
AI is creating more opportunities for business innovation than ever before. Turning those opportunities into measurable outcomes inside complex enterprises is the real challenge.
Calibo at ET GCC Summit 2026
10 September 2026 | The Westin Hyderabad Mindspace
As a Presenting Partner of the ET GCC Summit 2026, Calibo is bringing one central question to the conversation:
Throughout the Summit, Calibo leaders will explore this question through executive thought leadership, closed-door industry discussions, and real-world enterprise use cases.

3:05 - 3:20 pm
KEYNOTE
How can enterprises turn the opportunities created by AI into measurable business outcomes?
Speaker
Mr. Raj Vattikuti
4:30 - 5:30 pm
ROUNDTABLE
Where is AI already creating value in healthcare and what does it take to deploy it responsibly in a highly regulated environment?
Moderator
Mr. Raj Ramaswamy
6:00 - 7:00 pm
ROUNDTABLE
Why haven't major data-platform investments accelerated AI adoption — and what does it really take to make enterprise data trusted and AI-ready?
Moderator
Mr. Badri Ramakrishnan
KEYNOTE
Business Innovation in the Age of AI: Turning Opportunity into Outcomes
AI is creating more opportunities for business innovation than ever before. Yet for many enterprises, turning those opportunities into measurable outcomes remains difficult.
In his keynote, Raj Vattikuti explores why the next phase of AI will be defined not simply by access to technology, but by an organization's ability to turn business priorities into outcomes at scale.
He will share a practical perspective on how trusted, AI-ready data, the right innovation model, and business-embedded AI capabilities can help enterprises move beyond experimentation. Together, these elements create a repeatable path from idea to production and turn AI opportunities into real business outcomes.
Speaker
Mr. Raj Vattikuti
3:05 - 3:20 pm
KEYNOTE
ROUNDTABLE
AI in Healthcare: Early Success in a Regulated Environment
Healthcare AI presents significant opportunities across the value chain. But meaningful deployment must navigate fragmented data, regulation, accuracy, and governance.
The discussion will explore where AI is already beginning to demonstrate tangible value across:
Clinical documentation · Claims adjudication · Pharmacovigilance · Clinical trials management
The discussion will particularly focus on validation, audit trails, responsible AI, regulatory compliance, and human-in-the-loop requirements.
Moderator
Mr. Raj Ramaswamy
4:30 - 5:30 pm
ROUNDTABLE
ROUNDTABLE
Is Your Data Actually AI-Ready?
Financial institutions have invested heavily in modern data platforms and infrastructure. Yet meaningful AI deployment continues to be slowed by a harder problem than infrastructure alone: fragmented ownership, uneven trust in data and the gap between storing data and making it genuinely AI-ready.
The discussion will explore what trusted data really means across business, risk and compliance — and the governance, ownership and foundations required to move AI reliably from experimentation into production.
Moderator
Mr. Badri Ramakrishnan
6:00 - 7:00 pm
ROUNDTABLE
"Business Innovation in the Age of AI: Turning Opportunity into Outcomes"
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Making innovation work in the real world
Turning AI opportunity into business outcomes takes more than technology.
Calibo brings together three elements that enterprises need to innovate inside real-world constraints.
A structured, outcome-led approach that breaks complex challenges into focused business use cases and creates a repeatable path from idea to value.
A governed environment where business and technology teams can build, test and validate solutions within real-world enterprise constraints without disrupting production.
AI practitioners, domain expertise, and AI-ready talent help enterprises identify, shape and deliver business innovation while building the capability to sustain it.
Raj Vattikuti
Founder & Executive Chairman, Calibo
Financial Services
Accelerate customer onboarding and enhanced due diligence while maintaining human oversight, explainability and a complete audit trail.
Healthcare
Connect clinical documentation with coding, prior authorization and claim preparation, using AI to reduce administrative effort and identify denial risk before submission.
Retail & Manufacturing
Use live sales and inventory data to improve product-store forecasting, reduce stockouts and overstocks, and help planners focus on decisions requiring human judgment.
Enterprise Technology
Turn complex application dependencies, APIs and data flows into a governed knowledge graph that gives technology leaders a trusted foundation for modernization.
Enterprise Knowledge
Give employees grounded, traceable answers across fragmented enterprise knowledge and systems through a shared semantic layer and knowledge graph.
Commercial
Bring data-driven next-best actions directly into account managers' workflows to uncover commercial opportunities and reduce manual effort.
Operations
Automate routine order validation across customer, contract, pricing, inventory and compliance data while routing genuine exceptions to human decision-makers.
"Our strategic alliance with Calibo allows us to streamline loan processes, making credit more accessible to small businesses and supporting economic growth. We chose Calibo because of their proven track record in digital innovation and their commitment to speed, efficiency, and trust."
Robert Farr
President & CEO, First State Bank and Bank313
"With Calibo, we were able to create business impacting applications which would have taken us more than 9 months to develop in just 4-5 months, resulting in faster time-to-value."
Alberto Langle Bornacelli
Global Head of IT Business Relationships, NatureSweet
"Calibo was game-changing for our entire development process. We got there in half the time, spent 40% less money overall, and our team is significantly less stressed and more efficient. I would recommend Calibo for any high-performing Dev Ops team wanting to achieve more in less time."
Enterprise IT Company
CIO
"Instead of building our own digital ecosystem, which would have taken 12-18 months, before we could solve business problems, we could start within 8 weeks thanks to Calibo’s platform."
Noé Angel
Global CIO, NatureSweet
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What is the Calibo Business Innovation Methodology?
The Calibo Business Innovation Methodology is Calibo’s proprietary framework for identifying opportunities, solving business challenges, and delivering measurable business value using AI. Students learn the same structured approach used by Calibo’s enterprise clients to develop practical, real-world AI solutions.
What is the Business Innovation Sandbox?
An enterprise-grade, governed environment where you build real AI use cases — the same environment Calibo’s enterprise clients use.
What makes Calibo’s Innovation Model different?
Calibo’s Innovation Model brings together three integrated pillars: Business Innovation Methodology, Business Innovation Sandbox, and AI Expertise and Enablement.
It starts with the business problem, not the technology. Complex initiatives are broken into bite-sized, high-value use cases that can be validated in the Business Innovation Sandbox using trusted, AI-ready business data and AI assets. Engineering discipline and governance are applied from the start, helping organizations move business innovation into production with consistency, speed, and scale.
Each successful deployment can become a reusable business data, AI, or ML Intelligence Asset that accelerates future innovation.
Which roles or teams benefit most from the Innovation Sandbox?
Innovation and incubation teams in IT and Business who need to quickly and independently determine which use cases provide most business value.
How does Calibo support innovation teams?
Architects can define sandbox environments and enforce governance using configurable policy templates and resource settings. Development teams can then onboard quickly and provision the necessary resources through self-service workflows. With integrated CI/CD pipelines, outputs can be seamlessly deployed across environments. Using Calibo’s Data Fabric Studio (DFS), teams can rapidly build, test, and deploy data products and solutions with speed and consistency.
Who is the Calibo Innovation Model designed for?
The Calibo Innovation Model is designed for enterprises that need to move business innovation and enterprise AI from experimentation into production with greater trust, ownership, and control.
It supports the stakeholders who must work together to make innovation successful, including:
The Innovation Model aligns these groups around high-value business problems, trusted Business Data, governance, engineering discipline, and measurable business outcomes.
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