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What is happening in the world right now is a tragedy for many, a struggle for others, and an inconvenience for some, but it is stripping us all down to an understanding of the need to connect. Competition breeds excellence, innovation, success — right? Well, not always, especially in the modern landscape of business. Technology has democratized the playing field and it is not always big corporations that come out with the multimillion-dollar ideas. Start-ups are becoming increasingly successful in launching, marketing and building brands that become the corporations of tomorrow

Agenda:

 
The session will bring together the leading minds from across industries on a single platform to discuss the latest trends and technology and see what it has in store for organizations post covid-19. Some broader points to be covered during the session:

• Start-ups and corporations may seem like natural competitors, but in reality, they need each other. Why?
• Disruptive innovation
• Success Story and Synergy with Big Tech
• How start-ups and legacy companies can both cash in on market trends

In the times of this crisis, this dynamic session aims to equip you with the frameworks and strategies necessary to break through the clutter.

The session will throw light on newest trends, innovations, latest technology and recent changes happening due the pandemic and will focus on what all is required to meet the needs of the changing environment.

Dr Harsh Vinayak
SVP, Intelligent Automation & Data Services
NTT DATA Services
Moderator

Devesh Trivedi
CEO & Co-Founder
Inspektlabs

Mrinal Pai
Co-Founder
Skylark Drones

Saket Modi
CEO & Co-founder
Safe Security

The pandemic has driven home the reality that digitalization is a big business differentiator for SMBs. In the face of reduced purchasing intent, reduced productivity and limited in-store traffic, SMBs that pivoted quickly to technology demonstrated higher adaptability and resilience compared to those that did not. As a result, SMBs are taking the ‘digitalize to survive’ mantra to heart. Thus, we at The Economic Times are organizing a focused roundtable on the topic “Embracing Cloud by SMBs for Business Resilience”. This session will dig deeper into the criticalities of why cloud is utmost important for these backbones of the economy and why it should be of top priority for all sectors to help SMBs navigate the evolving digital landscape.

Abhishek Chhajlani
Chief Operating Officer
Diaspark Infotech

Arun Tripathi
Director (Technology & Operations)
Sagacity Softwares

Gautam Gupta
VP Digital Services – EMEA and APAC
Yash Technologies

Harish Vellat
SMB & Corporate Business Leader
Microsoft India

Mayank Bhargava
Chief Information Officer
Pramerica Life Insurance

Rahul Monie
CTO & CISO
Absolutdata – An Infogain Company

Vivek S Tikoo
Co- Founder, ZingHR; Director
Cnergyis Infotech India

Lalatendu Das
Partner
McKinsey and Company (Moderator)

Businesses across the globe did not expect disruption of this scale and most brands had no plan to tackle such a shock (pandemic situation). While media platforms and publishers have been the go-to platforms during the pandemic there were some platforms that resorted to questionable and unethical practices for immediate gains. Audience reaction towards such practices have been quick and punitive not only with such media platforms but also with brands that associate with such platforms and are seen compromising on their committed values. The collateral damage to brands is sharp and at times irreparable and global in nature.

Advertising & brand associations are choices brands make every day and is important than ever before to make this choice wisely every single time. Brand perception & spill overs are fast and therefore to build shock proof and resilient brands that audience trust and can rely upon it is not only enough to communicate the right thing but also important to communicate from the right environment. Healthy brand association is a key element in this build up and brand associations that match with core values of the brand is no longer a ‘good to have’ but a ‘must-have’ mandate for every single media investment in today’s era.

With each passing day, the enterprise networks are growing at a rapid pace on account of the vast programmability of devices and flexibility in their configuration. According to a report by Grand View Research, Inc, the global enterprise networking market is expected to reach USD 64.63 billion by 2021, growing at a rate of 61%.

With the number of devices, operating systems, applications, and users continues to grow, this is leading to unimaginable levels of network complexity. The need of the hour is to leverage artificial intelligence to stay ahead of the curve.

AI-driven insight, automation, and actions maximize the experience for all users. Besides, it also brings unprecedented simplicity, reliability, and security to enterprise network. From wired and wireless access and SD-WAN, to campus and data centers and multicloud environments, the power of an AI-driven enterprise is immense.

Join an ET Unwired session, AI Driven Enterprise- Networks of the Next Decade, powered by Juniper Networks, to enhance your enterprise networks with AI.

Also, get to learn how to unify the various components of the access network under a single cloud and AI-engine which will help customers transform to an AI-Driven Enterprise. This connotes more visibility into user experiences coupled with even broader automation for more seamless and cost-effective IT operations.

Key Takeaways:

• Deliver the best experiences with AI-driven insight and customizable service levels.
• Lower your Opex and increase network reliability with automated workflows.
• Stay ahead of threats with Connected Security mechanism.

Rajesh Chandiramani
Senior Vice President
Global Head of Wave 2- Data & Analytics & AI, ESRM and Blockchain Competency
Tech Mahindra

Damini Gupta
Advisory | Digital – Data and Analytics ( Lighthouse)
KPMG Assurance and Consulting Services LLP
Moderator

Upahar Subedi
Chief Research & Policy
Bank of Bhutan

Eranga Perera
Head IT
Jubiliant FoodWorks Lanka (Pvt) Ltd

Khandaker Ikhtear Uddin Bilash
AVP, Data Center, Systems Support and Service Operations,Technology Division
BRAC Bank

Dr Muhammad Asif Hossain Khan
Prof, Dept of CSE & Director ICT Cell
Dhaka University

Md Sarowar Alam Sikder
COO & CTO
Mir Telecom Group

Rajesh Kumar
Head Systems Engineering
Juniper Networks

Pankaj Gupta
Chief Architect – APAC SSE
Juniper Networks

Ravinder Singh
Country Director, Enterprise & Govt, India and SAARC
Juniper Networks

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.

Organisations around the world are harnessing the power of the cloud to empower their people to work as effectively and collaboratively as possible. When a business expands, its people need to be brought closer. A cloud-based collaboration suite for messaging, video, voice, and conferencing ushers an Enterprise into a New World of Communication with renewed collaboration and efficiency.

Join the final leg of Collaboration Series: Future Ready Enterprises in the Digital-First World, powered by Tata Communications to hear from our esteemed panellists while they discuss, how to use UC solutions to have seamless user experiences that help people work together more effectively and efficiently.

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

Manjunath Prasad
Head IT
TVS & Sons Pvt Ltd

Preeti Kanwar
Head – Information Technology & Business applications
NEC Technologies

Chirag Boonlia
CTO
Embassy Group

Pravin Jayabal
Regional Head, South India, UCaaS
Tata Communications

In today’s uncertain economy, there is an urgent need for corporate banking to evolve its credit risk monitoring practices to a high degree of sophistication so as to maintain a healthy balance sheet.

An Early Warning System (EWS) powered by AI can help financial institutions discern patterns of stress from events. Moreover, such an EWS also helps control for fraud while ensuring quick regulatory compliance.

Join the ET Unwired Session on AI-Powered EWS for Banks, powered by Microsoft and TheDataTeam to learn about the use of AI for continuous risk monitoring. We bring to you a unique perspective on this age-old problem where you can listen to experts on the novel application of technology to solve what has been traditionally attempted using purely relationships and manual scrutiny.

Key Discussion Areas

• Hear what more you can do with First-Party Data
• See for yourself the power of External Data
• Learn how AI can Accelerate Value

Shalaka Verma
Director – Partner Technology
Microsoft India

Rangarajan Vasudevan
Founder & CEO
TheDataTeam

As organisations emerge from disruptions and adapt to a constantly changing reality, there has never been a more pressing need for them to repair, rethink, reconfigure to achieve greater value, create competitive advantage and augment decision-making capabilities in a way that will help them reinvent the future.

In the current scenario, organisations are increasingly weaving AI into the fabric of their enterprise, as part of the strategic initiatives. It is being perceived as a key enabler to plan for transformation, make fundamental changes to the operating model and charge ahead into a more sustainable future with a lasting competitive advantage.

The industries are witnessing an increase in optimism around AI and the move towards use of AI as a tool for innovation. We would also talk about some of the use cases that are being pursued by players across industries during our conversations.

Despite its promise, implementing and scaling up AI poses its own set of challenges. We touch upon some of these challenges and provide an approach that can help organisations get the maximum benefits from their AI initiatives.

Last but not the least, we wanted to share Microsoft & PwC’s perspectives on India’s unique positioning with respect to AI and how the future of AI in India may take a very different course than some of the developed countries.

Join the ET Unwired Session on Artificial Intelligence: An Opportunity Amidst a Crisis powered by Microsoft & PwC as we share the trends and insights around the adoption, benefits and risks of AI, across a number of diverse sectors and functions.

Dr. Rohini Srivathsa
National Technology Officer
Microsoft India

Sudipta Ghosh
Partner and Leader – D&A and AI
PwC India

Raman Bhushan
Advanced Analytics Leader
PwC India

Connectivity is everywhere. Analytics are intelligent. Data growth is exploding at exponential levels, coming from new sources in entirely new ways. Cloud has forever changed the world around us, making innovation more accessible, escalating expectations. Digital transformation is happening, but it’s not moving fast enough.

And now we face a new and unprecedented era of disruption. One that forces us physically further apart, tests our ability to adapt and evolve. One that pushes us to move at warp speed, to be more responsive to customers and agile to conditions. Your data is your business, the key to delivering rich, personalized experiences in a digital world. But making that human connection doesn’t come easy. Data-driven digital transformation is no longer just a strategic initiative. It is how we will devise new ways to work, interact, and do business together—with customers, with employees, with the world.

Digital transformation is a survival requirement for the right here, right now.

IT is no longer simply a back-end business function, it has moved front and center for your business. Doesn’t matter what your role is. Doesn’t matter whether your business was born on cloud or migrating that direction. 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. Speed is the new scale.

Join The Economic ET Unwired Session on Helping Customers Lead with Data powered by NetApp to experience and learn how we are helping customers lead with data.

Puneet Gupta
Vice President & Managing Director
Netapp India & SAARC

Asela Wickremesooriya
CTO
Aitken Spence

Eranga Perera
Head IT
Jubilant FoodWorks Lanka (Domino’s Sri Lanka)

Gayan Wickramasinghe
Chief Technology Officer
Abans Finance PLC

Harsha Wanigatunga
CIO
Seylan Bank PLC

Rajesh Itagi
Pre-Sales Manager – Enterprise & Cloud
NetApp India and SAARC

Sheena George
Partner
EY

Vinay Kumar Parath
Director Sales
NetApp

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 Roundtable, powered by Dell, 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

Gauging the impact of business disruption seems to be an uphill task during uncertain times.

During uncertain times, the requirement is for a solution that provides the ability to quickly assess the impact of business disruption and explore different courses of action. To get a complete picture, the need is to collect data from multiple systems and external sources, quickly, make sense of it, and understand what is driving the results.

One needs to deploy integrated planning solution that uses AI to automate planning, budgeting, and forecasting and drive more intelligent workflows. IBM Planning Analytics is one such solutions — built on TM1, IBM’s powerful calculation engine, this enterprise performance management tool allows you to transcend the limits of manual planning and become the analytics hero your business needs. Quickly and easily drive faster, more accurate plans for FP&A, sales, supply chain and beyond.

Watch an ET Unwired Session, Agile Demand Planning and Intelligent Forecasting using IBM Planning Analytics, to learn more about IBM Planning Analytics. By combining the multi-dimensional capabilities of IBM Planning Analytics and the easy-to-use visualizations and reporting capabilities of IBM Cognos Analytics, you can quickly achieve certain business goals. The powerful combination of Planning Analytics and Cognos Analytics provides you with AI-fuelled insights, predictive modelling, and accelerated planning, budgeting and forecasting cycles.

Learn how the combination of integrated planning and business intelligence enables more accurate business decisions. In this session, we will show you why these solutions are better together offer insightful tips and tricks and answer your questions.

What does Planning Analytics and Cognos Analytics offer? Highlights

• Accelerated planning, budgeting and forecasting processes, for financial and operational planning, and the agility to easily update plans, budgets and forecasts
• Built-in options for data entry and spreading are simplified, allowing for both top-down and bottom-up planning
• What-if analysis capabilities, enabling users to explore scenarios, answer critical business questions, and see the impact of the changes in real-time
• Automated data modelling capabilities, allowing users to easily cleanse, blend and shape their data for analysis
• Highly visual and interactive dashboards allow users across the organization to monitor key metrics and dive deep into their data
• Use forecasting in IBM® Planning Analytics Workspace to discover and model trend, seasonality, and time dependence in data

Atul Joshi
Technical Leader, AI Applications
IBM, ISA

Pradeep Iyer
Segment Leader, AI Applications
IBM, ISA