Event Overview
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, digital-native organizations are redefining industries by leveraging cutting-edge technology to challenge the status quo. To stay ahead, they need solutions that are open, scalable, flexible, and cost-effective—enabling faster innovation, operational efficiency, global reach, and data-driven decision-making.
What To Expect?
Insightful Sessions
& Live Demos
Actionable
Strategies
Interactive
Q&A
Networking with
your peers
Step into the future of intelligent enterprises with the startup community’s brightest mind:
- Experience Innovation: See Agentic AI, data and Agentic AI led Automation in action
- Gain Strategic Insights: Learn how to build and scale with confidence
- Engage with Leaders: Connect with founders and technology decision-makers from start-up community
Session Tracks
- AI ready Data architecture
- Observability, simplified: Zero config, full context, instant answers
- Data Security in era of DPDP
- Enterprise Infrastructure Automation at Scale
- Building trust, identity, and security for the era of agentic AI
Organizations often struggle with AI reliability because their models depend on static, siloed, and stale data that lacks the real‑time context needed for accurate reasoning.
With nearly 70% of enterprise AI failures traced back to poor data quality and fragmentation (industry analyst estimates), the gap between AI potential and real outcomes continues to widen.
By shifting to an architecture that delivers continuously enriched, governed, and context‑aware data, enterprises can:
- Improve AI accuracy
- Reduce hallucinations
- Accelerate decision-making
- Achieve faster, measurable business impact
- A dynamic, real‑time data foundation is what moves AI from pilot to production.
Modern enterprises increasingly operate across complex hybrid environments - spanning cloud, on‑premise systems, microservices, APIs, and distributed networks. When organizations lack end‑to‑end visibility, growth slows. Teams become reactive, troubleshooting becomes guesswork, and leaders remain blind to business impact until customers feel it.
This introduces the need of full‑stack observability with integrated automation—a simplified, zero‑configuration approach that gives teams real‑time context, predictive insights, and instant answers. The result: faster recovery, higher service reliability, and reduced operational risk and downtime.
- Real-Time Application Performance Monitoring
- Proactive Incident Detection & Root Cause Analysis
- Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Observability
- End-User Experience Monitoring
- DevOps & CI/CD Optimization
With the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act now moving from policy to strict enforcement in 2026, enterprises must demonstrate verifiable, end‑to‑end control of personal data—including how it is collected, stored, accessed, processed, shared, and deleted.
DPDP introduces substantial obligations such as mandatory breach notifications, evidence‑based data lifecycle management, consent‑linked processing, and stringent penalties up to ₹250 crore for non‑compliance.
- DPDP Compliance Pressure Is Real and Immediate
- Need for Continuous Data Discovery and Classification
- Monitoring and Securing Data Across Hybrid Environments
- Demonstrable “Reasonable Security Safeguards”
- Faster, Accurate Breach Detection and Mandatory Notifications
- Enabling Trust and Transparency for Data Principals
As organisations move toward cloud‑first, AI‑enabled, and hybrid operating models, infrastructure complexity grows exponentially. Organisations must provision, update, secure, and govern environments across multiple clouds, data centres, and edge locations—often with inconsistent processes and limited visibility.
Digital native companies must focus on infrastructure automation (IaC) to deliver consistent, compliant, and repeatable environments at scale. By standardising infrastructure creation using reusable templates and policy‑driven governance, organisations can accelerate transformation, reduce operational risk, and free engineering capacity for innovation.
- Infrastructure Consistency & Standardisation at Scale
- Speed & Agility for Digital and AI Programmes
- Policy‑as‑Code for Security, Compliance, and Auditability
- Multi‑Cloud Governance & Risk Reduction
- Cost Control & Operational Efficiency
- Empowering Developers While Maintaining Enterprise Guardrails
As organisations adopt agentic AI, systems will increasingly make decisions and take autonomous actions across the enterprise. In this environment, trust becomes the foundational control layer. IT and security leaders must continuously verify identities, govern access, and protect sensitive data and secrets as workloads, users, and AI agents interact in real time.
Traditional, static security models—built on long‑lived credentials and manual processes—are no longer sufficient. This session explores how continuous verification, dynamic access controls, and intelligent secrets management can be embedded directly into enterprise workflows, enabling secure autonomy, regulatory confidence, and resilient operations across hybrid and AI‑driven environments.
- Establishing continuous trust and verification in autonomous, agent‑driven environments
- Governing identity, access, and secrets across hybrid and AI‑driven workloads
- Enabling secure autonomy while meeting regulatory and compliance requirements
With nearly 70% of enterprise AI failures traced back to poor data quality and fragmentation (industry analyst estimates), the gap between AI potential and real outcomes continues to widen.
By shifting to an architecture that delivers continuously enriched, governed, and context‑aware data, enterprises can:
- Improve AI accuracy
- Reduce hallucinations
- Accelerate decision-making
- Achieve faster, measurable business impact
- A dynamic, real‑time data foundation is what moves AI from pilot to production.
This introduces the need of full‑stack observability with integrated automation—a simplified, zero‑configuration approach that gives teams real‑time context, predictive insights, and instant answers. The result: faster recovery, higher service reliability, and reduced operational risk and downtime.
- Real-Time Application Performance Monitoring
- Proactive Incident Detection & Root Cause Analysis
- Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Observability
- End-User Experience Monitoring
- DevOps & CI/CD Optimization
DPDP introduces substantial obligations such as mandatory breach notifications, evidence‑based data lifecycle management, consent‑linked processing, and stringent penalties up to ₹250 crore for non‑compliance.
- DPDP Compliance Pressure Is Real and Immediate
- Need for Continuous Data Discovery and Classification
- Monitoring and Securing Data Across Hybrid Environments
- Demonstrable “Reasonable Security Safeguards”
- Faster, Accurate Breach Detection and Mandatory Notifications
- Enabling Trust and Transparency for Data Principals
As organisations move toward cloud‑first, AI‑enabled, and hybrid operating models, infrastructure complexity grows exponentially. Organisations must provision, update, secure, and govern environments across multiple clouds, data centres, and edge locations—often with inconsistent processes and limited visibility.
Digital native companies must focus on infrastructure automation (IaC) to deliver consistent, compliant, and repeatable environments at scale. By standardising infrastructure creation using reusable templates and policy‑driven governance, organisations can accelerate transformation, reduce operational risk, and free engineering capacity for innovation.
- Infrastructure Consistency & Standardisation at Scale
- Speed & Agility for Digital and AI Programmes
- Policy‑as‑Code for Security, Compliance, and Auditability
- Multi‑Cloud Governance & Risk Reduction
- Cost Control & Operational Efficiency
- Empowering Developers While Maintaining Enterprise Guardrails
As organisations adopt agentic AI, systems will increasingly make decisions and take autonomous actions across the enterprise. In this environment, trust becomes the foundational control layer. IT and security leaders must continuously verify identities, govern access, and protect sensitive data and secrets as workloads, users, and AI agents interact in real time.
Traditional, static security models—built on long‑lived credentials and manual processes—are no longer sufficient. This session explores how continuous verification, dynamic access controls, and intelligent secrets management can be embedded directly into enterprise workflows, enabling secure autonomy, regulatory confidence, and resilient operations across hybrid and AI‑driven environments.
- Establishing continuous trust and verification in autonomous, agent‑driven environments
- Governing identity, access, and secrets across hybrid and AI‑driven workloads
- Enabling secure autonomy while meeting regulatory and compliance requirements
Agenda
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Registration
6:30 PM - 6:35 PM
Welcome Address
6:35 PM – 6:45 PM
Unlock the full potential of AI across your enterprise
6:45 PM – 7:00 PM
Fireside chat
Vijay Rajagopal, Country Head, Amazon Web Services (AWS), BFSI & Fintech, Go-to-Market
7:00 PM – 7:20 PM
Client Panel Discussion
7:20 PM – 8:20 PM
Product deep dive and RT discussions
Instana: Vaishnavi Bhat, Product Technical SME, India & South Asia, IBM
Guardium : Mahesh Desai, Solution Architect, Ecosystem Engineering Lab- Client Engineering, IBM
Vault : Simranjeet Singh, Brand Technology Specialist, India & South Asia, IBM
Terraform : Jyoti Rani, Solution Architect – GSI labs, IBM
Featured Products
- DataStax
- Instana
- Guardium
- Vault
- Terraform
DataStax is an enterprise-grade data platform built on Apache Cassandra, designed for always-on, real-time applications at global scale. It delivers high availability, low latency, and massive scalability while adding advanced security, analytics, search, and multi-cloud management. Organizations rely on DataStax for mission-critical use cases such as customer personalization, IoT, and financial transactions where performance and uptime are paramount.
Instana is a modern observability platform that provides real-time visibility into cloud-native and microservices-based applications. It automatically discovers and maps application components, continuously analyzing metrics, traces, and events. With AI-driven root-cause analysis, Instana enables IT and application teams to quickly identify issues, optimize performance, and ensure reliable digital experiences.
Guardium is IBM’s comprehensive data security platform for discovering, monitoring, and protecting sensitive data across hybrid and cloud environments. It delivers real-time data activity monitoring, vulnerability assessment, encryption support, and compliance reporting. Guardium helps organizations in regulated industries protect critical data, maintain compliance, and reduce security risk.
Vault by HashiCorp is a leading secrets management and data protection platform that secures access to sensitive information across distributed environments. It provides centralized control, dynamic secrets, encryption-as-a-service, and detailed auditing. Vault enables enterprises to enforce strong security, automate credential management, and support zero-trust architectures.
Terraform is HashiCorp’s infrastructure-as-code platform that enables consistent, automated provisioning of cloud and on-premises resources. Using declarative configurations, it supports multi-cloud environments with built-in versioning and governance. Terraform helps organizations scale infrastructure efficiently while improving reliability and operational control.
Keynote Speakers
Session Speakers
Featured Products
- DataStax
- Instana
- Guardium
- Vault
- Terraform
Agenda
Expert Exchange : 17:30-17:45
Start-up Tales : 17:45-18:00
Tech Tour : 18:00-18:45
Expert Exchange : 17:30-17:45
Start-up Tales : 17:45-18:00
Tech Tour : 18:00-18:45
Expert Exchange : 17:30-17:45
Start-up Tales : 17:45-18:00
Tech Tour : 18:00-18:45
Agenda
6:30–7:00 pm
Registration & High Tea
7:00–7:10 pm
7:10–7:40 pm
7:40–8:00 pm
8:00–8:40 pm
8:40 pm onwards
Who should attend ?
- CIOs
- CTOs
- Chief Information Security Officer
- Chief Data Officer
Built for CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, and CDOs from digital-native and fast-growing organizations looking to scale faster, innovate smarter, and stay secure in the hybrid multi cloud environment. Discover how IBM and AWS are enabling modern businesses with open, cloud-native solutions designed for speed, agility, and growth.
Key Takeaways
Dive into deep tech, innovate and learn with experiential demo setups