Kunal Purohit | Tech Mahindra

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Kunal Purohit

President - Next Gen Verticals, Tech Mahindra

Kunal Purohit

Kunal is President–Next Gen Verticals at Tech Mahindra. Under his leadership, the organisation is advancing our AI first positioning, driving verticalized growth, driving the shift to intelligent, self evolving enterprise operating models and spearheading agentic engineering, alongside expanding our portfolio with platforms like TechM Orion that have received global recognition.

Kunal also serves on the Mahindra Group’s Technology Council, a leadership forum that shapes key technology and platform decisions across the Group’s diverse businesses.

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Over decades, enterprise software has followed a rather familiar arc, one that includes automating tasks, digitizing workflows, modernizing platforms, and scaling through the cloud, all of which have enabled agile delivery and improved efficiency. Through every wave, however, enterprise applications have stayed fundamentally the same, following predefined human instructions to execute and function.

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When 15 CXOs converged in Helsinki for an executive dialogue hosted by Tech Mahindra, a clear conclusion emerged: a fundamental redefinition of the AI conversation. Through this discussion, most leaders echoed a similar view that enterprises have moved past AI experimentation, with tools deployed, pilots underway, and embedded capabilities across functions. However, enterprise leaders are seeking answers to the most consequential challenge: how to translate an isolated AI activity into enterprise-wide value. Simply put, how do organizations go from pilot to platform?