ICT Business Awards

About

The pandemic has set new business norms. A consistently rising number of businesses are now online and virtual, propelled by the pandemic. This requires higher attention towards Data & Cloud, Cybersecurity, Data Sovereignty, Remote Working, Data and Deep Tech which must be enhanced using technologies like Big Data Analytics, RPA, AI, ML.

With an aim to bring together leading technology practitioners& decision makers, Dataquest is organizing 28th DQ Digital Leadership Conclave on 23 July 2021 to bring 500+ key decision makers under one roof.

Dynamics of the New World Order

Digital Life & Society
Digital Enterprise
Deep Tech Mission Critical Innovations
Digital Economy
Managing the 3rd Wave of Covid

Digital Life & Society

Fostering human connection in the unconnected world
Digital everything – from e-Health to e-Shopping, and e-Entertainment
Is the era of campus-based education over?
Creating human-centric technologies / How to create human-centric technologies

Digital Enterprise

WFH: Redefining office and telecommuting
Managing intelligent enterprise operations
How to get more from your cloud infrastructure
Security essentials for digital information infrastructure

Deep Tech Mission Critical Innovations

The rise and rise of IIOT – driving the 4th Industrial Revolution
Riding big data boom for business model innovation
Will AI and nanobots go mainstream for healthcare
The future of UAVs: How it can transform the supply chain and logistics

Digital Economy

Is India policy-ready for the digital economy
Can data-enabled technologies drive e-Commerce further
Re-imagining customer expectation in the time of COVID
Technology innovations for building a resilient economy

Managing the 3rd Wave of COVID

Setting up India's health surveillance grid
Smart technologies for fighting pandemic - Prevention, Detection, Cure, Recovery
Are Supportive policies, working well for SME’s during pandemic.
Creating work-life balance during WFH

Fireside Chat: New World Order: Time for Tech to Shine

Building a sustainable and self-reliant India
Can India meet the global hardware needs
Re-writing the India’s software success story

Key Discussion Points

Program

Time	Sessions
09:40 – 10:00 AM	Welcome Note Pradeep Gupta, Chairman, CyberMedia Group Watch on Demand Keynote Address: The Digital Imprint of the Vaccination Program Dr. R S Sharma, CEO, National Health Authority Watch on Demand Special Keynote Address: Dynamics of the new world order Ajai Chowdhry, Esteemed member of the Consultation Group on Science, Technology & Innovation Centre Watch on Demand
10:00 – 11:30 AM Inaugural Session	Dynamics of New World order Rajen Vagadia , VP and President , Qualcomm India & SAARC Watch on Demand Samar Mittal, Head of Cloud & Network Services, India Market, Nokia Watch on Demand Debjani Ghosh, President, NASSCOM Watch on Demand Palash Nandy, CEO, Numeric Watch on Demand Anil Jain, CEO, NIXI Watch on Demand
11:30 – 12:15 PM Digital Life & Society	Digital Life & Society Meena Ganesh, CEO, Portea Rajendra S Pawar, Chairman & Co-Founder, NIIT Ltd UB Desai, Founding Director, IIT Hyderabad Moderator: Sukanta Dey, CEO, Sdela Consulting Watch on Demand
12:15 – 1:00 PM Digital Enterprise	Digital Enterprises Kapil Mahajan, Group CIO, Safexpress Harnath Babu, CIO, KPMG Umesh Mehta, EVP & Global-CIO, Jubiliant Lifesciences Bimal Khandelwal, CFO, STT GDC India Moderator: Anil Chopra, Sr. VP, Research & Consulting, CMR Watch on Demand
1:00 – 01:45 PM Digital Economy	Digital Economy Neeta Verma, Director General, National Informatics Centre Yugal Kishore Sharma, Chief Executive Officer, One Broadband Golok K Simili, Chief of Technology, Ministry of External Affairs, Govt of India Vinish Bawa, Head of Emerging Business, India Market, Nokia Moderator: Sukanta Dey, CEO, SDELA Consulting Watch on Demand
01:45 – 2:45 PM Preparing for 3rd Wave of Covid	Preparing for 3rd Wave of Covid Leaders’ Talk: Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty, Chairman & Executive Director, Narayana Health in talks with Arun Seth, Trustee, Nasscom Foundation & Independent Director on board, Narayana health, addl. Director, CyberMedia Watch on Demand Panel Discussion Prakash Kumar, CEO, Wadhwani Institute of Technology & Policy Arun Karna, MD & CEO, AT&T Global Network Services India Pvt Ltd Vipul Singh, CEO, Aarav Unmanned Systems Amit Sinha Roy, Global Head of Marketing & Communications, Tata Communications Moderator: Pradeep Gupta, Chairman, CyberMedia Group Watch on Demand
02:30 - 03:30 PM	DQ Digital Leader Awards Watch on Demand
03:30 – 04:15 PM Fireside Chat	Fireside Chat: New World Order: Time for Tech to Shine Sameer Garde, President, Cisco India and SAARC Sunil Vachani, CMD, Dixon Technologies Som Mittal, Former President and Chairman, NASSCOM Moderated: Pradeep Gupta, Chairman, CyberMedia Group Watch on Demand
04:15 – 4:45 PM	28th Dataquest Leadership Awards & Acceptance Speech IT Person of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award AatmaNirbhar Bharat Champion Award Watch on Demand
4:45 PM	Thank you note and closing remarks