ETHealthWorld × 5C Network · Edition 01
CXO Leadership Forum
Building hospital scale with AI-led diagnostics. An evening for the people who run India’s hospitals.
- Date
- October 9, 2026
- Venue
- Hyatt Regency Delhi
- Attendance
- By invitation only
About the forum
A hospital can add beds, scanners and buildings. Making them work as one is the harder problem. For one evening in Delhi, the people who run India’s hospitals worked on it together.
The CXO Leadership Forum is an invitation-only evening for hospital CEOs, COOs, CIOs and medical directors, hosted by ETHealthWorld in association with 5C Network. Its first edition, on October 9, 2026 at the Hyatt Regency Delhi, brought 12 speakers together across six conversations on one theme: building hospital scale with AI-led diagnostics.
- 6
- Conversations
- 12
- Speakers on stage
- 01
- Edition, Delhi
- CXO
- Invitation only
The evening
Six conversations. One question.
How do intelligent diagnostics move from a clinical support function to a strategic engine for hospital growth? The programme, in order.
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5:00 PM · Arrivals
The room fills
Registration, first introductions and conversations in the foyer of the Hyatt Regency.
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6:00 PM · Welcome address
Opening the forum
- Prathiba Raju — Associate Editor, ETHealthWorld
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6:05 PM · Keynote
Building the AI-native hospital: how AI-led diagnostics can drive scale, quality and sustainable growth
- Dr. Alexander Thomas — Founder & Patron, Association of Healthcare Providers (India)
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6:15 PM · Inaugural panel
The CEO imperative: AI radiology as the next strategic growth engine for hospitals
- Amit Singh — Group CEO, Yatharth Hospitals
- Vipul Jain — CEO, CK Birla Hospital
- Dr. Alexander Thomas — Founder & Patron, AHPI
- Prathiba Raju — ETHealthWorld (moderator)
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6:45 PM · Panel
Radiology as the first proof point of the AI-native hospital
- Prashant Tandon — Founder, Tata 1mg
- Raghav Bhatnagar — Vice President, Quadria Capital
- Dr. Mansi Aggarwal — Partner, Alkemi Growth Capital
- Dr. Ravi Gaur — Oncquest Laboratories (moderator)
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7:15 PM · Partner talk
The Intelligent Provider: healthcare’s next competitive edge
- Kalyan Sivasailam — Co-founder & CEO, 5C Network
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7:25 PM · Panel
The data question: what enterprise-grade AI actually requires
- Arun Goyal — CIO, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- Praveen Bist — CIO, Amrita Hospitals
- Dr. J.P. Dwivedi — CIO, Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute & Research Centre
- Prathiba Raju — ETHealthWorld (moderator)
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8:15 PM · Dinner
The conversation continues
Networking dinner. Long after the last panel, the conversations were still going.
Partner talk · 7:15 PM
The Intelligent
Provider
Healthcare’s next competitive edge. Kalyan opened with a simple question to the room: what’s in a modern hospital?
The work is real
AI-assisted radiology across 2,000+ hospitals and diagnostic centers. A specialist radiologist signs every report.
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Ask anyone to picture a modern hospital
In an informal poll of 60 people outside medicine, 54 pictured an MRI machine. Imaging has become shorthand for modern medicine, and AI can widen its role in clinical decisions.
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A classroom for medicine
Anatomy, physiology and pathology meet in a radiology study, paired with an expert’s interpretation. That makes radiology an unusually rich place for AI to learn medicine.
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One patient. Many specialists.
Medicine is organized by organ; the patient lives in one body. A single finding can matter to cardiology, oncology and surgery at once. Radiology sees across those boundaries.
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The unit of value changes
When AI measures, compares and drafts, it does work. The useful question for a hospital becomes the cost of a completed, reviewed study at the required clinical standard.
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India can build for the world
Clinical diversity, engineering talent, growing compute and policy support make India a demanding place to build clinical AI, and a credible place to build it for other markets.
The ambition: clinical superintelligence, with radiology as one of its first useful forms.
A long-term goal 5C is building toward, not a capability claimed today. See 5CNet and Bionic.
In pictures
The night, frame by frame
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The room
Every seat was earned.
No spectators and no sales pitches. A curated room of leaders with the authority to decide how their hospitals adopt AI, and the curiosity to compare notes with peers facing the same choices.
- Hospital CEOs
- Chief Operating Officers
- Chief Information Officers
- Chief Medical Officers
- Medical Directors
- Diagnostics Leaders
- Healthcare Technology Leaders
- Investors
The series
The forum continues.
Edition 01 was the beginning. Each edition brings hospital leaders together around one question that matters in the boardroom, and leaves them with peers worth calling afterward.
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Edition 01 · Held
Delhi
October 9, 2026 · Hyatt Regency
Building hospital scale with AI-led diagnostics
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Edition 02 · In planning
Next
Date and city to be announced
Invitations go first to leaders who request them.
Request an invitation to the next edition
Places are limited and attendance is by invitation. Tell us who you are, and the 5C team will be in touch about the next forum.
Questions
What is the CXO Leadership Forum?
The CXO Leadership Forum is an invitation-only evening for senior hospital leaders, hosted by ETHealthWorld in association with 5C Network. Each edition gathers hospital CEOs, COOs, CIOs, CMOs, medical directors, diagnostics leaders and investors around one boardroom question. The first edition focused on building hospital scale with AI-led diagnostics.
When and where was the first edition held?
The first edition was held on October 9, 2026 at the Hyatt Regency Delhi, from 5:00 PM, with the programme running from 6:00 PM to a networking dinner at 8:15 PM.
Who spoke at the first CXO Leadership Forum?
Speakers included Dr. Alexander Thomas (AHPI), Amit Singh (Yatharth Hospitals), Vipul Jain (CK Birla Hospital), Prashant Tandon (Tata 1mg), Raghav Bhatnagar (Quadria Capital), Dr. Mansi Aggarwal (Alkemi Growth Capital), Dr. Ravi Gaur (Oncquest Laboratories), Arun Goyal (Sir Ganga Ram Hospital), Praveen Bist (Amrita Hospitals), Dr. J.P. Dwivedi (Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute & Research Centre) and Kalyan Sivasailam (5C Network), with Prathiba Raju of ETHealthWorld moderating.
What was 5C Network’s talk about?
Kalyan Sivasailam, co-founder and CEO of 5C Network, gave a partner talk titled “The Intelligent Provider: healthcare’s next competitive edge.” He argued that radiology is a rich place for AI to learn medicine, that AI changes the unit of value to the cost of a completed, reviewed study, and that India can build clinical AI for the world. 5C reads 20,000+ scans a day with AI assistance, and a radiologist signs every report.
How can I attend the next edition?
Attendance is by invitation and places are limited. Hospital and diagnostics leaders can request an invitation to the next edition using the form on this page.
Related reading
- 5C Network in the news
- Become unclaudable, by Kalyan Sivasailam (ETHealthWorld)
- The forum on ETHealthWorld
- 5C Network for hospitals
Last updated: October 2026. Photographs from the event, unretouched.
