPSG Ventures

Atanu Roy

President & Group Chief Information Officer,
PI Industries Limited

Avadhut Parab

Chief Information Officer,
Waaree Energies

Avinash Naik

CIO,
Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Company

Avinash Tiwari

Chief - IT & Information Security,
Pidilite Industries Limited

Bhushan Deshpande

Chief Information Officer,
Arcelor Mittal Nippon Steel India

Bhuwan Lodha

CEO - AI Division,
Mahindra & Mahindra

Chetan Trivedi

Chief Information Officer,
Hindustan Zinc Limited

Chitti Babu

Group Chief Information Officer,
Aurobindo Pharma Limited

Debanjan Banerjee

Global Service Management Director,
Pernod Ricard India

Debashish Roy

Chief Digital Transformation Officer,
Ceat Limited

Deepak Sengupta

Chief Technology Officer,
Balasore Alloys Limited (Ispat Group)

Dr. Pankaj Dikshit

CTO & EVP,
GeM (Government e-Marketplace)

Dwarka Srinath

Chief Digital information Officer,
Tata Power Co. Limited

Farhan Khan

Chief Information Officer,
Radico Khaitan Limited

Gyan Pandey

Head Digital & Chief Digital officer,
Voltas Limited

Harsh Jha

Chief Information Technology Officer,
Nuvama Group

Hilal Khan

Chief Information Officer,
Honda Cars India

Indradyumna Datta

Group Chief Digital Officer,
Jindal Steel & Power Limited

Jaiprasad Naidu

VP - IT (CIO),
Micro Labs

Jayant Gupta

Information Systems,
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited

Keyur Desai

Head - IT (CIO),
Prince Pipes & Fittings

Kishore Hirani

Chief Information Officer,
Amara Raja Energy & Mobility Limited

KRC Murty

Senior President & Head - IMG (Business & Digital Technology Solutions),
Yes Bank

Kripadyuti Sarkar

Group Chief Information Officer,
Ambuja Cements Limited

L B Sharma

Chief General Manager - Information Systems,
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited

Manish Malik

Executive Director - Information Systems,
Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL)

Meheriar Patel

Group CTO & Director - IT,
Master Group

Metessh D. Bhati

EVP & Chief Digital & AI Officer (CDAIO),
Protean eGov Technologies

Milind Khamkar

Group CIO,
Super-Max

Neeti Wahi

Group Chief Information & Digital Officer,
Indus Tower Limited

Nitin Parmar

Group CIO,
Arvind Ltd

Paresh Goswami

Head - Information Technology,
Suzuki Motors Gujarat

Parna Ghosh

VP IT, Group Chief Information Officer,
Uno Minda Limited

Parveen Dhingra

Chief Digital & Information Officer - Enterprise Solutions & Digital Infra,
STL Digital

Pavan Goyal

Sr VP & Chief Information Officer,
Mphasis Limited

Pawan Kumar Sharma

Head - IT & CISO,
Tata Motors

Pertisth Mankotia

CIO,
Sheela Foam

Prasad Rao

Senior Director - IT,
Vee Healthtek

Prasanth Puliakottu

Global Chief Information Officer,
Rain Industries

Dr. Prashant Atrey

Executive Director & HoD - IT & Communication,
NHPC Limited

Praveen Shrikhande

Chief Digital & Information Officer,
Aditya Birla Fashion & Retail Limited

Prosenjit Sengupta

Group Chief Digital and Information Officer,
ITC Limited

P S Sundaram

Excutive Director & Chief Information Officer,
Power Finance Corporation

Pushkar Rege

Global Chief Information Officer,
United Phosphorus Limited (UPL)

Rahul Chopra

Director & Head - Digital,
PNB MetLife India Insurance Company

Rajat Yadav

Chief Information Officer & Head - IT,
JCB India

Rajeev Mittal

Group Chief Information Officer,
Endurance Technologies Limited

Rajiv Sharaf

Head - Information Technology,
Torrent Power Limited

Rajkumar Ayyella

Chief Information Officer,
RPG Group (KEC International)

Rajneesh Garg

CIO & Senior Vice President,
ECU Worldwide (AllCargo)

Ramesh Narayanaswamy

Chief Technology Offficer,
Aditya Birla Capital Limited

Ravi Kumar

Chief Digital & Information Officer,
Exide Industries

Ravi Shankar Shrivastava

Chief Information Officer,
Patanjali Foods Limited

Rupesh Nain

Chief Information Officer,
Adani Enterprises Limited

Rupesh Nirgude

Chief Information & Digital Officer,
Prism Johnson Limited

Sajeev Maheshwari

Executive Director - IT & Fare Collection System,
Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC)

Sajith Chakkingal

Head - Global Technology Services & India Technology Centre,
TMF Group

Sampath Manickam

CTO - Technology Infrastructure,
NSE

Sandesh Rane

Group Chief Digital & Technology Officer,
Group LandMark

Sandip Pradhan

VP & CIO,
Century Plyboards (India) Limited

Sanjay Mishra

Group Chief Digital & Information Officer,
Jindal Stainless Limited

Sanjay Moralwar

Group CIO & Senior General Manager,
Cadila Healthcare (Zydus Group)

Sanjay Rao

Group CIO, President & Shared Services Head,
SRF Limited

Sarveswara Rao Devana

General Manager & Head - IT,
Mobis India (Hyundai Motors)

Satej Revankar

Chief Information Officer,
FIAT India Automobiles

Satish S

Chief Innovation Officer,
Eureka Forbes

Satyavrat Mishra

Head - Corporate IT & Group Chief Information Security Officer,
Godrej Industries limited

Saurabh Gupta

Group Chief Digital & Information officer,
Gujarat Fluorochemicals Limited

Sendil Kumar Venkatesan

Chief Technology Officer,
Shriram Capital Limited

Shweta Srivastava

Head - IT (CIO),
Matix Fertilizers & Chemicals

Subramanyam Gupta GV

Chief Information Officer,
Welspun Enterprises Limited

Sudhir Kanvinde

Chief Information Officer,
Supreme Industries Limited

Sujoy Brahmachari

CIO & CISO,
Rosmerta Technologies

Sumit Duttagupta

CIO & Head - Synergy / Digital Transformation & Senior Vice President,
Haldia Petrochemicals Limited

Susheel Navanale

Group Chief Information Officer,
Britannia Industries Limited

Tapan Sahoo

Executive Director & Head-Digital,
Maruti Suzuki India

Udit Pahwa

CIO,
Blue Star

Vamsi Krishna Ithamraju

CTO,
Axis AMC

Venkata Rao Damera

Chief Information & Digital Officer,
Adani Wilmar Limited

Venkat Krishnan V

Chief Information officer,
Karnataka Bank Limited

Vinay Kumar

CIO,
McDonals's India

Vineet Bansal

Group Chief Information Officer,
Surya Roshni Limited

Vinod Bhat

Chief Digital Officer,
Tata AutoComp Systems Limited

Vinod Khode

Group Chief Information Officer,
Varroc Engineering Limited

Vinod Sivarama Krishnan

Chief Digital & Information Officer,
Essar Group

Violet Jemimah Haris

Chief Digital & Information Officer,
Sterlite Copper (Sterlite Industries)

Vipin Kumar

Chief Information Officer - Global,
Uflex Limited

Viraj Deshpande

Senior VP & CIO - Petrochemicals,
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL)

Vishal Bhatia

Chief Digital Officer,
Canara Bank

Vivek Digumarti

VP & Head Information Technology,
Laurus Labs Limited

Yogesh Zope

Chief Digital Officer & Senior Vice President,
Bharat Forge Limited

Some of the past keynote speakers

Akash Ambani

Chairman, Jio Infocomm

Dr Toby Walsh

Chief Scientist, UNSW,AI Institute, Sydney

Sanjiv Puri

Chairman & MD, ITC

Shri Gaur Gopal Das

Life Coach

Harish Manwani

Senior Operating Partner, The Blackstone Group & Former Global COO, Unilever

Prakash Iyer

Former Managing Director, Kimberly-Clark Lever

Sjoerd Marijne

Former Coach, Indian women’s National Hockey Team

Ray Hammond

Keynote Speaker, Futurist

Anand Kumar

Educationalist, Mathematician & Founder, Super 30 program

Sean Moffitt

Partner & Managing Director, Wikibrands

Dr. Harri Ketamo

Founder & Chairman, HeadAI

Jayant Sinha

Former Minister, Finance & Civil Aviation

Bhawani Singh

Shekhawat CEO and Trustee - UK/ Europe, The Akshaya Patra Foundation

Shivshankar Menon

Served as National Security Adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

Vinod Rai

Former CAG

Arun Shourie

Former Minister, Communications & Information Technology

Roger Fisk

Former Director, Scheduling & Advance, U.S.Department ofCommerce & Former Lead Advance Associate, The White House

Jayaram Ramesh

Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha

Hamish Taylor

Former CEO, Sainsburys Bank & CEO of Eurostar Group

Gerry Pennel

Head of Technology, Manchester University, Former CIO for London Olympic Games

Shishir Hattangadi

CEO, Baroda Cricket Association

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