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06/10/2026
AI tools are no longer just about generating content, they’re becoming part of how businesses research, build, automate and make decisions.
This FE Growthclass session brings together 10 AI tools and explores their relevance across real business workflows:
• OpenAI & Gemini- Research, analysis and content development
• Langflow & n8n- AI workflow design and process automation
• Lovable- Rapid development and prototyping of digital solutions
• DeepSeek- Analytical reasoning and problem-solving
• NotebookLM- Document-based research and knowledge synthesis
• Perplexity AI- Research and information discovery
• Opik & LangSmith- Evaluation, monitoring and optimisation of AI applications
The focus: Understanding where these tools create practical business value and how professionals can apply them effectively.
15–16 October 2026 | Live Virtual | 5:00–8:00 PM IST
Register now: https://shorturl.at/Xu2Ek
06/10/2026
What if business teams could turn an idea into a working digital product without waiting for a long development cycle?
That is the business case for Lovable, an AI-powered platform that lets users describe what they want to build and turns those instructions into functional web applications.
Instead of stopping at an idea or a basic prototype, teams can use Lovable to create and test internal tools, dashboards, workflow applications, customer-facing interfaces and other digital solutions. This makes it useful for teams looking to quickly experiment, validate an idea or solve a specific business problem.
Discover how Lovable and other AI tools can be applied to real business workflows at FE Growthclass: AI for Business Professionals.
15–16 October 2026 | Live Virtual | 5:00–8:00 PM IST
Register now: https://shorturl.at/Xu2Ek
05/10/2026
You may know the AI tools that generate answers. But what about the tools that help you understand whether those answers are actually reliable?
Meet Opik.
From evaluating AI outputs and detecting errors to comparing models, tracking performance and monitoring AI applications in production, Opik helps teams look beyond the response and assess how an AI system is performing.
Opik is one of the 10 AI tools participants will explore at FE Growthclass: AI for Business Professionals, with a focus on where these tools fit into real business workflows.
15–16 October 2026 | Live Virtual | 5:00–8:00 PM IST
Register now: https://shorturl.at/Xu2Ek
30/09/2026
Where can AI actually make a difference across your business?
The use case changes with the function.
A finance team may need to analyse a report before a review. A sales team may need to prepare for a client meeting. HR teams may need to find answers across policies and documents. Operations and customer service teams may be looking at ways to handle routine queries while keeping the right checks in place.
Swipe through to see some of the use cases we’ll discuss at FE Growthclass: AI for Business Professionals.
Across these sessions, participants will look at where AI tools can fit into real business workflows, how they can be applied effectively, and where human oversight remains important.
📅 15–16 October 2026 |💻 Live Virtual | 5:00–8:00 PM IST
Register now: https://shorturl.at/Xu2Ek
29/09/2026
What can you actually do with AI at work?
At FE Growthclass, the focus is on applying AI to the work business professionals deal with every day from better prompting and decision-making to workflow automation and AI adoption.
Participants will explore how to:
- Apply AI across business functions
- Get better outputs through prompt engineering
- Use AI to improve productivity and decision-making
- Automate repetitive workflows with no-code tools
- Build a practical AI adoption roadmap for their role and organisation
📅 15–16 October 2026 |💻 Live Virtual | 5:00–8:00 PM IST
Register now: https://shorturl.at/Xu2Ek
29/09/2026
A sincere thank you to our speakers, delegates and partners for making the FE Global Capability Centers Leadership Exchange 2026 a meaningful exchange of ideas, perspectives and experiences.
Your time, insights and participation brought the FE Global Capability Centers Leadership Exchange to life and made the conversations truly engaging.
Thank you for being part of this journey and for contributing to a platform that brings the GCC community together.
Here’s to more conversations, connections and collaborations ahead.
Co-Powered by Vertiv | Associate Partner: Table Space | Supporting Partners: Hiringhood; Khaitan & Co | Ecosystem Partner: GCC Village
28/09/2026
What does an AI-powered workflow look like when you actually build it?
At FE Growthclass, participants will work through a practical customer-service use case from receiving a query to generating a source-backed response, identifying cases that need human review, and automatically recording the interaction.
The exercise brings together AI, document search, human oversight and workflow automation in one business workflow.
This is one of the hands-on components of FE Growthclass: AI for Business Professionals, designed to help participants move from understanding AI to applying it in practical work scenarios.
15 -16 October 2026 | Live Virtual
5:00–8:00 PM IST
Register now: https://shorturl.at/Xu2Ek
24/09/2026
LIVE from | Speaking at the panel discussion “The GCC ROI Reset: Measuring Value in the Age of AI,” Swaminathan Babu, Seasoned GCC Speaker, Leading GCC, Hyderabad, outlined three recommendations for building successful GCCs:
🔹 Begin with the end in mind- Start by asking “Why anything? Why now? Why me?” to establish a clear purpose and connect the GCC’s mandate to business priorities.
🔹 Follow the ABCDE approach- Build the journey around Alignment, Build the plan, Capacity/Capability, Data, and Experiment, creating a structured path from intent to ex*****on.
🔹 Start small, prove value, then expand- Rather than trying to solve everything at once, address one meaningful business problem, demonstrate the value created, and use that success as a foundation for scaling.
His perspective highlighted how GCCs can approach AI-led transformation with greater clarity, discipline and a focus on demonstrable business value.
Co-Powered by Vertiv | Associate Partner: Table Space | Supporting Partners: Hiringhood; Khaitan & Co | Ecosystem Partner: GCC Village
24/09/2026
LIVE from | Sayantan Bose, Managing Director,
Protiviti Member Firm For India, said, “Hyderabad is leading the next wave of GCC growth, with a strong pipeline of new centers coming up. AI will become integral to every function, but it must operate within clear guardrails, with human oversight at its core.”
He highlighted the dual shift shaping the GCC landscape: Hyderabad’s continued growth as a destination for new global capability centres and the rapid integration of AI across functions. With AI increasingly influencing business processes and decisions, he stressed that organisations will need strong governance, defined guardrails and human oversight.
He also pointed to AI audits as an emerging area, with the potential for every function to come under greater scrutiny as AI adoption scales.
Co-Powered by Vertiv | Associate Partner: Table Space | Supporting Partners: Hiringhood; Khaitan & Co | Ecosystem Partner: GCC Village
24/09/2026
LIVE from | Sunil Bablani, Director, IT & GCC, Great Place To Work India, said, “The biggest gap today is not AI technology, it is the gap between strategic intent and ex*****on. Organizations must move beyond pilots and activity metrics to measurable business value, while upskilling people and driving the culture change needed to make AI work.”
He emphasised that the real challenge in scaling AI lies in translating ambition into ex*****on and measurable impact. For GCCs, this means moving beyond experimentation to embed AI into business workflows, building the capabilities required to support adoption, and creating a culture where technology can deliver sustained business value.
Co-Powered by Vertiv | Associate Partner: Table Space | Supporting Partners: Hiringhood; Khaitan & Co | Ecosystem Partner: GCC Village
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