#NavigateTheNewNextofGCCs
Friday, 20th
February 2026
Radisson Blu, ORR, Bengaluru
Friday, 20th February 2026
Radisson Blu, ORR, Bengaluru
GCC X...SUMMIT 2026 | AGENDA
The 5th edition of
GCC X…Summit powered by 3AI
Friday, 20th February 2026
Marking a milestone year with its 5th edition, GCC X…Summit 2026 stands as a pioneering, trendsetting platform, uniquely centered around India’s vibrant & growing GCC ecosystem. This landmark event will spotlight GCCs strategic importance in AI++ aspects of Agentic AI , GenAI, Data Engineering, Data Platform, Cloud computing featuring top of line GCC leaders, enablers, policymakers, decision-makers and practitioners sharing cutting-edge insights, emerging trends, and best practices under the theme: Navigate the New & Next in GCCs with AI++.
This landmark 5th edition of GCC X…Summit 2026
agenda features four-pronged framework approach
Axis
Global strategy & geopolitical outlook for GCCs
Transformation Zone
Future signals, GCCs blueprints for growth
Innovation Zone
The art of possible in GCCs with breakthrough AI++: Agentic AI, Data Engineering , Gen AI , Data Platform & Cloud Computing
Strategy Powerhouse
Topical themes and curated agenda sourced from aggregating viewpoints & perspectives from 150+ GCC leaders
8:00 AM
Registrations & Networking over Coffee
9:00 AM
Unveiling GCC X…Summit 2026 - event showreel & day flow construct by Emcee
9:20 AM
Opening Address: Welcome to GCC X...Summit 2026
Sameer Dhanrajani
CEO
3AI
9:45 AM
Keynote Session
The Strategic Workforce Imperative: Why GCC Leaders Must Rethink How Demand Becomes Capability
Radhakrishnan (RK) Vilayannur
Senior Vice President, Executive Leadership Team
YASH Technologies
Every GCC traces back to business demand. Five dimensions of it. The challenge is that most organizations still channel this demand through workforce models designed for a pre-AI era, where scale meant headcount and capability meant hiring the right specialist at the right time. This session unpacks how Global Strategic Workforce Planning (GSWP) must evolve when agents can be trained, deployed, and scaled through compute rather than recruitment cycles, and why the leaders who redesign the demand to capability pipeline now will define what a world class GCC looks like in the next decade.
10:10 AM
Strategic Dialogues: Exclusive Session
Building Leadership for Future-Fit & Resilient Global Capability Centers (GCCs) : New Ruminations
Lalit Ahuja
Cofounder & CEO
ANSR
Vikram Ahuja
Cofounder
ANSR
Anchor
Smitha Hemmigae
Managing Director
ANSR
Vikram Kolar
Senior Vice President Of Engineering; Head, Visa India Technology Center
Visa
Latha Chembrakalam
Vice President, Head of Technical Center India
Continental
Kaushik Das
Managing Director
JCPenney India
Global Capability Centers(GCCs) are at an inflection point as the pace at which AI & Gen AI is changing every aspect is exponential and at high velocity.
GCC’s 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 driven transformation wave. GCC’s ability to provide strategic capacity at scale and play a key role in future proofing enterprises equipped with top of the line leadership skills is proving out to be the secret sauce for the success of the GCCs. Being at the helm of leading a GCC is an arduous task and onerous responsibility wherein multifarious skills, competencies and attributes are required to demonstrated and showcased by the GCC leader to build, scale and transform the GCC.
Building Future-Fit & Resilient GCCs with new leadership template will be characterized by driving strategic planning, complex capability building, designing bespoke AI led technology architecture, driving C level advocacy, Value & Transformation accentuation, inclusive talent building & intensive corporate development & much more & beyond…
What’s the new DNA of a future-fit & resilient GCC leader looks like? What does it take for a GCC leader to be Future-Fit and create value in the disruptive times? How does the right amalgamation of the New Age Capabilities, Talent, Technologies & Processes looks like for GCC leaders ?
The session brings together stellar GCC leaders with multifarious backgrounds as they unravel aspects on defining the new leadership code of Future-Fit & Resilient GCCs. A MUST ATTEND Leaders Exclusive Session .
10:45 AM
Leaders Exclusive Session
Building Nuanced & Robust Target Operating Models and Sustained Value Architecture for GCCs: New Ruminations
Anchor
Lalitha Indrakanti
CEO
Jaguar Land Rover - TBSI
John Dawber
India GCC Leader
Novo Nordisk
Sivakumar Selva Ganapathy
Vice President
Johnson Controls
George Inasu
Managing Director and Country Head
Fidelity National Financial India
Amit Verma
Country Head
Citco India
Sudish Lambodara Panicker
Managing Director
BNY
Global Capability Centers(GCCs) are at an inflection point as the pace at which target operating models is changing every aspect of GCCs is nuanced and unprecedented. GCC’s 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 strategic transformation wave. GCC’s ability to provide strategic capacity at scale and play a key role in future proofing enterprises equipped with sustained value architecture is proving out to be the secret sauce for the success of the GCCs.
Building novel yet robust target operating models for GCCs will be characterized by driving strategic planning, complex capability building, designing bespoke new age technology architecture, driving C level advocacy, Value & Transformation accentuation, inclusive talent building & intensive corporate development & much more …
What are the Novel yet nuanced target operating Models for GCCs look like ? What does it take for a GCC leader to be build sustained value architecture to be Future-Fit and create value in the disruptive times? How does the right amalgamation of the operating models and value architecture looks like for GCC leaders?
The session brings together stellar GCC leaders with multifarious backgrounds as they unravel aspects on building nuanced target operating models for GCCs. A MUST ATTEND Leaders Exclusive Session.
Sameer Dhanrajani
CEO
3AI
11:25 AM
Networking Break over tea/coffee
11:45 AM
Spotlight Talk
How AI Delivers the Data That Powers AI: Driving Enterprise Value with Intelligent Engineering
Karthikeyan Viswanathan
CEO & President
DataSwitch
12:00 PM
Strategic Leadership Roundtable
AI++ Unleashing the New Code of Innovation & Transformation in GCCs: The GCC Playbook Approach
Moderator
Durga Prakash
Head of Technology - Global Offices
McDonald's
RB Rajendar
Managing Director
Citi
Rupangi Kadakia
Head of Strategy & Operations
Albertsons Companies India
Pancham Taneja
Country Head
Delta Capita
Nithya Subramanian
Senior Director Data & AI CoE
Best Buy
Kaushik Das
Seasoned GCC Leader
GCCs are reflections of strategic components to parent organization’s business imperatives. The rapid transformation and innovation of GCCs today is driven largely by ability for them to position AI’s strategic imperative for their parent organizations. AI is seen to the Trojan horse to catapult GCCs to the next level on innovation & transformation. In recent times; GCC story is in a changing era of value and transformative arbitrage. Most of the GCCs are aiming towards deploying suite of AI led strategies comprising of data engineering , data platforms , Gen AI , Agentic AI to position themselves as the model template of Innovation & Transformation. It is widely predicted that AI++ will disrupt and transform GCCs to up the ante in the coming years.
How have the AI led Innovation strategies of GCCs transformed with reference to parent organization? whilst delivering tangible business outcomes, innovation & transformation for parent organizations? How are Global Capability Centers looking at addressing Innovation & Transformation through AI and what new code will evolve?
The Strategic Leadership Roundtable Session consisting of seasoned and eclectic AI & GCC leaders will revolve around multifarious dimensions that AI will unleash to trigger innovation & transformation in GCCs.
12:40 PM
Spotlight Talk
From Execution Engines to Capability Centers: Redesigning the GCC Value Journey for an AI-Led Era
Shishir Choudhary
Global Business Head, GCC
YASH Technologies
AI is fundamentally restructuring how work gets done, and GCCs built on cost arbitrage and headcount driven execution models are directly exposed to this shift. With Global Strategic Workforce Planning (GSWP) traditionally controlled upstream, fragmented domain depth within roles, and scale measured largely through FTE growth, many GCCs remain downstream execution engines in a world where AI is compressing routine work at every stage of the value journey. If GCCs do not pivot toward AI led, domain driven, business orchestrated models where humans and agents operate as a cohesive capability, their relevance and economic logic will gradually erode. The opportunity now is to evolve into AI assisted capability centers where leverage, orchestration, judgment, and deep business understanding replace the numbers game.
12:55 PM
Lunch
2:00 PM
Fireside Session
Sunil Gopinath
CEO
Albertsons Companies India
Host
Sameer Dhanrajani
CEO
3AI
Sudish Lambodara Panicker
Managing Director
BNY
2:25 PM
Unplugged Debate
Redefining the Archetypes, Personas and Attributes of GCC Leaders: Strategic Perspectives
Moderator
Sandeep Dhar
Country Head
Better
K S Viswanathan
Rathnaprabha Manickavachagam
MD, Head of Innovation for India & APAC
Morgan Stanley
Rajesh Puneyani
VP & GCC Site Leader
Kenvue India
Arvind Chittora
Managing Director
Sonoco
Bipin Pendyala
General Manager
Appen
Amongst the burgeoning buzz in the GCCs segment; building scalable & resilient leadership in GCCs for sustained performance is the need of the hour & highly critical. New operating models of GCCs are rewriting the leadership code architecture of GCCs at high speed. Setup, scale and sustenance trajectories of GCCs requires out-of-the-box outlook and perspectives as the winds of change needs a rethink of new leadership archetype , agile & fungible processes, deep & topical leadership capabilities for GCCs leaders to stay relevant. With the new renditions of GCCs evolving, GCC leaders need to reimagine the strategic thinking and performance attributes that are required to build top notch talented teams, devise novel business and technology processes to work in unison with parent organizations and develop new initiatives & interventions for GCCs to stay ahead of the curve.
Hear it from the experts from multidimensional backgrounds as they trigger the not so often spoken discussion of Redefining the archetypes , personas and attributes of GCC Leaders. Pulsating debate guaranteed !!
3:05 PM
Spotlight Talk
Can India GCCs become the Trust Capital of the World?
Neeraj Taneja
President
AuthBridge
For over two decades, India’s GCC story has been one of an extraordinary scale.
From cost efficiency to capability depth, from operational excellence to strategic ownership - the journey has been remarkable.
But scale changes the equation.
When India becomes the execution engine for global enterprises, it also becomes the custodian of their data, their IP, their governance standards, and increasingly, their reputation.
The next chapter of the GCC story will not be defined by how fast we grow - but by how deeply we are trusted.
Today, the question is not whether India can deliver.
The question is whether India can lead - as the Trust Capital of the world.
3:20 PM
Lounge Specials
The New Code of Talent, Capabilities & Processes in GCCs: Staying Ahead of the Curve
Moderator
Joy Abraham
Senior GCC Business Leader
YASH Technologies
Srinivas Rao Mahankali (MSR)
ex CEO T-Hub, Serial entrepreneur
Sanjaya Rao
Managing Partner
EveryOps
Sharanya Kandasamy
Lead - GenAI Projects
Fidelity National Financial India
Rohit Aradhya
Managing Director - India
Barracuda
Sanjaya Rao
Managing Partner
EveryOps
Building Future-Fit GCCs with New Age Capabilities, Talent & Processes is the need of the hour & highly critical. The jobs of today will not be the jobs of tomorrow…..Gen & AI are rewriting the capability, talent & process architecture of GCCs at high speed. Setup, scale and sustenance trajectories of GCCs requires out-of-the-box outlook and perspectives as the winds of change needs a rethink of new career pathways & lattice, agile & fungible processes, deep & topical capabilities for GCCs to stay relevant. With the new renditions of GCCs evolving, GCC leaders need to reimagine the skills, competencies and attributes that are required to build top notch talented teams, devise novel business and technology processes to work in unison with parent organisations and develop new initiatives & interventions for GCCs to stay ahead of the curve.
Hear it from the experts from multidimensional backgrounds as they trigger the not so often spoken discussion of trigger the new code of talent, capabilities & processes in GCCs…. Exciting debate guaranteed in the lounge specials !
4:00 PM
Experts Corner
Moderator
Nathan S v
Country Leader
PwC Acceleration Centers in India
Sanjeev Jain
Chief Operating Officer
Wipro
Aveek Mukherjee
MD & Cofounder
Gloplax Solutions
Romi Malhotra
Senior Advisor
Embark
Aveek Mukherjee
MD & Cofounder
Gloplax Solutions
Sanjeev Jain
Chief Operating Officer
Wipro
4:25 PM
3AI SIGnature Forums Presentations: BFS | RCG | HCLS industry Segments
GCC FusionX HackFest Finalists Presentations
5:00 PM
3AI Pinnacle Awards 2026 & GCC FusionX Hackfest - Felicitation Ceremony
Guests of Honour
Sanjeev Jain
Chief Operating Officer
Wipro
Romi Malhotra
Senior Advisor
Embark
Aveek Mukherjee
MD & Cofounder
Gloplax Solutions
5:30 PM
Conclusion of GCC X...Summit 2026 and High Tea & Networking
11:25 AM
Networking Break over tea/coffee
11:45 AM
Context Setting - Innovation Zone
Biddppa Muthappa
Co-founder & CEO
Sash.ai
11:55 AM
Fireside Session
The New-Age SaaS GCC Playbook : From Execution Engine to Innovation Powerhouse
(Moderator)
Kapil Gandhi
COO
3AI
Shalini Sankarshana
Managing Director
Planview
Srinivas Sampath
VP R&D and Site Leader
Upland
12:15 PM
Frontrunner Talk
Shravan Dantu
Founder & CEO
SD Solution
12:30 PM
Frontrunner Talk
The Bottom line of Intelligence: Quantifying AI Business Value
Biju Kallepilli
Senior Director of Engineering
SAP Labs India
12:45 PM
Frontrunner Talk
Economic Moats in GCCs: When to Build, when to Partner and when to buy!
Neelesh Singh
Managing Director (GCC)
InCred Insight
1:00 PM
Frontrunner Talk
Neelesh Singh
Managing Director (GCC)
InCred Insight
1:15 PM
Lunch
2:00 PM
Frontrunner Talk
From Tribal Knowledge to Production-Grade AI: Why Content Engineering Is the Hidden Bottleneck
Abir Mukherjee
Director - US Personal Banking Analytics
Citi
2:15 PM
Rapid Pace Masterclass
Nitin Gupta
Global Head - AI, Digital & Cloud Infrastructure Management Services
YASH Technologies
2:30 PM
Frontrunner Talk
Designing the AI-Native GCC: What Must Change in the First 24 Months
Jyothsna Kuchimanchi
2:45 PM
Frontrunner Talk
Agentic AI: From Autonomy to Measurable Business Outcomes
Vijay Morampudi
SVP - AI CoE Leader
Marsh McLennan
3:00 PM
Frontrunner Talk
New Age GCCs leadership DNA & Archetypes
Karthikeyan Rajagopal
Strategic Delivery Manager
Bosch
3:15 PM
Frontrunner Talk
Legal & Compliance Analytics: Safeguarding Medtech Through Smarter Risk Detections
