Accelerating Digital Transformation in the ‘Next Normal’ Business Landscape

The pandemic has pushed organisations across the globe to move more quickly in transforming their businesses to meet a dynamic and uncertain operating environment. Increasingly, competitors, investors, and boards are also applying pressure to evolve.

While the imperative to transform may be clear, the path is challenging. Management is pressed to prioritize digital solutions that meet the needs of the present while building a platform for innovation and competitive advantage. This can require changes in processes and infrastructure, such as shifting workloads to the cloud, deploying artificial intelligence (AI) across the enterprise, and revaluating how, where, and by whom work is done. However, not all digital transformation efforts succeed.

Organizations need meticulous strategic and tactical plans in place to drive enterprise-wide digital transformation. And this necessitates organizations to reinvent themselves into a strategically agile organization—one that is operationally efficient and focusses on innovation.

Join our panellists in an interactive ET Unwired Webinar, as they discuss how low code platforms can help organizations inch closer to their digital goals by empowering the IT workforce to develop high-velocity complex enterprise-wide apps.

Speakers

Vinod Bhat
Chief Information Officer
Vistara

Pawan Chawla
CISO
Future Generali India Life Insurance

Gagan Singla
CMO and CDO
HDFC Securities

Ritesh Varma
Global Head, Business Consulting
Newgen Software

Sachin Seth
Partner
EY, India, Digital & Fintech Leader

Piyush Jain
VP and Global Delivery Head – Software and Digital Services
QuEST Global

Raghav Sehgal
Strategic ISV Account Manager
AWS

Yogesh Jiandani
Founder
Vir2lize
Moderator

Agenda

16:00 – 16:10

Welcome & Introduction by The Economic Times

16:10 – 17:00

Accelerating Digital Transformation in the 'Next Normal' Business Landscape

When Covid-19 struck, it forced societal changes around the globe. The shift towards digital operations took both a customer-facing and a behind-the-scenes role within many businesses. The pandemic made it imperative for enterprises to embrace remote operations and respond rapidly to the changing business needs. In short, accelerating digital transformation became a priority for enterprises across industries.

The key priority for today’s business leaders is to transform their enterprises into digital business entities. Empowerment of employee innovation is a must to survive the business changes in the digital world.  Where do we start? To expedite the digital transformation journey, organizations are looking to leverage cloud for secure remote operations and low code for speed and agility.

With this purview, this webinar aims to throw light on how low code digital transformation platform on cloud can help simplify complex processes, enhance business agility, improve customer and employee experience, and reduce the time to market.

The panel session will feature Industry experts, as they discuss how cloud-based low code platforms can help organizations inch closer to their digital goals and can make the Digital transformation a reality sooner than later:

Key Discussion Points:

  • Role of cloud adoption in accelerating digital transformation.
  • Era of low-code platforms and future considerations.
  • Smart economics: save time, money and effort
  • Key considerations while investing in a cloud-based digital transformation platform.
  • Low code global market trends.
  • Time for IT to take control and also enable employee innovation.
  • Leveraging drag-and-drop and point-and-click configurations to rapidly design, develop, and deliver responsive business applications
  • Business transformation: business imperatives vs technology
  • Automating complex, mission-critical, and enterprise-wide applications on cloud
  • Deep automation and its impact on process efficiency

17:00 - 17:05

Closing Remarks

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Vinod Bhat, Chief Information Officer, Vistara

A business leader with 28+ years of extensive experience in Driving Business Transformations leveraging Digital technologies, Managing Relationships at CXO level, P&L ownership for Global business, Driving Business Strategy & Planning, Sales, Delivery, Operations with deep understanding of the Industry and Global team dynamics.

As Chief Information Officer at Vistara, he is driving 3 broad objectives:

  1. Improve Operational Excellence through automation interventions and process improvements, with the right balance of cost and value.
  2. Elevate Vistara Experience further to the customers & staff by leveraging digital technologies across the value chain.
  3. Enable Transformation in the IT infrastructure by delivering improvements, automation across platforms & tools with right set of SLAs.He has worked in multiple geographies (USA, UK, Europe, APAC) performing various roles. He has spent considerable time of 10 years in North America and has worked closely with key IT & business leaders at CXO level for more than 20 years.

He spends time in building next level leadership and believes in open door policy. Vinod is a frequent industry speaker and specializes in driving Digital Transformations for business-critical initiatives. He is CIO Power List 2021 winner, Mint-TechCircle Business Transformation Award (BTAwards21) winner, CXO Tech Excellence Award 2021 winner and has won ‘Knight of the Town Award’ from General Electric (GE) Information Services USA for exemplary performance. He is PMP and CSQA certified. He is passionate about health & fitness, CSR and enjoys music in free time.

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Gagan Singla, CMO and CDO, HDFC Securities

Gagan Singla is CMO & CDO at HDFC securities. He has served as a board member and Director at Angel Broking, where he headed the transformation of the company from a traditional securities organization to a digital broking house. At HDFC securities, Gagan handles the mandates for Digital Transformation, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Online Business and Customer Service.

He has more than 18 years of experience working across 11 countries in organizations like Deloitte US Analysis and PWC UK and in eCommerce firms like Quikr.com and SimpliLearn. He has been a speaker at UC Berkeley, Kelley School of business and other premier institutions across the world.

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Ritesh Varma, Global Head, Business Consulting, Newgen Software

Ritesh is the Global Head and Vice President for Business Solutions Group at Newgen. He is key member of the leadership team in the organisation. During the last two decades of his stay, he has been instrumental in expanding Newgen’s presence from being a local Indian player to a globally recognised product organisation it is today. Ritesh is a Subject Matter Expert in Banking and Financial Services, Insurance and Shared Services (BPO/ BPM) industries and has strong technical expertise in Workflow Management, Information Management and Digital Automation tools. He is a known face in conferences and delivers thought leadership sessions globally. Ritesh brings to the table a unique mix of understanding technology and applying it to business. An avid writer, his articles on technology and banking are published regularly in renowned magazines. He has recently also ventured into blogging on his experiences through the years.
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Sachin Seth, Partner, EY, India, Digital & Fintech Leader

Sachin Seth is a Partner & Digital , FinTech Practice leader with Ernst & Young (India, Middle East and Africa). His core area of expertise is customer experience led digital transformation using deep domain expertise and industry convergence, using emerging technologies and open innovation platforms along with Fintech ecosystem.

As a Digital and FinTech Practice leader, he has worked with leading clients and startups across Emerging markets to conceptualise and implement some of the well known Super Apps covering financial services, Ecom, AgriTech, EdTech businesses and also executed large and end-to-end digital transformation programs. His current focus area is embedded finance and insurance across Consumer, Agri and MSME value chain.

Currently he is also advisory board member of the “FinTech Center of Excellence” at IIM Udaipur to drive Industry-Academia-Regulatory collaboration for the growth of Fintech Ecosystem.

He is a B.Tech. and MBA from NMIMS, Mumbai with 25+  years of  work experience in the Industry. Prior to EY, he has worked with some of the world’s leading technology and consulting companies in the global market. He is also a frequent speaker, panelist, moderator and contributor in the various forums and publications globally.

Contact : 9867332539 , Email : Sachin.seth@in.ey.com,  Sachin Seth | LinkedIn

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Piyush Jain, VP and Global Delivery Head - Software and Digital Services, QuEST Global

Piyush Jain is the Global Delivery Head for Software and Digital Services, at QuEST Global. In his current role he is responsible for strategy, planning and delivery of all Product Software Engineering and Digital Software Business globally across all primary industry verticals (High Tech, Medical Devices and Healthcare, Rail, Automotive, Energy, Aerospace and Defense) that QuEST operates in.

Piyush is responsible for managing delivery execution and operations of delivery units across all Global locations. This includes strategy development, delivery excellence, margin management, and engineering services quality and project management among other things.

As a Leader at QuEST, Piyush has also provided thought leadership about various topics that span innovation, technology, business trends in engineering etc regularly through blogs, articles and interviews. His best practices have been shared across media that include but are not limited to The Times of India, The Indian Express, TechGig and more.
Piyush joined QuEST Global in 2017, before which he was heading the 4600-strong Network and Embedded Engineering practice at Infosys.

His career of 28+ years spans telecommunications, networks, virtualization, media, semiconductor, hi-tech and electronics verticals. Over the years Piyush has built, scaled and managed engineering and product R&D service centers across global client locations.

With rich experience in delivery, technology, people management, and customer management, Piyush has established offshore development centers providing end-to-end product lifecycle services across multiple product categories for clients ranging that include both start-ups and Fortune 500 leaders.

Piyush holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Surat, India.

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Yogesh Jiandani, Founder, Vir2lize

Yogesh Jiandani has 29+ years spanning multiple functions ranging from Sales, presales, business development, partner management, advisory, consulting, and training.

Presently he is a Management Consultant, Advisor, and Lead Auditor and works with the three cloud majors AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud for their partner programs.

He is also the founder of Vir2lize, a startup for developing a senior citizen monitoring solution.
He has worked in the IT, Telecom, and Cloud industries and 12+ years at Cisco, where he was a CTO for the Global Service Provider (GSP) segment.

Having spent time in the System Integrator, OEM, Customer, Independent consulting, and building a startup, Yogesh also works with some startups as an advisor and has been involved in numerous IT and Cloud events as a speaker or moderator.

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