Rakuten Product Conference '26
The Agentic Enterprise
Venue
Virtual
Date
22 April 2026
THE AGENTIC
ENTERPRISE
Driving Impact.
Delivering Results.
Every few years, the way work gets done fundamentally changes. We are at one of those moments now.
Software is no longer just something we run. It now works with us. AI systems can observe, decide, and take action as part of everyday business operations, puzzling out complexities in real time. Rakuten Product Conference 2026 is where we bring this change into focus for enterprises and say: this is the future we’re building.
This year, we confront the rise of agentic systems and what they demand of the modern enterprise: its leaders, its teams, and the products they build. Join us to find out what this actually changes for all of us.
Why attend Rakuten Product Conference?
See what’s practical
Go beyond AI headlines. Hear from experts building and deploying intelligence inside live enterprise systems, what worked, what broke, and what changed when autonomy met real operations.
Understand what this change demands
Agentic systems don’t just change products. They reshape leadership decisions, team structures, governance models, and accountability. RPC 2026 breaks down what that actually means.
Learn from builders operating at scale
This is a space for practitioners. You’ll hear lessons drawn from execution and experience inside complex businesses, so you can see what truly matters and what is just noise.
Engage in the hard questions
How do we design responsibly when systems can act on our behalf? How do we balance autonomy with oversight? Join conversations that take these questions seriously.
MEET OUR
SPEAKERS
Leaders and builders deploying agentic systems at scale, sharing what it takes to make autonomy work in enterprises.
Vice Chairman &
CEO
Tsubasa Shiraishi
Rakuten India
Product
Leader for
APAC and
India -
Payments
Anshumani Ruddra
Microsoft
India
Sandeep Alur
CTO, Microsoft Innovation Hub
Chief
Architect and
Data Scientist
Shakti Goel
Yatra Online
Vice President
Shekhar MK
Rakuten India
Head of
Nasscom AI
Ankit Bose
Nasscom
Head – AI
Solutions
Suvro Shankar Ghose
Mahindra Group
Vice President
Nishant Nayak
Rakuten India
Chief AI
Officer
Mukund Seetharaman
Adani Group
Senior
Vice President
Sreedhar Patwari
Rakuten India
Vice President
Arjun Basu
Rakuten India
More
Speakers
Coming
Soon
Vice Chairman &
CEO
Tsubasa Shiraishi
Rakuten India
Vice President
Shekhar MK
Rakuten India
Chief AI
Officer
Mukund Seetharaman
Adani Group
Product Leader
for APAC and
India - Payments
Anshumani Ruddra
Head of
Nasscom AI
Ankit Bose
Nasscom
Senior
Vice President
Sreedhar Patwari
Rakuten India
Microsoft
India
Sandeep Alur
CTO, Microsoft Innovation Hub
Head – AI
Solutions
Suvro Shankar Ghose
Mahindra Group
Vice President
Arjun Basu
Rakuten India
Chief
Architect and
Data Scientist
Shakti Goel
Yatra Online
Vice President
Nishant Nayak
Rakuten India
More
Speakers
Coming Soon
AGENDA
Step into a room where the future of enterprise AI is no longer a forecast. It starts here, today.
Indushree SR
Rakuten India
A message from Rakuten's leadership on why this moment and this event matters more than any other.
Tsubasa Shiraishi
Vice Chairman & CEO, Rakuten India
A rare address from Japan's diplomatic leadership on the shared future being built at the crossroads of technology, trade, and trust.
Yoshimura Tomotaka
Deputy Consul-General of Japan in Bengaluru
An unfiltered look at how Rakuten is engineering AI that doesn't just keep pace with the future it's designed to define it.
Sekhar MK
Vice President, Rakuten India
What "agentic AI" means, how it works, and why it matters right now.
Anshumani Ruddra
Product Leader for APAC and India - Payments, Google
The streaming wars are over, the agent wars have begun; find out how entertainment platforms are rebuilding their core around AI that anticipates, curates, and converts.
Prashant Paulose
Head of Apps Google Play and Google TV, Google India
Nishant Nayak (Moderator)
Vice President, Rakuten India
From search to seat to hotel check-in, hear how AI agents are collapsing the entire travel journey into a single, seamless conversation.
Dr. Shakti Goel
Chief Architect and Data Scientist, Yatra
When a machine makes a call that moves money, who is accountable — and how do you build AI that earns that trust at scale?
Coming Soon
5G gave agents a voice 6G gives them a nervous system; this session maps what ultra-low latency means for the next generation of autonomous enterprises.
Dr. Shivani Gupta
Chief Data Scientist, Reliance Jio
Santhosh Kumar
EVP, Mavenir
Anup Mahajan (Moderator)
Vice President, Rakuten
From global to local. Discover how National Scale AI ecosystems are being built and scaled for the future.
Ankit Bose
Head of Nasscom AI, Nasscom
A practitioner walks you through the hard-won lessons of taking AI agents from prototype to production at real-world scale.
Kaushik Mukherjee
CTO, Super.money
Dive deep into the exciting new world of Agentic Commerce and where the industry is heading.
Ranjith Boyanapalli
Founder,Flash AI
The org chart built for human workflows won't survive the agentic AI era. India's top business leaders debate what it takes to restructure for a world where AI is deeply part of the organisation.
Mukund Seetharaman
Chief AI Officer, Adani Group
Suvro Shankar Ghosh
Head – AI Solutions, Mahindra Group
Vinoth Raju
Vice President of Customer Experience and Support, Cognite
Shreedhar Patwari (Moderator)
Vice President,Rakuten India
A close that isn't really a close because the conversations that start here are the ones that will shape what your organisation builds next.
Arjun Basu
Vice President,Rakuten India