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Pandemic-fuelled cloud adoption has forced the banking & Insurance industry to provide a hyper-personalized customer experience at scale. Consumers are increasingly demanding online transactions – voice commands, touchless digital payments, QR code scans, and so on – and banks are responding by accelerating their digital transformation initiatives.

Leaders from these domains are now adopting a hyper-growth mindset in determining their institution-wide transformation and providing superior digital experiences compared to their competition.

Their industry’s demand to use digital tools for onboarding new customers has dramatically transitioned towards an omnichannel digital banking experience.

As pandemic continues to prevail, we are opening a conversation with Industry leaders in our upcoming roundtable to exchange perspectives on –How cloud-enabled transformation is the next hyper-growth opportunity for the banks and Insurance sector in 2021 and beyond.

Ajay Vernekar
CTO
Aditya Birla Sun Life Insurance

Pankaj Pandey
Head IT
SBI General Insurance

Prasanna Lohar
Vice President Technology
DCB Bank

Shyam Seshadri
Head – Innovation
Tata AIG General Insurance

Sriram Naganathan
Strategic Advisor Insurance Practice
Blazeclan

Amit Roy
Managing Director – Insurance & Allied Businesses
PwC India
Moderator

With data growing exponentially, enterprises handle massive amounts of business-critical data. They require storage systems that are highly scalable, offer unlimited connectivity & support multiple platforms. There are multiple approaches to data storage to choose from, including SANs, NAS, DAS and cloud storage. Newer approaches and technologies that are currently disrupting the market include hyperconverged storage and flash technologies such as NVMe. This trend stems from the increased amount of horizontal scalability and reduced latency these methods offer. Storage for containers is also becoming a stronger selling point, as well as enterprise storage based on composable and disaggregated infrastructure concepts, which combine individual resources at the hardware level and then assemble them at the software level by using APIs.

In the era of digital transformation, organizations of all sizes are challenged to meet higher performance, agility, availability, and scalability requirements while staying within strict budgetary constraints. Adapting to the demands of digital transformation is not a choice anymore, at least for the organizations moving towards data-centric business models. To best support the business on its digital transformation journey, IT must be able to respond faster to take advantage of changing market conditions and new business opportunities and enabling:

• increasing use of big data and analytics (real-time and otherwise)
• more personalized interaction with customers
• around-the-clock operations
• better use of innovation to drive competitive differentiation.

IDC says, ‘prompted by the demands of digital transformation, almost 70% of organizations are planning to modernize their server, storage, and/or data protection infrastructure in the next several years and are looking to specific technology to help streamline IT infrastructure while meeting all these new requirements”. These technologies include SDS, cloud, cybersecurity enhancements, NVMe and AI/ML.

Driving Business Value Storage:

• Enabling development and business activities through enhanced storage availability and agility
• Improving employee productivity levels by delivering better application performance
• Reducing storage costs for running equivalent applications by leveraging increased access to flash storage, enhanced data compression and data deduplication capabilities, and extended storage life spans
• Requiring less IT storage staff time for day-to-day activities by improving performance levels and delivering new software-based management capabilities

Kiran Samudrala
Chief Data and Analytics Officer
Equifax

K P Vinod Kumar Nair
Channel Storage lead for South
Dell Technologies

Manjunath Prasad
Head IT
TVS

Prince Joseph
CIO
SFO technologies – a NeST group company

Ramanujam Srivathsan
Director
Archon Consulting Systems

Vijay Anand
Vice President I Global IT & IS
Visionary RCM-CorroHealth

Vijay gurumurthy
VP IT
Capgemini

Sheena George
Partner
EY India
Moderator

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Going digital has currently become a necessity. The growth of the direct-to-consumer (D2C) model has flourished in India. There is an enormous rise in the adoption of this model as it eliminates the middle-man entity, giving the brand complete control. Additionally, it helps them directly engage with the customers and learn more about them. As the brands entering the D2C space continue to increase, it has also led to the rise in e-commerce enablers to help them set up a personalized online store. With these enablers helping the brands with resources to fulfil their consumer demands, we anticipate that more and more brands will leap into the D2C model for 2022 and beyond.

The evolution of the D2C landscape with e-commerce has added to challenges, opportunities, and trends. While switching to the pandemic-induced D2C model is profitable, it requires new tools and techniques to survive and thrive. Partnering with the right players can help elevate customer service opportunities and further reduce the cost.

The crisis has gifted D2C brands an opportunity to connect with consumers directly but this opportunity is bound with effective order fulfilment. Poor inventory management can have a huge impact on cost management. Brands require technology that gathers and consolidates real-time omnichannel user data on a single dashboard for clear visibility of inventory. A strong supply chain and warehouse management system is the backbone of any brand and plays a decisive role in the brand’s success. Finding the right logistic partner plays a vital role in error-free timely deliveries of their products. As technology upgrades, brands need to evolve and innovate to develop a strong consumer relationship in the long run.

The Economic Times in association with Vinculum and AISPL will be rewiring your understanding of D2C for sustained growth and bulletproof your brand with improvement opportunities to stay ahead of the competition.

Shashwat Singh
Chief Information Officer
Boat

Himanshu Verma
Chief Product & Technology Officer
Licious

Yash Dayal
Chief Technology Officer
Zivame

Deep Ganatra
Chief Technology Officer
Good Glamm Group, My Glamm

Kumar Gaurav
Chief Technology Officer
Wakefit

Sumit Karranji
Country Sales Head – India (New Business)
Vinculum

Navdeep Manaktala
Director & Head, Startup Business, Asia-Pacific & Japan
AWS

Amit Khanna
Partner – Advisory
PwC India
Moderator

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With data growing exponentially, enterprises handle massive amounts of business-critical data. They require storage systems that are highly scalable, offer unlimited connectivity & support multiple platforms. There are multiple approaches to data storage to choose from, including SANs, NAS, DAS and cloud storage. Newer approaches and technologies that are currently disrupting the market include hyperconverged storage and flash technologies such as NVMe. This trend stems from the increased amount of horizontal scalability and reduced latency these methods offer. Storage for containers is also becoming a stronger selling point, as well as enterprise storage based on composable and disaggregated infrastructure concepts, which combine individual resources at the hardware level and then assemble them at the software level by using APIs.

In the era of digital transformation, organizations of all sizes are challenged to meet higher performance, agility, availability, and scalability requirements while staying within strict budgetary constraints. Adapting to the demands of digital transformation is not a choice anymore, at least for the organizations moving towards data-centric business models. To best support the business on its digital transformation journey, IT must be able to respond faster to take advantage of changing market conditions and new business opportunities and enabling:

• increasing use of big data and analytics (real-time and otherwise)
• more personalized interaction with customers
• around-the-clock operations
• better use of innovation to drive competitive differentiation.

IDC says, ‘prompted by the demands of digital transformation, almost 70% of organizations are
planning to modernize their server, storage, and/or data protection infrastructure in the next several years and are looking to specific technology to help streamline IT infrastructure while meeting all these new requirements”. These technologies include SDS, cloud, cybersecurity enhancements, NVMe and AI/ML.

• Enabling development and business activities through enhanced storage availability and agility
• Improving employee productivity levels by delivering better application performance
• Reducing storage costs for running equivalent applications by leveraging increased access to flash storage, enhanced data compression and data deduplication capabilities, and extended storage life spans
• Requiring less IT storage staff time for day-to-day activities by improving performance levels and delivering new software-based management capabilities

Pooraan Jaiswal
Group CTO
Entero Healthcare

Rajeev Khade
Vice President Global Information Technology
Sigma Electric Manufacturing Corp

Sudhir Kanvinde
CIO
The Supreme Industries

Sourav Dasgupta
Group Head of Applications – IT
Allcargo Logistics

Ramesh Budharup
Channel Storage lead for West
Dell Technologies

Jawahar Chakraborty
Business Head of Infrastructure
Pentagon System & Services

Acharya Vishwanaths
Advisory Systems Engineer
SPS (Storage platform and solutions) – Dell Technologies

Sheena George
Partner
EY India
Moderator

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More than ever, IT must balance the pressure to maintain business continuity, innovate rapidly and do more with less. They need an IT infrastructure designed to help meet growing business demands, protect data and streamline insights and automation.

A system that can adapt quickly to unforeseen disruptions, prevent security breaches and easily handle massive data growth so they can focus on the next chapter of their success story.

While the Cloud brings the promise of flexibility, agility, and openness only 20% of workloads have been moved to cloud.

Why?

Because companies need assurance that their data privacy and security will not be breached.

They urgently need a trusted partner to deliver secure, flexible, end-to-end compute, storage and OS solutions that can unlock the potential of their hybrid multicloud infrastructure.

Businesses today have clearly grasped that there can be no innovation or growth without data. However, with the sheer increase in the number of cyberattacks and the spread of the danger vector as digital transformation accelerates across industry sectors, enterprises must defend this currency that fuels growth.

Join The Economic Times Live Webinar on Embracing a Hybrid Cloud Path to Growth for Digital transformation powered by IBM to discover more about how businesses can store and safeguard data while seamlessly integrating technology into their day-to-day processes and other functions to achieve desired growth. This webinar’s speakers will discuss how new technologies could holistically help you manage, modernise, and secure your company on-premises infrastructure, and the cloud.

Key Takeaways:

• Learn how to employ security techniques effectively.
• Use cloud for more flexibility and agility in your operations
• How unlock the potential of your hybrid multicloud infrastructure
• Discover how to maximise your return on investment.

Ravi Jain
Director, Systems
IBM India – South Asia

Subhathra Srinivasaraghavan
Director
IBM India Systems Development Lab

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In the era of digital transformation, organizations of all sizes are challenged to meet higher performance, agility, availability, and scalability requirements while staying within strict budgetary constraints. Adapting to the demands of digital transformation is not a choice anymore, at least for the organizations moving towards data-centric business models. To best support the business on its digital transformation journey, IT must be able to respond faster to take advantage of changing market conditions and new business opportunities and enabling: increasing use of big data and analytics (real-time and otherwise); more personalized interaction with customers; around-the-clock operations; better use of innovation to drive competitive differentiation.

Register for the Economic Times Live Webinar Powered by Dell Technologies & Esconet Technologies Pvt. Ltd to discuss:

Enabling development and business activities through enhanced storage availability and agility
Improving employee productivity levels by delivering better application performance
Reducing storage costs for running equivalent applications by leveraging increased access to flash storage, enhanced data compression and data deduplication capabilities, and extended storage life span
Requiring less IT storage staff time for day-to-day activities by improving performance levels and delivering new software-based management capabilities

Ranganathan Iyer
Group CIO & EVP-IT
JBM Group

Jai Prakash Sharma
SVP IT
Info Edge India Ltd

Archie Jackson
Sr. Director, Head of IT & Security
Incedo Inc.

Sanjiv Kumar Jain
Group CIO
Krishna Group

Salender Tomer
Channel Storage lead
North, Dell

Santosh Agrawa
Managing Director & CEO
Esconet Technologies

Sheena George
Partner
EY
Moderator

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“Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine.” – Peter Sondergaard.

Organizations looking to breach the veil of uncertainty and weaving resilience into their DNA for future shocks are focusing on gathering more data. This data has enormous potential for helping organizations thrive and for assisting decision makers in taking real-time decisions.

However, this can only happen if this data is used to its full potential in order to generate useful insights. And business intelligence can prove to be more useful in these tumultuous times if it is relayed in a real-time manner.

Active intelligence seems to be the answer. It provides analytics-ready data along with the most updated information in real-time. With an amalgamation of the data at rest and data in motion, it represents the pulse of the data, providing business insights and creating an intelligent data-to-analytics pipeline.

Prepare your business for unexpected situations in future by using Active Intelligence, as it can help you anticipate the upcoming trends. It provides more detailed insights, thanks to AI-powered analytics. Active Intelligence also represents the business moment by adding business logic to analytics-ready data, transforming it into business-ready data and enabling collaboration among all data personas.

About The Economic Times virtual fireside chat

The existing pandemic has proven beyond doubts that the organizations that have adopted and imbibed the technology to utilize data to take prompt decisions have prospered. The governments that have been able to assess public requirement on a real time and take actions have been able to overcome the social and economic impact in a better way.

The Economic Times Power of Active Intelligence: Transcending collaboration beyond the last mile will unleash the power of using Active Intelligence in today’s data-driven demands. With real-time agility becoming the need of the hour, it is critical for businesses to adapt to demands as quickly as possible. Active Intelligence enables them to not only outperform the competition, but also to adapt and respond quickly to changing situations.

Abhijit Shah
CTO
Nippon Life India Asset Management

Himanshu Gupta
Territory Sales Director – West
Qlik

Narayanan Duraiswami
Senior Vice President IT & Operations
Xoriant

Rajiv Arora
Global Head IT Global Hub
Siemens AG

Ankush Gadi
Director
Data Management and Analytics, CRISIL
Moderator

Samip Mutha
Vice President and Group Head – Digital and Innovation
RPG Group

Today most organisations thrive on innovation and preparing for the future of work. The current situation has accelerated years of digital development to meet the pressing demands of organisations working under drastic changes. Both the nature of work, and the tools we’re using to do it, are changing dramatically. Next-generation collaboration tools are removing the barrier of distance and increasing employee engagement and hence keep them motivated. But to leverage these tools effectively, companies need to think strategically.

There is no secret that pulling together a collaborative and productive team could be a challenging mission. In fact, it’s becoming harder and harder to increase overall team performance. And as one can guess, low productivity negatively impacts companies in terms of revenue, employee engagement, work quality, and more. But the real fact is that businesses can influence and revamp their productivity in many ways.

There are numerous factors that can influence workforce and its productivity at work. Motivation is one of them and is the new capital of business. Humans need motivation to drive results and companies can scale their motivation equation by using the right tools & technologies and hence drive better performance & revenues.

Join the Economic Times Live Webinar, to understand how companies can motivate and empower their employees, sales teams, channel partners and gig workers to drive better productivity, performance and revenues powered by AWS & Xoxoday.

This discussion will feature industry experts focusing the various extrinsic and intrinsic factors that drive human behaviour at work & impact performance and will showcase the way we work today, and tomorrow.

Key Takeaways:

• How has the pandemic has impacted motivation & productivity among employees? Going forward, what are the probable solutions to it?
• Operational Crisis Management
• Leadership Challenges in maintaining holistic employee engagement during lockdown.
• What drives better business outcomes?
• Emerging technologies and interfaces to rescue
• Is it important to create a positive organizational culture or not significant?
• How various extrinsic and intrinsic factors drive employee productivity?

Ritu Kochhar
Head Human Resources
Perfetti Van Melle, India

Kayzad Hiramanek
President- Operations and Customer Experience
Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance

Manoj Agarwal
Co-founder
Xoxoday

Priyabrata Sarangi
Chief Information Officer
DCM Shriram Industries

Puja Rungta Agarwal
Associate Director – Corporate HR and Compensation and Benefits
Happiest Minds Technologies

Nimisha Das
Director HR
Kellogg South Asia

Kumara Raghavan
Country Manager & Head Startup Business
Amazon Internet Services (AWS)

Jessie Paul
Founder & CEO
Paul Writer
Moderator

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“Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine.” – Peter Sondergaard,

Organizations looking to breach the veil of uncertainty and weaving resilience into their DNA for future shocks are focusing on gathering more data. This data has enormous potential for helping organizations thrive and for assisting decision makers in taking real-time decisions.

However, this can only happen if this data is used to its full potential in order to generate useful insights. And business intelligence can prove to be more useful in these tumultuous times if it is relayed in a real-time manner.

Active intelligence seems to be the answer. It provides analytics-ready data along with the most updated information in real-time. With an amalgamation of the data at rest and data in motion, it represents the pulse of the data, providing business insights and creating an intelligent data-to-analytics pipeline.

Prepare your business for unexpected situations in future by using Active Intelligence, as it can help you anticipate the upcoming trends. It provides more detailed insights, thanks to AIpowered analytics. Active Intelligence also represents the business moment by adding business logic to analytics-ready data, transforming it into business-ready data and enabling collaboration among all data personas.

About The Economic Times virtual round table

The existing pandemic has proven beyond doubts that the organizations that have adopted and imbibed the technology to utilize data to take prompt decisions have prospered. The governments that have been able to assess public requirement on a real time and taken action have been able to overcome the social and economic impact in a better way.

The Economic Times Power of Active Intelligence: Transcending collaboration beyond the last mile will unleash the power of using Active Intelligence in today’s data-driven demands. With real-time agility becoming the need of the hour, it is critical for businesses to adapt to demands as quickly as possible. Active Intelligence enables them to not only outperform the competition, but also to adapt and respond quickly to changing situations.

Lily Prasad
Chief Technology Officer
FSSAI

Dr. R Gopalakrishnan
General Manager – Data Analytics
CRIS

Prashant Mittal
Managing Director
NICSI

Nilesh Kulkarni
Regional Head of Solution Consultants, India & SAARC
Qlik
Moderator

“Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine.” – Peter Sondergaard.

Organizations looking to breach the veil of uncertainty and weaving resilience into their DNA for future shocks are focusing on gathering more data. This data has enormous potential for helping organizations thrive and for assisting decision makers in taking real-time decisions.

However, this can only happen if this data is used to its full potential in order to generate useful insights. And business intelligence can prove to be more useful in these tumultuous times if it is relayed in a real-time manner.

Active intelligence seems to be the answer. It provides analytics-ready data along with the most updated information in real-time. With an amalgamation of the data at rest and data in motion, it represents the pulse of the data, providing business insights and creating an intelligent data-to-analytics pipeline.

Prepare your business for unexpected situations in future by using Active Intelligence, as it can help you anticipate the upcoming trends. It provides more detailed insights, thanks to AI-powered analytics. Active Intelligence also represents the business moment by adding business logic to analytics-ready data, transforming it into business-ready data and enabling collaboration among all data personas.

About The Economic Times virtual fireside chat

The existing pandemic has proven beyond doubts that the organizations that have adopted and imbibed the technology to utilize data to take prompt decisions have prospered. The governments that have been able to assess public requirement on a real time and take actions have been able to overcome the social and economic impact in a better way.

The Economic Times Power of Active Intelligence: Transcending collaboration beyond the last mile will unleash the power of using Active Intelligence in today’s data-driven demands. With real-time agility becoming the need of the hour, it is critical for businesses to adapt to demands as quickly as possible. Active Intelligence enables them to not only outperform the competition, but also to adapt and respond quickly to changing situations.

Dr. Dinesh Soni
Sr. Vice President
National Stock Exchange

Krishnakant Gaitonde
Head I.T., Momentum Metropolitan Services
The foreign JV partner, Aditya Birla Health Insurance (ABHI)

Nilesh Kulkarni
Regional Head of Solution Consultants
Qlik
Moderator