IDC and Google Cloud Roundtable
Unlocking Trusted Enterprise Data for the Next Generation of AI
As Indian enterprises move from AI experimentation to deploying autonomous AI agents, the focus is shifting from model capability to data readiness. AI agents deliver business value only when they have secure, governed access to trusted enterprise data. In India, this challenge is amplified by evolving regulations such as the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, RBI data-localisation requirements, and growing expectations around data sovereignty, keeping critical data closer to the operational core.
IDC predicts that by 2029, 60% of enterprise data platforms worldwide will unify transactional and analytical workloads, enabling AI agents to query live enterprise data in place. This shift will be particularly important for India’s regulated sectors, including banking and financial services, telecom, public sector, and manufacturing, as they prepare their data architectures for the agentic AI era.
Hosted by IDC and Google Cloud, this executive roundtable brings together senior technology leaders in Mumbai to explore how organisations can unlock AI closer to where their data resides, reducing complexity and cost while maintaining the security, governance, data residency, and resilience required for enterprise-scale transformation.
Key Learning Outcomes Include:
Unlocking Trusted Enterprise Data for AI
How can organizations enable AI to securely access the enterprise data that powers critical business processes without disrupting existing operations?
Building Trusted AI Through Governance and Security
As AI becomes embedded in business operations, how can organizations strengthen governance, security, and data sovereignty while maintaining innovation?
Bringing AI to the Data: Rethinking Enterprise AI Architectures
What architectural approaches can help organizations accelerate AI adoption while minimizing the cost, complexity, and risk of large-scale data migration?
From AI Pilots to Enterprise-Scale Adoption
What technology, operational, and organizational capabilities are required to move beyond experimentation and successfully scale AI across the enterprise?
Preparing for the Agentic AI Era
As AI evolves from assisting users to executing business tasks autonomously, what should organizations prioritize today to build a secure, resilient, and AI-ready enterprise?
Agenda
IDC and Google Cloud Roundtable
Fri, Oct 9
Registration & Networking Tea/Coffee
Connect with peers navigating the same enterprise AI decisions.
IDC Welcome Address & Keynote
Framing the stakes for the agentic AI conversation.
Ashish Nadkarni
Group Vice President and General Manager, Global Domain Lead, Enterprise Infrastructure, IDC
Cross-functional outcomes and measurable ROI
Where agentic AI is driving value across teams — and how leaders are proving it.
Subhash Guddad
Director, Database Specialist Business, Google
Nakul Gandha
APAC Lead – Database GTM, Google
Open Discussion
Turning the keynote’s data into a conversation with the room.
Ashish Nadkarni
Group Vice President and General Manager, Global Domain Lead, Enterprise Infrastructure, IDC
Summary & Close
The key takeaways to carry back into your organization’s strategy.
Cocktail Dinner and Networking
Speakers
Ashish Nadkarni
Group Vice President and General Manager, Global Domain Lead, Enterprise Infrastructure
IDC
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Ashish Nadkarni
Ashish Nadkarni leads IDC’s enterprise infrastructure global research domain. Ashish oversees five global research subdomains: core infrastructure, cloud infrastructure and services, network infrastructure and services, semiconductors and enabling technologies, and digital and datacenter infrastructure and services. Ashish’s coverage spans infrastructure software platforms, cloud and edge services, storage and converged systems, compute infrastructure, service provider trends, enterprise, emerging and performance intensive workloads (AI and HPC).
Ashish draws upon his experience working in the IT industry to take a long view on the lifecycle of infrastructure-related services, deployments, systems, platforms, and technologies. Examples of his research coverage include heterogeneous, accelerated, edge, analog and quantum computing, rackscale, composable/disaggregated architecture, memory, flash and other data persistence technologies, high-speed fabrics and interconnects, operating systems, and software-defined infrastructure.
Event Sessions
One Day Event 7:35 pm
Open Discussion
Turning the keynote’s data into a conversation with the room.
One Day Event 7:00 pm
IDC Welcome Address & Keynote
Framing the stakes for the agentic AI conversation.
Subhash Guddad
Director, Database Specialist Business
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Subhash Guddad
Subhash leads the database and data analytics teams for Google Cloud in APAC focusing on Google Cloud managed database services like AlloyDB, Spanner, Cloud SQL, analytics solutions like BigQuery, Lakehouse for Apache Iceberg and partner database solutions like Oracle. He is focused on helping organizations simplify and transform their data management systems. He has more than 35 years of experience in the IT industry focusing on architecture and data management solutions and has worked at large enterprise technology providers including IBM and a long stint at Oracle before joining Google Cloud, 6 years ago. Subhash and his team are focused on helping customers build scalable, secure and highly available data management solutions and agentic applications backed by an AI-ready data platform.
Event Sessions
One Day Event 7:05 pm
Cross-functional outcomes and measurable ROI
Where agentic AI is driving value across teams — and how leaders are proving it.
Nakul Gandha
APAC Lead – Database GTM
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Nakul Gandha
Event Sessions
One Day Event 7:05 pm
Cross-functional outcomes and measurable ROI
Where agentic AI is driving value across teams — and how leaders are proving it.
In Partnership With
Google Cloud
Google Cloud offers a powerful, optimized AI stack—including AI infrastructure, leading models like Gemini, data management capabilities, multicloud security solutions, developer tools and platform, as well as agents and applications—that enables organizations to transform their business for the Agentic Era. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted technology partner.
Venue
Grand Hyatt Mumbai Hotel & Residences
Meeting Room – Mahogany Meeting Room
Grand Hyatt Hotel, A S Road, Mumbai
