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29
JUL
2026
6:00 PM Networking with India's Top 1% Gurus
6:30 PM Keynote
7:00 PM Thoughtful Leadership with Gurus & Award Night
9:00 PM Dinner ✦
Top 1% Awards
Guru Awards
Honouring the Tech | Security | GCC Leaders
Hyatt, MG Road · Bangalore
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Flexi Rooms

Where Leaders Gather

Curated rooms across India's top cities — the conversations that actually matter.

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Leaders who've built India's most important enterprises, together for an evening of real exchange.

Leaders who've built India's most important enterprises, together for an evening of real exchange.

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An invite-only room where India's technology leadership meets, reflects, and connects.

An invite-only room where India's technology leadership meets, reflects, and connects.

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No panels. No badge scanning. Just the top 1% of India's CXOs over dinner and real conversation.

No panels. No badge scanning. Just the top 1% of India's CXOs over dinner and real conversation.

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What happens when you put the right people in the right room with the right question on the table.

What happens when you put the right people in the right room with the right question on the table.

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The kind of evening that changes how you think about leadership, community, and what's next.

The kind of evening that changes how you think about leadership, community, and what's next.

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Curated rooms. Candid conversations. India's most trusted leadership circle.

Curated rooms. Candid conversations. India's most trusted leadership circle.

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From Mumbai to Bangalore — Flexi Roundtables keeps building rooms that matter.

From Mumbai to Bangalore — Flexi Roundtables keeps building rooms that matter.

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India's top CXOs in one room — candid conversations, peer insights, and an evening that actually matters.

India's top CXOs in one room — candid conversations, peer insights, and an evening that actually matters.

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The conversations that don't happen at conferences — this is where they happen.

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Recognition for the builders who made the ecosystem possible, one decision at a time.

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✦ Seen in the Room

Leaders In the Room

CXOs seen in the room — India's top technology and business leaders, gathered for an evening of candid conversation.

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SSukhvinder Kaur
Sukhvinder Kaur
Deputy Managing Director
State Bank of India
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PPraveen Parihar
Praveen Parihar
CISO
Razorpay
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NNaseem Halder
Naseem Halder
Group Chief Information Security Officer
Navi
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SSrivatsan Mohan
Srivatsan Mohan
CTO
Xoxoday
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SSandesh G S
Sandesh G S
CTO
Bureau
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AApoorv Agrawal
Apoorv Agrawal
Vice President - Analytics
Pocket FM
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SSaurabh Kishore
Saurabh Kishore
Chief Technology & Product Officer
DealShare
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SSampath M
Sampath M
Head of Infrastructure
CoinDCX
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Nantha Ram Ramalingam
Director & Leader – Cybersecurity GCC
Albertsons Companies India
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BBadmaprasath Baskaran
Badmaprasath Baskaran
AVP - Technology
Mashreq Bank India COE GCC
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PPankaj Sharma
Pankaj Sharma
Director - Engineering & DevSecOps
ANKO GCC
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Sujit Kulkarni
Site Leader - India
Raksul
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HHarish Dash
Harish Dash
Country Head - Digital & IT
AstraZeneca
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DDr. Srikanth Katuri
Dr. Srikanth Katuri
Sr. Vice President & Global CIO
Omega Healthcare
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KKamesh Babu
Kamesh Babu
CISO
Subex Ltd
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NN V Yogesh Gupta
N V Yogesh Gupta
CTO
Bijlipay
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HHilal Ahmad Lone
Hilal Ahmad Lone
CISO & VP
Liminal Custody & Identity Armour
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Sadanand Himakuntalam
VP - Infrastructure
Moder
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SSaraswathi Ramachandra
Saraswathi Ramachandra
MD & Country Head
Lightcast India
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VVenkata Sudhakar Nagandla
Venkata Sudhakar Nagandla
SVP & Global Head - IT Infrastructure & Cloud
ECU Worldwide
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VVipin Rustagi
Vipin Rustagi
CIO
Aliaxis
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RRishabh Chhajer
Rishabh Chhajer
CIO and CISO
ALLEN
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OOhmna Sinha
Ohmna Sinha
Head of Data & Analytics Governance Senior Director
Nielsen Media India
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SSankhya Chattopadhyay
Sankhya Chattopadhyay
Head of Technology - India
International Schools Partnership India
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NNagarjun R
Nagarjun R
Chief Technology Officer
Aliceblue Financial Services Pvt Ltd
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KKrishnendu Majumdar
Krishnendu Majumdar
Chief Product & Tech Officer (CPTO)
Yubi Group
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KKrishnendu Dutta
Krishnendu Dutta
Head of Information Security
Decathlon Sports India
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RRohan Kanungo
Rohan Kanungo
Director Governance Risk & Compliance - Enterprise AI
GSK
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SSandip Agarwal
Sandip Agarwal
CTO
Traya Health
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VVaishnavi Devi
Vaishnavi Devi
Product Director
Swiggy
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MMadan M.
Madan M.
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Olyv India
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✦ The room keeps filling — more names joining closer to the conversation
About The Conversation

An Evening Built for
People Who Lead

The Leadership Excellence Forum is not a conference. There are no endless panels, no badge-scanning booths, no hollow keynotes. It's a curated evening for the top 1% of India's technology and business leadership, where real conversations happen over dinner.

We bring together CXOs from India's most important enterprises alongside the technology companies building the infrastructure of the next decade, for an evening of candid exchange, peer recognition, and connection that actually matters.

100+
CXO Attendees
15+
Partner Brands
3h
Curated Evening
🎤
Keynote Conversation
🏆
Leader Recognition
🥂
Dinner & Drinks
🤝
Partner Showcases
Partners

Presented by Industry Leaders

"Securing Every Line of Software You Ship"

Sonatype is the software supply chain security company helping engineering and security leaders find and fix open source risk before it becomes a breach. Trusted by 2,000+ of the world's most demanding organizations.

12M+
OSS components scanned daily
2,000+
Enterprise customers
Sonatype leadership on stage for the keynote.
Customer Stories → Past Flexi Conversation: Innovation Hub · Hyderabad

"The Insights Behind the World's Most Important Technology Decisions"

Forrester is one of the most influential research and advisory firms in the world, helping technology and business leaders make bold decisions with confidence. Forrester's independent analysis, trusted benchmarks, and forward-looking research shape how enterprises adopt AI, cloud, security, and digital transformation strategies globally.

40+
Years of research authority
2,600+
Client organisations
Global
Analyst coverage
Forrester analysts in the room — bringing independent research perspectives to leadership conversations.
Customer Stories →

"The Durable Execution Platform for Mission-Critical Workflows"

Temporal is the open-source durable execution platform powering mission-critical workflows at scale — from payments and order management to AI agent orchestration. Trusted by Stripe, Netflix, Uber, and thousands of engineers globally, Temporal ensures workflows survive failures, retries, and restarts so enterprises can build reliable distributed systems with confidence.

10B+
Workflow executions monthly
500+
Enterprise customers
Temporal leadership in the room for durable AI agent and workflow reliability conversations.
Customer Stories →

"AI-Native Database Built For Mission Critical Apps"

YugabyteDB is the distributed SQL database powering mission-critical applications at global scale 100% PostgreSQL-compatible, cloud-native, and designed for the resilience modern enterprises demand.

4x
Faster than legacy DBs
99.999%
Uptime SLA
Yugabyte Leadership Joining.
Customer Stories → Past Flexi Conversation: CXO Roundtable · Apr 2026

"The Data Activation Layer for the AI Era"

DataOS by The Modern Data Company is a data management platform that layers over existing infrastructure to activate enterprise data at scale — enabling AI-ready data products with built-in governance, context, and semantic meaning, without ripping and replacing what you have.

8x
Faster data activation
50%
Lower data costs
The Modern Data Company team in the room for data strategy conversations.
Customer Stories →

"AI-Powered Talent Intelligence for the Modern Enterprise"

Melento.ai is an AI-native talent intelligence platform helping enterprises discover, engage, and retain top talent with precision. By combining deep behavioral insights with agentic AI, Melento transforms how organizations build high-performing teams and make data-driven people decisions.

AI
Native talent platform
10x
Faster talent matching
Melento leadership in the room for talent intelligence and workforce strategy conversations.
Customer Stories →

"Enterprise Endpoint Backup Built for the Modern Threat Landscape"

CrashPlan is the enterprise endpoint backup and recovery platform trusted by security and IT leaders to protect business-critical data across every device — on-premises, remote, or hybrid. With ransomware recovery, compliance-ready audit trails, and zero data loss guarantees, CrashPlan keeps enterprises resilient when it matters most.

50K+
Protected endpoints
Zero
Data loss guarantee
CrashPlan leadership in the room for endpoint security and data resilience conversations.
Customer Stories →
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