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Accelerating Cloud Transformation

unwiredcp2022-09-19T09:47:28+00:00

We are elated to extend you an invitation for our upcoming summit – The Economic Times Surge 2022 which will be held on Tuesday, 13th September 2022 at The Lalit, Mumbai on the theme of “Accelerating Cloud Transformation”.

The cloud is the foundation of “digital-first” business models that organisations are attempting to create. Regardless of the goals of the digital transformation, cloud computing is a requirement for business transformation. The cloud computing model is generating prospects for cost reductions and innovation. 

The Economic Times Surge 2022 will be an eclectic mix of panel discussions, fireside chats, Networking cocktails with industry stalwarts from leading organizations across verticals to discuss and share their insights on accelerating cloud transformation.


Key Discussion Pointers:

  1. Unlocking the full potential of cloud – Driving customer value & security
    Discussion on evolving with their key applications and workloads on cloud, its migration and management, understanding AI-enabled security models and use-cases that focus on higher-value activities, security expertise and greenfield implementation.
  1. Co-Create the next Cloud Transformation – Cloud transformation is an on-going business that requires digital skills and intelligent platforms

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Speakers

Atanu Pramanic
CIO & Joint President
Hindalco Industries

Atanu Pramanic, CIO & Joint President, Hindalco Industries

30 years industry experience with 20 years in Technology Solutions

Currently, CIO for HINDALCO INDUSTRIES LTD, responsible for IT Strategy & Operations, supporting Digital business enablement using latest Technology ingestion, Oracle ERP re-implementation, Information Security & RIsk

Previously,
CIO for L&T Construction,
Head for IT Strategy and Global Operations @ Petrofac,
Global Leader – Professional Services (IT Products & Tools) @ Genpact

Technology evangelist, ever green learner, favourite of Business Leaders, challenges status quo, facilitates innovative but seamless business disruption

ICT trained Coach, SMP from IIM – Calcutta, Masters in Engineering (BITS-Pilani), MIE, BME, Chartered Engineer, Oracle Masters, Green Belt in Six Sigma

Speaker in various national and international industrial forums

Receipient of Microsoft “Data Hero Award 2017” for usage of latest Microsoft Technologies for L&T Constructions

Panel speaker for PLM Executive seminar organized at Mumbai in Nov-09, IEF in July ’14

CXO Panel Speaker at IOT National Summit at Mumbai in Feb 2019

GE Certified Green Belt on Six Sigma & trained on CAP Tools, Lean, ISO, CMMi, SQA

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Dr. Avadhut Parab
CIO
Parle Agro

Dr. Avadhut Parab, CIO, Parle Agro

Doctorate in Management. Research interest – Strategic management , Policies impacting the , Customer Service and Satisfaction
Project & Program Management of End to End SAP implementation ECC 6.0 , BI 7, BO , EP , Vistex , SEM – BCS , BPC , Adobe Interactive , Open Text – Archival , GRC, Productivity pack .
More than 10 full cycle SAP Implementation projects delivered successfully in the industries like
1, Pharmaceutical , 2 -FMCG , 3. Semiconductors , 4. Automobile . Process re-engineering & operational excellence , IT Strategy building in line with organization goal , Informatiin and cyber Security Budgeting , Project Costing and Manpower Planning , Vendor evaluation , Mentoring , Mobile and web technologies, Data mining and dash boarding .

Specialties: Project and program Management , Creating IT Strategy and solutions for Business value creation , Global team management and mentoring , Driving big change management , Merger and Demerger – due diligence , Business integration and consolidation , Last mile pointed solutions .

Sound knowledge on : CMM, ISO and Pharmaceutical computer system validation as per GAMP , 21 CFR part 11 , Annex 11 — Enterprise system , Mfg Equipment and Lab Instruments .IT Documentation framework .

Implementation of enterprise systems – Trackwise ( SPARTA Systems ) , Documentum ( LSQM DMS ) , SABA LMS , Track and trace , IOT , Search base analytics

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Byju Joseph
CTO
Future Generali India Life Insurance

Byju Joseph, CTO, Future Generali India Life Insurance

Byju Joseph is responsible for information technology strategy, which includes Information, Communications, IT Operations, and IT Compliance. He has been instrumental in the Business Transformation Projects and adoption of competitive technologies for both Life and P&C companies.

Byju has nearly two decades of combined experience in the Finance, Manufacturing, Retail, Supply Chain, and IT services sectors. Before his current role, he was working with Raymond Ltd, Foodland Supply Chain for McDonald and Eurest of Compass Group.

He started his career with Datamatics where he developed and managed software solutions for multinational companies

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Dipak Nair
CTO
Tata AIA General Insurance

Dipak Nair, CTO, Tata AIA General Insurance

Mr. Dipak Nair is the Chief Technology Officer at Tata AIG General Insurance. He is leading the Information Technology and Business Solutions Group functions. Dipak took over the role in June 2016. Dipak has over 22 years of experience in Information Technology, and since year 2000 he has been associated with the insurance domain. Prior to joining Tata AIG General Insurance Company Limited, he was the Senior Vice President – IT with ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company with a tenure of 11.5 yrs where he was instrumental in building the technology architecture and capabilities for the company. Having started his career working for technology startup’s building innovative software products, Dipak made the transition into working for insurance companies with his tenure at Aviva Life Insurance in 2002.

Dipak is a specialist in IT Architecture & Strategy and has experience in managing all round technology deliverables for a company covering specialized domains such as Enterprise architecture and tech strategy, emerging technologies, solution design, insurance policy admin & business applications, Infrastructure, Security, Governance & compliance.

In the current role Dipak is responsible for aligning technology and business objectives and bring advancements in technological capabilities of the organization. Mr. Nair holds a Bachelor of Technology (Computer Systems) specializing in Strategic use of IT

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Dominic Vijay Kumar
VP & CTO
ART Housing Finance

Dominic Vijay Kumar, VP & CTO, ART Housing Finance

Dominic Vijay, Electronics Graduate brings with him over 22 years of experience across Hospitality, Aviation and Financial Services, centred around Innovation in Digital Technology, Financial Management, Business Solutions & Service Delivery, Portfolio & Program Management, Risk & Controls, and Information Security.

In his present role as the Chief Technology Officer of ART Housing Finance (India) Limited, Dominic is in charge of spearheading Business Technology Transformation and Digital Innovation strategy with a relentless focus on bringing future technology into the Housing Finance’s current technology stack. He is also responsible for complete IT Governance ,Cyber Security ,Compliance as per the regulatory ,Strategy & Budget Planning. He drives the complete tech platform for the AHFL where he has created digital tech platform for the affordable Housing right from Underwriting ,Customer Acquisition and collections modules. He has vison of creating Mobile lending gourmet of modules to support the business and reduce cost.

Prior to that, Dominic Vijay was associated with brands such as The Oberoi Grp, Air Deccan, Kingfisher Airlines, Max Ventures, Vana Retreats in leadership roles, where he was responsible for building agile, robust, scalable, and resilient technology platforms and processes, IT Infrastructure Solutions and Service.

He is a Recipient of 100 Most Innovative CIO of India’ + CIO of the Year Award+100 Most Influential Leaders of BFSI + CATALYST CIO  2022 ,Eminent CIO’s of India etc…

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Jatin Meswani
Sr. Partner FSS
Kyndryl

Lalit Trivedi
Head IT & CISO
ITI Mutual Fund Trustee

Lalit Trivedi, Head IT & CISO, ITI Mutual Fund Trustee

Lalit Trivedi CIO/CTO/CISO-level with 23 years success in Global Planning end-to-end Group IT Operation, Cyber Security, Digital Transformation, end-to-end Product Development, Quality Management, IT Service Design/Delivery & Management, Solutions Architect (BI/DW, Market Risk, Credit Risk, Data Quality, Data Governance, Market Intelligence), Predictive & Advanced Analytics modelling, Data Analysis(Data Science), Analytics Solutions (360 Degree Business View), Change Management, Managed IT Services, Group Share IT Setup & Operation Management, SLA Management, Enterprise Business Technology Transformation, Data Analytics, IT Audit, Key Account Management, IT Procurement, Data Centre Setup (Tier 2, Tier 3) , Business Continuity Planning, Networking & Infrastructure Setup & Management, IT & Cyber Security , IT Services Management (ITSM) & ITIL best practices, System Integration, architecting and delivering reliable and scalable systems in a variety of areas including Enterprise Business Applications Management (CAMS Data Integration, MF Trading Online Platform, Portfolio Management, Distributor Management, Trading Platform, Back Office, EOD/BOD, ERP, CRM, CMS, BI/DW, KM, E-Commerce, B2B, B2C, Intranet, Digital Payment, Payment Gateway, Business Transformation, Product Development, Mobility, Wealth Management, HRMS, Loan Management (LMS/LOS), Digital Transformation, Customer/Marketing Analytics, AI/ML, IOT). India & Africa
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Naved Hussain
CTO
Adani Capital

Naved Hussain, CTO, Adani Capital

Strategic and Result driven with proven success in empowering businesses with solid understanding of the digital and technology ecosystem, deeply analytical and data driven with strong understanding of technologies supporting impactful fintech implementations, digital marketing and social media efforts, including artificial intelligence, big data, robotic process automation and digital transformation; Extensive “hands-on” product development, marketing enablement and project leadership; High caliber in creating, developing and executing innovative project plans and product strategies together with designing, consolidating and improving organizational processes to generate business for accelerated growth.

Strategy, Execution & Leadership

  • Product Management
  • Digital Strategy
  • Customer Experience
  • Marketing & Brand Development
  • Product Creation, Strategy & Planning
  • Analytics
  • Innovation
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Team Management
  • Training & Development

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Neilmani Sahu
Head of IT
JSW Paints

Neilmani Sahu, Head of IT, JSW Paints

A competent professional with 20 plus years of experience in:

-Application Management
-Business Process Management
-Digital transformation
-Project Management
-IT Strategy -Enterprise Architecture
-SaaS, PaaS, Iaas
-Cloud Computing
-Predictive Analytics

• Total 16 + years of Experience spanning around IT Consulting, Retail, wholesale, brick & mortar, eCommerce.
• In the past 8+ years I have been working on Digital transformation across Corporate functions like Sales, Marketing, Operation, SCM, Finance, HR, IT & Consumer Service.
• Experience in Multiple technologies of Microsoft & Oracle in ERP, CRM, eCommerce, Intranet Portals, Business Intelligence, Mobile apps., Predictive analytics and Cloud computing.

• Key highlights
• Executed AWS Cloud migration for eCommerce organisation in a short span of time
• Developed an Indiginious Business Intelligence (BI) solution for large Brick & mortar retail
• Developed Supplier collaboration portal for a seamless connect with partner communities(Cover page-Xpression magazine)
• Developed Intranet portal for digital transformation of organisational processes

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Nischal Khorana
VP & Global Program Leader
Frost & Sullivan

Nischal Khorana, VP & Global Program Leader, Frost & Sullivan

Nishchal Khorana is a Vice President with Frost & Sullivan. He is a global program leader and a thought leader in the ICT industry with  extensive strategy consulting and advisory experience.

Nishchal  has been working closely with leading global technology vendors, service providers, investment banking firms as well as government bodies.

Nishchal has participated as a, key note speaker, moderator and panellist in at several prominent industry conferences and summits. He is quoted frequently in leading business and technology publications.

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Dr. Puneet Kaur Kohli
CTO
Universal Sompo General Insurance

Dr. Puneet Kaur Kohli, CTO, Universal Sompo General Insurance

Puneet, an IT Leader brings on board her 25 years of global experience having extensive knowledge on developing and implementing strategic plans and end user services by addressing company needs and promotion of growth. Have lived and worked in different parts of the world with leading companies like viz. Motorola, Reliance, Duncans, Carrier Aircon, UK Land Investments, Bharti Airtel Limited, Soma Networks and Motoricity (AT&T) across the globe in countries namely, Dubai, US, UK, Canada & across APAC especially on projects, have travelled worldwide. A leading Security Evangelist with rich, versatile experience in Information Security, Data Privacy, Risk Management, is also a regular speaker & panelist in the professional public forums and different domains.

Creation of strategic IT annual and long term roadmap with focus towards generating new revenue streams through innovation and intelligence thereby having experience in Information systems such as
– IS Procedure and Budgeting
– IT Strategy
– Systems Architecture
– Project and Program Management
– Network and System Security
– Disaster Recovery Planning
– Risk Assessment
– Regulatory Adherence and Governance
– Contingency Planning
– Executive Leadership and supervision
– C-level presentations and negotiations
– Cost takeout strategies

HONOURS
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RECEIVED THE “JEWELS OF PUNJAB” AWARD FROM DR. MANMOHAN SINGH (FORMER PRIME MINISTER)
WON THE BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION LEADERS AWARD FROM TECH CIRCLE FOR 2020
WON THE NBFC TECH 100 AWARD FOR DIRSRUPIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN 2019 AND 2020
AWARDED THE ACHIEVEMENTS AWARD AT MANAPPURAM FINANCE LIMITED
TOP 100 CISO AWARD 2011,2012, 2013 2014, 2015
INFOSEC MAESTROS AWARD 2014
CIO OF THE YEAR 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
HALL OF FAME CIO AWARD FOR 2017 (FOR BAGGING CIO 100 FOR 4 YEARS IN A ROW)
BUSINESS WORLD AWARD FOR IT ACCELERATION FOR INNOVATION IN STORAGE IN 2014
CIO OF THE YEAR 2006 IN MANUFACTURING SEGMENT
PC QUEST STORAGE FOR INNOVATION IN DATA STORAGE IN 2014

CERTIFICATIONS
TOGAF 9.1, Global CIO, CISA; CEH; LA ISO 27001:2013; ITIL; CCNA; CCNP; PMP

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Rajat Yadav
CIO
CNH Industrial

Rajat Yadav, CIO, CNH Industrial

Rajat heads the Information Technology function in India for CNH Industrial. He is a highly motivated and experienced Senior IT & Digital Technology executive with proven success in digital transformation, strategy development and execution, innovation, robotics and artificial intelligence, enterprise architecture and data & analytics. He has comprehensive understanding of consumer goods and automotive industry with international experience and affinity for multi-country leadership.

Rajat has extensive knowledge of latest technology and business trends, infusing existing and new emerging technologies to deliver business outcomes.

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Srinidhi S.R
Cloud India Head
Kyndryl

Tarun Pandey
Vice President – IT & Head Data
Aditya Birla Capital

Tarun Pandey, Vice President – IT & Head Data, Aditya Birla Capital

Known as the Change Agent and the Problem-Solver among his peers and acquaintances, Tarun Pandey has been recognized in 2013 by Computerworld USA as its Premier100 IT Leaders Honoree from among the global CIOs.

Over the two decades, Tarun has gained prolific experience by playing significant roles across sales, marketing, strategic consulting, business operations and enterprise IT functions. He has proven expertise in crafting environments that are conducive to creating business value, addressing organizational needs and augmenting growth. Over the years, Tarun has pioneered Business-IT transformations at various organizations across the financial services, media and FMCG verticals.

He is at present the Executive Vice President of IT & Head Data at Aditya Birla Capital. Earlier, he had been at business technology decision-maker positions at ING Investment Management Company, Tata AIG Insurance, Aviva Life Insurance, Hindustan Times and Coca-Cola India.

Tarun often speaks on a whole gamut of business & technology topics at various forums and conferences.

For his technology-driven achievements and contribution to business, he has been honored with a plethora of much-coveted accolades both in India and abroad, such as IDG CIO 100 (USA), IDG’s CIO100(India), IDC’s Insight ICONIC, Information Week’s Edge100, APAC CXO Forum’s Transformational CIO, Cybermedia’s Business Technology Excellence awards, and more.

Frost & Sullivan (USA) recognized Tarun’s cloud computing initiative at Aditya Birla Capital as the ‘Best-in-Class’ project in its category in the world, and honored him with the 2015 edition of CIO Impact Award.

Tarun has also been invited to join the ‘Verafirm Council for Constructive Partnership on Software’ (V-CCPS)—the world’s first expert group to foster collaboration among users, publishers, distributors, consultants, and service providers.

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Tejasvi Addagada
Head – Data Management, Governance, Privacy
Axis Bank

Tejasvi Addagada, Head – Data Management, Governance, Privacy, Axis Bank

Data Strategist, Engineer & Data Protection Officer with 15 years of success, assisting enterprises to develop, modernize & optimize digital and native capabilities to realize 100% benefits.

🔎 Data Management

✅ Mastering customer, product & financial data through MDM & CRM

✅ Use emerging technology like graph, bigdata, cloud ETL & warehouses for a natural opportunity

✅ Fix quality of critical data, with a six-sigma framework

✅ Curate metadata, ontology & taxonomies in line with global standards

✅ Manage information architecture using Togaf & Archimate standards

✅ Democratize data through a marketplace & deliver data with virtualization, ETL, streaming & CDC

🔎 Data Governance

➡️ Assess the maturity & culture of the organization, and put an operating model to monetize data

➡️ Cascade positive impact of governing data on Corporate Governance

➡️ Create an achievable & actionable Data Strategy based on org priorities

➡️ Draft data policy & institutionalize stewardship through tools like Axon, Collibra, IGC, Alation

➡️ Raise adoption of data standards through Platform & Project Governance

🔎 Business Analysis

⏩ Drive change management for customer-driven digital solutions that impact experience

⏩ Enterprise architecture using BIAN, FIBO models, TOGAF methodology with Archimate standards

⏩ Elicit, Manage & Translate requirements into solution capabilities

🔎 Data Protection, Privacy & Security

💹 Perform an organization-wide Privacy Impact assessment across business processes

💹 Set-up a privacy org structure for GDPR, CCPA, PDP with Privacy & Functional Stewards

💹 Adopting a security architecture for cloud, on-premise applications to protect data at rest/in-motion

🔎 Data Engineering

✳️ Transform COTS-based Data model to deployment with open source technology stack using Python, Spark, TensorFlow

✳️ Data Estate Modernization & Migration of ETL & Data assets to Cloud

✳️ Transform system-based data models into a Business Information Model for better discovery

»»» EXPERTISE »»»

🔅 Artificial Intelligence Modeling 🔅 Managed Data Operations 🔅 Master & Reference data management 🔅 Data warehousing & business intelligence 🔅 Data quality 🔅 Metadata management

🔅 Information architecture 🔅 Data privacy & protection 🔅 Change & Program management 💼 Served on the Board for IAIDQ, IQINT, Dattamza 📚 Author of the book “Data Management and Governance Services” 📐 Authorized to perform Capability assessment by IQINT & EDM Council

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Tejveer Bhogal
Head – Governance, Alliances & PMO
Bennett Coleman and Co.

Tejveer Bhogal, Head – Governance, Alliances & PMO, Bennett Coleman and Co.

Seasoned professional with 26+ years of work experience in Large Media Enterprise (BCCL), Global Audit and Consulting firm (EY), Largest software MNC (MICROSOFT), one of India’s largest SI present globally (WIPRO ltd) and a nice strategic partner in Education domain (APT technologies). Mantra to success is based on three key pillars : People, Process and Technology. Over more than two decades have been able to Garner Relationships across various Industries by engaging with Promoters, Business Houses, Corporates and Entrepreneurs. The TRUST has been developed purely by exchanging ideas and value based on domain knowledge (Underlying principles of Business & Technology) in the verticals such as Media and Entertainment, Education, Technology Services (IT/ITES), Telecommunications, Logistics & other Professional services organisations including non-profit and CSR. A certified coach and achieving TTT status, have been able to develop many resources on Soft Skills ( Presentation skills, corporate communications etc.) as well as Specialised domains such as Large opportunity management, Strategic engagements etc. Institutionalised frameworks around Governance, Risk and Compliance’s, Zero based budgeting and Cost optimisation/ rationalisation.Seasoned professional with 26+ years of work experience in Large Media Enterprise (BCCL), Global Audit and Consulting firm (EY), Largest software MNC (MICROSOFT), one of India’s largest SI present globally (WIPRO ltd) and a nice strategic partner in Education domain (APT technologies). Mantra to success is based on three key pillars : People, Process and Technology. Over more than two decades have been able to Garner Relationships across various Industries by engaging with Promoters, Business Houses, Corporates and Entrepreneurs. The TRUST has been developed purely by exchanging ideas and value based on domain knowledge (Underlying principles of Business & Technology) in the verticals such as Media and Entertainment, Education, Technology Services (IT/ITES), Telecommunications, Logistics & other Professional services organisations including non-profit and CSR. A certified coach and achieving TTT status, have been able to develop many resources on Soft Skills ( Presentation skills, corporate communications etc.) as well as Specialised domains such as Large opportunity management, Strategic engagements etc. Institutionalised frameworks around Governance, Risk and Compliance’s, Zero based budgeting and Cost optimisation/ rationalisation.
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Venkat Krishnan
Executive Director, Global Partner Solutions
Microsoft

Vinod Kumar
CIO
Fino Payments Bank

Vinod Kumar, CIO, Fino Payments Bank

Vinod Kumar is the Chief Information Officer of the Bank. He  was instrumental in setting up the robust IT infrastructure systems and is working on digital transformation initiatives towards creating a future ready bank.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering and an MBA in Information Systems.

Prior to Fino, he has worked at Teletech Services India Limited, ICICI Bank Limited and international assignments with Rakbank, and K-infosystems – FZE.

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Yogesh Jiandani
Management Consultant
Information Security Systems International

Yogesh Jiandani, Management Consultant, Information Security Systems International

29+ years of experience in Pre-sales systems engineering, Business development and Sales having handled multi million dollar sales wins in large Telecom, Service Provider and Enterprise – BFSI, Healthcare & Manufacturing. Business development and solution architecture in AWS and Google Cloud. Leading the design and deployment of a Multicloud container platform for channel partners and solution development using Kubernetes.
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