Agenda

PITCH CMO SUMMIT - DELHI 2026

Future-Ready Brands: Navigating the Multi-Path Consumer Journey

Friday, June 5, 2026

8:00 AM onwards

REGISTRATION & NETWORKING BREAKFAST

Welcome To Summit

Session 1

DR ANNURAG BATRA

Chairman & Editor-in-Chief
BW Businessworld & exchange4media Group

WELCOME ADDRESS

Session 2
KEYNOTE ADDRESS

NS SATISH

Chief Executive Officer
Haier Appliances India

The New Growth Engine: Consumer-First Thinking in a Multi-Touchpoint World

Session 3
SPOTLIGHT SESSION

Ankit Goyle

Head of India Marketing
Snap Inc

Beyond the Feed: Storytelling for Gen Z

Session 4
Spotlight Session

Shahad Anand

Business Head
Skylight Mediakart

The New Age of Contextual Creativity

Session 5
PANEL DISCUSSION

ARCHI GOGOI

Head of Brand, Marketing & Growth Ai+ Smartphone

ARNAB GHATAK CHOUDHURY

Senior General Manager - Marketing
DS Foods

Diksha Bajaj

Category Head – Energy Portfolio
PepsiCo India

GAURAV NIJHAWAN

Head of Marketing
MMTC-PAMP

HIMANSHU MODY

Partner & Head, India
DEPT

HIREN SHAH

Founder & Managing Director
Vertoz

SAHIL RAWAL

Corporate Vice President & Head – Brand and Media
Axis Max Life Insurance

Session Chair: Riddhi Pimputkar

Director, Enterprise Solutions-India
Teads

Navigating the Omnichannel Maze: Strategies for multi-platform consumer engagement

Session 6
SPOTLIGHT SESSION

Nikhil Bansal

Industry Head - Tech B2B & Consumer Electronics
Google India

Marketing in the AI Era: Powering Consumers and Brands Connections

Lunch Break

Session 7
SPOTLIGHT SESSION

GUNJAN KHETAN

Director – Marketing
Perfetti Van Melle India

Conversations, Code, and Culture: Why FMCG Brands Must Rethink Everything for Bharat's Next Billion that is AI-Native and Gen Z-Led

Session 8
SPOTLIGHT SESSION

KARTIK MEHTA

Chief Business Officer & Head of Asia
Channel Factory

The Unsloppable Brand : More AI. More content. Less Signal.

Session 9
PANEL DISCUSSION

DEEPTI SAMPAT

Vice President Marketing and Digital
IndiGo

PRATIK GOUR

Co Founder
Footprynt

Ritesh Sud

Chief Marketing Officer - India & Far East
LT Foods Ltd

SAMIR SETHI

Head of Brand Marketing
Policybazaar.com

PAWAN JAGNIK

Head of Marketing
Pladis India

Ipshita Chowdhury

Marketing Head, India
Motorola

Session Chair : Seema Walia

National Sales Head – Agency and Govt
Sharechat | Moj

Brand Strategies: Turning audience complexity into loyalty and impact

Session 10
SPOTLIGHT SESSION

Dhruv Dhawan

Vice President - Revenue
The TradeDesk

Growth In A Fragmented World

Session 11
PANEL DISCUSSION

CHIRAG JAGWANI

Chief Marketing Officer
Fixderma

HUZEFA CHHITALWALA

Marketing Communication Manager
IKEA India

RAJKUMAR REMALLI

Founder & Director
BidVid

RITIJ KHURANA

Associate Director – Marketing
Xiaomi

RUPA RAVINDRA MURUDKAR

Vice President – Marketing
Cholayil

SHEKHAR SAURABH

Head of Marketing
TATA AIG General Insurance Company

SAURABH SHARMA

Head of Marketing
Ather Energy

Session Chair: RISHABH SHEKHAR

Cofounder and COO
Pepper

Future Focus: The Evolving Interplay of Marketing and Content

Session 12
SPOTLIGHT SESSION

SAAKSHI VERMA MENON

Chief Marketing Officer, India Foods
PepsiCo

Decoding India’s Snacking Culture: Hyperlocal Insights, National Impact

Session 13
FIRESIDE CHAT

MILIND SHAH

Head – India
MG SELECT JSW MG Motor

Varun Sethuraman

Head – Marketing Communications
Nestlé India

Session Chair: VIVEK MALHOTRA

Group CMO & COO Strategy
India Today Group

The New Rules of Customer Centricity: Trust, Convivence & Personalization at Scale

07:00 p.m. onwards

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