Speaker: –

•  C. N. Ashwath Narayan, Minister of Higher Education, IT, BT & ST, Skill Development, Entrepreneurship, and Livelihood, Govt. of Karnataka

In the connected world, you are competing everywhere with everyone. Technology landscape is changing every second of our existence. With high-tech solutions to everything possible, mankind is getting a step closer every day to a fully technological existence. In this session, we will explore how emerging enterprises are changing the rules of the game and capitalising on some of the fast-growing emerging technologies like AI, ML, Blockchain, and Analytics. Amid the global volatility and uncertainty of the past two years, one thing has become clear: the cloud is integral to business success in the digital age. An October 2021 survey by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services of 300 respondents familiar with their organization’s cloud strategy and adoption confirms this point.

Key pointers of discussion: –

• Using emerging technologies for operational excellence
• Cloud as the backbone/catalyst for innovation
• Redefining the new workplace model
• Data and BI for unmatched customer experience
• The 1BN dollar journey

Speakers: –

• Vishwanath Ramarao, CTPO, ACKO General Insurance
• Katreddi Kiran Kumar, VP Data Platform Engineering, Meesho

With the emergence of the metaverse, it becomes significantly more relevant with an added layer of complexity, but this does not detract from its importance. In fact, both can and most likely will exist co-dependently in the future.

Metaverse-as-a-Service (MaaS): How Public cloud providers will translate metaverse into MaaS, i.e., fully hosted and managed offerings that allow customers to effortlessly deploy their own custom metaverse environments.

Speakers: –

• Manish Shetty, CIO, DIAGEO India
• Anjani Kumar, CIO, Strides Pharma Science

Data is enabling the use of a new set of lenses to transform the entire business value chain and, with it, the way we perceive everything from human interactions to business processes. Digital innovation is critical to realising the full potential of data for Indian businesses, the economy, and the average consumer.

Data Models & Sources | Apps | Analytics Models | Computing Power | Sharing & Storage

Key pointers of discussion: –

• Data’s role in business intelligence
• Efficiency in operations
• Analysis of the business value chain

Speakers: –

• Phaneesh Gururaj, CTO, Koo India
• Sreenivas Pamidimukkala, CIO, Mahindra Logistics
• Siddharth Patnaik, Head of Architecture, Platforms & Data, Upstox
• Harsh Saruparia, Co-Founder & CTO, OTO Capital
• Partner Speaker, Elastic

Collaboration between AI and the cloud is a concept that is gaining traction in businesses. The use of AI Cloud will provide value to enterprises by increasing the economic options for data storage and computation and placing a strong emphasis on AI adoption.

Artificial Intelligence | IoT to IoE | Machine Learning | AI Chatbots

Key pointers of discussion: –

• Enterprises to derive greater value from their AI investments
• Boutique Cloud services – “My cloud, My Way”
• Greater hyperscale specialisation

Speakers: –

• Pawan Satyawali, Global CIO, Tata Consumer Products*
• Rejin Surendran, Global CIO, Wipro Enterprises
• Yoginder Grewal, CTO, Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages
• Karthikeyan Krishnaswamy, Co-Founder & CTO, KreditBee
• Ramkumar Mohan, CIO, Air Works Group

The advantages of hybrid and multi-cloud configurations are well publicised; they include diversified spend and skills, enhanced risk management, agility, and the ability to cherry pick features and capabilities from different cloud service providers, avoiding vendor lock-in.

Key pointers of discussion: –

• How much of a concern is vendor lock-in and does it hinder your ability to optimise and innovate?
• The time, effort and cost of switching.
• Can you really know the ins and outs of all the different platforms, how they work, interconnect and crucially how they break?

Speakers: –

• Saurabh Gupta, CTO, FroGo Frozen Foods
• Deepak Gangadharan, CTO, India1 Payments
• Dharmesh Parekh, CIO, Protean eGov Technologies
• Satyan Pathak, CIO & Head of Operations, Societe Generale Global Solution Centre

The expanding number of platforms and technologies that compete with one another and overlap in the cloud native market makes it simple to feel overwhelmed. The distinguished panellists in this session will talk about important trends in cloud adoption and risk. Decisions made strategically and tactically amid sudden cloud expansions that succeeded [or failed].

Key pointers of discussion: –

• Security landscape of a cloud native system
• Cloud native storage
• Security and compliance

Speakers: –

• Himanshu Kumar Das, CISO, Cred

Speaker: –

• Soumendu Mukherjee, ADGP PCW (Police Computer Wing), Karnataka State Police