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✦ Event Recap · 3–5 July 2026 · Lucknow

A Mehfil of Minds, A Room Full of CIOs.
Rootle at CIO Horizon 2026

Three residential days at Ramada by Wyndham, Lucknow. Closed-door roundtables, unhurried conversations, and a chance to show India's top enterprise technology leaders what KPI-first Voice AI looks like in practice.

Lucknow
2nd Edition · Booth D5
100+ CIOs and CTOs · 3-Day Residential Conclave
Rootle at CIO Horizon 2026
Representing Rootle at CIO Horizon 2026
About the Event

India's Closed-Door CIO Conclave,
Now in Its Second Edition

CIO Horizon is not a conference. It is an invitation-only gathering built for unhurried, high-trust dialogue among India's most senior technology leaders, away from the noise of daily operations.

Inspired by Lucknow's legacy of tehzeeb and deliberation, CIO Horizon 2026 brought together India's top CIOs, CTOs, and senior technology decision-makers for three residential days of executive roundtables, immersive discussions, and closed-door peer exchange on AI strategy, digital resilience, and responsible innovation.

Unlike large multi-track summits, the conclave format kept the room small and the conversations long. Delegates from enterprises including Maruti Suzuki, Sun Pharma, Bajaj Allianz, Tata Power, Adani Renewables, Times Group, and 30-plus other leading organisations spent three days in genuine dialogue rather than booth-hopping. For a production-ready voice AI platform like Rootle, that depth of conversation is worth more than volume of footfall.

Rootle operated from Booth D5 across all three days, walking CIOs and CTOs through live enterprise voice AI demonstrations, KPI-first measurement frameworks, and what a real Voice AI go-live looks like on existing telephony and CRM infrastructure.

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Live Demos
Multinlingual Voice AI
1:1
Executive Roundtable Format
6 Sectors Covered
BFSI, Manufacturing, Pharma, Energy, Media, Retail
Invite-Only
Closed-Door Format
Booth D5
Rootle's KPI-First Voice AI, Live at the Conclave
Our Presence

Voice AI in the Room Where
Enterprise AI Strategy Gets Decided

The delegates at CIO Horizon were not there to be pitched to. They were there to think through what AI-led transformation actually looks like across their enterprises, and Booth D5 gave that thinking a live, working example.

Across three days, the Rootle team ran live enterprise voice AI demonstrations from Booth D5, showing CIOs and CTOs from banking, manufacturing, pharma, energy, and media exactly how a KPI-first voice agent handles support queries, lead qualification, outbound follow-up, and after-hours resolution, in Hindi and English, on existing telephony infrastructure.

The conclave format meant conversations ran longer and went deeper than a typical expo floor interaction. CIOs pushed past the demo to ask about integration timelines, data residency, and how Task Completion Rate would hold up at their actual call volumes. Those are the questions of buyers who have already moved past evaluation and into planning.

On the Ground at Booth D5
Rootle Team · CIO Horizon 2026
1
Enterprise CIOs are no longer asking if Voice AI works. They are asking how fast it goes live on their existing stack.
2
Task Completion Rate resonates because it is the first Voice AI metric that maps directly to a business outcome, not call volume.
3
Multilingual accuracy across Hindi, Tamil, Gujarati, and Marathi is now a shortlist requirement, not a nice-to-have.
What the Room Was Asking

What does go-live actually look like on our existing telephony and CRM stack, and how many weeks does it take?

How does Task Completion Rate hold up once we scale to our real enterprise call volumes?

Is the platform DPDP and TRAI compliant by design, or is that a bolt-on we have to manage ourselves?

Can the same voice agent hold consistent accuracy and tone across Hindi, Tamil, Gujarati, and Marathi?

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Key Takeaways

Three Things That
Stayed With Us

01
Closed-Door Rooms Produce Real Pipeline.
Without an open expo floor pulling attention in ten directions, every conversation at Booth D5 ran longer and went further. CIOs who might have taken a brochure at a larger summit instead sat through a full live demo and asked integration-specific questions. The smaller room converted attention into genuine buying interest.
02
Enterprise Buyers Have Moved Past the Pilot Question.
The CIOs and CTOs in the room were not asking whether Voice AI could work for their enterprise. They were asking how quickly it could go live on their existing telephony and CRM, and what the integration effort would look like. That shift in the question is a shift in where these enterprises sit in their buying journey.
03
Multilingual Voice AI Is Now a Shortlist Requirement.
With delegates representing enterprises across every region of India, the ability to hold consistent accuracy and compliance across Hindi, Tamil, Gujarati, and Marathi came up in nearly every conversation at Booth D5. For enterprise CIOs evaluating Voice AI at national scale, language coverage has stopped being a differentiator and become a baseline filter.