Why it exists
India doesn’t need another GCC conference.
The case for India was won some time ago. What the country has never had is a place where the world can experience what it has become.
India is ready.
More than two thousand global companies run capability centres in India. The latest count is 2,117 centres, employing around 2.36 million people. An estimated 506 of the Forbes Global 2000 have operations here.
The work has changed as much as the numbers. Of the centres established after FY2021, 96 per cent launched with a product or portfolio mandate of their own. Sixty-four per cent of site leaders now hold a dual mandate: they lead the India site and own a global function. More than 1,200 centres have artificial intelligence and machine-learning capabilities. These are not back offices. They are where a growing share of a company’s thinking is done.
Nasscom and Zinnov, GCC Value Orbit, FY2026. (Opens in a new tab)
The world is looking.
Boards that once asked “why India?” now ask harder questions. Which city. Which state. What the centre should own. Who will lead it. How long before it carries real weight.
India’s states have noticed. Karnataka, Gujarat, Maharashtra and others have published policies written for capability centres. A review in August 2026 counted seven states whose targets add up to about 1,380 new centres and nearly 1.2 million jobs by 2031.
Every one of those questions has an answer, and none of the answers is in a report. They are in a conversation with the official who administers the policy, with a country head who has lived through the first three years, with an engineer who can show you what her team shipped. Today, collecting those conversations takes a year of introductions and a dozen flights.
CBRE, The Policy Advantage: Powering India’s GCC Growth, August 2026. (Opens in a new tab)
The next chapter.
The first chapter of the GCC story was cost. The second was scale. The third, now being written, is ownership: centres in India holding global products, global functions and their companies’ bets on artificial intelligence.
A chapter like that is not opened by one more panel. It is opened by people meeting. The headquarters leader and the India head. The newcomer and the veteran. The state and the company. The company and the person who might lead its centre.
Where they meet.
So we are not convening a conference. We are extending a welcome.
In India a welcome is drawn at the door before it is spoken: one unbroken line, looped around a grid of dots, made fresh each morning. It is called kolam in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, muggu in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, rangoli in Karnataka, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Delhi. The names differ. The gesture is the same. After the line comes everything else: the welcome is cooked, sung, worn and danced.
GCC Bharat Utsav brings that welcome to the work India does for the world. For three days, eight states share one floor and answer one question together: not which state gets the next centre, but how India wins it. A chief executive who has only read about India can stand in it. A company with no centre here can arrive with a guide and leave with a decision. And the person who will one day lead that centre may already be in the room.
India is ready. The world is looking. This is where they meet.