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Where is AI showing up in your P&L?

An invite-only dinner for CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, GCC Heads & Enterprise Technology Leaders
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Karan Nagru

Founder and CEO, StatusNeo

Nikolozi Metreveli

StatusNeo

WHEN

Friday 30 October 2026

6:00 PM onwards (IST)

Where

Hilton, Gurgaon

Sector 63, Golf Course Extension Road, Gurugram, Haryana

Who

CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, GCC Heads, MDs, EVPs, SVPs and senior technology, data and AI leaders.

  • Request an invitation

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Share a few details and the team will come back to you by email. A request is not a confirmed seat until we confirm it.

  • Friday 9 October 2026, 6:00 PM onwards (IST)
  • Trident, Gurgaon, Gurugram
  • Invitation only

    Seats are deliberately curated to maintain the quality of the conversation. You will receive an attendance confirmation by email.

    • The provocation

    AI has moved from experimentation to boardroom accountability.

    The question is no longer “What are you doing with AI?” It is: “Where is AI actually showing up in revenue, cost, productivity, customer experience and operating margin?”

    This closed-door dinner brings together leaders from GCCs, banking and financial services, telecom, aviation, public-sector enterprises and large Indian corporations to compare what is genuinely working, what isn’t, and where measurable AI economics are beginning to emerge.

    A candid peer conversation about where AI actually works, where it doesn’t, what has escaped the PoC, and what senior leaders are learning as enterprises move towards Agentic AI.

    No generic AI presentations

    No expo

    No sales pitches

    • The provocation

    The conversation
    about AI has changed.

    Across 2024 and 2025, most enterprise boardrooms funded experiments, copilots and AI pilots. Many created excitement. Far fewer reached trusted enterprise scale, and fewer still moved revenue, margin, customer growth or operating performance in a way anyone could measure.

    The question is no longer whether to invest in AI. The harder questions are these.
    1. Where is AI genuinely growing the top line?
    2. Where is it strengthening the bottom line?
    3. Which initiatives are becoming dependable enterprise capabilities, and which remain expensive demonstrations?
    This dinner brings a small group of senior business and technology leaders together to compare notes candidly: what is working, what is stalling, and what separates AI theatre from measurable enterprise value.
    • The StatusNeo point of view

    AuthenticAI™

    AuthenticAI™ is AI tied directly to a real business outcome. It starts with a revenue, customer, productivity, risk or operational problem, not with a model looking for a use case.

    01

    For the CEO and business leader
    It has to create new revenue, lift conversion, strengthen customer relationships, speed up time to market or structurally improve the cost base.

    02

    For the CIO, CTO and CDO
    It has to work reliably inside the enterprise, with trusted data, scalable platforms, security, governance, observability, human accountability and measurable adoption.

    03

    For the enterprise
    AI is not enterprise-ready without the guardrails, governance and security needed to trust it at scale.
    • Past Gatherings

    CONVERSATIONS THAT SHAPE THE FUTURE.

    Silicon Valley, USA
    AI & Product Leadership Circle

    Exploring enterprise AI, product innovation and engineering at scale.

    New York, USA
    Enterprise AI Executive Dinner
    Off-the-record conversations on AI investment and measurable business outcomes.
    Dallas, USA
    Technology Leadership Roundtable
    Connecting enterprise leaders around AI adoption and digital transformation.
    London, UK
    APAC Hackathon
    Bringing CXOs together to discuss moving AI from pilots to business impact.
    Europe
    Technology Leadership Forum

    Peer conversations on enterprise reinvention, AI governance and transformation.

    Gurugram, India
    CXO Leadership Dinner

    Exploring where AI and GenAI are showing up in the P&L.

    Bengaluru, India
    GCC Leadership Forum

    Connecting GCC leaders around AI, talent and engineering excellence.

    Dubai, UAE
    AI & Digital Leadership Forum
    Exploring how AI is reshaping enterprise operations and customer experiences.
    Singapore
    Product & Engineering Leaders Forum

    Discussing AI, platform engineering and the future of enterprise products.

    Sydney, Australia
    Building AI-Native Enterprises
    Executive conversations on scaling AI across the enterprise.
    Tbilisi, Georgia
    BFSI Technology & Architecture Forum
    Re-architecting financial services for the AI era.
    Johannesburg, South Africa
    DevEx Forward Johannesburg
    Exploring Backstage, AI-native developer platforms and better developer experiences.
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    Next
    Explore Previous Gatherings
    • Topics for discussion

    Seven questions for one table

    The moderator steers; the room decides where to go deepest.
    Where is AI genuinely moving the P&L?

    Which investments are already lifting revenue, conversion, customer lifetime value or operating margin, and where is the ROI story still more promise than proof? How should boards tell interesting experimentation from a capability that creates recurring economic value?

    Why do so many AI initiatives stall between pilot and production?

    Is the constraint the technology, or the fragmented data, unclear ownership, weak business case, operating model and governance around it? What separates AI that reaches adoption from AI trapped in experimentation?

    The CTO agenda: AI-native engineering

    What does an AI-native software lifecycle look like, from product discovery and architecture to testing, DevSecOps, platform engineering and production operations? Where are copilots and agents improving productivity and quality, and where are they creating technical debt, security exposure and ungoverned code?

    From generic AI to industry intelligence
    The greatest value will come from combining AI with proprietary data, domain knowledge, business workflows and industry-specific decisions: across retail and consumer, travel and aviation, banking and financial services, telecom and media, energy and utilities, and life sciences and healthcare.
    From AI use cases to AI-led business models

    The next phase will not be defined by isolated copilots, but by how enterprises redesign products, customer journeys, decisions and operating models around intelligence, opening new propositions, channels and revenue pools.

    Can an enterprise scale AI without trust?
    As AI moves into customer decisions, operations and regulated processes, who is accountable when it gets something wrong? How do you embed privacy, explainability, model governance, cybersecurity and human oversight without slowing innovation to a standstill?
    The CIO and CDO agenda: the enterprise foundation for AI
    Can an enterprise become AI-first while its data is fragmented, its platforms are hard to consume and its most critical knowledge is locked across systems and teams? What operating model brings technology, data, AI, security and business ownership together?
    • Topics for discussion

    The Questions Around The Table

    01
    Where is AI creating measurable P&L impact today?
    Revenue, cost, engineering productivity, customer experience and operating margin.
    02
    Has GenAI actually escaped the PoC?

    What has genuinely reached production and scaled?

    03
    What changes with Agentic AI?
    Moving from copilots towards autonomous engineering and business workflows.
    04
    How do regulated and large enterprises industrialize AI safely?
    Governance, security, sovereignty, explainability and human accountability.
    05
    What does an AI-native enterprise look like by 2028?

    Talent, GCC operating models, platforms, engineering and the changing economics of technology.

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    • Leading the conversation

    Conversation Leaders

    Karan Nangru
    Founder and CEO, StatusNeo

    Works with CXOs at leading banks, airlines, travel companies, retailers and healthcare organisations on where technology, data and AI are taking their industries. Began his career as a programmer; McKinsey & Company alumnus.

    Nikolozi Metreveli
    Decision Fabric | AI-Native Transformation

    Works at the intersection of enterprise decision-making, AI and transformation, helping organisations move from fragmented AI experimentation towards AI-native decision and operating models.

    Karthik Bhanot
    Chief AI Officer & Agentic Factory Leader, StatusNeo
    Focused on industrialising enterprise AI: moving GenAI and Agentic AI from experimentation into repeatable production use cases, enterprise agents and AI-native engineering workflows.
    Gvantsa Kvitsiani
    Decision Fabric | Banking & Aviation Domain Transformation
    Works on domain-led transformation across banking and aviation, connecting domain expertise, AI and operating processes to measurable business outcomes.
    • Leading the conversation

    Conversation Leaders

    Karan Nangru
    Founder and CEO, StatusNeo

    Karan Nangru is the Founder and CEO of StatusNeo. He spends his time between the US, UK and StatusNeo’s global markets, working closely with CXOs across the world’s leading banks, airlines, travel companies, retailers and healthcare organisations.

     

    He is a strategic advisor to senior and managing partners at leading global consulting firms, and to the leadership teams of the businesses he works with – focused on where technology, data and AI are taking an industry next, and on the upstream business value that downstream engineering execution must deliver.

    Nikolozi Metreveli
    Decision Fabric | AI-Native Transformation

    Works at the intersection of enterprise decision-making, AI and transformation, helping organisations move from fragmented AI experimentation towards AI-native decision and operating models.

    Karthik Bhanot
    Chief AI Officer & Agentic Factory Leader, StatusNeo
    Focused on industrialising enterprise AI: moving GenAI and Agentic AI from experimentation into repeatable production use cases, enterprise agents and AI-native engineering workflows.
    Gvantsa Kvitsiani
    Decision Fabric | Banking & Aviation Domain Transformation
    Works on domain-led transformation across banking and aviation, connecting domain expertise, AI and operating processes to measurable business outcomes.
    • About the host

    StatusNeo is one of the fastest-growing business technology consulting, product engineering and platform engineering firms, working with multiple Fortune 500 and leading global enterprises across aviation, travel, mobility, banking, financial services, retail, consumer products, telecom, healthcare and other technology-intensive industries.

    The firm operates at the intersection of business consulting and hardcore engineering. Where traditional consulting often defines the strategy, and conventional engineering firms execute a predefined technology brief, StatusNeo connects the two – translating top-line growth, bottom-line optimisation and enterprise-transformation priorities into digital products, data platforms, AI solutions and production-grade engineering.
    StatusNeo’s genesis lies in open-source engineering and contributions to some of the world’s most widely adopted technology frameworks — including as a significant contributor to and packager of Backstage.io, the open-source developer-platform framework originally created by Spotify and now used by major enterprises globally. From that foundation, the firm expanded into enterprise platforms, data and AI, and end-to-end business technology consulting – working alongside leading strategy and management-consulting firms to turn upstream business agendas into downstream, measurable outcomes.

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    • Your hosts

    Hosted by StatusNeo Leadership

    Gaurav Sareen

    StatusNeo

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    Arpit Gupta

    StatusNeo

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    Ketovan

    StatusNeo

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    Georgy

    StatusNeo

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    • A private CXO conversation

    What is said
    stays in the room.

    This is not a technology presentation, a panel of rehearsed answers or a product demonstration. It is a private, off-the-record discussion among leaders making consequential decisions about AI investment, enterprise technology, customer transformation and operating models.

    You leave with a clearer view of where AI is already creating measurable value, what is preventing enterprise-wide scale, which foundations and guardrails are non-negotiable, and What distinguishes measurable AI outcomes from promising experimentation.

    • The room

    Who will be
    around the table?

    Senior leaders across GCCs, banking, telecom, aviation, automotive, healthcare, consumer, manufacturing, energy and public-sector enterprises.

    CIOs, CTOs and CDOs

    Welcome and context from Leadership Retros

    Heads and MDs of GCCs

    Chief AI, Data and Digital Officers

    SVPs and EVPs of Technology and Engineering

    Senior Platform, Cloud, Engineering, Data and AI leaders

    Indian enterprise and PSU technology leaders

    GCCs

    Banking & Financial Services

    Telecom

    Aviation

    Automotive

    Healthcare

    Consumer

    Manufacturing

    Energy

    Public Sector & PSUs

    Large Indian Enterprises

    • Agenda

    Friday 30 October 2026

    Times in IST. A private, off-the-record peer conversation.

    6:00–6:50 PM

    Guest introductions, drinks, canapés and CXO networking

    6:50–7:00 PM

    Welcome and context from Leadership Retros

    7:00–7:15 PM

    Provocation: Authentic AI: Where is AI actually showing up in the P&L?

    Karan Nangru, Founder and CEO, StatusNeo

    7:15–7:25 PM

    The product and customer lens: from AI capability to enterprise adoption

    StatusNeo co-host to be announced

    7:25–9:00 PM

    Moderated, off-the-record discussion over dinner

    9:00 PM onwards

    Closing perspectives and further networking

    • The venue

    Hilton, Gurgaon

    Sector 63, Golf Course Extension Road, Gurugram, Haryana

    Set in landscaped gardens in Sector 63, Golf Course Extension Road. Valet parking is available at the hotel.

    • Request an invitation

    An invitation-only gathering for senior leaders to exchange perspectives over dinner.

    Please share your details to confirm your attendance. Event details will follow by email.

    • Friday 30 October 2026, 6:00 PM onwards (IST)
    • Sector 63, Golf Course Extension Road, Gurugram, Haryana
    • Invitation only

      Seats are deliberately curated to maintain the quality of the conversation. You will receive an attendance confirmation by email.

      • About the host

      StatusNeo is one of the fastest-growing business technology consulting, product engineering and platform engineering firms, working with multiple Fortune 500 and leading global enterprises across aviation, travel, mobility, banking, financial services, retail, consumer products, telecom, healthcare and other technology-intensive industries.

      The firm operates at the intersection of business consulting and hardcore engineering. Where traditional consulting often defines the strategy, and conventional engineering firms execute a predefined technology brief, StatusNeo connects the two – translating top-line growth, bottom-line optimisation and enterprise-transformation priorities into digital products, data platforms, AI solutions and production-grade engineering.
      StatusNeo’s genesis lies in open-source engineering and contributions to some of the world’s most widely adopted technology frameworks — including as a significant contributor to and packager of Backstage.io, the open-source developer-platform framework originally created by Spotify and now used by major enterprises globally. From that foundation, the firm expanded into enterprise platforms, data and AI, and end-to-end business technology consulting – working alongside leading strategy and management-consulting firms to turn upstream business agendas into downstream, measurable outcomes.

      Visit statusneo.com

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