Moderator:
Dr Nilay Yajnik, Professor and Chairman – Information Systems Area, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai Panelists:
K V Krishnamurthy
Head IT, Corporate Centre (Mahindra & Mahindra) SK Magoo
General Manager (Core Banking); State Bank of India Alpna Doshi
CIO, Reliance Communications Nirmalendu Jajodia
Chief of Technology & Operations, NCDEX What does it take to prepare, plan and execute some of India's toughest projects? We have an exclusive discussion where IT leaders share their unique insights in successfully executing projects that are so large and complex in scale that they have no benchmark. This panel discussion will share insights from experienced CIOs on what does it take to prepare, plan and execute some of India's toughest projects? We have handpicked some unique projects:

1. Project Harmony – the Mahindra group's ambitious effort to create a single platform for common processes across the group on SAP. The platform has close to 14000 users from across 100 different cities together on a single consolidated instance with 40 plus harmonized processes

2. World's largest core banking implementation at State Bank of India - an implementation that included the conversion of approximately 140 million accounts held at 14,600 domestic branches of SBI and its affiliate banks

3. Handling complex migration projects during acquisitions – When the Reliance group acquired Flag Telecom, Yipes Enterprise Services and the Vanco Group, it also brought in a huge list of challenges. A good part of Flag, Yipes and Vanco infrastructure needed a platform modernization as it neared end of life cycle both in terms of hardware and software. Both solution (applications) and business processes needed to be upgraded, streamlined and converged so that these companies could work in harmony with the rest of the group as well amongst themselves. It was decided to centralize and control IT from India, wherever possible. A mammoth project had to be taken up on priority. It had to happen without affecting the large international customer base. There were huge lessons to be learnt when one had to deal with multiple dimensions of nationality, languages, geography, varied hardware and system applications

4. Live Datacenter migration - A live datacenter migration is a complex project. The complexity increases further if the networks connecting the DC to its users are large (and multi-provider). Normally, shifts have to be accomplished within small time windows. In the financial sector, downtime is not an option. Also, data has to be moved: physical storage movement may be too risky, while backup restoration may be too time consuming. Ideally, the CIO would like to do a cut over i.e. create a new Data Center and do a logical switch. The CFO would like a lift and shift: use only existing equipment. The CEO would like to do it overnight, with zero possibility of disruption. Balancing these three objectives makes the project "interesting". NCDEX shifted its datacenter some time ago, managing to balance all the three objectives.

Gurvinder Ahluwalia
Chief Technology Officer, Private Cloud – West US, IBM This session will examine open interoperability for cloud and 3 patterns for cloud integration scenarios. First hand experiences with international standards / communities and with US customers deploying services in global markets will be shared. A "serious" Cloud Computing Reference Architecture – vendor and technology agnostic – will also be presented. This engineering outcome has been made publically available worldwide for free use in strategy planning, in accelerated design, or in implementation stages – by a service consumer, a service provider, or by any cloud constituent. The session will also feature a lightening round of interaction among those present in order to uncover parallels and differences of cloud adoption in India / Asia, Europe, US and other Geographies

Faraz Ahmed
CISO, Reliance Life Insurance Gain from the perspective of a CISO as he tells us how the cloud can be used in the enterprise context while complying to regulatory standards

Venkata Krishnan
Head of IT, Mahindra Vehicle Manufacturing How do you build a future ready IT plant from scratch? The Mahindra Chakan plant is a case in point, on how the entire project rollout was undertaken right from the grass root level to a full fledged manufacturing facility

Bharati Lele,
Head – Innovation Labs, L&T Infotech This session will share a real life case study of migration from SAP portal to open source JBoss portal.

Pawan Agrawal
President of Kamlabai Educational and Charitable Trust The Dabbawalas of Mumbai are globally famous for their legendary service standards and Six Sigma certification. They are known to deliver more than 2 lakh lunch boxes everyday with no errors. How does an organization with no sophisticated knowledge and usage of technology manage to create a supply chain that is the envy of global organizations? Dr Pawan Agrawal, President of Kamlabai Educational and Charitable Trust, shares some unique insights into a network that is powered by human intelligence

Ramprasad Kan
Chief Technologist, Wipro The speaker will share the experience of building and managing a private cloud, with detailed insights into the key issues and benefits realized

Janakiram MSV
Technology Evangelist, Amazon Web Services Attend this session to understand design patterns and guidelines for architecting scalable, reliable and available cloud applications. Attendees will learn about best practices for architecting cloud applications

KK Mookhey
Founder, NII Consulting What lessons can we learn from Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), and what can we do in our own organizations to protect ourselves? This session presents some solutions.

Sachin Raste
Security Research Analyst MicroWorld Software Services Attend this session to learn the attack vectors used, the vulnerabilities that were exploited and also how organizations can prevent such attacks in the future

Moderator:
Murli Menon,CISO, Atos Origin India Panelists:
Vishal Salvi
CISO, HDFC Bank Sunil Dhaka
CISO, ICICI Bank Sameer Ratolikar
CISO, Bank of India Satish Warrier
CISO, Godrej Industries Deepak Rout
CISO, Uninor Best practices on how CISOs can communicate complex security plans to largely non-technical board members. Our panelists will talk through strategies that communicate the risks and benefits of security initiatives that make the case for justifying security project expenses

Shreekanth Joshi
Associate Vice President - Cloud Services, Persistent Systems Typical approach to ROI on cloud is dominated by aspects like costs and elasticity. In this session, we will look at what lies beyond the obvious elements of cloud ROI. The presentation will cover examples of how more value can be created using the cloud and the innovation that is enabled as a result.

V M Kumar
Chief Marketing Officer, Microland IT-as-a-Service is the desired end state in the transformational journey to cloud that enterprises seek to undertake. This session will show attendees how they can draw a roadmap to cloud computing

Ravi Gururaj
VP Engineering, Data Center & Cloud Division, Citrix Managing user identity across on-premise applications and cloud-based applications is a complex task. Attend this session to understand how firms can get a single view of enterprise applications for enabling usage monitoring and tracking from a central management console

Vijay Kumar
Principal Technology Architect, Infosys Before deployment, the cloud environment needs to be tested thoroughly. This session will share details on the different testing methodologies, tools and approaches that can be carried out for cloud based applications

Moderator:
Arun O Gupta, Group CTO, Shoppers Stop Panelists:
V Subramaniam
Director-IT & CIO (India & Gulf Area), Otis Elevator Company Prasad Dhumal
Senior Director IT, South Asia, DHL Express Venkat Iyer
Sr Vice President - Information Technology at STAR India Meheriar Patel
CTO and Head – IT, Globus Vijay Sethi
Vice President-IS and CIO, Hero Motocorp Sandeep Phanasgaonkar
Reliance Financial Services, President & CTO, Reliance Capital The CIO role has evolved in the last decade with the CIO now working in step with the Management team. IT has been recognized for its contribution to the business enablement as well as providing new opportunities to engage with customers, suppliers and value created for stakeholders. New paradigms and disruptive technology innovations continue to challenge the CIO and the IT Team. As a leader the CIO has to address all tenets while keeping an eye on the future. What does the role shape up to in the coming decade ? The panel will discuss the future trends and its impact to the CIO and enterprise.

The session will be hosted at INTEROP by CIO Klub, and moderated by Arun O Gupta, Group CTO, Shoppers Stop

Future Strategist Award (FSA) winners will be felicitated in this award ceremony. FSA is an initiative from InformationWeek to identify the next CIO-in-the-making. This award is conferred on a person in an organization who is deemed most suitable for the CIO role