Presenter
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 Awards & Conference India
CIO 100 Special Awards - Leaders in AI-Native Networking by HPE
Thursday, September 17, 2026
19.00 PM - 21.30 PM
The CIO 100 Special Awards will recognize select technology leaders who have successfully implemented AI-Native networking across high priority areas.
CIO 100 Special Awards - Zero Trust Mavens by ACPL Systems
Thursday, September 17, 2026
19.00 PM - 21.30 PM
The CIO 100 Special Awards will recognize select technology leaders who have successfully implemented Zero Trust technology across high priority areas.
CIO 100 Special Awards - Data Security Maestros by Varonis
Thursday, September 17, 2026
19.00 PM - 21.30 PM
The CIO 100 Special Awards will recognize select security leaders who have successfully implemented Data security across high priority areas.
CIO 100 Special Awards - Cloud Security Supremos by Netskope
Thursday, September 17, 2026
19.00 PM - 21.30 PM
The CIO 100 Special Awards will recognize select technology leaders who have successfully implemented Cloud Security across high priority areas.
CIO 100 Special Awards - Business Leaders in Cloud and Gen-AI
Thursday, September 17, 2026
The CIO 100 Special Awards will recognize select technology leaders who have successfully implemented Cloud & Gen- AI across high priority areas.
CIO 100 Awards – Game Changers
Thursday, September 17, 2026
The Game Changers Awards will recognize technology leaders who have used IT innovatively to bolster technology and drive business value at their organization.
CIO 100 Awards - Hall of Fame
Friday, September 18, 2026
19.00 PM - 21.00 PM
The Hall of Fame awards will recognize CIOs who have received the CIO 100 award for 3 or more consecutive years while serving at the same organisation.
CIO 100 Awards - The Fearless 100
Friday, September 18, 2026
19.00 PM - 21.00 PM
The Fearless 100 awards will recognize 100 CIOs for outstanding leadership & Innovation.
Partner Fecilitation
Saturday, September 19, 2026
13.00 PM - 13.10 PM