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Due to the humanitarian and economic crisis resulting from the COVID-19 situation, there is now an urgency to accelerate the process of discovery and bring out a solution. While several countries are gearing up to start production as soon as a vaccine is discovered, this in itself would not be the end of the road. There are several challenges associated with the accelerated approval of any vaccine. Needless to say the successful restoration of normalcy in the world — socially and economically — depends on the success of these vaccine development ventures.

Months of the pandemic! A lot has happened – from fears of raw material supply disruptions to expedited approval of repurposed medicines and now hopes pinned on vaccines. The discussion will bring perspective on real world examples of how different organizations are competing in the race of vaccines and how global pharma organizations are embracing digital route to ensure smooth vaccine delivery during these difficult times:

• How did the pharma industry dealt with and responded to the global pandemic?
• How close is world to discovery of a viable vaccine?
• Can Indian firms rise to the challenge? Where do we stand in terms of large-scale manufacturing capabilities?
• How digital infrastructure can help us through the COVID-19 crisis?
• What are the main ways the global Covid-19 pandemic has transformed Pharma companies’ digital strategies?
• A digital platform like approach is going to work when it comes to vaccine dissemination and distribution in India?
• Re-imagining a hybrid commercialization model in the new normal

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.

Overview

Decoding how enterprises are transforming business operations with Intelligent Digital Business Automation

Discussing industry use cases with industry experts
For the uninitiated, digital transformation is the integration of digital technology into all areas of a business, fundamentally changing how you operate and deliver value to customers. It’s also a cultural change that requires organizations to continually challenge the status quo, experiment, and get comfortable with failure.

And there is a case to be made for business and financial prudence when we talk about digital transformation. According to Deloitte Insights, digitally mature companies enjoy a wide range of specific benefits arising from their digital transformations that include, but go well beyond, the bottom line. Many of these benefits, such as agile business processes, reduced time-to-market and customer satisfaction, contribute to better financial performance. Others, such as reducing environmental impact and increasing workforce diversity, are increasingly seen as part of companies’ broader social responsibility.

India as a market presents a huge opportunity for digital transformation as companies are looking to digitise to build future resiliency and keep their operations profitable.

ET Edge Unwired

As businesses realise that questions around digital transformation are changing from “if” anymore; to “how fast we can transform and scale up?” In the Economic Times Digitisation Drive for Business Agility webinar, powered by Datamatics & IBM, industry experts who have successfully implemented Intelligent Digital Business Automation will discuss the challenges and opportunities in their Digital Transformation journey.

Abhishek Arora
Vice President – Information Technology
K Raheja Corp

Amit Thapliyal
Head Technology
ManipalCigna Health Insurance Company

Jitendra Agrawal
Executive Vice President, Business & Service Excellence
JHDFC Life

Navneet Bansal
CEO – Head Global Business Services – Finance, Commercial
HR – JSW

Vipin Paliwal
Sales Leader – Digital Business Automation (India & South East Asia)
IBM

Sachin Rane
Executive Vice President, Head – Software Solutions
Datamatics

Moderator

There is no refuting that digitization and data are at the center of today’s forward-thinking solutions to some of the biggest real-life world problems. While Business strategies are shifting rapidly to accommodate this new norm with technology being at its heart and center, Governments across the globe are embracing ‘Digital’ further creating collaborative mechanisms with the private sector to lead problem solving for countries. by using newer technologies.

It will be critical to create a digital ecosystem of future, where it is not just the government trying to provide services to the citizens more efficiently & effectively, but also be able to create opportunities for all ecosystem participants to join forces and build on top of the ecosystem platform in a fair and trustworthy manner.

An inclusive recovery of the economy post-Covid, not only requires innovation but also a disruptive pace of the innovation.

With that context, Join the ET Unwired, powered by Microsoft & Knowledge Lens to understand how to build a transformative digital innovation strategy that amalgamates true power of Technology- Data, Analytics, AI, IOT and the Cloud.

Key Takeaways:

• Digital Transformation- The Art of Possible leveraging Technology (Data, AI, IOT & Cloud).
• Prevailing Challenges across Governance and Environment Sustainability, Health and Safety.
• Key Technology Elevations and the era of Artificial Intelligence.
• Data Science-Driven Insights To drive Impact.
• The Ecosystem Opportunity for Digital across various Government Departments and PSUs.

Capt. Manivannan P
Secretary to the Govt of Karnataka
Vidhana Soudha, Bengaluru

Ganesh Iyer
CTO
Knowledge Lens

Nandini Singh
Head -Public Sector (Strategic Sales)
Microsoft India

Sudheesh Narayanan
CEO
Knowledge Lens

Dr Suresh Kumar
CTD
Knowledge Lens

Overview

For ages, we’ve been witnessing epidemics and crises but the rapid global phenomenon of COVID-19 and its fallout has left business sales and revenues plunge, or in some cases, zeroed with no industry being spared. However, SMBs and SMEs in India are looking to bounce back after facing stiff challenges due to the ongoing pandemic. Over 73% of SMBs in India are confident that they will survive and bounce back post COVID-19. This confidence is reflected in the fact that SME’s believe that this period presents a good opportunity to reformulate the business strategy and positively contribute to achieving India’s goal of becoming a $5 trillion economy by 2025. Thus, we at ET Edge take this opportunity to bring to you Tata Tele Business Services presents The Economic Times Do Big Virtual Conclave 2020 with the theme: Rebooting SMEs – Entering the New Normal / Rebooting SMEs for Sustainable Growth on 10th December, 2020. The aim is to support SME’s adapt to new agile work environments, providing them the right solutions, technology, and tools for them to unlock innovation for customers and drive growth for themselves.

Target Audience

• SMEs with min. of 10 employees
• Annual turnover of INR 25Lacs to 150Cr.

Takeaways for SME’s

• Stay Ahead of Competition and Build Sustainable Growth
• Increase productivity and efficiency
• Technology adoption essentials
• Digital Empowerment

Dr. Arun Singh
Global Chief Economist
Dun & Bradstreet India

Anurag Agrawal
Partner
The Aavishkaar Group

Faiz Askari
Editor & CEO
SMEStreet

Kapil Dev Iyer
Vice President, Demand Generation and Marketing
Tata Tele Business Services

Manish Bhatia
President-Technology, Analytics & Capabilities
Lendingkart

Minaxi Indra
President
Enterprise, upGrad

Mukesh Mohan Gupta
President
Chamber of Indian Micro Small and Medium Enterprise

The enterprise IT landscape is going through a digital transformation as it shifts from handcrafted, single purpose data center designs to new technologies that deliver agility, scalability, and greater efficiency. The hybrid cloud relies on the availability and resiliency of data. Enterprises require a complete data protection solution that is reliable, flexible, and easy to use. Although virtualizing an environment provides an increased level of data availability, meeting aggressive recovery point objectives (RPOs) and recovery time objectives (RTOs) becomes increasingly difficult.

Legacy and traditional approaches to backup and recovery just don’t meet the needs of the modern enterprise—they’re broken. The value of your data continues to increase, making protection of your data more important than ever. You need a modern data protection solution that allows your company to innovate and grow while keeping the business running uninterrupted, proactively enabling rapid change, and applying effective governance in the face of regulatory shifts. Additionally, you want a solution that reduces administrative complexity while being delivered at the same or lower cost as your current solution.

Industry data that supports this view can be found in a survey conducted by the Enterprise Strategy Group in February 2020 (ESG 2020 Technology Spending Intentions), which showed that 64% of respondents said IT was more complex than two years ago. It also revealed that “improving data backup and recovery” was the #1 priority for data center modernization plans.

Ultimately, you need a data protection strategy that helps you address these challenges and increase your ability to respond across the following areas:

• Recovery readiness: What is your response when the business asks how ready you are to recover in the face of a disaster?
• Data governance: How do you adhere to complex data privacy and protection laws?
• Constant change: How fast can you respond to change in the business?
• Management complexity: How do you properly manage remote, physical, cloud, and virtual environments?
• Optimizing costs: How can you successfully optimize your current and future infrastructure utilization?

Additionally, as your company grows and your needs expand, you can simplify disaster recovery, development and testing, and workload migration through automation. You can also extract data insights for better data governance and business outcomes.

Join ET Unwired session Data Protection: The Tenet of Financial Industry post Covid Era powered by Commvault & NetApp to understand how a data management platform for Financial Industry can provide flexibility to store, manage and secure data across diverse cloud and on-premises environments.

Anubhav Rajput
CIO
Cholamandalam MS General Insurance

Byju Joseph
CTO
Future Generali

Deepesh Gosavi
Head IT
Canara Robeco

Pradeep Seshadri
Director, Sales Engineering, India and SAARC
Commvault

Tausif Siddiqui
Solutions Engineering Manager
NetApp

Tejasvi Addagada
Author
Data Management and Governance services

Subramanian T Sankara
Partner, Light house – Analytics, AI & Big Data
KPMG

With more customer data than ever to store, manage and analyze; enterprises are missing out on insights hidden deep within their datasets. This can result in innovations, customer experiences and new revenue opportunities continuously going untapped.

In today’s challenging times, enterprises need to push the boundaries of IT and take advantage of data-driven technologies such as the Internet of things (IoT), automation, and analytics, to deliver better customer insights and open up new revenue streams.

With this context, ET EDGE brings together Hitachi Vantara and Cisco to discuss how enterprises can rapidly deliver deployable validated converged infrastructure (CI) solution. By future-proofing their IT platforms with innovative technologies, growth-oriented and large organizations offer better customer experiences and can drive new revenue streams, improving their overall profitability.

Join The Economic Times Converged Infrastructure Conference to get insights on how CI can be architected for any workload at cloud scale, with a data-driven foundation to create better customer outcomes and open up to a world of future possibilities.

Learn from your peers in the industry on how they are gearing up to respond to some of the biggest challenges facing their business, and how they are securing today’s investment and tomorrow’s data to attain better business outcomes.

Find out how Hitachi and Cisco are uniquely positioned to help enterprises of all sizes cost-effectively scale their business and expand to new markets – while protecting and growing the value of their initial investment in Cisco, VMware and SAP solutions.

Key takeaways:

• Leverage data-driven foundation to deliver agility, performance and reliability
• Deliver insight-driven customer experiences
• Create better business experiences and new revenue opportunities

Who should attend?

CIOs/CTOs
Direct/Head/VP of Applications
Direct/Head/VP of Infrastructure /Data Center Operations
Direct/Head/VP of Virtualization
Enterprise Architects

Raghu Krishnan
Technology Editor

Economic Times

Sudharsan A
APAC Solution Lead
Business Critical Applications & Converged Solution

Hitachi Vantara

Sudharshini M H
Regional Manager SE Organisation India & SAARC

Cisco India

Open Source technology can accelerate enterprises with their digital transformations by providing a quickly developing innovation ecosystem filled with like-minded peers. But to successfully use open source to win, serve, and delight customers, there’s a level of quality and performance that is expected.

The key success factors for Open Source Life Cycle Management with Automation are:

1. Adoption
• Open source in a Cloud Native Environment, without complexity
• Integration with other open source and enterprise software

2. Life Cycle Management
• Automation driven Managed Services – including proactive notifications about patches or fixes

3. Cost Optimisation
• The ability to switch to less expensive community editions

4. Security & Compliance
Most importantly, the need for a specialist in not just a single open source category to achieve some of these demands, but integrations and the ability to successfully meet performance expectations are reserved for players like IBM that can understand you Industry, future need across complex IT stacks