Hyderabad GCC Leadership Summit.
After Pune, the GCCPROs Leadership Summit moves to Hyderabad: a room of GCC leaders built for the conversations that decide where Global Capability Centres go next. Hyderabad is the fastest-growing GCC city in India, and this is the room where the people running those centres talk to each other.
What makes this room different.
A room, not an audience
Roundtables and working sessions, not a stage and rows of chairs. Everyone in the room runs or builds a capability centre, so nobody has to explain the basics.
Unfiltered by design
We take pride in talking about what is not working, not only what is. That only happens when the room is invitation-only and the participants know each other are practitioners.
The people who decide
Site heads, country heads, function leaders and policy makers: the people with the mandate to move work, not the people sent to collect brochures.
Hyderabad follows the Pune edition in August 2026, where the Chief Minister of Maharashtra joined a closed roundtable with 19 CEOs, alongside 100+ GCC leaders from 80+ companies. See the Pune recap.
Hyderabad is India’s fastest-growing GCC city.
We are not guessing at that. GCCPROs verifies every Global Capability Centre in its database, office by office, and Hyderabad is where the recent arrivals are concentrated.
22.2% of Hyderabad’s centres were set up from 2023 onward, the highest recent-arrival share among India’s five largest GCC cities, against 15.5% for Bengaluru, 14.5% for Pune and 9.2% for Chennai. The city also holds two clear specialisms: 39 of India’s 93 pharma and life-sciences GCCs, and 52.8% of its centres run data, analytics or AI work, a higher share than any other major Indian city.
That mix is why the Hyderabad room is worth convening. A city adding centres this quickly has a specific set of problems: standing up a site while the talent market is being competed for, moving from support work to global ownership, and holding on to the people who did the first build. Those are the conversations on the agenda.
What the room will actually work on.
Sessions are set with the Industry Council closer to the date, so the agenda reflects what leaders are dealing with in November rather than what was topical in September. These are the threads it is being built around.
Scaling without losing the plot
What breaks when a Hyderabad centre goes from 300 to 3,000, and which of those breaks you can plan for. Led by people who have been through it more than once.
From support to ownership
Moving a centre up the value chain: what the parent has to give up, what the centre has to prove, and how long it honestly takes.
The Hyderabad talent market
Where the competition for leadership talent is fiercest, what people are actually being paid, and what makes them stay past year two.
AI inside the GCC
52.8% of Hyderabad’s centres already run data, analytics or AI work. Which of it is production, which is a pilot, and what the difference costs.
Policy, in the room
State and central policy makers join the conversation rather than address it. Pune set the precedent; Hyderabad continues it.
Closed-door roundtable
A smaller session, off the record, where the numbers people will not put on a slide get discussed. Seats in it are allocated separately.
Who will be there.
- GCC site heads and country heads
- Function and domain leaders (technology, engineering, finance, operations)
- Leaders setting up a new centre in India
- State and central policy makers
- GCCPROs Industry Council members
Attendance is by invitation and confirmed individually. Registering your interest is the first step; we will come back to you with the details.
Partner with the Hyderabad summit.
A concentrated room of the people who decide where capability work goes, who owns it and what it is trusted to do. If your business sells to GCC leadership, this is the shortest path to a real conversation with them.
Summit partner
Headline association with the edition, a speaking or chairing role, and presence across the programme.
Session partner
Host a roundtable or working session on a topic your team genuinely knows, chaired alongside a practitioner.
Category partner
Aligned to one domain (technology, talent, real estate, legal or finance), with introductions matched to it.
Partnerships are limited per edition so the room stays a peer conversation. Tell us what you are trying to achieve and we will tell you honestly whether this is the right room for it.
The Hyderabad GCC summit, answered.
When and where is the Hyderabad GCC Leadership Summit?
Thursday, 26 November 2026, in Hyderabad, Telangana. The venue is confirmed directly with invited attendees. It is the second edition of the GCCPROs Leadership Summit, after Pune in August 2026.
Who attends the Hyderabad GCC summit?
Around 200 invited people: GCC site heads and country heads, function and domain leaders across technology, engineering, finance and operations, leaders setting up a new centre in India, state and central policy makers, and GCCPROs Industry Council members. It is a practitioner room, not a vendor floor.
How many GCCs are there in Hyderabad?
GCCPROs verifies 523 Global Capability Centres with an office in Hyderabad, 20.6% of India’s 2,533. 116 of them were established from 2023 onward, the highest recent-arrival share of India’s five largest GCC cities. See the full Hyderabad breakdown.
Is the Hyderabad GCC summit free to attend?
Yes. There is no ticket price. Seats are limited to 200 and attendance is by invitation, confirmed individually after you register your interest.
How is this different from other GCC events in Hyderabad?
The format is roundtables and working sessions rather than a stage and rows of chairs, the room is capped so it stays a peer conversation, and partnerships are limited per edition. Everyone present runs or builds a capability centre, so the discussion starts past the basics.
Can my company partner with or sponsor the Hyderabad summit?
Yes, in three forms: summit partner, session partner or category partner. Partnerships are deliberately limited per edition. See the partnership formats, or write to admin@gccpros.com and we will tell you honestly whether this is the right room for what you are trying to achieve.
Every summit, and the recap of the last one.
The full events programme, the Pune 2026 recap with the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, and what leaders said afterwards.