Think on Tour Mumbai 2026 

Winning the Enterprise AI Race – Digital Swaraj for a Viksit Bharat
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Think on Tour Mumbai 2026

AI is expected to contribute USD 500 billion to India’s economy by 2030, yet most organisations remain stuck in the pilot stage, struggling to scale AI for meaningful business impact.

At Think on Tour Mumbai 2026, we brought 900+ business and technology leaders together to explore how organisations can move beyond pilots and scale AI for measurable business impact.

Under the theme Winning the Enterprise AI Race - Digital Swaraj for a Viksit Bharat, attendees engaged in discussions on accelerating AI adoption, unlocking the value of enterprise data, leveraging hybrid cloud, and turning digital sovereignty into a strategic advantage. Through expert insights, customer success stories, and live technology experiences, participants gained practical perspectives on advancing their enterprise transformation journeys.

As organisations race to scale AI, the event reinforced a clear message: the era of experimentation is over. The focus now is on turning AI ambition into real business outcomes.

Key Highlights & Takeaways

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Win the Enterprise AI Race

The session explored how AI is evolving from a business enabler to a defining force. It positioned Hybrid Cloud, AI and Quantum as frontier technologies shaping India’s next phase of growth and unpacked the opportunity for enterprises to become AI-first by closing the widening gap between ambition and business outcomes. The discussion connected these opportunities with the vision of Digital Swaraj and India’s journey towards Viksit Bharat. It also highlighted how enterprises can harness these technologies to build a meaningful competitive advantage, while examining the emerging potential of quantum computing.
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Power the agentic enterprise with an AI operating model

The session unpacked the three essentials of an agentic enterprise: real-time data, real-time execution, and the flexibility to deploy AI across environments while preserving sovereignty and autonomy. It explored how AI-ready data platforms are unifying enterprise data and making it available in motion, enabling organizations to turn insights into action and operationalize AI at scale. The discussion also examined how intelligent systems can be deployed across hybrid environments and highlighted the role of a sovereign foundation in strengthening governance, compliance, and operational resilience, helping enterprises scale agentic AI with confidence.
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Architect the AI-First Enterprise

The session unpacked the architectural decisions required to scale agentic AI and examined how workflows can be redesigned, supported by an AI operating model built for scale. Drawing on IBM’s Client Zero journey, which unlocked $4.5 billion in productivity gains reinvested in innovation, and client stories from the panel discussion highlighted proven lessons for accelerating business value and embedding agentic AI across the enterprise.
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The future of computing is Now

Quantum computing emerged as a new computational paradigm for addressing complex scientific and business problems that demand precision beyond the capabilities of today’s most powerful supercomputers. The discussion unpacked how quantum computing represents information differently, opening new possibilities across molecular simulation, financial modelling, fundamental physics and other fields. It also highlighted the potential of combining quantum, classical computing and AI to enable disruptive applications.

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Accelerate AI ROI with Hybrid Cloud

AI’s growing presence in the boardroom underscores the need for predictable, secure and sustainable returns. The session emphasized on the importance of disciplined hybrid cloud execution that integrates infrastructure, accelerators, data and AI software end to end. The takeaway demonstrated how a right-sized, full-stack hybrid cloud approach can preserve choice, maintain control across environments and deliver durable AI ROI at scale.
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IT Operational Risk & Resilience in the AI Era

As AI accelerates the speed and scale of operational risk, traditional approaches to IT operations, vulnerability management, and incident response are struggling to keep pace. The session explored how organizations can move from fragmented tools and reactive processes to a unified, agentic operating model that helps teams understand issues faster, make better decisions, and execute actions with greater speed, governance, and resilience.
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Trusted Agentic AI with Real-Time Context 

As organizations move from AI experimentation to agentic execution, trusted decisions depend on more than access to data. The session explored how a semantic knowledge layer can connect real-time signals with enterprise context, helping AI agents access the right information when it matters. By reducing data preparation, strengthening governance, and making context reusable across use cases, organizations can move more confidently from insight to action and scale agentic AI with greater trust. 

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Create Your AI Value Flywheel 

Sustained AI innovation requires organizations to continually convert business value into the capacity to fund the next wave of growth. The session explored how leaders can identify the highest-value opportunities for AI, apply the right tools to capture that value faster, and rethink operating models so successful outcomes can be repeated at scale. The key takeaway was to treat AI as a value flywheel, where measurable impact fuels continued investment, innovation, and long-term competitive advantage. 

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Digital Sovereignty with Runtime Control 

Digital sovereignty becomes meaningful when control is embedded in the architecture and operating model, rather than relying only on contractual commitments. The session explored how customer-operated control planes, in-boundary AI inference and identity services, and continuous compliance automation can help organizations maintain jurisdictional control and generate audit-ready evidence. These capabilities enable enterprises to run AI workloads with greater operational independence and hybrid portability while continuing to innovate at cloud speed. 
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Secure Agentic Identity at Runtime 

 Agentic AI creates a new identity challenge as autonomous agents make decisions, invoke tools, and interact with sensitive systems beyond the scope of traditional identity and access management. The session explored an identity-first approach using IBM Verify, HashiCorp Vault, and Boundary to establish trusted agent identities, apply user-aware delegation, replace standing privileges with just-in-time access, and improve visibility into agent actions. These patterns help protect high-risk workflows while enabling agentic AI to scale with stronger governance and confidence. 

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Accelerate Modernization with PowerVS 

Modernizing core applications for the AI era does not have to disrupt mission-critical operations. The session explored how IBM Power Virtual Server enables organizations to extend AIX, IBM i, and Linux environments into a hybrid cloud model for disaster recovery, modernization, and capacity expansion. By combining enterprise-grade resilience, security, and performance with continued control over critical applications, PowerVS helps banks innovate faster, strengthen operational resilience, and respond to evolving regulatory expectations.  Featured IBM offering: IBM Power Virtual Server 

Insights from Industry Leaders

Explore ideas and real-world strategies from the leaders shaping the future of enterprise AI. Be inspired by IBM experts and clients who are revolutionizing their organisations with AI. Gain exclusive insights on deploying trusted AI, leveraging AI-ready data, and building resilient, future-facing infrastructure to drive productivity and efficiency in an evolving digital landscape.

Leander Paes
Leander Paes
Padma Bhushan, Hall of Fame Awardee 2024 and Tennis Legend
Ajay Rajan
Ajay Rajan
Managing Director & CEO of Protean eGov Technologies Ltd.
Sanjeev Jain
Sanjeev Jain
Chief Operating Officer, Wipro Limited
Sharat Sinha
Sharat Sinha
CEO, Airtel Business
Sandip Patel
Jayanta Banerjee
Group CIO Tata Steel Ltd
Alok Kumar
Alok Kumar
Principal Secretary, IT and Electronics, Government of Uttar Pradesh​
Alok Kumar
Manpreet Singh Chadha
Chairman, The Wave Group
Sandip Patel
Chandrasekaran M
Chief Technology Officer and Chief General Manager (IT) at IDBI Bank
Sandip Patel
Anuj Jain
Director (Finance) & CFO, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd.
Sandip Patel
Kiran Kumar Katreddi
Head of Platform Engineering Meesho
Sandip Patel
Rajesh Garg
President, Group CIO, Head of Operations, Service Delivery, Corporate IT & CISO at Yotta
Alok Kumar
Dr Harrick Vin
Chief Technology Officer, TCS
Sandip Patel
Sandip Patel
Managing Director, IBM India and South Asia
Hans Dekker
Hans Dekkers
General Manager IBM Asia Pacific
Sriram Raghavan
Sriram Raghavan
General Manager, IBM Software, India and Software Innovation Lab
Rishi Aurora
Rishi Aurora
Managing Partner, IBM Consulting India & South Asia
Gaurav Agarwal
Gaurav Agarwal
Vice President, Technology, IBM India & South Asia

Agenda

Soon, AI won’t just support your business; it will define it. Sandip Patel will open by framing Hybrid Cloud, AI and Quantum as the frontier technologies shaping India’s next phase of growth, and explore the opportunity for enterprises to become AI-first — closing the widening AI divide between ambition and outcomes. This sets the context for Digital Swaraj and India’s journey towards Viksit Bharat. The session will also show how IBM is helping enterprises harness these technologies to drive real competitive advantage, while looking ahead to the emerging potential of quantum computing.​

The agentic enterprise depends on three essentials: real-time data, real-time execution, and the flexibility to deploy AI across environments while preserving sovereignty and autonomy. In this session, discover how AI-ready data platforms are unifying enterprise data and making it available in motion. Learn how leading organizations are turning insights into action, operationalizing AI at scale, and deploying intelligent systems across hybrid environments. Explore how a sovereign foundation enables governance, compliance, and operational resilience—helping enterprises scale agentic AI with confidence.​

11:40 AM to 11:55 AM - Tech Byte (Deloitte)

11:30 AM to 12: 00 PM - Industry tour 1

    Demos @ forum - Get hands on with interactive installations and expert-led demos of IBM’s solutions in action.

    The toughest scientific and business problems require a precision inaccessible to today’s most powerful supercomputers. As an entirely new computational paradigm, quantum computing enables us to represent information in different ways, unlocking breakthroughs in molecular simulation, financial modeling, fundamental physics, and more. When quantum is leveraged in tandem with classical and AI resources, disruptive applications become possible now. Join us to learn how IBM is revolutionizing advanced computing, bringing together the latest developments in quantum, AI, silicon, and algorithms through a new hybrid compute framework called quantum-centric supercomputing.​

    What does it take to architect an AI-first enterprise? As the era of AI experimentation gives way to enterprise transformation, leading organizations are rethinking how work gets done. ​

    Join IBM and other business leaders to explore the architectural decisions required to scale agentic AI across the enterprise. Through IBM’s Client Zero journey—which unlocked USD 4.5B in productivity gains reinvested in innovation—and insights from fellow executives, discover how to transform workflows with agentic AI, build an AI operating model for scale, and accelerate business value through proven lessons from leading organizations. ​

    An Olympic medalist and one of India's most celebrated tennis champions, Leander Paes inspires leaders with powerful lessons on resilience, teamwork, leadership,and sustained high performance. A prominent advocate for a tech-driven Viksit Bharat his keytechnology partnerships and initiatives include AI in sports academies through his flying man venture, keynote speaking in Cypher 2025 (India’s Largest AI conference

    Spotlight 1 - Accelerate AI ROI with Hybrid Cloud​ (timings 3:15 PM to 3:45 PM)

    Spotlight 2 - Drive IT resilience with agentic operations​ (timings 3:50 PM AM to 4:20 PM)

    Tech Byte 1 - Empower Trusted Agentic AI with Real-Time Context: From Data to Decisions - (3:15 PM to 3:30 PM)

    Tech Byte 2 - Create your AI flywheel​ (3:35 PM to 3:50 PM)

    Tech Byte 3 - Establish digital sovereignty with runtime control​ (3:55 PM to 4:10 PM)

    Tech Byte 4 - Secure identity and access gaps at runtime ​ - (4:15 PM to 4:30 PM)

    Tech Byte 5 - Accelerate your modernization journey with PowerVS​ (4:30 PM to 4:45 PM)

    Industry Tour - 3​

    3:45 PM– 4:15 PM​

    Industry Tour - 4​

    4:45 PM– 5:15 PM​

    Actionable Insights

    The ensuing dialogues covered a range of critical topics and we invite you to explore these in more detail by browsing the varied resources included here which range from broad strategic summaries to actionable, practical guides and workshops. 

    Please do share these valuable takeaways with your colleagues to fuel informed discussions and collaborative progress.

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