Agenda
Day one
Monday 30, November 2026
14:30 AEDT
TCS Summit opening and welcome
Masters of Ceremonies, Janice Petersen and Hugh Riminton
Girish Ramachandran, President – Growth Markets, TCS
Against the backdrop of Sydney Harbour, Girish Ramachandran, President – Growth Markets, will open TCS Summit Asia Pacific 2026 and introduce its central theme: Leadership in Enterprise AI – Infrastructure to Intelligence. As organisations move beyond experimentation, the leadership challenge is no longer simply how to adopt AI, but how to industrialise it securely, responsibly and at scale. The welcome will set the context for two days examining the infrastructure, operating models, and human judgement required to turn enterprise intelligence into lasting value.
14:45 AEDT
The Prediction Paradox: Human choices in the age of AI
How predictable are the choices we believe are entirely our own? This live interactive experiment explores the relationship between human behaviour and machine intelligence. Through observation, psychology and pattern recognition, a behavioural illusionist will demonstrate how attention can be directed and decisions anticipated, before making a prediction about where the collective thinking of the Summit will ultimately land. The experience introduces a central idea that will run throughout the programme: AI learns from human patterns, which is precisely why human judgement, accountability, and choice must remain at the centre.
15:00 AEDT
Leadership in Enterprise AI
K. Krithivasan, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director
K. Krithivasan, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Tata Consultancy Services, will explore what distinguishes true AI leadership as enterprises move from isolated initiatives towards intelligence embedded across the organisation. The next phase of transformation will require more than models or individual use cases. It demands an intelligence backbone that brings together data, compute, networks, security, and governance as a coherent operating fabric. This keynote will consider how leaders can move faster without creating fragmentation, innovate while managing risk, and translate AI ambition into sustained business advantage.
15:45 AEDT
Turning vision into action: The leadership perspective
AI is no longer a contained technology investment. It is reshaping strategy, capital allocation, risk, workforce planning, and the enterprise operating model simultaneously. This discussion brings together senior business leaders to examine how executive teams can convert AI ambition into coordinated action across the organisation. What must leaders actively govern as intelligence becomes embedded in core decisions and processes? How can they distinguish a scalable intelligence backbone from a collection of disconnected initiatives? And how can organisations balance the need for speed with trust, accountability and durable business value?
16:15 AEDT
Networking break
16:45 AEDT
Stepping up our AI game
AI is fundamentally reshaping the architecture of the modern enterprise, but no organisation can build the required capabilities alone. Scaling intelligence securely and at speed demands an ecosystem that connects platforms, infrastructure, data, security and domain expertise into a coherent operating fabric. In this panel, leading CIOs and technology executives will examine how organisations can move beyond pilots and isolated use cases to make intelligence a core design principle. The discussion will explore what must be rebuilt, integrated or governed differently as AI begins to rewire processes, technology platforms, and enterprise decision-making.
17:15 AEDT
AI with a human soul
As AI becomes more capable and deeply embedded in daily life, futurist Anders Sörman-Nilsson asks what must remain distinctly human. This keynote looks beyond the immediate race for automation and productivity to examine the relationship between intelligence, imagination, values and choice. How can leaders use AI to expand human potential rather than narrow it? What responsibilities emerge when machines can predict, generate, and recommend at unprecedented scale? And how can organisations ensure that the future they build reflects not only what technology can do, but what people and society genuinely need it to do?
17:45 AEDT
Closing remarks
18:00 AEDT
Cocktail reception & Dinner at the CIRQ, Crown
The first day concludes with an evening reception at CIRQ Rooftop, high above Barangaroo at Crown Sydney. With views across Sydney Harbour and the city skyline, the gathering gives delegates an opportunity to continue the day’s conversations in a relaxed setting, exchange perspectives with speakers and peers, and build new connections across the region’s business, and technology community.
Day Two
Tuesday 1, December 2026
8:45 AEDT
Assembly of guests
9:00 AEDT
Welcome and recap
09:15 AEDT
Leading the Al Economy: New South Wales’ blueprint for growth
As AI reshapes industries, investment, and the nature of work, governments face a defining leadership challenge: how to capture its economic potential while ensuring the benefits are broadly shared. The Hon Daniel Mookhey MLC, Treasurer of New South Wales, will outline the state’s perspective on the emerging AI economy and the foundations required for sustainable growth. The session will consider how skills, infrastructure, innovation, and investment can strengthen competitiveness, and how collaboration between government, industry, and education can help position New South Wales for the next era of economic development.
09:45 AEDT
What leaders need to know: Navigating the AI agenda for APAC
Across Asia Pacific, AI is developing within a complex landscape of geopolitical competition, economic interdependence, regulation, and national technology priorities. This panel will explore what that changing environment means for enterprise leaders making decisions about infrastructure, data, partners and investment. How should organisations navigate differing policy regimes and expectations across the region? Where are new questions of sovereignty, security, and resilience emerging? And how can businesses preserve openness and innovation while building trusted capabilities that can operate confidently across borders and markets?
10.15 AEDT
Sustainable growth through energy intelligence
The growth of AI is creating new opportunities for energy-intensive industries while placing greater demands on power systems, infrastructure, and sustainability commitments. This panel brings together leaders from energy, transport, logistics, and other infrastructure-dependent sectors to explore how data and intelligence can support more resilient and efficient operations. The discussion will examine how organisations can improve forecasting and decision-making, manage the relationship between rising technology demand and constrained resources, and use energy intelligence to strengthen operational performance while continuing to pursue long-term growth and decarbonisation objectives.
10:45 AEDT
Networking break
11:15 AEDT
Building the foundations of tomorrow’s economy
Digital infrastructure increasingly underpins how economies transact, connect, and grow. This fireside chat with a leading CEO will explore the leadership choices involved in building and operating critical infrastructure for an increasingly intelligent economy. The conversation will consider how trusted platforms can support growth and innovation at scale, the importance of resilience, and confidence in essential systems, and how leaders can modernise foundational infrastructure while protecting the stability, accessibility, and trust on which markets and communities depend.
11:45 AEDT
Redefining collaboration: from co-workers to co-intelligence
As AI agents move from experimentation into core operations, organisations must look beyond individual productivity gains and reconsider how work itself is designed. Sustainable value from blended human-AI teams will depend on clear decision rights, accountability, operating models, and risk controls. This panel will explore how enterprises can structure collaboration between people and intelligent agents across end-to-end value chains. How should performance be measured when work is shared? Which decisions can be delegated, and which require human ownership? And how can leaders build trust while ensuring that human expertise, creativity, and judgement continue to shape outcomes?
12:05 AEDT
Scaling leadership for the long run
Endurance performance and enterprise leadership share a fundamental truth: success is rarely built in a single moment. It comes from preparation, resilience, adaptability, and the ability to make sound decisions under pressure. Olympian Eloise Wellings, performance psychology coach Rory Darkin, MCC, and Lords Cricket CIO Jeff Wollens and former international cricketer Ross Taylor will explore what leaders can learn from elite sport about sustaining performance through uncertainty and change. The conversation will consider how leaders maintain perspective, recover from setbacks, build cohesive teams and remain focused on long-term purpose while the conditions around them continue to shift.
12:40 AEDT
Wrap up & thanks
Vikram Singh, VP, Head of Sales APAC and Country Head ANZ, will bring the Summit to a close by reflecting on the ideas and leadership choices explored across the programme. The session will also highlight TCS Tech4HOPE and the role technology expertise can play in helping supporting not-for-profit organisations strengthen their operations, services and community impact. The closing will return to the Summit’s central question: as intelligence becomes embedded everywhere, what is the role of human leadership, and what responsibility will each leader take forward?
13:00 AEDT
Closing lunch
Agenda subject to change.