What comes to mind when you hear the word ‘automation’? Some might see automation as an opportunity to improve productivity, time management, and speed up innovation. Others might raise concerns about the disappearance of jobs and the future of employment. Public opinion, and that of experts and practitioners, has no doubt been influenced by decades of science fiction. Will it take centuries for our society to reach the kinds of automation explored in science fiction? Or are we a closer to a machine takeover than we might think? Above all, what impact will automation have on us, our lives, and work experiences? TechCircle along with industry leaders shall deliberate upon the many myths surrounding automation and thus hindering its adoption across the board. Future of Automation is scheduled in May 2021 and will be hosted on a 3-D Virtual Platform.
By Jaideep Mehta, CEO, Mosaic Digital & Head - Mint
By Sumeet Pathak, Digital Workforce Evangelist – IMEA, Automation Anywhere
Overall the technology of automation has matured over the years, however the main change in the last decade is the scale in which automation is applied. The scale of robotics has exploded and continues to grow, applications are being created on a daily basis for all types of industries and environments. Globally, almost half the activities employees perform—which account for nearly USD 16 trillion in wages—could potentially be automated using existing proven technologies.
By Shalil Gupta, CBO, Mosaic Digital
Automation is already on the verge of becoming a crucial lever for intensifying operational productivity and industrial enterprises have already taken notice. As conventional automation systems such as the PLC, DCS and SCADA begin to get embedded with AI, a new wave of digitalization is beginning to shape the future of intelligent industrial automation. AI empowers machines to perform tasks that were traditionally achievable by human intelligence.
Speakers:
Sourabh Chatterjee, President, Head - Technology, Digital Sales, Travel, Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Ltd.
RaviKiran San Avvaru, Head - IT (Asia-pacific, Middle East & Africa), Apollo Tyres Ltd.
Sumeet Pathak, Digital Workforce Evangelist – IMEA, Automation Anywhere
Moderator: Hetal Shah, Director, Deloitte
Prioritizing automation has become more important than ever before for organisational success. Further successful organizations continue to focus on employees as much as technology and have instituted new ways of doing so in which employees work alongside the new technologies. Finally, rethinking operating models, including how different functions work together, has emerged as a new imperative.
Speakers:
Dr. Aloknath De, Corporate VP & CTO, Samsung R&D Institute India
Vikas Sawhney, Vice President & GM (Engineering and Robotics), Bajaj Auto
Vishal Chahal, Director, Automation & AP Cloud Pak Lab, IBM Software Labs
Moderator: Jaideep Mehta, CEO, Mosaic Digital & Head – Mint
The healthcare industry is in the middle of a multidecade shift attributable to multiple forces, including technology, national and state regulatory changes, and consumer-centric trends. Automation has the potential to reshape the industry, but many players are only beginning to capitalize on the opportunity. The success of these efforts is dependent on the ability to scale and coordinate automation activities across the enterprise.
Shalil Gupta, CBO, Mosaic Digital in conversation with Arvind Sivaramakrishnan, Chief Information Officer, Apollo Hospitals
How AI and ML are breathing new life to the contract lifecycle
By Dr. Akhil Prasad, Director, Country Counsel India & Company Secretary, Boeing India Private Limited
Industry 4.0—which includes connectivity, advanced analytics, automation, and advanced-manufacturing technologies has been gaining momentum before COVID-19, helping companies transform their operations in everything from production efficiency to product customization, with improvements in speed to market, service effectiveness, and new-business model creation. Manufacturing today is being driven by the need to cater to increasing individualisation and to variant diversity of products. Companies have now realised the potential of deploying automation solutions beyond the four walls of a manufacturing plant, reaching across the end-to-end value chain to address planning challenges, operational challenges, and delivery challenges.
Speakers:
Amaresh Chakrabarti, Senior Professor and Chairman, Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing (CPDM), Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Sanjay Singal, Chief Operating Officer - Dairy & Beverages, ITC Limited
Krishna Bhojkar, Head Production Planning, Skoda Auto Volkswagen India Private Ltd.
Moderator: Gustaf Ericson, Senior Manager, Bain & Company
Operations functions—including procurement, supply chain, and manufacturing—are at the forefront of managing the challenges and finding new ways of working in light of global trends and disruptions. These functions were built for an earlier era, when change was more gradual, disruptions were less frequent, and customer expectations were lower. Today, companies need greater transparency into demand, supply chains, and production capabilities, so that they can respond proactively or in real time to rapidly changing conditions. To achieve their goals for cost efficiency and resilience they are having to reimagine their future capabilities. They are shouldering the dual responsibility of saving both lives and livelihoods. This is where Automation is most instrumental.
Sumedha Bose, Senior Manager - Research & Solutions, Mosaic Digital in conversation with Kalyan Madala, CTO - Technical Sales Leader IBM Technology Sales Asean, IBM Global Markets - Cloud Platform Sales
Even as AI and automation bring benefits to business and society, we will need to prepare for major disruptions to work. Organisations would have to prepare for jobs lost, jobs gained, and the jobs changed. A more capable workforce creates more resilient companies. A new kind of capability building that works in today’s virtual environments and focuses not simply on learning but also on achieving the behavioural change coupled with higher productivity gains. This ushers in the era of Digital workforce. Almost 50% of all the work employees do can now be automated enabling them to focus on more strategic activities. With the help of RPA, AI, and machine learning creating digital assistance helps in augmenting the human efforts manifolds. It also expedites the pace of digital transformation across the organisation.
By Amit Sharma, Vice President & Head of HR - India, Volvo Group
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
Vikas Sawhney is a mechanical engineering graduate & MBA with over 30 years of dynamic career in Automotive sector with extensive exposure in greenfield projects, rich experience in Manufacturing engineering, Project management, Operations and Robotics.
Currently working as Vice President -Engineering with Bajaj Auto Limited, heading the Robotics and Automations there along with other departments. Holds a rich experience in all facets of 2 wheeler industry with in-depth technical knowledge in most of the automotive processes like metal cutting, fabrication, welding, engine & vehicle assembly, painting and Robotic applications.
He has been recognised as a visionary in the field of robotics, being the forerunner in deploying collaborative robots in India, and holds many worldwide patents in field of robotic applications and other automotive related processes.
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.
Sourabh Chatterjee is Head of IT, Web Sales and Travel at Bajaj Allianz General Insurance. A passionate digital enthusiast, he is responsible for digital strategy and delivering innovative solutions for the company. He also handles Web Sales and oversees travel channel for the company.
His ideology is to create, implement, secure and deliver better and faster solutions. Some of his fields of expertise include e-commerce, technology innovations, enterprise portals, social media analytics, mobile applications, IT strategy and planning. Sourabh has around 20 years of IT expertise with a successful track record in creating business value through innovative use of technology in the life and general insurance space in the US and India.
Prior to joining Bajaj Allianz in 2015, Sourabh worked with ICICI Lombard as Vice President – Application development for over 4 years. Before that, Sourabh played multiple leadership roles across delivery, consulting and sales in the US geography for Infosys Technologies from 1999 to 2011.
Sourabh is an Electrical Engineer and is an MBA from INSEAD.
Besides work, Sourabh loves reading fiction, travelling and spending time with his 12 year old son.
Arvind Sivaramakrishnan is the CIO of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd, India and is based out Chennai, India. He is responsible for the IT strategy and implementation across the Apollo Hospitals group. Arvind has extensive experience in management consulting, architecting, and building solutions for enterprise wide applications. He also leads the digital transformation initiatives at the Apollo Hospitals Groups.
He has led Apollo Hospitals in achieving the prestigious HIMSS Level 6 Health care IT maturity model certification in 2013 which is a rare maturity level attained in Asia Pacific Arvind has lead the Apollo team to be recognized with the HiMSS- Elsevier award (2013 , 2016, 2018) for outstanding use of IT in patient care delivery in Asia Pacific. Under his leadership, Apollo Hospitals was awarded the Microsoft Health Innovation award in 2016 for the use of effective big data analytics using Microsoft solution in Infection control surveillance in health systems.
His experience in the domain of health care IT has spanned geographies across the world. Prior to his current assignment, Arvind was with the Healthcare Practice of Computer Sciences Corporation, in Michigan USA.
Arvind holds the credentials of CHCIO certified by the College of Health Information Executives, USA as a Healthcare CIO. He currently serves as the Secretary of CHiME’s India chapter and is a member of the board of CHiME in India. He has been inducted into the CIO Hall of fame by the prestigious CIO.in magazine. In 2019, he was felicitated by CIO&Leader for Exemplary Leadership , Professional excellence and Community contribution.
Apart from ICT solutions in the Healthcare domain, Arvind has keen interest in IT solutions that aid Quality and Service excellence in service industries.
Arvind lives in Chennai with his family and is a very keen Carnatic music enthusiast.
Sanjay Singal is the Chief Operating Officer for ITC’s Dairy & Beverages business. In this role, he handles the P&L for the business encompassing all aspects including R&D, Manufacturing, Marketing, Sales and Operations. Prior to that, he was Head of Marketing for the Foods business of Dabur India Limited handling brands like Real Fruit Juices. In a career spanning nearly 25 years, he has handled senior P&L responsibilities and Functional leadership in Marketing and Sales for Personal Care and Foods businesses in India and abroad.
Sanjay started his career with Hindustan Unilever Limited in 1995, after completing his MBA from IIM Bangalore. At Unilever. he handled various responsibilities across Sales & Marketing for over 11 years in India and overseas on brands like Fair & Lovely and Dove with Asia responsibilities. Post that, he joined Yum Restaurants International as Senior Marketing Manager where he handled the 'Pizza Hut' brand for South Asia from 2005 to 2007.
Sanjay is associated actively with various Industry associations like Indian Beverage Association and Indian Dairy Association.
At ITC, Sanjay has led the entry of ITC into Dairy category with the launch of Fresh Dairy and Dairy Beverage businesses. He is also a member of the Divisional Management Committee of ITC Foods.
He is based in Bangalore. His wife is an artist and homemaker, his Son is pursuing Undergrad course in US and daughter is in school.
An ardent engineering and management professional with 24 years of experience in automotive, 2 years in manufacturing and 2 years in agriculture and sourcing. Rich experience in Projects, Life cycle management of products and plants, having completed 2 greenfield, 2 brownfield, 1 capacity enhancement and several products launches and Factory Digitization.
Currently working as Head Production Planning Vertical, with responsibility for Domains like Body, Paint, Car Assembly, Engine Assembly & Machining, Plant Engineering, Digitization and Industry 4.0, Controlling and Project Management.
Deeply involved in building Plant Strategy, developing Future Factory & Digitization roadmap, Strategic inputs for upcoming Products for Indian Plant. Significant contributions for rolling out new initiatives like Innovation, Capital invest reduction & technology localization, Technology and Supplier day etc. Implemented digitization in planning department. Under his leadership Indian plant won 2 Innovation awards at Volkswagen Brand level, team India received recognition for frugal innovations. Initiated and developed digital planning team for Volkswagen Group in India. Lead the implementation of largest roof top Solar in Indian Automotive sector.
Passionate about Developing and mentoring people, created the Learning Team concept and established Knowledge sharing through the teams.
Has lead many improvement initiatives in area of Quality, Product Development, Innovation Awards and Idea Management. Enabled and lead entire production team in merger (between Skoda and Volkswagen).
Sumeet Pathak is an IT professional with in depth experience in Banking and Finance vertical. He has more than 18 years of experience in top tier regional and global banking institutions. An early adopter and now avowed evangelist of Software Automation, Sumeet has been at forefront of Automation strategy and execution in finance industry. Sumeet has built Automation CoE from scratch and led automation for global banks.
Architect with broad experience in all aspects of software development life cycle and specializing in the Architecture domain. Direct experience with financial sector, SOA, frameworks, consulting and grid/cloud computing. Interested in software development optimization, Business-IT Alignment and cost optimization.
Specialties: IT Consulting, Service Oriented Architecture, Integration Architecture, Building Frameworks, Financial Sector Solutions, Software Development Optimization, Architecture Definition and Development, Software Architecture and Design Patterns.
Sumedha is the Product Lead of Sales Edge, India’s only Growth Acceleration Platform. She is also responsible for c-suite research programs such as CFO research, CEO Research, and other CXO research conducted to understand the technology landscape of India. She is well established as a sought-out advisor to many industry technology provider leaders across multiple functions such as marketing, sales and product solution development helping them understand the nuances and deal with the dynamism of the market at large.
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