Powered by Ctrls Datacentres, the event witnessed who’s who of Ahmedabad CIO fraternity
The largest CIO event series of 2018 – Enterprise IT World 7 City CIO Dinner and Discourse powered by CtrlS Datacenters wrapped up its Ahmedabad event on 6th of April, 2018. Attended by 60 plus CIOs and IT Leaders from various vertical industries, the event witnessed involvement of the CIOs actively in the powerful topic of “transforming role and road ahead”.
This event happened, after the successful engagement of over 200 IT leaders in New Delhi, Bengaluru and Kolkata. The venue was Courtyard by Marriott, one of the luxurious hotels in Ahmedabad. The event continued the momentum from the previous three engagements in March as veteran IT leaders took part in a Panel Discussion on the role transformation for current CIOs in the new technology landscape and the road ahead for emerging leaders of tomorrow.
The discussion at the Ahmedabad event was moderated by veteran IT leader Sandip Shah, Sr. Advisor, Deloitte who has previously been at the helm of IT leadership as CIO, MEGA, GSPC and GIPL. Among the panelists were Ashok Kannan, VP-IT, Sintex Industries; Vishad Rahangdale, CIO, Electrotherm India; Paresh Goswami, GM-IT, Chiripal Group and Jayesh Tank, General Manager IT at Harsha Engineers. The panel discussion was followed up by the open forum where CIOs and IT leaders from the audience took part in the discussion, gave their view points and raised questions.
The event also saw an informative presentation by sponsor CtrlS Datacenters. Sanjay Mohapatra, Group Editor, Accent Infomedia and Enterprise IT World made a keynote address pondering on the idea behind these events and also announced the CIO500 Mega Tech Summit and Awards event, locally unveiling the CIO500 logo with Senior CIOs from the area.
The Seven City CIO Dinner and Discussion events are conceptualized to give enterprise IT leaders an open platform to come and express their views among peers, gain insights and gather actionable experience to add to the value of their organizations. The event series which is India’s first CIO Open Forum of its kind will stretch to four more cities in the month of April. The next city on the roadmap is Mumbai which hosts the event on the 13th of April at the JW Marriott, Juhu followed by Chennai on 19th before wrapping up with this year’s initiative at Pune on the 26th of April 2018. The events across seven cities are conceptualized and hosted by India’s leading CIO publication Enterprise IT World and are powered by India’s largest Tier4 Datacenter organization CtrlS Datacenters.
