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About the Event
The 2026 Mumbai Edition will focus on how organisations can strengthen compliance, governance, and operational resilience in an increasingly digital tax environment.
Through strategic discussions and practical case-based insights, the event will explore how businesses are adapting to evolving regulatory expectations, managing compliance at scale, and using automation and AI to improve efficiency, visibility, and decision-making.
Key Discussion Themes
The role of AI and automation in modern tax and finance
organisations
E-invoicing, digital reporting, and emerging CTC models across India and Asia-Pacific
Strengthening governance, controls, and audit
readiness
Practical lessons from organisations managing multi-country compliance across Asia
Building operational resilience in a real-time reporting environment
Why Attend?
Gain insight into India’s evolving e-invoicing and digital compliance landscape
Exchange perspectives with peers across Tax, Finance, IT, and Compliance
Hear from senior practitioners, policy experts, and industry leaders managing transformation at scale
Understand how regional regulatory developments are influencing compliance models across Asia-Pacific
Explore practical approaches to automation, governance, and regulatory preparedness
who should attend
Tax
Finance
Compliance
IT
Digital Transformation
Shared Services
Enterprise Technology
Governance, Risk & Controls
Industries
Manufacturing
Chemical / Pharma
Automotive
Energy
Aviation/Aerospace
Logistics
who should attend
Head of Tax
Director of Tax
VP Tax
Indirect Tax Manager
VAT Manager
Finance Director
CFO
Head of Shared Services
Head of Finance Transformation
CIO
VIP Regulatory Compliance
Head of IT
speakers
Gautam Mahanti
Managing Director – APAC
Sovos
Vaishali Dedhia
Senior Product Manager
Sovos
Andrew Hocking
VP, Tax Technology & Services APAC
Sovos
Hemalatha Saptarshi
Director, Sales
Sovos
Jaydeep Wakankar
VP, Finance
Sovos
CA Pritam Mahure
Founder
Pritam Mahure and Associates
Naveen Agarwal
Assistant Vice President (Services) / Joint Commissioner / OSD TO CEO
GSTN
Head Indirect Taxation Litigations (Service Entities)
RIL
Rohit Arora
Founder & Managing Director
Engineosol
Hemang Chaturvedi
CEO & Executive Director
Engineosol
Vishal Adhyapak
Director
Prowess Technology Solutions LLP
Raju Iyer
Head – Corporate Taxation
Larsen & Toubro Limited
Prakash More
Head Indirect Taxation
Thermax Limited
M.S. Vasan
Senior Vice President – Global Tax
Hinduja Global Solutions Ltd
Vivek Padmawar
GM IT, Operational Excellence and Corporate Engineering
Forbes Marshall
Chetan Joshi
Vice President – Taxation
Bajaj Auto Limited
Dhaval Desai
Head of Tax
UPS
Vinay Bhushan
CEO – Taxpert Professionals
Taxpert
Principal Lead – Indirect Tax
Forbes Marshall
Ashok Nayak
CIO
IPCA Laboratories
Deepak Poddar
General Manager – Indirect Tax
JSW Motors
Biren Vyas
Partner, Indirect Tax
Grant Thornton
Adithya Srinivasan
Partner DAA Consulting
DAA
Rohan Padhi
KPMG India
Dilip Panjwani
Nexen Power
Dr. Suresh Rajappa
Vinay Bhushan
Taxpert
AGENDA
| Time | Session | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 – 09:50 | Arrival, Registration & Networking Breakfast | |
| 09:50 – 10:00 | Welcome & Opening Remarks | Gautam Mahanti, Sovos |
| 10:00 – 10:20 | Opening Keynote: eInvoicing in the era of AI | Naveen Agarwal, GSTN |
| 10:20 – 11:00 | Panel 1: India’s GST Evolution - Lessons & Global Influence | Moderator: Gautam Mahanti, Sovos Panelist: Raju Iyer, Larsen & Toubro Limited Panelist: Chetan Joshi, Bajaj Auto Limited Panelist: Dhaval Desai, UPS Panelist: Biren Vyas, Grant Thornton |
| 11:30 – 11:45 | Keynote: Transformation Journeys Across Asia: Unifying Domestic and Global Compliance | Alex Pavel + Pritam Mahure, Sovos |
| 11:45 – 11:55 | Break | |
| 11:55 – 12:35 | Panel 2: Navigating India’s Tax Digitization - Advisory Perspective | Moderator: CA Pritam Mahure, Pritam Mahure and Associates Panelist: Anveshika Singh, Reliance Industries Limited Panelist: Aditya Srinivasan, Dhruva Advisors (DAA) Panelist: Prakash More, Thermax Limited Panelist: M. S. Vasan, HINDUJA GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LTD |
| 12:35 – 12:50 | Keynote: The Future of Accounts Payable: Automation, Intelligence & Control | TBC, Tungsten |
| 12:50 – 13:50 | Networking Lunch | |
| 13:50 – 14:10 | Keynote: AI Adoption in Tax Compliance: From Experimentation to Impact | Vaishali Dedhia + Andrew, Sovos |
| 14:10 – 14:50 | Panel 3: Overcoming Adoption Challenges - Tech Partners’ View | Moderator: Hemalatha Saptarshi, Sovos Panelist: Rohit Arora, Engineosol Panelist: Vishal Adhyapak, Prowess Technology Solutions LLP Panelist: Deepak Poddar, JSW Motors Panelist: Ashok Nayak, IPCA Laboratories |
| 14:50 – 15:00 | Break | |
| 15:00 – 15:40 | Panel 4: Building Trust in the Age of AI: Governance, Risk & Compliance | Moderator: Gautam Mahanti / Jaydeep, Sovos Panelist: Naveen Agarwal, GSTN Panelist: Dilip Panjwani, Nexen Power Panelist: TBC, KPMG Panelist: Hemang Chaturvedi, Engineosol Panelist: Vinay Bhushan, Taxpert |
| 15:40 – 16:00 | Panel 5: The Future of Compliance: AI Hype vs. Business Reality | Moderator: Andrew Hocking, Sovos Panelist: TBC, KPMG Panelist: Vivek Padmawar, Forbes Marshall |
| 16:00 – 16:02 | Key Takeaways & Close | Gautam Mahanti, Sovos |
| 16:02 – 18:00 | Networking & Cocktails |
ABOUT Always On
Always On is one of Sovos’ flagship global platforms, created to bring together regulators, practitioners, and business leaders for open, high-level discussions on regulatory change, digital compliance, and business transformation.
Previous editions in Paris and Frankfurt have convened leading voices from across the global e-invoicing and digital reporting ecosystem. The Mumbai edition builds on this legacy while reflecting the scale, complexity, and innovation of the Indian market.
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Join senior leaders in Mumbai for a focused conversation on the next phase of digital tax compliance.
- 17 June 2026
- 9:00 AM – 16:00 PM
- ITC Maratha, Mumbai
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