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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

Customers form the core of existence and growth of any business. Customer engagement and expectations are higher than ever. To adapt, new business models are emerging (or being thrust upon companies by new competitors) and companies who fail to embrace them will get left behind.

BFSI sector began their digital journey years ago and have clear digital strategies. Leaders in digital banking and financial sector are more customer-centric, tech-savvy, and more inclusive. And they change their fundamentals to achieve the best results. Perhaps the most important step, however, is that BFSI in the digital age requires a drastic, profound reset of how the staff reacts to customer needs. In order to meet consumer demands and match today’s pace of innovation, financial leaders are looking to implement digital transformation efforts to keep companies competitive, albeit at varying speeds.

Digital transformation in BFSI allows you to create a more cohesive and personal digital customer journey. Talking about CRM (customer relationship management) which is a category of integrated, data-driven software solutions that helps to improve the way you interact and do business with your customers. CRM systems helps to manage and maintain customer relationships, track sales leads, marketing, and pipeline, and deliver actionable data.

About the Virtual Panel Webinar:

The BFSI landscape is evolving at a rapid pace. Digital is disrupting the way organizations function and they need to look at new ways to engage with customers in order to remain competitive. Digital technologies – coupled with strategy – are reshaping BFSI operational effectiveness and customer experience.

Join us in this engaging listening circle “Reimaging BFSI: Accelerate growth and loyalty through customer centricity in the digital age” with leaders in BFSI space to understand how organizations are adjusting to meet changing customer expectations. We will dive deeper into evolving customer conversations, needs and innovation required to quickly pivot and adjust to customer demands.

In this session we will explore:

• Changing customer expectations Pre – Covid and now
• Role of enterprise technologies like CRM in enabling customer centricity
• Technological barriers that prevent organizations from being customer focused

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