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Digital transformation is fundamentally impacting everyday world and the CHRO is no different. In today’s work culture, every aspect has a technology element attached to it. Organizations are becoming more efficient and the efficiency of all our employees goes up by leaps and bounds by expanding and enhancing IT capabilities for their own employees, leading to business growth. For this to come to fruition, the CIO and CHRO plays a vital role in reconciling the current gap between what is required for better employee performance and the digital tools currently offered to them. Thus, The Economic Times focused roundtable: Twin Engines for Success – Talent and Technology, will together the CIOs and CHROs together to talk about how the twin engine can bridge the gap between the use of technology and job satisfaction; boost productivity and drive growth, and the emerging technologies that will enhance the alliance between the CIO and CHRO

Abhishek Dhal
Director, South Zone
Anaplan India

Rahul Dhatariya
AVP Global HR Technology
TATA Communications

Romy Sahay
President HR
Deepak Fertilizers & Petrochemicals

Shobhana P. Ravi
Chief of Information Technology, Innovation and Learning Officer
TAFE

Shreekanth Moorthy
Chief Information Officer
Tata Technologies

Surya Prakash Mohapatra
Global Head- Talent transformation and Learning & Development
Wipro Digital Operations and Platforms

Vidya Rao
Chief Information Officer
Genpact

Vikas Dureja
AVP – IT
HCL India

Vinita Shrivastava
Chief Human Resources Officer
Syngene International

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. As we are reviving back from the pandemic and adapting the new normal, more and more companies are competing primarily on the nimbleness of their supply chains to drive the projected revenues. Thus, The Economic Times focused closed door roundtable –The Greatest Reset: Driving financial results through the Supply Chain, will bring together the CFOs and Supply Chain heads to contemplate on the successful operational plans, the quality output for the need of proper utilization of capital on resources, opportunities and challenges in keeping the profitability of the company as many business models were made redundant by the crisis, costs management strategies.

Amit Gupta
Director-Solution Consulting
Anaplan India

Gaurav Bhatia
Associate Director – Head Planning (South Africa)
Cipla

Jayaprakash Kalappan
CFO & Company Secretary
Panasonic Appliances India

Kaleeswaran Arunachalam
Chief Financial Officer
Eicher Motors

Kumar Subbiah
Executive Director Finance
CEAT

Lalit Malik
CFO
Dabur India

Manoj Kothari
VP & Head of Supply Chain, Godrej Africa, USA & Middle East
Godrej Consumer Products

Rajasekhara Reddy
Vice President – Global Demand Planning & Logistics
Glenmark Pharmaceuticals

Vinay Kushwaha
Chief Supply Chain officer
Britannia

Cloud is imperative when it comes to not just modernizing the IT environment, but also people function for a complete digital transformation. Cloud-based computing and storage platforms offer manifold advantages over conventional on-premise systems, from lower operating costs to better compatibility with the working styles of digital enterprises. In addition, cloud offers improved security, reduced security liability, laser focus on mission. However, migrating from legacy ERP to cloud successfully is always a challenge.

Though expensive, bulky and large, enterprises have relied on ERP systems to manage their people data for a long time. Cloud based HRMS software have found acceptance in the last decade and more organizations are now making the move for advanced features, digitization of HR processes & elevated employee experience. However, for most of the organizations, moving ERP projects to cloud is like a war owing to bad processes, poor governance, and inattention towards organizational change management.

There’s always a complexity of migrating the universe of existing applications, depending on the architecture and existing licensing arrangements. In such a scenario, the need is to have a virtualized, service-oriented architecture on the low-complexity end of the spectrum, and a monolithic mainframe at the high-complexity end of the spectrum.

Join the ET Unwired Session, How to migrate from legacy ERP to cloud successfully, powered by AWS & PeopleStrong, to learn about the right processes for HR Tech cloud migration.

Key Takeaways:

• Basic Framework for Migration
• Basic Migration Phases
• Checklist steps to prepare people data
• Change management & mistakes to avoid

Abraham Ittyipe
CIO
Harrisons Malayalam

Sarajit Jha
Chief Business Transformation & Digital Solutions
Tata Steel

Priyabrata Sarangi
Chief Information Officer
DCM Shriram Industries

Adhir Mane
CHRO, Lifestyle Business
Raymond

Mrigank Tripathi
VP
PeopleStrong

Vineet Chaturvedi
Strategic Lead – ISV Business
AISPL

Sheena George
Partner Technology Consulting
EY
Moderator

Overview

The Coronavirus pandemic has showed us a dystopian side of life on earth that we could have not imagined easily. One does not need to be a clairvoyant to see how we are struggling to maintain balance between a life-threatening disease and living a normal life.

Similarly, many businesses are facing challenges daily and working towards in solving one problem at a time in order to stay in race. According to the World bank, the world economy is facing its worst recession since World War II and growth is expected to shrink by 5.2 per cent in 2021. Even as several governments across the globe announced relief packages to rescue their economy, many of them will have to face a downturn at least for the short term. Still, the crisis has encouraged incentives for economic transformation and adoption of digital business models.

What we have seen in past couple of months, a high jump in technological advancements throughout the sectors and across functions. Finance being one the function which has been working around the clock since the pandemic hit the world, in order to keep the companies afloat. There have been many down sides to covid-19, but we must say it has fast tracked the digital transformation in businesses. Social distancing and protecting our selves have become a new normal, which has ignited the digital payment methods across levels.

We must adapt to new normal with tools and technologies at hand, together with better strategies we would be able to sail through this current pandemic. Usage of AI and big data is becoming a new normal in setting goals and taking leadership level decisions.

This session will focus on the many facets of the finance domain. It is designed to deliver a summary and practical information to help you understand how digital finance has changed in past few months, role of fintech, AI & big data.

Arnab Roy
Executive Director & CFO
Schneider Electric Infrastructure Limited

Nikhil sharma
Partner – Business Consulting
EY India

Nitin D Parekh
Group Chief Financial Officer
Cadila Healthcare Limited

Overview:

The expression ‘network visibility’ has been in the networking space for a long time yet has never been as significant as it is today. More mobile devices are now connecting to more data from more sources – regardless of whether virtualization, the cloud or IoT.

In such an environment, understanding what visibility absolutely means is just as important as possessing it and having the ability to control and optimize the network. Realizing how to quantify what ‘great’ looks like is basic in current, complex systems administration conditions while without it can hamper organizational speed, network problems take longer to resolve, and security threats increase. Ultimately, one-size does not fit all in terms of network visibility architectures. You need one that is packaged to your network’s specific configuration and needs. At a point when done viably it can prevent and solve a lot of the daily problems faced by your network operations and security teams.

This Webinar will focus on the aspects that needs to be considered while setting up an end-to-end visibility architecture and how to realize return on investment at the earliest while improving security and decreasing network downtime.

Who Should Attend:

• Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
• Chief Information Officer (CIO)
• Head of Network
• Head of IT Infrastructure
• Head of Security

Badhrinarayanan Srinivasan
Director Applications Engineering
Keysight Technologies India

Jitendra Mishra
Group CIO
Alembic Pharmaceuticals

Mrinal K Pal
Chief – Cloud Infra, Network & Cyber Security
Tata Steel

Subhojit Roy
CIO
SBI Funds Management

Dr.Suresh A Shan
Head – Innovation & Future Technologies Business information Technology Solutions (BITS)
Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services

Vinayak Godse
Vice President
Data Security Council of India

Wise judgment and effective decision-making have always been essential skills for leaders across all professional settings. The business leaders of the 21^st Century have undergone major upheavals. Whether it’s the dotcom bubble, 2008-09 recession triggered by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, or the recent Coronavirus pandemic, the leaders confronted different forms of crisis at various points.

The crises, the leaders have now witnessed, is not of small magnitude, but had put an existential question mark to many organizations. In these battles of ‘Survival’ and ‘Succumb’, true leaders have withstood the storm and stood tall amid adversities. The decision taken by the leaders in this tough time will decide the fate of the organizations.

The decision making style of various leaders may change from business to business, however there are few traits which are very important in the current tough times like – creating an environment of phycological safety so that the teams can be innovative in their approach without hesitation.

In a nutshell, such events witnessed the survival of the fittest in the past however in the current world it’s the survival of most ingenious. The survival of the future businesses will hugely depend on the how the leaders will make that their teams can be more resourceful and innovative.

Join an ET Unwired Session, Leading the Change – Breaking Barriers of Conventional Leadership, to learn leadership lessons from an Army Officer, Corporate Leader—Capt. Raghu Raman. His principles of organisational dynamics, strategy, transformations, and the mindset shift are needed to lead in a complex and ever-changing world. He has operated in distinctively different environments of leadership.

Capt. Raghu Raman would present anecdotes and mantras to stay afloat at the hour of Crisis. He would also touch upon some of the topical issues that would pave way for a rosy future.

Key Takeaways:

• New Normal of Leadership & Decision Making
• Art of decision making in uncertain times

Capt. Raghu Raman
Founding CEO, NATGRID
Strategic Coach | Author | Storyteller
Distinguished Fellow, ORF | UN Peacekeeper

Huzefa Motiwala
Senior Director – Sales Engineering
Commvault India & SAARC

The pandemic has pushed banks to transform their business models and reinvent themselves. Digital adaptation started off as an option but has changed into a requirement in every bank’s agenda as end consumers, businesses, and governments are quickly adopting trends cascading from the technology sector in their tech capabilities, operations and businesses.

With supply chains reaching beyond boundaries, business houses are pushing banks to provide transaction banking products that are convenient and of benefit to their business. Corporates are looking for greater value from banks by way of solutions that combine numerous traditional products, custom-made products, multi-bank aggregation, interaction across functions like payments, trade, cash and liquidity. The need is for all-in-one solutions for data that concerns their working capital, their cash requirements, payments, etc. In fact, it is a dashboard that they are expecting. To some extent, the transaction banking that some of the banks offer does provide such conveniences.

So, the question is whether banks in India have been able to cater to these disparate requirements?

The transaction banking space holds great potential and it is anticipated that this space will develop at an intense pace and result in an increase in the number of universally designed products and offerings. In this webinar, we will explore in-depth the phenomenon developing in the transaction banking landscape by identifying key global trends and changes to the end business ecosystem, as well as the different degrees of trend occurrence and maturity across key industries. We will then deliberate on current sate of corporate / transaction banking in context to Indian banks, with focus on SMEs and MSMEs. And finally, we take a glimpse into the road ahead, vis-à-vis the pandemic.

Ashok Gautam
Executive Director & Head Treasury
IDBI Bank

Brijesh Mehra
Head – Corporate, Institutional and Transaction Banking
RBL Bank

Hitesh Sethia
Head – Transaction Banking Business
ICICI Bank

Paritosh Mathur
Head, Corporate Banking
IDFC First Bank

Ritesh Jhingan
Vice President, Global Head of Cash Management
Finastra

Shekhar Bhandari
President – Global Transaction Banking
Kotak Mahindra Bank

Udayan Ray
Founder – FundooMoney, Former Editor
Outlook Money

Veena Rao
Vice President, Global Head of Connected Corporate Banking
Finastra

Vivek Gupta
President, Wholesale Banking
Axis Bank

To meet the complexity of global challenges during uncertain times, data agility is critical to maintain a competitive advantage in the market. As businesses start to scale the use of AI as a transformative power to innovate and be more efficient, they have to manage the risks that come with it.

Almost 89% of businesses report that they struggle with managing data. These struggles include delays in insight and a lack of trust in the underlying data.

Leaders are seeking new ways to manage the pressures of delivering trustworthy and high-quality data faster across their businesses. They also realize the need to automate and drive efficiencies with their processes, workflows and data pipelines—to result in improved data quality.

IBM DataOps capabilities help create a business-ready analytics foundation by providing market-leading technology that works together with AI-enabled automation, infused governance, data protection, and a powerful knowledge catalog to operationalize continuous, high-quality data across the business

Join us to find out how IBM DataOps can help you –

• Organize your data for trustworthy insights and AI implementations
• Identify and reduce risk and compliance concerns stemming from data
• Improve data usage by discovering and integrating it from multiple silos

Vamshi Krishna Vattem
Chief Technical Architect – Data and AI
IBM