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Retail sector is changing every second, with e-commerce platforms and new entrants in the markets with the worry how do the retailers stay relevant in front of consumers? The biggest challenge here is to meet the customer expectations.

With the emergence of exponential technologies such as Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Artificial Intelligence and Analytics, the sector is witnessing a paradigm shift affecting business processes today. These technologies are creating the Future Store that exceeds customer expectations and making processes agile, accurate and compliant. On a closer look, we found many areas for intelligent automation in Order Management, Payments, Transportation, Warehousing & Inventory, Supplier Management, Risk Management, Procurement, Data Monitoring, Reverse logistics, Claims, Scorecards and Store Operations and other such processes. Moreover, IA significantly increases operational efficiency and cost savings. Warehouse & Inventory management systems and store management systems can be made touchless with intelligent automation to make them more efficient. Some of the applications include:

• Business and Sales analytics
• Cash & Credit reconciliation
• Stock replenishments
• Claims & refunds – with AI
• Store planning inventory and operations management
• Work order management

With the theme “REIMAGINING RETAIL: HOW BRANDS CAN USE AUTOMATION TO FUEL FINANCIAL GROWTH” the virtual webinar will initiate thought provoking discussions and advocate for technology innovation and practices for business growth in retail sector. Through the webinar we intend to understand that automation technologies will surely improve the practices in different industries. It is powered by Automation Anywhere and Brought to You by The Economic Times – EDGE.

Discussion Points :

1. How retailers are growing their financial services capabilities
2. Financial Disruption with Automation – Potential benefits and value added
3. Finance automation and Retail Business
4. RPA to Empower Workforce and Deliver a Better Customer Experience
5. RPA: The Next Step in Retail Automation

Girdhar Chitlangia
CFO
MoreRetail

Nandakumar Tirumalai
Vice President Finance
Titan Company Ltd

Ranjan Sharma
CIO & Head- Supply Chain Management
Bestseller

Saurabh Kishore
CIO
Tata Cliq

Sumeet Pathak
Digital Workforce Evangelist-IMEA
Automation Anywhere

Tanmay Kumar
CFO
Spencer’s Retail & Nature’s Basket

The current pandemic has turned 2020 into the year where companies large and small are migrating to the cloud.  Moving some part of the IT estate to containers, is now an important subset of a “move to cloud” strategy.

According to an IBM study, improving response to market changes and achieving greater levels of innovation were cited as strategic benefits by at least 50% of the respondents those who have achieved success with containers.

But the main challenge is that containerization is often viewed simply as an infrastructure upgrade, likened to hardware upgrades of the past. This view of containers often leads to a “lift-and-shift” approach, which misses the whole premise of what containers bring to the table.

But where does one start? How does one know which container platform fits best within one’s IT estate and how to make the right choices around container orchestration? Join The Economic Times Live Webinar, Containerization in 2020 and the New Red Hat Openshift 4.3, powered by IBM, to know more about containerization.

Key Takeaways :

• Understand the Red Hat OpenShift container platform
• Learn how to leverage unique security and productivity features designed to help eliminate substantial time spent on ongoing maintenance
• Accelerate cloud native application development to drive new, competitive capabilities

Intelligent Automation (RPA+AI) is truly disrupting the financial sector with larger revenue growth and efficiencies attributable to their automated initiatives. To enable enterprise transformations, CFO’s across the industries are heavily investing in Automation technologies. The convergence of technology and cognitive science offers businesses with powerful new tools to challenge new business obstacles with more certainty. The real challenge is to understand the business legacy systems and the change towards an intelligent automation enterprise.

Now the question is, how do you apply RPA+AI in a much more joined-up way to create these benefits? How do you drive intelligent automation and integrate human and machine capabilities to differentiate yourself in the market? How CFO’s and financial firms stay ahead of change and set themselves up for a new future?

With the theme “Changing Landscape of Financial Services WITH Intelligent Automation” the virtual webinar will initiate thought provoking discussions and advocate for technology innovation and practices for business growth in financial services. Through the webinar we intend to understand that automation technologies will surely improve the practices in different industries. It is powered by Automation Anywhere and Brought to You by The Economic Times EDGE.

Discussion Points :

1. How Automaton Is Changing the Function of Finance
2. Financial Disruption with Automation – Potential benefits and value added
3. Secure future and Secure higher accuracy and efficiency by streamlining financial operations
4. Transforming Accounting with RPA and Cognitive Automation
5. DIGITAL Finance: Strengthened with Intelligent Automation

Ashish Sinha
CFO
Hafele

Arnab Roy
CFO
Schneider Electric Infrastructure

Praveen Polavaram
Vice President, Finance, Accounting & Facilities Management
Berkadia Services India

S Saravanan
MBA., ACMA., ACS – Chief Financial Officer & Company Secretary
Stahl India

Sumeet Pathak
Digital Workforce Evangelist
IMEA Automation Anywhere

*Agenda is subject to change

With more than 70,000 positive cases for COVID 19 and more than a month of lockdown has deeply impacted everybody’s personal and professional lives. These are crucial moments for us as the economy of the country is at risk. This has deeply affected the manufacturing segment, plants have been shut down, production of non-essential items have been halted. This has created a cascading effect for all stake holders, organizations are evaluating their policies and new strategies are being implemented in order to create revenue.

How companies can work remotely, without having any difficulties. Who can ensure a smooth running of the plants and informs the issues before it even happens? These with some other questions which are being asked today and only solution to these questions are industry 4.0 technologies. Artificial intelligence and IOTs, robotics, automation, predictive maintenance is some of the technologies which can be useful under these circumstances.

All these technologies are directly or indirectly linked to asset management, which is an integral part of an organization. It is linked to the profitability & revenue generation, which means its management and maintenance plays an important role.

Points for discussion:

• Achieving optimum lifecycle from an asset in order get maximum productivity
• Predictive maintenance to root out malfunctions before it occurred
• Asset maintenance through EAM

The COVID – 19 pandemics has led to unparalleled public concerns about viral transmission via cash. The number of internet searches pertaining to both “cash” and “virus” is at record highs. There is a huge increase in queries on the safety of using cash and addressing to these queries, RBI has also prescribed on the use of digital payments. While the COVID – 19 pandemics has disrupted economic activities across the globe, on the positive side it has provided an opportunity for digital payments to strike deeper roots and grow substantially across the globe. With restricted and disrupted social contact expected to remain for the greater part of 2020 and “Anytime, Anywhere and Contactless Payments” holding the key to economic activity, digital payment can play a pivotal role in the journey back to economic normalcy and return on its growth journey.

The Economic Times Digital Payments 2.0 Virtual Summit will discover a world of innovation that will transform how we transact and device a highly engaging and educative networking platform that will encourage the stakeholders to collaborate and innovate.

We will capture the thoughts of the visionary and deliberate on the action points that are required to take this sector to the next level and how it will help in transforming our economy. We will talk about the emergence of new sectors and technologies that will help to go cashless, deliberate on the global security concerns, fraud management, open banking and financial inclusion, innovation in payments and more.

Today, digital transformation is no longer an option for you, but is imperative for businesses around the world. To navigate through this time of uncertainties, crisis, and multiple risks, we need resilient models for living, working, and conducting business.

Modernization, as an integral element of digital transformation, is first and foremost about improving the value delivered to its clients. According to “State of IT Modernization 2020*” survey results, which are based on an online survey of 200 IT executives at U.S. organizations conducted by IDG Research in December 2019, about 67% of respondents say IT modernization is essential to enable business transformation initiatives.

The survey defined IT modernization as the transformation of IT platforms (public and/or private cloud, on-premises data centers, and/or edge), operations, processes, and applications, to achieve desired business outcomes.

Join The Economic Times Live Webinar, Optimize Infrastructure and Workloads for Portability and Flexibility, powered by IBM, to understand how modernization helps clients to Optimize IT enabling digital transformation.

Key Takeaways:

• Design and build virtualized environments to secure an agile infrastructure
• Develop a multi-cloud strategy roadmap encompassing security, resiliency and management needs
• Migrate workloads across private, public and multi-clouds using predefined client demand profiles and capability patterns

In today’s era, AI is playing a fundamentally transformational role across every business and further each function within a business. From Employee Empowerment to Optimization of Business Operations, AI is taking centre-stage and defining entirely new ways of doing business.

According to MIT Technology Review, about 81% organizations believe AI will have a positive impact on their industry in the future and important Industries like Manufacturing & Logistics are at the forefront of driving this positive impact. As these industries shift to the new normal of Connected World, they are increasingly leaning on ensuring smarter business processes including automation of supply chains, intelligent forecasting, creating digital feedback loop for product innovation and largely AI-infusion across business processes making the whole operational chain intelligent and connected.

Join us for an interesting session by ET Unwired to unlock the Power of AI for Intelligent Operations for your organization, powered by Microsoft & DXC Technology. We will be doing a deep dive into specifically discrete digital manufacturing operations like material inflow, production, supply chain etc. and explore how customer experience can be completely transformed leveraging AI-led connected operations.

Key Takeaways:

• Intelligent Manufacturing operations process
• Automating logistics using AI
• Managing Virtual Operations using Digital Twin
• Improving Shopfloor/ Assembly-line Productivity

The entire world is gripped by the Covid-19 pandemic, the global supply chain is experiencing a level of disruption that has never been seen before. Some manufacturing companies have halted their production completely, while some have seen greatly reduced demand and others have seen a massive increase in demand. The global crisis has affected every manufacturer in some way or the other. From being one of the potential growing, automation – widely regarded as optimistic & future thinking sector to coming to a point of cessation, due to the increasing number of cases.

Recent developments in factory optimization have forced the need to adapt machinery and other processes to make manufacturing more effective. Industrial Automation sector is opening many opportunities for technology companies that are innovative and can cater to automotive or agricultural companies. Demand is further expected to increase in the coming years as companies need more Automation to remain competitive. Moreover, Industrial Automation is becoming an important part of companies producing in India that apply the latest technologies.

Besides, India is moving towards Industry 4.0. Hence, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) will emerge as a game-changer for the manufacturing Industry. India provides a great pool of skilled workforce for the Industrial Automation sector. This industry has a great present and future prospect. Companies interested in entering India will find good business opportunities in this sector.

We will be discussing on automation for manufacturing and how we can implement them in our plants and workstations. Various applications and creating a sound environment for a manufacturing plant to run at less capacity but increasing its productivity.

Statistics:

• The global Industrial Automation Market size was valued at USD 157.04 Billion in 2018. It is expected to reach USD 296.70 Billion by 2026.
• The Indian Industrial Automation Market size was valued at USD 5 Billion in 2018. It is further expected to grow at a CAGR of 12% by 2023.

Webinar Topic: Automation is future for manufacturing

Talk points:

• Automating industry – post COVID19 crisis scenario
• New advancements in automation and implementation
• Applications for automation in manufacturing industry
• Robotics & factory of the future

By now, it’s immensely clear that our era will be defined by a fundamental schism: the period before Covid-19 and the new normal that will emerge in the post-viral era: the “next normal.”

In this unprecedented new reality, we will witness a dramatic restructuring of the economic and social order in which business and society have traditionally operated.

We will see the beginning of discussion and debate about what the next normal could entail and how sharply its contours will diverge from those that previously shaped out lives.

Whether finance, manufacturing, logistics, the Covid-19 pandemic has compelled every line of business to undergo a change.

Remote working and work from home has become the new normal. Post-Covid, the prowess of technology is more palpable, however, there are some challenges  in terms of modernizing LOB applications to meet today’s IT and the changing business needs.

Join The Economic Times Panel discussion in association with Microsoft, SAP, EY and eminent business, finance and technology leaders.. The panel will discuss how to leverage the right technology to enable faster development, higher productivity, reduced costs and more secure applications throughout organisations.

This Panel Discussion would broadly cover

• Current market situation and the impact of COVID on businesses
• How particular Lines of Businesses have been impacted by the many fallouts of the pandemic including remote working with work from home becoming the new normal
• How technology can be used to overcome some of these challenges and real world examples of how this is already happening in fast growth organisations
• How advanced technology solutions of SAP and MS together with the experience and insights by EY can enable the new normal with digitally native workloads hosted in cloud
• Jumpstarting your business growth engine and building adaptable resilient businesses with the help of transformative technologies

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