NIIT StackRoute Announces the Third Edition of the Digital Architect Conclave

• India’s premier platform to build the Digital Architect community returns, spotlighting the growing global demand for architecture talent
• Leaders from Google, TCS, Cognizant, NIIT and other big tech companies discuss the need for Digital Architects amid India’s rise as a GCC destination
• Conclave to be organised on July 18^th 2025, in Bangalore

NIIT Limited, India’s leading talent development corporation, today announced the third edition of the Digital Architect Conclave (DAC) 2025, organized by StackRoute, its digital transformation talent skilling venture. The full-day summit will be held on July 18, 2025, at the Shangri-La Hotel, Bangalore, bringing together top architects across every layer of the stack— from software and applications to data, infrastructure, and enterprise portfolios, digital transformation leaders, and tech visionaries to shape the evolving discipline of digital architecture.

As businesses globally accelerate their digital journeys, the demand for competent and capable Digital Architects (DAs) – professionals who can design resilient, intelligent, and scalable technology systems – is rising across industries. A recent NASSCOM-McKinsey report highlights that India’s demand for deep tech roles is projected to grow 3X by 2027, led by AI, cloud, cybersecurity, and architecture capabilities. Globally, enterprise architecture is increasingly being recognized as a key lever for innovation, agility, and impact across industries.

Digital Architecture is a rapidly growing area of specialization core to the longevity, sustenance and growth of enterprises in an increasingly digital era. The current academic and training establishments for grooming DAs globally is still at a nascent stage. With its focus on building digital transformation workforce, StackRoute has taken the lead in conceptualizing the DAC to fast-track knowledge exchange and peer learning to build a community of Digital Architects across India, especially amid the rise of India as a GCC hub.

Now in its third year, the Digital Architect Conclave has evolved into a definitive, peer-driven platform for enterprise architects, engineering heads, and technology strategists. This year’s theme – “Architecting for Emergence: Agility, Intelligence, and Impact” – reflects the need to design for continuous change, enabling enterprises to stay adaptive in an era marked by AI acceleration, hyper-personalization, and ecosystem-led innovation.

The speaker lineup includes a blend of digital public infrastructure pioneers and industry leaders such as:

• Pramod Varma, Co-Creator of the BECKN Protocol & Former Chief Architect of Aadhaar and UPI
• Dr. Hari Bhaskar, Engineering Leader, Google Cloud/Gemini Assist
• Bala Prasad Peddigari, Chief Innovation Officer, TCS
• Shankar Radhakrishnan, Partner – Data Engineering, Tiger Analytics
• Alaguraja Narayanan, Senior Director – Cognizant
• Nishith Pathak, Global Lead – Architecture & Innovation, DXC Technology
• Vinod Neelanath, Chief Product Officer – UST SmartOps

Complete agenda for the conclave can be accessed here.

“NIIT has consistently shaped India’s technology talent across every era – from the birth of IT services to the rise of data science and now, AI-led architectures,” said Pankaj Jathar, CEO, NIIT Ltd. “With the third edition of DAC, we reaffirm our commitment to nurturing next-gen tech leaders who can design for emergence, resilience, and transformation. The world is looking at India to provide tomorrow’s tech leaders and innovators and we are ready to create India’s global talent pipeline.”

“As digital ecosystems grow more complex and dynamic, architects’ role is evolving and is pivotal to the strategic change. This is the era of cross-functional architecture—where no single role is isolated, and impact comes from collaboration, co-design, and convergence. The third edition of DAC offers a much-needed space for architects and technology leaders to share their journeys, discuss hard trade-offs, and sharpen the capabilities needed to design for scale, resilience, and adaptability in the age of AI,” added Dr. Yogesh Kumar Bhatt, EVP and Business Head, StackRoute, NIIT Limited.

About StackRoute

StackRoute, an NIIT venture, is a digital transformation partner for corporates to build deep-skilled technology and digital talent at scale. Established in August 2015, StackRoute provides disruptive IT learning solutions on programming, quality engineering, data-science and digital architecture.

Our immersive and remote programs are practitioner-led and outcome-oriented. Geared towards imparting deep skills in digital technologies, StackRoute works with multiple tier 1 IT companies, Global Captive Centers, product engineering companies, and GICs towards transforming their workforce to efficiently deliver digital transformation projects with ease.

For more information, please visit the official website: https://www.stackroute.in/home

About NIIT Limited

NIIT Ltd. is a leading skills & talent development corporation, set up in 1981 to help the nascent IT industry overcome its human resource challenges. A pioneer in the IT and business skilling domain, NIIT continues to lead the training and curriculum development in newer technologies such as AI, ML, Data Science etc. Over the years, the company has expanded to offer the complete suite of technical and soft skills development for its enterprise customers across industries such as Banking, Finance, Retail, Technology and Manufacturing. NIIT today ranks amongst the world’s leading training organizations owing to its vast and comprehensive array of talent development programs.

NIIT Ltd. delivers a diverse range of learning and talent development programs to millions of individual and corporate learners in futuristic domains through its various businesses including NIIT Digital, StackRoute, RPS Consulting, iamneo, Institute of Finance Banking & Insurance (IFBI), TPaaS and Sales & Service Excellence (SSE).

For more information about NIIT visit: www.niit.com