Welcome and Summit Overview
Presenter : Ramesh Narasimhan

Company Updates and Outlook
Presenter : Kinesh Doshi

Investor's Industry Outlook
Presenter : Sameer Kanwar

The World of Creativity - A Journey around the World to Learn about Human Creativity
Presenter : Fredrik Haren

Summit Agenda and Overview
Presenter : Ashutosh Bijoor

Code of Ethics for AI Development - Acceleration within Guardrails
Presenter : Jerome Jelocha

Strategies for Product Portfolio Rationalization
Presenter : Dwayne Melancon

Using Process Intelligence and AI to build Digital Twin Solutions
Presenter : Shoeb Javed

Data Management: The Cost of Doing Nothing
Presenter : Paul Haisman, Mary Basani

Panel Discussion
The Next Big Thing
Experts discuss Web 3.0, Quantum Computing, AR/VR, Biotech, Metaverse, Digital Twins, AIML/GenAI, Cybersecurity, Self-Healing, and more..
Presenter : Sameer Kanwar

A Framework for using Generative AI for Enterprise Transformation
Presenter : Jaywant Deshpande

Architecture and Demos of Gen AI Solutions
Presenter : Bharadwaj Satbhai, Shrijeet Polke

Panel Discussion 2
Innovation Accelerated
Innovating Faster and Better - Innovation lifecycle, Product-Market fit, Roadmapping, Emerging Technologies, GenAI
Presenter : Kinesh Doshi

A Strategic Framework for Data Driven Business Transformation
Presenter : Mandar Garge

Practical Techniques for Enhancing Data Quality through Synthetic Data
Presenter : Karteek Yadavilli

Machine Learning Applications for DevSecOps - Enhanced Security and Efficiency through AI
Presenter : Jon La Plante, Nilesh Kulkarni

Experience Center Visit

A New Enterprise Digital Stack - A Convergence of Platforms
Presenter : Nitin Agarwal

Digital Banking - A Multi-Platform Solution Blueprint
Presenter : Shikhar Singh

Multi-Cloud, Multi-Platform Orchestration - A Healthcare Case Story
Presenter : Mikunj Joshi

Multi-Cloud Data Management - A Need for Data Synchronization
Presenter : Tarun Agarwal

Improving Customer Experience using Intelligent Apps
Presenter : Padmavathi Vijay, Sanket Shah

Automating Enterprise Workflows across Multiple Enterprise Platforms
Presenter : Pranav Mehta, Sushrut Shivagunde

Panel Discussion 3
Moving to the Next Level of Digital Acceleration
Challenges and Opportunities for Addressing the Fast Paced "TikTok" Generation of Users
Presenter : Nitin Agarwal

From Technical Debt to Business Value - A Strategic Approach
Presenter : Nischal Vasantlal Doshi

Demystifying Engineering Metrics - A Two Tiered Management Approach
Presenter : Mahalakshmi S R

Panel Discussion 4
Transforming the Product Organization
SDLC, Organization Strategies, Tooling, Automation, GenAI"Transforming the Product Organization SDLC, Organization strategies, Tooling, Automation, GenAI"
Presenter : Ramesh Narasimhan

Architecting for Change - a Guide to Re-engineering and Modernization
Presenter : Saurabh Periwal

Bridging the Communication Gap in SDLC using Quantitative User Metrics
Presenter : Arathi Shamabhatta, Dhanapati Marepalli

Strategic Paths for Incremental Product Portfolio Rationalization
Presenter : Hemesh Thakkar, Vaibhav Satam

Arathi Kudinalli Shama Bhatta

Principal Architect - Design

Ashutosh Bijoor

Global Chief Technology Officer

Aswani Karteek Yadavilli

Vice President of Analytics

Dhanapathi Marepalli

Senior Technical Architect

Hemesh Thakkar

Senior Solutions Architect

Kinesh Doshi

Group CEO

Mikunj Joshi

SVP Healthcare Practice

Nischal Vasantlal Doshi

Director - Technology

Padmavathi Vijay

Senior Cloud Architect

Paul Haisman

Chief Information Officer

Mahalakshmi S R

Delivery Manager

Ramesh Narasimhan

Global - Chief Delivery Officer

Sameer Kanwar

CEO & Partner at Basil Technology Partners

Saurabh Periwal

Senior Technical Architect

Sanket Shah

Senior Cloud Architect

Shoeb Javed

Chief Product Officer

Tarun Agarwal

Azure Cloud Data Architect

Vaibhav Satam

Senior Technical Architect

Accion Labs Innovation Summit 2026

12^th Edition | February 26-28, 2026 | Grand Hyatt Goa, India

From AI Promise to Measurable Impact

Over 200 technical and business leaders gathered at this year’s Accion Labs Innovation Summit. Last year, we asked how AI would transform software engineering. This year, we went a step further, focusing on the results achieved over the past twelve months and what they reveal about the future of engineering.

The CEO of Accion Labs, Kinesh Doshi, opened Innovation Summit with his eclectic keynote wherein he set the context. This was followed by the keynote delivered by Ash Bijoor, CTO, Accion Labs, that wove together twenty two sessions into a single-story arc, followed by an individual summary of each session, as well as the panel discussions.

Key Themes of the Summit

Shifting Enterprise Architectures & Data Models in the AI Era: Most enterprises still treat data as raw material, leaving relationships, policies, constraints, and domain knowledge invisible to AI systems. Sessions examined the shift from data-centric to context-centric architecture: building the Enterprise Brain where AI systems can access business semantics, entity relationships, and institutional knowledge alongside raw data.
Enterprise Platforms: As process platforms like Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Dynamics, data platforms like Databricks and Snowflake, and cloud orchestration frameworks on Azure and AWS each develop their own AI capabilities, organizations face a coordination problem: how those capabilities fit into a coherent enterprise AI foundation. Sessions explored interoperability, platform selection, and what it takes to build a unified context layer across a heterogeneous platform landscape.
Durable Enterprise Intelligence: Intelligence debt accumulates when AI systems make decisions at scale but discard the reasoning chains behind them. Unlike technical debt, it is invisible in code. Sessions introduced the Reflective Memory Framework and decoupled architectures that allow reasoning capabilities to compound over time, enabling enterprise intelligence that grows more reliable with every decision.
From AI Promise to AI Impact in SDLC: Semantic Engineering shifts focus from writing code to engineering specifications and ontologies that give AI tools a rich model of the entire application, preserving 95% of semantic context across the full SDLC. Sessions covered applied semantic engineering in production, AI-native quality practices, integrated governance intelligence, and the real productivity impact of AI across the software development lifecycle.
Re-imagining Digital Products for the AI Age: Specification as a Product inverts the traditional software economics model: encode deep domain knowledge into machine-readable specifications so AI generates tailored, deployable software on demand. Sessions examined how product organizations are rethinking processes, tooling, and the scope of what software can serve.
Agents in Action: Sessions demonstrated what enterprise agentic architecture looks like in production: a five-layer framework moving from data liberation through knowledge, action, orchestration, and governance, with a live example of a $500K wire transfer approved across five systems in 18 seconds by four parallel agents, every decision governed by encoded policies.

Welcome and Summit Overview
Presenter : Ramesh Narasimhan

Company Updates and Outlook
Presenter : Kinesh Doshi

The World of Creativity - A Journey around the World to Learn about Human Creativity
Presenter : Fredrik Haren

Summit Themes and Agenda Overview 2025
Presenter : Ashutosh Bijoor

The Rise of Intelligent Agents: From Business Rules to Business Reasoning
Presenter : Jaywant Deshpande

The Enterprise Platform Agentic AI Revolution - Navigating the Opportunities and Risks
Presenter : Nitin Agarwal, Shikhar Singh

Defining Enterprise Transformation strategy through AI-First Data Transformation
Presenter : Mandar Garge

When Code Meets Cognition: Reinventing SDLC for the AI Age
Presenter : Nischal Doshi

Panel Discussion 1: Breaking the Silos: The Future of Integrated Development in an AI-First World
Moderator : Sameer Kanwar, Eric Peterson, Nischal Doshi, Ketan Lovlekar, Vaibhav Nadgauda, Anil Paranjape, Saru Bangalore, Srinivasan PN

Cognitive Therapeutics Innovation: Harnessing Sound, Light, Mobile, Cloud and AI to Transform Brain Health
Presenter : William Wade

Data ROI – Measuring & Maximizing ROI of Data Products using a Real-world Implementation
Presenter : Andrew Psaltis

Panel Discussion 2: Driving AI Led Business Transformation Strategies
Moderator : Mandar Garge

From Crash Tests to Smart Devices - Leveraging Human-Centric Safety Methodologies in AI and Robotics
Presenter : Pradeep Mohan

AI-Powered Financial Analytics Modernization: Beyond the LLM Hype
Presenter : Dwaipayan Chowdhury , Anupama Ananthanarayanan, Sandeep Narayanan Sekaran

Thinking Data Domains – Designing Data Mesh strategies
Presenter : Mukesh Gawhade

Experience Center Visit

The Impact of AI on SDLC productivity - Findings and analysis
Presenter : Mahalakshmi Raman

ADaC - Architecture and Design as Code - laying the foundations of AI driven automation in SDLC
Presenter : Anirudha Gohokar, Bikramjeet Nath

Enterprise Agentic AI: Platform Solutions vs. DIY Agents
Presenter : Tarun Agarwal

Reinventing Legacy Modernization with AI
Presenter : Shrijeet Polke, Aditya Kaole

Agentification of SaaS Products - a paradigm shift
Presenter : Bharadwaj Satbhai, Sujit Jagtap

Panel Discussion 3: Agentic AI: The Software Singularity
Moderator : Jaywant Deshpande

Blockchain in an AI-driven World: The Cardano Advantage
Presenter : Sandro Tarchini, Shahid Shaikh

Transforming Customer Service & Support with AI and Low-Code Platforms
Presenter : Jeff Piper, Jignesh Upadhyay

Panel Discussion 4: The Enterprise Platform Agentic AI Revolution - Navigating the Opportunities and Risks
Moderator : Rajeev Kumar

Quantum computing in practice impact on security and other areas
Presenter : Bhushan Bonde

Security in the AI Era: Enterprise Challenges & SDLC Adaptations
Presenter : Ashish Gupta, Mahesh Ghule

Experience Center Visit

Voice Controlled Robotics

An end-to-end pipeline from voice input through a locally hosted Whisper model for real-time speech-to-text transcription to robotic actuation, demonstrating natural human-machine interaction without complex manual controls.

3D Data Analytics

Three-dimensional spatial interfaces that render multiple analytical panels in a 3D workspace following a Spatial Relationship Grammar, where the placement of each panel reflects its analytical relationship with others. Built with React Three Fiber and WebXR.

AI Powered SDLC

Semantic Engineering principles applied to the full development lifecycle using Breeze.AI agents accessed through an MCP server, from requirements generation through code generation to testing and deployment.

Cloud Innovation Studio

AI-led business transformation showcased through a healthcare platform managing over 2 million profiles and 10,000 daily job requirements, where an AI matching engine reduced manual triaging by 50% and accelerated time-to-fill by 30%, built around Graduated Autonomy on Azure.

Intelligent Data Platforms

An Intelligent Data Platform built on Snowflake with three live stations: Cortex Analyst for plain English SQL queries, Cortex Agent for autonomous problem investigation, and Cortex Search and Document AI for unlocking the 80% of enterprise data trapped in unstructured formats, delivering 10x faster processing and 80–90% reduction in manual effort.

Acciom & DataInt

Acciom automatically generates thousands of realistic edge-case scenarios to test and optimize conversational AI before production. DataInt enables database quality testing through plain English, converting natural language rules into structured test scripts.

Salesforce Innovation Hub

AI-driven automation with Agentforce, a next-generation Managed Services model with conversational self-help and auto-resolution, and a Data Cloud implementation framework positioning Salesforce Data Cloud as the unified AI foundation across systems.

ServiceNow Innovation Hub

Three high-impact ITSM workflows: CMDB Governance reduced from 8–14 days to under 15 minutes using five dedicated AI agents; Asset Procurement for 1,000 laptops reduced from over a week to two days; Day 0 Asset Provisioning reduced from 30 minutes to under four minutes through a natural language interface.

GenAI XL

On-premises AI on Diamanti Ultima FusionX delivering 67% performance improvement, 62% faster time to first token, 50% lower P95 latency, and 66% lower infrastructure cost versus cloud alternatives, with a five-year TCO of $3.7M on-premises versus $20.3M in cloud.

Breeze.AI & CAST: Software Intelligence

Breeze.AI semantic analysis combined with CAST structural intelligence to detect architectural drift, design violations, and code quality issues across large codebases.

ASIMOV: Agentic Platform for Legacy Modernization

An agent-driven, expert-guided modernization framework that has already migrated 6 million lines of legacy code with 12 million more in progress, preserving business logic and architectural intent throughout.

Unified Cognitive Search and Memory Intelligence Layer

A multi-agent retrieval architecture that unifies fragmented enterprise information into a single intelligence layer, continuously improving through reflective memory and delivering context-aware results across documents, specifications, contracts, and technical assets.