Ecosystm and 121connects are pleased to announce the dates for the 4th edition of Big5 CIO Priorities.
Big5 CIO Priorities returns bigger and bolder as a two-day leadership retreat, taking place 18–19 March 2026 at the Taj Surajkund Resort & Spa, Delhi (NCR).
This year’s edition introduces an enhanced format. We will feature more inspirational speakers, more enterprise leaders, and more content-rich sessions than ever before. Expect immersive dialogues, cross-industry perspectives, and fresh insights that reflect the rapidly evolving role of leadership in shaping India’s digital future.
Ecosystm will unveil our five defining priorities for leaders in 2026 and beyond, setting the strategic agenda for the year ahead.
Join us for high-impact discussions on innovation, resilience, and leadership within a private, invitation-only environment designed for strategic exchange and peer learning.
For details on themes, speakers, and participation, visit www.big5priorities.com or contact info@ecosystm.io
121connects
121connects is a community platform and service that facilitates one-to-one connections between senior IT decision-makers (CIOs, CISOs, etc.) in large enterprises and technology partners in India. Its goal is to help these leaders build trusted relationships, exchange insights, and find effective business solutions.
Amit Gupta
Founder and Group CEO, Ecosystm
Sash Mukherjee
VP Industry Insights, Ecosystm
Parminder Singh
Chief AI Advisor, Ecosystm
Louise Francis
Principal, Industry Verticals, Ecosystm
Manish Prakash
Principal Advisor, Ecosystm
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Please see below some images and key takeaways.
That’s a wrap on the 4th Annual Big5 CIO Priorities ’26 and what a strong two days it turned out to be.
Before anything else, a few clear signals from the conversations:
- Execution is now the agenda. Enterprise India is moving past experimentation. The focus is on where AI actually delivers and how to scale those bets inside real organisations.
- Control is being designed in early. Data, compliance, and platform choices are no longer downstream concerns. They’re shaping architecture decisions from the start.
- Technology leadership is business leadership. Cloud, data, and AI decisions are now directly tied to growth, risk, and customer outcomes, going beyond IT performance.
Over 200 business and technology leaders came together at the Taj Surajkund for honest, practical conversations on how these decisions are being made and what they mean for organisations and society as this next phase unfolds.
A huge thank you to our speakers Shekhar Kapur, Kunal Kapoor, Atul Dhawan, Atul Satija, Neelam Dhawan, Deshant Kaila, Juhi Bhatnagar, and Vishal Jindal for pushing the dialogue forward with perspectives that challenged and stuck.
And to our Ecosystm leaders, Amit Gupta, Sash Mukherjee, Louise Francis, Manish Prakash, Parminder Singh, and Deepak Sharma for keeping every session grounded in real insight and rigour.
To our highly engaged audience, thank you for making this what it is each year. And to our partners at 121connects, along with CtrlS Datacenters, Dynatrace, Red Hat, Tata Consultancy Services, Logitech, Freshworks, Barracuda Networks, Enreap, ImmersiveData.AI, Snowflake, and Atlassian, thank you for backing the community and the conversations.
If there’s one thing this year made clear: the conversation has moved on. It’s now about building organisations that can actually run on AI – and doing it well.