The Economic Times Hybrid Data Infrastructure Roundtable

The modern, hybrid data centre supports the delivery of new application workloads over dynamic network fabric and virtual machine infrastructure, enabling improved IT efficiency, automation, and agility. Utilizing a hybrid data centre is an evolution approach that enables businesses to combine the proper amount of traditional IT and the cloud to meet their needs. The ability to migrate across on-premises data centres, private and public clouds anywhere in the world is a prerequisite for today’s modern applications, depending on the needs of the business. These widely dispersed applications must expand, contract, migrate, rewrite, and redeploy as necessary to meet business requirements. Applications and data can be stored on the platform that best meets their needs thanks to a hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Infrastructures for hybrid clouds are here to stay. They offer opportunities for organisations to improve performance, cut expenses, and become more agile. The Economic Times Hybrid Data Infrastructure Roundtable will help you to think about how hybrid data infrastructure can benefit your business.

Agenda

18:40 – 19:00 Registration and Networking
19:05 – 19:10 Welcome & Introduction by The Economic Times
19:10 – 19:25 Special Address: Rob Bearden, CEO, Cloudera
19:25 – 20:25 Discussion: Sustaining the future of hybrid data infrastructure

A modern data architecture, as recommended by industry experts, can only be enabled by integrating multi-function data analytics with secure and controlled data management for hybrid and multi-cloud data developed with open-source technologies and working as a cohesive system. In this session, we will focus on:

  • Data Fabric Architecture
  • Data Fabric & Data Mesh
  • Modernising Data Management and Data Integration
  • Hybrid data Scalability
  • Dynamic or frequently changing workloads
  • Hybrid cloud networking
  • Modern hybrid cloud architecture

20:30

 Cocktail and Dinner

Speakers

Rob Bearden
Chief Executive Officer
Cloudera

Abhas Ricky
Chief Strategy Officer
Cloudera

Ashwin Jaiswal
Head Technology Strategy
Reliance Group (ADA)

Avadhut Parab
CIO
Parle Agro

Deepak Bhatia
Information Technology Specialist
Export-Import Bank of India

Manish Parikh
CTO
Atos

Narendra K Saini
CDO
Lupin

Riyaz Ladiwala
SEVP, Head tech & Operations
(EWM) Edelweiss Wealth Management

Sanjeev Chaube
Executive Vice President & Head – Big Data & Advanced Analytics
Vodafone Idea

Viraj Deshpande
CIO
Reliance Industries

Yogesh Jiandani
Founder
Vir2lize

Rob Bearden, Chief Executive Officer, Cloudera

Rob Bearden is an experienced enterprise software executive. He was co-founder and CEO of Hortonworks, a publicly traded open-source company that merged with Cloudera in 2019. He also served as President and COO of SpringSource, a leading provider of open-source developer tools, until its acquisition by VMWare in 2009. Before joining SpringSource, Bearden served as Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital. He also served as COO of JBoss, a leading open-source middleware company, until its acquisition by Red Hat in 2006.
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Abhas Ricky, Chief Strategy Officer, Cloudera

As chief strategy officer, Abhas leads the overall corporate strategy for Cloudera and is responsible for creating the company vision, building the business and customer target operating model, communicating that with key stakeholders via clearly defined OKRs, and executing key transformational initiatives to realize that plan. He’s also tasked with driving growth and innovation and making appropriate build/buy partner decisions, including pricing and packaging, corporate development, and Cloudera’s innovation accelerator to launch new products. Previously, he served as chief of staff and vice president for business transformation at the company. Prior to the Cloudera/Hortonworks merger, he helped scale Hortonworks’ go-to-market efforts as global head of customer innovation and value management. A management consultant by training, he is passionate about driving action and change in the society and has led projects with multiple organizations including the World Economic Forum, Founders of the Future, and other nonprofits.
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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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Narendra K Saini, CDO, Lupin

Mr. Narendra Saini is the head of Digital and Data at Lupin. His responsibilities include overseeing the company’s Digital Transformation
initiatives.

Narendra brings more than 22 years of excellent mix from Products & Services organizations. Prior to Lupin, he has worked with companies such
as Reliance Unlimit, Tata Technologies, Sukrut Systems, Tejas Networks, and Philips Semiconductor (now NXP). Being an acclaimed industry speaker at international forums, he advises and mentors business leaders including CXOs globally on IoT & Analytics led Digital Transformation. He is also involved with start-up ecosystems with companies that are in a range of developmental stages.

Narendra received the 1st m-Billionth South Asia Award in 2013 for m-Governance by Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF), DFID Sankalp
Award in 2012 and featured in the Red Herring Asia 100 – Tech Startup List in 2011. He was recognized as one of the Top 50 Innovators in India by the Department of Science & Technology (DST) and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), for his social entrepreneurial product in 2011. As a dual master’s degree holder, Narendra holds a Master of Technology from IIT-Delhi and a Master of Science in Physics from IIT-Roorkee.

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Riyaz Ladiwala, SEVP, Head tech & Operations, (EWM) Edelweiss Wealth Management

Riyaz is an SEVP and currently Head – Technology and Operations for at Edelweiss’ Wealth Management business.

The Wealth Management business at Edelweiss encompasses Wealth Management, Custodial Services, Credit and Distribution. The business services Individual and institutional clients – both in India and overseas.

Highlights

· Rich experience of close to 25 years in capital markets having spent significant time in operations, technology, strategy and business across broking, research, and financial planning, wealth and asset management.

· Digital champion with strong expertise in driving digital transformation across enterprise, managing large tech projects across consumer platforms and driving a culture of customer experience in the organisation.

· Strong leadership skills; has led a variety of teams ranging from 25 to over 500 in various roles over his career.

Career Highlights

Started his career in 1996 as an analyst with Quantum Financial Services – India’s first independent equity research house.

· At Quantum, starting with a small team of 5, Riyaz grew the team to more than 100 offering a variety of advisory services for Indian investors.

· Led technology and operations teams which launched equitymaster.com – India’s first equity research portal, the first online portfolio tracker software and the first portfolio to offer financial news, stock charts and live stock prices.

· Over 12 years, transformed the organisation from the offline world into a digital powerhouse

 

Moved to Edelweiss in 2008. Have now spent close to 13 years at Edelweiss Financial Services.

· During this period, he served as the COO for the retail broking business and jointly led the operation and technology integration of Anagram Stock Broking (acquired by Edelweiss in 2011).

 

· After co-heading the retail broking business, he moved to leading all digital and tech initiatives for Edelweiss’ Wealth and Broking businesses. Some of the key highlights of this position:

1. Built the customer service and analytics backbone for broking and wealth business through a comprehensive data warehouse

2. Led the team which developed the Edelweiss Mobile Trader platform – India’s highest rated mobile trading application

3. Drove the conceptual and development rollout of Edelweiss.in – India’s favourite online investment destination

4. Set up and ran processes for several new businesses at Edelweiss, including ESOP Funding and Asset Management

 

· Served as COO of Edelweiss’ Asset Management business between 2017 to 2020. Over three years, built out the foundation for scale and digital adoption. Oversaw the operations of the

AMC from an AUM of 6,500 cr to just over 50,000 cr in this period. A highlight of this tenure was the launch of Bharat Bond, India’s first debt ETF.

 

· In his current avatar as Head – Tech and Operations, Riyaz is responsible for setting out the tech vision for the organisation and its execution across all business verticals. Key strategic priorities for him are to build scale at the enterprise and upgrade customer platforms to improve client experience.

Riyaz is an MBA in Finance from MET Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai along with degrees in Physics and Cost Accountancy.

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Yogesh Jiandani, Founder, Vir2lize

  1. Founder of Vir2lize, building a healthcare solution utilizing IoT and Cloud.
  2. Management Consultant at Information Security Systems International involved in Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud) Partner consulting, audits, and advisory.
  3. Advisor to TrainingWorld360.com for co-creation of L&D Maps for a large MNC on MultiCloud involving AWS, Google, Docker, and Kubernetes.
  4. Mentor for Fintech, AI, and IoT startups in sales and business development. He has helped startups with their investor and sales pitches.
  5. Speaker and Moderator at several industry forums and events with Cisco, Economic Times, Nasscom COE, FICCI, IBM, Microsoft, LTE Asia, APRICOT, SANOG, Barclays RISE, and others. Judge at the Fintech Finals 2017 for selection of India finalist representation at Hong Kong.
  6. Advisor to some top financial & Telco customers on their Cloud, Datacenter, and 5G strategy.

Before, he was the CTO and Head of Presales for the Global Service Provider (GSP) segment, India and SAARC region at Cisco. Yogesh’s 12-year career at Cisco was rooted in evangelization and strategic consulting for telecommunications networks. He was responsible for developing and managing the India and SAARC Service Provider segment vision and strategy. He has worked closely with the CxOs in the top telecom operators in India, ASEAN, and the US to define the next wave of solutions to add value to their offerings, reduce operational expenses and drive agility in deploying new services.

He is an industry veteran with a career of 30 years span working with Multi-Cloud, DevOps, Telecommunications and Service Provider (SP), Enterprise (Banking and Financial Services, Manufacturing, Logistics, and Oil & Gas segments), Government, Defence, and Sports building large scale networks.

He led large-scale Smart City builds & the Digital India program with the SPs.

He has been widely associated with the education sector working with them to evolve their programs for the upcoming generations aligning them to real-world developments.

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