Agenda for the Summit

20th November 2026

Welcome Note – India Email SummitMadhumathi K

Introduction and welcoming the guests, speakers for the day and the brands to the first ever India Email Summit. 

9:00 AM – 9:15 AM

KeynoteMatthew Vernhout

Beyond the Inbox – The Future of Trusted Email

9:15 AM – 9:30 AM

Tilak PujariMailora

Not All Inboxes Are Equal: How Gmail, Yahoo & Outlook Evaluate Your Emails Differently

9:30 AM – 10:10 AM

Karan GuptaKPMG

AI-Powered Email Fraud Detection: From Phishing to Business Email Compromise

10:20 AM – 11:00 AM

Krishna N MehtaVISA

The Full-Stack Email Challenge: Scaling APIs from Code to Inbox

11:10 AM – 11:50 AM

Pratik Upadhyay Stepin Solutions

Beyond the Inbox: A Playbook for Turning Paid Traffic into a Compounding Revenue Engine

12:00 PM – 12:40 PM

Amol Mujumdar Rediff.com

Scaling to 100 million mailboxes – Lessons from 25 years of Rediffmail

12:40 PM – 1:00 PM

Lunch Break

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Email panel discussion

The Panel brings together representatives from major mailbox providers, DNSBLs and email ecosystem experts.

Panel members –

Sridhar Chandran – Spamhaus

Lucky Kannan – Zoho

Amol Mujumdar – Rediff.com

Matthew Vernhout – Email Industries

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Sunny ValechaCvent India

Customer Obsession in the Age of AI: Why Human Connection Still Wins

3:00 PM – 3:40 PM

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3:50 PM – 4:30 PM

Amber HaideryCleverTap

Designing Customer Journeys, Not Email Campaigns

4:40 PM – 5:20 PM

Hi-Tea & Networking

Brings together professionals from across the email ecosystem, creating opportunities to exchange ideas.

5:20 PM – 7:00 PM