100% Virtual · join from anywhere 20—22 January 2027 14th Edition Lineup announcing soon

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Asia's largest gathering of women & allies in tech — now 100% virtual. Join from anywhere, back for the 14th time.

For thirteen editions, GHCI has been the room where India's women technologists meet the world. 10,000+ women and allies at the last edition — from 205 cities across India. Returning January 2027 — online, open to everyone. The first speakers are announced in September — but seats fill before then.

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[ Virtual pass · all 3 days · GHCI 27 ]

GHCI 27 Virtual

₹8,000
All inclusive · all taxes & platform fees
Based on past editions · same calibre confirmed for 27
  • All three days · 20—22 January 2027
  • Every main-stage talk & breakaway session
  • Parallel workshops · capped capacity
  • Speed Mentorship · Résumé Clinic · Brain Date · Mock Interview
  • Sponsor booths + the AnitaB.org booth · 1-on-1 calling
  • AI Photo Booth · branded portrait you can share
  • 45-day on-demand library after the event closes
Dates
20—22 Jan 2027
Format
100% Virtual · 10,000+ attendees
Edition
14th · since 2010
Hosted by
AnitaB.org India
[01] The theme

Why GHCI Virtual?

A note from the
programme committee

A platform doesn't create the voice. It just makes sure everyone can hear it. For thirteen editions, that has been our job.

Since 2010, GHCI has gathered women technologists across India and the diaspora — engineers, researchers, founders, students, returners. We've hosted CTOs from Google, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, Wells Fargo, Walmart. Founders of Nykaa, Sheroes, AVTAR. Researchers from IIT, IISc, TIFR. Women returning to tech after a decade away. Students from Tier-3 colleges who left with their first job offers.

The 14th edition is set for January 2027. The full speaker lineup is being finalized — we announce in waves, starting September. The agenda follows. Tickets, however, are open now — and they have always sold out before either is published. That's how the last six editions have gone.

Below: the speakers we've hosted, the partners who've stood with us, the press who've covered us, and the kind of programming you can expect this January. Same calibre. Same care. Same room — just bigger every year.

— The GHCI 27 Programme Committee
[02] By the numbers

Thirteen editions.
One movement.

Since 2010
Asia's largest
10K+
Women & allies · last edition
GHCI 25 brought together 10,000+ women and allies in tech — Asia's largest gathering of its kind.
300+
Speakers · last edition
From CTOs to PhD students — across AI, cloud, cybersecurity, leadership and social impact. 80+ hours of sessions.
700+
Organisations · Tech Expo
Hiring partners, sponsors and exhibitors at the GHCI 25 Tech Expo — the companies who keep showing up.
205+
Cities across India
Attendees travel from 205+ cities across India — and 9 countries — to be in the room.
[03] Programme tracks

The kind of programming
you can expect.

From the last 3 editions.
The 27 line-up follows the same pattern.
AI

AI & Machine Learning

From LLMs in production to multimodal systems. The architects of today's AI talking about what they actually built — and what broke.

22 sessions · Days 1—3
☁

Cloud & Infrastructure

Distributed systems, platform engineering, observability, FinOps. The plumbing that everything else runs on.

16 sessions · Days 1—3
🛡

Cybersecurity

Red teams, blue teams, zero trust, and the strange new world of AI-on-AI attacks. From CISOs and frontline researchers.

14 sessions · Days 1—3
⚡

Career & Leadership

Negotiation. Imposter syndrome. The IC-to-manager path. The manager-back-to-IC path. The middle-career questions no one tells you about.

18 sessions · Days 1—3
∞

Tech for Social Good

Healthcare access. Climate. Civic tech. Accessibility. The work that matters, told by the people doing it — not the people branding it.

12 sessions · Days 1—3
⚛

Original Research

In partnership with ACM India and IEEE WIE. Peer-reviewed work from researchers across the subcontinent and beyond.

24 sessions · Days 1—3
⚙

Hands-on Workshops

Live, build-along labs in small cohorts — leave with something real. Tooling, ML, systems, security, and career skills.

4 per day · Days 1—3
★

AnitaB.org Awards

Honouring outstanding women technologists across research, industry, and community impact. The closing-night programme.

Closing ceremony · Day 3
[04] Voices we've hosted

Some of the speakers who've taken our stage.

From editions 2019—2025.
The 27 lineup follows.
Sirisha Voruganti, past GHCI speaker Past keynote
Sirisha VorugantiCEO & Managing Director, Lloyds Technology Centre India
Krithiga Reddy, past GHCI speaker Past keynote
Krithiga ReddyCEO & Co-founder, OptimizeGEO and Verix
Gangapriya Chakraverti, past GHCI speaker Past keynote
Gangapriya ChakravertiIndia Site Head & Managing Director, Ford Motor Company
Ranjani Mani, past GHCI speaker Past speaker
Ranjani ManiDirector & Country Head, Generative AI (India & South Asia), Microsoft
Kathy Pham, past GHCI speaker Past speaker
Kathy PhamVice President, AI, Workday
Bhumi Padnekar, past GHCI speaker Past speaker
Bhumi PadnekarActor
Pankaj Rai, past GHCI speaker Past speaker
Pankaj RaiGroup Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Aditya Birla Group
Niki Armstrong, past GHCI speaker Past speaker
Niki ArmstrongChief Administrative & Legal Officer, Pure Storage
Kirti Seth, past GHCI speaker Past speaker
Kirti SethFormer CEO, SSC, NASSCOM
Jyothi Menon, past GHCI speaker Past speaker
Jyothi MenonGlobal Head, People Operations & Advisory, BP
DN Prasad, past GHCI speaker Past speaker
DN PrasadSenior Director & Head, Work & Rewards (Singapore), WTW
Michael Dulworth, past GHCI speaker Past speaker
Michael DulworthFounder & CEO, Executive Networks, Inc.
300+

speakers per edition — founders, scientists, engineers, researchers, ministers, athletes, authors. The 2027 lineup follows. →

[05] A sample day · from GHCI 25

What a typical day looks like.

Drawn from the 2026 programme.
The 27 schedule follows the same shape.

Day 01 — From the 2026 edition

Main Stage all day · 4 parallel breakaway sessions · streamed globally · captioned and recorded

01
09:30 — 10:30IST · Live

Opening keynote — How I built my billion-dollar business

Kirthiga Reddy · Co-founder & Partner, Verix

Main stage Keynote
02
11:00 — 12:00IST · Live

The currency of connection — why trust is the new competitive advantage

Fireside: Sachin Bhandary × Radhika Shapoorjee

Main stage Fireside
03
11:00 — 12:00IST · Breakaway

From code to compassion — building inclusive AI

Jalajakshi C K · Debjani Mukherji · Masterclass · capped at 200 seats

Masterclass AI
04
12:30 — 14:00IST · Networking

Speed Mentorship — 10 mentors, 100 slots

1-on-1 virtual mentor matching · book your slot ahead of time on the platform

Networking Mentorship
05
14:30 — 15:30IST · Live

Data's new frontier — when AI thinks, decides, and acts

Jerome Edwards · Scott Richardson · Main stage

Main stage Talk
06
14:30 — 15:30IST · Workshop

Resume Clinic — book a 15-minute review

10 reviewers · 140 candidate slots per day · open to all attendees

Workshop Career
07
16:00 — 17:30IST · Live

Panel — Good that scales: building a safer internet

Swati Khanna · Jayashree Naik · Madeline Gregory · Ashwini Nayak · Main stage

Main stage Panel
08
18:00 — 19:00IST · Live

Evening keynote — the road ahead

A headline close to Day 1, with an on-platform community mixer to follow.

Main stage Keynote
[06] The ecosystem

Our alumni are everywhere.

Where they work · who writes about us
across 13 editions of programming
[07] The platform

Powered by Gether.

End-to-end virtual
event platform
▶

Main stage broadcast — studio quality, everywhere

Every keynote and main-stage talk in crisp HD, captioned live as you watch. The stream quietly adapts to your connection — gorgeous on fibre, still smooth on 3G.

All three days · streamed worldwide
⚡

Speed Mentorship

Book a focused one-on-one with a senior mentor. Bring the real question — a career pivot, a hard call, a portfolio you're unsure about — and leave with a straight answer.

Daily · reserve your slot early
📄

Resume Clinic

Sit with someone who hires for a living and have your CV taken apart and rebuilt. Upload it once and let hiring partners find you for the rest of the event.

Daily · walk-ups welcome
🧠

Brain Date

Get matched with peers and specialists wrestling with the same problems you are, for small-group conversations you'll actually remember.

Daily · matched to your interests
💼

Mock Interview

Run the real thing — technical or behavioural — with an interviewer who gives you honest, specific feedback, plus prep material to study first.

Daily · technical & behavioural
🏢

Sponsor Booths

Drop by a partner booth to meet the team, catch a demo, grab resources, or jump on a quick call about the roles they're hiring for.

Open all three days
📸

AI Photo Booth

Take a polished, event-branded portrait in a single tap — background removed for you — and share it the moment it's shot.

All three days
📹

45-day on-demand

Missed a talk, or want to watch it again? Everything is recorded, captioned, and searchable by topic — yours to stream for 45 days after we wrap.

Free for attendees · 45 days
♿

Accessibility & bandwidth, built in

Live captions on every session, screen-reader tested, fully keyboard-navigable, with transcripts afterwards. An audio-only mode and adaptive streaming keep you in the room even on a shaky connection — because not everyone has fibre, and that should never be the thing that keeps you out.

Included · never an add-on
[08] Voices from past editions

Why people keep coming back.

Selected from GHCI 24
post-event survey

"I came in a final-year student chasing an internship and left with a job offer, a mentor, and my first engineering friends outside college. GHCI didn't change my career — it started it."

PS
Priya Sengupta
Software Engineer · Google · Attended 2024

"Nowhere else in Asia can you meet this many women engineers at once — and now we reach the ones who can't travel. The hiring pool here is unlike anything else."

RM
Rashmi Menon
VP Engineering · HSBC India · Hiring partner since 2019

"After a three-year career break I wasn't sure I still belonged in the room. I left with two interviews and the confidence to take them."

AR
Anjali Rao
Senior Developer · ThoughtWorks · Returned to tech, 2023

"Speaking here is different — the questions come from people who'll actually build on your work. It's the most engaged audience I've had."

MI
Dr. Meera Iyer
Principal Scientist · IBM Research · Speaker, 2022

"From my hostel room in Warangal I sat in the same sessions as engineers at Google and Microsoft. The virtual edition put the whole thing within reach."

FS
Fatima Sheikh
Final-year CS · NIT Warangal · Attended virtually, 2024

"I signed up to give back and ended up learning as much as I shared. Mentoring here recharged me for the whole year."

SK
Sneha Kulkarni
Engineering Manager · Razorpay · Mentor, 2024

"We've made more quality hires from three days here than from months of sourcing. It's the most efficient pipeline we run."

VN
Vikram Nair
Head of Talent · Flipkart · Hiring partner since 2021

"I joined from Singapore and never felt remote — the platform made the hallway conversations happen anyway. Distance simply wasn't a barrier."

LT
Linh Tran
Software Engineer · Singapore · Attended virtually, 2024
[09] Our partners

Partners across the years.

Cumulative partner list
across past editions 24—26
Title Partner
Presenting partner · GHCI 27
Google
Platinum
Keynote & track sponsors
Wells FargoAmerican ExpressMicrosoft
Gold
Track & stage sponsors
WalmartHSBCIntuitOracleTwilioUberTescoUKG
Silver
Session & exhibitor partners
Western DigitalAvalaraOpen DoorSalesforceAdobePayPalCiscoAtlassianRazorpayFlipkartSwiggyZomatoFreshworksPhonePeCRED
Community & Ecosystem
Industry bodies, media & networks
ACM IndiaIEEE WIENASSCOMWiCyS IndiaWomen in AILean In IndiaCoding BlocksGeek GoddessWomen Who CodeShe++Tech Mahindra FdnYourStoryInc42The KenMoneycontrolAnalytics IndiaWomen TechmakersPyLadiesDjango GirlsWomen in Data ScienceWomen in CloudGirl Geek XLadies that UXAnitaB.org LocalDSCITiEIAMAIT-HubiSPIRTBuilt By GirlsGeeksforGeeksMediaNamaEntrackrThe Better IndiaTech in Asia

Want to be part of GHCI 27?

Sponsorship packages are designed for direct access to 10,000+ women technologists across India. Title, Platinum, and Gold tiers include keynote slots, custom track sponsorship, dedicated booth space, and access to our hiring platform.

2027

Be in the room.
Wherever you are.

The 14th edition lands January 2027. The full speaker lineup announces in waves from September. The agenda follows. Seats sell before either is published — they have for six editions running. One price, ₹8,000, all-inclusive.

Save your seat · ₹8,000→
● Open now · Tickets live ● Lineup builds · September—December ● Transferable · until 15 Dec 2026