Past Webinars

The digital workplace will never be same again. As the global economies are recovering from the pandemic, evolving beyond is imminent threat. And with that, the move to cloud applications and Unified Communications is fast becoming a standard for enterprises targeting business continuity, global collaboration, and productivity.

The future will see a change as people may or may not return to offices, leading to an evolution of the working models. Models that will require secure access to enterprise applications and collaboration tools blending in both the in-office and off-premise environments.

The private cloud collaboration services offered by Tata Communications & Cisco provides consistent performance, customer experience and seamless migration to the cloud from legacy.

Join The ET Unwired Collaboration Series: Future Ready Enterprises in the Digital-First World, powered by Tata Communications and Cisco to learn how to enable seamless global communication across your enterprise.

Key Discussion Areas

• Seamless collaboration across various UC platforms
• Leverage best-in-class managed services for complex UC environments
• Creating True Omnichannel Experience for Customers

Ravi Gautam
Regional Lead: Solution Sales Specialist
Tata Communications

Vaibhav Pant
Systems Engineering Manager, Sales, Collab
Cisco

Organizations needs to ensure that their data is protected and ready when you need it—that it’s recoverable, searchable and moveable. Losing your organization critical data can have serious financial implications for any business and more importantly in can leave businesses crippled for days or even weeks. There’s a lot of danger from which you need to protect your Office 365 data and content—there’s accidental deletion, user deletion, ransomware, malware, service interruptions and more.

Microsoft Office 365 applications provide short term data retention and high availability for ready use. However, for a longer run for data backup and availability the organizations need to lookout for the solutions which provides holistic support in the same.

Commvault provides one solution to this overall problem, eliminating the need for another point solution that would add complexity and cost to your already challenging IT operations. With Commvault, you’ll be ready—and your Office 365 backup will protect your data against these potential threats.

Join the Economic Times Unwired on Backup & Recovery for Office 365 Data? – One Solution Does It All, powered by Commvault to learn how one single solution can backup and recover your data irrespective of – public cloud backup, on-premises backup, hybrid cloud backup—or any other combination which your organization is using.

Key Discussion Areas

• Data Migration: Fast Office 365 migration
• Data Security: Comprehensive Office 365 protection
• Data Readiness: Find your data when you need it

Truptendu Mohapatra
Enterprise Pre-Sales Manager
Commvault

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

Syed Almas Kabir
President
BASIS

A B M Ahasan Ullah
AVP, Infra & Network
LankaBangla Finance

Debdulal Roy
Executive Director
Bangladesh Bank

Mohammad Taslimul Haque
Head – IT Division
Bank Alfalah

Rahul Singhal
Partner
KPMG in India

Rajesh Itagi
Pre-Sales Manager – Enterprise & Cloud
NetApp India and SAARC

Syed Masodul Bari
DMD & CTO
Al-Arafah Islami Bank

Vinay Kumar Parath
Director Sales
NetApp

Overview

Today, most organizations are transitioning from a traditional infrastructure of separate, static physical systems to a dynamic mix of on-premises, managed cloud, private cloud, and public cloud environments, running on virtualized or software-defined resources that scale and reconfigure constantly.

Applications and systems across these environments generate a tsunami of data that keeps growing. In fact, Gartner estimates that the average enterprise IT infrastructure generates two to three times more IT operations data every year.

Enter AIOps, which provides visibility into performance data and dependencies across all environments, analyzes the data to extract significant events related to slow-downs or outages, and automatically alerts IT staff to problems, their root causes, and recommended solutions.

Join us to discuss how IBM Watson AIOps brings transformative AI driven insights from structured and unstructured data across IT data sources delivered and market-leading real-time cross domain dynamic event, topology and metric analytics capabilities into one powerful AIOps solution.

Bounthara (Bounty) Ing
Cloud Integration Expert, Asia Pacific
IBM Cloud and Cognitive Software

Mukesh Sethi
Sr. Technical Manager
IBM Cloud

As the world grapples with the unprecedented effects of the pandemic, there has been renewed focus on fundamentally reshaping the way business is performed. As businesses navigate through a broad range of interrelated issues and evolving needs of various stakeholders, the cornerstone of future business strategy will fortify around agility, shifting paradigm of stakeholders, workforce impact, reorienting operations and sustainability.

Finance function plays a critical role for any organization to thrive and hence it must evolve to becoming a strategic, analytical and data-driven powerhouse that embraces digitization and drives performance, thereby, adding value to the business during all times.

In that context, Microsoft & KPMG bring together various strategic as well as tactical aspects of Finance transformation and help organizations build the future of Finance through a suite of solutions, enabled by Cloud, Analytics & AI-led Innovation.

Join The ET Unwired Session on Future of Finance: Enabled By Cloud & Analytics powered by Microsoft & KPMG in India.

Key Areas of Discussion :

• Enabling innovation through agile capital allocation leading to higher enterprise value creation.
• Evaluate new business and operating models to enable the right portfolio decisions.
• Lead scenario modelling to make the most of a future opportunity.
• Driving strategic profitability and cost management to maximize shareholder returns.

Karun Gupta
Finance Head – Enterprise Business
Microsoft India

Sachin Arora
Partner & Head – Lighthouse
KPMG in India

Shamit Mukherjee
Partner – Business Consulting
KPMG in India

Amit Patnaik
Director – Lighthouse
KPMG in India

Overview

The Government of India has been quick to react with targeted measures to arrest the fall of India’s GDP growth which is the worst in 4 decades. The after effect of this are already being felt on lives, livelihood and growth.

While it is expected for the Finance Minister to unravel a pragmatic budget, one should expect a policy plan that will promote growth drivers, ease distress, bolster livelihoods and encourage create a resurgent India that is both inclusive and self-sustaining. The need for fiscal support to lift the economy is paramount and a clear roadmap has to be put in place to fast-track existing projects that can kick-start a virtuous cycle of revenue, job-creation and investments.

Keeping this in mind, this webinar will deliberate on the Union Budget with regards to tax impact/changes and how they fare for the economy. Industry leaders will share their views on the current budget, their expectations and how they feel India could reel out from the crisis that came about due to the pandemic and emerge as an engine for global economic growth.

Abhinav Srivastava
Partner Indirect Tax
BDO India

Deepak Bhalla
Senior Vice President (Finance) & Global CFO (Consulting, BPO & Products)
Infosys

Jiger Saiya
Partner & Leader Tax & Regulatory Services
 

Preet Dhupar
Chief Financial Officer
IKEA India

Soumen Ray
CFO
Bajaj Auto

Vikas Wadhawan
Group CFO
PropTiger.com, Housing.com & Makaan.com

Overview

If the pace of the pre-coronavirus world seemed fast, then time, in an evolutionary sense, post the pandemic seems to have transgressed further. Businesses that once mapped digital strategy in one- to three-year phases must now scale their initiatives in a matter of weeks.

The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the move to digital transformation as customers reacted swiftly to the lockdown and the shift by their staff to home working. There has been plenty of anecdotal evidence of rapid shifts across most verticals as the world has changed over the past six months. Some of these examples include banks going digital almost completely, automobile manufacturers selling cars online to more accelerated widespread penetration and adoption of e-commerce across sectors.

However, with changing market conditions and economies still in flux along with the threat of the pandemic extending for many more months, organisations and leaders must reassess their digital initiatives in order to prepare them for both the short-term as well as the post-crisis world. Key business decisions such as hitting the market faster, customising for demand and knowing the customer including expanding to other markets or segments will play a very important role in ascertaining if businesses stay afloat in the long run. And we have seen that organisations have resorted to big data and analytics to find more business intelligence to find answers to the changing market conditions. But have they been successful?

Researchers still believe that the answer to that question is a “no’. According to a report from Forrester, while 74% of businesses want to be data-driven, only 29% are good at connecting analytics to action. Another report from Gartner found that more than 60% of models are developed with the intention of operationalizing them but were never operationalized.

While algorithm-driven businesses will become the new leaders, augmenting traditional analytics with more data, faster ingestion, and analysis, new expectations, while reducing costs seems to be only option to be future-ready.

Getting more out of analytics

Analysts believe that it has taken 15 years or so for companies to harness about 50% of the productivity potential of the Internet, and the next 50% of productivity gains likely require connecting things. The Internet of Things (IoT) is causing an interconnected world where “smart” devices allow things and people to be connected from anyplace, anytime, with anything and anyone. However, the IoT data loses its value if it is not detected and acted upon immediately. That is where real- time streaming analytics can help.

Organizations in every industry have data streaming available from applications, social media, sensors, devices, websites, and more. Analysing this data in real-time, rather than storing it and analysing it later, can provide critical, actionable insights in many operational and functional areas.

Essentially, streaming analytics is all about extracting business value from data in motion in the same way traditional analytics tools make use of data at rest. Real-time streaming analytics helps companies of all sizes by issuing alerts instantly when a customer’s experience is degraded, or fraud is detected.

Additionally, information derived from real-time analytics can be used to identify anomalies and business changes (a sudden spike in demand for a product or service, or a defect in manufacturing) as they occur. Such information allows companies to take instant action and seize an opportunity that they otherwise might miss.

Use cases of real-time analytics performed on streaming data can be found in cybersecurity, financial services, retail, manufacturing, the energy industry, healthcare, and many more.

Introducing ET’s The Dataversity webinar

As businesses realise that questions around digital transformation are changing from “if” anymore; to “how fast can we can pivot?” to  “what are the costs involved?”, the Economic Times The Dataversity webinar, powered by Cloudera, is an effort to understand how enterprises and IoT applications can benefit immensely from real-time streaming analytics by visualizing the business in real-time, cutting preventable losses, detecting urgent situations and automating immediate actions.

Avijeet Dash
Sr. Solutions Engineer
Cloudera

Overview

If the pace of the pre-coronavirus world seemed fast, then time, in an evolutionary sense, post the pandemic seems to have transgressed further. Businesses that once mapped digital strategy in one- to three-year phases must now scale their initiatives in a matter of weeks.

In short digital transformation is no longer an option.

Now more than ever, organisations are relying on digital interactions, expecting them to be seamless and secure. Businesses in every single industry are working quickly to develop new and expanded ways to digitally engage with their customers while accelerating their shift to the cloud.

A recent study by the IBM Institute found that Indian firms allocated about 17% of their IT spend towards Cloud and they intend to increase the share of spend on hybrid Cloud from 42% to 49 % by 2023. The majority of their cloud budgets are being allocated to hybrid cloud platforms even as their public cloud spend is set to reduce from 50% today to 43% in the same time period.

Some of the other benefits of cloud computing includes — faster deployment, enhanced security, remote and always-on monitoring, and reduced footprint.

Introducing ET’s The Cloud Innovation Series webinar

As enterprises grapple with modernizing operations, the benefits of their digital transformation must be balanced by the certainty that it will bring sustainable value. As businesses realise that questions around digital transformation are changing from “if” anymore; to “how fast we can pivot?” to “what are the costs involved?”, the Economic Times The Cloud Innovation Series, powered by IBM, is an effort to understand how enterprises and applications can benefit immensely from discussions on how a string architecture strategy and deep industry expertise are critical to a hybrid cloud journey and digital transformation success. Join the webinar to learn why open architecture matters as business embark on their digital journey and why hybrid cloud matters to bridge the gap between the new world of cloud and traditional technology investments.

Subram Natarajan
CTO
IBM India / South Asia

If 2020 was the year of making some hard decisions, 2021 is the year to gauge the outcome of those decisions and to take stock of the challenges encountered to devise a future-proof modern IT architecture.

The pandemic had forced businesses to make difficult choices — Transform their IT infrastructure to enable remote work or save money by not making the transition but sacrifice employee experience and productivity for an unknown amount of time.

However, with time, organizations are realizing that it’s high time to accelerate dependency on robust technology, including reliable services, and to increase organizations’ need for customizable, modern IT solutions deployed at scale.

As businesses continue to adapt to the new ‘Smart Normal’, the need of the hour is to invest in the right IT infrastructure to enable employees to work from home securely and plan their move to modern IT post-Covid-19.

They should also contemplate managing IT Fleet proactively through End-to-End and modular deployment model.

For a deep dive into the IT infrastructure arena in the post-Covid world, join us for an ET Unwired Episode, Pivoting the Future of Modern IT in a Post-COVID World, in association with Lenovo.

Key Takeaways:

• What steps should your company take as they plan their move to Modern IT post-COVID-19?
• How can you maximize the return on your IT Investments over the life of your IT assets?
• What steps can be taken to proactively manage your IT Fleet through End to End and modular deployment model?

Rohit Midha
Director – Services Sales
Lenovo India

The Covid-19 pandemic has reshaped various industries. When it comes to the BFSI sector, it is relying heavily on its networks to connect customers, employees, partners and suppliers to a range of applications and services. Though these networks were adequate in the past (during the pre-Covid days), they may no longer provide the level of service required for ongoing competitive advantage in the face of new business initiatives and regulatory compliance obligations.

Adding new applications and updating networks involves risk, including the exposure to new security issues, unplanned downtime and network conflicts. Mitigating risk required an architecture that can deliver network predictability, pervasive security, and application control.

Traditional branch offices are no longer able to provide the security and access flexibility enterprises need to deliver the quality of experience demanded by the business. Organizations require additional capacity and improved application awareness to ensure their users have access from anywhere.

Today, the BFSI sector needs simpler and more affordable networks. It needs networks that will deliver optimized network experiences for users and devices, uncompromising reliability, and built-in security.

In fact, the need of the hour is a solution that can save opex, an AI-driven platform that can deep dive into network and optimize user experience and service assurance. It should eliminate the increasing IT complexity that is a hurdle in realizing the desired business goals.

Join an ET Unwired Session, Leading the Way with AI-Driven Enterprise, powered by Juniper to know how Juniper’s AI Driven MIST helps the BFSI sector:

• Zero touch deployment
• Enterprise at Home solution
• Scaling security & WAN

Learn about Juniper’s Mist AI-driven platform that gives you a powerful wired and wireless solution by combining AI, machine learning and data sciences, all delivered through a modern and elastic microservices cloud. This allows you to optimize the user experience for your customers while bringing unprecedented insights and automation into the network.

Key Takeaways:

• Infusing the power of AI across wired & wireless networks
• Empowering IT teams to innovate
• Protecting data at the highest levels
• Leveraging private and public cloud resources as needed

Kewal Patil
Senior System Engineer
Juniper Networks

Pushpal Sarkar
Regional Sales Director, Western Region
Juniper Networks