Speaker
Vasant Rao
CIO Contributing Editor FoundryVasant is a content strategist and a business leader in the enterprise technology world for over two decades. He is a Partner in Navigature Consulting, a Strategy & AI Consulting firm. In earlier role, he was the Managing Director, India & South Asia for International Data Corporation (IDC) between 2020 to 2025, prior to which he worked in multiple global leadership roles in Cognizant for a decade. Earlier, he built and sold his financial services software startup in Singapore to an Indian GSI and since then has been actively involved in investing and managing startups.
Upcoming and recent events
CIO 100 Awards & Conference India
The AI Data Governance gap that keeps getting worse
Thursday, September 17, 2026
17.30 PM - 18.30 PM
As Indian enterprises aggressively transition from tentative GenAI pilots to scaling production-grade Agentic AI architectures, they are colliding with a stark operational reality: AI capabilities are evolving exponentially faster than the governance frameworks built to police them. The governance gap isn’t just widening it’s fracturing. Traditional data governance was built…
The Keynote: Strategies to avoid AI bill shocks
Saturday, September 19, 2026
10.00 AM - 10.20 AM
The next FinOps challenge isn’t just tracking AI spend, but understanding which workflows create it, how agents amplify it, and whether the business value justifies the cost. As AI shifts from copilots to embedded workflows and autonomous agents, one user request can trigger multiple model calls, retrieval steps, retries, orchestration…