Agenda

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
Ajay Kapur, CEO, Aluminium & Power, Vedanta
Sarbvir Singh, CEO, PolicyBazaar
Robert Ford, CEO, The Ford Consultancy Group
Abhishek Ganguly, General Manager, PUMA India & SEA
Piyush Singh, Senior Managing Director and Market Unit Lead for India, Accenture
Moderated by: Ryan Patel, Board Director & Senior Fellow, Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University

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
Ameeta Roy, CTO, Red Hat India & SA

Jonathan Reichental, Founder & CEO, Human Future & Ex-CIO, City of Palo Alto,
Chetan Choudhury, Advisor, Prime Minister’s Office, UAE
Ott Vatter, Managing Director, e-Residency Programme, Estonia
 Moderated by: Osama Manzar, Founder-Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation & Member of Advisory Board, Alliance for Affordable Internet

Krithiwas Neelakantan, Director Next Gen Datacenter & Cloud for India & SAARC Ops. NetApp

Jeanne Lim, Board Director, Kami Intelligence, Board Director & Former CEO, Hanson Robotics

Amit Luthra, Director & General Manager, Data Center Solutions, Dell Technologies

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.

Rajeev Batra, CIO, BCCL
Vijay Sethi, CIO, Hero MotoCorp
Rajesh Uppal, Senior Executive Director – IT, Safety, HR & Edu.\Training, Maruti Suzuki India
Annie Mathew, CIO, Mother Dairy
Surajit Sen, Chief of Staff, Modern DataCenter, APJ, Dell Technologies

Moderated by: Abhik Chatterjee, Managing Director, Boston Consulting Group

Abhik Chatterjee, Managing Director, Boston Consulting Group

Huzefa Motiwala, Senior Director – Systems Engineering, Commvault APAC

Rui Pedro Silva, Global Head of Technology Deployment, Maersk Logistics

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
Moderated by: Vani Kola, MD, Kalaari Capital

How Technology Can Help Fight Covid-19 Crisis

Denis C. Bauer, Head Cloud Computing Bioinformatics, CSIRO

Business Continuity through Digital Transformation

N Karthik, Country Manager, Enterprise Sales, Micro Focus

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.
However, when data that should remain private gets into questionable hands, bad things follow. Data plays a crucial role and is at the forefront in the digital economy as business models increasingly rely on large amount of data. While making sense out of data, are the organizations at risk of data breaches? The discussion would revolve around the security risks attached while allowing access to vast amount of data. Are the organizations lacking the right skill and knowledge in analyzing those data? The need of the hour is to have a strong governance in place that ensures that data is managed well. And everyone can benefit by unlocking the true value of data.

Anjani Kumar, CIO, Strides
Ellis Wang, Senior Executive VP, Group Head of Technology, Transformation and Information, Mashreq Bank
Aaron Lee, CIO, United Asia Finance
Parag Deodhar, Director - Information Security, VF Asia Pacific
Anil Balgi, Head Digital, NTT Data Business Solutions
Jayanta Banerjee, Global CIO, Tata Steel
Rajeev Batra, Group CIO, BCCL (The Times Group)

KC Phua, Technical Director, Asia Pacific, Hitachi Vantara

Kashif Rana, Former CIO, Coca Cola, GE & Etihad

Zoubin Ghahramani, Chief Scientist, Uber

Ganesh Thyagarajan is the Vice President & Global head Cloud Channels, Automation Anywhere

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.

Santanu Bhattacharya, Chief Data Scientist, Airtel
Sanjay Gurbuxani, Global Digital Innovation Lead & Regional CIO – AMEA, Mondelēz International  
Guru Bhat – VP Customer Success Platform, GM PayPal India
Ameet Shetty, ex-Chief Data & Analytics Officer, McDonald’s
Tim Crawford, CIO, AVOA

Gary Brantley, CIO, City of Atlanta

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?

Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Hon'ble Minister Law & Justice, Communications & Electronics & IT

Closing Keynote

Willpower Harris, Strategic-planning & business coach for Elite Entrepreneurs & CEOs