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Chennai: HCLTech, a leading global technology company, will join leaders from government, business, civil society and academia for dialogues and deliberations at the World Economic Forum2026 in Davos. The company’s signature Pavilion, which is located at Promenade 66, will feature anAI Lounge and an open tea and coffee station.
HCLTech will be represented by its executive leadership team including C Vijayakumar, CEO & Managing Director; Vijay Guntur, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Ecosystems; Srinivasan Seshadri, Chief Growth Officer and Global Head (Financial Services); Kalyan Kumar, Chief Product Officer, HCLSoftware; Kristina Rogers, Chief Growth Officer and Global Head, Retail and CPG; Arjun Sethi, Chief Growth Officer and Global Head, Public Sector, Aerospace & Defense and PE Practice; Abhay Chaturvedi, Corporate VP, Tech Industries and JillKouri, CMO.
A key highlight of HCLTech’s presence at WEF willbe the AI Lounge, a dedicated space within the pavilion that showcases HCLTech’s full-stack AI capabilities and hosts AI-focused conversations, demonstrations and real-world use cases. This will include LIVE use cases of Physical AI, which isemerging as the next frontier of AI innovation. A2025 Zinnov
study estimates the overall Physical AI market willreach about $1 trillion by 2030, with technologyservice providers capturing roughly 30% of thatvalue (around $300 billion).
• HCLTech’s Kinetic AI.QA will demonstrate how robotics automates and enhances quality assurance processes across physical industries, improving precision and reducingdefects, while Kinetic AI.Inspect will showrobotics-driven inspection capabilities thataccelerate product evaluation inmanufacturing environments.
• HCLTech will also showcase its Edge AI solutions – VisionX.QA and VisionX.HSE. In addition,visitors can also experience HCLTech’s RedTeaming and AI Factory solution, Intelligent Regulatory Platform, Intelligent Safety Platform and its flagship service transformation platform, AI Force 2.0, with best-in-class agentic capabilities and Responsible AI at thevery core.
Other highlights and events at the HCLTech Pavilioninclude:
• HCLTech Confluence, an exclusive event to honorIndia’s growth story
• Unleashing the Full Spectrum of AI Success Stories, a panel featuring Vijay Guntur, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Ecosystems, HCLTech; Sheila Jordan, Senior
Vice President, Chief Digital Technology Officer, Honeywell and moderated by Louise Victoria Matsakis, Senior Business Editor, Wired Magazine
• Advancing Education with AI, a panel featuringSrimathi Shivashankar, CVP & BusinessHead, Edtech Services, HCLTech and Vishaal Gupta, President, Enterprise Learning andSkills, Pearson
• Winning with AI: Building future-readyorganizations, a panel featuring Arjun Sethi, Chief Growth Officer, Strategic Segments, HCLTech and Vladimir Lukić, Managing Director and Senior Partner, BCG
• The New Partnership Playbook for Growth in the AI Economy, a panel featuring Abhay Chaturvedi, Corporate Vice President, Tech Industries, HCLTech; Suzan Kereere, President, Global Markets, PayPal and Daniel Bernard, Chief Business Officer, CrowdStrike
• How AI Factories Unlock Industrial, Edge and Agentic Value, a roundtable discussion co-hosted withDELL, which will focus on how AI Factories areset to unlock the next frontier of enterprise value by powering industrial automation, enabling real-time intelligence at the edge, and scaling Agentic AI across mission-critical workflows. This discussion will be led by VijayGuntur, CTO, HCLTech and Denise Millard, ChiefPartner Officer, DELL
• Responsible AI as a competitive advantage, aroundtable discussion on how organizationscan embed Responsible AI practices to drive trust, innovation and long- term value.
