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November 9, 2023

CIO.inc Cloud Leadership Summit

8:30 AM - 6:30 PM IST

Event Overview

Digital transformation and cloud have challenged the status quo of the IT and security leaders in building a resilient enterprise and accelerating business growth in the last few years. Considering that India’s GDP has touched the $3.75 trillion mark in 2023, as tweeted by the finance minister recently, with the country aiming to be a $1 trillion digital economy by 2026, the leadership teams will have to unleash their potential in establishing a robust cloud platform to drive innovation. 

It would not be an understatement to say that the CEOs have always made it a top priority to leverage technology to drive growth, speed time to market, drive innovation and transform Indian businesses, where cloud has changed the way of conducting businesses.

According to recent research reports, the widespread migration to cloud is increasing as organizations embrace flexible hybrid workspaces, digital-first business models, API-enabled ecosystems and extended supply chain networks. Additionally, new developments in wireless connectivity such as 5G mean that cloud will grow, expand and become more ubiquitous than ever before. This has created tremendous opportunities in the cloud market and created broad momentum in terms of investments and opportunities.

The Cloud Leadership Summit is an exclusive event focused on industry-led growth that brings together influential thought leaders, industry experts and decision-makers across India’s cloud ecosystem consisting of diverse industries and business sectors. This one-day-only event will bring together leading cloud platform providers, key speakers, industry leaders, key customers and hundreds of attendees to shape the future of enterprises and successfully drive digital transformation.

The summit will also feature insightful keynotes, use cases, technical presentations, service and product descriptions, and interactive panels that delve into the future of cloud and related cloud solutions and applications. It will provide organizations with road maps to shape their future in the evolving cloud landscape. Some of the discussion topics include generative AI models in cloud, securing cloud in the 5G era, cloud computing, cloud interoperability, cyber insurance, and more.

Venue

Pullman New Delhi Aerocity

Delhi

Highlight Topics

  • Multi Cloud Environment
  • Cloud Leadership
  • Security and Privacy Considerations
  • Hybrid Cloud
  • Skills Challenge in the 5g era
  • Economics of Cloud

Agenda

Registration & Breakfast

Speaker

Desg, Company

Migrating to a Multi-Cloud Environment: Building a Business Case

On the other hand, private cloud provides enhanced security and customization but can be costlier and less scalable. Hybrid cloud combines the benefits of both models, allowing organizations to balance their requirements for security, control and cost-effectiveness.  

This session will focus on choosing the right cloud deployment model, depending on factors such as data sensitivity, budget, compliance needs and the level of control an organization requires. A pertinent question is: Is there a need for CIOs to move to multi-cloud? 

Amitabh Nag

Chief Executive Officer, Digital India Bhashini Division (Bhashini)

Cloud Leadership: Tapping the Forces of Change for Business Acceleration

By embracing the power of the cloud, organizations can accelerate business growth, enhance agility, and stay ahead in an increasingly digital landscape. Effective cloud leaders understand the potential of cloud technology, drive strategic initiatives, and empower their organizations to tap into the transformative capabilities offered by the cloud.  
 
 

The session will explore how cloud leadership can tap into necessary forces of change underpinning the need to drive innovations using concepts, such as metaverse, 5G, understanding interoperability issues and cyber liability insurance, to enable businesses to leverage cloud computing for its competitive advantage. 

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Hybrid Cloud: How Business Leaders Weigh in on the Future

Are business leaders seeing the value of hybrid cloud to improve their IT infrastructure and support their business goals? Will hybrid cloud infrastructure be better equipped to meet their future infrastructure demands? Does hybrid cloud facilitate innovation and faster go-to-market times? These are important questions to be answered before deciding to place bets. 

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Panel Discussion: Cloud Security and Privacy Considerations: Where Does the Buck Stop?

Without clearly stated guidelines, it could be difficult to understand and define the responsibilities of customers and CSPs, resulting in compromised security and privacy of data and applications. 

In addition to the shared responsibility model, there is a number of other factors that can affect security and privacy in a cloud environment. These factors include the type of cloud service, the location of the cloud data, and the compliance requirements of the organization. 

Who is responsible for what in the cloud? How can shared responsibility model be navigated? What is the role of data sovereignty and data localization? How can CIOs and CISOs navigate the risks? What are the right ways of ensuring security and privacy in the cloud environment?  

The panel will discuss:  

  • Challenges in understanding the shared responsibility model
  • Role of CSP and customer in defining the strategy
  • Compliance and regulatory considerations
  • Incident response and CSP’s responsibilities
  • How you do treat threat intel differently? 

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Understanding Cloud Challenges and Opportunities in Healthcare: Key Considerations

However, healthcare organizations must carefully consider data security, compliance and interoperability, while addressing challenges related to legacy systems and cultural adaptation. By overcoming these hurdles, healthcare providers can leverage cloud-native solutions to transform and innovate in the rapidly evolving healthcare landscape. 

The session will cover:  

  • Cloud-based disaster recovery and business continuity; 
  • Use of right technology tools to mitigate challenges in healthcare; 
  • Cloud governance strategy; 
  • Cloud security challenges. 

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Cloud and Compliance: Complying With Regulatory Frameworks

With the normalization of remote work, companies are now tasked to support and provide critical services to their off-site workforce. While it provides a great deal of flexibility, it also widens the threat surface and enables cyberattackers to exploit systems. Regulators are seeking to tighten the rules around data sovereignty and localization, posing challenges for many industries to move to the cloud. While cloud adoption is on the rise, it is not free from multiple challenges. How are CXOs dealing with those?

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Navigating Interoperability Challenges in Multi-Cloud Environments

The key interoperability challenges faced by CIOs today may include:  

  • Data integration, cloud APIs and lack of standards; 
  • Moving data between SaaS applications;  
  • Challenges around microservices; 
  • Workforce skills for technology stack; 
  • Shared responsibility for the security of data. 

 

Enterprises are looking at standards-based options to address such critical issues.   

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Tackling the Cloud Skills Challenge in the 5G Era

By nurturing a skilled talent pool through education, upskilling existing employees, fostering industry-academia collaboration and government support, organizations can effectively address the cloud skills shortage and stay ahead in the ever-evolving 5G landscape. 

The session will cover: 

  • How to address shortage of talent; 
  • Proactive measures to address the cloud skills shortage; 
  • Fostering collaboration between industry and academia; 
  • The role of government in addressing the cloud skills shortage. 

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Panel Discussion: Minimizing Risks With Cyber Liability Insurance: A Balanced Approach to Securing Cloud Data

A single enterprise can have multiple cloud relationships, which may lead to accountability issues in case of a breach. The industry has faced several misconceptions about cloud and the liability of its risks. When data is stored in the cloud, organizations often assume that the associated risks are transferred to the third-party cloud provider. It’s always a question of who has the ownership of risk and its mitigation process: third-party service provider or the organization? The new component in the entire liability process is the adoption of cyber insurance and the organizations’ effort to transfer the liability to cyber insurers. 

The session will cover: 

  • Is cyber insurance a solution to reducing risks associated with cloud? 
  • Are cyber insurance companies turning to negotiators to balance security and assume liability of a breach? 
  • How much are underwriters in the insurance companies clued into evaluating the cloud security risks? 

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Economics of Cloud: Optimizing Spend by Avoiding Ignorance

As a result, most enterprises develop business cases and also negotiate contracts that don’t take into account the differential approach specific to cloud. The result: overspending or rising cost of cloud adoption. This raises questions on deriving value from cloud investments, which often fall short of expectations, resulting in reverse migration to on-premises. The session will focus on cloud economics and optimizing investments. How can companies avoid mistakes like undefined cloud road maps, miscalculated cloud forecasts, undefined business cases, etc.?  

The session will cover:  

  • Understanding cloud cost factors; 
  • Practical cost-optimization strategies;  
  • Importance of visibility and monitoring; 
  • Importance of cloud governance. 

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Fireside chat: Aligning Cloud Strategy With AI Adoption: Are CIOs Cashing in on the Opportunity?

Various cloud computing models have played a vital role in shaping the use of AI use cases in the real world. Moreover, edge computing, which extends the cloud capabilities to on-premises with low latency will further help in developing more practical use cases. More recently, large language models, LLMs, have gained popularity and the fundamental layer to those is cloud computing. How are CIOs tweaking their cloud computing framework to accelerate the practical application of new AI technologies, including generative AI?  

The session will cover:  

  • The growing influence of AI and enterprise response 
  • The need for augmenting cloud infrastructure for optimal performance
  • Challenges in aligning AI and cloud strategies

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The Role of Operating System Standardization in Cloud Stability and Performance

Therefore, organizations have to carefully assess these challenges and develop strategies to effectively manage multiple operating systems.  

Standardizing operating systems can simplify cloud journey by: 

  • Reducing complexity
  • Increasing security
  • Improving performance
  • Lowering costs 

Networking Break

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Decoding Cloud FinOps to Get the Most From Cloud Investments

An indirect yet important outcome of this is accelerating digital transformation beyond just cost savings.  

The session will cover: 

  • An overview of FinOps
  • Making FinOps a part of cloud adoption strategy
  • Steps involved in establishing a FinOps culture
  • Challenges of adopting FinOps

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Spotlight: Sustainability and Adoption of Cloud

Whether you’re a technology leader, sustainability advocate, or simply curious about the intersection of cloud and eco-consciousness, this session promises to inspire, inform, and shape the way we envision the digital landscape of tomorrow. In a time where technological innovation meets our collective environmental responsibility, this session serves as a pathway to delve into how cloud technology can accelerate the journey toward a more sustainable future.

The session will cover:

  • How the adoption of cloud services can lead to more eco-conscious and economically efficient practices;
  • How innovation for sustainability encompasses efficiency, AI and IoT-driven resource optimization, and cloud-enabled conservation efforts;

Importance of data security for sustainability and adoption.

Closing Remarks

Arvind Sivaramakrishnan

CIO, Karkinos Hospitals

Cdr. Praveen Kumar

CISO, Zee Entertainment

Dr. Neena Pahuja

Executive Member, National Council for Vocational Education and Training (NCVET under MSDE)

Rajeev Batra

CIO, Bennett Coleman and Co. Ltd. (Times Group)

Sharad Kumar Agarwal

CDIO, JK Tyre & Industries Ltd.

Sourabh Tiwari

Global Chief Digital and Information Officer, Forbes Marshall

Amitabh Nag

Chief Executive Officer, Digital India Bhashini Division (Bhashini)

N S Nappinai

Advocate, Supreme Court, Founder - Cyber Saathi

Cdr Sanjeev Singh

Chief Information Security & Data Protection Officer, BirlaSoft

Pradeep Rangi

CRO, Airtel Payments Bank

Abhishek Bansal

Head Non Financial Risk & Chief Information Security Officer, Max Life

Lily Prasad

CTO, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India

Kaustabh Dabral

Global CIO, Dabur

Vinod Bhat

CIO, Vistara

Arvind Sivaramakrishnan

CIO, Karkinos Hospitals

Lily Prasad

CTO, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India

Speakers

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Thought Leaders on Stage and Leading Deep Dive Discussions

ISMG Summits bring the foremost thought leaders and educators in the security space to the stage, interactive workshops and networking events. Learn from the “who’s who” in Cybersecurity passionate about the latest tools and technology to defend against threats 

Arvind Sivaramakrishnan

Chief Information Officer, Hospitals and Health Care

Vandana Verma

Global Board of Directors, OWASP® Foundation

Abhishek Sinha

Head of Data Science, Marico Limited

Devender Kumar

Chief Information Security Officer, ITC Infotech

Shashwat Singh

Chief Information Officer, boAt

Hilal Ahmad Lone

CISO, Razorpay

Pooja Bansal

Director - Information Security, Fareportal

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