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Yogesh Gupta
Editorial Director, India & META, Events
Foundry
Yogesh is the editorial director for events – India and META (Middle East, Turkey & Africa) for Foundry (an IDG, Inc. Company). In an earlier role spanning over seven years, he was the executive editor for Foundry, the world’s largest technology media, research and data services conglomerate. Today, he leads the content curation and moderates the events (in-person and virtual) for Foundry brands – CIO and CSO – in India. He is also involved with editorial content, video interviews for CIO.COM in India and Middle East.
Yogesh has been with Foundry (earlier IDG Communications) for over seventeen years. He hosts the annual awards and symposium programs in India including CIO100 Awards, CSO100 Awards and Premier100 (Channel) Awards, since over a decade. From 2024 onwards, he will be responsible to launch Foundry’s awards program – CIO100, CSO30, CIO50 – in META region.
A keynote speaker, social media influencer and knowledge enthusiast, Yogesh impacts the technologists’ community (CIOs, CSOs, CDOs, ITDMs, Channels) across the enterprise technology ecosystem in India and globally. In 2019, Yogesh was recognized as ‘Star Editor’ or ‘B2B Influential Editor’ from an elite list of 26 tech editors across IDG globally.
With over two decades of experience in the media industry including seventeen years at Foundry, he kick-started his journalism career with The Times of India (Bennet Coleman & Co.) in 2003. He later joined IDG as senior correspondent for weekly publication ChannelWorld in 2007. Yogesh holds a Computer Engineering degree from Mumbai University.
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Upcoming and recent events
CIO 100 Leadership Live
Get Ready for AI with a Strong Digital Foundation
Wednesday, February 4, 2026
16:00 PM - 17:00 PM
CIOs continue their business leader trajectory as they play a multi-faceted role in AI transformation — one that requires strategic vision, a collaborative mindset, and change agent skills.The CIO roundtable will share practical insights, use cases, expert viewpoints on how AI is transforming the digital infrastrcuture of an organisation ?
The Captains' Table - CIO Panel Discussion: Architecting your stack for the agentic AI era
Thursday, February 5, 2026
10:10 AM - 10:25 AM
Forget tweaking your tech stack — if you’re not rebuilding for agentic AI, you’re already falling behind the next wave of enterprise disruption.our role as CIO is to engineer the foundation — a resilient, adaptive and scalable stack — that turns this generational tech into a competitive advantage.What are the…
The Captains' Table - CIO Panel Discussion: CIOs at the Crossroads: Cloud Modernization meets Gen AI
Thursday, February 5, 2026
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM
As organizations discover new opportunities created by AI, many are investing significantly in GenAI, as part of their cloud modernization plans.They are using the considerable power of this fast-evolving technology to tackle the common challenges of cloud modernization, particularly in projects that involve the migration and modernization of legacy applications…
The Captains' Table - CIO Panel Discussion: AI for data and data for AI: Building modern architecture
Thursday, February 5, 2026
15:50 PM - 16:05 PM
AI and data are feeding each other — build the right strategy and you’ll unlock smarter decisions, better agility and a real edge.Developing a new age architecture that harnesses this relationship is critical for organizations striving to achieve agility, accuracy and competitive advantage in the era of intelligent automation.
Strategy beyond AI: Five imperatives for 2026
Thursday, February 5, 2026
18:00 PM - 19:00 PM
As VPNs become low-hanging fruit for AI-fueled cyber attacks, CISOs and CIOs are showing signals a dramatic enterprise shift toward zero trust frameworks. The Captains’ Table will analyse new risks in the context of enterprise concerns, plans, and their adoption of zero trust strategies to secure the hybrid workforce and…