A Global Summit, Hosted in India

GPACTS 2026

The world’s largest AI & IT summit for life-sciences leaders.

03 September 2026 - Novotel HICC, Hyderabad

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Ashish DangeManaging Director

Sandeep BansalConsulting Partner

Pankaj SharmaChief Information Officer

Ashish DangeManaging Director

Sandeep BansalConsulting Partner

Pankaj SharmaChief Information Officer

Ravi KallaChief Information Officer

Shyam KhanteSr. Vice President

Ravi KallaChief Information Officer

Shyam KhanteSr. Vice President

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What is GPACTS

India doesn’t just supply the world’s medicines. India is moving the world’s medicines Forward.

WORLD’S FIRST PRACTITIONER-ONLY CONGRESS PLATFORM · PHARMA IT · COMPLIANCE · AI · MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS · CYBERSECURITY

The scale of
the room.

Session synopses are shared with regulators - CDSCO, USFDA, MHRA, EMA - before the room meets. It runs year-round, not event-only.

Engaged

600+

senior leaders across the platform

In the room

25%+

C-suite at the Hyderabad flagship

Practitioner

60%+

pharma end-users, not vendors

The arc

cities · one direction

Media engine

125K+

senior subscribers via Pharma Now

Reach

3.5M+

digital impressions a year

Flagship

550+

delegates converge in Hyderabad

Recognition

awards across 5 streams

The campaign

India is moving the world’s medicines Forward.

Three cities · One direction

Three waves.
One direction.

Set the direction in Mumbai. Move the floor in Ahmedabad. The stack converges in Hyderabad.

Wave 01 · Mumbai PADCSet the direction

AI, Data & Cloud

10 Jun 2026 · The Westin

110–130 senior leaders

Wave 02 · Ahmedabad PMITSMove the floor

MES, LIMS,
CSV & Serialisation

07 July 2026

120–150 manufacturing-IT leaders

Wave 03 · HyderabadThe stack moves forward

The full stack

3 Sep 2026 · Novotel HICC

450–550 delegates · 25%+ C-suite

Flagship · Hyderabad

Where the
stack converges.

3 September 2026 · Novotel HICC, Hyderabad

The Regulator’s Hotseat · The Decision Room · Pharma Tank · Awards Night

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Why GPACTS
is different.

Four principles that hold the platform’s editorial independence and credibility.

Practitioner-first

No paid-keynote model. Every speaking slot earns its place on content. The audience is the room, not the podium.

Curated, not mass

Invitation-driven rooms, 60%+ pharma end-users. No padded counts, no vendor-to-vendor networking.

365-day media engine

Pharma Now carries speakers, panels, frameworks and reports to the wider industry long after the room clears.

Regulator-aware

Session synopses are shared with CDSCO, USFDA, MHRA and EMA - the credibility that underpins the platform.

Signature
formats.

The set-pieces that define the flagship floor - some of them not for sale, by design.

The Regulator’s Hotseat

Anonymous questions, straight answers - former FDA and CDSCO in the chair.

Editorially independent

The Decision Room

“Ransomware hits your MES mid-batch.” The room decides, live.

Pharma Tank

The top innovators pitch the buyers in a finale that feeds from all three waves.

Awards Night

13 awards, 5 streams - Pharma Now editorial awards, revealed at the flagship.

GPACTS Studio

A glass-walled podcast booth recording episodes live - the recording itself as content theatre.

Demo Theater

A 25-seat innovator stage - opening demos and prime product slots, feeding the Pharma Tank finale.

Leadership Roundtables

Chatham House circles - CIOs, CISOs and validation heads, off the record.

White Paper Launch

State of Pharma IT 2026 and the Manufacturing IT Modernisation Outlook, released live.

The room,
not the podium.

A first look at the leaders shaping GPACTS 2026. Every slot earns its place on content.

Ashish Dange

Managing Director

Pankaj Sharma

Chief Information Officer

Sandeep Bansal

Consulting Partner

Shyam Khante

Sr. Vice President

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Awards & Gala Night · 3 Sep, evening · Novotel HICC

A night for the people moving pharma Forward.

Opening keynoteKiran Mazumdar-Shaw“Building a Global Pharma Company From India.”

Awards

Streams

40%

Industry vote

60%

Independent jury

Zero vendor representatives on any jury tier.

Leadership✦Excellence✦Pathbreaker✦Innovation Index✦Special Recognition✦Lifetime Achievement✦Leadership✦Excellence✦Pathbreaker✦Innovation Index✦Special Recognition✦Lifetime Achievement✦