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Powering A More Secure Banking

The $5 billion 1MDB scandal in Malaysia that first came to light in 2015, brought sharp focus on Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations and their implementation in South East Asia.

Leading experts and organization’s estimate that the current global pandemic has boosted money laundering globally after a sharp spike in online banking.  A large number of digital banking transactions were accompanied by rising transactions from unverifiable identities. This is expected to have substantially augmented an illegal activity that was already worth $1.6 trillion before the onset of the pandemic.

Since regular bank transactions and, export trade, where banks again come into the picture, are key routes to money laundering, AML regulations by central banks, and their implementation have rightly become the focus of banking regulators, especially those in South East Asia.

Combatting money laundering effectively and implementing AML regulations comes with its own set of challenges. The webinar will discuss these challenges.

Webinar Discussion Points

Adapting to evolving and greater AML regulations in South East Asia

  1. As banking regulators like those in South East Asia, keep evolving their regulations and seek large volumes of granular bank data for holistic analysis, how can banks establish the right Anti Money Laundering Solution ensuring its ability to customize and adapt?
  2. How banks can anticipate regulatory risks, assess risk exposure, and anticipate future risks.
  3. How can banks ensure accuracy, integrity, and timeliness with their data architecture and IT infrastructure for improving cost efficiency?
  4. How banks can collaborate among themselves to evolve standardization in regulatory reporting.
  5. Need for a regulatory environment that encourages cross-border sharing of best practices and innovations besides encouragement of innovation within the countries for their superior access
  6. Changing Scenario in South East Asia with regards to tight monitoring by FATF and amendments to AML policy by central banks.

Managing enhanced regulatory burden and costs with digitization

  1. How AI, ML and Robotic Process Automation applications in Regulation Technology (RegTech) can effectively automate regulatory reporting with machine-readable and machine-executable activities, eliminating errors from manual interventions.
  2. How banks can embrace RegTech innovations to ensure real time response and reporting, lower implementation and refresh costs besides ensuring scalability.

Balancing superior customer experience with highly secure banking

  1. Using AI and ML applications along with better Big Data management and data analytics, especially predictive data analytics and decision analytics, to ensure friction-free digital KYC processes for superior customer on-boarding and experience.
  2. How better digital identity management can ensure better transaction security and adherence to AML regulations.

Presentation by IDBI Intech (15 minutes)

How IDBI Intech provides complete solutions for digital transformation and adaptation for rapidly changing AML regulations and requirements, especially for banks in South-East Asia

Speakers

Jamil Ahmed
Chief Compliance Officer
HSBC Singapore

Maheshwar Pathak
Head – Pre-Sales & Solutions
IDBI Intech Ltd

Nitin Sood
Head of AML Compliance Risk Management
(APAC & EMEA Consumer Bank) – Citi

Rashmi Dubier
Managing Director, Head of AML for APAC
MUFG Bank

Udayan Ray
Founder
FundooMoney

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HOW DIGITAL EXPERIENCE IS DRIVING TRANSFORMATION IN BANKING

The year 2020 saw banks adopting radical digitalization in response to the pandemic. According to a recent survey by Financial Brand, 51% of the banking institutions stated improving customer experience as a priority in their digital banking endeavors. This implies that banks will remain skewed to offering consistent performance, enhanced security, and ever-improving customer experience as a part of their CX strategy.

Moreover, with more and more customers turning to mobile for their needs, rising customer expectations and a stream of use cases that render even the newest digital banking experiences obsolete will remain a perpetual challenge for banks. On top of this, internal infrastructure barriers, prolonged loan disbursals, skill ineptness, and an existing portfolio of NPAs, have further led the banks to a conundrum. With an extensive and intricate cluster of new-age use-cases that technologies like AI, IoT, deep learning, data analytics offer in finance, banks can lay grounds for customer-driven banking ready for a face-off with the FinTech heavyweights.

We would like to invite you for a 45-minute panel discussion featuring eminent technology leaders from the banking industry to derive perceptive insights on how banks can transform the digital experience for their customers.

Brief Agenda:

  • Key DX Challenges faced by banks in the post-COVID world and how are they adapting
  • Changes in the Digital customer journey due to the pandemic
  • Key technologies that will play a role in shaping the future of Digital Customer Experience
  • Role of AI and Data Analytics in driving intelligent and personalized customer experiences
  • DX Battleground – Do fintechs have an edge over banks or are they strategic partners?

Speakers

Abhay Johorey
Head – Digital
ICICI bank

Anup Baruah
Head – DX Fintech & BFSI Practice
Datamatics

Prasanna Lohar
Head Technology – Digital | Innovation | Architecture
DCB Bank

Shadab Mehboob
Head of Technology and Development
J&K Bank

Srinivas Iyer
Senior Vice President & Head – Digital Partnerships
AXIS Bank

Topendra Bhattacharjee
Head – Digital Banking, Direct Banking & Analytics
RBL Bank

Agenda

15:00 – 15:10

 Registration

15:10 – 15:15

 Opening Remarks by Datamatics Speaker

15:15 – 15:45

 Digital Experience as a Catalyst to Transform Banks in the Post-COVID World

14:45 – 16:00

 Q&A

16:00

 Close of the Session
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Collaboration Series: Future Ready Enterprises in the Digital-First World

The digital workplace will never be same again. As the global economies are recovering from the pandemic, evolving beyond is imminent threat. And with that, the move to cloud applications and Unified Communications is fast becoming a standard for enterprises targeting business continuity, global collaboration, and productivity.

The future will see a change as people may or may not return to offices, leading to an evolution of the working models. Models that will require secure access to enterprise applications and collaboration tools blending in both the in-office and off-premise environments.

The private cloud collaboration services offered by Tata Communications & Cisco provides consistent performance, customer experience and seamless migration to the cloud from legacy.

Join The ET Unwired Collaboration Series: Future Ready Enterprises in the Digital-First World, powered by Tata Communications and Cisco to learn how to enable seamless global communication across your enterprise.

Key Discussion Areas

  • Seamless collaboration across various UC platforms
  • Leverage best-in-class managed services for complex UC environments
  • Creating True Omnichannel Experience for Customers

Speakers

Kaartick Ramasubramanian
Solutions Engineering Lead – South
Tata Communications

Dhaval Sheth
Partner- System Engineer, Collaboration Sales
Cisco India

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Redefine your Sales & Marketing with AI driven insights

Each vertical across an enterprise is making the optimal use of AI technology to enhance their productivity and generate meaningful insights that help them to stay ahead in the over-competitive market.

The calibration between sales and marketing has long been a subject of discussion, but the recent emergence of AI is opening up new avenues for deepening and improving this critical relationship. AI can enable the Marketing departments to provide better insights to the Sales teams leading to better synchronization between the two departments. A recent research conducted by Forrester suggests that closely aligned businesses expand 19% faster and are 15% more profitable.

AI also plays a vital role in connecting marketers with their consumers. It enables automated decisions based on data collection, analysis, and additional interpretations of the audience that may influence marketing activities. AI tools allow marketers to better engage with consumers based on data and consumer profiles, then serve them personalized updates at the right time without the need for marketing team interaction, achieving optimal productivity.

While companies are still evaluating implementing AI-powered applications, it is one of the most effective ways to increase market efficiency and provide customized services to customers at scale.

In this ET Unwired Session, we will explore how with the help of Samsung SDS AI solution (Brightics AI), marketing and sales teams can process massive amount of scattered data from different sources, quickly analyze it , and visualize the results in an easily comprehensible way to derive meaningful insights.

Brightics AI facilitates the rapid development of AI models, quick processing of BIG data, leading to a faster turnaround time for the customers. This allows customer to respond proactively in ever changing market scenario.

Join the ET Unwired session on Redefine your Sales & Marketing with AI driven insights to understand how easily one can analyze the structured and unstructured data without professional knowledge allowing coordination between the sales and marketing to increase productivity and plan ahead of time.

Speakers

Palash Bhattacharya
Director – AI & Data Analytics
Samsung SDS

Shashank Srivastava
Senior Executive Director – Sales & Marketing
Maruti Suzuki India

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Scale up Your Digital Workforce with Automation 360

Digital Assistants, bots or robots or what other you may call them by, these digital assets which are infused life by codes and algorithms have become commonplace for many businesses across industry sectors. By using them, businesses can accelerate their road to achieve efficiency & profitability. These can also be defined as virtual employees that not only enhance and augment human work by combining RPA, AI and analytics to automate business functions from end to end, but also provide security assurances for any future disruptions.

With the use of such emerging technologies, repetitive task can be accomplished in turn decreasing operational costs while increasing agility and reducing errors. This will also help in providing mechanisms to support a business and increase its profitability by reducing turnaround time and increasing efficiency. In this session we will talk about how we can scale up the digital workforce in order to create a better process flow for an organization.

Speakers

Rahul Sharma
Global Solution Owner
Mondelēz International

Sheena George
Partner
EY

Srikanth V J Tanikella
Chief Operations Officer
CAMS

Sumeet Pathak
Digital Workforce Evangelist
IMEA Automation Anywhere

Agenda

03:00 – 03:05 Welcome address by ET Edge
03:05 – 03:20

Introduction to Automation 360

Sumeet Pathak, Digital Workforce Evangelist, IMEA Automation Anywhere
03:20 – 03:50 Fireside chat – Future Workforce
  Scale up existing digital workforce
Coming together of Business and IT
Bots & AI
Automation for Efficiency & Profitability
Evolution in business models

Rahul Sharma, Global Solution Owner, Mondelēz International
Srikanth Tanikella, COO, Computer Age Management Services
Moderator: Sheena George, Partner, Ernst & Young Global Limited(EY)
03:50 – 04:00 Q&A session with Audience


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Is Your Cloud Data Secured & Compliant? Stay Ahead of the Global Threat with Commvault

Your enterprise got a lot riding on their cloud strategy. Applications, databases, files, hypervisors – the resources that run in the organization. But have you thought of a right Security, Ransomware Protection & Compliance?

Your data will continue to increase exponentially across on-premises and multi cloud environments. Your risk profile will continue to be a huge challenge for you to control, and all this amid constant deluge of regulations.

It is more important than ever before that organizations find efficient ways to achieve a proactive cyber risk posture and a state of compliance readiness. Let Commvault help you gain a more mature data governance footing and optimize your data protection and business resilience strategies.

As an Industry Leader, Commvault software will ensure you meet the availability and timely recovery mandates found in regulations and standards, such as Article 32 of GDPR. You can recover thousands of servers in parallel to multiple destinations across on-premises and cloud.

Join the ET Unwired Session, Is Your Cloud Data Secured & Compliant? Stay Ahead of the Global Threat, powered by Commvault to go deep on cloud data protection against ransomware along with keeping your enterprise data Compliant with global policies.

Join this ET Unwired Session to learn how to

  • Discover a more efficient way to optimize Business Continuity, improve Data Governance
  • Make the final frontier in complying with privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA
  • Cloud responsibly with Commvault

Speakers

Hardeep Singh Sawhney
Enterprise Technical Consultant
Commvault

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Smart Data, Scalable Storage for Scoring Business Game

In today’s data-centric world, your data is your business. Data is the key to delivering rich, personalized experiences in the digital world. Data-driven digital transformation is no longer just a strategic initiative, but a new way to work, interact, and do business together—with customers, with employees, with the world.

IT is no more a back-end business function, it has moved front and center for your business. You will need the ability to instantly adapt to a rapidly changing new normal. To adapt, you must have access to the right data, at the right time, in the right place—at the right pace. In a nutshell, the need of the hour is to take care of your data and have the right storage formula.

The need is to optimize any workload and discover the value in your data. Accelerating your critical workloads from core to edge to cloud while decreasing application outages and reducing storage requirements with advanced deduplication should be at fingertips.

Join The Economic Times Live Webinar , powered by Dell Technologies and Redington India Limited , to discover the formula of business success with smart data and scalable storage. Learn about the ground-breaking PowerStore family of all-flash data storage appliances that eliminate traditional tradeoffs in performance, scalability and storage efficiency, with a data-centric, intelligent, and adaptable infrastructure that transforms and mobilizes both traditional and modern workloads.

Key Discussion Areas:

Exploding Data growth –

    a. Challenges for organizations
    b. How to address the explosion in data growth in terms of scale, capacity, performance and availability
    c. Data types: Block, File and Object
    d. Data Sources
    e. Data Storage

Speakers

Yogesh Dadke
CIO & APAC Leader Technology
Adient Technologies

Dhaval Pandya
Corporate CIO
Piramal

Anil Menon
Head IT
Lulu Group India Pvt Ltd

Aditya Venkatesh
Sr.Manager (Consulting)
Redington India Ltd.

Kapil Jain
Sr Systems Engineer – SPS Presales
Dell Technologies India

Sheena George
Partner
EY India
Moderator

Agenda

  Opening Remarks by ET EDGE
  Setting the Tone by Moderator
  PowerStore the Ace Card to Progressive Organizations
 

Meeting the ever-changing data growth requirements and catching up to constant innovations while protecting the data growth requirements is a must with safeguarding critical workloads across your organizations evolving landscape. This CXO round table would touch base on the importance of migration to PowerStore to rule out challenges and data mishaps on the way towards establishing a progressive organization

  • Efficient ways towards unstructured data storage
  • Unlocking the value of data with scalability, integration and cloud integration
  • Simplifying the monitoring and organizing the digital workplace with essentials
  • Synthesize data and creating the right models to create right volumes of data
  Closing Remarks by Moderator

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Towards Innovation: Creating Value: Bringing The Healthcare And Lifescience World Together

Both pharma and biotechnology companies are working towards making medicines. The biotechnology industry includes hundreds of global businesses that research and develop drugs, which are complex medicines made from living cells or organisms. Traditional pharmaceutical companies create and sell drugs made from chemical- and plant-based compounds. Now the question comes HOW DO WE INNOVATE LIFE SCIENCES TO MAKE IT STRONGER?

The biotech and pharma industries continue their fast-paced digital evolution, while geopolitical and economic forces present hurdles that require a fine-tuned strategy throughout the supply chain. One segment of the drug-delivery market are advanced drug-delivery technologies, which refer to the technologies used for controlling the rate of drug release, such as modified drug-delivery technologies such as extended release (controlled and sustained release), controlled release, targeted release, delayed release, and pulsatile release.

The outbreak of Covid-19 sparked a mass movement to digital systems, and in 2021 this will continue to become increasingly popular, accelerating the growth of telemedicine as the future of healthcare. From drug discovery and development through to manufacturing, conducting virtual clinical trials and patient treatment, technology will create new opportunities at every stage of the healthcare process. When the pandemic unfolded, researchers from companies and universities around the globe were committed to speedily finding an effective vaccine.

In November 2020, several organizations announced positive results from interim analyses of their Phase III vaccine trials and in early December, the UK became the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, with the first doses were administered to patients just days later.

ET Life Sciences Conclave

With the theme “TOWARDS INNOVATION: CREATING VALUE: BRINGING THE HEALTHCARE AND LIFESCIENCE WORLD TOGETHER” the virtual summit will initiate thought provoking discussions on science behind vaccine development, drug delivery, technology innovation, formulations and new scientific practices for bio pharma business growth at the time of crisis.

Customer expectations and safety has become the buzzword today for every stakeholder in the life science industry. All are making their business processes and functions automated and innovative to fuel the financial growth. We see an increasing number of pharmaceutical firms and indeed, medical device companies – are partnering and integrating with technology businesses.

Rolling out a vaccine in just a matter of months is one of the biggest achievements for the life sciences industry in history. Pharma companies had to not just research ways of treating a novel disease but also manage complex supply chains, contend with new models for engagement with healthcare professionals, manage remote workforces, and deal with the disruption to many clinical trials.

ET Life Sciences Conclave will bring together the pharmaceutical and biotech development community across countries. At this high-level scientific summit, scientists, pharmacists, and technologists from the pharma and biotechnology community will meet and discuss exciting future innovations and showcase the latest technologies in formulation and drug delivery to improve solubility, stability and bioavailability of drug, enhance the drug design and fasten the drug development process.

Speakers

Gautam Khanna
Chief Executive Officer
Hinduja Hospital

Jai Shankar Krishnan
Vice President-High Growth Markets
Danaher Corporation

Karan Singh
Managing Director
ACG Pharma

Manoj Saxena
Managing Director, Bayer Zydus and South Asia Head
Bayer

Dr. Neeta Verma
Director General
National Informatics Centre

Dr. Rana Mehta
Partner and Leader – Healthcare
PwC India

Prof. S.S. Vasan
COVID-19 Project Leader, CSIRO (Australia) and Honorary Professor
University of York (UK)

Sanjiv Navangul
Managing Director and CEO
Bharat Serums and Vaccines

Dr. Srivari Chandrasekhar
CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT)
Ministry of Science and Technology

Sudarshan Jain
Secretary General
Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance

Vani Manja
Managing Director & Head-Human Pharma
Boehringer Ingelheim India

Yugal Sikri
Managing director
RPG Life sciences

Partners

Agenda

10.00 – 10.10 Opening Address by The Economic Times
10.15 – 10.30

Opening Keynote: Era of Covid-19 – From Virus to Vaccine – Journey so far, and the future ahead

Prof. S.S. Vasan, COVID-19 Project Leader, CSIRO (Australia) and Honorary Professor, University of York (UK)

10.35 – 10.45 Presentation by Jai Shankar Krishnan, Vice President – High Growth Markets, Danaher Corporation
10:50 – 11:40

Inaugural Panel: Towards safer India: Managing Global Health Epidemics Better!

Description: Covid-19 has sent shockwaves through the world and has greatly impacted the way we function. There are many lessons this pandemic has given us. Among a plethora of messages on COVID-19 was a request to God to reboot 2020 as it has a virus. But the reality is that nations across the globe will have to reboot their thoughts and creativity to tackle the deadly spread in a structured way.
At the beginning of 2020, few could have foreseen what would unravel over the following twelve months. The response from the life science & pharma industry to the Covid-19 pandemic has been remarkable, adapting to extremely challenging conditions while stepping-up their efforts with a matter of urgency like never. The session will reflect on the events of the last year and consider their lasting impact on the life sciences and pharma industry in 2021 and beyond.

  • How can we prepare to manage global health emergency more proactively?
  • Digital transformation
  • Vaccines development
  • Impact on other therapy areas
  • Adopting green and sustainable practices

Featured Speakers:

Sanjiv Navangul, Managing Director and CEO, Bharat Serums and Vaccines
Karan Singh, Managing Director, ACG Pharma
Farida Hussain, Business Head- Domestic and Emerging Markets & Chief Marketing Officer, USV India
Sandeep Khandelwal, Head – India Business, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories
Prashant Nagre, Chief Executive Officer, Fermenta Biotech

Panel Moderator:

Vani Manja, Managing Director & Head of Human Pharma at Boehringer Ingelheim India

11:45 – 12:00

Keynote Address: The Digital Government Transformation – During pandemic & beyond

The pandemic has changed government priorities, forcing agency leaders to re-evaluate digital transformation strategies and plans. Some organizations are embracing digital transformation and accelerating the adoption of new technologies. In several scenarios, organizations will expand the role of digital government platforms.

  • Implementation of various technology- solutions to help the government
  • Digital regulation of Home Quarantine, Containment Zones, COVID Hospitals, issuance of passes during lockdown
  • Going Contactless and work from home measures
  • Latest technology for contact tracing to provision safety of citizens from the pandemic
  • New initiatives and plans of government in technology domain going forward.

Sunil Kumar, Scientist-G, National Informatics Centre
12:05 – 12.20

Spotlight Session: “Diseases Know No Borders” – Importance & Impact of Collaborations in the fight for Life!

In a matter of a few short weeks, the disease has spread rapidly from its origins in China across the planet and has brought the globe unmercifully to its knees. Over a dozen Indian companies are in partnership with other firms and institutes to bring a preventive vaccine into global markets. The session will bring forward the discussions among leaders on the needs of collaboration, concerns and benefits.

  • The need for closer collaboration between departments to quicken the route to market and streamline the supply chain while guaranteeing patient safety.
  • Collaborative R&D
  • Best Practices and Next Steps
  • Collaborations and partnerships towards vaccine development in the pharma Industry
  • Resources, challenges and benefits in place for viable and effective vaccine development system
  • Global health crisis which requires a global solution.
  • How can organizations contribute and benefit?
12:25 – 12.40

Case Study: How Life Sciences 4.0 and global pharma industry is reshaping the health care ecosystem

Gautam Khanna, Chief Executive Officer, Hinduja Hospital

12.45 – 13.35

Panel: How technology can improve healthcare and Pharma Industry- What’s next?

Just a few months into this ‘new normal’, it is already clear that digital tech will have a pivotal role to play in ensuring that the life sciences and pharma industry continues to function to the best of its abilities, providing both healthcare practitioners (HCPs) and patients with the vital support they need. The session aims to provide an overview of the current state of digital in the sector, the value potential for digital solutions, and what’s next from here:

  • Leveraging digital to enhance health outcomes and patient experiences to unlock growth and maximize impact across internal and external engagements
  • Understanding the dynamics of future customer engagements – Driving a personalized customer experience
  • Need for Indian pharma companies to invest in R&D
  • What are the main ways the global Covid-19 pandemic has transformed companies’ digital strategies?
  • Has this need for digital approaches in the context of the pandemic changed perspectives towards technology and its usefulness to the industry in the long run?

Featured Speakers:

Dr S. Chandrasekhar, Director, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology
Kiran Anandam Pillai, Advisor (Technology), National Health Authority and CEO and Founder – Drishti
Yugal Sikri, Managing director, RPG Life sciences
Manoj Saxena, Managing Director, Bayer Zydus and South Asia Head, Bayer

Panel Moderator:

Divya Rajagopal, Senior Assistant Editor, The Economic Times

13:35 Closing Address
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Smart Data, Scalable Storage for Scoring Business Game

In today’s data-centric world, your data is your business. Data is the key to delivering rich, personalized experiences in the digital world. Data-driven digital transformation is no longer just a strategic initiative, but a new way to work, interact, and do business together—with customers, with employees, with the world.

IT is no more a back-end business function, it has moved front and center for your business. You will need the ability to instantly adapt to a rapidly changing new normal. To adapt, you must have access to the right data, at the right time, in the right place—at the right pace. In a nutshell, the need of the hour is to take care of your data and have the right storage formula.

The need is to optimize any workload and discover the value in your data. Accelerating your critical workloads from core to edge to cloud while decreasing application outages and reducing storage requirements with advanced deduplication should be at fingertips.

Join The Economic Times Live Webinar , powered by Dell Technologies and Redington India Limited , to discover the formula of business success with smart data and scalable storage. Learn about the ground-breaking PowerStore family of all-flash data storage appliances that eliminate traditional tradeoffs in performance, scalability and storage efficiency, with a data-centric, intelligent, and adaptable infrastructure that transforms and mobilizes both traditional and modern workloads.

Key Discussion Areas:

Exploding Data growth –

    a. Challenges for organizations
    b. How to address the explosion in data growth in terms of scale, capacity, performance and availability
    c. Data types: Block, File and Object
    d. Data Sources
    e. Data Storage

Speakers

Mohit Gupta
CISO
MothersonSumi InfoTech and Designs Ltd.

Jai Prakash Sharma
Executive Vice President – Technology Operations
Info Edge India Ltd

Soumyadip Chakraborty
Head-Digital Transformation
Vikram Solar

Amandeep Bawa
Head IT Infrastructure
Panasonic India Pvt Ltd

Aditya Venkatesh
Sr.Manager(Consulting)
Redington India Limited

Kapil Jain
Sr Systems Engineer – SPS Presales
Dell Technologies India

Himadri Ganguly
Executive Director
PwC India
Moderator

Agenda

  Opening Remarks by ET EDGE
  Setting the Tone by Moderator
  PowerStore the Ace Card to Progressive Organizations
 

Meeting the ever-changing data growth requirements and catching up to constant innovations while protecting the data growth requirements is a must with safeguarding critical workloads across your organizations evolving landscape. This CXO round table would touch base on the importance of migration to PowerStore to rule out challenges and data mishaps on the way towards establishing a progressive organization

  • Efficient ways towards unstructured data storage
  • Unlocking the value of data with scalability, integration and cloud integration
  • Simplifying the monitoring and organizing the digital workplace with essentials
  • Synthesize data and creating the right models to create right volumes of data
  Closing Remarks by Moderator

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Smart Data, Scalable Storage for Scoring Business Game

Meeting the ever-changing data growth requirements and catching up to constant innovations while protecting the data growth requirements is a must with safeguarding critical workloads across your organization’s evolving landscape. The Economic Times Live Webinar powered by Dell Technologies , Chavan’s Business Ventures and Redington India Private Limited, Dell Partners is designed to bring the importance of migration to powerful data Storage solutions to rule out challenges and data mishaps on the way towards establishing a progressive organization.

Key discussion pointers:

  • Challenges for organizations
  • How to address the explosion in data growth in terms of scale, capacity, performance and availability
  • Data types:  Block, File and Object
  • Data Sources & Data Storage
  • Efficient ways towards unstructured data storage
  • Unlocking the value of data with scalability, integration and cloud integration
  • Simplifying the monitoring and organizing the digital workplace with essentials
  • Synthesize data and creating the right models to create right volumes of data

Speakers

Akilur Rahman
CTO
Hitachi ABB Power Grids India

Atul Kumar
GM
Canara Bank

Nikhil Bandi
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Vistaar Financial Services

Ratnaprabha Manickavachagam
MD, Head of Innovation & Digital Transformation, India & Romania
Societe Generale, Global Solution Centre

Aditya Venkatesh
Sr.Manager(Consulting)
Redington India Limited

Kapil Jain
Sr Systems Engineer – Storage Platform Solutions
Dell Technologies

Sumanth Chavan
Founder and CEO
Chavans Technologies

Sheena George
Partner
EY

Agenda

  Registration
  Opening Remarks by ET EDGE
  Setting the Tone by Moderator
  PowerStore the Ace Card to Progressive Organizations
 

Meeting the ever-changing data growth requirements and catching up to constant innovations while protecting the data growth requirements is a must with safeguarding critical workloads across your organizations evolving landscape. This CXO round table would touch base on the importance of migration to PowerStore to rule out challenges and data mishaps on the way towards establishing a progressive organization

  • Efficient ways towards unstructured data storage
  • Unlocking the value of data with scalability, integration and cloud integration
  • Simplifying the monitoring and organizing the digital workplace with essentials
  • Synthesize data and creating the right models to create right volumes of data
  Closing Remarks by Moderator

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Jamil Ahmed, Chief Compliance Officer- HSBC Singapore

Jamil Ahmed is the current Chief Compliance Officer at HSBC Singapore. He is a member of various industry taskforces and initiatives across Singapore focusing on anti-money laundering, terrorist financing, sanctions and fraud. Jamil is a Steering Group member of Singapore’s AML/CFT Industry Partnership (ACIP) and other taskforces/working groups established through the Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) covering various financial crime themes.
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Maheshwar Pathak, Head – Pre-Sales & Solutions, IDBI Intech Ltd

Maheshwar Heads Pre-Sales & Solutions at IDBI Intech Ltd. He has over 2 decades of experience in Banking and Banking IT Solutions.
A Design thinker who goes beyond obvious solutions to get a breakthrough idea. He specializes in Technology in the domain of :

1.International Payments
2.Fraud& Risk Management
3.Wealth Management
4.Audit and Compliance

IDBI Intech Ltd is a Technology led Digital Business Transformation Organization in the Banking & Financial Services Domain. Our Business Portfolio covers the entire Gamut of Financial Services across Customer Journeys, Customer Experience, Financial Crime, Fraud Risk, Payments & Regulatory Compliance.

Maheshwar has pioneered products that are unique to banks and have won customer accolades
He has Worked across multiple geographies with Banking clients in US , Europe ,Middle East and APAC and has understanding of the Banking and Financial Sector regulatory and Technology needs in these regions.

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Udayan Ray, Founder, FundooMoney

In 2014, Udayan set up FundooMoney Media, a personal finance e-learning, digital user experience and customer journey company. This was after more than 2 decades of working with top business and financial media brands such as Business Today, Businessworld and Outlook Money, many of them in start-up projects.

FundooMoney provides expert personal finance content in elearning, content marketing and customer journey aimed at resident Indians, NRIs, financial advisors, start-ups and small businesses. Besides its own YouTube Channel (FundooMoney) and website www.fundoomoney.com, it works as a knowledge partner with more than 20 of India’s top banking and financial services (BFSI) and media companies. This includes top companies in life and general insurance, mutual funds, banks and media.

FundooMoney helps India’s leading BFSI companies in the areas of e-learning content, customer journey content, digital content strategy, content marketing besides enhancing customer experience in digital platforms like website, micro-site, apps, besides conceptual, generic product-based digital content for digital marketing campaigns. For this purpose, it produces multi-lingual static and motion infographics, podcasts, videos, ebooks and PPTs.

FundooMoney also helps BFSI and media companies in creating and curating e-learning and specialised content for a wide range of events from investor awareness programmes (IAP) for business schools and corporate employees, finance industry eventss, specialised and knowledge-intensive finance events.

Udayan is a regular speaker in events initiated and organised by FundooMoney. He is also a seasoned economic analyst and has been a permanent fixture on popular TV and radio shows such as “Market Mantra” of All India Radio (AIR) where he appears frequently   Page 1 of 6

as a studio guest expert on personal finance, economy and stock markets.
Udayan is passionate about the spread of financial awareness and financial inclusion in India and creation of new stream of professionals and entrepreneurs in the fintech and financial advisory space. For more than a decade, Udayan has worked with the BFSI industry, academia and regulatory bodies such as SEBI, for this purpose.

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FundooMoney Founder November 2014 – Present (6 years 7 months) Gurgaon, India FundooMoney provides expert personal finance e-learning, content marketing and customer journey content aimed at resident Indians, NRIs, financial advisors, start-ups and small businesses. Besides its own YouTube Channel (FundooMoney) and website www.fundoomoney.com, it works as a knowledge partner with more than 20 of India’s top banking and financial services (BFSI) and media companies. This includes leading companies in life and general insurance, mutual funds, banks besides media.

It also helps India’s leading BFSI companies as a knowledge partner in the areas of e-learning content, customer journey content, digital content strategy, content marketing besides enhancing customer experience in digital platforms like website, micro-site, apps, besides conceptual, generic product-based digital content for digital marketing campaigns.

The company also helps BFSI and media companies in creating and curating e-learning and specialised content for a wide range of events from investor awareness programmes (IAP) for business schools and corporate employees, finance industry, specialised and knowledge-intensive finance events.

FundooMoney is also present in leading social media networks like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest and SoundCloud

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Business leader with 30 years of progressively senior & diverse experience across Retail & Wholesale Banking, Insurance, Telecom, Fintech & Software.

Acted as a thought leader on Emerging digital business models and technologies and articulating the digital future for enterprises.

Honours / Awards :

  • Global Data Top 100 Visionary (Truata & Hottopics.ht) (2020)
  • United Nations Task Force on intersection of Technology, Finance & SDGs (2019)
  • Greatest Marketing Influencer by CMO Asia-2018 (2018)
  • NPCI National Payment Excellence Award (Instant Payment Products) (2018)
  • IBS Product Innovator of the year (Partnerships in Digital Payments) (2018)
  • Listed as the Greatest Marketing Influencer by CMO Asia-2017 (2017)
  • Alexander Graham Bell National award for service innovation (2014)
  • GSMA Award for the Best Telecom App (Global) (2013)

Abhay holds a B.E. degree from IIT Roorkee and also an MBA from IIM Calcutta.

His hobbies include Graphic Design, Western Classical music & Art History.

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Anup has over 2 decades of experience in the IT industry delivering successful products and services to diverse global clients. He has led multiple digital transformation engagements across verticals. He currently leads the DX Fintech and BFSI practice at Datamatics.
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Chief Innovation Officer at DCB Bank, TOP 50 CIOs, Top 100 Innovative CIOs, Digital Leader of the Year,
Top 20 BFSI Leaders, Most 50 Payment Influential, Leading Indian Blockchain & Fintech Forum
Co-Chairing at FICCI Sub-Committee on Blockchain, Big Data and Analytics
Member at IAMAI Committee on Blockchain
Member at Hyderabad Fintech Forum
Member at Bangalore Fintech Forum
Member at IDRBT Fintech Forum
Member at FICCI, National Committee for Artificial Intelligence
Mentor at various AICs (Atal Incubation Centers)
Jury & Mentor for various Startup & Innovation initiatives in India

Innovation is my passion. Collabaoration is my attitude. Execution is my action. Architecture is my Forte.

Currently I am practicing Digital Transformation, Innovation Implementation & Architecture Orchestration at DCB Bank.

I have launched Global Innovation program – “DCB Bank Innovation Carnival”. It will bring on Unique Experience of Innovation generation thru Hackathons & Accelerator programs in India. I have mentored more than 250 Startups during this program.

I am associated with Many Accelerators, Partners, Education institutes to practice Open innovation thru Hackathons & Innovation Programs.

I am working with various INNOVATION, FINTECH & BLOCKCHAIN Forums in India to create a Robust Innovation Ecosystem in India.

As part of DCB’s Digital & Architecture Transformation, I am closely associated with New & latest technology Strategy, Assimilation, Experimentation, Innovative Customer Servicing & Engagement, Robust Architecture Implementation, Fintech & Startup Alignment, Open Innovation practices, Collaboration with other Banks on various initiatives.

At DCB I have worked as Digital Bank Head & I am Part of various deliveries like India’s first Aadhaar & Biometric enabled ATM, Paperless A/c Opening – Zippi, India’s first Omni-Channel Framework for Bank, KYC , Blockchain , Mobile banking & Mobile Apps, Open Banking & Internet Banking Initiative, Unified Payment Interface (UPI), Bharat Bill Payment, API Management, Blockchain, Switch & Cards relevant initiatives.

I have Over 21+ Years of Industry Experience in Engineering and Development, Product Development, Organization Strategy & Governance, Risk Audit Compliance Management, Business Process Management, Enterprise Architecture, Mobile Apps, Digital Transformation, Fintech, E-Commerce, Payments, Platform & Product Innovation, Data Science, Automation, , AR & VR , Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Open Stack, Cloud Computing, Analytics, Big Data, IOT, Blockchain, UI-UX & Business Development.

In 2017-2021, I have bagged many Leadership awards Most Influential Payment Professionals, TOP 50 CIOs, Top 100 Innovative CIOs, Digital Leader of the Year, Top 20 BFSI Leaders.

I have appeared in many BFSI & Industrial Conferences as Key-Note Speaker & contributed to ecosystem.

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Shadab comes with over 20 years of management and leadership experience in banking technology and IT operations. He possesses significant experience in driving IT initiatives across IT infrastructure, applications management and data center management. He has been responsible for driving the design, development and implementation of large enterprise-class data management solutions.
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Srinivas has a rich experience of over 18 years in the BFSI sector. Srinivas in his current role with Axis Bank is responsible for building and scaling partnerships across the digital landscape .

Before joining Axis, Srinivas was associated with HDFC life and has acquired and managed large partnerships across Group, Credit Life and Bancassurance business. He was also responsible for building and scaling partnerships across Digital Ecosystems.

He is a avid reader and loves travelling.

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Topendra Bhattacharjee is the Head – Digital Banking, Direct Banking & Analytics. He has over 19 years of experience and currently leads the Digital banking forays of RBL Bank. He is responsible for revamping and upgrading the mobile banking and internet banking experience for retail customers. He has also led the creation of the Digital acquisition platform for retail client onboarding. Mr Bhattacharjee is constantly working towards digital innovation and enhancement of digital banking products at the Bank.

He has a Masters in Business Economics and has also done his Business Administration and Management from Insead, Singapore

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Shashank Srivastava, Senior Executive Director - Sales & Marketing, Maruti Suzuki India

In his current role he is responsible for the Marketing and Sales vertical and is in-charge of both Brand Marketing related activities as well as the Retails Channel management.

He is an Electronics Engineer and a post-graduate from the prestigious Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.

He joined Maruti Suzuki as a Management trainee almost 30 years ago and has been through various functions like Corporate Planning, Marketing, Advertising, Logistics, Field Sales, Dealer Development, Institutional Sales, Sales Planning and International Marketing. He has been instrumental in making the various initiatives in the fast changing Automobile scenario and has played a key role in transforming the M&S area at Maruti Suzuki over the years including the current thrust for greater Digitalisation.

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Rahul Sharma - Global Solution Owner, Mondelēz International

Rahul Sharma is the Global Solution Owner at Mondelez International. He brings with him more than 15 years of rich experience working with Fortune 500 companies across the globe. He has worked with leading companies in Consumer-Packaged Goods (CPG), High tech, Pharmaceuticals, and Manufacturing Industry. Rahul has worked in a multi-cultural environment and has truly global experience while working with teams from more than 80 countries across the globe.

Rahul has led multiple digital transformation initiatives during his career and has experience in working with solutions using Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotic Process Automation, analytics, and other leading technologies. He is an expert in Digital Strategy, B2B/B2C e-commerce, Supply Chain, Vendor Managed Inventory, Planning, and Order to Cash process. Rahul holds an MBA degree in Operations Management, Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering, and Certified Supply Chain Professional from ASCM USA.

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Srikanth Tanikella - COO, Computer Age Management Services

Srikanth has been with CAMS for over 5 years and is currently the Chief Operations Officer of the Mutual Funds & Alternative Investment Funds Operations of the Company.

Srikanth led the operations team when the MF industry saw unprecedented growth and CAMS operations grew exponentially across all business dimensions to serve 70% of Indian Mutual Fund industry’s assets. The period saw the largest inflow of transactions, largest number of new investors and SIPs.

Under his leadership, CAMS operations and delivery excellence was fortified to assure high standards of service and bring a reducing trend in investor complaints.

He has sharpened the company’s technology focus, automation agenda and digital conveniences to investor & distributor services.

Prior to CAMS, he has more than 15 years of work experience most of which in the outsourcing industry, servicing global customers in financial services and hi-tech sectors. He was the COO of Williams Lea India and was part of the start-up team at Infosys BPO helping to grow the organization from scratch. He has also had a fulfilling stint at HP after starting his career with Accenture in their Management Consulting practice.

Srikanth is an engineering graduate from IIT Delhi and a Post Graduate from IIM, Calcutta. He is trained in Carnatic music, is an avid reader and traveler.

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Sumeet Pathak, Digital Workforce Evangelist - IMEA Automation Anywhere

Sumeet Pathak has 20 years of experience in top tier global banks. Over the course of his career, Sumeet has led major functions and projects covering financial, digital and core banking products. An evangelist of Software Automation, Sumeet has lead implementing Automation strategy and execution in finance industry. Sumeet has built Automation CoEs in multiple banks and led their digital transformation agenda
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Mr. Gautam Khanna is the CEO of P.D. Hinduja Hospital and MRC, Mumbai and is also the Head of Hinduja College of Nursing. He is on the board of two Private Hospitals and a Managing Committee Member of a Degree College in Mumbai.
Mr. Khanna has around 30 years of industry experience internationally.

Prior to this role, Mr. Khanna was the Executive Director and Country Business Leader of the 3M Healthcare Businesses for South Asia region.
Mr. Khanna is an active member of various leading Indian Industry Associations. He has held the position of the Chairperson of FICCI Medical Device Forum, Co-Chairman of AMCHAM Medical Device Committee, Chairperson of India Working Group, Advamed and Secretary of Healthcare Federation of India (Nathealth) and was the National Leader of the Services Provider Forum (Hospitals) for Nathealth, India.

Currently, he is the Co-chair of FICCI Health Services Committee and Vice President of AOH (Association of Hospitals, Mumbai.
Mr. Khanna is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur and IIM Calcutta.

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Mr. Jai Shankar Krishnan is Vice President, High Growth Markets (HGM) for Danaher Corporation. Danaher is a Fortune 160, NYSE- listed Global Science and Technology Innovator that designs, manufactures, and markets innovative products and services to professional, medical, industrial, and commercial customers with Market Capitalisation of around $150 Bln. Danaher has a strong presence in High Growth Markets (93 Countries) that generates revenues of over $7Bln. Jai is accountable for this HGM Region that contributes to 35% of Danaher’s Global Revenues and over 45% of its Growth. Jai is part of the Danaher Corporation’s global leadership team.

Jai is responsible for driving double digit core growth with strong profitability and innovation. He spends significant amount of his time helping Danaher with capital allocation, forging strategic collaborations, bolt-on acquisitions, JV’s, minority investments across multiple geographies and industries. Jai has successfully closed multiple M&A transactions globally and in India and is currently involved with the multi billion buyout of GE Biopharma business.

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In April 2017, Manoj Saxena took over as Managing Director – Bayer Zydus Pharma and Country Division Head, South Asia – Pharmaceuticals. As part of Bayer’s Asia Pacific Leadership Team, he is known for his contribution in driving key growth strategies within the region. With a deep understanding of the healthcare industry, he has wide experience across functions and has taken on senior roles in sales and marketing, business analysis and general management. In his previous role, since July 2015 Manoj was the Managing Director of Bayer Co. (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. and Country Division Head of Pharmaceuticals for the diverse cluster of Singapore & Malaysia. He was also a Board Member of Singapore Association of Pharmaceutical Industries (SAPI). Prior to that, in August 2012, he was the Country Head for Pharmaceuticals Division and the Country Representative for Consumer Health and Animal Health divisions in Bayer Vietnam. Here, he was the Board Member (Vice Chair) at Pharma Group Vietnam – a key industry association for the pharmaceutical industry. Starting his career in the pharmaceutical industry with Cipla Ltd. in 1997 as a Management Trainee in Varanasi, he has held various positions of increasing responsibilities in commercial functions before moving to Cipla’s headquarters in April 2001. In his various roles, Manoj has had opportunities to work closely on Indian domestic strategy, new launches, new SBE’s and various other organizational projects from time to time. By the end of his tenure at Cipla, he was successfully managing 6 SBE’s with a business of over 150 m UD. Manoj joined Bayer India in 2009 as the Business Unit Head for General Medicine and Women’s Health with a vision to expand and increase the footprint of Bayer in the emerging market. He strongly supported Bayer’s joint venture with Zydus Cadila in 2011 to form Bayer Zydus Pharma. He was then part of the Bayer Leadership Team in India and an active member of Organization of Pharmaceutical Producers of India (OPPI). Manoj is a graduate with a Bachelor Degree in Mathematics (Hons) from the Banaras Hindu University, India. He has also completed his Masters in Business Administration (MBA) in Marketing. He currently resides in Mumbai along with his wife and daughter.
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Dr. Neeta Verma is the Director General of National Informatics Centre, a premier Technology organization of the Government of India. With a career spanning over three and a half decades, she has been instrumental in implementing high impact digital initiatives across the country. In her current role as DG NIC, she is spearheading the Digital Transformation agenda of the government through development of Digital Platforms for various initiatives of the Government in different sectors of development. With the mobile revolution in the country, she is also ensuring a Mobile-First Strategy by focusing on delivering government services through mobile phones in ICT solutions built by NIC.

She has been an active proponent of leading citizen engagement through technology at various levels of governance. She was instrumental in setting up of the technology platform for MyGov, which is a citizen engagement and crowd sourcing platform engaging over 14 million citizens. She brings an extensive experience in the field of open data and has led the launch of Open Data Platform to release government data in open for public good. She has also been instrumental in formulating Government Open Data License (GODL). During the early years of her career, she provided consulting services to various government departments in India and abroad in establishing their web presence.

Under her leadership, NIC established National Data Centers at various locations in the country and later launched the first National Cloud for Government in 2014 to provide state-of-the-art ICT infrastructure on-demand to Government Departments for delivery of citizen services.

She has aggressively worked towards adoption of Cloud by the Government departments through a Cloud-First Strategy to provide scalability, agility, reduce time to commission and attain high order of efficiency in ICT initiatives of the Government.

To leverage emerging technologies in governance, she led the establishment of one of its kind Centres of Excellence (CoEs) in Blockchain, Application Security, Artificial Intelligence, Micro Services and Data Analytics. These CoEs are working towards exploring the applications of emerging technologies for agility in governance and delivery of services to citizens.

She has also played a key role in setting up of NIC CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) in 2017. With her continuous contribution in the field of Information and Communication Technology, in 2019, She was featured amongst the top 55 inspiring women around the world who have showcased the prowess of technology in the government sector.

With her vision to transform government services, initiatives and schemes through the application of technology, she has helped National Informatics Centre emerge as a trusted partner to the Central government as well as the States Government in India. She oversees the 800+ offices of NIC which are established right from the Central headquarters at Delhi to State Offices and District Offices in India.

Being the head of a premier technology institution of the Government, she has interacted with Government Ministries, Departments, State Governments as well as Government Organizations in realizing their Digital Transformation agenda. She has also worked closely with the Indian Judiciary in their journey of Digital Transformation of the Courts pan India.

She has also guided NIC teams in productization of their popular solutions and has helped NIC establish its own world class Software products such as eOffice, eHospital, eProcurement, eAuction and eTransport, and many more.

She holds a Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and an Executive Certificate on Digital Transformation in Government from the Harvard Kennedy School. Her research interests include applications of emerging technologies in Governance, Cyber Security, Data Centers, etc. Apart from publishing her research in national and international journals, she has also co-authored books on the role of technology in governance. She is regularly invited at various national and international conferences and forums to provide thought leadership around technology in e-Governance.

Support during COVID-19

During the COVID-19 crisis, under her leadership, NIC was entrusted with a wide range of responsibilities right from seamless provision of Network, Cloud to Messaging & Video Conferencing Services to design, development and implementation of various technology- solutions to help the government and its citizens during the times of distress. Under her leadership, NIC developed several new mobile applications to cater to the specific needs of different departments in Centre as well as State Governments for management of Home Quarantine, Containment Zones, COVID Hospitals, issuance of passes during lockdown, Digital Transfer of Subsidy to migrant labors pan India and many more.

She was entrusted by the Government to manage a mobile application, ‘AarogyaSetu’, which is enabled with latest technology for contact tracing to provision safety of citizens from the pandemic. With over 170 million downloads, AarogyaSetu app became the most downloaded government application in India. Apart from AarogyaSetu, she also led the development of RT-PCR Mobile app to manage the Data related to COVID-19 tests pan India.

Under her guidance, NIC has also worked closely with various national institutions such as Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) to extend necessary technical advice and support during the COVID-19 pandemic. She also supervised the establishment of Central Data Hub to ensure integration of various systems and secure exchange of Data among different IT systems of the Government, which is currently being used by the Central and State Government entities pan India.

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Dr.Mehtahasmorethan22years’ofexperienceinstrategizing, planning,commissioningandoperationsofover75hospitalsand healthcaresystemsaroundtheworld.Heisconversantwiththe excellenceofservicesexpectedinthepresentcompetitive scenarioacrosstheentirehealthcarevaluechain.Hehasworked onnumerousassignmentstodevelopcustomizedhealthcare solutionstosuitclientneedswithinpolitical,socioeconomic, geographic,anddemographicimperatives.
DuringadecadelongstintwithApolloHospitals(India’slargest healthcareprovider),hewasinstrumentalincommissioningand operatingthegroup’shospitalsinNewDelhiandColombo.

Hisextensiveclientexperience,whichincludessomeofthe largestintegratedhealthsystemsandpayersintheAsia,Middle EastandAfricahasallowedhimtopioneerinnovativesolutions thatimprovequalityandcostforallstakeholdersinthedelivery system–patients,providersandpayers.

Hehasalsobeenadvisingclientsinthemobileandremote healthcarespace,toimplementtransformationofhealthcareina rapidlychanging,information-intensiveenvironment.

Dr.Mehta’sviewsareextensivelysoughtafterbyboth internationalanddomesticmediaonavarietyofmatters effectinghealthcareinthesubcontinentandglobally.Hetravels andspeaksextensivelyatleadinghealthcareforumsand managementschoolsacrosstheworld.
Dr.MehtaholdsMasterofHospitalAdministration(MHA)from TataInstituteofSocialSciences,Mumbai,IndiaandBachelorof Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), Medical College, Kolkata,India.

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Professor S.S. Vasan is COVID-19 Project Leader in Australia’s national science agency CSIRO and led his team to the Chairman’s Medal 2020, the highest award of the agency. He and his team were the first outside China to grow coronavirus stocks, first to show that ferrets are susceptible, and used this model to evaluate the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine as injection versus nasal spray ahead of human clinical trials. He has been researching virus variants and cost-effective ways to combat them, and showed that the Inovio DNA vaccine is relatively able to withstand some key variants. Fellow of several professional bodies, he obtained his doctorate from Trinity College, Oxford, on a Rhodes scholarship, after masters from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, on a national scholarship.

As Senior Principal Research Consultant for Health and Biosecurity, Dr Vasan leads on preclinical research, development and evaluation of diagnostics, vaccines and therapies for pathogens requiring high containment at levels 3 and 4. He was previously with the equivalent facility in Porton Down, UK, including as the senior business lead for Ebola and Zika response, leading his team to RCUK Impact Award 2015 and British Expertise International Award 2018. As Head of Public Health for Oxford University’s spin-out Oxitec (2005-11), he advanced transgenic technologies and public engagement to combat arboviral diseases.

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Sanjiv Navangul has led a host of global pharmaceutical companies to operational success. His mentorship and contribution towards a values-based culture is widely acknowledged by business leaders. Mr. Navangul has served on the board of Johnson & Johnson Pvt Ltd. India, and Fulford India. Mr. Navangul has held several leadership roles through his 30 year career such as Managing Director for Janssen (Pharmaceutical Division of Johnson & Johnson) in India and South Asia; Managing Director for MSD Pharmaceuticals, Philippines; Commercial Director for MSD India and South Asia.

A recipient of several industry awards on Public Health, Marketing and Diversity, Mr. Navangul has also served as the Vice President of OPPI (Organisation of Pharmaceutical Producers of India) from 2014 to 2019, Chairman of AMCHAM Pharma committee (American Chamber of Commerce) from 2016 to 2019 and Chairman, Medical and Regulatory Committee from 2016 to 2019. He has been on the Academic Board of NMMIS Pharma management, IES Management school and IIHMR, Jaipur.

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Dr. Srivari Chandrasekhar, born in 1964, completed all his primary and higher education in Hyderabad and Joined CSIR, IICT for a Ph. D Programme. After completing his Ph. D (1991) with the then director Dr. A. V. Rama Rao, he moved to USA for a post doctoral position with Prof. J. R. Falck (1991-94). He joined CSIR-IICT as Scientist C in 1994 and grew upto the level of director in 2015. He is a fellow of all the three Indian Science academies, i.e., National Academy of Sciences, Indian Academy of Sciences and Indian National Science academy. He is also an Alexander von Humboldt fellow.

He has made significant contributions in diverse areas of organic chemistry with a special emphasis on chiral chemistry, total synthesis of biologically active natural products and pharmaceutical products. He introduced polyethylene glycol (PEG) as a novel, environmentally benign solvent medium. He has developed technologies for the synthesis of latest anti-tuberculosis drug, bedaquiline; anti-tumor and abortive drug, misoprostol; anti-platelet molecule, beraprost; antidepressive compound, sertralin and drug for treatment of schizophrenia, asenapine.
He has more than 285 publications with 7600 citations. 80 students have been already awarded Ph. D. degree under his able guidance and 20 post doctoral associates have worked in his group. He has received several accolades including Eminent Scientist Award for contributions in the field of Chemistry from Telangana State Government in 2017, CNR Rao National Prize for Chemical Research 2012, CSIR Technology award 2014 and Infosys prize in Chemical sciences 2014 for his contributions in synthetic organic chemistry with special focus on the synthesis of complex molecules from natural sources and innovative, practical approaches to pharmaceuticals of current interest to industry.

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Sudarshan has a strong passion for healthcare and the education sector. Currently, he is the Secretary-General of the Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance (www.ipa-india.org), Senior Advisor – Apax Partners and Board member of multiple organizations. He is also the Chair of International Generic and Biosimilar Medicines Association (IGBA) for 2021. He has served in several leadership positions for over 40 years in Healthcare industry (Lupin, Johnson & Johnson, Piramal, Abbott) and was formerly the Managing Director at Abbott Healthcare Solutions.
His current Board engagements include Abbott India, Healthium Limited (Apax portfolio company), Indian Education Society (IES), Advisory Board of Narsee Monjee University, Mumbai (NMIMS). He is the Visiting Faculty at Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad. He has contributed in shaping the healthcare policy and improving access to healthcare in India.
Sudarshan is an Alumnus of St. Stephens College, Delhi University and Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad.
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Yugal Sikri, in a career spanning 40 years, has held several senior Leadership positions at MNCs like GSK, Pfizer, Novartis, led Ranbaxy as India Region Head (CEO) and Global Head, Commercial functions. Invited to join the Board of RPG Life Sciences as Independent Director, he was requested to take over the operating role of its MD, a position he is currently holding.
Invited to chair/speak at several Pharma/cross-industry platforms like CPHI, CII, IPC, IDMA,CNBC TV18 CEO-Panel, McKinsey CEO-Forum, Pharma-Leaders-Roundtable, CIO-Summits, he has also been on McKinsey’s Pharma 2020 publication Steering Committee.
Keen to build Industry-Academia-partnership, he also led Management Education at India’s top pharma management institute, NMIMS, as its Chairman, coaching next-gen on Leadership-Strategy-Innovation.

He is considered a thought-Leader on Innovation. He is mentor to high impact digital health ventures at RPG and at Government of India-NMIMS-initiative – Atal Incubation Centre. He is also one the Members of its Board as Independent Director.

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