We are proud to announce the highly awaited Business Transformation: A Digital Event by Poly & TechCircle.
Business environment is changing faster than ever and leaders need to transform their businesses to maintain a competitive advantage. They go beyond thinking about deployment of the latest technology, or just seeking rapid scale-ups. They are rethinking & adjusting the role of operational excellence to prepare for the future, and are evolving a new set of business models that are ‘born in’ and ‘made for’ digital, to enable accelerated growth.
A unique platform that brings together some of India’s most brilliant minds to cohesively drive a singular agenda of scripting business transformation leveraging the building blocks of technology.
Key Topics of Discussion
Jaideep Mehta, CEO, Mosaic Digital
Chris Thorson, Sr. Director Solutions Marketing, Poly
COVID 19 - The Great Unfreezing
The COVID-19 pandemic has already had a far-reaching impact on the behaviour of customers, employees and partners. Words like distancing, global, health, tracking, etc. have now acquired a new meaning. There is an immediate need for four different playbooks; customers, employees and partners are part of this great unfreezing with technology at the core.
By Shalil Gupta, Chief Business Officer, Mosaic Digital
COVID-19 - Why Technology Playbook is at the core?
In the short-term, some existing digital transformation projects – like large-scale initiatives are likely slow down, while smaller changes that can improve efficiency and business continuity will speed up.
It’s only natural that overarching strategies are going to shift as a result of COVID-19. Businesses are now in survival mode. They know that it’s going to be hard to navigate the economic challenges which lie ahead and will want to press pause on expensive, riskier innovation and instead focus on technology, which will increase productivity, deliver a competitive edge and help drive the business.
Shalil Gupta, Chief Business Officer, Mosaic Digital
Chris Thorson, Sr. Director Solutions Marketing, Poly
Reimagining the strategy
Pre COVID-19, there was a common consensus amongst most of the leaders that going “PHYGITAL” was the main strategy, wherein the existing physical infrastructure should complement some aspects of digital. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted business dynamics across all sectors, and the only way ahead as a strategy is to go “DIGICAL”, wherein the strategy will be mostly digital with some parts of physical enabling the same.
Speakers:
Chris Thorson, Sr. Director Solutions Marketing, Poly
Ravinder Pal Singh, Chief Information and Innovation Officer, TATA SIA Airlines Limited
Amitabh Khanna, Head Customer Delivery South Asia, Mastercard
Moderator:
Jaideep Mehta, CEO, Mosaic Digital
COVID-19 - A boon or a bane? Depends upon the side of the coin that you are looking at.
The future is changing drastically and one of the most critical leadership questions is to identify these megatrends of the future and dive deep to get your organisation future-ready.
Speakers:
Eric Vas, President, Bajaj Auto Ltd
COVID - 19 - Journey from Crisis Response to Reimagine new organisation
The recent scenario calls for a new lens to look at enterprise crisis programs, crisis readiness, effective communication to stakeholders, recovery programs, and implementation of strategy from a business and technology prospective.
Speakers:
Annie Mathew, CIO, Mother Dairy
Sachin Gupta, President & Chief Information, Innovation & Digitization Officer, Usha International
Prachur Sah, Director New Ventures, Vedanta Ltd. Oil & Gas Division
Moderator:
Vignesh Ananthraj, Principal Correspondent, Mosaic Digital
Competency Playbook - The Evolving Role of HR
Human Resources play a vital role in any organisation and in times of an economic crisis like the one we’re facing today; the role demands transformation. The role of HR needs to be redefined. Apart from Recruitment and Appraisals, HR has to devise New Working Models, Upskilling/Reskilling Platforms, Performance-Centric Compensation Restructuring, Cost Optimization Methodologies etc.
This Competency Playbook will showcase what new ideologies, models, techniques & technological support have to be incorporated to keep the morale of existing & potential employees up while addressing the organisation’s business interests. It will also throw light upon the traditional principles that need to undergo transformation for the HR to be able to play a decisive role in the long-term survival of the business.
Speakers:
Hari TN, Head HR & Strategic Advisor, Big Basket and The Fundamentum Partnership
Girish Menon, Head HR, Swiggy
Moderator:
Shalil Gupta, Chief Business Officer, Mosaic Digital
Chris Thorson is the Sr. Director of Solutions Marketing for Poly’s $2B enterprise group and personal systems portfolio. Chris has over 25 years of experience in the communications industry with extensive knowledge in the Voice, Video, Data, Cloud and Wireless segments. While at Poly, he has held various positions responsible for product marketing, product management, alliances, competitive, operations, strategy and channel marketing.
Prior to joining Poly, he served as the Director of Marketing at Expanets, a national integrator of communications equipment and Netigy, a network infrastructure consulting practice. He began his career at Nortel where he held various product marketing and ecommerce roles.
Thorson has an MBA from Santa Clara University in Finance and International Business as well as a bachelor’s degree from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo in Marketing Management.
Eric Vas is an alumni of the College of Engineering Pune, and the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.
Mr. Vas started his career as an officer of the Tata Administrative Service (TAS) and spent 18 years with the Tata Group. From 1999 Mr. Vas has been associated with the automobile industry when he joined Tata Motors Ltd. Mr. Vas currently works at Bajaj Auto Ltd. where he has, over the past 11 years, held various leadership roles. Presently, Mr. Vas leads the Urbanite Business (electric Chetak) of Bajaj Auto Ltd.
Annie John Mathew is the CIO of Mother Dairy Fruit & Vegetable Pvt. Ltd. Over a career spanning more than 25 years, she has experience in diverse domains through having worked in organizations like NOCIL – a Shell-Mafatlal company (India), Bharat Shell(India), Datacom Systems(NZ), Fonterra(NZ) and Xenacom(NZ). While she has primarily worked on technology enablement from within the business environment, she has also been part of technology companies. She is working on leveraging the digital mindset currently prevalent to digitalize the supply chain and internal processes. She is passionate about utilizing technology to create market differentiation and enhance consumer engagement.
Education profile: B.Tech (Chemical engg) from LIT, Nagpur, PGDST from CDAC, (erstwhile NCST), Juhu, Mumbai.
Innovative thinker, bringing in rare level business acumen developed in 24 years of career across financial services & Information Technology. Track record of increasing bottom line with spearheading product development & management, driving operational excellence through automation & system improvement. Achievements in dynamic & demanding business environment through pragmatic and positive approach.
Heading Customer Delivery for Mastercard, South Asia` revolutionizing business operations with key focus on New Customers, Technical integrations & customer engagement for seamless implementation and service delivery of Mastercard products and services.
Worked with well-known companies namely Reliance India Limited, NOKIA, ABN AMRO Bank, Convergys India Services and GE Capital International Services.
Currently- Director New Ventures at Cairn Oil & Gas (part of Vedanta Group) since August 2018 and is responsible for unlocking value through the 51 Blocks that Vedanta have acquired in the OALP regime. Prior to Cairn was spend around 19 years with Schlumberger working in different across geographies including Houston, Brazil, France, UAE and India. At Schlumberger did various roles in Operations, Line Management, HR, Marketing and Transformation.
Last role in Schlumberger was Managing Director for India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
Mr. Sah has completed M.Sc. in Oil & Gas Management from Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh and B.Tech in Electrical and Electronics from IIT- Bombay.
Hari is a senior seasoned HR Leader whose career could be broadly divided into two chunks:
The first 14 years were spent with Tata Steel. Of this the first 11 years were spent as a mechanical engineer on the shop floor, in procurement, and in corporate planning. The next three years were in HR helping restructure the company to cope with post-liberalization challenges where CIS countries were dumping steel at below our cost prices.
The next 18 odd years were with a string (5 of them) of agile and high-growth start-ups. The first four saw successful exits (Daksh was acquired by IBM, listed Virtusa on NASDAQ, Amba Research was acquired by Moody’s and TaxiForSure was acquired by Ola). In each of these startups, he played a key role in shaping their growth and exit.
In addition, during the last 5 years, he has been an advisor and sounding board to numerous young entrepreneurs and startups. He has straddled the entire start-up ecosystem (mentor at accelerators like Techstars, Silicon Road and NUMA; he is an advisor to an early stage VC fund as well as a late stage VC fund set up by Nandan Nilekani and Sanjeev Aggarwal).
He has studied at IIT & IIM and worked at an executive level with multiple start-ups/scale-ups. His strength and passion are in scaling organizations through clear thinking and relentless execution. Because of his education and aptitude, he has good understanding of a wide range of topics that matter for any business.
LinkedIn had identified him as the one of the Top Voices in India for three years in a row (2016, 2017, and 2018). He has written and shared learnings extensively on various platforms and has authored 3 books in the last three years. The fourth one is slated to be published by Penguin in August. His recently Co-authored books are
a) Cut the Crap and Jargon – Lessons from the Startup Trenches
b) Cutting the Gordian Knot – India’s Quest for Prosperity
c) Saying No to Jugaad – The Making of Bigbasket.
d) The fourth one slated for publication in August is, “From Pony to a Sustainable Unicorn”
Girish Menon is the HR head at Swiggy, India’s largest food ordering and delivery platform. With over 15 years of HR experience across the BFSI sector(Citigroup,Temasek&HSBC), retail and e-commerce startups(Flipkart), he is responsible for aligning people practices to drive profitability and growth at Swiggy.
Prior to Swiggy, Girish was with Flipkart where he led HR for the First Mile vertical of Supply Chain, designing and executing business goals through people practices. His expertise lies in setting up HR processes for scale in start-ups, managing stakeholders in matrix organizations, driving key people practices, and Organizational Development interventions across multiple locations and cross section of employees with a hands-on understanding of employment laws.
Girish holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and Law, and PGDBM in Human Resources from Xavier’s Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship and is an Executive coach from Neuroleadership Institute.
Jaideep joined the company in October 2017 to set the company on a new, accelerated growth path. He is an advisor to CEOs and business leaders of investment and tech ecosystem. From macro-economic trends to technology disruptions, and market and industry analysis, he has blogged, written and presented on a wide range of topics.
Prior to his current role, he was Managing Director - IDC India and South Asia. Under his leadership, IDC India was conferred the CIO Choice Award for “IT Advisor of the Year” three years consecutively in 2014, 2015 & 2016. Jaideep has been awarded the “Patrick J McGovern IDC Entrepreneur of the Year 2015” for consistent excellence in leading the South Asia team to success and “Leadership Award for Contribution to Market Research” by the World Marketing Congress in 2014.
Before IDC, he was based in London, UK and worked at Gartner for over 5 years where he was Regional VP, Sales & Business Development – EMEA and prior to that, he spent more than 2 and a half years in the Indian outsourcing sector, most notably at Zensar Technologies where he spearheaded the set up to their Financial Services practice in Europe. During the late nineties, he was in the software sector.
Jaideep is a graduate from the Shriram College of Commerce, Delhi University and holds an MBA degree from the Manchester Business School, UK. He enjoys reading, the occasional game of tennis and driving to remote parts of India.
Shalil is responsible for research, events and training business that assists clients in improving their capabilities in key process areas. Before this, Shalil was ‘AVP, Research and Consulting’ at IDC India. He has an extensive senior level experience in the ICT industry that enriches his strategic engagements with companies. A much-sought-after speaker at international forums, Shalil also invests his time in leading innumerable focused group discussions in India. With his specialization in the BFSI sector, he covers an array of topics including emerging technologies, digital enterprises, industries and IT sourcing and servicing in his speaking engagements.
Shalil's role extends beyond delivering qualitative research content, and includes preparing forward-looking assessment and analysis and sharing market insights and predictions with senior management teams. He has worked in India, London, Edinburgh, Ireland, Western Europe, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and Taiwan. During his time in these organizations, he has driven the development of enterprise level technology strategies, managed large transformation and IT programs, and played a leading role in a post-merger IT integration of two banks in the United Kingdom.
A graduate of Computer Science, Shalil holds a postgraduate (MBA) degree from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), a leading business school in India.
With over 23 years of experience across the BFSI IT, Anup is business focussed and result oriented banking technology professional. He has rich techno-commercial experience – an excellent grasp of technology and commercial backed by vendor management skills. He has diverse experience with emphasis on key Leadership, Innovation in Digital Banking, Financials, Service Delivery, Portfolio & Program Management, Risk & Controls, Vendor Management and Waste Cutting.
At YES Bank, Anup leads the mission critical role of spearheading Technology Replatforming & Digital Innovation. His primary focus is to bring future technology into YES BANK’s current technology stack. As Chief Information Officer, he drives innovation and developing an IT strategy in accordance with the Business Strategy of the Bank to provide edge to his business in market. Innovative Technology forms one of the critical differentiating pillars at YES Bank in transforming the bank into finest LARGE Bank by 2020.
Mr. Sethi is the Chief Information Officer, Head Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Head Human Resources at Hero MotoCorp Ltd. – World’s largest two wheeler manufacturing company. He also leads innovation efforts in the company. He also serves as a Board Member of M/s HMC MM Auto Ltd. (A joint venture of Hero MotoCorp and M/s Magneti Marelli of Italy).
Rated as India’s Best CIO, he has won several prestigious recognitions including CIO of the year, CIO Hall of Fame, Super League CIO, Champion CIO, Global CIO, Global CIO Hall of fame, Most Influential CIO,Innovative CIO, Most Respected CIO, India’s Best IT Manager, Eminent CIO of India and many others. Mr. Sethi has also featured in the CIO Power List for 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.
Priyanka Dutt is the India Country Director for BBC Media Action, the BBC’s international NGO that uses the power of media and communication to inform, empower and connect people around the world. With two decades of experience in media and communications across both private and development sectors, Priyanka specializes in communication for social impact. She has worked on a range of media platforms and formats, including television, radio, mobile, and outreach. Her work has won several Indian and international awards including a GSMA Global Mobile Award, a Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Award, a Global Health award and a Vodafone Mobile for Good award, among others. She holds a Master’s degree in Film and Television Studies from the University of Warwick, UK.
Rob Sloan is the Research Director at the Wall Street Journal Pro. He has made a career of specializing in IT security, focused on directing, investigating and protecting against cyber-intrusions, especially state-sponsored attacks. Mr. Sloan writes analysis for the WSJ Pro Cybersecurity newsletter tailored for executives in big and small companies and regularly contributes his research and executive analysis to studies and reports.
Previously Mr. Sloan was Response Director at an IR consultancy in London and started his career with the UK government looking at some of the earliest targeted attacks against critical networks. He is especially interested in the requirements, motivations and capabilities of threat actors.
Vineet Agarwal is the Managing Director of Transport Corporation of India Ltd. (www.tcil.com). He is a graduate from Carnegie Mellon University, USA and completed the Owner President Management program from Harvard Business School.
Vineet currently serves as the Vice President of ASSOCHAM, a leading chamber of commerce in India. He is also the founding National President of the Young Leaders Council (ylc.aima.in) at the All India Management Association and has been a Council member for several years. He served as a director on Young President Organization’s (YPO) international board and was previously a member of the Global Agenda Council at the World Economic Forum, board member of the HBS Club of India and at many other institutions.
Priyanka Dutt is the India Country Director for BBC Media Action, the BBC’s international NGO that uses the power of media and communication to inform, empower and connect people around the world. With two decades of experience in media and communications across both private and development sectors, Priyanka specializes in communication for social impact. She has worked on a range of media platforms and formats, including television, radio, mobile, and outreach. Her work has won several Indian and international awards including a GSMA Global Mobile Award, a Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Award, a Global Health award and a Vodafone Mobile for Good award, among others. She holds a Master’s degree in Film and Television Studies from the University of Warwick, UK.
Ms Meenakshi Vajpai has more than 25 years of experience in IT strategy, architecture, core telecom and enterprise IT operations. She has envisioned and led various organisations from diverse sectors in their efforts of organizational transformation through the use of technology spanning internal functions, customer experience as well as innovation for revenue.
She has held a number of senior management positions across industries wherein she has driven strategy and execution of new business initiatives. Her initiatives have won her several awards, including CIO 100, Digital transformation Icon and at international forums.
At Vodafone Idea, Meenakshi leads IT strategy and policies across all businesses and partners.
Alok is the quintessential IIT-IIM alumni as comfortable with Technology as with Marketing. As a Chief Marketing Officer, he has accelerated transformation in the approach to building brands using digital. He was recognized (by IAMAI) as the "Digital Marketer Of The Year". Now with Orientbell he continues using VR & digital to drive dramatic transformation in the Tile industry.
He has succeeded in demonstrating value from digital and aligning stakeholders in not the usual “tech savvy” industries.
Ravinder Pal Singh (Ravi) is an Award Winning Technologist, Rescue Pilot and Investor with over 50+ global recognition and 17 Patents. His body of work, mostly 1st in the world are making a difference within acute constraints of culture and cash via commodity technology. He has been acknowledged as world's top 25 CIO and top 10 Robotics Designer in 2018.
Ravi is a global speaker and has delivered over 100+ lectures and papers in Asia, Europe, USA and Africa in 2018-19. Ravi is advisor to board of 9 enterprises where incubation and differentiation is a core necessity and challenge. He sits on the advisory council of 3 global research firms where he contributes in predicting practical future automation use cases and respective technologies.
Sidharth Balakrishna holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta and an Economics degree from the Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC), Delhi University. He has over 14 years of experience in the media & entertainment, artificial intelligence, energy, infrastructure and education sectors.
He is currently an Executive (whole time) Board Director and Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer at the Essel (Zee) Group and is leading several strategic initiatives in digital transformation, Artificial Intelligence, etc. In the past, he has led strategy and headed many large projects including in the fields of oil & gas, renewable energy, education, water, etc. Mr. Sidharth Balakrishna has also been a Strategy Consultant with Accenture and KPMG. Some of the projects that he has led have been awarded nationally and internationally.
He is a mentor to startups with MIT, Boston, USA as well as MassChallenge Boston & Tel Aviv, Israel.
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