In the current times, most organisations are witnessing a shift in customer and market landscapes. This new environment is putting pressure on existing systems and as a result, the need for resilient, flexible and secure systems and applications to ensure operational resilience has become vital. For instance the rise in the adoption of digital banking products and solutions by customers during lockdowns has propelled financial organizations to expedite their digital transformation agendas. To match customers’ digital expectations, banks are making substantial improvements to their user experience (UX) design to offer a more seamless and intuitive customer experience.
While the need for agility and scalability continues to push companies toward cloud adoption; on ground there is a lag in the success stories of cloud adoption by companies. Many company leaders have encountered major roadblocks along their path toward cloud once they questioned its impact on costs, security, latency, and more.
The lift and shift strategy - virtualizing the application and dropping it into cloud as is - can be a faster and more cost-effective way to move many applications into cloud at once; but it fails to harness majority of the cloud’s benefits as more often than not, no change is made to the application’s architecture. On the other hand, a complete refactoring of the application and its architecture to optimize for cloud takes a lot of time, skill and money.
Exploiting cloud services and tooling, requires change across all of IT and more importantly business functions. It requires software engineering, operating-process improvement, and business innovation. This involves a complete rebirth instead of just refabrication of the cloud native infrastructure.
TechCircle is organizing Cloud - The Digital Infrastructure, a virtual summit that will bring together industry experts and torchbearers to deliberate on the future of cloud, its implementation, challenges and solutions, thus carving a roadmap for the future.
Taming the Cloud – A Perpetual Journey
Although the business value of cloud adoption seems desirable, most of the time organisations are unable to define what success means to them. Hence, setting the correct metrics to measure the effectiveness of cloud shall help determine the right cloud strategy.
By Shalil Gupta, Chief Business Officer, Mosaic Digital
Scalability and Agility – Repurposing Enterprises
A company’s ability to quickly pivot to a new way of working in a time-sensitive manner at scale will be critical for preparing for the next normal. These pivots will continue and get compounded by the shift from omni-channel to omni-consumption across verticals.
Speakers:
Rajeev Jorapur, Senior Vice President, Bajaj Auto Ltd
Abhishek Ravi, CIO, Dream Sports
Vijay Thomas, Founder & CEO, Tangentia
Moderator: Sumedha Bose, TechCircle
Embracing a Cloud First Strategy – Redefining the Right Mix of Costs, Security and Business Value
“Cloud First” does not mean “Cloud Always.” For some organizations, the long-term goal may be to move all applications out of their data centers. For others, cloud-first may mean moving a subset of applications to the public cloud. The key is to extend beyond the purview of the IT organization. It must be understood and embraced by the whole organization.
Speakers:
Daniel Hand, CTO APAC, Cloudera
Jaideep Mehta, CEO, Mosaic Digital
Rebirth of Cloud Native Applications - Adapt to Changing Market Needs
Companies of all sizes now see a strategic advantage in being able to move quickly and get ideas to market fast. The Cloud Native approach is about moving quickly by taking small, reversible and low-risk steps to support more users, in more locations, with a broader range of devices. The strategic goal is to pay for additional resources only as needed.
By Rohit Dhar, President – Products, upGrad
Taking to the Cloud – With a Click
Ganesh Thyagarajan, Vice President & Global head of Cloud Channels, Automation Anywhere
Shalil Gupta, Chief Business Officer, Mosaic Digital
By Shalil Gupta, Chief Business Officer, Mosaic Digital
Rohit, an entrepreneur himself, had co-founded Brainybatch Internet, India’s first lending platform focused on making education affordable by providing short-term. He has vast experience in managing products for leading companies like OLX, Flipkart, e-Bay, PayPal, and StubHub. He is the Head of Products at upGrad and leads the entire Product, Data Science, Analytics, and Design verticals.
Abhishek Ravi is the Chief Information Officer of Dream Sports and leads the DevOps, IT and Security for the organisation. Abhishek is responsible for bridging the gap between business and security requirements and identifying the best suited technical solutions.
Abhishek has over 19 years of experience in technology, consumer internet product development and security. He is focussed on solving real consumer problems using innovative, scalable and performance-oriented solutions. Before Dream Sports, Abhishek has worked with Inkfruit.com, Tricom India and Infosys in various technology leadership roles. As a strong believer in values, he puts a lot of effort into creating a great team culture.
Abhishek graduated from IIT Kanpur with a Bachelor of Technology. Besides the passion for technology, Abhishek is an avid cricket fan and follows the Mumbai Indians team.
Ganesh Thyagarajan is the Vice President & Global head of Cloud Channels at Automation Anywhere. Having spent over 24 years in the IT industry, Ganesh has donned various leadership positions in Technology, Global Delivery, Product Development, and Engineering to mention a few. He has also helped strategize on product roadmaps and platforms with startup’s, as well as large firms like Capillary technologies, OnMobile, Infosys, Baxter International, Arcot Inc, and has had an entrepreneurial stint as well. Prior to current role, he was the global head of Partner Success and he has helped build the partner enablement program for over 1500+ partners globally.
A techie who has been honoured by the Indo Canada Chamber of Commerce with Technogy Achivement Award. Vijay founded Tangentia, a world-leading provider of digital transformation solutions and has a dedicated team of over 150+ professionals, with offices across USA, Canada and India. A father of two and speaks over 5 Indian Languages.
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.
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