Author - unwiredcp

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

The economic slowdown due to pandemic has hit the Industrial Manufacturing sector quite hard due to the downward trend in Auto Industry worldwide. Although key benchmark sectors are recently seeing an uptick, the road to recovery will definitely be amplified by organisations adopting & flexing digital muscle to simplify processes, reduce tat & render transparency into manufacturing processes.

The entire manufacturing world is looking at cohesive efforts to gain back their consumers & end users for which adopting digital partnerships, enhancing customer experience, creating new business models to connect with their customers will go a long way. Hence, creating an industry dialogue involving the solution facilitator & Manufacturers’ is critical to circumnavigate the advantage of such meaningful interactions. Consequently, The Economic Times in association with Infor aims to be a mitigating factor in this dialogue.

Ravindra Inamdar
Head-Operations & Factory, Cooling Division
Thermax

Sameer Makhija
Director Asset Management Solution
IMEA– Infor

Subrata Banerjee
VP-IT
Vedanta Aluminium

Tushar Rahate
DGM & Head Plant Engineering
Godrej & Boyce Mfg Co.

T Venkataramana
Head Business Development & Mktg

V. Bino George
Head of Business Consulting
Infor India

Vijay Kumar Saboo
Mentor
Godrej & Boyce Mfg Co.

Overview

The consumer-packaged goods industry is changing rapidly and has evolved to meet consumer demands; thanks to digital technology that has allowed brands to carve out markets by selling directly to customers, from online ordering and delivery to personalized meal kits and more. The industry is in the midst of ground-breaking changes across the value chain – from manufacturing and packaging to service delivery and customer engagement. This evolution is being driven by customer obsession, relentless technology disruptions and business model innovations.

CPG companies have launched innovative products to meet an ever-growing array of human needs and desires. They have expanded rapidly into the burgeoning consumer markets of the developing world. Companies are focussing themselves to investing in digital technologies with built-in analytic capabilities that help them better understand their consumers and the operational problems they are trying to solve. Taking this forward and making this breakneck growth possible and profitable, they have aggressively built global scale along every part of the value chain. These strategies, along with increased margins and weighting of portfolios toward fast-growing categories, have delivered stellar shareholder returns.

The strategies that can drive the way forward for the consumer goods industry in 2020 are:

• Developing data analytics and intelligent decision-making capabilities.
• Leveraging consumer insights to guide investment decisions.
• Retraining existing employees while hiring new talent.

Some of the perceived benefits of these strategies and digital solutions are:

• Pre-packaged and proven consumer products industry solution deliverables
• Use of proven and constantly updated Durable Goods industry Best Business
• Risk mitigation and budget control
• Integrity of the business processes and information Traceability of the final product from raw material to finished goods
• Scalable platform with SAP Suite on Hana and robust operational reporting analytics

Introducing the Round Table: Consumer Packed Good’s in the Digital Age

As very well said; aligning consumer needs with business goals and being highly attentive to customers will ensure sustainable success for CPG players. Technology disruptions and customer obsession are revolutionizing the entire value chain for the Consumer Packed Goods (CPG) industry, but both demand the clear understanding of the challenges and risks in the industry.

With the theme “Embracing the Industry with Scalable and Innovative Solutions” the virtual round table will initiate thought provoking discussions on connecting consumers with the products innovations experiences and expectations – with our solutions for the CPG industry to meet global requirements. Through the webinar we intend to understand the key challenges with the industry and finding innovative solutions.

The different industry leaders will focus on challenges like demand management, pricing, food safety, quality management, process manufacturing, yield management, commodity procurement and costing, logistics execution, profitability analysis and more. The market is rapidly responding to the discussed challenges with innovative, scalable solution for the CPG industry which are designed to support and streamline your business-critical processes. Some of the largely discussed key and relevant process in the CPG industries are like Commodity Procurement, Responsive Manufacturing, Product Safety and Stewardship, Real time availability to promise functionality, Integrated warehouse and distribution management –Sales reporting analytics – Profitability and Margin Analysis.

Abheek Singhi
Senior Partner and Managing Director
The Boston Consulting Group
Moderator

Anil Rao
CEO
NTT DATA Business Solutions India

Mohit Anand
Managing Director
Kellogg, India & South Asia at Kellogg Company

Dr. R S Sodhi
Managing Director
GCMMF (Amul)

Rajesh Ramakrishnan
Managing Director
Perfetti Van Melle India

Sudeep Goenka
Director
Goldee Group

As we look to move past the grave phase of COVID-19, the global economy is contending with understanding the atrociousness of the economic impact it leaves. A Cambridge study predicts that the global economy could face a loss of some US$26.8 trillion, or 5.3%, of global GDP in the coming five years and The World Economic forum points to prolonged economic recession, bankruptcies and sector consolidation, collapse of hardest hit sectors, high rates of unemployment, and restriction of movement of people and goods as the top five expected consequences of the crisis.

2020 has been a year of trying and testing the best business models. The COVID -19 crisis has highlighted the need to strengthen our resilience to future threats to humanity and climate change. The government of India has been engaging industries to create packages that will enable a green recovery. India is making great strides towards affordable, secure and reliable sustainable infrastructure.

This round table will help us understand on what CXO’s think of best models and set a roadmap in unity with technology to bring out the best in the sustainable infrastructure space.

This Round Table is a Deep Dive session on below talk points

1. The Green Infrastructure Opportunity
2. Attracting Capital Markets & The Right Investments
3. Creating Opportune Moment Through Technology
4. Why Building Sustainable Infrastructure Is Good for Business

Chitranjan Kaushik
Chief Operating Officer
Ecofirst Services Limited

Jigar Deliwala
Head Sustainability & HES
EX – Adani Portz

Jyotirmoy Ray
Head for New Initiatives
WIN Automation

Manpreet Singh
Partner
KPMG India

Dr Rajashekhar Malur
Vice President & Head – Power Business
Tata Consulting Engineers

Sanjay Mishra
CIO
L&T Construction

Sunil M K
Country Manager – AEC
Autodesk India

S Nandan
VP & Head Engineering – SBG Urban Infra
TΛTΛ Projects Limited

Tapan Mazumder
Engineering Director (ED), Vice President
GS Engineering & Construction

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

Overview

Auto Industry upturn is what the entire world has been looking forward to these days as it is the Auto sector which gets influenced first if there is a downturn & enjoys an uptrend when the economies start getting better. Looking at the current market scenario, although it may take a while for complete revival, Auto Car & Component makers are looking at providing consistent & robust technology advancements to the end user through the help of Digital Transformation, ERP which help in bettering their processes thereby cost & time.

The below focussed round table will showcase the need of implementing industry 4.0 technologies in Auto manufacturing through optimal use of Digital Transformation thus ensuring much needed resilience for the sector. Varied organizations have specific needs and based on them they would be looking out to absorb these technologies.

The Economic Times presents this crucial session by connecting the dots between manufacturers & strategy facilitator.

Ankit Chawla
Director Business Development

Neeraj Singh
Director
KPMG India

Rajat Yadav
Information Technology leader

Virendra Pal Singh
DGM ICT
Uniparts Group

V. Bino George
Head of Business Consulting
Infor India