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Signal 2026

A Renous Executive Boardroom

Gurugram Edition

Beyond AI Pilots: What Made It to Production

A closed boardroom for technology leaders.

Date
15 October 2026
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM, followed by high tea
Venue
Le Meridien
Gurugram, Haryana
The table
By invitation
Every seat vetted

A multi-city series for

GCC headsAI leadersEngineering headsCTOsCDOsCIOs

of global enterprises

Who is at the table

Every seat is vetted.

The table is composed around the theme of the edition. No junior proxies, no observers, and no competing brand at the table.

GCC heads

Country and site leaders running India centers for global enterprises, and the leaders who report to them.

AI and engineering

Heads of AI, data and platform, and the engineering heads who decide what gets built and what gets deployed.

CTOs, CDOs and CIOs

Technology executives operating at enterprise scale, in global enterprises and in India’s largest companies.

The persona holds. The city moves.

The program

The flow of the evening.

The theme of the edition

Beyond AI Pilots: What Made It to Production

4:00 PM
Arrival and coffee
Leaders arrive to a hosted boardroom. 25 minutes.
4:25 PM
Renous sets the context
The theme, the moderator and the rule. 5 minutes.
4:30 PM
Round of introductions
10 minutes.
4:40 PM
The partner briefing
Before the conversation opens. 10 minutes.
4:50 PM
The roundtable
What reached production, what stalled, and what the difference cost. 55 minutes.
5:45 PM
Reflections
The table draws its own threads together. 15 minutes.
6:00 PM
High tea
The table stays together.

One question. Nothing recorded, nothing attributed.

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.

Varun Dhingra

Hosted By

Varun Dhingra

Founder

Renous

Avinish Bansal

Avinish Bansal

IT Director- FCSD Tech

Ford Motor Company

Bharat Saroch

Bharat Saroch

CIO Asia Pacific

FORVIA HELLA

Dwaipayan Chakraborty

Dwaipayan Chakraborty

Head of Shared Services India (Managing Director / Entity Head Role)

JAS Worldwide

Hanish Singla

Hanish Singla

Director Cybersecurity Identity Engineering

Baker Hughes

Nikhil Arora

Nikhil Arora

Director - Data Intelligence

S&P Global

Anirban Sarkar

Anirban Sarkar

Director and Head of Business Process Management

Merck Group

Aayush Bansal

Aayush Bansal

Vice President

Macquarie Group

Ravi Pandey

Ravi Pandey

Head of IT Applications APAC

COFCO International

Avinash Bachhil

Avinash Bachhil

Executive Director - Regulatory Affairs (AI, Automation & Digital Transformation)

Organon

Piyush Ambwani

Piyush Ambwani

Vice President

Morgan Stanley

Sachin Srivastava

Sachin Srivastava

Director - Technology

NAB

Ankush Khurana

Ankush Khurana

Leading Global Asset Management

Director

DK

Dipen Khandhediya

Head of Engineering

Vena Energy

MJ

Manish Jain

Leader- India GCC

YUM! Brands

The seat

Every seat is invited.

Renous composes the table around the theme of the edition and confirms every seat one at a time.

No delegate passNo junior proxies

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