Panel Discussion:
Decoding Budget 2022 from Tech Perspective
In her Budget speech, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman used the word ‘digital’ 35 times while ‘tech’ was mentioned 26 times. Sitharaman also outlined a broad initiative to deepen digital penetration and improve delivery of services in sectors ranging from agriculture to education to health and digital payments and banking. The fresh digital push is seen as building blocks of the government’s strategy to prepare the economy for future challenges.

How does the Budget-2022 appear from the tech perspective? Let’s explore this in a panel discussion to analyze the pros and cons for the technology community as a whole and the channels fraternity in precise.

• Overall budget rating from Tech perspective
• Three major plus points in this budget for technology space
• Has FM met the industry expectations?
• Announcements which are beneficial for MSME sector
• Benefits for the channel fraternity

Panelists:
Paresh Shah, CEO, Allied Digital
Pranav Pandya, Co-Founder & Chairman, Dev IT
L Askok, MD, Futurenet Technologies
Moin Shaikh, Director, Innovative Telecom & Software
Prarthana Gupta, CEO, Cache Technologies

Moderator:
Biren Shah, MD, Adit Microsys

Panel Discussion:
Convergence of Edge, AI and Cloud with Hybrid Data Clouds
As the number of edge devices are growing exponentially across multiple industry verticals, the need for localized intelligence at the edge and the immediacy of analytics on the cloud become even more important. This is bringing the three dimensions of Edge, Machine Learning and Cloud much closer. In order to support such an architecture, enterprises need to adopt data management platforms that support Hybrid Data Clouds that enable handling and executing different types of analytical workloads across edge, on-premises and public cloud environments seamlessly. Attend this session to deep dive into the need for such convergence, the benefits and the strategy to address it.

Panelists:
Kapil Mahajan, Group CIO, Safexpress
Kushal Varshney, CTO, Virescent Infrastructure
Farhan Khan, CIO, Allied Blenders & Distillers
Manish Kishore, Head IT (Group) & Digital Health, Andhra Pradesh MedTech Zone

Moderator:
Jaspreet Singh, Partner and National Leader, Client & Markets (Trust and Transformation), Grant Thornton Bharat

Technology Insights:
Who Moved My Cheese? Answers to Your Concerns around Fraud

• Stay updated, stay ahead in the race
• How to think like a fraudster?
• How to build competencies in external attack surface management?
• How to build brand protection and adversary intelligence capabilities?

Radhesh Walwadkar, Manager, Systems Engineering (Enhanced Tech), India & SAARC, Fortinet

Master Class:
Building Trust into AI: Strategies for Enterprises
Leading organizations are being proactive in AI adoption: employing principles such as transparency, explainability, fairness, and governance to build responsible AI. However, most of the businesses struggle to build trust in AI and unlock new uses for high-value AI. Join this master class to gain practical strategies to build responsible AI

• Incorporating context into planning for responsible AI
• Uncovering bias from global issues to segment and intersectional analysis
• Applying ML observability from multiple angles such as data drift and performance
• Explainability for not only compliance but for better impact and root cause analysis
• Using continuous monitoring to mitigate risk

Kamal Kumar, Head-Analytics, Myntra

Panel Discussion:
Cyber Security in 2022: Surviving Advanced Cyber Threats with Active Defense
The past two years has seen a rapid shift of work to remote and hybrid offices. The statistics show that hackers welcomed that shift and took advantage of the vulnerabilities and gaps in security by businesses. As Covid-19 accelerates digital business transformation and challenges traditional cyber security practices, security and risk management leaders are facing challenges in enabling rapid reinvention in their organizations. Active defense allows organizations to engage and deflect attackers in real time by combining threat intelligence and analytics resources within the IT function.
This panel discussion will investigate how better intelligence, smarter analytics, and stronger collaboration can collectively help organizations build active-defense capabilities they need to respond more effectively to pervasive, advanced cyber threats.

• Understanding the challenges and gaps
• Analyzing the current cyber security approach
• Responding to emerging attacks by applying threat intelligence and analytics
• How can active defense strategy help?
• Core elements of an active defense model
• Building a comprehensive cyber security strategy

Panelists:
Babitha BP, CISO, CSB Bank
Venkateswaran TR, CISO, Punjab National Bank
Patrick Pitchappa, Director, Information Security & Risk, Alshaya Group
Dilip Panjwani, Principal Director, CISO & IT Controller, Larsen & Toubro Infotech

Moderator:
Jaspreet Singh, Partner and National Leader, Client & Markets (Trust and Transformation), Grant Thornton Bharat

Panel Discussion:
Role of Intelligent Data 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 panel discussion seeks to explore insights into how organizations are traversing the journey to building comprehensive, cloud-native, AI-powered or end-to-end data management platforms in order to meet the new normal of Cloud-First and Multi-Cloud.

• Data 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?
• Harnessing data to make it intelligent
• Innovate and modernize data applications scalable to cloud
• Empowering transformation with a unified data strategy

Panelists:
Meheriar Patel, Group CIO, Jeena & Company (Panelist cum Moderator)
Ashok Cherian, CIO, Page Industries
Vidhya Veeraraghavan, VP & Head, Analytics (Financial Market Operations), Standard Chartered Bank
Sayed Peerzade, EVP and Chief Cloud Officer, Yotta Infrastructure Solutions
Anil Menon, Head, IT, LuLu Group India

Fireside Chat:
Global Business Opportunity: Integrating AI to Automate eCommerce and Marketing Strategy for SMEs

• Changing eCommerce trends amid pandemic
• Emerging business models and digital footprints
• Challenges in executing eCommerce strategies
• How AI helps in automating eCommerce and marketing strategies
• How SMEs can explore global business opportunities with AI
• Strategies for enhancing overall customer experience

Shayak Mazumder, Co-Founder and CEO, Eunimart

Master Class:
Know Your Data for an Effective Data Security & Privacy Program

• Why a data security and privacy program is required?
• How to build a robust data security and privacy program?
• Various frameworks of adoption
• Time to adopt: 5 stage approach-DCPMA
• How to gain visibility of sensitive/critical data?
• How to classify your data?
• How to protect critical data?
• How to monitor risky behavior?
• How to automate your security ecosystem?

Vishal Bindra, Founder & CEO, Klassify Technology