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India has been at the forefront of championing the concept of multilateral collaboration over the past decade. We’ve witnessed notable achievements in this domain, such as the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) facilitating the National Financial Switch or the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), which has empowered various stakeholders to coexist harmoniously within an ecosystem without the fear of displacement. Now, this collaborative spirit is extending its reach into the realms of commerce and credit through initiatives like the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) and the Open Credit Enablement Network (OCEN).

Multilateral models in commerce, characterized by interactions involving multiple parties, are gaining prominence due to technological advancements. One key aspect to explore is the applicability of this model across various industries and sectors. This transition is often facilitated by open protocols, which serve as the infrastructure for these multilateral systems. Open protocols enable standardized communication and data exchange among diverse participants, fostering collaboration and innovation. By discussing real-world examples, participants can delve into how open protocols are transforming traditional commerce, unlocking new possibilities for businesses to engage with a broader ecosystem.

nStore in association with ET Edge requests your presence for an exclusive roundtable to discuss Bilateral to Multilateral Models on 29^th September 2023 at Pullman and Novotel, New Delhi Aerocity from 6:00 PM Onwards.

Key Discussion Points:

• Exploring the applicability of this model in the realm of commerce and the potential role of an open protocol.
• Examining how businesses perceive this as either an opportunity or simply another channel.
• Identifying the potential benefits that multilateral systems offer to stakeholders.
• Discussing strategies for enabling diverse businesses to coexist and capitalize on each other’s strengths.

Abhishek Sinha
DGM – Digital Marketing
House of Beauty

Lakshmi Narasimhan
Co-founder & COO
nStore

Rajat Mathur
Partner
BCG India

Satyam Singh
Head – ecommerce (B2C & B2B)
Campus Activewear

Shantanu Chauhan
Director Marketing
Noise

Shikha Attrey
Marketing Head
Kaff

Surinder Pal Singh
Logistics Head
Microtek

Vibhor Jain
Chief Operating Officer & President
Network Governance

Connected Manufacturing is at a turning point. Analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence are reshaping the manufacturing landscape.

However, in order to capitalize on this fundamental shift, manufacturers need the ability to ingest, process, store, and analyze all types of data (structured, unstructured, and semi structured data) regardless of where it lands—at the edge, on the factory floor, in any public cloud, or in a hybrid cloud.

Today’s manufacturers face limitations addressing the stressful complexities of digitalization. Much of these limitations are due to the rapid evolution of new, connected data sources and the massive volume of data spawn out.

Real-time data is growing 50% faster than latent or static data forms coming into the forefront of manufacturing use cases because they enable real-time insight and more importantly autonomous decision making.

Manufacturing organizations will require an up-to-date data infrastructure that reduces data management expenses, accommodates the sheer volume and diversity of IoT data, handles the intricacies of real-time data processing, and possesses distinctive features tailored for hybrid and multi-cloud environments. This platform should also effectively address critical manufacturing use cases, offer comprehensive security and governance from the edge to AI, and be built upon an open, continually evolving architectural foundation.

Cloudera in association with ET Edge Insights requests your presence for an exclusive roundtable to discuss some of the critical challenges and key considerations that organizations face with respect to data management for Connected Manufacturing, and how to navigate the changes it will generate.

Key Discussions:

• Handling the volume and variety of IoT data
• The cost of data management
• Managing the complexity of real-time data
• Diverse analytical capabilities
• Intelligent Operations

RSVP: Vibhuti Kadam | 98700 48481 | vibhuti.kadam@timesgroup.com

A paradox exists in the business world: while IT’s strategic importance is growing, budgets are shrinking, challenging companies to do more with less.

As a result, IT organizations are seeking solutions that allow them to move from reactive to proactive, from network-centric to user-centric, and from manual to automated in order to mitigate downtime and reduce the need for human intervention.

To address the “new world order,” CIOs must fundamentally change how they look at their network infrastructure. All too often there is a disconnect between network performance and user experience, which gets worse as the number of users, devices and applications increases.

CIOs have the responsibility to leverage both existing and emerging technologies to drive digital transformation within their organizations, be resilient to absorb any future-shocks and at the same time assure superior end-user experiences.

Today’s enterprise networks support many Wi-Fi connected users and devices, as well as applications deployed in public, private, and hybrid clouds. Users demand the same seamless network experience no matter how they are connected or where their applications reside.

Technologies powered by AI and AIOps can change how we work, communicate, and relate to one another. Enterprises can dispense with slow and outdated work processes by adapting smarter ways to diagnose problems, action solutions, and deliver more immediate outcomes that return compounding value.

Enterprises today need simpler and more affordable networks. They need networks that will deliver optimized network experiences for users and devices, uncompromising reliability, and built-in security.

IT teams have a lot on their plates in terms of managing their organizations’ corporate networks. The good news: certain technologies can help.

Join Sujai Hajela, Executive Vice President, AI-Driven Enterprise at Juniper Networks and ET Edge Insights host Ashwani Mishra along with C-suite for a peer-to-peer discussion on identifying challenges and opportunities that AI brings and how to tip the AI scales in your favour.

Key Areas of Discussion:

• Meet the challenges of today’s networks
• Infuse power of AI across wired and wireless networks
• Create assured end-user experience through visibility and optimization
• Discover scalability, agility and flexibility with AIOps and modern clouds
• Maximize investments and empower IT teams to innovate
• Create integrated security with real-time threat awareness

Chander Damodaran
MD & CTO
Brillio

Anil Menon
CIO
Lulu Group

Surendra S
Managing Director – ISA – APAC and Global Network Services and Voice operations Lead
Accenture

Subrahmanya Gupta Boda
Head IT & Digital
Brigade Group

Rajmohan Rajgopala
Head-IT
Titan

Anil Nama
CIO
Data Centers

Harish Sharma
Chief Information and Digital Officer (CIDO) and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Toyota Financial Services India

Dillip Kumar Mohapatra
Campus Computer Manager
IIM Banagalore

Sheena George
Digital, Cloud & Workforce Technology Partne
EY
Moderator

The financial services industry has become increasingly focused on growth and transformation. which has made integrating new technologies into the customer experience one of the most critical aspects.

A true measure of success, however, lies in the ability to deliver cultural, organizational, and operational changes aligned with customer expectations in order to achieve the desired results.

Having the right digital foundation is table stakes. But it is easier said than done?
Join us for an exclusive Financial Services Roundtable where we will explore ways in which companies in the financial industry can leverage cloud technology to enhance agility, security, and longevity within their business models.

In addition to discussing how Generative AI has the potential to revolutionize the financial sector, we will also discuss how this innovation will usher in a new age of innovation, efficiency, and enhanced customer experience in the financial sector.

With the help of industry experts and other CXOs, you will have the opportunity to network with other companies and industry leaders and gain insights from their best practices.
The discussion will revolve around how you can:

• Be Agile: By optimizing your multi-cloud strategy, meet changing customer demands and regulatory requirements.
• Empower: Your workforce to deliver more personalized products and services.
• Build Digital Trust: Defend against digital bank heists and streamline compliance to safeguard financial data and brand reputation.

Venkatasubramanian V
Deputy General Manager Information Technology
City Union Bank

Kokil Vira
Director – Solution Engineering
VMware India

Rizwan Ebrahim Shaikh
Staff Specialist Solution Engineer, EUC
VMware India

Sanjay Gupta
Partner, Consulting
Deloitte

Sendil kumar Venkatesan
CTO
Shriram Capital Limited

Sidhwartha Roy
SVP -IT
EQUITAS

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The CXO leadership Dinner sessions scheduled in August across Bangalore & Mumbai will be a momentous high level gathering of Technology & InfoSec leaders across industries to discuss the growing importance of DevSecOps practices in bolstering supply chain security.

In the process of software development organizations undergo various steps to secure their applications from the attackers who also have developed more advanced and creative methods. Digital transformation has become an existential requirement for almost all enterprises. Such transformation includes three significant motions: more software, cloud technologies and DevOps methodologies.

Cloud means use of newer technologies that introduce different risks, change faster, are more publicly accessible — eliminating or redefining the concept of a secure perimeter. It also means many of the IT and infrastructure risks are moved to the cloud, and others are becoming purely software defined, reducing many risks while highlighting the importance of permission and access management.

With increasingly sophisticated cyber threats targeting the software supply chain, DevSecOps practices allow organizations to embed security within their development lifecycle, creating more resilient and secure software. The panellists will discuss key challenges and strategies for implementing DevSecOps, drawing from their extensive experience managing cybersecurity in complex, global organizations. They will also explore how DevSecOps can reduce the risk of software supply chain attacks, ensure software products’ integrity, and safeguard the end-users.

Join the ET Edge CXO Roundtable Session powered by Snyk to secure critical components of your software supply chain, including first-party code, open source libraries, container images, and cloud infrastructure, right in the tools your developers use every day.

Key Areas of Discussion:

• How is DevSecOps redefining traditional approaches to supply chain security?
• What are the greatest challenges when integrating security into the development lifecycle, and how can organizations overcome these obstacles?
• Given the rise in open-source software usage, how can DevSecOps practices be utilized to ensure the security of these components in the supply chain?
• How can small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) integrate DevSecOps into their workflows despite resource constraints?
• How do we measure the effectiveness of DevSecOps practices in improving supply chain security?

Ayan De
Head IT
HDFC Life Insurance

Jagdish Narayanan
Chief Information Officer
Reliance Jio Payments Bank

Ranjan Sahoo
SVP & Head, Data Engineering
Fullerton India Credit

Nandan Gandre
Head Risk & Application Security
IIFL

Sachidanand Muchandi
Director, Group CISO
J M Financial Ltd

Ajay Gupta
VP Technology
Kotak Mahindra Bank

Bhagwatiprasad Dubey
AVP & CISO
Axis Mutual Fund

Kamalesh Tripathi
Head-IT Infrastructure
Ageas ferderal

R. K. Shastri
SVP Technology
SBI

Dillip Kumar
SVP 2 Head of Data Cloud Platform
HDFC Bank

Ravindra Ved
Security Architect
Amazon Internet Services

Vishal Khare
Regional Vice President
Snyk

Samantha Wessels
Senior Vice President – EMEA & APJ (International)
Snyk

Ashwani Mishra
Chief Editor – Technology
ET Edge
Moderator

The CXO leadership Dinner sessions scheduled in August across Bangalore & Mumbai will be a momentous high level gathering of Technology & InfoSec leaders across industries to discuss the growing importance of DevSecOps practices in bolstering supply chain security.

In the process of software development organizations undergo various steps to secure their applications from the attackers who also have developed more advanced and creative methods. Digital transformation has become an existential requirement for almost all enterprises. Such transformation includes three significant motions: more software, cloud technologies and DevOps methodologies.

Cloud means use of newer technologies that introduce different risks, change faster, are more publicly accessible — eliminating or redefining the concept of a secure perimeter. It also means many of the IT and infrastructure risks are moved to the cloud, and others are becoming purely software defined, reducing many risks while highlighting the importance of permission and access management.

With increasingly sophisticated cyber threats targeting the software supply chain, DevSecOps practices allow organizations to embed security within their development lifecycle, creating more resilient and secure software. The panellists will discuss key challenges and strategies for implementing DevSecOps, drawing from their extensive experience managing cybersecurity in complex, global organizations. They will also explore how DevSecOps can reduce the risk of software supply chain attacks, ensure software products’ integrity, and safeguard the end-users.

Join the ET Edge CXO Roundtable Session powered by Snyk to secure critical components of your software supply chain, including first-party code, open source libraries, container images, and cloud infrastructure, right in the tools your developers use every day.

Key Areas of Discussion:

• How is DevSecOps redefining traditional approaches to supply chain security?
• What are the greatest challenges when integrating security into the development lifecycle, and how can organizations overcome these obstacles?
• Given the rise in open-source software usage, how can DevSecOps practices be utilized to ensure the security of these components in the supply chain?
• How can small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) integrate DevSecOps into their workflows despite resource constraints?
• How do we measure the effectiveness of DevSecOps practices in improving supply chain security?

Raman Pillai
Director – IT
Verse Innovation

Jayanta Lahiri
Global CIO
Craftoplex Pvt Ltd

Paromesh Chatterjee
Head IT
IDFC First Bank

Niraj Kumar
Director Technology & Engineering
Shadowfax

Kiran
VP of Data Platform Engineering
Meesho

Vasudevan Nagarajan
Senior Director – Tech, Infrastructure Engineering
Cashfree Payments

Karthikeyan K
Co-Founder & CTO
KreditBee

Mohit Kumar
Associate Director IT – Head of DevSecOps
Zoom Car

Bijoy Moothedath Ramanathan
Director – DevOps
Perfios Software Solutions

Amit Rana
Head IT
Embibe

Deepak Gangadharan
CTO
India1 Payments

Vasudev Prabhu
Director IT Resiliency
Cognizant

Paramanand Mallik
Senior Security Architect
Amazon Internet Services

Vishal Khare
Regional Vice President
Snyk

Samantha Wessels
Senior Vice President – EMEA & APJ (International)
Snyk

Have you faced scenarios where your team creates and validates a good model, but hasn’t been able to embed it within a business process? When any AI project starts, are you confident that all stakeholders on the business problem and goal aligned? India has reported the highest proportion of frequent AI strategy obstacles and 66% AI project failure rates for complete adoption of the AI initiatives. One of the reasons is Organisational Friction. Data and AI projects run into issues, including delays, mistakes, misalignment, and miscommunications that can lead to failure. These issues are commonly referred to as friction. Organizational friction is friction that exists between departments, teams, and individuals which can affect organizations both horizontally and vertically.

To improvise and yield innovation in solving a business problem, it is essential to align the teams and identify the challenges that teams need to overcome to bring on the magic.

The other import aspect is managing the technical debt. Maintaining large open-source codes can be a double-edged sword, as it often gives rise to the lurking specter of technical debt. The sheer size and complexity of these codebases can lead to intricate webs of dependencies and outdated fragments that impede progress. Each addition or modification introduces the risk of accumulating further debt, making future maintenance a daunting task.

In a bid to bridge this gap of opportunity unbound and challenges, we on behalf of Times Group, ET Edge is organising an evening round-table discussion, for select data science leaders and officers, who will join to brainstorm on the opportunities, scope, challenges, and probable methods of mitigation to address them, on 20^th July 2023 (Thursday) in Bangalore.

The discussion will decode on:

• Marrying the data and business case
• Breaking silos of users of various skills
• Team collaboration for efficiency and precision
• Taming technical debt with open-source adoption
• Enabling enterprise-wide multi-persona data-science
• Ethical use of Generative AI to accelerate AI adoption
• Modern, scalable deployment
• Data Governance and Security
  And more..

Sherine John
Vice President & Credit Leader
Synchrony

Siddharth V
CRO
KreditBee

Siddharth Raghuvanshi
Head of Analytics and Data Science
Rupifi

Piyush Chourashiya
Head of Data
CoinDCX

Achal Ananth
Head of Analytics
PhonePe

Ashish Khandelwal
Head Data Science – AI, ML and Automation
GoDigit Insurance

Venika Wadhwa
Head of Analytics
Small Case

Sayandeep Bhowmik
Head of Analytics- Investment
Groww.in

Anuradha Bhatia
Head- Data Analytics and AI
Standard Chartered Bank

Sudhir Padaki
Director, Data Analytics, APAC
Altair

Ashwani Mishra
Assistant Director – Content
ET Edge
Moderator

Data seems to have an exceptional publicist, consistently making headlines whether it’s about security breaches, the ever-changing landscape of personal data collection, or the introduction of new regulations governing its utilisation.

Today’s data landscape is a hybrid, multi-cloud world, and it’s everything, everywhere, all at once, making data protection across a significant challenge.

Moving ahead, protecting data is only going to get tougher.

Are CIOs ready to protect what is the most important enterprise asset?

Historically, you’ve only had one way to manage that…with more. More tools…each covering a part of what you need. And they require more integrations, more to learn, more work, more complexity… and the costs associated with it.  And more tools create more gaps for more vulnerabilities, which could drive up prices even more, you could say, astronomically.

The challenge for IT and Security leaders is unenviable – protect all data no matter where it resides, prepare for ransomware and other cyber threats, and do all of this at ever shrinking budgets and skill shortages.

It does not have to be all doom and gloom though.

Join this exclusive-invite only Round Table to meet with other industry peers and data protection experts to discuss challenges, deliberate strategies and identify best practices to deal with this challenge.

Key Takeaways:

→ Understand and govern data – Manage visibility and governance of data assets across your on-prem workloads as well as cloud-native applications

→ Safeguard data, wherever it lives – Protect sensitive data across clouds, apps, and devices

→ Improve risk posture – Identify data risks and manage data protection requirements

Now, more than ever, enterprises need to deliver customer value, quickly and with fewer investments.

Tech leaders are feeling the heat of rising costs and unpredictable market conditions. They are struggling to leverage engineering talent in a more effective and sustainable way. Additionally, new economic and geopolitical headwinds are pressuring businesses to rethink a lot of things – including their tech strategy.

The missing piece is a field-tested and data-driven framework that can combine various platform technologies, engineering practices, and developer experience approaches under an overarching measurement and governance model.

Our recommendation is to invest in a data-driven approach to building a high-performing organization that not only improves team culture and morale but has a direct impact on your organization’s bottom line.

In our latest webinar, we discuss how you can adopt this approach and successfully transform the engineering organization. You will discover how the leading Latin American retail conglomerate; Falabella, powered its omnichannel strategy ( marketplace and physical stores ) on the back of a platform-driven approach.

This virtual session is by-invite-only and brought to you by Thoughtworks and powered by ET Insights.

Talking points:

• Reduce total cost of engineering and time to value
• Engineer smooth software rollouts
• Increase delivery predictability
• Acquire and retain top development talent by identifying capability mismatches and building the right skills

Ariel Schabas
CTO, Ecommerce & Marketplace / CIO
Falabella

Ryan Murray
Executive Technical Director, Client Solutions
Thoughtworks 

Ashwani Mishra
Technology Editor
ET Insights

Sunit Parekh
Service Lead, Enterprise Modernization Platforms and Cloud Service Line
Thoughtworks India

Akshay Dhavle
Principal Consultant-
Digital Talent Strategy,
Thoughtworks India