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The Renous Roundtable

Riding the AI Wave:How GCCs 3.0 Are Evolving

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Date

Friday, 21 August 2026

Venue

The Leela, Gurugram

The table

15 GCC leaders

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The concept

The 3.0 of GCCs.

GCC 1.0 was cost. GCC 2.0 was capability, and the work climbed the value chain without the mandate quite following it. GCC 3.0 is the version where the center originates rather than executes: owning products, setting direction, and putting enterprise innovation on the agenda at headquarters.

AI is what makes that argument winnable, and what makes it urgent. Budgets are rising while headcount is not, and the decisions about where AI runs are still largely made elsewhere. This room is fifteen to eighteen senior leaders working through what the third act actually requires, in front of peers, with nothing recorded.

The discussion

I

What beyond cost arbitrage means while headquarters still measures the center on cost

II

The first mandate a center won that was not delivery, and how the case was made

III

Where AI is originating work in the center rather than only accelerating it

IV

What has to be true before a global product decision is made in India

V

The talent model for innovation, when growth is measured in value per person

VI

How a center proves innovation to a CFO who recognizes run-rate savings

The schedule

8:00 – 8:20

Arrival

Coffee, and the room settles before it begins

8:20 – 8:29

The frame

Renous opens with the theme and the moderator. Two minutes, no slides

8:29 – 9:30

The conversation

Sixty minutes on moving a center beyond cost arbitrage. One theme, peers only, nothing recorded.

9:30 – 9:35

The close

Closing reflections and vote of thanks

9:35 – 10:30

Breakfast

Networking over breakfast. Open and informal

Who is in the room

Three functions, one table.

GCC Heads

Country and site leaders running India centers for global enterprises.

AI and Data Leaders

Heads of AI, data and platform, deciding what gets built and deployed.

Technology Executives

CTOs, engineering and product leaders operating at enterprise scale.

No junior proxies. No observers. No competing brand at the table.

Voices on the Table

GCC Leaders. By Invite

The Voices on the Table are senior leaders who bring the candor only peers offer each other. No panels, no hierarchy, and no seat assigned by anything other than what a leader brings to the table.

Hosted by

Varun Dhingra

Founder

Renous

Hosted by

Shiraz Mishra

Business Head, International Markets

Polestar Analytics

Vipul Soni

GCC Head

McCain Foods

Vikas Wadhawan

Chief Operating Officer

REA Cyber City

Pawan Kumar

Director - Data & AI Engineering

Adidas

Sudhir Satija

Head of Technology

REA Cyber City

Rajan Gupta

Data Science & AI/ML

Deutsche Telekom Digital Labs

Siddharth Saluja

Director, Vendor Operations Management

Pfizer

Sanjay Sikdar

Vice President Global Delivery Centre Head

Samsung SDS

Suresh Madhra

Technical Associate Director

Sun Life

Dr. Amit Kumar Kushwaha

Director, AI Engineering and Platform

McCain Foods

Vaibhav Gupta

Director Analytics Acceleration and Innovation

Pfizer

Prem Diwani

Director- P2P Systems

Fresenius Medical Care

Jatinder Singh

Vice President

Bank of America

Tarun Minocha

Vice President AI ML Engineering

Optum

Gaurav Mukhija

Head Finance - India Subcontinent

SABIC

RC

Ruchir Chaturvedi

Director Software Engineering

Optum

Hemant Sharmaa

GCC Head

Food and Beverages

Mohit Dagar

Head of AX

Samsung SDS

DM

Deepti Mamtani

Associate IT Director

Boston Scientific

Sheetal Ranganathan

Chief Strategy Officer

Roche

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A table of fifteen, composed one seat at a time.

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