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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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Sharpen Your
Executive Strategy
Candid Peer
Exchange
Influence Product
Roadmaps
Forge High-Value
Connections

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 previously featured speakers

Leander Paes
Indian Olympic Medalist, Grand Slam Champion & International Tennis Hall of Famer

Anand Venkataraman
Head of Technology Infrastructure & Enterprise Architecture
Jay Chaudhry
CEO, Chairman & Founder
Shivani Arni
Enterprise CISO
Ameya Sathya
Vice President & Group Head Cyber Security
The Auto Club Group
Sriram Naganathan
President & CTO
Vijay Purohit
CISO
Natarajan Elangoval
CISO

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.

    ...
    Jay Chaudhry

    CEO, Chairman & Founder, Zscaler

    10:55 AM IST
    Platform and AI Keynote
    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.

    ...
    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.

    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.

    ...
    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, Cybersecurity, 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.

...
Venkat Krishnamoorthi

VP, Product Management, Zscaler

14:35 IST
Networking Break
15:05 IST
Guest Keynote
15:50 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.

...
Jay Chaudhry

CEO, Chairman & Founder, Zscaler

16:45 IST
Interactive Breakouts
Cutting Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Costs and Securing Unmanaged Devices

Connecting 3rd party users to apps has often relied on traditional VPNs that expand attack surfaces or VDI, which inflates budgets. Discover how Zscaler’s Zero Trust Browser offers a new approach, with secure, clientless access to private and SaaS applications through any browser. Learn how it secures unmanaged devices, embeds threat and data protection, reduces costs, simplifies operations, accelerates onboarding, and enhances user experience.

...
Joby Menon

VP, Product Management, Zscaler

Multicloud Chaos: A Blueprint for Unified Workload Security

Multicloud is a reality that fragments security. Divergent tools, policies, and paths create inconsistent controls and an untenable attack surface. This session provides a blueprint to move from chaos to control: unifying on a Zero Trust platform to replace IP-based controls with an identity-driven policy engine, gain consistent visibility, enforce microsegmentation to stop lateral movement, simplify architecture, and prove risk reduction.

...
Siripuram Pavan Kumar

Principal Product Manager, Zscaler

Simplifying Branch and Factory Networks: Secure Communications without VPNs or Firewalls

Traditional stacks create complexity and enable lateral movement. In this deep dive, learn how to secure internal and external communications while eliminating VPNs, MPLS, and perimeter firewalls, using agentless segmentation for users, servers, IoT, and OT with clientless privileged access. Shrink the attack surface, accelerate M&A integration, and cut cost and complexity to improve resilience.

...
Mahesh Bommareddy

Senior Director, Product Management, Zscaler

17:35 IST
Interactive Breakouts
Innovations in AI Security

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

Keep Users Secure and Productive: End-to-End Visibility and Faster Remediation

Ensuring security and productivity requires IT teams to address issues across devices, networks, and SaaS applications. Zscaler simplifies this with ZDX, delivering end-to-end visibility and remote fixes like Zscaler Copilot to reduce downtime. Teams can quickly remediate device issues and reroute around problematic ISPs, cutting resolution times and avoiding costly productivity losses.

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Shashi Pawar

Principal Product Specialist, 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

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