09.00 – 09.45 REGISTRATION
09.45 – 09.55 WELCOME ADDRESS BY ET EDGE
10.00 – 10.15 CHIEF GUEST ADDRESS | SMART, SECURE & GREEN DATA CENTER - HOW TO BECOME ASIA’S MOST SUSTAINABLE DATA CENTER NATION?
 

In recent years, the data centre business has grown significantly in India. With the government’s commitment to digitalisation and the data-driven economy, they can facilitate sustainable developments and investments to pursue the larger goal of a well-established data centre ecosystem. There is no better time to focus on increasing the cooperation between the data centre industry and the government for pushing India for further growth throughout the data centre value chain.

Jayesh Ranjan, Principal Secretary IT – Government of Telangana
10.20 – 10.35 WELCOME ADDRESS | BUILDING NEXT-GEN DATA SOLUTIONS – BEING RESPONSIBLE & SUSTAINABLE AT THE SAME TIME
Matthew Hurford, Vice President, Systems Engineering and CTO, NetApp
10.40 – 10.50

FIRE SIDE CHAT | DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE & DATA CENTER DEPLOYMENT – EXPLORING THE DYNAMICS

Data centers have always been critical to the success of businesses of almost all sizes, and that won’t change. However, the number of ways to deploy a data center and the enabling technologies are undergoing a radical shift. The future of data centers will rely on cloud, hyperconverged infrastructure and more powerful devices. This session will elaborate on the technologies that accelerate the shift and the ones that will be needed in the future.

Moderator: Alekh Tiwari, Partner - KPMG India
Ellis Wang, Senior Executive Vice President, Group Head of Technology, Transformation & Information - Mashreq Bank

10.55 – 11.10 KEYNOTE ADDRESS | SUSTAINABILITY-DRIVEN INNOVATION WITH CLOUD
Suyog Shetty, CEO - Niveus Solutions
11.15 – 12.10 INAUGURAL PANEL DISCUSSION | LEVERAGING THE DATA CENTER & CLOUD TO CREATE NEW BUSINESS FRONTIERS ACROSS SECTORS
 

Data Centers and cloud computing has garnered massive traction in recent years and as one of the crucial and rapidly developing technologies has enabled many other disruptive and innovative solutions. It has revolutionized many core processes by offering a myriad of advantages including cost savings, business continuity, agility, interoperability and secure storage to name a few. Learn how data centers and cloud computing can help you drive bold transformation in your organization over the next 5 years.

Moderator: Biswajit Das, Director - KPMG India
Chirag Boonlia, Group CTO - Embassy Group
Pradeep Menon, Managing Director & Head - HSBC Technology India
Puneet Gupta , Vice President, Sales, India & SAARC, NetApp

12.00 – 12.10 PARTNER PRESENTATION - GREENFIELD DATA CENTER HELPS CLIENTS ACHIEVE OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE
Greenfield Hyperscale designed Data Center offer horizontal scalability, they set new standards in performance, throughput, and redundancy to enable fault tolerance and high availability. Many components matter to data center customers that need to be controlled. Therefore, data center operators need to plan and measure a significant number of performance metrics and then identify ways to improve them. They even need to measure processes, which can significantly impact their service, to ensure that the data center meets customer requirements.
Surajit Chatterjee, Managing Director, CapitaLand Investment, Data Centre Group
12.15 – 12.40

INFORMATION SECURITY CONVERSE | TRUST OR ZERO TRUST: THE FUTURE OF IT SECURITY IN THE TODAYS COMPLEX CLOUD & DATA CENTER ENVIRONMENT

Organizations are increasingly adopting cloud services that offer operational benefits like faster deployment and seamless scalability, while being incredibly cost-efficient and user-friendly. Understand if these measures taken come with serious security concerns and how they can be tackled in today’s work environment.

Moderator: Vikram Jeet Singh, Associate Partner, KPMG in India
Justice BN Srikrishna, Former Judge Supreme Court of India & Chairman - Data Protection Committee
Dhiren Pandya, Senior Director Colocation & Cloud Vertical - Vertiv India
Kapil Maddan, CISO – Minda Corporation Limited
Sridhar Sidhu, Senior Vice President and Head of Information Security Services Group - Wells Fargo

12.45 – 12.55 PARTNER PRESENTATION | WHY IT IS IMPORTANT FOR ORGANISATION TO ADOPT MULTI CLOUD STRATEGY?
Anuj Bairathi, CEO & Founder, Cyfuture
13.00 – 13.50 TECHNOLOGY LEADERS PANEL DISCUSSION | EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES SUCH AS IoT, AI, ML, 5G & VIRTUALIZATION – WHAT DOES THE FUTURE LOOK LIKE?
  Whether maintaining your in-house data centers or relying on off-site data centers, organizations and technology leaders need to make sure their servers are equipped to handle the wide range of demands generated by the emerging technologies that are reshaping the corporate landscape. Tech leaders will discuss emerging technologies in data centers, and how businesses can leverage them to harness the power of data.

Moderator: Anuj Kumar, Director - KPMG India
Sreeji Gopinathan, Global CIO - Lupin 
Vasudev Sharma , VP - Platform Engineering - Upstox
Shrini Viswanath, Co-Founder – Upstox
Vinod Bhat, CIO - Vistara (TATA SIA Airlines)
Atul Kumar, CIO – Canara Bank
Chander Khanduja, CIO - Luminous
Bharath Yaragatti, Vice President (Customer Engineering) - Niveus Solutions

13.55 – 14.10 PARTNER PRESENTATION | REDEFINING THE NEXT GENERATION DATA CENTER INFRASTRUCTURE.
Vinod Javur, COO - Adani Connex
14.15 – 14.30 SPECIAL ADDRESS | THE COVID-19 SITUATION - OPPORTUNITY FOR THE FUTURE OF DATA CENTERS
 

The current crisis has changed the way we live our lives and we all moved to the digital realm within no time. With this shift, digital infrastructure like data centers have never been more crucial to keep the wheels turning. How can organisations today able to achieve the objective of highly flexible and scalable data center capabilities while reducing costs? 

Sachin Bhalla, Vice President & Country GM for India & SAARC, Secure Power Division - Schneider Electric  

14.35 – 14.45

PARTNER PRESENTATION | IS IT A CACHE, DATABASE OR A DATA PLATFORM?
Tejas Baldev, Sales Director APAC - Redis
14. 50 – 15.30 INFORMATION SECURITY LEADERS PANEL DISCUSSION | PREVENTING & SECURING AGAINST CYBER AND INFORMATION SECURITY THREATS
 

With every passing year, cyber and information security is becoming the most significant issue for all organizations. Over the recent years, cybercriminals have been targeting enterprise infrastructure and the damage can be extensive and long-lasting. As Data Center and cloud technologies evolve, so will the threats. Having the right teams armed with the right kind of technology and applications to counter the constant threat that modernization brings.

Moderator: Atul Gupta - Partner, IT Advisory Services (Risk Consulting) & Head - Cyber Security - KPMG India
Dr. Yask, CISO - Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL)
Pawan Chawla, CISO & Data Protection Officer - Future Generali India Life Insurance
Sanjay Pugaonkar, CISO – SBI Mutual Fund
15.35 – 15.50 CLOSING REMARKS | DATA CENTER STANDARDS & FUTURE TRENDS – UNDERSTANDING THE INDIA LANDSCAPE
The Indian data centre market is heading for a big boom over the next five years. Today, India is one of the most capacity-hungry data centre markets in the world and there is a huge demand for more. The growing cloud computing in India, increasing internet penetration, government regulations for data generated in the country, and increasing investment are some of the major factors driving the demand for data centres in the country.
Amitesh Kumar Sinha, IRAS, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India
16.00 END OF SUMMIT