09:00-09:15 | REGISTRATION | NETWORKING | EXPERIENCE ZONE |
09:15-09:30 | Technology as a Disrupter: Fight against Covid-19 & Post Covid-19 Economy |
Amitabh Kant, CEO, Niti Aayog | |
09:30-09:45 | Leadership in Covid Times |
Sonia McDonald’s, CEO & Founder, McDonald’s Inc. | |
09:45-10:20 | Business Impact of COVID-19: Restructure, Renew, Rework |
COVID-19 pandemic has hit businesses hard across the globe. How are the organizations coping up with a plunge in businesses? What are some of the steps taken to cushion their profitability? Can technology be our saviour? How can we restructure and renew some of our projects? What’s the road ahead? The session would deep dive into post COVID-19 business impact. It would discuss new steps taken by organizations to offset COVID impact and sail smoothly. Aditya Ghosh, Board Member, OYO Hotels & Homes |
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10:20-10:40 | In the new normal, an open, hybrid and multi-cloud approach matters even more |
With the Covid-19 pandemic, businesses have had to react quickly to challenges in how work gets done and where services get delivered. Arguably, the architecture choices you make now will have both a near-term and long-term influence on the resiliency and responsiveness of your business. Open standards and open source underpin the best cloud architecture: built on Linux OS, delivered by Containers, and managed by Kubernetes. This session will discuss how a cloud-based platform that is provider and cloud agnostic will ensure businesses need not scramble the next time everything changes. Shanker Selvadurai, VP & CTO - Cloud & Cognitive S/W, IBM APAC |
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10:40-11:10 | Fire Side Chat Digitizing Services Amid Pandemic |
Jonathan Reichental, Founder & CEO, Human Future & Ex-CIO, City of Palo Alto, |
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11:10-11:30 | Hybrid Multi-cloud: Any Cloud, One Experience |
Krithiwas Neelakantan, Director Next Gen Datacenter & Cloud for India & SAARC Ops. NetApp |
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11:30-11:50 | IT Talent Management Amid Crisis |
Jeanne Lim, Board Director, Kami Intelligence, Board Director & Former CEO, Hanson Robotics |
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11:50-12:10 | Leading with innovation in the Data Era |
Amit Luthra, Director & General Manager, Data Center Solutions, Dell Technologies |
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12:10-12:40 | CIO Panel: Leading Transformation with a Hybrid & Multi-Cloud strategy |
Cloud platforms are chief among the technologies that businesses believe will drive this transformation over the next several years. Cloud platform adoption includes a shift of workloads away from off-premises environments and into public cloud over the next several years. However, this migration to cloud is not absolute. Many businesses also plan to modernize workloads in place, adopting hybrid IT strategies that integrate on-premises and external environments for interoperability and flexibility. All of this introduces complexity that will present new challenges and drive new relationships with providers of managed and professional services that support and accelerate transformation. This session would discuss on the challenges and level of adoption around cloud technologies. |
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Rajeev Batra, CIO, BCCL Moderated by: Abhik Chatterjee, Managing Director, Boston Consulting Group |
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12:40-12:55 | Win the Fight, Win the Future: Six Digital Themes to navigate the Covid-19 Crisis |
Abhik Chatterjee, Managing Director, Boston Consulting Group |
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12:55-13:10 | Data Management in the New World |
Huzefa Motiwala, Senior Director – Systems Engineering, Commvault APAC |
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13:10-13:25 | Voice of Global Digital Leaders: Impact of Technology Revolution to the Society of Future |
Rui Pedro Silva, Global Head of Technology Deployment, Maersk Logistics |
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13:25-14:00 | BREAK for Experience Zone | Group Chat | Personal Chats |
14:00-14:20 | Fire Side Chat: The Changing Role of Womanhood & an Enterprise’s Lifetime Transformation Journey |
In her lifetime, a woman dons many hats. She is a mother, daughter, wife et al. Her life journey can be a teaching for an enterprise’s journey as well. Just like, a woman adopts any role and stands tall amid adversities, the enterprises can relate and can learn a lesson from it. They should be knowing that undergoing transformation is inevitable and adopting the new role or changing as per business requirement is the need of the hour. Suneeta Reddy, MD, Apollo Hospitals |
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14:20-14:35 | How Technology Can Help Fight Covid-19 Crisis |
Denis C. Bauer, Head Cloud Computing Bioinformatics, CSIRO |
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14:35-14:50 | Business Continuity through Digital Transformation |
N Karthik, Country Manager, Enterprise Sales, Micro Focus |
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14:50-15:35 | Panel Discussion: Data Democratization-Making Sense of Data |
Data democratization means that everybody has access to data and there are no gatekeepers that create a bottleneck at the gateway to the data. It connotes that data should be accessible in such a manner that organizations can use it to expedite decision-making and uncover opportunities for an organization. The goal is to have anybody use data at any time to make decisions with no barriers to access or understanding. |
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15:35-15:50 | Maximizing your Data Infrastructure Advantage |
KC Phua, Technical Director, Asia Pacific, Hitachi Vantara |
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15:50-16:00 | Voice of Global Digital Leaders |
Kashif Rana, Former CIO, Coca Cola, GE & Etihad |
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16:00-16:15 | Voice of Global Digital Leaders: Building strategic AI organizations to enable business resiliency |
Zoubin Ghahramani, Chief Scientist, Uber |
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16:15-16:30 | Intelligent Automation in this Day and Age |
Ganesh Thyagarajan is the Vice President & Global head Cloud Channels, Automation Anywhere |
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16:30-17:15 | Growing Intersection of AI & Customer Experience |
We all know that artificial intelligence is playing a huge role in how businesses operate. AI programs and services are helping transform everything from data collection and processing in the marketing department to on-boarding in the HR department. While AI and automation hold tremendous value in terms of time and cost savings internally, there is another area in which AI promises even bigger, more meaningful returns: customer experience. Customer experience is the root of digital transformation. Every tech decision we make should return to this core foundation. With massive growth in data, comes opportunity to utilize the data for machine learning and AI that can improve everyday experiences for customers. It’s also important to note that good AI must start with the right data coupled with sound data science practice or the results can be less than impressive. So, with that in mind, this panel discussion will look at the biggest ways AI is transforming the customer experience. |
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17:15-17:30 | Leveraging Technology for Smart Cities |
Gary Brantley, CIO, City of Atlanta |
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17:30-17:45 | Fire side chat: Building Blocks for the Next Phase of Business Resiliency & Growth |
The session would deep dive into customer needs, with the dawn of a new era. A new world, with new challenges, new industry value chains and opportunities. There are plenty of good organisations, smart business owners, brands and employees that are both risk-averse and will be successful. The session would deep dive into what are the building blocks to be trailblazers of the industry? Vikas Prasad, Director - Infrastructure Services, IBM India & South Asia Ashwani Mishra, Senior Technology Editor |
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17:45-18:15 | Special address |
Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Hon'ble Minister Law & Justice, Communications & Electronics & IT |
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18:15-18:45 | Closing Keynote |
Willpower Harris, Strategic-planning & business coach for Elite Entrepreneurs & CEOs |
12:30-13:15 | Financial Spend Discipline during Disruption |
A slowing economy is putting more pressure on businesses to do more with less. As a result, CFOs are looking to steer their companies to calmer waters by improving visibility into corporate spend to better control budgets. So, dealing with disruption will mean a threefold approach - Adapt to current operating Process, responding to business impact & Mitigating future risk. To do this on the immediate term we focus on these 3 recommendations to begin with- cash flow management, visibility and reporting of spend, and necessary controls to ensure business continuity. Today, every business area needs to see all spending clearly, especially where it’s challenging to gain visibility and control. Experience how with SAP Concur you can ensure greater visibility, spend governance and cost controls during the current environment while supporting adaptability, flexibility, and responsiveness for your employees
Moderated by: Deepak Bhalla, SVP & Finance Head, Infosys Group |
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13:45-14:30 | Navigating the Covid-19 Crisis: An Opportunity for Digital Transformation |
To remain competitive in today’s business world and continue to grow and evolve at the same time, companies must digitally transform in both new and incremental ways. Amid the COVID-19 crisis, digitisation enables them to outperform the ever-advancing status quo and maintain pace with, or even outrun, the market leaders. Tech-driven innovation rarely comes from implementing a single emerging technology in a vacuum. Instead, true transformation requires deploying several different interdependent technologies in concert. Combined, they fundamentally transform the enterprise—giving organizations a head start on transformation to stay ahead of the competition. Discover the practical and effective ways these technologies can help to achieve true digital transformation, improve customer service, streamline business operations and innovate. Assumption: Can we start with the assumption that the first phase is behind us and that most of us are in the "Adapt and Overcome" phase, with some of us already thinking about Phase 3 - "Rebound and Rebuild"? Suggested questions by moderator:
Moderated by: Fred Giron, VP, Research Director, Forrester Research |
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16:50-17:00 | Safeguarding from Cyber Assaults in Extraordinary times with Advances in Network Analytics, ML, and AI |
The recent shift towards work from home environments is met with a host of security challenges. The loss of enterprise network controls and the use of personal computers for business tasks are just a couple of examples of how this “new normal” is creating an increased security risk. Amid the COVID-19 crisis, as businesses are still coping up, cybersecurity is being seen as a core technology to keep companies secure as they go online and virtual, and as emerging deep tech such as Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning.
Moderated by: Alain Schneuwly, Platinion Managing Director, Boston Consulting Group |