A major milestone in the Indian IT Industry, ChangeAgents (CIO200 ) Summit & Awards hosted India’s top IT Leaders in a premium CIO Summit spread over 2 days.
With a convergence of over 200 of the top IT leaders from Enterprises pan India, the CIO200 Summit & Awards successfully lace on the 30th of November 2018 at the Le Meridien Hotel in India’s burgeoning IT Hub of Gurugram. Spread over 2 Days the Summit’s agenda included Knowledge Sessions, CIO Recognition, Vendor Engagement and Exhibition on Day 1 followed by a CIO Retreat featuring recreational games of Cricket and Golf on Day 2.
The Summit was inaugurated by Hon’ble Minister of Commerce and Industry Shri Suresh Prabhu, who addressed the gathering of top notch CIOs from India’s leading private and public sector enterprises through a video message. Tailored with a specific focus on building up CIO knowledge and insight contribution, the Agenda consisted of Panel Discussions and Tech Talks on various topics from the CIO and Vendor community. The event was sponsored by leading organizations including CtrlS Datacenters, InstaSafe Technologies, Sophos, Tata Tele Business Services, Digisol, Progression, Finesse, Atempo and MyChatri.
Welcoming the guests, Sanjay Mohapatra, Chief Editor, SME Channels & Enterprise IT World said, “The effort has been to create a platform where senior CIOs can pass on their experience to the budding CIOs, which is the need of the hour; because technology is changing at a very rapid pace one has to unlearn many things to learn new things. If India is growing at 7% plus GDP and trying to become third largest economy, CIOs have strong role in making that happen, because IT is going to drive every organization.”
Sanjib Mohapatra, Publisher, Accent Info Media Publications, added, “This event has become a landmark in the history of India as far as CIOs congregation is concerned. I thank all the stakeholders who have made it possible by putting in tireless efforts for last many months. I also thank the partners of the event, without whose support the event wouldn’t have been such a huge success. I commit to make 2019 ChangeAgents200 even better and bigger.”
The ChangeAgents200 Summit featured a power packed speaker line up of leading Enterprise IT Think Tanks ranging from CIOs, CTOs and Innovation Heads including Vipul Anand, Sr. VP IT, Hindware; Dr. JS Sodhi, CIO & VP, Amity Education Group; Sandip Shah, Senior Advisor, Deloitte; Vivek Khare, Director IT & OT, GSN Games; Sanjay Mishra, CIO, L&T Construction; Pankaj Mittal, CIO, 5AM Ventures; Arun Goyal, President and CIO, HCG Enterprise; Vikas Gupta, CIO and Head IT at H Energy; Mukesh Mehta, CTO, B&K Securities; Rajesh Pandita, India Region Head – Group Processes & IT, thyssenkrupp; Kumar Prasoon, Group CIO, Al Safeer Group; RK Shastri, AVP IT, State Bank of India; Ravinder Arora, CISO, IRIS Software; Meheriar Patel, Group CIO, Jeena & Company; B S Rao, VP Marketing, CtrlS Datacenters; Hemant Mathur, Product Head IoT & Platforms, Tata Tele Business Services; Sunil Sharma, MD Sales, Sophos; and Rajat Sahu, VP, Marketing and Alliances, InstaSafe. The topics included ‘Bringing Value to Technology Transformation’, ‘Cybersecurity Today and Future Approaches’, ‘Synchronized Security’; ‘Safeguarding your Digital Transformation’; and ‘Reinventing the role of CIOs’.
The highlight of the evening, the ChangeAgents 2018 Awards recognized the work of leading CIOs from across sectors for Excellence in tech deployment. The categories included Icons of the Industry 2018; Banking and Finance, Healthcare, Energy and Resources, Manufacturing; Retail; Government Services, Real Estate and Infrastructure, Education, Media and Entertainment, IT/ITES, FMCG and Logistics.
Day 2 of the Summit, officially named the ‘ChangeAgents CIO Retreat’ was a casual day out for Award Winners at the lush green Karma Lakelands Luxury Golf Resort in Gurugram. The day featured events like CIO Box Cricket, CIO 9 Hole Golf Tournament and Golf Clinic where over 100 Award winning CIOs took part in playing and learning the games. The event saw a closing address by Sanjib Mohapatra, Publisher, Enterprise IT World and JB Hooda, Managing Director, Progression followed by an informal awards ceremony and local and airport departures for the CIOs.
With over 200 IT Leaders in attendance from organizations well known in Indian market, the Summit gave an unprecedented chance to connect with who’s who of CIO community and build links for future partnerships, and explore latest enterprise innovations with an aim to enable revolutionary tech deployments and ingenious approaches to digital transformations of Indian businesses.
