About Aspiring CXOs Awards

The Aspiring CXOs Awards 2026 (ACA) is an initiative designed to identify, recognize, and nurture exceptional talent in the fields of cybersecurity, risk management, and emerging technologies. Its primary goal is to inspire and empower the next generation of CXOs, who will play a pivotal role in strengthening global defenses against ever-evolving threats in the digital landscape.

Aspiring CXOs Awards a unique initiative uniting mentors and mentees to fasten the industry growth. Senior C-level executives like CISOs, CTOs, and CIOs, renowned for their expertise in IT, cybersecurity, and risk management, select mentees through a rigorous process based on their potential, dedication, and drive for growth. These mentees receive exclusive mentorship, gaining invaluable insights and guidance to excel in their professional journeys. The Mentors (CXOs) are eligible for the Leadership Award, while the Mentees (C1 level executives) are affiliated with the Aspiring CXOs Awards.

This is a year-long mentorship program and a Multi-partner event.

Who is attending the event?

200+ Participants ( CISOs, CIOs, CTOs, Head IT, DPOs,
IT and Security Leads, Risk and Compliance Leads.)

Agenda of the Programme

Solution
Showcase

Networking with
Industry Leaders

Exhibition
Stalls

Learning &
Knowledge Sharing

Ice Breaking
Activities

Market
Exploration

Awards & Felicitations

Mentorship from seasoned Industry Leaders

Personal Branding
and Building a Reputation

Core Domains

Cybersecurity

Risk Management
& Compliance

Emerging
Technologies

Mentorship Program

C-level executives, including CISOs, CTOs, and CIOs, with a minimum of 22+ years of experience and extensive expertise in the IT, Cybersecurity, and Risk Management sectors, will serve as mentors in this program. They will be choosing their mentees and providing them with their valuable mentorship throughout the year.

Note: This mentorship program is thoughtfully curated by CXO Junction Media to foster leadership and knowledge-sharing within the industry. The selection criteria and guidelines ensure a seamless experience for both mentors and mentees. Professionals from OEM companies can participate in this program only through sponsorship opportunities. Join us in nurturing the future leaders of the industry!

Nominees, identified through a selective process led by mentors, are chosen for their potential, dedication, and commitment to professional growth. Mentees, including those at the GM IT, VP, Director, and C-1 levels, with a minimum of 15 years of industry experience, are encouraged to apply. They will receive a year-long mentorship from their respective mentors, guiding them toward career excellence.

Note: This mentorship program is thoughtfully curated by CXO Junction Media to foster leadership and knowledge-sharing within the industry. The selection criteria and guidelines ensure a seamless experience for both mentors and mentees. Professionals from OEM companies can participate in this program only through sponsorship opportunities. Join us in nurturing the future leaders of the industry! 

 

Industry veterans with outstanding experience in the IT, Cybersecurity, and Risk Management sectors who may prefer to contribute outside the traditional mentor-mentee framework, yet bring invaluable expertise and leadership. These distinguished professionals will be honored with a Special Award in recognition of their remarkable contributions and enduring impact on the community.

Note: This mentorship program is thoughtfully curated by CXO Junction Media to foster leadership and knowledge-sharing within the industry. The selection criteria and guidelines ensure a seamless experience for both mentors and mentees. Professionals from OEM companies can participate in this program only through sponsorship opportunities. Join us in nurturing the future leaders of the industry!

Individuals eager to gain knowledge and insights into executive leadership within the IT, Cybersecurity, and Risk Management sectors, participating as observers and beneficiaries of the program’s learning opportunities.

Note: This mentorship program is thoughtfully curated by CXO Junction Media to foster leadership and knowledge-sharing within the industry. The selection criteria and guidelines ensure a seamless experience for both mentors and mentees. Professionals from OEM companies can participate in this program only through sponsorship opportunities. Join us in nurturing the future leaders of the industry!

Meet Our Mentors Across the North

Rajesh Thakur

Arun Goyal

Sir Ganga Ram Hospital

Rajesh Thakur

Sujoy Brahmachari

Rosmerta Technologies Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Abhishek Bansal

Max Life Insurance Company Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Gunjan Mody

IIFL Home Loans

Rajesh Thakur

Rohit Gaur

Jubilant Ingrevia Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Kapil Madaan

Max Healthcare

Rajesh Thakur

Farman Khalid

Emaar India

Rajesh Thakur

Rajan Arora

Government eMarketplace

Rajesh Thakur

Kapil Mehrotra

Dhanuka Agritech Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Prasenjit Mukherjee

Jwil Infra Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Kapil Mahajan

Allcargo Logistics Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Puneet Bhardwaj

Cairn India Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Anil Chopra

Optum

Rajesh Thakur

Rakesh Sharma

Coforge

Rajesh Thakur

Sachin Bali

Azure Power

Rajesh Thakur

Dheeraj Chawla

Shib Dass & Sons Pvt. Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Arpit Awasthi

Crossroads Helpline

Rajesh Thakur

Ranganathan Vaidyanathan Iyer

JBM Group

Rajesh Thakur

Dr. Balvinder Singh Banga

V-Trans India Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Anand Chaudhuri

OVO Energy Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Sumit Bhatia

InsuranceDekho

Rajesh Thakur

Sanjiv Kumar Jain

Krishna Maruti Group

Rajesh Thakur

Yogendra Singh

Barista Coffee Company Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Dr.Kavindra Kumar Singh

SMC Group

Rajesh Thakur

Some Nath Kundu

Schneider Electric

Rajesh Thakur

Rajeev Singh

Vikas Group

Rajesh Thakur

Amit Bhatia

KARAM

Dr Tapan Sahoo

Avneesh Vats

Techno Electric & Engineering Co.Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Sandeep Dewangan

Safexpress Pvt. Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Sandeep Jamdagni

Central Park

Rajesh Thakur

Mohan Shah

Claimpro Assist Pvt. Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Parveen Kumar Sharma

Migsun Group

Rajesh Thakur

Amit Arora

SHR Lifestyles Pvt. Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Akshay Kumar Sahani

Maharashtra Seamless Ltd.

Kuldeep Kaushal

Sinch India

Rajesh Thakur

Rahul Borse

Flamingo pharmaceutical Ltd.

Vinay Tiwari

Sudhir Singh Sisodia

BT Group

Rajesh Thakur

Naveen Kumar Pareek

Livpure India

Rajesh Thakur

Badar Afaq

KCT Group

Rajesh Thakur

Manoj Srivastava

OneOrderoffer Innovation Pvt. Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Tarun Gupta

Vivo India

Rajesh Thakur

Yogesh Bansal

SK Finance Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Virander Singh

Indraprastha Gas Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Sanjiv Kumar

Krishna Maruti Group

Rajesh Thakur

Arvind Khatana

BharatPe Capital

Rajesh Thakur

Manish Panjwani

Shriram Automall India

Rajesh Thakur

Pooja Chatrath

Oncquest Laboratories Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Dr.Sushil Meher

AIIMS

Rajesh Thakur

Ajay Ajmera

Rockman Industries

Rajesh Thakur

Amit Gemini

Press Trust Of India Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Golok Kumar Simli

BLS International

Rajesh Thakur

Sunil Kumar

Shiprocket

Rajesh Thakur

Sanjay Kaushal

Orbit Techsol India Pvt. Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Prashant Vashisht

Marengo Asia Healthcare

Rajesh Thakur

Shakil Ahmad

Samsung Electronics

Rajesh Thakur

Vipin Kumar

Uflex Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Satyendra P Tripathi

Signature Global

Rajesh Thakur

Arun Kumar

Loqal AI Ventures

Rajesh Thakur

Gaurav Vij

HooLiv Pvt. Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Krishnamurthy Rajesh

Vinmegham

Rajesh Thakur

Anand Singh

ART Housing Finance (India) Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Kushal Kumar Varshney

Juniper Green Energy

Rajesh Thakur

Atul Bhatia

Greenlam Industries Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Sourav Dasgupta

Allcargo Terminals & Transindia Real Estate Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Dr. Nikhil Kumar Nigam

Vivekananda Global University

Rajesh Thakur

Nikhil Dev

The Lalit Suri Hospitality Group

Rajesh Thakur

Subhash Chand

ICAR

Rajesh Thakur

Preeti Singh

Teciem

Rajesh Thakur

Baidyanath Kumar

JK Lakshmi Cement Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Preet Singh Khanna

Glencore India

Rajesh Thakur

Rituraj Pankaj

AWL India

Rajesh Thakur

Satish Papnoi

PRJ Ventures Pvt. Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Bharat B Anand

Contec Global Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Deepak Rana

Evalueserve

Rajesh Thakur

Devinder Singh

Religare Broking Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Sameer Chaudhry

The Delhi Flour Mills Co. Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Mohit Kalra

ORIX India

Rajesh Thakur

Ajay Chawla

ACME Group

Rajesh Thakur

Ajay Jain

Little Millenium Education Pvt. Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Dr. Kamal Karnatak

RJ Corp

Rajesh Thakur

Aravind N Singh

Spark Minda

Rajesh Thakur

Rajiv Kumar Mishra

Hindustan Times

Rajesh Thakur

Harvinder Singh Banga

Movers International Pvt. Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Prabhu Narayan

Government of India Official

Rajesh Thakur

Abhishek Gupta

DishTV

Rajesh Thakur

Sandeep Pandita

Africare Global Pvt. Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Saubhagya Behera

IGL

Abhishek Chawla

SMC Group

Rajesh Thakur

Rajeev Kumar Pandey

Engineering projects (india) Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Manoj Kumar

Shyam Steel Industries Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Ashish Kapoor

Startek

Rajesh Thakur

Swayambhu prakash

SRS Live Technologies

Rajesh Thakur

Mohit Gupta

Motherson Group

Rajesh Thakur

Sunil Tripathy

Jindal saw Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Bhavesh kumar

SK Finance Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Bal Singh

Shahi Exports Pvt. Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Mohammad Ali Khan

Addverb

Rajesh Thakur

Ajay Yadav

SBL Pvt. Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Amit Sharma

Info Edge India Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Prakash Kumar Ranjan

Sammaan Capital Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Rajeev Tomar

IFFCO Kisan Finance Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Jose Tom

The Oberoi Group

Rajesh Thakur

Subhash Bisht

Innodata Inc.

Rajesh Thakur

Ashish Kandari

Innodata Inc.

Rajesh Thakur

Raj K. Rajpoot

Jagatjit Industries Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Vaibhaav Sharma

APL Apollo Tubes Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Dishant Gupta

Sterling Hospitals

Rajesh Thakur

Abhisheka Kumar

Eco-Mail

Rajesh Thakur

Gaurav Kaushal

Globe Capital Market Ltd.

Rajesh Thakur

Shyam Jee Sudhakaar

Jasper Colin

Tarun Gupta

Vivo India 

Yogesh Bansal

SK Finance Ltd.

Rakesh Sharma

Coforge

Sachin Bali

Azure Power

Dheeraj Chawla

Shib dass and sons Pvt Ltd

Naveen Mittal

FirstMeridian Business Services Ltd.

Rohit Gupta

SeniorWorld

Ranganathan Vaidyanathan Iyer

JBM Group

Dr. Balvinder Singh Banga

V-Trans India Ltd

Anand Chaudhuri

Ovo Energy limited

Sumit Bhatia

TeamLease Services Ltd.

Sanjiv Kumar Jain

Krishna Maruti Group

Yogendra Singh

Barista Coffee Company

Naveen Kumar Pareek

Livpure India

Dr.Kavindra Kumar Singh

SMC Group

SOME NATH KUNDU

Schneider Electric

Rajeev Singh

Vikas Group

Amit Bhatia

KARAM

Arun Goyal

Sir Ganga Ram Hospital

Gunjan Mody

IIFL Home Loans

Sandeep Dewangan

Safexpress Pvt Ltd

Sandeep Jamdagni

Central Park

Mohan Shah

Claimpro Assist Pvt Ltd

Parveen Kumar Sharma

Migsun Group

Amit Arora

SHR Lifestyles Pvt Ltd

Akshay Kumar Sahani

Maharashtra Seamless Limited

Sujoy Brahmachari

Rosmerta Technologies Ltd

Rahul Borse

Flamingo pharmaceutical Ltd.

Abhishek Bansal

Max Life Insurance Company Limited

Anand Aggarwal

Bennett Coleman & Co.Ltd | Times Group

Subhakar Rudra

SPML Infra Limited

Tamal Nag

Ddev Plastiks Industries Ltd.

Prakash Sharma

Kredent Group

Atish Kumar Das

ITC Limited

Subrata Roy

Lux Industries Pvt. Ltd.

Atanu Pramnic

RPSG – CESC

Devendra Pareek

National Skill Development

Subhamoy Chakraborti

ABP Group

Kulwant Chhabra

Diamond Beverages (P)

Dinesh Kumar Shrimali

Tata Steel

Sourav Das

Rupa And Company Limited

Indranil Chatterjee

Sandoz Pvt. Ltd.

Partha Protim Mondal

Berger Paints India

Abdur Rafi

RICE ADAMAS Group

Abhijit Chatterjee

TCG Lifesciences Pvt. Ltd.

Samrat Bannerjee

Emami Ltd.

Srimanto Chatterjee

Nephrocare

Bhudev Kumar Das

Numaligarh Refinery Limited

Md. Fazle (Fazal) R.

Maithan Group

Arindam Dutta

Indorama Ventures | Global

Kallol Saha

SMIFS Limited

Spriha Pande

Vedanta Limited

Anirudh Singhania

Dharma.h Software Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Deepak Sengupta

Balasore Alloys Limted

Shankarshan Panda

Annapurna Finance Pvt. Ltd.

Surajit Banerjee

Dhunseri Poly Films Pvt. Ltd.

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