Global
Legal Confex
Bangalore, India
November 06, 2025
Agenda Programme
(08:30 AM – 05:00 PM Approx. Local Time)
08:30 AM – 09:00 AM
Registration & Welcome Tea/Coffee
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Kickstart the event with registration, accompanied by tea, coffee, and networking with speakers, sponsors, and fellow delegates
09:00 AM – 09:30 AM
GC360 Speed Connect: Interest-Based Networking
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Kickstart the conference with high-energy networking designed to maximize connections in a short time
Session Highlights:
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Welcome & Icebreaker – Quick introductions to set the tone for the day
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Speed Networking – Fast-paced, informal exchanges to meet a variety of peers in minutes
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Find Your Interest Group – Identify attendees with shared interests in litigation, contracts, legal ops and technology
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Facilitated Connections – Meet key stakeholders, industry experts, and service providers.
09:30 AM – 10:20 AM | Power Panel 1
ESG, Ethics & Bribery – Making Compliance Count
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Legal’s accountability in ESG, DEI, and CSR strategy
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Whistleblower frameworks that work in India
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Ethics gaps, anti-bribery traps, and greenwashing risks
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From audit to action: defensible ESG disclosure
Your Challenge: Building ESG structures that hold up to scrutiny
What You’ll Gain: Governance templates, incident protocols, and board checklists (Checklists if shared)
Speakers:
Bhavesh Saxena, Compliance & International Counsel- South Asia Pacific and ANZ, Agilentz
Sudip Chatterjee, Head – Company Secretary & Compliance, Puravankara
Roshan Ramapuram, Senior Director & Assistant GC, Sandisk Corporation
Smitha Chandrashekar, Legal Director HARMAN International
Nitesh Bakshi, Sr. Director Legal Compliance & Quality Novo Nordisk
10:20 AM – 11:20 AM | Power Panel 2
DPDP Compliance in Action – Bridging Law and Execution
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Consent and notice implementation at scale
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Localization, cross-border readiness, and DPIAs
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Accountability structures and legal reporting lines
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From policy to tech: privacy-by-design enablement
Your Challenge: Making privacy compliance operational, not aspirational
What You’ll Gain: Mapping templates, workflows, and peer strategies (Checklists if shared)
Speakers:
Sivani Peesapati, Director, Cyber Security, GE Healthcare
Raghav Muthanna, Partner, IndusLaw
Meenakshy Natesan, Associate Director, Compliance, Anheuser Bush InBev
Arvind Subramaniam, Data Privacy Officer, M2P Fintech
Gauri Bhongale, Legal Counsel, Danaher Corporation
Surup Ray Chaudhuri, Counsel, United Breweries Limited
Lahar Appaiah, Legal Counsel, IBM
Prashanth Shivadass, Advocate & Partner, Shivadass & Shivadass
11:20 AM – 11:40 AM | Refreshments
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Enjoy a tea break while networking and engaging in peer-to-peer discussions
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GC360 sign-up zone for community and GC360Flix access
11:40 AM – 12:30 PM | Power Panel 3
CLM & Contract Risk – Fixing Fragmentation in India’s Ecosystem
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Contract bottlenecks, approvals, and visibility lapses
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Redlining and review inefficiencies across teams
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CLM adoption: platform choice, implementation lessons
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Legal-procurement-finance collaboration roadmaps
Your Challenge: Turning contract chaos into scalable control
What You’ll Gain: CLM ROI maps, clause libraries, and success metrics (Checklists if shared)
Speakers:
Shirish Kumar Pillai, Senior Director - Enterprise Risk Management, Nasdaq
Abhishek Gemawat, Vice President-Legal & Compliance, Zepto
Prashant Srivastava, Attorney Regional Counsel – Head of Contracts & Risk, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Jaya Kathju, Associate Director - Legal, Eli Lilly
Denise Gardner, Head - Legal, Secretarial & Compliance Licious
12:30 PM – 01:10 PM | Power Panel 4
India’s Litigation Landscape – Prepping for Digital Evidence & Regulator Action
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Internal investigations and white-collar risk frameworks
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Legal SOPs for dawn raids and whistleblower alerts
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Managing SEBI, ED, IT Act, and cross-border investigations
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Digital forensics and chain of custody in Indian courts
Your Challenge: Readiness for a new era of enforcement
What You’ll Gain: Investigation kits, protocols, and regulator playbooks (Checklists if shared)
Speakers:
Avinash Balakrishna, Counsel, Khaitan & Co.
Shreekanth Katti, Head Legal, Compliance and Data Privacy, Merck Group
Upasana Rajaram, Counsel, India/South Asia, IBM
Srinivas Kotni, Founder and Managing Partner, Lexport
01:10 PM – 02:00 PM | Lunch Break & Informal Networking
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Enjoy a networking lunch with speakers, sponsors, and fellow delegates
02:00 PM – 02:40PM
GC360 Peer Solution Lab – Group Discussion
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Tables solve real delegate-submitted challenges
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Legal leaders and solution providers co-facilitate discussions
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Themes: DPDP, litigation readiness, legal ops, AI risk, tech buys
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Outcomes mapped and visualized in real time
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Group insights presented to audience
Your Challenge: Solving your personal blocker
What You’ll Gain: Peer-validated solutions, curated and captured. (Checklists if shared)
02:40 PM – 03:30 PM | Power Panel 5
AI Risk in Legal Ops – From Guidelines to Governance
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Legal’s seat in internal AI governance boards
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Risk scoring AI use cases: GenAI, automation, analytics
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Explainability, bias, IP, and copyright concerns
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Mapping India’s evolving AI norms with global law
Your Challenge: Leading AI oversight before regulators do
What You’ll Gain: Audit templates, risk matrices, and escalation maps (Checklists if shared)
Speakers:
Partha Sarathy, Chief Legal Officer, Marlabs
Sathish K R, VP Legal, General Counsel and Company Secretary, Manipal Health Enterprises
Jagannath, Global DPO and AI Governance LTIMindtree
Govind Kumar Chaturvedi, Legal Counsel, Reliance Retail
03:30 PM – 03:40 PM | Refreshments
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Quick refresh before the final sessions
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Meet GC360 leaders, speakers, and solution providers
03:40 PM – 04:30 PM | Power Panel 6
Cross-Border Data Risk – India, GCC, and Global Transfer Strategy
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DPDP + localization vs. business agility
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Vendor assessments and contract clauses
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Cross-border frameworks: SCCs, TIAs, and risk scoring
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Sector-specific insights: BFSI, healthtech, e-commerce
Your Challenge: Keeping transfers compliant while scaling globally
What You’ll Gain: Data transfer checklists, vendor scorecards, regulator trends (Checklists if shared)
Speakers:
Ritu Bhargava, Lead Managing Associate, Anand and Anand
Amit Anand, India Lead Counsel (VP - Legal), Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Deepti Aggarwal, Associate Director, IQVIA
Rakesh Udupi, Head of Legal, Infosys
Raghunath Rath, Head of Legal & CS, Alcon
04:30 PM – 04:40 PM
GC360 Think Tank & Event Close: Legal Strategy and Innovation – 2026 and Beyond
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Recap of top insights from every track
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Where legal, compliance, and AI policy are headed
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CPD credit collection instructions
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GC360Flix access post-event
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Invitation to join GC360 community and working groups
Your Challenge: Sustaining momentum beyond the event
What You’ll Gain: Continuous value, networking, and curated insight access (Checklists if shared)
*Program and Timings are subject to change without notice.