Agenda
Discover the sessions, speakers, and key topics shaping today’s IT security landscape in India.
IT Security Summit India 2026
Day 1
Welcome Lunch: Where Cyber Resilience Meets Nizami Elegance
Arrive Early & Stand a Chance to Take Home an Electric Toothbrush!
Welcome Address: Setting the Stage for the IT Security Summit India
This opening session will welcome attendees and provide an overview of the event, its key themes, and the opportunities for learning, collaboration, and networking. It will set the context for the discussions ahead and highlight the importance of security in today’s digital landscape.
Ravikant Sharma
Research Director, IDC
IDC Keynote: The Strategic Security Spend: Justifying & Optimizing Budget
Indian enterprises are under pressure to show that security spend drives business outcomes. This topic will explore how CISOs/VPs in India build and defend budget, optimise vendor spend, align spend to business value, and show ROI on security and trust programmes.
Sakshi Grover
Senior Research Manager, Cybersecurity Products and Services, Asia Pacific, IDC
Panel Discussion: Identity Security: The New Battleground
As cyber threats evolve, identity has become the primary attack vector for modern enterprises. From credential theft and phishing to AI-powered deepfakes and insider threats, attackers are increasingly targeting identities rather than networks. This session brings together cybersecurity leaders to discuss why identity security is now central to cyber resilience, how businesses can combat evolving threats, and what the future of trust, authentication, and access control looks like in the AI era.
Vivek Gupta
Chief Information Security Officer, Data Privacy & Business Continuity Leader, Mankind Pharma Ltd.
Dr. Jagannath Sahoo
CISO and Data Protection Officer, Gujarat Fluorochemicals Ltd, (INOXGFL Group)
Abhijit Chatterjee
CISO, TCG Lifescience Pvt Ltd
Rohit Rane
Chief Information Security Officer, Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals Limited
Fireside Chat: AI Fuels Cyber Data Breaches Can Businesses Stay Ahead
Manish Karla
Country Director – India, NopalCyber
Interactive Workshops: Practical Strategies for Modern Cybersecurity Challenges
Designed for security practitioners and technology leaders, these hands-on workshops provide actionable insights into securing AI adoption, strengthening cyber resilience, modernizing security operations, protecting identities, securing cloud environments, and safeguarding data. Attendees will gain practical frameworks, best practices, and real-world strategies to address today’s evolving cybersecurity challenges.
Workshop 1: Securing AI Adoption: Governance, Risk, and Enterprise Readiness
Workshop 2: Modern SOC Transformation: From Alert Fatigue to Intelligent Response
Securing the Apple & Android Experience – Balancing Compliance, Productivity and Governance in the Age of AI
3:55PM – 4:55PM
Kumar Gaurav
Solutions Architect, Jamf
Workshop 4: Ransomware Resilience
The Quantum Countdown: Is Your Enterprise Ready for PQC?
3:55PM – 4:55PM
Tushar Haralkar
Sales Engineering Director, Cybersecurity Products, Thales, India and SAARC
Workshop 6: Data Security in the Age of AI and Hyperconnectivity
End of Interactive Workshops
Executive Roundtables: Navigating Cybersecurity Priorities in the Age of AI
These interactive roundtable discussions bring together senior security and business leaders to explore the strategic challenges shaping the future of cybersecurity. From AI-driven risks and resilience to cloud security, data protection, governance, and enterprise trust, participants will exchange perspectives and practical approaches for securing the modern digital enterprise.
Roundtable (Parallel Sessions)
5:00PM – 7:30PM
Identity, AI & the Evolving Security Perimeter: A CISO Dialogue
Abhijeet Pandey
Head – Security, Edge & Advanced Compute, AWS India
Sowjanya Rajavaram
Senior Product Manager, AWS IAM
5:00PM – 7:30PM
Beyond CapEx: Making the Financial Case for Modern Storage Infrastructure
Rajiv Ranjan
Associate Research Director Worldwide Enterprise Infrastructure Domain, IDC
Ramanujam Komanduri
AVP & Country Manager, India, Everpure
Sudharsan Aravamuthan
Head of Systems Engineering, Everpure
5:00PM – 7:30PM
Ransomware, AI and Recovery: Rethinking Cyber Resilience for Modern Enterprises
Praveen Kumar Pratap
Solutions Engineer, NetApp
End of Roundtable
Gala Dinner & CISO Leaders Honours
An evening of Royal Flavors and Regal Connections, marking a momentous occasion — the CISO Leaders Honours Class of 2026, proudly celebrating fifty of the brightest minds advancing cybersecurity leadership across India and beyond.
Day 2
Registration and Networking Tea/Coffee
Arrive Early & Stand a Chance to Take Home a Mini Robot!
IDC Welcome Address
Ronita Bhattacharjee
Group Vice President, Events, META, India & APAC, IDC
Rajiv Ranjan
Associate Research Director Worldwide Enterprise Infrastructure Domain, IDC
Securing an AI-Powered India
As organizations mature in their security posture, the conversation is shifting from simply implementing controls to building lasting digital trust and resilience. This session explores how security leaders can align cybersecurity investments with measurable business outcomes, turning technical safeguards into tangible business value and stakeholder confidence.
Ranjeet Mishra
Centre Head, CoE CySecK
Identity, AI & the Evolving Security Perimeter: A CISO Dialogue
AI agents are blurring the lines between human and machine identity, requiring real-time authorization decisions across distributed systems while maintaining full auditability and compliance. Join us to learn how identity practitioners are scaling their programs to support agentic AI workloads, addressing critical concerns around identity provenance, autonomous resource governance, and carrying identity context across complex agent chains.
Nick Kelly
Principal Security Specialist, AWS
Preemptive External Threat Management in the AI Age: Why Old-School CTI Is Dead
Traditional Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) focused on historical IOCs (Indicators of Compromise), reactive feeds, and post-breach analysis is obsolete in the AI era. Attackers using frontier models compress timelines dramatically, demanding a shift to preemptive external threat management powered by predictive threat intelligence (PTI), AI-driven foresight, and continuous exposure management.
Kumar Ritesh
Founder, Chairman & CEO, CYFIRMA
Q&A
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Secure. Compliant. Automated – Managing & Securing macOS, iOS, and Android in the Age of AI and DPDP
Exploring how generative and agentic AI are reshaping security priorities from detection to data protection to ethics and trust.
Roopam Saxena
Manager – Enterprise Sales India, Jamf
Q&A
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Unifying Networking and Security Operations with a Self-driving Network
As organisations embrace AI and prepare for the impact of quantum computing, traditional security architectures are becoming increasingly fragmented and difficult to manage. Security can no longer operate as a separate overlay; instead, it must be embedded into the network and managed through a common operational framework. The future of cybersecurity lies in a self-driving, AI-powered network that unifies networking and security operations, enforces Zero Trust everywhere, and enables autonomous protection from edge to cloud.
Carlos Gómez Gallego
Chief Technology Officer, APJ Region, HPE Networking
Q&A
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Securing the Digital Future: Data, AI & Quantum
Tushar Haralkar
Sales Engineering Director, Cybersecurity Products, Thales, India and SAARC
Q&A
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Tea/Coffee & Networking Break
Time to Recharge – Grab That Caffeine Kick!
Be Here, Be On Time, Be the One Who Wins an iPhone 16!
From Insights to Action: Scaling SecOps with Tenable and Agentic AI
Discover how organizations can move beyond traditional vulnerability management to a more proactive, intelligence-driven approach to SecOps. This session explores how Tenable’s exposure management capabilities, combined with the power of Agentic AI, can help security teams prioritize risk, automate response, and accelerate decision-making. Learn how AI-driven security agents can turn complex security insights into actionable outcomes—helping teams scale operations, reduce risk, and stay ahead of evolving threats.
Rohan Desai
Security Engineer, Tenable
Q&A
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SSL Visibility for Effective Security
As encrypted SSL/TLS traffic continues to grow, it creates visibility gaps that can allow cyber threats to bypass traditional security controls. SSL Visibility enables organizations to decrypt, inspect, and re-encrypt encrypted traffic, allowing security tools to detect hidden threats while maintaining privacy and compliance.
This session highlights the importance of SSL visibility in modern cybersecurity and provides a practical approach to deployment, including architecture selection, integration with existing security solutions, performance considerations, policy management, and best practices. Attendees will gain insights into how SSL visibility enhances threat detection, eliminates security blind spots, and maximizes the effectiveness of existing security investments.tarun
Tarun Verma
Systems Engineering Manager, A10 Networks
Q&A
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Redefining Security Priorities in the Age of Agentic AI
As AI evolves from generative assistants to autonomous agents capable of reasoning, accessing data, and executing real-world actions, the enterprise attack surface is fundamentally changing. In India’s rapidly expanding AI ecosystem, security leaders must rethink how they protect not only infrastructure and applications, but also prompts, models, tools, and agent workflows. This session will examine the new security challenges introduced by Agentic AI and the guardrail strategies enterprises need to adopt AI with confidence, control, and resilience.
PK Tsung
Co-Founder, CyCraft
Q&A
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Proactive Defense Against AI-Enhanced Cyber Threats
Agentic AI challenges the assumptions enterprise security was built on: human identity, predictable software, and human-approved decisions. This session shared that Zero Trust secures the door, but cannot govern what autonomous agents do once inside, highlighting the critical decisions CIOs and CISOs must make now.
Gaurav Duggal
Senior Vice President – IT & Security, Jio Platforms Limited
Networking Lunch: Where Cyber Business Meets Nizami Elegance
Leadership, Culture & Talent: Making Security Everyone’s Business
Indian enterprises often struggle with talent gaps, cultural silos and aligning business and security. This topic will look at how leadership (CISO, CSO, board) in India build security culture, upskill workforce, manage human risk, and make security & trust part of the business DNA.
Melwyn Rebeiro
Head – GRC (India) | Chief Information Security Officer & Data Protection Officer, Julius Baer
Urvish Acharya
Global CISO and Head of IT Governance & Risk, Birla Carbon, Aditya Birla Group
Kishan Kendre
Head – Information Security, Blue Star Limited
Hemant Bhardwaj
Head of Global Cybersecurity GRC, Perfetti Van Melle
Utkarsh Sawant
Global Head of Cyber Strategy, Diageo
Arvind Sharma
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Adani Energy Solutions Limited and Adani Electricity Mumbai Limited
Design Thinking Workshop: Everything Everywhere All at Once: Cyber Crisis Edition
It begins with a single unpatched appliance. Within minutes, the incident spreads across systems, disrupts critical operations, compromises financial processes, and turns the organization’s own AI capabilities against it.
The environment is sophisticated. Defenses are modern. AI is embedded across the enterprise. Post-quantum migration is nearly complete. Nearly!!!
In this 30-minute design-thinking simulation, participants will step into a fast-moving cyber crisis where one overlooked vulnerability triggers a systemic chain reaction.
One breach. Seven interconnected threads. Each table will manage a different dimension of the crisis, but only the room will see the full picture. Teams will face limited budgets, incomplete information, unexpected developments, and escalating pressure from the board, all while the adversary continues to adapt. Every decision will shape what happens next.
Designed to mirror the complexity of a real-world cyber crisis, the session will test how effectively CISOs can collaborate, prioritize, communicate, and respond when the stakes are high and time is running out.
Can the room connect the signals, contain the damage, and outmaneuver a common adversary before the crisis becomes irreversible?
Sakshi Grover
Senior Research Manager, Cybersecurity Products and Services, Asia Pacific, IDC
Partner Felicitation
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Step Into a Living Canvas: The Art Walk Experience..
The Art Walk at The Leela Hyderabad isn’t just a stroll – it’s a journey through time, texture, and tradition. Wander through curated corridors where every artwork, artifact, and architectural nuance tells a story of the Dakhni region’s rich cultural heritage. From intricate craftsmanship to timeless artistic expressions, this immersive experience transports you into a world where history and elegance meet – offering a rare, sensory glimpse into the soul of the Deccan.
Excursion: A Nizam’s Farewell: Hyderabad’s Royal Heritage
Bid farewell to the City of Nizams with a visit to Shilparamam, an enchanting arts and crafts village. Conceived to preserve India’s traditional craftsmanship, Shilparamam brings together artisans, folk art, and vibrant ethnic festivals held round the year, offering a colorful, cultural send-off before you say goodbye to Hyderabad.
