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Unleashing the Full Spectrum of AI Success StoriesLearn more
Unleashing the Full Spectrum of AI Success Stories
Unleashing the Full Spectrum of AI Success Stories
As AI reshapes the global business landscape, its transformative potential spans business innovation, operational intelligence and human-machine collaboration. This panel convenes senior C‑suite executives from diverse industries to explore how organizations are leveraging next‑gen, advanced AI capabilities and autonomous decision making— to unlock value, drive innovation and deliver competitive advantage. Panelists will examine how advanced systems that reason, learn, adapt and collaborate with humans are moving from pilot to scale. Through real‑world success stories, we’ll reveal practical strategies, the challenges overcome and measurable outcomes that show the tangible impact of a full spectrum AI strategy. Join us for a forward‑looking conversation that bridges visionary thinking with actionable intelligence, empowering C‑suite leaders to navigate the evolving AI frontier and lead confidently in the era of advanced AI.
Moderator:
Louise Victoria Matsakis, Senior Business Editor, Wired Magazine
Featuring:
Vijay Guntur, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Ecosystems, HCLTech
Sheila Jordan, Senior Vice President, Chief Digital Technology Officer, Honeywell
Aparna Bawa, Chief Operating Officer, Zoom
Dr. Guy Diedrich, Chief Innovation Officer, Cisco
9:30-10:15 AM CET
Ice Village
WEF Accredited Panel
The New Partnership Playbook for Growth in the AI EconomyLearn more
The New Partnership Playbook for Growth in the AI Economy
The New Partnership Playbook for Growth in the AI Economy
In a world of rapid technological change, geopolitical shifts, and complex ecosystems, leadership is no longer a solo effort. Forward-looking organizations are embracing partnership models—co-innovation, co-investment, joint ventures, and joint go-to-market strategies—to unlock growth, accelerate market entry, and share risk. In the AI era, combining human ingenuity with machine intelligence, sharing data and infrastructure, and co-investing in scalable AI capabilities are essential for sustained advantage. This session explores the new Partnership Playbook—how senior leaders can co-invest, co-innovate, and co-scale through intelligent ecosystems to drive resilience, differentiation, and lasting impact.
Moderator:
Tamara McMillen, Chief Revenue Officer, The Economist Group
Featuring:
Abhay Chaturvedi, Corporate Vice President, Tech Industries, HCLTech
Adele Trombetta, Senior Vice President and General Manager of CX EMEA, Cisco
Daniel Bernard, Chief Business Officer, CrowdStrike
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CET
HCLTech Pavilion
WEF Accredited Panel
AI for Inclusive Growth Learn more
AI for Inclusive Growth
AI for Inclusive Growth
This exclusive roundtable convenes C-suite and senior leaders to explore how AI can drive broader inclusion across organizations and societies. Moving beyond gender diversity, the conversation will examine inclusion of skills, demographics, geographies and the emerging care economy. Participants will discuss how responsible AI design and deployment can create equitable opportunities, enhance workforce resilience and unlock new sources of innovation and value. The session will focus on actionable strategies that business leaders can implement to foster inclusive growth while shaping AI for a sustainable, human-centric future.
Moderator:
Richard Lui, Inclusion@work, Advisor, Anchor, MSNBC
Featuring :
David Kenny, Executive Chairman, Nielsen
Hiro Iwamoto, World’s first blind sailor to complete a non-stop trans-Pacific crossing
Sharon Hague, President, English Language Learning and CEO, UK, Pearson
Ana Kreacic, Chief Knowledge Officer, Oliver Wyman
Abhi Shah, Chief Executive Officer, Board Member, Philanthropist
Jill Kouri, Chief Marketing Officer, HCLTech
2:30–3:30 PM CET
HCLTech Pavilion
Private Rountable
How AI Factory Can Unlock Industrial, Edge & Agentic ValueLearn more
How AI Factory Can Unlock Industrial, Edge & Agentic Value
How AI Factory Can Unlock Industrial, Edge & Agentic Value
Many organizations have moved beyond early experimentation with advanced analytics and intelligent systems; yet, scaling these capabilities across industrial operations and edge environments remains a challenge. Data is abundant, decisions are increasingly time-sensitive, and business leaders are under pressure to demonstrate tangible outcomes rather than isolated successes. What is often missing is a consistent approach to transitioning from ideas to deployment and from deployment to sustained value.
This roundtable will focus on the AI Factory model as a practical approach to building, deploying and operating intelligence across industrial systems, edge locations and emerging agent-led workflows. Participants will discuss how AI Factory helps standardize execution, improve speed to impact and support real-world decision making. The conversation will center on lessons learned, operating priorities and how leaders can turn these capabilities into measurable business results.
Moderator:
Apoorv Iyer, Global Head, GenAI Practice, HCLTech
Featuring:
Denise Millard, Chief Partner Officer, Dell Technologies
Kyle Leciejewski, Senior Vice President, North America Sales and Customer Operations, Dell Technologies
James Landay, Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
7:30-8:30 AM CET
HCLTech Pavilion
Private Roundtable
Advancing Education with AI: Preparing the Workforce of Tomorrow Learn more
Advancing Education with AI: Preparing the Workforce of Tomorrow
Advancing Education with AI: Preparing the Workforce of Tomorrow
As AI transforms the nature of work, preparing a future-ready workforce is a shared priority. This panel explores how organizations are using AI-powered learning, personalized curricula and scalable reskilling programs to equip employees with evolving skills. Evidence shows AI-enabled platforms can accelerate learning and expand access to talent development across diverse populations. With the majority of the global workforce expected to need new AI-aligned skills by 2030, leaders will discuss practical approaches to enable learning at scale and foster adaptability in the workforce of tomorrow.
Moderator:
Neil Allison, Head of Education, Skills and Learning Mission, World Economic Forum.
Featuring:
Srimathi Shivashankar, CVP & Business Head, Edtech Services, HCLTech
Vishaal Gupta, President, Enterprise Learning and Skills, Pearson
Andrew Baird, Chief Executive Officer, Education For Employment
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM CET
HCLTech Pavilion
WEF Accredited Panel
Redefining Value in High-Tech: From Innovation to Enduring Growth Learn more
Redefining Value in High-Tech: From Innovation to Enduring Growth
Redefining Value in High-Tech: From Innovation to Enduring Growth
An exclusive, closed-door conversation hosted by HCLTech, bringing together global technology C-suite leaders to explore how innovation, ecosystem collaboration, and evolving business models are reshaping the high-tech industry. Over the next three to five years, companies will face profound shifts in market dynamics, investment priorities and customer expectations. This intimate roundtable will convene forward-thinking executives and innovators to discuss strategies for translating emerging technologies into scalable business value, navigating global complexity, and sustaining growth in a rapidly evolving technology landscape.
Hosted by:
Abhay Chaturvedi, Corporate Vice President, Tech Industries, HCLTech
Anne Hoecker, Head of Global Technology, Media & Telecommunications Practice, Bain & Company
Florian Mueller, Head of EMEA AI, Insights & Solutions Practice, Bain & Company
Featuring:
Nick Parker, Chief Business Officer and President of Worldwide Sales & Solution, Microsoft
Dr. Durga Malladi, Executive Vice President, Technology Planning, Edge Solutions & Data Center, Qualcomm
Christian Lindmark, Chief Technology Officer, Stanford Health Care
2:30–3:30 PM CET
HCLTech Pavilion
Private Rountable session
Responsible AI as a Competitive AdvantageLearn more
Responsible AI as a Competitive Advantage
Responsible AI as a Competitive Advantage
As organizations accelerate the adoption of AI, the question is no longer whether to use AI but how to do so responsibly while maintaining speed, innovation, and competitive edge. This breakfast roundtable brings together senior technology leaders and industry peers to explore how Responsible AI (RAI) can move beyond compliance and become a strategic enabler of innovation, trust, and long-term business value.
Through an open, interactive discussion with senior industry leaders, academics and practitioners, the session will focus on real-world implementations, lessons learned and practical decision-making across the AI lifecycle.
Moderator:
Apoorv Iyer, Global Head, GenAI Practice, HCLTech
Featuring:
Ramesh Raskar, Associate Director, MIT Media Lab
Caroline Basyn, Chief Digital and Information Technology Officer, Adecco Group
Shardul Fadnavis, Partner, PwC India
7:30-8:30 AM CET
HCLTech Pavilion
Private Roundtable
Winning with AI: Building Future-Ready Organizations Learn more
Winning with AI: Building Future-Ready Organizations
Winning with AI: Building Future-Ready Organizations
An HCLTech–BCG Perspective on Scaling AI in Public Sector, Aerospace and Defense
AI is redefining business models, competitive advantage and enterprise value. For C-suite executives, the question is no longer whether to adopt AI, but how to invest, govern and scale it with confidence. In this session, HCLTech and BCG explore what it takes to win with AI at scale, drawing on insights from senior leaders across Government, Public Sector, Private Equity, and more. Attendees will gain strategic perspective on the operating models, talent strategies, data foundations, and governance structures that distinguish AI leaders from followers—ultimately providing a clear, actionable blueprint for deploying AI that drives transformational outcomes and sustained competitive advantage.
Featuring:
Arjun Sethi, Chief Growth Officer, Strategic Segments, HCLTech
Vladimir Lukić, Managing Director & Senior Partner, BCG
Nivruti Rai, MD & CEO, Invest India
Combiz Richard Abdolrahimi, Global Head of Government Affairs & Public Policy, ServiceNow
Algirde Pipikaite, Head, Cyber GRC CrowdStrike
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CET
HCLTech Pavilion
WEF Accredited Panel
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Learn more about our schedule in Davos — and how you can join us for a series of thought-provoking conversations and engagements across the sidelines of the Annual Meeting, at the Congress Centre, Ice Village and our pavilion at Promenade 66. Stay tuned for the latest on our program at WEF26.
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At Promenade 66, 7270 Davos Platz
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Advancing Education with AI, Preparing Tomorrow’s Workforce
Featuring Vishaal Gupta, Pearson; Andrew Baird, Education For Employment; Srimathi Shivashankar, HCLTech. Moderated by Neil Allison, WEF. A conversation on skilling, equity and AI-readiness in education.

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Advancing Education with AI, Preparing Tomorrow’s Workforce
Panel with leaders from Pearson, WEF, Education for Employment and HCLTech
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Featuring Vishaal Gupta, Pearson; Andrew Baird, Education For Employment; Srimathi Shivashankar, HCLTech. Moderated by Neil Allison, WEF. A conversation on skilling, equity and AI-readiness in education.

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The New Partnership Playbook for Growth in the AI Economy
A discussion on trusted, future-ready AI collaboration models
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Featuring Adele Trombetta, Cisco; Joshua Shapiro, CrowdStrike; Abhay Chaturvedi, HCLTech. Moderated by Tamara McMillen, The Economist Group.

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Davos Dialogues: Securing Agentic AI at scale
Transforming mission-critical sectors and demand for security and governance
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Arjun Sethi, Chief Growth Officer, Strategic Segments, HCLTech, joins Trends and Insights to discuss why Agentic AI is reshaping mission-critical operations, demanding more measures to ensure trust.

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Davos Dialogues: Quantum beyond the AI era
Microsoft and HCLTech leaders discuss what’s next after AI
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Nathan Baker, Partner for Quantum Applications, Microsoft, joins Abhay Chaturvedi, CVP, TECH Industries to discuss why quantum computing is becoming a strategic imperative for enterprises.

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Davos Dialogues: Qualcomm CMO on AI branding
Featuring Don McGuire, EVP and CMO, Qualcomm and Jill Kouri, Global CMO, HCLTech
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Qualcomm CMO Don McGuire joins HCLTech Global CMO Jill Kouri to discuss marketing with purpose and differentiation in a crowded, AI-saturated era.

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Inside the AI Lounge at #WEF26
See how our pavilion brings AI that delivers ROI to life
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Learn how our AI Lounge showcases real-world value creation, physical AI and robotics exhibits and industry-aligned business impact from AI for the G2000 enterprises.

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#HCLTechAtDavos programming preview
Panels, roundtables and more on AI’s real-world impact this week
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Go behind the scenes of our panels, roundtables and fireside chats on AI, innovation and growth featuring global industry leaders in Davos on the sidelines of WEF 2026 Annual Meeting.

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Hello Davos | #HCLTechAtDavos for #WEF26
HCLTech Global CMO Jill Kouri previews the week ahead at the WEF’26 Summit
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Explore what’s new this year at Davos, including our expanded AI Lounge at the HCLTech pavilion and a packed agenda of conversations on real-world AI impact across industries.













































