25th Edition

Cost Congress

International Conference

Silver Anniversary Edition

26th & 27th October 2026

JW Marriott Hotel, Pune

India’s Decade: Building Global Competitiveness in an Era of Disruption

India’s is the emerging global business hub – a shift from cost arbitrage to competitive power. Maze of narratives are shaping up the definition of India’s business landscape. Innovation hub through the startup eco-system, physical & digital infrastructure, policy framework and technology evolution.

However, emerging new India’s thrust and power needs a throttle on several dimensions and directions – new focal lens of business resilience, accelerate decarbonization journey, technology as key lever of transformation, heightened export competitiveness, redefined intellectual skill & excellence, strategic business shifts in the inflection points.

CII with its wide reach in the industry has created a think tank to set a new direction and pace for the emerging economic scenario of India’s businesses. With able guidance and support, Crème de la crème of speakers and experts are being pooled for speakers in the conference.

CII TCM Division invites transformation agents and ambassadors of change to the conference to calibrate on their own directional steps in the new emerging corporate India.

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Sessions

Business Innovation

Path to Competitiveness

Business Resilience

to Constant Change

Decarbonisation

Compliance to Competitiveness

Technology

A Key Lever to Corporate Competitiveness

Export Competitiveness

Improving Global Footprint

Human Capital Excellence

Intellectual Property & AI Impact

Strategic Inflection Points Shifts

Business Transition

TCM 3.0

Prominent Speakers

Mr. Girish Wagh

Chairman - CII National Committee for TCM & MD & CEO
Tata Motors CV

Mr. Manoj Kolhatkar

Chairman - Cost Congress 2026, MD & CEO
TATA AutoComp Systems Ltd

Mr. Rajendran Arunachalam

Co-Chairman - Cost Congress 2026, Group CFO
Thermax Ltd

Mr. B Thiagarajan

Managing Director
Blue Star Ltd

Mr. Sachin Kulkarni

Executive Director - Corporate Procurement
Skoda Auto Volkswagen India

Mr. K S Grihapathy

President - International Business
Bajaj Auto Ltd.

Mr. Anand Kumar Sinha

Chief Digital and Information Officer
Tata Technologies Ltd.

Mr. Guruprasad Mudlapur

President, Bosch Group in India & MD
Bosch Ltd

Ms. Kamya Jaiswal

Partner
McKinsey & Company

Mr. Pradeep Bhargava

Former Director
Cummins India Ltd

Mr. Ramanan GV

Chief Financial Officer
Tata Motors Ltd.

Mr. Nikhil Sohoni

Group Chief Financial Officer
Blue Star Ltd.

Dr. Shrirang Altekar

Professor and Director
SIBM Pune

Venue Details

JW Marriott Hotel - Pune
JW Marriott Hotel - Pune

Senapati Bapat Road,
Pune, Maharashtra, 411053

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Registration Details

Category Fee
CII Member Rs 7,000 + 18% GST
Non-Member Rs 8,000 + 18% GST
Academia Rs 4,000 + 18% GST
ICMAI Member Rs 4,000 + 18% GST

Steering Committee

Mr. Manoj Kolhatkar

Mr. Manoj Kolhatkar

MD & CEO, TATA Auto Comp Systems Ltd
Mr. Rajendran Arunachalam

Mr. Rajendran Arunachalam

Group CFO, Thermax Ltd

Members

Dr. Shrirang Altekar

Professor and Director, Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune

Mr. Pradeep Kathuria

Vice President Finance, Bharat Forge Ltd

Mr. Ackash Mital

Chief Financial Officer, Fiat India Automobile Private Limited

Mr. Shubendu Chakravarthy

VP-Costing, Finolex Cables Ltd

Mr. Asim K Mukhopadhyay

Mentor, CII TCM Division, MD, Navtom Consulting Pvt Ltd.

Mr. Mukesh Kripalani

Associate Professor, SP Jain Institute of Management & Research

Mr. Gaurab Chaudhury

Group Chief Financial Officer, TATA AutoComp Systems Ltd

Mr. Raju Gupta

VP Group Corporate Finance, TATA AutoComp Systems Ltd

Mr. Nandakumar S Tirumalai

Chief Financial Officer, Tata Chemicals Ltd

Mr. Amit Deorukhkar

Senior General Manager - Corporate Finance, Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd.

Mr. Pirooz Movdawala

CFO, Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd.

Mr. Sarosh Doctor

Vice President - Finance, Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd.

Mr. Srinivas Reddy

CEO, Ice Make Refrigeration Limited

Mr. Saranyan Rajagopalan

Chief Financial Officer, TTK Prestige

Mr. Akshay Sarwade

Chief Financial Officer, Dana Anand India Private Limited

Mr. Narayanan R

Vice President – Accounts, Carborundum Universal Limited

Mr. Vignesh Manogaran

Assistant Vice President - Finance & Operations, Nippon Paint India

Supporters 2026