CIO POWER LIST 2025 - OVERVIEW - 19th-20th June 2025

DAY 1 – 19 June
Venue -The Lalit
TimingAgenda
6:30 PM – 8:00 PMKnowledge Café
8:00 PM – 10:00 PMNetworking Cocktails and Dinner
DAY 2 – 20 June
9:00 AM – 10:00 AMPower Breakfast
10:00 AM – 10:15 AMWelcome note
– Anoop Mathur, Founder, CORE Media
10:15 AM – 10:45 PMLeap Frog with a Growth Mindset
– Prof Mukesh Sud, Author, Leap Frog
10:45 AM – 11:00 AMDigital Workspace Transformation
– Ajit Aloz, President Sales, Anunta
11:00 AM – 11:20 AMEmpowering Enterprises with AI-native Networking
Speakers:
– Sajan Paul, Area VP & MD, India & SAARC, Juniper Networks
– Jayant Goyal, CIO, Coforge
Moderator: Anoop Mathur, Founder, CORE Media
11:20 AM – 11:40 AMCoffee & Lounge Access
11:40 AM – 12:25 PMCIO POWERLIST 2025 Recognitions: BUSINESS ICONS
12:25 PM – 12:40 PMUncomplicate IT. Don’t Let Complexity Hold YOU Back
– Mohit Patle, Sr. Director & India Business Head, Freshworks
12:40 PM – 12:55 PMAccelerating Cloud connectivity with On-demand, Resilient and Agile Network
– Manish Kakkar,Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), Lightstorm
12:55 PM – 1:15 PMCIO Insights – ‘Customer-Centric Digital Strategies for the Modern Enterprise’ 
Speakers:
– Dheeraj Sinha, CIO, Sun Pharma
– Anil Sharma, Senior Director and CTO, PepsiCo
Moderator: Anup Purohit, Ex-CIO, Wipro
1:15 PM – 2:15 PMLunch alongside Experience Zone visit
2:15 PM – 2:45 PMUnlocking AI – Beyond Prompts and Agents
– Dr Nitin Paranjpe, AI Maverick
2:45 PM – 3:00 PMDon’t Let Identity be the Weak Link in Cyber Recovery
– Mitesh Jain, Senior Sales Engineer, Rubrik India & SAARC
3:00 PM – 3:20 PMCIO Insights ‘CIO Priorities: Driving Business Growth’
Speakers:
– Manish Gupta, Group CIO, Aditya Birla Group
– Prosenjit Sengupta, Group CDIO, ITC
– Shiv Kumar Bhasin, CTO, IndusInd Bank
Moderator: Anoop Mathur, Founder, CORE Media
3:20 PM – 3:35 PMThink Big, Lead Bold: Reimagining IT as a Strategic Business Lever
– Anuj Vaid,VP-Strategic Business, Kyndryl
3:35 PM – 3:50 PMCIO Insights – ‘Rebuilding the Tech Talent Pipeline: Upskilling in the age of AI’
Speakers:
– Chirag Bharatia, Director Infrastructure Services, Oracle Cerner
– Rahul Chopra, Sr.Director & Head Digital & Innovation CoE, PNB Metlife
Moderator: Sreeji Gopinath, Ex-CIO, Lupin
3:50 PM – 4:00 PMBeyond the SOC: Elevating Cyber Resilience with TiM & RC
– Ashish Shetty, Regional Sales Manager, 63SATS Cybertech
4:00 PM – 4:20 PMCoffee & Lounge Access
4:20 PM – 4:30 PMCIO Insights – ‘Experiential Banking: Redefining Engagement in the Digital Era’
Speaker: Mahesh Ramamoorthy, CIO, Yes Bank
Moderator: Anoop Mathur, Founder, CORE Media
4:30 PM – 4:40 PMDigital Compression Simplified Powered with AI
– Dr. Mohan Chandrasekaran, Founder & CEO, AdStringO
4:40 PM – 4:55 PMResilience Redefined: Thriving Amid Disruption
Speaker: Rohil Sharma, CEO, Perpetuuiti Technosoft
Moderator: Anoop Mathur, Founder, CORE Media
4:55 PM – 5:25 PMA peek into the engine of AI ”Formula 1”
– Kunal Pande,Partner, KPMG
5:25 PM – 6:55 PMLeisure Time +2 Breakout Sessions
6:55 PM – 7:55 PMCIO POWERLIST 2025 Recognitions: TECHNOLOGY ICONS
7:55 PM – 11:25 PMCocktails & Dinner