The Candidate Who Aced Your Interview May Not Be the Employee Who Shows Up. India is where the world's most ambitious hiring is happening right now. GCCs scaling fast. BFSI institutions hiring at unprecedented volumes. IT teams provisioning system access within days of offer and behind that scale, a fraud ecosystem that has industrialized to match it.
Gen AI is writing resumes.
Coaching candidates in real time during live interviews.
Proxy developers replacing candidates entirely.
Credential mills and fraud rings operating at scale.
India's hiring leaders are closest to this problem and best positioned to solve it. The Global Interview Security Summit 2026 | India Edition is where hiring leaders come together to lead that conversation.
2.3× Surge
In AI-authored resumes targeting India's talent market since 2024. Your screening stack was not built for this volume or this sophistication.
1 in 6 Applications
Show bot or automation signals in India hiring pipelines before a single human reviewer sees them.
Day-One System Access
Every GCC and IT hire in India is provisioned with access to global infrastructure within days. A fraudulent hire is not an HR problem. It is an enterprise security incident.
Two Regulatory Regimes
India's DPDP Act and your parent company's global compliance policy apply simultaneously and they don't say the same thing. Most India TA teams are navigating the collision without a playbook.
Key Takeaways
The Global Interview Security Summit 2026 — India Edition brought together Heads of TA, CISOs, BFSI compliance leaders, GCC people leads, and RPO practitioners for two hours of unfiltered practitioner panels, real patterns from real pipelines, and frameworks to put to work immediately.
Attendees walked away with:
A clear picture of how Gen AI cheating actually works in India hiring pipelines in 2026, not recycled global headlines
An understanding of how the GCC accountability gap turns a local hire into a global security incident
What BFSI institutions are actually doing about hiring integrity, peer conversation not polished case studies
The India Hiring Integrity Baseline — 5 minimum standards every organization hiring at scale in India should have in place today
Clarity on what DPDP compliance requires in a hiring context and where it collides with your global policy
This is not a vendor showcase. It is India's hiring community setting the standard for what trusted hiring looks like from here.
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Opening Keynote:Every Fact. Every Claim. Every Answer.
Speaker: Sanjoe Tom Jose (Talview)
Why hiring integrity in India is no longer a regional HR concern. It is a global enterprise risk. And the organizations getting ahead of it now will define the standard for everyone else.
Session 1:When the Hiring Decision Is Local but the Risk Is Global
Speakers: Diwakar A (Dassault Systèmes), Ahmad Maredia (Workday), Jayas Damodaran (Talview)
Your India TA team owns the hire. Your global parent owns the risk. The accountability gap between them is where Gen AI cheating finds its best opportunity. A frank conversation about what that gap looks like and how leading GCCs are closing it.
Session 2:Zero Tolerance, Zero Playbook: How BFSI Is Navigating Hiring Integrity Right Now
Speakers: Samaksh G, Shabeer Ahemed Sathar (KVB Bank), Ritu Arora (Canara HSBC Life Insurance), Sunu Philip (Talview)
Regulated institutions. RBI and SEBI compliance expectations. KYC discipline that should extend to hiring but often doesn't. A peer panel with no frameworks and no vendor talk, just honest conversation between BFSI TA and compliance leaders about what they are actually building.
Session 3:Inside the Gen AI Fraud Playbook Targeting Tech Roles
Proxy developers. AI-coached technical interviews. Day-one access provisioning. What a fraudulent IT hire with legitimate credentials can actually do once inside and the minimum standard every India tech hiring operation should meet before their next hiring drive.
Closing:The India Hiring Integrity Pledge
Speaker: Sanjoe Tom Jose (Talview)
Leave with more than insights. Leave with a personal commitment to clean, verified, trustworthy hiring at scale in India.
Why hiring integrity is no longer an HR problem — it's a business risk that starts at the top.
Session 1:The IT Fraud Landscape: What's Actually Happening in 2026
Ghost engineers. Identity fraud. AI-generated candidates. A clear-eyed look at how bad it's gotten — and why traditional screening is no longer enough.
Session 2:What Talent Leaders Are Actually Seeing: Unfiltered
Straight talk from the people in the trenches — the patterns, red flags, and hard lessons IT hiring leaders aren't talking about publicly. Until now.
Session 3:From Awareness to Action: How Leaders Are Building the Answer
The frameworks, tools, and cultural shifts that forward-thinking organizations are using to build fraud-resistant hiring from day one.
Closing:The IT Hiring Integrity Pledge
Leave with more than insights — leave with a personal commitment to clean, verified, trustworthy hiring.
Closing:Enterprise Realities of AI-Driven Interview Fraud
Speakers: Kalaa M (TCS), Harjoth Singh (Talview)
Past Speakers
Prabhanjan Prasoon
Senior Director - Talent Acquisition at Birlasoft
Award-winning HR leader with 20+ years driving digital recruitment, scaling talent pipelines & leading cross-functional strategies.
Diwakar A
Talent Acquisition Leader at Dassault Systèmes
Global hiring leader with 20+ years building high-impact teams, strengthening talent pipelines, and enabling business growth.
Samaksh G
TA Leader - BFSI
Recruitment and talent acquisition leader with 19 years of experience driving hiring excellence across global markets.
Shabeer Ahemed Sathar
Head of Staffing and HR Systems at Karur Vysya Bank (KVB)
Award-winning HR leader with 20+ years of expertise in talent strategy, culture transformation, and HR innovation.
Ritu Arora
Corporate Vice President- HR at Canara HSBC Life Insurance
HR Leader with 20+ years of experience driving HR strategy, workforce transformation, and organizational change.
Ahmad Maredia
Enterprise Architect at Workday
Technology leader with 20+ years of driving workforce innovation, building high-performing teams, and business impact.
Yogesh Luthra
Head of Talent Acquisition at Atain
Strategic Talent Acquisition leader with 17+ years of experience leading global hiring across IT and business functions.
Praveen Srivastava
Global Head of Talent Acquisition at HCLTech
25+ years driving global talent strategy shaping future of hiring across industries and building high-impact workforce ecosystems.
Devender Kumar
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Persistent Systems
Driving global cybersecurity leadership with 30+ years securing enterprises through risk, resilience and advanced threat defense.
Ashok Vira
Global CIO Lead for HR Platforms at Accenture
27+ years driving HR tech transformation using AI to modernize hiring, employee experience and talent ecosystems at global scale.
Dr. Sumukh SG
Global Talent Acquisition Program Leader at Tekion Corp
Shaping modern hiring with psychology-led insights, scaling global talent and influencing the future of work at scale.
Patrick Dunlop
Professor at the Curtin University
Advancing evidence-based hiring, shaping fair talent assessment and improving candidate experience through research and innovation.
Anupam Srivastava
Global Head – Human Resource | Talent Acquisition at Reltio
Global talent leader with 23+ years building high impact teams and scaling hiring across fast growing innovation driven enterprises.
Andrew Stark
CEO Africa at TeckChek (dba International Knowledge Measurement)
Global talent expert with 20+ years driving HR digital transformation, scaling operations, and building high-impact workforce strategies.
Harish Bhatia
Senior Partner & India Head at Korn Ferry RPO
Global HR leader with 16+ years scaling RPO and digital strategy, advising CXOs on talent acquisition and organizational excellence.
Varun Gautam
Senior Corporate VP – Talent Supply Chain at Persistent Systems
A visionary HR leader recognized among Forbes India's Top 30 Talent Leaders, redefining global talent strategy through innovation.
Jonathan Kestenbaum
Managing Director at AMS
A leading voice in HR Tech, known for driving digital transformation through AI innovation & human-centered talent strategies.
Vikas Singh Baghel
Associate Director- Talent Supply Chain & HR Technology at HCLTech
HR and Talent Supply Chain leader with 17 years of experience driving global HR tech transformation and digital sourcing strategy.
Sarosh Shahbuddin
Senior Director of Product Management at Pindrop
A pioneering product leader driving real-time deepfake detection to protect interview integrity with expertise in AI and cybersecurity.
Daniel Callaghan
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Veremark
HR leader transforming background screening to build safer, trusted workplaces. A global expertise in HR tech & digital transformation.
Vikas Dua
Head of People at Weber Shandwick India
A prominent HR leader with nearly two decades of experience driving people strategy across industries.
Aditee Rele
Cloud and AI leader, Office of the CTO, Asia at Microsoft
A dynamic AI leader driving innovation and business transformation through Agentic AI across Asia.
Kalaa M
Head of Talent Acquisition (APAC) at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
HR leader with 20+ years of global experience across India, the U.S., and APAC, specializing in talent acquisition and core HR functions.
Sanjoe Tom Jose
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Talview
A thought leader in HR Tech, pioneering the use of Agentic AI to make interviewing and proctoring smarter, fairer, and more secure.
Who This Summit Is For
GCC Heads of TA & HR Directors
People leaders scaling India capability centers under pressure from global parents who set the compliance bar and bear the risk of every hire.
BFSI HR & Compliance Leaders
Regulated institutions where a fraudulent hire is not just a talent miss. It is a licensing and regulatory event.
CISOs & IT Security Leaders
Technology executives who understand that a fraudulent hire with production access is an enterprise security incident regardless of where the hiring decision was made.
RPO & Staffing Firms
Agencies running India hiring at scale for whom a single fraudulent placement is a reputational event and an opportunity to turn verification into competitive advantage.