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Global IT Leadership Summit 

India’s Next Horizon: Transforming Industries with AI and Zero Trust

Mumbai, India
16 - 17 April, 2026
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Hosted at Mumbai’s premier luxury landmark

  • Mumbai, India

    The St. Regis Mumbai 
    462, Senapati Bapat Marg,
    Lower Parel,
    Mumbai 400013

  • 16 - 17 April , 2026
  • Valet parking will be provided.

Our exclusive community of featured speakers

Jay Chaudhry
CEO, Chairman & Founder
Brijesh Datta
Executive Vice President & CISO
Kenny Kesar
Global CIO
Karthikeyan Dhayalan
CISO - India, Cognizant
Abhishek Sukhwal
Director - IT Cloud, DC, Network
Dhawal Sharma
EVP & AI Security and Strategic Initiatives
Deepen Desai
EVP, Chief Security Officer
 

Agenda-at-a-Glance

  • Thursday, 16 April, 2026
    18:00 - 20:00 IST
    Welcome Reception & Dinner

    Join us for a memorable night at The St. Regis Hotel where you will network with your peers and attend a dinner to be remembered.

  • Friday, 17 April, 2026
    9:00 AM IST
    Breakfast
    10:05 AM IST
    CEO Keynote
    Leading Secure Digital Transformation with AI and Zero Trust

    Join Jay Chaudhry to explore how AI and Zero Trust are revolutionizing security and digital transformations. We’ll unpack AI’s duality-accelerating predictive risk management and reducing attack exposure while introducing new risks—then show how to safely unlock productivity and automation. Learn pragmatic leadership insights for overcoming organizational resistance and executing transformation at scale across users, devices, workloads, and branches.

    ...
    Jay Chaudhry

    CEO, Chairman & Founder, Zscaler

    10:35 AM IST
    CXO Fireside Chat
    AI, Accountability, and Change: How CXOs Lead Secure Transformation

    Digital transformation tests leadership as executives juggle emerging threats, a complex digital landscape, and change management. Join Jay Chaudhry and an industry-leading CXO for a candid discussion on governance, board communication, and decision frameworks for Zero Trust and AI. Learn to overcome legacy and cultural barriers, align security to outcomes, and drive lasting change.

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    Jay Chaudhry

    CEO, Chairman & Founder, Zscaler

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    Brijesh Datta

    Executive Vice President & CISO, Reliance Industries Limited

    10:55 AM IST
    Platform and AI Keynote
    Platform Vision: AI Security, Built on Zero Trust

    Learn about Zscaler’s architectural vision and product strategy for the Zero Trust Exchange and how we’re leveraging AI to innovate across our platform—advancing protection for users, branches, cloud, data, and security operations. Discover how we’re addressing evolving security and networking challenges for our customers: reducing risk, eliminating cost and complexity, and enabling faster, more secure digital transformation.

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    Dhawal Sharma

    EVP & AI Security and Strategic Initiatives, Zscaler

    11:25 AM IST
    Networking Break
    11:55 AM IST
    CXO Spotlight
    From Vision to Execution: AI-Driven Lessons in Secure Transformation

    Turning strategy into real-world execution requires more than vision. This session explores how organizations are securing the enterprise, overcoming internal resistance, and aligning security initiatives to measurable business outcomes. Gain practical insights on modernizing legacy environments, applying Zero Trust with AI, and navigating an increasingly complex threat landscape while driving transformation at scale.

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    Kenny Kesar

    Global CIO, Wipro Limited

    12:15 IST
    Keynote
    Modernizing Branches and Clouds with Zero Trust Architecture

    Legacy networks and fragmented controls enable lateral movement and inflate costs across branches and clouds. This keynote explores Zscaler's approach to replacing branch perimeters with direct‑to‑app, identity‑based access over any broadband, and mitigating lateral movem via agentless segmentation for IoT, OT, and servers. You'll also learn how to extend protection with east‑west microsegmentation and scalable gateways across your cloud environments.

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    Abhishek Sukhwal

    Director - IT Cloud, DC, Network, Mahindra

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    Mahesh Bommareddy

    Senior Director, Product Management, Zscaler

    12:40 PM IST
    Networking Lunch
    13:40 IST
    Keynote
    Harnessing Zero Trust and AI to Outpace Cyberthreats

    Security Operations are evolving to meet the demands of rapidly changing threat landscapes. Learn how Zscaler integrates Zero Trust principles with AI-powered tools to enable faster detection, reduced risk exposure, and streamlined response across environments. Explore how unified data fabric and advanced capabilities like Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) and Asset Exposure Management are transforming security workflows and empowering organizations to prioritize and act decisively.

    ...
    Deepen Desai

    EVP, Chief Security Officer, Zscaler

14:05 IST
Keynote
Data Security as the Foundation of a Secure Enterprise

Artificial Intelligence relies on a foundation of trusted data, making security the first priority. Learn how to build an architecture that governs access, prevents data leakage, and enforces policies across users, devices, and clouds. Future-proof your data security while ensuring compliance and reducing operational risks across your enterprise.

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Karthikeyan Dhayalan

CISO - India, Cognizant

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Venkat Krishnamoorthi

VP, Product Management, Zscaler

14:30 IST
Networking Break
15:00 IST
Winning with Precision: What Elite Performance Systems Teach Us About AI, Data, and Decision-Making at Scale

In high-stakes environments, the difference between winning and losing comes down to how effectively you use data to make decisions under pressure. In this session, Pullela Gopichand shares how elite performance systems are built through discipline, real-time insights, and continuous adaptation. He connects these principles to the enterprise, showing how CIOs and CISOs can leverage AI and data to drive operational precision, strengthen resilience, and stay ahead of evolving threats. This session offers a practical lens on building high-performing, secure systems that scale in an increasingly data-driven world.

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Pullela Gopichand

Chief National Coach, India Badminton Team

15:45 IST
CEO Insights: Q&A with Jay Chaudhry

Join Zscaler CEO Jay Chaudhry for an exclusive Q&A session where he’ll share the company’s strategic vision, groundbreaking product innovations, and key partnerships. Gain insights into how Zscaler is tackling critical industry challenges and supporting customers in achieving secure digital transformation. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to hear directly from the leadership driving success in the evolving cybersecurity landscape.

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Jay Chaudhry

CEO, Chairman & Founder, Zscaler

16:15 PM IST
Closing comments
16:30 PM IST
Networking Break
17:00 IST
Interactive Breakouts
Securing AI Across the Enterprise

As organizations rapidly adopt AI, securing AI applications, infrastructure, and usage has become a critical priority. This session explores how enterprises can gain visibility and control across their AI environment, from applications and models to underlying infrastructure and AI agents. Attendees will learn how to establish a comprehensive inventory of AI assets, enforce secure and responsible access, and protect AI systems across the full lifecycle, from development through deployment and runtime. The discussion will focus on practical approaches to managing risk while enabling innovation at scale.

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Dhawal Sharma

EVP & AI Security and Strategic Initiatives, Zscaler

Secure Browsing, SaaS and Private App Access with Zero Trust Browser

Discover how Zscaler reduces reliance on VDI and VPN for secure browsing and application access. We’ll cover how we stop web and browser-borne threats while enabling seamless SaaS and Private app access from any browser or device for corporate users or third party users. Only Zscaler delivers security and access with browser-agnostic options—including a lightweight extension, cloud browser isolation, or a standalone enterprise browser—reducing VDI costs, enhancing security, simplifying operations, and improving user experience.

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Joby Menon

SVP, Product Management, Zscaler

Reduce Cost and Complexity with Zero Trust Branch and Zscaler Digital Experience

Learn how Zero Trust Branch (ZTB) and Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX) help organizations move from rigid, expensive branch networking to a simpler “café-like” model that’s easier to run and scale. With ZTB, you can reduce risk by removing common weak points that attackers exploit and limiting how far threats can spread. With ZDX, IT teams gain clear, end-to-end insight into what’s affecting user experience—so they can spot issues early, fix problems faster, and keep employees productive.

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Mahesh Bommareddy

Senior Director, Product Management, Zscaler

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Shashi Pawar

Principal Product Specialist, Zscaler

17:50 IST
Interactive Breakouts
Securing Hybrid Environments With Zero Trust Cloud and Workload Security

Multi-cloud can quickly lead to uneven protection as tools and policies diverge across environments. Join this discussion on how a Zero Trust approach delivers consistent security for cloud and workloads—without falling back on traditional firewall thinking. We’ll explore how Zero Trust Cloud and Zero Trust Workload Security use identity- and context-based policy to improve visibility across clouds, contain threats before they spread, simplify operations, and demonstrate measurable risk reduction.

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Siripuram Pavan Kumar

Principal Product Manager, Zscaler

Outpacing a New Era of Threats with Agentic SecOps

Attackers leverage AI to accelerate attacks. Learn how Zscaler uses exposure insights and zero trust telemetry—correlating alerts to surface threats, using Deception and Threat Hunting to find what other tools miss, and providing insights into human and non-human identities. Explore Zscaler's SOC-of-the-future capabilities, running them yourself or using Red Canary for staff augmentation. Tap expert‑supervised human/AI workflows that improve detections, automate triage, and respond faster to the risks that matter.

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Deepen Desai

EVP, Chief Security Officer, Zscaler

Innovations in Unified Data Security for AI And Beyond

As data spans clouds, SaaS, on‑prem, and now GenAI, gaps persist without unified control. Explore what’s new in the Zscaler Data Security Platform — moving beyond legacy DLP with comprehensive visibility, proper hygiene, and risk context. See how new groundbreaking innovations like data lineage can close blind spots and how intent‑based GenAI detections can drive prioritized actions.

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Venkat Krishnamoorthi

VP, Product Management, Zscaler

18:30 PM IST
Closing reception

Frequently Asked Questions

Event details are included in a calendar invitation along with other update emails for the event. Attendees will receive a “Know Before You Go” email with all the necessary information one week before the event.
You can email us at [email protected]
Zscaler provides enterprises with the technology and expertise to guide them on their digital transformation journeys. With cloud security services that replace the traditional inbound and outbound gateways, we help organizations transform their network and security infrastructures from an appliance-based model to a modern, cloud approach, which allows them to securely take advantage of cloud agility, intelligence, and scalability.

Global IT Leadership Summit 2026