Please join us for an exclusive, interactive event examining AI’s impact on India’s business landscape.
When: Tuesday, February 17, 2026
- 17:00-18:00–Registration, Networking, High Tea, and short exercise to prepare for the interactive event
- 18:00-20:00–Keynote and Debate
- 20:00-21:00–Cocktail and Dinner Reception
Where: The Legacy Room, St. Regis, Mumbai (462, Senapati Bapat Marg, Lower Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400013, India)
About the Program
Keynote: Olivier Toubia, the Glaubinger Professor of Business, Columbia Business School, will deliver the keynote, “Digital Twins—Accurate Reflection or Distorted View?” offering a look at the CBS Digital Twins Initiative, groundbreaking research that involved creating thousands of open-source digital “people" who behave like consumers and can potentially be used in business practice and research.
The talk will be followed by an exciting interactive event: You will have the unique opportunity to engage with your own digital twin, and see whether you make similar decisions.
(Note: A few days prior to the event you will receive an email. Please be sure to open it and complete the short survey that will allow us to create your digital twin for the purposes of this exercise only.)
Debate: The keynote will be followed by a fast-paced debate in a participatory format, in which experts are presented with a motion, then challenge one another. You’ll vote on your side both before and after the event. Let’s see if the speakers can change your mind!
The debate will be moderated by Gita Johar, the Meyer Feldberg Professor of Business, Columbia Business School.
The motion: Rapid AI adoption will be a net positive for India.
For the motion:
- Sameer Shetty, Group Executive, Digital Business & Transformation, Strategic Programs, Axis Bank
- Shruti Kashyap, Vice President, Distributed Trade Technology, Unilever
Against the motion:
- Govindraj Ethiraj, Founder, IndiaSpend and FactChecker.in
- Ashok Krish, Head of Advisory and Consulting, AI.Cloud, Tata Consultancy Services
What you’ll learn:
- How AI can help businesses simulate outcomes, test strategies, and anticipate market responses before committing real capital.
- Ethical frameworks for evaluating AI tools to prevent bias and maintain accuracy and transparency.
- How executives across sectors weigh AI’s upsides against its real operational and business risks.
- What separates responsible AI adoption from reckless deployment—and where companies are likely to get it wrong.