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Technology plays an essential role in accelerating the distribution of the vaccine and evaluating, using global real-world data, how long the immunity lasts after vaccination to assess reinfection risks and determine when revaccination is necessary. The below section highlights on “How Innovation and Technologies are resulting as the Game Changer”

Emanation of synthetic biology:

Synthetic biology would predominate in coming years. It offers innovative approaches for engineering new biological systems or re-designing existing ones for useful purposes. It has been described as a disruptive technology at the heart of the so-called bioeconomy, capable of delivering new solutions to global healthcare, agriculture, manufacturing, and environmental challenge.

Promoting collaborations between academia and industry:

Collaboration is the key to successful to launch of drug products. There is need for initiatives to ensure effective industry-academia alliance

Development of personalized medicine through gene editing and biomaterial-based drug delivery systems:

Developing personalized medicine via gene editing (e.g., CRISPR) or biomaterial-based drug delivery systems are going to be trends in 2021

• Innovative technologies to ameliorate/revamp scientific research
• Increasing opportunities in adoption of automation platforms across pharmaceutical, medical device, and other life sciences businesses as it helps to enhance communications and processes to make supply chains more agile.
• Robotic process automation (RPA), AI, and deep learning are among the emerging technologies that can drive fast-tracking early drug screens like image-based phenotypic profiling based on cell painting.
• Expanding significantly is the proteomics segment where analysis can provide a complete depiction of functional and structural information of the cell and its response mechanisms to drugs and other foreign factors.

The key points of discussion would be around:

1. Future-proof the foundation through modern platforms, modular architecture, and collaborations

• How do we position Synthetic biology to meet the challenges of 2021 with respect to the risks and advantages?
• Leveraging the industry academia collaboration around vaccine/mAbs research.
• Development of personalized medicine through gene editing and biomaterial-based drug delivery systems

2. Innovative technologies to ameliorate/revamp scientific research
3. Logical thinking and design-based solutions to address medical challenges, rather than relying on serendipity or brute force processes
4. Vaccine development and innovating technologies

Dr. Himanshu Gadgil
Director & CSO
Director & CSO

Dr. Sanjay Singh
Chief Executive Officer
Gennova Biopharmaceuticals

Dr. Swapan Jana
Director of R&D and Manufacturig
Serum Institute

Vishwanth Swarup
Chief Operating Officer
Bharat Serums and Vaccines

Mr. Sudarshan Jain
Secretary General
Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance (IPA) Senior Advisor, APAX Partners
Moderator

In the New Normal, Business Transformation is no longer an option for you, but is imperative for businesses around the world. To navigate through this time of uncertainties, crisis, and multiple risks, we need resilient models for living, working, and conducting business.

Keeping up with the speed of change in the business world is challenging. Technology is opening entirely new markets and creating innovative ways to serve customers. More and more organizations push digital innovation beyond experimentation to drive competitive advantage and continuously deliver value. At the same time, app-driven disruption provides exponential growth opportunities.

Application Modernization, as an integral element of digital transformation, is first and foremost about improving the value delivered to its clients. Marching along with Application Modernization for latest computing, framework and infrastructure approaches to renovate the legacy systems with improvements of efficiency, safety, structural integrity, uptime and cost, increased lifespan of organization’s legacy applications.

Enterprises need simplified management so they can deploy next-generation technologies, access new innovations faster for digital transformation and growth. Application modernization improves agility, re-platform to the need of increased productivity, stability, resiliency, flexibility and availability to stay ahead of the curve.

Join the Economic Times Live Webinar, powered by Microsoft & PwC, to hear experts as they share their expertise, technology innovations and strategies to help you get started or take your next best step on your application modernization journey.

• Identify the value of modernizing your applications and infrastructure.
• Describe the common triggers driving modernization.
• Evaluate your application portfolio to determine a migration and modernization strategy.
• Identify the advantages of different migration and modernization strategies.

Somick Goswami
Technology Consulting Partner
PwC India

Sudeepta Ray
Associate Director
PwC India

Pratibha Narayanappa
Specialist – App Modernization
Microsoft

Somya Das
Cloud Operations Specialist
PwC India

Shivendra Singh
Executive Director, Digital Enablement Advisory
PwC India

“Communication works for those who work at it.” – John Powell

The above quote aptly resonates with the topic hyperconnected ecosystems, where we are connecting everyone together. Today we are living in a world where any or everyone can talk to each other with a single click of the button. With digital transformation and everyone shifting to intelligent machines, connecting everyone with everything is becoming a bit of a challenge due various reason like old legacy systems, limited internet connection etc.

Digital ecosystem is the foundation of digital business. Digitizing processes that engage and connect customers, employees and partners is an imperative. A hyperconnected ecosystem is one where people, organizations and things connect and collaborate seamlessly, and these connected experience drive values across ecosystem. Technology is a critical enabler of these experiences; communication platforms for employees and customers, collaboration tools for employees and partners and reliable, secure, performant network build the foundation for a great experience.

In this ET Unwired Live Panel Session powered by Tata Communications, we will cover the challenges in connecting the stakeholders, and the critical capabilities required to enable secure connected digital experience for customers, employees, and partners.

Discussion Areas:

• Why enterprise IT: Applications, Cloud, Collaboration, Network & security cannot be looked at in silos.
• Problems with connecting everything in an enterprise
• Network as backbone of IT
• Collaboration tools enabling the whole value chain from supplier to partner

C R Srinivasan
EVP & Chief Digital Officer
Tata Communications

Jayanta Lahiri
EVP and Global CIO
Firstsource Solutions

Jai Prakash Sharma
Executive VP – Technology Operations
Info Edge India

Surendra S
Managing Director – Infrastructure Services
Accenture

Biswajit Das
Director
KPMG

It has been a period of transition for the retail industry. Customer expectations have risen through the recent crisis. The way they shop has changed and the need to feel safe has made them gravitate towards no-contact, digital-first engagement.

From traditional in-store experiences to brick and click, these changes are here to stay, even as we tentatively shift towards pre-pandemic levels of activity. And with shoppers becoming increasingly more demanding, you can no longer afford to ignore their call for unified, omnichannel shopping experiences and instant answers.

Growing customer anxiety has also led them to value speed in service above all other factors. Limited by budgets and headcount, customer service teams are relying on the right technology to keep up.

This discussion will offer key insights on:

• Choosing agile and scalable customer service technology solutions to stay future-ready
• Building service efficiency to tackle staffing and budget constraints
• Facilitating a free flow of customer context for better service experiences

Sayantani Chanda
Head (General Manager) – CRM, Loyalty, Analytics & Customer Experience
Bata India Limited

Anuradha Singh
Chief Experience Design
Future Retail Limited

Vinod Chandramouli
Head of Sales, ASEAN
Freshworks

Bhupesh Chadha
Strategic Account Manager
AISPL

Jessie Paul
CEO
Paul Writer
Moderator

“Demand for technological, social and emotional, and higher cognitive skills will rise by 2030” and will impact all industries alike as highlighted by experts from Deloitte and McKinsey

OVERVIEW

The Indian services sector is the fastest growing in the world, accounting for 28% of employment and 56% of overall Gross Value Added in 2019-20.

As the lifeline for national socio-economic growth, the service sector includes prominent industries like IT, telecom, media and entertainment, health care, banking and financial services, retail, railways, environment, energy, education, and sports. These businesses rely heavily on customer engagement, which makes it imperative to evolve and adapt to the times. The COVID-19 pandemic has especially highlighted the need to inculcate self-reliance, sustainability, collaboration and resilience.

NEED OF THE HOUR

Within the Services sector, there is an increasing demand for people skills like flexibility, empathy, relatability and good judgement. Employees who possess these competencies make better impressions on clients, fostering lasting relationships and long-term profits. A highly skilled, resilient workforce trained in these competencies is the need of the hour.

SKILLING TRENDS

• A customer-centric approach calls for behavioral training, required to drive workforce productivity, engagement and growth, across leadership and functional levels.
• Based on our recent survey, the most in-demand skills for the Services sector are empathy, assertiveness, conflict resolution and listening skills.
• Skilling frontline workers—across levels—is essential for organizational growth.
• Cognitive skills like creativity and logical reasoning will be required across levels for advanced decision-making abilities.

CORE COMPETENCIES REQUIRED IN SERVICES SECTOR

The upcoming webinar “Skilling Trends and Planning for the Future in Services” will feature a panel of renowned HR leaders from the service sector to explore how companies can identify and build the right skills for their workforce.

KEY DISCUSSION POINTS

• How can upskilling enable a better understanding of customer demands and needs?
• The importance of active listening and understanding client needs to drive client satisfaction
• Building long-term customer relationships through communication and crisis management
• Behavioral training for self-development, managerial development and leadership development
• What skills does the Services sector need most in 2021?

Amla Awasthi
Vice President HR
Indiamart Intermesh Limited

Ashok Ramachandran
CEO & President
Schindler

Gautam Khanna
CEO
Hinduja Hospital

Prabhjot S Goomer
Group Head Human Resources
Eros Group

Rajagopalan Purushothaman
Head-Learning & Development
JioMart Digital

Rani Belliappa
Associate Partner Head Learning & Development & HR Business Partner
KPMG Global Services

Shreyasi Singh
Founder & CEO
Harappa

Sushmita Roy
SVP & Head HRBP – Digital, TV & Studio
Sony Pictures Networks

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In the drastically changing markets, businesses and organizations need to adapt and build strategies that allow them to explore new opportunities of expansion and meeting customer needs. These strategies are usually based on agility, flexibility and developing capacities to scale up or down to stay ahead of competitors. Having cloud computing service models in place can promote business growth because they encourage business agility due to advantages such as scalability and cost savings.

This session is going to apprise the audience of the possibilities of the challenging times and together discuss ways to provide leadership insights which lead to organizations building effective Cloud Strategies that deliver agility and cost optimization. The key topic of discussion at the roundtable will be as follows. We are also open to incorporate your suggestions to make the discussion interesting.

• How to Migrate and free-up resources
• Adopt modern application development practices
• Gain faster, deeper insights across your business
• Ensure security, compliance, and resiliency
• Tips to Organize for speed and agility
• Insights on Bridging skills and experience gaps

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As businesses continue along their digital transformation journeys, Hybrid-Cloud strategies provide flexibility and agility, allowing communication across both public and private cloud. But this flexibility, combined with rapid data growth, challenges many organizations ability to maintain SLA’s and manage their critical applications and data.

A comprehensive cloud data management strategy is key to remaining agile in the hybrid cloud reality. This means having solutions and policies in place that help you manage your critical assets, no matter where they are hosted.

The combination of AWS and Veeam® enables customers to ensure availability for any application and any data. Our solutions help move, manage, protect and recover critical data. This includes backing up data to, from and within AWS. Regardless of what you are doing with the AWS platform, Veeam has you covered.

Join the ET Live Webinar Session on Rules of Modern Cloud Data Management in the New World”, powered by Veeam and Amazon Internet Services Pvt Ltd. to learn how to.

• Reduce your Data Management Costs
• Centralize your organization’s Cloud Data
• Scale your data management resources based on current needs
• Effectively address any failure scenario through 3-2-1 backup rule

Prasanna Keshava
Senior Systems Engineer
Veeam Software

Kumar Nachiketa
Storage Partner Solutions Architect – APJ
Amazon Internet Services Pvt Ltd

Chief finance officers are an integral part of an organization and with their wide range of expertise, they have the ability to drive company’s growth. They make sure that company is performing operationally well, and all cooperate functions are working in line with the vision of the company. In the last few months the world has seen unpredictable changes because of the pandemic, this has made the role of a CFO some what more challenging. Making sure the continuity of the business in these volatile conditions is something a CFO must handle. With help of technologies, the CFOs today are focusing on future proofing their businesses from shocks. Reducing the risk factors with the help of new age technologies & implementing them into businesses with out affecting other functions is something organizations must strategize.

The Economic Times brings to you a closed-door roundtable discussion on future proofing businesses with technologies: a CFO’s story, in order to discuss critical steps that a finance leader can take across all financial horizons with the help of data, analytics, AI, RPA, &cloud. Further we will be deep diving into:

• Reducing costs and maximize returns at the same time
• Planning a roadmap for digital transformation
• Planning for return on investment
• Focus on cash preservation and cost control measures
• Utilizing technologies like cloud for better productivity

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Digital collaboration technologies have made WFH transition smooth to keep distributed work teams engaged and connected. The ongoing crisis has proved two things—people can work effectively from homes and investing in next-gen collaboration tools allows them to stay connected while enabling business continuity. The fabric of business innovation and success in maintaining collaborative relationships with co-workers, business partners and customers. Modern video meetings are game-changers, allowing remote workers and distributed teams to communicate face-to-face, share files and screens and ideas.

A distributed workforce needs best-in-class communications that take them as close as possible to being with co-workers in a physical office. Team chat, video and content collaboration have become pivotal to anytime, anywhere work. Change often presents new opportunities and spurs innovation in unexpected ways. Video and content collaboration has become the cornerstone for digital transformation today and disruptive video conferencing has made remote work and borderless office a reality. COVID-19 will always be remembered as a disruptive catalyst for the future of work, forever changing the way people live and work.

Join this webinar to learn from top Industry experts from Logitech & Microsoft to learn about:

1. The forces reshaping the future of work and their impact on offices, employees and technology
2. Key priorities for enabling efficient and effective remote work
3. Critical success factors to effective collaboration and connection with co-workers, partners and customers
4. The latest Video Conferencing innovations from Logitech & Microsoft Teams

Pratik Chanda
Commercial Sales Lead – Intelligent Edge
Southeast Asia, Korea and India
Microsoft

Anand Lakshmanan
Country Manager – Video Collaboration
India & South West Asia
Logitech

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Cloud computing has been assisting numerous industries in meeting sector-specific challenges and reaping its benefits.

To remain competitive, the Media and Entertainment industry is under pressure to produce and publish original material on a regular and timely basis. It will be almost impossible to process, handle, and distribute these massive amounts of digital information in an adaptive, dynamic, and cost-effective way without the cloud.

There has been a huge rise in the amount of content being submitted for users with the emergence of many OTT platforms. According to a report by EY, 28 million Indians (up from 10.5 million in 2019) paid for 53 million OTT subscriptions in 2020 leading to a 49% growth in digital subscription revenues.

The sector has started to adopt cloud computing as its preferred technology. Reduced IT maintenance costs and the ability to access high-quality services at any time and from any location would quickly drive widespread use of cloud technologies in the media and entertainment industry.

Knowing what the customer wants before they ask for it allows you to change the way you deliver content and create custom experiences. In order to capture market share and meet today’s consumer needs, it is important to infuse the latest technologies, such as AI, cloud, and predictive analytics, into the media and entertainment sector.

The cloud service providers can enable media and entertainment companies to accelerate their content development, streamline asset management and distribution as well as modernize and migrate media workflows.

Join The Economic Times Live Webinar, Business Continuity in Uncertain Times using cloud services, powered by AISPL, for transforming your operations, and examining the opportunity presented by cloud-based technologies to streamline and enable the entire media production supply chain.

Key Takeaways:

• Accelerating content creating and storage
• Collaborate globally and create content efficiently
• Improve audience engagement through Data and AI
• Secure asset management and delivery
• Improve scalability with better architecture
• Protect content with multi-layered security

Kaushik Mamania
Sr. VP – Engineering
UFO Moviez.

Ashwani Kumar
Co-Founder & CEO
Acept One MediaWorks Pvt. Ltd

Harshad Satam
Head Business Development SMB
AISPL