From Digital Transformation to AI-Led Enterprise Reinvention

June 03, 2026, New Delhi

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Overview

For over four decades, Dataquest has tracked the defining shifts of India’s technology landscape. Today, as AI begins to reshape the enterprise more fundamentally than any previous wave of transformation, leadership priorities are being rewritten.

The Dataquest Digital Leadership Conclave & 33rd ICT Business Awards 2025 is designed as a focused gathering of CIOs, digital leaders, policymakers, and industry voices.

As India’s technology landscape enters a new phase marked by AI, data-led decision-making, modern infrastructure, resilience, and governance, the awards seek to honour those who are not just responding to change but defining it.

Nominations are now open for the 33rd Dataquest ICT Business Awards.

Click here to Nominate

Last date for nomination submission: 24 April 2026

Digital Leader Awards

  • Manufacturing
  • Education &
    Edu-tech
  • Logistics & Transportation
  • Healthcare
  • Infrastructure
  • Innovation
  • Tech Start-ups
  • Emerging Technologies
  • Enterprise Business Services
  • CSR
  • BFSI
  • IT/ITeS
  • Chemicals
  • Life Sciences
  • Green Energy
  • Mobile payments
  • Broadband
  • Engineering Services
  • Marketing
  • Business Process Innovation
  • FMCG
  • Automotive
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Utility & Power generation
  • Metal & Mining
  • Health-Tech
  • Industry 4.0
  • Media & Advertising
  • Security
  • Internet of Things

NOMINATIONS FOR DATAQUEST DIGITAL LEADER AWARDS 2025 ARE OPEN

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Key Discussion Points

AI-led Business Transformation
Data and AI Readiness
Cloud, Infrastructure and Resilience
Cybersecurity, Risk and Trust
Digital Innovation and Emerging Technologies
GCC and Enterprise Operating Models
Industry Transformation
Sustainable and Responsible Technology Leadership
AI in Production and Scale
Enterprise Governance and Responsible AI
Digital Workplace and Talent Transformation
Business Value, ROI and Cost Optimisation

Key Conference Highlights

Full Day Conference
10+ Sessions
[Keynotes & Panels]
50+ Speakers
200+ Attendees
Exclusive CXO Roundtables
Workshops
Leadership Masterclasses
Experience Zone
Dataquest ICT Business Awards
Digital Leader Awards for CIO’s
5000+ CXO’s to get influenced

Who Should Attend

  • Policymakers and tech decision-makers from government departments
  • CXOs and key business and tech decision-makers from large and mid-sized enterprises
  • IT heads, IT influencers, IT opinion-makers, and security and digital heads
  • Start-ups, consultants, and academia

Program

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Past Speakers

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Golok Kumar Simli

CTO, Passport Seva Program 2.0, Ministry of External Affairs

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Jaspreet Bindra

AI Expert & Thought Leader

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Jaspreet Singh

Partner and Leader- Cyber Security, GCCs, Grant Thornton Bharat LLP

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Udai Singh

President - GenAI Initiatives, NIIT Ltd

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Sanjeev Gupta

Head of GST Technology, Wayfair

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Sujoy Brahmachari

CIO and CISO -Smart Card Business, Rosmerta Technologies

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Dr. Yusuf Hashmi

Group CISO, Jubilant Bhartia Group

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Rajeshwari Krishnamurthy

Professor, Great Lakes Institute of Management

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Niraj Kumar

VP & Head of IT, Sinch

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Nitendra Rajput

SVP & Head - AI Garage, Mastercard

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Nishu Jain

Executive Director - Data & Analytics- PWC India

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Faizul Mufti

VP - Information Security, Genpact

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Rahul Monie

Fractional C-Suite Technology Consultant & Certified Independent Director

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Mitali Nikore

Economist and Public Policy specialist, Nikore Associates

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Atul Patel

Co-founder and VP, #dltledgers

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Siddharth Sharma

Head of IT Operations- Digi Yatra Foundation

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Prajakt Deolasee

CTO, Turtlemint

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Faisal Masood Khan

Head of Operations Transformation, Sun Life Global Solutions – India

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Baidyanath Kumar

CISO & Data protection officer, J K Lakshmi Cement

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Sameer Mathur

Manging Partner, SM Consulting

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Dhaval Gupta

Director, CyberMedia.

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Pradeep Gupta

Chairman, CyberMedia Group

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Prasanto Kumar Roy

Senior Adviser & former MD, FTI Consulting; Former President, CyberMedia; and Former VP, Nasscom

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Ibrahim Ahmed

Consulting Group Editor, CyberMedia

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