ADEL AI Leadership Series #1
How global companies can build AI engineering capability in India
A moderated roundtable bringing together five panellists to discuss GCC operating models, engineering capability, talent and product ownership in the AI era.
Request an invitationOne conversation. Three time zones.
Times shown are for 1 December 2026. Central European time covers Amsterdam, Paris and Berlin.
Joining the panel
Leaders who build and run global engineering organisations.
Moderated by ADEL. Three more panellists to be announced.
Senior Director Engineering and Site Head
Amadeus Pune
Arun heads Amadeus’s Pune Development Centre, leading more than 600 technologists building hospitality technology products, including business intelligence and guest management solutions. He helped build the centre from the ground up and has held engineering leadership roles at Walmart and Tesco.
ExperienceEngineering hub strategy, global teams and cloud technology
COO and Country Head
Inatech & Aspire GDC
Valsoft Corporation companies
Angshuman brings over 27 years of experience building, transforming and scaling global technology and product engineering organisations. He leads GCC operations, with expertise spanning global delivery, SaaS product engineering, M&A and AI-led enterprise transformation.
Proposed discussion themesGCC product ownership and measurable AI value beyond pilots
The panel is taking shape. Three additional panellists will be announced soon.
Request an invitationThe series programme
What does it actually take to move AI from pilot to production? Each conversation examines a different part of the answer.
Our programme runs from December 2026 to May 2027. Each session’s date is listed below. Unconfirmed times, speakers and venue details remain marked as to be announced.
Session 01
4:00 PM to 4:45 PM Asia/Kolkata
Online GCC Leadership Roundtable · 45 minutes
A moderated roundtable bringing together five panellists to discuss GCC operating models, engineering capability, talent and product ownership in the AI era.
Arun Narayanaswamy — Senior Director Engineering and Site Head, Amadeus Pune Angshuman Paul — COO and Country Head, Inatech & Aspire GDC (Valsoft Corporation companies) Five panellists in total. Three additional panellists will be announced soon. Moderated by ADEL.
Request an invitation: Building the AI-Native GCC — GCC Leadership RoundtableSession 02
In-person roundtable · Bangalore
What should your GCC own in the AI era? A focused Bangalore discussion for global technology and India GCC leaders on AI mandates, engineering capability and production ownership. Planned format: 15–20 leaders, one table, no presentations.
Time, venue and participants to be announced
Register interest: AI GCC Leadership RoundtableSession 03
Online Executive Roundtable
Explore how customer context, product judgement and engineering come together. Discuss the responsibilities of FDEs, AI and data engineers, and product teams from discovery to production ownership.
Time and speakers to be announced
Register interest: The New AI Engineering Team: FDEs, AI Engineers & ProductSession 04
Online Executive Roundtable
Look beyond the demo at evaluation gaps, unreliable tools, changing data, security boundaries and operating costs. Consider how teams detect failures, recover safely and improve systems in use.
Time and speakers to be announced
Register interest: Why Enterprise AI Agents Fail in ProductionSession 05
Online Executive Roundtable
Discuss what changes when AI becomes part of how an organisation works. Explore leadership, operating models, workforce capability and how to measure value beyond individual deployments.
Time and speakers to be announced
Register interest: Building the AI-Native EnterpriseSession 01 · The discussion
Moving from an AI experiment to a dependable production system takes more than access to models. For GCC leaders, the challenge is building the engineering capability, product ownership and operating discipline to deliver business outcomes.
Move beyond offshore engineering capacity to ownership of AI products and outcomes. Explore which responsibilities should sit in India and how they connect to the global business.
Bring together AI engineers, Forward Deployed Engineers, data engineers, platform engineers, AI product leaders and governance. Discuss how these capabilities work as a team.
Decide what to develop internally, where to recruit and when specialist partners can help. Consider how to build expertise the GCC can retain and grow.
Examine the work between a convincing pilot and a secure, integrated system: data, evaluation, governance, workflow adoption and measurable business value.
Connect global product ownership, India-based AI capability, business teams and FDEs. Clarify who makes decisions, delivers the system and owns its performance in production.
The conversation
A candid discussion about the decisions, capabilities and operating models behind an AI-native GCC. We’ll connect the experience of building engineering hubs with product ownership and measurable business outcomes.
Who it is for
Designed for leaders across India and Europe. Bring a question from your own production journey without sharing confidential customer or company information.
The 45-minute format
Explore the decisions facing GCC leaders as AI moves from pilot to production.
Hear how leaders build engineering hubs, move towards product ownership and measure AI value beyond pilots.
Put your questions to the speakers and explore decisions relevant to your team.
Close with the ideas and questions worth taking back to your organisation.
Thursday, 4 February 2027
In-person roundtable · Bangalore
To be announced · Time, venue and participants to be announced
What should your GCC own in the AI era? A focused Bangalore discussion for global technology and India GCC leaders on AI mandates, engineering capability and production ownership. Planned format: 15–20 leaders, one table, no presentations.
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Director
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