In the Digital-first world where 90% of enterprises are yet to achieve their digital goals with 49% admitting that cyber security is the top most priority for their businesses. It also brings to light, 45% of enterprises lost productivity during the crisis due to problems of connectivity and 41% enterprises attribute the shift to digital-first operating models for maintaining market share during the course of the pandemic. A digital-first operating model is a must for enterprises in the new world order.
The 19th edition of the Infotech Forum is also going all virtual. It is designed with the theme of "Accelerating your Business Transformation Strategy", the forum will witness the presence of 500 regulators, policy makers, along with experts in technology, governance and over 100 delegates from the OEMs.
During the session various important discussions related to the policy regarding security and cyber security, how the core technologies have created the new vision to think ahead will take place during the virtual and live interactive sessions.
This time the IT Forum will witnessed 50 exceptional start-ups founders and co-founders to attend the sessions, to understand the industry dynamics and how the cutting-edge technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning across the industries are supporting the local partners in growing and expanding their business via the digital and omni channel route, and giving a boost to the local businesses in India.
The virtual event is brought by a convergence of Top 50 Global as well as Indian Technology companies with 35 magnificent speakers in the daylong session, which is going to start today from 12.00 noon to 8.30 pm for a period of continuous eight plus hours. The marathon Infotech Forum is going to witness many key announcements from the technology leaders from India and abroad.
The event is supported by Hitachi Vantara, whereas the Gold partner of the event is Dell Technologies and Fortinet and in the Networking Partner category there are four corporates - Veeam, VMRay, Crayon Software Experts and Teamviewer. The cyber Security partners of the IT Forum are Sophos and Kaspersky and the event has a Display Partner Viewsonic and finally the most needed Data Cloud partner of the 19th Infotech Forum is Snowflake.
The welcome address will be offered by Mr. Puneet Gupta, VP & MD- Netapp India/SAARC and other key speakers of the session are: Mr. Rishi Mehta, Advisor : AirVine Scientific Inc. Dr. Pavan Duggal, Expert in cyberlaw and e-commerce law, Mr. Deepak Sar, Director-Distribution & Alliance- Hitachi Vantara, Mr. Amit Luthra – Director and GM, Data Center Solutions- Dell Technologies, Mr. Malay Upadhyay, Sales Engineering - Sophos India , Mr. Vikas Bhonsle - Chief Executive Officer - Crayon Software Experts India , Mr. Vijay Muthu, Public Cloud Security Sales- Fortinet Technologies India, Mr. Amarish Karnik, Director Channel Sales, Alliances & Cloud and Service Provider( India & SAARC), Veeam Software, Mr. Krunal Patel, Director (Sales)- Teamviewer, Dr. Harold Dcosta, CEO- Intelligent Quotient, Mr. Biswajit Mohapatra- Partner, Global Delivery Leader- IBM India, Mr. Kamal Dhamija- CISO- Trident India, Mr. Harnath Babu- Partner & CIO- KPMG, Mr. Dipesh Kaura, General Manager( South Asia)- Kaspersky and Mr. Gaurav Chawla, Business Development Manager- VMRay.
There are seven sessions starting from welcome and keynote address, three tracks of panel discussions and eight corporates to offer their presentations, followed by awards to recognise this year’s Eminent CIOs of India, 25 Most Trusted Companies and 50 Most Admired Brands in India. Other recognitions are including Brand Icons of Year and Women in Technology Sales.
The 19th Infotech Forum will witness the unveiling of the 10th edition of Brand Book, which is content rich and informative, where corporates spoke on their next plan of action in which digital has become central to every interaction, forcing both organizations and individuals further up the adoption curve almost overnight.
A world in which digital channels become the primary (and, in some cases, sole) customer-engagement model, and automated processes become a primary driver of productivity-and the basis of flexible, transparent, and stable supply chains. A world in which agile ways of working are a prerequisite to meeting seemingly daily changes to customer behavior.
Finally, every company knows how to pilot new digital initiatives in “normal” times, but very few do so at the scale and speed suddenly required by the COVID-19 crisis. That’s because in normal times, the customer and market penalties for widespread “test and learn” can seem too high, and the organizational obstacles too steep
