CXO Tech Summit & Awards 2022 | CXO TV

Speakers

Madan Padaki

President, TiE Bangalore

Shaibal Ghosh

Chief Executive Officer - APAC, Tesla Power USA

Sony A

CIO, South Indian Bank

SOURAV DAS

Chief Digital & Information Officer, Aditya Birla Group Essel Mining & Industries Limited

Akilur Rahman

CTO, Hitachi Energy India

Ajoy Singh

COO, Fractal Analytics

Siddhesh Suresh Naik

Country Leader, Data, AI and Automation, IBM India-South Asia

Avneet Gupta

Regional Technology Leader, IBM India-South Asia

Nandkishor Dhomne

CIO, Manipal Health Enterprises

Amol Diwanji

Head - Systems Engineering, India & Saarc, Veeam Software

Srikanth Katuri

CIO, IQVIA

Philips Dayanidhi

Chief Digital Officer, Bosch

Paromesh Chatterjee

Head IT, IDFC First Bharat Limited

Shuvankar Pramanick

Deputy CIO & Senior Director-IT, Manipal Health Enterprises Pvt. Ltd

Anuj Tewari

Chief Information Security Officer, TMF Group

Rajat Goel

Global IT Head, Zenoti

Sonal Arora

Country Manager, Gi Group Holding, India

Sreeni VenuGopal

Group CIO & CISO, KIMSHealth

VIJAY GURUMURTHY

Director IT at Capgemini [Global Solution Architect Infra], Capgemini

DR. BISWAJIT MOHAPATRA

Head - Customer Solutions Management, India and South Asia, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Meetali Sharma

Corporate Head - Risk, Compliance & Information Security, SDG Software India

Amit Srivastava

Co- founder & CTO, Getvantage

Byju Joseph

CTO – Future Generali India Life Insurance Company Ltd.

Kushal Varshney

CTO, Virescent Infrastructure

Vikas Gupta

Chief of Digital and Innovations, Hiranandani Energy

SAGAR KOTHE

Director, PwC India

PRADIPTA PATRO

Head of Cyber Security & IT Platform, RPG Group (KEC International Limited)

AVINASH GODKHINDI

MD & CEO, Zaggle

Sudhir Kanvinde

Chief Information Officer, The Supreme Industries Ltd

AMBARISH KUMAR SINGH

CISO, Godrej & Boyce

COL (DR.) INDERJEET SINGH

Chief Cyber Security Officer (CCO), Vara

BALAJI TK

CIO, Orange Retail Finance India Private Limited

NAVIN NATHANI

Head of IT Projects and Transformation Management Office, Aditya Birla Group

Rajeev Gupta

Group CIO, AirOne Aviation Pvt. Ltd

Priyanka Nishar

Founder and Managing Director, Azent Overseas Education

Amit Mookim

President, TiE Mumbai

Manish Kishore

Global Head-IT, Wockhardt Ltd.

Saugata Basu

Group CDIO, Kalpatru Group

Varundeep Kaur

CIO, Spice Money

Charu Bhargava

VP-IT, Vice President at Sheela Foam (Sleepwell)

Shobhana Lele

CIO, The Bombay Dyeing And Manufacturing Company Limited

AKSHAY GARKEL

Partner & Leader, Cyber, Grant Thornton Bharat LLP

Vinay Vashista

Associate Director, Cyber and IT (Risk), Grant Thornton Bharat

PRASANNA LOHAR

VP-Technology, DCB Bank

VIMAL VENKATRAM

Country Manager, Snowflake India

Tarun Aggarwal

Chief Business Officer, CollegeDekho

Kalpana Singhal

Founder & CEO, Techplus Media Group

Faiz Shakir

CEO, Nutanix

Abhinandan Sangam

Co-Founder & CTO, Finzy

Manoj Sarangi

Senior Vice President, National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL)

Veneeth Purushotaman

Group CIO, Aster DM Healthcare

Zeenat Mongal

VP, Customer Experience, ICICI Lombard

Anirudh Das

Social Media & Brand Marketing Manager, Last Journey by Ferns N Petals

Suraj Shetty

Head of Customer Experience & Learning Development, Ring

Dr. Suresh A Shan

Head, Digital Innovation & Future Technology Business Information Technology Solutions, Mahindra Finance

Agenda

Timing	Session
5:30 – 6:00 PM	Registrations
6:00 – 6:10 PM	Welcome Note and Lamp Lighting Ceremony: -- Kalpana Singhal, Founder and CEO Techplus Media
6:10 – 6:20 PM	Opening Note: Powering an Inclusive, Sustainable, and Digital India Importance of inclusive technology in the current scenario Nurturing the startup culture Corporate + startup engagements Driving sustainable goals Madan Padaki, President, TiE Bangalore
6:20 – 6:30 PM	Keynote: Learn, Unlearn, Relearn: The Key to Digital Success In today’s ever-changing world, it’s critical to take the time to pause and think about what is important. For IT leaders, what’s most important is change. This keynote session will explore how IT leaders can extend their influence across the enterprise and succeed in a continuously changing world. Shaibal Ghosh, CEO-APAC, Tesla Power USA
6:30 – 6:50 PM	Keynote: Empowering Your Enterprise with Data, Analytics, and Automation To thrive in this age of the unexpected, companies must leverage data, analytics, and automation at scale to unlock new growth opportunities, innovate future ideas and personalize customer as well as employee experiences. Start with data: Connect the right people, to the right data, at the right time to promote agility and predict outcomes with the data fabric approach. Predict outcomes with analytics: Empower business users with AI-driven self-service analytics to predict and shape future outcomes. Empower your people with automation: By using AI and automated tools, enterprises can make sense of that unstructured data and reclaim employee time. Siddhesh Suresh Naik, Country Leader, Data, AI and Automation, IBM India-South Asia
6:50 – 7:05 PM	Keynote: Data and Analytics Strategy for Business Leaders Proliferation of cloud and data challenges What data innovators do differently? Steps to improve data and analytics strategy How data cloud addresses data management challenges? Tom Devasia, Regional Sales Director, South India, Snowflake
7:05 – 7:30 PM	Fireside Chat: How to Make Your Organization Truly Data-Driven? To thrive in this age of the unexpected, increasing revenues and reducing costs by improving customer retention and loyalty, improving efficiency across the value chain, and gaining competitive advantage is a challenge we live with. We can achieve these goals by leveraging data from within and outside the organization and putting it right in the hands of every employee along with insights for taking the right decisions at the right time. In other words, enterprises must be data-driven. But what does it mean to be truly data-driven? Is your organization truly data-driven? How do you become one? What are the key elements of a data-driven organization? What are the challenges that are coming in the way of organizations becoming truly data-driven? How do you think organizations today can address those challenges? Philips Dayanidhi, Chief Digital Officer, Bosch Shuvankar Pramanick, Deputy CIO & Sr. Director – IT, Manipal Health Enterprises Avneet Gupta, Regional Technology Leader, IBM India-South Asia
7:30 – 7:40 PM	Networking Break
7:40 – 7:55 PM	On-Stage Entertainment
7:55 – 8:35 PM	CXO Tech Awards: Part -1 CXO Trusted Brands Awards CXO Hall of Fame CXO Tech Excellence Awards
8:35 – 8:45 PM	Book Launch: Lean Digital Thinking by V Srinivasa Rao, Consulting Editor, CXO TV & CMD, BT&BT
8:45 – 9:10 PM	Fireside Chat: Intelligent Data Strategy in Multi-Cloud & Hybrid World Intelligent data helps businesses efficiently handle the complex challenges of dispersed and fragmented data to truly innovate with their data on any platform, any cloud, multi-cloud and multi-hybrid. The session seeks to explore insights into how organizations are traversing the journey to building comprehensive, cloud-native, secure, and end-to-end data management platforms in order to meet the new normal of Cloud-First and Multi-Cloud. Data and security challenges in hybrid and multi-cloud environments Breaking data silos and increasing accessibility How to mobilize your data for deeper insights and real-time decisions? Accelerating data security and governance Harnessing data to make it intelligent Innovate and modernize data applications scalable to the cloud Empowering transformation with a unified data strategy Srikanth Katuri, Digital Transformation Leader Paromesh Chatterjee, Head IT, IDFC First Bharat Limited Amol Diwanji, Head - Systems Engineering, India & Saarc, Veeam Software
9:10 – 9:20 PM	Networking Break
9:20 – 9:50 PM	CXO Tech Awards: Part -2 CXO Tech Innovation Awards CXO Tech Champion Awards
9:50 PM Onwards	Cocktails and Networking Dinner

Timing	Session
2:00 – 2:10 PM	Welcome Note -- Kalpana Singhal, Founder & CEO, Techplus Media & CXO TV
2:10 – 3:10 PM	Opening Discussion: A Tectonic Shift of Capital towards Innovative and Sustainable Future An expert view into the tipping point of the Indian start-up and the entrepreneurial ecosystem, and the narrative on how new players bet on the tech game through new paradigms in the market. Lessons in building sustainable businesses Deeper impacts for all Encrypting the new norm for a new generation of entrepreneurs The debate of digital and phygital as more stable and durable? How can entrepreneurs scale culture in terms of innovation? Speakers: Amit Mookim, President, TiE Mumbai Priyanka Nishar, Founder and Managing Director- Azent Overseas Education Moderator: Kalpana Singhal, Founder & CEO, Techplus Media Group
3:10 – 3:25 PM	Keynote: Maximizing Value of Your Data Challenges in leveraging cloud capabilities/potential Focus, creativity, and cohesion to bridge the cloud gap Managing data the right way The rise of data cloud Benefits of data cloud Vimal Venkatram, Country Manager, Snowflake India
3:25 – 4:25 PM	Panel Discussion: Organizational Readiness to Embrace the Digital World? Why do organizations need to change their organization and upskill their staff to meet the digital challenge? What does a target operating model look like in the digital era? Focus on IT and why change is needed? Key technologies that are driving the change. Speakers: Vikas Gupta, Chief of Digital and Innovations, Hiranandani Energy Byju Joseph, CTO, Future Generali India Life Insurance Company Sourav Das, CDIO, Aditya Birla Group Essel Mining Charu Bhargava, VP-IT, Sheela Foam Sudhir Kanvinde, CIO, The Supreme Industries Bibhuti Rath, Technical Architect, IBM Cloud Moderator: V Srinivasa Rao (VSR), CMD, BT&BT and Consulting Editor, Techplus Media Panel Discussion: Redefining Digital Transformation Strategies to Exceed Customer Expectations Importance of creating a successful CX endgame in the new normal with a robust customer communications strategy Innovative ways for customer acquisition and segment penetration – Hyper-personalization Identifying the strategic imperatives for being digital-first in a successful transformation Speakers: Deepak Sharma, Chief Product Officer, Pepperfry Hari Shankar, Senior Vice President, Customer Experience, Future Generali Shuvankar Pramanick, Deputy CIO & Sr. Director, Manipal Group Moderator: Dr. Suresh A Shan,Head, Digital Innovation & Future Technology Business Information Technology Solutions, Mahindra Finance Security Panel: New Threat Landscape: Anticipating and Preparing for Risk New technologies such as Web 3.0 and the Metaverse, continue to redefine traditional business with enterprises’ approach to rapidly changing patterns becoming even more important. As businesses focus on digital solutions to make faster and smarter decisions, what are the challenges and opportunities of the next tech frontier? How do we address the security risks and protect ourselves as tech continues to advance, and what role does tech play in protecting us from future risks? This session will explore digital vulnerability and the power of collaboration to strengthen cyber resilience. Speakers: Ambarish Singh, CISO, Godrej & Boyce Yogesh Kumar, Head IT & CISO, Tata Advanced Systems Ashok Tiwari, Group Head IT, Sequent Scientific Subhash Singh Punjabi, CISO, Deepak Fertilizers and Petrochemicals Srinivasa Rao Muppaneni, Group CIO, Telangana State Cooperative Banks Moderator: Meetali Sharma, Corporate Head - Risk, Compliance & Information Security, SDG Software India
4:25 – 4:35 PM	Break for Experience Zone \| Group Chat \| Personal Chats
4:35 – 5:00 PM	Fireside Chat: Predicting the Future of Technology-enabled Digital Services in Financial Services Unwrapping the tech leader’s complex role as a digital transformer Where the CIO should be placing their focus when facilitating the move to digital financial services? Key aspects and strategies to be considered for transforming your organization to become digital to the core while maintaining an efficient, stable culture to keep up with the competition Importance of staying ahead by exploring futuristic innovations Avinash Godkhindi, MD & CEO, Zaggle CXO Master Class: Practical Guide to Multi-Cloud When to consider multi-cloud and why? Pros and cons of multi-cloud deployment Best practices for multi-cloud migration Multi-cloud management platforms and parameters to select the best platform Practical guidance for enterprises Arivuvel Ramu, Group CTO, Tonik Bank Fireside Chat: Exploring the Edge: What’s Really Happening Out There? Edge computing is reshaping IT and business computing. It is deployed today in a wide variety of use cases across every vertical. This fireside chat will discuss its use cases, including the results, the lessons, and the surprises. Saravanakumar Krishnamurthy, EVP – Technology Engineering – IT, Network & Cyber Security, Yes Bank
5:00 – 6:00 PM	Panel Discussion: Optimizing Digital Strategy in Hybrid Environment The cloud has created many opportunities for organizations to manage and collect vast amounts of data about their customers, applications, and business processes. The sheer magnitude of data businesses try to contain and keep under control can sometimes present hidden inefficiencies. Without a clear strategy to protect and store this critical business resource, IT departments will be woefully unprepared to handle current data and growth. How can IT optimize its use of the cloud while minimizing complexity and mitigating risk? What are the strategies to unlock IT agility, save money, and truly use your data for a more strategic, customer-focused business? This panel will discuss strategies to face these challenges. Speakers: Dr. Rajendran N, CDO, Multi Commodity Exchange of India NK Purohit, Chief Digital and Technology Officer, IIFL Varundeep Kaur, CIO, Spice Money Manish Kishore, Global CIO, Wockhardt Irshad Saifi, Director IT and Digitization, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co. Rajeev Gupta, Group CIO, AirOne Aviation Bhoopendra Solanki, CIO, Sakra World Hospital Moderator: Arun N. Nair, CDO, Strata Digital Consulting Panel Discussion: The Great Resignation: Surviving the Talent Shortage Upskilling and reskilling were identified as the top priority for learning and development by LinkedIn in 2021. But after nearly two years of fire-fighting leading to record levels of burnout and a mass resignation, it’s no longer enough to help teams ‘survive’ huge changes but to empower them to ‘thrive’ in a world of work that is designed for them, not just around them. There is a great emphasis on technical skills; should we be worried about overlooking the importance of critical thinking, creativity, diversity, and interpersonal skills to sustain organizational success? How to attract and retain talent? Reskill and upskill the workforce to not just adapt to the immediate future, but equip them with adaptability skills that can thrive for the long-term The role of the gig economy How to identify skills gaps and invest in the future? Speakers: Mohit Kumar, President HR & Head - L&D, Talent Acquisition & Management, OE, HO & Sales HR, Hindalco Industries Sonal Arora, Country Manager, Gi Group Holding, India Moderator: V Srinivas Rao, Consulting Editor, CXO TV Panel Discussion: Staying Relevant to Your Target Customer: How to Win in 2023 With increased cyber risk in this new digital transformation era, any approach to bridge the IT and OT divide is mission-critical for enterprise security. While a ‘zero-trust’ approach has proved to be successful for most organizations in an IT environment, how does it work in an OT setup? If you have deployed ‘zero trust’ for IT, what architectural changes are required for OT? How digital transformation is driving customer experience? Building internal communications strategy post pandemic Hyper-personalization benefits for customer acquisition How digital-first approach redefine customer experience? New mantra for the next generation digital age. Panelists: Zeenat Mongal, VP, Customer Experience, ICICI Lombard Aalok R Pradhan, Director, Customer Success, CoinDCX Suraj Shetty, Head of Customer Experience & Learning Development, Ring Ameet Phadke, Associate Vice President, EatSure, Rebel Foods Anirudh Das, Social Media & Brand Marketing Manager, Last Journey by Ferns N Petals Moderator: Dr. Suresh A Shan, Head, Digital Innovation & Future Technology Business Information Technology Solutions, Mahindra Finance
6:00 PM Onwards	Closing Note & Vote of Thanks

Timing	Session
2:00 – 2:10 PM	Welcome Note -- Kalpana Singhal, Founder & CEO, Techplus Media & CXO TV
2:10 – 2:25 PM	Opening Keynote: Technology towards Sustainable Tomorrow In recent years technology is changing our ways of life. The session will focus on how to accelerate the pace of adopting environment-friendly technologies and delivering technological solutions at the national and local levels. Kavinder Khurana, MD, Tesla Power
2:25 – 2:40 PM	Keynote: Digital Transformation Strategy: What does it mean to be a Data-Driven Organization? Siddhesh Naik, Country Leader, Data, AI & Automation, Technology Sales, IBM India
2:40 – 3:40 PM	CXO Roundtable: Up for the Challenge: How is India Building a Dynamic and Thriving Tech Ecosystem? With record levels of investment, the return of Indian IPOs, and an ever-increasing number of thriving start-ups, there is a real sense of energy and optimism in the Indian tech sector. So, how will the sector continue to develop and thrive? How does the Indian government strategy on innovation and skills support our scale-ups and entrepreneurs to achieve success? Speakers: Akilur Rahman, CTO, Hitachi Energy India Tarun Aggarwal, Chief Business Officer, College Dekho Amit Srivastava, Co-Founder & CTO, Getvantage Faiz Shakir, CEO, Nutanix Mayank Goyal, Founder & CEO, moneyHOP Abhinandan Sangam, Co-Founder & CTO, Finzy Moderator V Srinivas Rao, Consulting Editor, CXO TV
3:40 – 4:10 PM	Fireside Chat: Road to Digital: Building a Digital-First Brand Channel digitization is nothing new. Most companies have already embraced digital routes to market, such as websites and social media. So what’s changed? The key difference now is customers will increasingly connect with a business via a digital channel first. To put it another way, the days of considering digital as an "add-on" is over – welcome to a brave new world of digital-first interactions. This channel digitization is a huge consumer trend across almost all industries. However, the process of adopting a digital-first approach can be challenging. This fireside chat will elaborate on the importance of a digital-first strategy, what its components are, and how to get it right. Udit Tyagi, Chief Digital Officer, Radio Mirchi Master Class: Reimagining Customer Experience in the Era of Data and Cloud Businesses are rebuilding around experience. This session covers how to make meaning out of your ocean of data, put it to work, and create an evolving customer experience. The session highlights cloud-enabled data platforms powered by reference architecture, nextgen technologies, and intelligent automation to deliver greater lifetime value and drive deeper customer engagement. Dr. Biswajit Mohapatra, Head - Customer Solutions Management, India and South Asia, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Fireside Chat: How Digital is Transforming Trade Finance The Covid-19 crisis arrived during a transformative period for trade finance, largely through digitization and the emergence of new platforms. This is an area where we see an intense movement toward innovative technologies and digitization. In fact, fintechs are now leading the product innovation heralded by rampant digitization. The digitization of trade finance not only makes it easier to satisfy administrative requirements but also enhances internal risk management systems. It will only serve to increase the size of the trade financing market. This session will share how fintechs are leading the product innovation and digitization in the trade finance space and how the digital transformation of this space will lead to the overhaul of the entire financial services sector. Anil Gopinath, CTO, Drip Capital
4:10 – 4:20 PM	Break for Experience Zone \| Group Chat \| Personal Chats
4:20 – 5:20 PM	Panel Discussion: How to Close the IT and Business Integration Gap in a Digital World In a digital world, colleague, customer, and citizen expectations are high and rising. IT has a crucial role in helping organizations deliver, adapt at pace, innovate where needed and keep the promise of safety. However, many organizations are not where they want to be. The moment is now. It’s not easy. Taking the opportunity starts with the leader, and how they build trust and build bridges. Speakers: Sagar Kothe, Director, PwC India Balaji TK, CIO, Orange Retail Finance India Kushal Varshney, CTO, Virescent Infrastructure Navin Nathani, Head, IT Projects and Transformation Management Office, Aditya Birla Group Moderator: Rajeev Seoni, Director, Digital Futurists Angels, and former CIO, Ernst & Young Panel Discussion: Blockchain and the Decentralised Economy Heralded as the new technology of trust, blockchain presents real opportunities for organizations to deliver value by building trust and improving efficiency across industries, from healthcare, government, and public services, to manufacturing, finance, and logistics. Large investments in blockchain are being made, with venture-capital funding for blockchain start-ups growing from $1 billion in 2017 to over $25 billion in 2021. Join our investors and innovators in this panel, as they discuss emerging applications of blockchain, and how to address existing challenges to scale and realize its benefits to our future economy. Panelists: Col (Dr.) Inderjeet Singh, Chief Cyber Officer (CCO), Vara Dr. Lopa Mudraa Basuu, Advisor, Cloud Security Alliance APAC Research Council Sharat Chandra, Blockchain and Emerging Tech Evangelist & Vice President - Research & Strategy, EarthId Moderator: Prasanna Lohar, Vice President, Technology (Digital, Innovation, & Architecture), DCB Bank Security Panel: Cutting through the SASE Confusion One vendor or multi-vendor? SD-WAN and/or SSE? Network and security teams in silos or unified? Thin branch or thick branch? Zero-trust? Remote worker support? DIY vs. a managed service? This session will cut through the confusion, helping you plan for SASE success. Whether you are a CIO, network or security practitioner, or just want to better understand the market and technology, this discussion is for you! Panelists: Anuj Tewari, CISO, TMF Group Sreeni Venugopal, Group CIO & CISO, Kimshealth Vijay Gurumurthy, Director IT, Capgemini Technology Rajat Goel, Global IT Head, Zenoti Moderator: Vinay Vashista, Associate Director, Cyber and IT (Risk), Grant Thornton Bharat
5:20 – 6:00 PM	Fireside Chat: Scaling Innovation and Agility to Build a Truly Digital Enterprise Every company leader knows that to succeed, innovation and agility must be at the core of their business. But reimagining the way products and services are made—at scale—is easier said than done. Moreover, launching digital initiatives is one thing; doing so successfully is another. Many organizations have yet to realize the benefits they want and need from their digital transformation journeys because of the common roadblocks that hinder these journeys, such as slow project implementation, low digital literacy in business teams, fragmented data coming from multiple sources, and a lack of relevant skills, to name a few. Organizations that successfully overcome these challenges and transform into truly digital, innovative, and disruptive enterprises will be well-positioned to become industry leaders. This fireside chat discusses strategies for innovative digital transformation and essential components for successful digital transformation as enterprises move to digitize their platform and stride through their modernization journey. Speakers: Sony A, CIO, South India Bank Amol Diwanji, Head System Engineering, India & SAARC, Veeam Software CXO Master Class: Re-Inventing Employee Experience, Business Continuity in Hybrid Workspace Remote and hybrid work is presenting a new set of challenges for organizations. In this scenario, traditional IT management can be expensive—especially when you’re using different devices from different vendors. Hence, IT teams need to pivot quickly towards adopting a digital solution that offers resilience, agility, and scalability at its core. However, many organizations are still struggling to offer a seamless, VPN-less experience to their employees coupled with endpoint security, and device and app management—in a single platform. This session will deliberate on a strategy for today’s distributed workforce, with capabilities to connect and secure remote teams, improve employee productivity, and reduce support ticket volume. Veneeth Purushotaman, Group CIO, Aster DM Healthcare Fireside Chat: Dynamic Control with ZTNA for Cloud Success Zero trust is a terrific security standard; however, it gets effective only when we have the proper technology like ZTNA implemented at the backend & have skill to enforce it. If implemented completely, it dramatically decreases the cybersecurity risk. This session will explore whether ZTNA should be a priority for your organization or not, and touches on the role of users, devices, and network. How can you reach optimal cloud security? Discover where to begin in your journey to reach strong cloud security and how to transform digitally, all while maintaining a Zero Trust security approach. Manoj Sarangi, Senior Vice President, National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL)
6:00 PM Onwards	Closing Note & Vote of Thanks

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