GCC Sentiment: A Renous Plenary: Friday, 7 August 2026 · Gurugram
Cross Functional GCC heads, AI leaders, and technology executives. Half day. Closed room.
The GCC Sentiment
Every quarter, Renous surveys India's GCC heads, CHROs, CFOs, and technology leaders -- the people running the largest global capability centres in the country. We ask them what they are actually thinking.
The findings become The Renous GCC Sentiment -- a structured intelligence read on where India's C-Suite is heading. AI spend. Headcount. Mandate from global HQ. Which functions are most exposed. How confident leaders actually are about 2026-27.
The report will be released live at the Plenary on 7 August. In the room. Before it goes anywhere else.
You will meet a room full of GCC leaders who are behind the sentiment survey.
Fireside | Panel | GCC Sentiment | AI Showcase | Networking | Learning | Intelligence
Who is in the room
Cross Functional GCC Leaders
GCC leaders managing 300-30,000 person centres. CHROs and CFOs from the same organisations. AI and technology leaders with direct mandate. The room is built around practitioners.
Edition I is the first time this data exists -- built from a structured survey of 60+ GCC heads, CHROs, CFOs, and AI leaders across India's largest capability centres. The findings will be presented live in the room on 7 August before any external distribution.
What the Sentiment Measures
The survey and what it signals
The GCC Sentiment is built on responses from 60+ C-Suite leaders surveyed before the event. These are the questions the room has been asking itself -- now, for the first time, answered at scale.
A sample of what Edition I asks:
On AI investment How do you expect your AI budget to change in the next 12 months?
On organisational maturity How would you rate your organisation's AI maturity?
On the GCC mandate How would you describe your GCC's mandate from global headquarters right now?
On disruption Which function do you expect to be most disrupted by agentic AI in the next 24 months?
The findings are analysed by Renous and released exclusively to the room on 7 August -- before any external distribution.
If you lead a GCC, CHRO, CFO, or AI function and want your organisation's perspective represented in Edition I, please write to info@renous.in
Limited External Seats
Senior Voices Only
Date
Friday07 Aug 2026
Time
09:30 AM - 1:00 PMFollowed by Lunch
Venue
Le Méridien, MG Road, GurugramCity
Gurugram
Launch Fee
(Ends 30 June)
10,000++ per passEarly Bird
(Ends 20 July)
12,000++ per passStandard Fee
(Ends 6 Aug)
15,000++ per pass
Onsite Registration
20,000++ per pass
All About The Day
The Renous GCC Sentiment is a half-day plenary.
A fireside conversation, one peer panel, and the live release of The Renous GCC Sentiment -- India's first structured intelligence read on GCC leadership, built from a survey of 60+ GCC heads and AI leaders.
Every seat is vetted. The people in the room are running GCCs, leading AI mandates, and making decisions that shape how global organisations think about India.
Every quarter, Renous convenes India's GCC heads and AI leaders in closed-door roundtables across Gurugram, Hyderabad, and Bengaluru. No presentations. No recordings. Peer conversation only.
After two years and 850+ leaders hosted, a pattern became clear. The same questions keep surfacing. The same tensions -- between global mandate and local ambition, between AI possibility and organisational reality -- keep returning, room after room, city after city.
The GCC Sentiment was built to capture that signal at scale. A structured survey of 60+ GCC heads and AI leaders, asking the questions the room keeps asking itself. Not a report commissioned by a vendor. Not a think-piece. A read on what India's GCC leadership is actually thinking -- in their own words, on the record.
The Plenary is where the findings come alive. Closed room. Half day. The data released live. The people who shaped it in the room to interrogate it, push back on it, and decide what it means for how they lead.
That is the concept. Intelligence built by the room, returned to the room.
The agenda is built around the questions India's GCC and AI leadership is actually sitting with right now.
- How AI spend is shifting inside GCCs -- and where it is producing real outcomes versus managed expectations
- What the expanding GCC mandate means for the relationship between India leadership and global headquarters
- Which functions are most exposed to agentic AI disruption in the next 24 months -- and who is moving first
- How GCC heads are thinking about headcount, capability, and organisational design in an AI-first enterprise
- Where India stands relative to global expectations -- ahead, behind, or redefining the question entirely
This is not a day of presentations. It is a day of honest answers from people who are inside the problem.
09:30 – 10:00 Arrival & Networking |
10:00 – 10:15 (The Signal) Renous opens with The Renous GCC Tracker — live read on new GCC entries, sector shifts, and one contested intelligence signal for the quarter |
10:15 – 10:45 (The Fireside) 30-minute conversation with one prominent leader. |
10:45 – 11:30 (Panel 1) GCCs Are Hiring While AI Is Eliminating. Who Blinks First? |
11:30 – 12:00 Coffee Break |
12:00 – 12:40 (Agentic AI Showcase) Live Agentic AI Products Demo |
12:40 – 13:25 (The GCC Sentiment)
Live release of Edition I. Renous presents GCC Sentiment findings (20 min). Knowledge Partner adds perspective on the data (10 min). knowledge partner moderates the open floor and takes questions
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13:25 onwards (Lunch) Networking Lunch & Close |
Panel Discussion
Cross-functional. Candid. Unscripted.
Our panelists bring cross-functional perspectives to the table — CHROs, CFOs, and GCC leaders in an open, peer-only exchange on who blinks first as GCCs hire and AI eliminates.
Varun Dhingra
Founder
Renous
Rajan Gupta
Director - AI Engineering
Deutsche Telekom
Rahul Goyal
Managing Director
ADP India
Akhilesh Kohli
Head of GBS Asia Pacific
Siemens &
CFO
Siemens Technology & Services
Hemanth Kundavaram
CFO
Nothing
Neelam Tamboli
Director HR
Sun Life
Amit Gupta
Founder
Techginia Global
Who's Attending on 07 Aug
Country Heads, CEOs, CFOs, CHROs and Tech leaders confirmed to attend the first edition of the Renous GCC Sentiment Index
| Amazon | HSBC | Govt of Canada (High Commission) |
| Ericsson | Thermo Fisher Scientific | American Express |
| AMD | CBRE | WSP |
| Boston Scientific | WPP | Circle K |
| DB Schenker | S&P Global | Air Liquide |
| SABIC | Northern Trust | Liverpool |
| Majid Al Futtaim | Suez India | MAHLE |
| Macquarie Group | GoJek (Go To Group) | EGIS |
| Clean Harbors | Keysight Technologies | McCain Foods |
| Hitachi Astemo | MillerKnoll | Nutanix |
| Yum Brands | Crocs | Rich Product Corporation |
Barco | Akums Drugs & Pharma | Elastic |
Amneal Pharmaceuticals | REA Cyber City | Gerresheimer India |
Payoneer | New Relic | Dunnhumby |
FlixBus India | Atotech an MKS Brand | Midland Credit Management |
Backbase | Marks and Spencer | AudioCodes |
LiveRamp | Centric Consulting | Lummus Technology |
Neo4j | SingLife | Jato Dynamics |
CIBT | Edmund Optics | OakNorth |
Calibrated Healthcare Network | Docquity | Dario Health |
G&L Scientific | Verismart | Sembcorp Industries |
Intact India |
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