Evolution of GCCs – The Maturity Ladder

Time Moderator Speaker(s)
09:40 am – 10:30 am Anand Mohanram, Managing Director, Mr. Cooper Sanjeev Rastogi, CEO-GCC, Adani Enterprises Limited
Yatish Sivaprasad, Managing Director, Societe Generale GSC India
Shanmugam Nagappan, Managing Director, Reveleer
Sunil Kumar, Center Head, Chennai Global Business Center, World Bank Group
Kewyn George, Global IS Director & GCC Head at Expeditors

GCC Next Summit 2025 Inaugural

Time Welcome Note Speaker(s)
10:30 am – 10:45 am Karthikeyan Selvaraj,
Co-Founder & CEO,
Kreateworks India Pvt Ltd
Dr. T.R.B. Rajaa, Minister for Industries, Investment Promotion & Commerce, Govt of Tamil Nadu
Darez Ahmed, MD, Guidance Tamil Nadu
Mamta Madhireddy, Managing Director & Head of HSBC Global Service Centres (GSCs), India –
Guest of Honor
Kewyn George, Global IS Director & GCC Head at Expeditors
Sunil Kumar, Center Head, Chennai Global Business Center, World Bank Group
Sivasankar Reddy, Deputy Managing Director, Casagrand Commercial
H.E.Ms.Halima Holland, Deputy High Commissioner at Foreign, Commenwealth and Development Office, UK
Sriram Khattar, Vice Chairman & Managing Director - DLF Rental Business

TN – The GCC Destination : Fireside Chat

Time Speaker(s)
10:45 am – 11:20 am Dr. T.R.B. Rajaa, Minister for Industries, Investment Promotion & Commerce, Govt of Tamil Nadu
Suresh Sambandam, Founder & CEO at Kissflow

Keynote Address : Intelligent GCCs – AI and Talent Model

Time Speaker(s)
11:20 am – 11:40 am Mamatha Madireddy, Managing Director & Head of HSBC Global Service Centres (GSCs), India

Key Note Address - ESG

Time Speaker(s)
11:40 am – 12:00 am Sriram Khattar, Vice Chairman & Managing Director, DLF Rental Business

Keynote: Embodied AI- The next frontier for AI agents

Time Speaker(s)
12:00 am – 12:20 am Kaushik Dey, Head of AI/ML Research, Ericsson Research Labs, India

Key Note Speaker

Time Speaker(s)
12:20 am – 12:35 am Shalini Pillay, India Leader – Global Capability Centers, KPMG in India

Agentic AI and GCCs

Time Moderator Speaker(s)
02:00 pm – 02:40 pm Sunil David, Digital Technology Consultant Nithya Subramanian, Senior Director Data & AI COE, Best Buy, India
Bharat Belavadi, India Head - IT & Advanced Analytics, Western Digital
Mayuran Palanisamy, Partner and Leader - Digital Privacy and Trust, Deloitte South Asia
Dr. Deepak Kota Director, Global IT Support, Kellanova

Engineering Excellence Now & Next

Time Moderator Speaker(s)
02:40 am – 03:20 pm Lakshmanan,
Chief HR Officer,
L&T Technology
Ahmed El-Mahdy, Senior Director, Central Engineering Chennai, Dow India
Naved Narayan, Vice President, Mobility Solutions, Bosch
Kotresh Jogikalmath, Head of India Technology & Engineering Center, Kone India
Prabhu Palanisamy, Head of Digital Technology, Engineering and Innovation Excellence Center, Chevron India

Defining the New Age Workplaces

Time Moderator Speaker(s)
03:20 pm – 04:00 pm V.S. Sridhar, Cushman Sabareeswaran M - Senior Vice President-Business Development : Leasing - Casagrand Commercial"
Julian Francis, Senior Vice President - Asset Management, RMZ
Himanshu Sharma - Executive Vice President - Leasing DLF Offices
Anup Vasanth, Managing Director – Chennai, Savills Property Services (India) Private Limited

Skilling and Scaling Challenges & Opportunities for GCCs

Time Moderator Speaker(s)
04:00 pm – 04:50 pm Hema Mani,
Regional Director
- Human Resources,
Lennox India
Technology Centre
Rupessh Goel, Head - Credit, First Citizens India
Geetha Ramamoorthi, Vice President & Managing Director - India, KBR
Swetha Shankar, GSC Chennai Centre Head, DHL Global Forwarding and Freight
Sudipta Adhya, Managing Director, and Co-Head, BNY
Maureen K. Shankar, Director, Head of Fund Services Operations, Societe Generale Global Solutions Centre

Awards, Valedictory and Closing

Time Session
05:00 pm – 05:30 pm Awards, Valedictory and Closing