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Overview

Rising unemployment, hunger, malnutrition, poverty and deaths – the Coronavirus pandemic has showed us a dystopian side of life on earth that we could have not imagined easily.

But businesses and business leaders have responded to the global health crisis by broadening the horizon of what was possible, and this has caused a paradigm shift in the way we work. The modern workplace is evolving faster than anyone ever imagined. In the last few months, organizations have responded to the crisis with unparalleled agility, adopting digital solutions to reboot their enterprises and reimagining the way they operate.

In fact, one of the trends to have taken speed during the lockdown as a result of social distancing, is the adoption of a hybrid work environment in the near future. One example is Tata Consultancy Services which is believed to adapt a future operating model that will have 25% of their workforce at their facilities and they are committed to driving high productivity with anytime, anywhere, collaborative working.

Manufacturing in focus

Manufacturing Industry in India has gone through various phases of development over the period of time. Since independence in 1947, the domestic manufacturing sector has traversed a long journey starting from building the industrial foundation in 1950’s and early 1960’s, to the license–permit Raj between 1965 to 1980. Then it underwent a phase of liberalization of 1990’s and finally to the present phase of global competitiveness. The Indian Manufacturing sector currently contributes 16-17% to GDP and gives employment to around 12% (2014) of the country’s workforce.

Various studies have estimated that every job created in manufacturing has a multiplier effect in creating 2–3 jobs in the services sector. In a country like India, where employment generation is one of the key policy issues, this makes this sector a critical one to achieve inclusive growth.  According to IBEF, the manufacturing sector of India has the potential to reach $1 trillion by 2025.

The manufacturing workforce has been absorbing new technology for more than two centuries. Today, the industry finds itself in the midst of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which is poised to transform work at an unprecedented pace through exponential technologies such as artificial intelligence, advanced robotics and cognitive automation, advanced analytics, and the Internet of Things (IoT). And, contrary to some predictions, technology is likely to create more jobs than it destroys—as it has done historically.

Additionally, the Fourth Industrial Revolution is creating a mismatch between available workers and the skills necessary for open jobs. Another part of the challenge the industry faces is understanding how today’s jobs and associated skills are morphing into new jobs and career pathways that continue to evolve along with advanced technology. How can the manufacturing industry prepare for this future workplace and ready its workforce to work beside robots and advanced technologies? What are the skills that will become “must-haves” in the future workplace? What are the pathways for training and education to enable these skills?

Introducing Rewiring human capital – reimagining roles in the manufacturing sector webinar

As businesses and business leaders continue to innovate to keep their operations profitable, the Future of Work webinar series is an effort to understand, hear and gather insights from these change agents of large companies on how they are making their organisations future ready.

Much like the Greek Ecclesia from c.621 BC, where young talented citizens were called on as a group to deal with tough challenges, this platform will serve as a knowledge-sharing, brainstorming and ideation to implementation platform for all ‘digital-oriented’ leaders.

The platform will look at key issues such as blurring boundaries of time and place, demand for lifelong learners, shrinking shelf life of information, growing impact of emerging technologies, building a secure yet simpler IT experience and building business resiliency with simplicity in mind with across the manufacturing sector in order to form a mozette of its own.

Manoj Kumar
Senior Vice President
Intas Pharmaceutical (Superspeciality SBU)

Nihar Ranjan Ghosh
President-Human Resource
Emami

Rajesh Uppal
Member Executive Board-Information Technology, Human Resource, and Safety
Maruti Suzuki India

Siddharth Idnani
Head-Manufacturing and Conglomerates Vertical
Microsoft India

Somick K Goswami
Partner
PwC India Consulting

Terence Lim
Devices Specialist, Global Black Belt
Microsoft Asia

IDC estimates that unstructured data is likely to represent as much as 80% of all data worldwide by 2025. Enterprises are finding it increasingly challenging, to efficiently and affordably store and manage this data deluge.

Businesses that recognize storage as a strategic investment, are demanding more out of their storage systems such as control, performance, and security, combined with the cost-effectiveness and scalability of the cloud.

To that effect, object-based storage has emerged as the preferred method that supports diverse use cases like backup and recovery, data archiving, AI and big data analytics and more.

IBM Cloud^® Object Storage is designed to support exponential data growth and cloud-native workloads. With built-in high-speed file transfer capabilities, cross-region offerings and integrated services, it helps enterprises securely leverage their data.

Join our webinar to understand:

• Why object-based storage is an ideal solution for storing, archiving, and managing high volumes of static or unstructured data.
• Commonly applied use cases
• Adoption and total cost of ownership of this solution

Manish Jain
Cloud Solutions Leader
IBM

Delivering a Better CX with Customer Journey Mapping and Analytics
Your customers are comparing you with the best customer experience they’ve ever had—every time. As consumers, they want brands to consistently treat them as if they know them and are aware of their likes and dislikes, regardless of the time, place, or the setting.

On the other hand, brands are challenged to deliver that very experience as CX leaders need to navigate the challenges of ever-changing consumer expectations in a hyper competitive world.
However, a look at history reveals that CX leaders power their customers with uber experience that differentiates them from others. If you want to win your customers and want them to fall in love with you—then you need to consider customer journey mapping right now!

Mapping your customer journey well and zeroing in on the right customer experience strategy would make you a leader. A Harvard Business Review Analytic Services study connotes, a CX leader is always ahead of times with his strategies right on place. Whether budget, systems, skills or process, a CX leader has his vision clear when it comes to CX roadmap.

At the same time, lack of execution and effectiveness in the CX journey can make one a laggard.

Join an ET Unwired Session, Delivering a Better CX with Customer Journey Mapping and Analytics, Powered by Zendesk, and get to hear from industry veterans in customer experience as they share their best practices and insights on what enables a good CX strategy.

Key Takeaways:

• Visualize cross-channel customer journeys and understand precisely how customers interact with your sites, apps, voice assistants…
• Measure what matters the most and make digital experiences great
• Use of analytics in CX

Agenda:

• Welcome Address by ET Edge
• Opening Keynote (Zendesk)
• Panel Discussion (Delivering a Better CX with Customer Journey Mapping and Analytics)
• Closing Keynote

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.

Ashwani Mishra
Consulting Tech Editor

Sajan Paul
Managing Director & Country Manager, India & SAARC
Juniper Networks

Diwali is the time to declutter our homes as we prepare to invite prosperity in the new year. On this auspicious occasion, allow us to ring a positive note by saying that humankind has always thrived in the wake of a great crisis. History bears this out. Big rallies have followed big crises. In fact, in May 2009, the Sensex rallied over 18% in just one day. There is no doubt that these are trying times, but humanity has fought many battles earlier and not only survived, but thrived in the face of adversity. On this festival of lights, join us as our personal finance experts help us understand how to declutter our finances and move further on the path to prosperity.

Amit Trivedi
Author, Speaker, Blogger, Trainer

Gaurav Mashruwala
Certified Financial Planner & Practioner

K S Rao
Senior Vice President & Head – Investor Education & Distribution Development
Aditya Birla Sun Life AMC Ltd.

The Indian pharma sector is the third largest in the world. It manufactures almost 60 per cent of the vaccines used globally, including important ones, such as those against diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis required by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Furthermore, the country meets 90 per cent of the global demand for the vaccine against measles.

Currently, generic drugs are playing a crucial role in the fight against COVID–19. India has been meeting more than 20 per cent of the world and almost 50 per cent of the US’s generic drug requirements. Unfortunately, Indian manufacturers rely heavily on China for key starting materials (KSMs), intermediate and APIs with China catering to nearly 70 per cent of Indian pharma companies’ requirements.

The Indian pharma sector is an important component of the global healthcare infrastructure and is instrumental in saving millions of lives every year. However, the lockdown triggered by coronavirus disease (Covid-19) has caused disruptions in all sectors. Pharma sector has been jolted too but there is hope that things will ease, and growth will resume.

The Economic Times Next Normal in Pharma themed on ‘’Road Map for Business Continuity in Pharma’’ is trying to gather the entire pharma industry value chain for indispensable discussion to connect and shape the future.

The programme will feature panels, one-to-one discussions, and keynotes, with disrupters, government, consultants and pharma professionals debating at the platform. The Economic Times Next Normal In Pharma will witness key stakeholder across organizations to reveal a holistic view of the challenges and enable cross-fertilization of knowledge.

This Webinar would highlight the core challenges and how the Indian healthcare system can overcome from the same by focusing on aspects below

• Initial Business Continuity Plans & how they have panned out
• Pharma experimenting and mastering alternative channels to doctors
• Managing Information: Ability to translate huge amount of digital information and decision making as a result
• Evolving into a Healthcare Digital Ecosystem from a traditional Pharma Company
• Challenges in digitalisation and solution
• Digital initiatives that are here to stay in pharma ecosystem – innovating for the new normal?
• Way Forward for India’s pharmaceutical Connect to External stakeholders

Anandram Narasimhan
Managing Director
Merck (India Cluster)

Gagan Singh
MD
AstraZeneca Pharma India

Ganesh Ramachandran
Global CIO
Alkem Laboratories

Kiran Majumdar Shaw
Executive, Chairperson
Biocon

Manoj Kumar
Cluster Head, SVP
Intas Pharma

Manoj Saxena
Managing Director Bayer Zydus Pharma and Country Division Head
South Asia – Pharmaceuticals

Namita Thapar
Executive Director
Emcure Pharmaceuticals

Rajaram Narayanan
Managing Director
Sanofi India Limited

Rajiv Malik
President
Mylan

Sanjiv Navangul
MD & CEO
Bharat Serums and Vaccines

Sathya Prathipathi
Senior Partner
Mckinsey & Company

Saumil Mody
Country Head
India Oncology, Novartis

Sharad Tyagi
Managing Director
Boehringer Ingelheim India Pvt Ltd.

S. Sridhar
Managing Director
Pfizer Limited

Umang Vohra
Managing Director & Global Chief Executive Officer
Cipla Limited

Dr Vikas Gupta
Sr Vice President
Cipla

Vikrant Shrotriya
MD & CVP
Novo Nordisk

Vivek Khanvilkar
AVP
Sun Pharma

Accelerated by COVID-19, remote working model, once a rarity for a few, is here to stay. It is quickly becoming a defining feature of our modern times. In fact, remote working is an enlightened way to work in its own right; learning how to manage a remote organization can create lasting benefits for your business—with the right tools.

With remote working turning out to be the fulcrum for a modern workplace, organizations are now focusing on determining what their Unified Communications end state should be.

UC services provide a platform upon which you can manage your communication services in a seamless fashion. Workers can communicate in real-time and collaborate successfully, without having to manage all these different communication lines independently.

Join an ET Unwired Session, Unified Communications-The Fulcrum for Modern Workplace! and get a deep dive into Unified Communications and MS Teams (TCL’s Direct Routing and Connections for MS Teams solutions).

Key Takeaways:

• Remote collaboration to ensure business continuity
• UC end state
• What’s an ideal business continuity plan?