Where Governance Gets Real: Enlighta at the 2nd Annual GRC India Summit 2026

The boardrooms of India’s most forward-thinking enterprises are echoing with a single conviction: siloed governance is no longer acceptable. Enlighta witnessed this firsthand as a Gold Partner at the 2nd Annual GRC India Summit 2026 — one of the most high-caliber gatherings of risk, compliance, and governance professionals the country has seen.

Two days. Hundreds of conversations. One unmistakable signal. The future of enterprise resilience runs through unified, continuous third-party and AI model governance.

Enlighta Named Gold Partner at the GRC India Summit 2026

India’s regulatory landscape has never been more demanding — or more consequential. Organizations today must navigate a complex and shifting matrix of frameworks: SEBI guidelines, RBI circulars, Companies Act amendments, ESG disclosure mandates under BRSR, and the emerging requirements of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act.

The GRC India Summit exists precisely to address this pressure point. And the 2026 edition — its second — arrived at a moment of heightened urgency. Governance, Risk, and Compliance frameworks are playing an increasingly crucial role in the Indian business ecosystem, driven by evolving regulations and the necessity for strong corporate governance.

Enlighta’s presence at this summit as Gold Partner wasn’t incidental — it was a statement of where enterprise governance is headed.

Enlighta stood alongside SAP Signavio and ROX as a headline Gold Partner — a recognition that reflects the trust India’s enterprise governance community has placed in our platform, our track record, and our vision for unified third-party and AI governance.

“Being part of this summit alongside such a caliber of thought leaders was incredibly rewarding.” — Nipun Sehgal, Enlighta Inc.

Gold Partners 2026: Enlighta · SAP Signavio · ROX

200+	Industry Leaders Connected
20+	Insightful Sessions
100+	Meaningful Conversations
Booth #6	Great interactions. Stronger partnerships.

How Nipun Sehgal Redefined Smart GRC for India’s Extended Enterprise

The 2026 Summit brought together some of India’s most respected risk and compliance leaders from institutions such as State Bank of India, Tata Technologies, ICICI Lombard, Aditya Birla Group, Siemens, and Bridgestone. These aren’t organizations experimenting with governance — they are organizations that have had governance tested by scale, by regulatory scrutiny, and by complex third-party ecosystems spanning hundreds of suppliers and service providers.

Nipun Sehgal took the main stage at the GRC India Summit 2026 to present Enlighta’s session: “Smart Governance, Risk & Compliance for your Extended Enterprise — including Vendors & AI Models.”

The session laid out what unified governance actually looks like in practice — across vendors, contracts, operations, and AI models — in an era where regulatory convergence is no longer a future scenario but an immediate operational reality.

“Unified, continuous governance across your extended enterprise — vendors, contracts, AI models — is not a future aspiration. It is what every regulated enterprise needs today.” — Nipun Sehgal, Enlighta Inc.

Three Pillars of Smart GRC That Every Enterprise Needs Now

Pillar 1 — Third-Parties Governance, Risk & Compliance Continuously govern vendors, suppliers, fourth parties, contracts, and external service providers through onboarding, due diligence, risk assessments, compliance monitoring, SLA management, governance, cyber risk monitoring, and performance management. This helps enterprises reduce operational, financial, compliance, and cybersecurity risks across the extended enterprise ecosystem.

Pillar 2 — Internal Governance, Risk & Compliance Manage enterprise-wide governance through standardized policies, controls, audits, and compliance monitoring across internal business operations. This includes operational, regulatory compliance, accountability, transparency, and organizational resilience.

Pillar 3 — AI Agents & AI Models Governance, Risk & Compliance Establish governance for AI systems by registering AI applications, mapping AI governance frameworks, executing policy-based controls, and continuously monitoring AI behavior, security, privacy, accountability, and compliance. This enables enterprises to govern AI responsibly while aligning with evolving regulatory and ethical requirements.

Four Summit Themes That Proved Enlighta’s Platform Gets It Right

Vendor Due Diligence: Stronger Decisions, Lower Risk The conversation around vendor due diligence has matured dramatically. It is no longer a checkbox exercise at contract signing. In today’s environment — where a single vendor failure can cascade into operational disruption, regulatory scrutiny, and reputational damage — continuous, evidence-based due diligence is the only responsible approach.

Over 60% of companies have experienced vendor-linked incidents, and vendor ecosystems are growing faster than security and risk teams can manage. Enlighta’s platform addresses this directly — unifying risk assessments, evidence collection from suppliers, contract compliance monitoring, and automated governance workflows in a single, integrated solution.

Operational Resilience: Preparing for What’s Next India’s RBI frameworks require organizations to maintain strong governance and risk controls for digital operations — making integrated GRC not optional but essential for regulated entities. Enlighta’s integrated supplier scorecards combine risk, compliance, performance, spend, and ESG KPIs into a unified view — giving risk officers and supply chain managers the real-time visibility they need to act before disruptions escalate.

Regulatory Convergence: SEBI, RBI, ESG, and Beyond The question facing Indian enterprises is no longer which regulation to prioritize — it’s how to build a governance architecture that handles all of them simultaneously, as they evolve. SEBI’s expanding oversight of ESG ratings, the RBI’s Climate Risk and Sustainability Disclosures framework now being implemented from FY 2025–26, and the growing complexity of cross-border compliance requirements all demand a GRC approach that is systematic, automated, and continuously updated.

Enlighta’s platform is architected for exactly this multi-framework reality — integrating with ERP, CRM, Procurement, GRC, and ITSM tools to provide a unified compliance view across regulatory jurisdictions.

AI Model Governance: Responsible, Transparent, Trusted As organizations deploy AI across procurement, risk assessment, fraud detection, and customer operations, the governance of those models — their transparency, their accountability, their auditability — has become a compliance imperative, not just a technical one. Enlighta’s forward-looking approach to TPRM is designed to extend naturally into AI governance: the same principles of continuous monitoring, evidence collection, and risk-based oversight that apply to human vendors apply, with appropriate adaptation, to AI vendors and models as well.

Why India’s Top GRC Leaders Were Asking Enlighta the Hard Questions

The questions from the audience were pointed and substantive — about regulatory timelines, implementation complexity, and how AI governance integrates with existing TPRM programs. Nipun welcomed every challenge. The harder the question, the clearer Enlighta’s answers.

An engaged, skeptical audience is the best validation that the conversation matters. The sessions attracted practitioners from SBI, Tata Technologies, ICICI Lombard, Siemens, Bridgestone, and more — each bringing real-world governance challenges that pushed the discussion beyond theory.

What India’s governance leaders asked on the floor:

• How does continuous third-party monitoring work at scale across thousands of vendors?
• Where does SEBI and RBI compliance fit within an integrated TPRM platform?
• How does Enlighta approach AI model governance differently from traditional vendor risk?
• What does a realistic implementation timeline look like for a large financial institution?

What came through clearly across every session and every question from the floor: vendor governance and AI model governance are no longer peripheral concerns — they are board-level priorities.

Enlighta’s platform is purpose-built for exactly this reality. As a comprehensive TPRM and vendor management solution proven over more than a decade at multiple Global 2000 enterprises, Enlighta continuously and collaboratively helps organizations find and mitigate third-party risk across the full vendor lifecycle — from onboarding and due diligence to ongoing compliance monitoring, performance management, and remediation.

Inside the Conversations That Shaped Enlighta’s Two Days at GRC India Summit 2026

Between sessions, the most valuable exchanges happened in corridors, at demo screens, and over conversations. Enlighta’s team connected with practitioners and thought leaders who are shaping how Indian enterprises approach third-party risk.

A deep-dive exchange with Venkatesh S., Speaker from Siemens Ltd., explored how large industrial enterprises approach vendor due diligence — and where Enlighta’s continuous monitoring capabilities change the picture compared to point-in-time assessments.

At Booth #6, Enlighta’s team ran live demonstrations of the SPiCE TPRM platform — showing continuous risk monitoring, AI-based contract extraction, and vendor scorecards to a steady stream of practitioners.

What the Enlighta SPiCE Platform Demonstrated Live

• Screening & Compliance — Global sanctions, PEP screening, financials, litigation monitoring, adverse event tracking
• Onboarding & Vendor Portal — Prospective vendor details, automated onboarding tasks and checklists
• AI-Based Contract Analysis & Extraction — Document collection on NDA, anti-bribery, attestations; contract templates and clause libraries
• Risk Assessments & Evidence Validation — Validation workflows, corporate approvals, questionnaire management
• Performance & Obligations — SLA obligation tracking, performance scorecards, KPI dashboards

The conversations at Booth #6 confirmed what Enlighta has long believed: the enterprises winning at governance are not those with the most compliance tools — they are those with the most unified governance posture.

Siloed point solutions for vendor risk, contract management, performance monitoring, and ESG compliance create blind spots. They create friction. And in a regulatory environment as demanding as India’s, friction is risk. Enlighta’s platform eliminates that friction.

GRC India Summit 2026 in Numbers: What Enlighta Achieved Across Two Days

Enlighta Wins SIG 2024 Future of Sourcing Award for Governance

Enlighta’s participation at the 2026 Summit carried the weight of a recognized track record. As the SIG 2024 Future of Sourcing Award winner for Governance, Enlighta and PepsiCo’s joint success demonstrated what integrated, enterprise-grade TPRM looks like in practice — at scale, across complex global supply chains.

Winning this award wasn’t about product features. It was about measurable outcomes: lower third-party risk exposure, stronger supplier relationships, and governance processes that actually work across thousands of vendors and billions of dollars of spend.

The Enlighta Team at Booth #6

The Enlighta booth was a hub of activity across both days — demos, deep conversations, and genuine curiosity about what AI-powered TPRM looks like in practice. From contract AI extraction and automated SLA monitoring to third-party risk assessments and supplier scorecards, every module was demonstrated live.

The enterprises at the GRC India Summit 2026 are not asking whether they need better governance. They are asking how to build it. Enlighta has the answer.

By the Numbers

200+	Industry leaders connected across two days
20+	Insightful sessions across governance, risk, compliance and AI
100+	Meaningful conversations at Booth #6 and beyond
SIG 2024	Future of Sourcing Award — Governance Category
$50B+	Managed spend across Enlighta’s enterprise customer base
10,000+	Suppliers managed on the Enlighta platform globally

The Conversation Continues

Two days at the summit produced ideas, connections, and commitments that will shape how Indian enterprises approach third-party and AI governance for years to come. But the most important conversations don’t happen in conference rooms — they happen when an organization decides to act.

A deep-dive exchange with Venkatesh S. (Speaker, Siemens Ltd.) on how large industrial enterprises approach vendor due diligence — and where Enlighta’s continuous monitoring capabilities change the picture.

If the themes from the GRC India Summit resonate with your governance challenges, Enlighta is ready to continue the conversation. Whether you’re navigating SEBI and RBI compliance, building a more resilient vendor ecosystem, or preparing your AI model governance framework, Enlighta’s platform is built to meet you where you are — and take you where you need to go.

Visit enlighta.com to schedule a demo or explore Enlighta SPiCE — our TPRM and Vendor Management SaaS solution designed for rapid deployment and enterprise-grade scale.