Power of Active Intelligence: Transcending collaboration beyond the last mile

“Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine.” – Peter Sondergaard.

Organizations looking to breach the veil of uncertainty and weaving resilience into their DNA for future shocks are focusing on gathering more data. This data has enormous potential for helping organizations thrive and for assisting decision makers in taking real-time decisions.

However, this can only happen if this data is used to its full potential in order to generate useful insights. And business intelligence can prove to be more useful in these tumultuous times if it is relayed in a real-time manner.

Active intelligence seems to be the answer. It provides analytics-ready data along with the most updated information in real-time. With an amalgamation of the data at rest and data in motion, it represents the pulse of the data, providing business insights and creating an intelligent data-to-analytics pipeline.

Prepare your business for unexpected situations in future by using Active Intelligence, as it can help you anticipate the upcoming trends. It provides more detailed insights, thanks to AI-powered analytics. Active Intelligence also represents the business moment by adding business logic to analytics-ready data, transforming it into business-ready data and enabling collaboration among all data personas.

About The Economic Times virtual fireside chat

The existing pandemic has proven beyond doubts that the organizations that have adopted and imbibed the technology to utilize data to take prompt decisions have prospered. The governments that have been able to assess public requirement on a real time and take actions have been able to overcome the social and economic impact in a better way.

The Economic Times Power of Active Intelligence: Transcending collaboration beyond the last mile will unleash the power of using Active Intelligence in today’s data-driven demands. With real-time agility becoming the need of the hour, it is critical for businesses to adapt to demands as quickly as possible. Active Intelligence enables them to not only outperform the competition, but also to adapt and respond quickly to changing situations.

Speakers

Abhijit Shah
CTO
Nippon Life India Asset Management

Himanshu Gupta
Territory Sales Director – West
Qlik

Narayanan Duraiswami
Senior Vice President IT & Operations
Xoriant

Rajiv Arora
Global Head IT Global Hub
Siemens AG

Ankush Gadi
Director
Data Management and Analytics, CRISIL
Moderator

Samip Mutha
Vice President and Group Head – Digital and Innovation
RPG Group

Agenda

4:00 – 4:05pm

Welcome by ET Edge

4:05 – 5:00 pm

Roundtable Discussion: Active Intelligence: Accelerating informed decisions

Active Intelligence has raised the bar for technology, giving traditional methods a run for their money. With real-time and analytics-ready data, it has sped up business processes and is assisting them in making rapid and informed decisions. In this session we will discuss how this technology is rapidly evolving and will touch upon the following topics:


  • The status of adoption of Active Intelligence
  • How to tackle business problems using Active Intelligence
  • How data pipelines enable quick decisions
  • How can businesses begin to incorporate Active Intelligence
  • Business outcomes that Active Intelligence may help you accomplish
  • Helps in prompting immediate actions

5:00 – 5:05pm

Closing Remarks

Abhijit Shah, CTO, Nippon Life India Asset Management

Abhijit P Shah, currently CTO-Nippon Life India Asset Management Ltd, is a veteran visionary in IT Industry. Over last 2 decades he has been instrumental in delivering large digital transformations in BFSI domain.

He has extensively worked in areas like Data Lake/Mesh, API Platforms, RPA, AI/ML driven models for enabling Business Functions, Risk Functions, Cybersecurity

Some of the Key transformations he delivered are, AI based Credit Scoring, Portfolio Risk Analysis, Customer 360 view, Recommendation Engine, Fintech-integrations for innovative business models, self-healing systems and more…

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Himanshu Gupta, Territory Sales Director – West, Qlik

  • 20+ years of global professional work experience in Solution Sales, Consultancy and Business Strategy for blue chip organizations and clients in Technology Sector reflecting year-on-year success in achieving revenue and business growth objectives
  • Strong Experience in selling complex outsourcing solutions to C-level execs. Proven track record of delivering above average profitability by focusing on providing differentiated and compelling value proposing to resolve client’s business needs.
  • Lead by defining the vision and guiding & motivating cross-functional team to achieve deal objective. Actively involved in all aspects of deal: Contracting, Negotiations, Pricing and Solutioning
  • Global Experience of living and working in major markets across Europe and SE Asia for 6 years
  • Driving sales into Transformative Technology areas : Digital, Cloud, Customer Experience, Analytics
  • Consistently rated among top performing employees. My key strengths include self-motivation, passion and commitment to achieve corporate goals

Specialties: Negotiation, Team building & Management, Sales, Software product positioning, Services Solution & Strategy, Service Delivery and Resource Management

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Narayanan Duraiswami, Senior Vice President IT & Operations, Xoriant

Xoriant Senior Vice President of Professional Services, Narayanan Duraiswami, leads Operations management including Systems, Infrastructure, Facilities and Professional Services in the US. At Xoriant, Narayanan is accountable for driving operational excellence, application development, improved employee experience, and actionable business insights for different stakeholders. Narayanan works closely with client management to ensure seamless delivery for our US clients. Narayanan is an experienced IT leader with an extensive track record in business leadership, operations management, product development, and client relationship management across various lines of business. Before Xoriant, he was responsible for program management and product development at Microsoft, Cisco, and Chicago Mercantile Exchange and held senior positions at Ramco Systems, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and Akraya. Narayanan is passionate about improving software and business processes, developing talent, and coaching. Narayanan holds a Mining and Mechanical engineering degree from the College of Engineering, Guindy, Chennai, and is a Certified Neurolinguistic Programming practitioner. He lives in Pune with his wife.
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Rajiv Arora, CIO, Siemens

Rajiv Arora is Global Head of IT Global Hub – Siemens AG where he is leading IT Digitalization Initiatives for all Businesses and Factories including the IT operations for all Siemens businesses, Factories, and corporate functions globally with a team of 24 CIOs and 700+ team members managing spending of ~1 Bn USD.

Also, he is Global Program Head for Mobile Work Program (New Normal Initiative of Siemens) with a team of 148+ associates across 28 countries. In this role, he is responsible building the technology and tools platform for the New Normal which include Digitalizing the workplace with Digital Safe return to office, Cloudification of Data Centre and Applications and Digitalization of key business processes for all Siemens businesses and factories worldwide.

Over the past 30 years, he has been a Global Business Transformation leader with expertise in leading Digitalization Initiatives with large multinationals both in Manufacturing & Financial Services Sector.

During his experience Journey, he has worked at various leadership position across Microsoft, GE Capital & IBM in the area of Corporate Strategy, Global Management Consulting, Global Program & Engagement management, systems integration. He has been a trusted Advisor to CXOs of diverse group of clients in both private and government sectors in Asia, Europe, and the United States. Also, he has led building the strategy and its implementation for one of the largest Shared Services Center for GE, UBS.

Rajiv is recognized by her leaders, peers and employees as a trusted leader with high empathy. He is also the a member of Core Media – India CIO Advisory board and a member of INSPIRE committee of Global CIO forum worldwide leading “Innovation”. He is also a Global Executive Council Member of Gartner and on Global CTO forum of Forrester.

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Ankush Gadi, Director, Data Management and Analytics, CRISIL

At CRISIL, some key activities under Ankush’s purview include leading the Data and Analytics business, building data products (including tools and models), exploring market collaborations, and analysing & monitoring existing and emerging client needs. He has extensive experience in delivery of data and technology solutions across key areas including credit, equity, pricing and reference data, benchmark indexes and wealth management.

Prior to this, Ankush worked as Head of Business Operations in Thomson Reuters leading a team of sales operations specialist and project managers covering South Asia VP. He also served as a nonexecutive director of Thomson Reuters South Asia Private Limited. He has been the Vice President, Global Product Management for the index business of MSCI Inc. His experience also includes working with Reliance Capital Asset Management Ltd., the largest asset management company in India where he spent 9 years in various roles including heading the corporate planning and strategy function.

He started his career in sales as relationship manager for ICRA Online Ltd. Ankush holds a Post Graduate Business Management Diploma degree (MBA) from the University of Mumbai. He has also successfully completed one year in the business leadership and management program from IIM Calcutta and the Investment Foundations Program from CFA Institute (USA).

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Samip Mutha, Vice President and Group Head - Digital and Innovation, RPG Group

Mr Samip Mutha has 17+ years of experience in Management Consulting, Digital Transformation and Innovation in various industries across the geographies. He is currently working with RPG Group as Vice President and Head of Digital and Innovation with focus on Smart Factories, Connected Customers, Digital at workplace and Smart Products across diversified businesses of RPG from rubber and tyres to life sciences, EPC and IT.

Samip is on the Panel of Future of Technology, IET since 2018 whose focus is to develop the platform that will benefit stakeholders from student to government to SME in accelerating the Digital growth of India.

He is a renowned speaker in various forums including, CII, NASSCOM, IET, IOT Congress and many more along with leading B-schools on topics like IOT, Digital Transformation, Customer Experience, Industry 4.0 and Business Innovation.

During his Journey with RPG, the group has won prestigious awards including EY Mint Digital award for AI project, Golden Peacock Innovation award and most recent Best Innovation Company 2020 by Economic Times.

Samip is also an avid fond of learning from nature and sustainable leaving and he is a mountaineer who does Himalayan treks every year.

He is based in Pune, India with his wife and two lovely daughters….

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