• Disruption is now structural, not cyclical. Separating Signal from Noise: Which emerging forces—AI, geopolitics, energy transition, supply chain shifts, and regulatory change—will fundamentally reshape industries, and how should leaders prioritize their responses?​
• Disruption is now structural, not cyclical. Separating Signal from Noise: Which emerging forces—AI, geopolitics, energy transition, supply chain shifts, and regulatory change—will fundamentally reshape industries, and how should leaders prioritize their responses?​
• The Anatomy of Resilience: Looking across major disruption cycles—from the GFC and demonetization to COVID and geopolitical shocks—what common traits have defined India's most resilient and enduring companies?​
• Balancing Agility and Preparedness: How should boards and leadership teams navigate the trade-off between short-term efficiency and long-term investments in resilience, strategic optionality, and future readiness?​
• The Next Five Years: What is the single most important capability that large Indian corporations must build to thrive, sustain value creation, and emerge stronger in an age of continuous disruption?​

Panelist:

• Arun Misra, Group CEO, Vedanta Limited

• The Fragility Exposed: From the Strait of Hormuz energy shock to China's rare-earth curbs, single points of failure nearly halted production. How do leaders build supply chains that bend but do not break?​
• Localisation vs Global Efficiency: What is the right mix of dual sourcing, near-shoring, strategic inventory and ecosystem partnerships to protect margins while enabling scale?​
• The Physical Foundation: As demand for Grade-A warehousing, logistics parks and industrial land surges, how should companies decide where to locate, whether to lease or own, and how to build multimodal connectivity that scales with growth?​
• Infrastructure as Competitiveness: How should companies evaluate investments in logistics, warehousing, ports and energy infrastructure — not as cost, but as a source of durable advantage?​
• The China+1 Opportunity: How do India's corporates convert the manufacturing renaissance and China+1 tailwinds into a structural, defensible edge rather than a passing moment?​
• The Digital & Defining Bet: Where can AI, real-time visibility and predictive analytics turn logistics from a vulnerability into a moat — and which single infrastructure or supply-chain decision made today will most clearly separate the winners of the disruption decade?

• Technology investment cycles are accelerating. How should companies distinguish infrastructure spend from technology investments that create productivity, better decisions, customer value and new growth opportunities?​
• Energy volatility and transition pressures are reshaping cost structures. How should leaders evaluate renewable power, storage, clean technology and energy-efficiency investments as competitiveness bets, not just sustainability commitments?​
• Supply-chain shocks have exposed dependence on critical inputs and geographies. What mix of localization, dual sourcing, strategic inventory, digital visibility and ecosystem partnerships can protect margins while enabling scale?​
• As India prepares for its global moment, how should companies fund manufacturing capacity, advanced technology, talent and capability building without compromising ROIC discipline?​
• Which capability bet made today — energy security, supply-chain resilience, technology leadership, industrial capacity or workforce readiness — will most clearly define the winners of the disruption decade?​

Panelists:

• Kumar Subbiah, CFO & Executive Director, CEAT Limited

• Many companies are investing in AI, but only a few are seeing enterprise-level value. What separates AI pilots from scaled value creation?​
• Where across the value chain can AI create the greatest advantage — productivity, decision quality, customer experience, or new business models?​
• As AI lowers the cost of intelligence, what becomes the next source of differentiation?​
• How should Boards and CXOs measure AI value beyond cost savings — across revenue growth, capital productivity, risk management and strategic agility?​
• What will define the companies that truly win the AI era — not technologically, but commercially?​

Panelists:

• Buland Khan, Chief Technology Officer, Wipro
• Nikhil Malhotra, Chief AI & Innovation Officer, Tech Mahindra