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Bangalore Cloud & Datacenter Convention 2022

December 3, 2021

By South Asia Team

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Thurs, 14th July 2022, Sheraton Grand Bangalore Hotel
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Data centres are turning out to be the new reservoirs of the states. Policy measures, a growing client base, and expanding corporate data storage requirements are all propelling India to become the “next destination” for data centres. DC operators should expect a surge in demand for data centre space as digital consumption habits such as online gaming, online education, streaming, e-commerce, and total internet hits expand. As the customer base for data consumption in these many industries grows, the need for new data centres grows as well. In the coming years, technology and automation will play a crucial role in the growing demand for DCS.

Bangalore is renowned as India’s Silicon Valley, with an estimated GDP of more than US$110 billion. One-third of India’s IT exports come from the city, and its IT and data centre infrastructure is secure, intelligent, and scalable. Bangalore is a developed and prosperous city that is known for being the birthplace of information technology. Many great answers already cover most of the points as to why Bengaluru became the biggest IT hub in India. Though the rise in DCs in other Indian states has impacted the state’s DC ecosystem, Banglore’s data centres still play a very imperative role in uplifting the country’s IT ecosystem. Post COVID-19, as India is going through some profound changes in incentivising DCs and are transforming the country’s entrepreneurial set-up, one of the country’s most sought-after afters state should also undergo a transformation – the data centres of the future should be built today!

Join us at the Bangalore cloud & Data Centre Convention where thought leaders discuss how to leverage the existing and upcoming network of data centre infrastructure, cloud computing, a disaster data recovery centre, and a lot more.

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Time (IST)	Plenary Hall	Hall 2

08:00 AM	Registration Open

09:00 AM	Welcome keynote and Lamp Lighting Ceremony

09:10 AM	Principal Address by Guest of Honour Mahadesha. V., Program Director, Center for eGovernance, Government of Karnataka

09:20 AM - 10:15 AM	Power Panel Disrupting Bengaluru’s IT Hub With Future-Ready Data Centres Many great answers already cover most of the points as to why Bengaluru became the biggest IT hub in India. Though the rise in DCs in other Indian states has impacted the state’s DC ecosystem, Bengaluru's data centres still play a very imperative role in uplifting the country’s IT ecosystem. Post COVID-19, India is going through some profound changes when it comes to incentivising DCs and is transforming the country’s entrepreneurial setup. One of the country’s most sought-after states, Bangalore - India’s Silicon Valley, should also transform - get future-ready data centres to positively disrupt the market - the future data centers should be built today! This power panel will discuss the focus on how to create the demand and value for future-ready data centres, by providing a robust and well-connected ecosystem for the growth of data centres in the state, especially owning to the approved policy by the Karnataka Cabinet that aims to attract investments worth Rs 10,000 crore by 2025. Moderator Dr. Manohar Chikkanna, Regional President – South Region, Indo American Chamber of Commerce Panelists Royce Thomas, President and Chief Business Officer, CtrlS Syed Mohamed Beary, Founder & CMD - Bearys Group & Chairman - IGBC – Bangalore Chapter Manoj Paul, Managing Director, Equinix India Seema Ambastha, CEO, BAM Digital Realty

10:15 AM - 10:35 AM	Datacentres Of The Future Speaker Mayank Srivastav, Director - Cloud & Service Provider Segment (C&SP), Schneider Electric

10:40 AM -	Tea Break \| Expo Networking \| Technology Bench Presentation \|

10:40 AM - 10:50 AM	Serverless is the Cloud 2.0 - A DevOps’ perspective on cost, efficiency and scalability Speaker Akash Lakra, Senior Technical Support Engineer, Zoho Corp

10:50 AM - 11:00AM	Innovative Power Distribution System: How Starline Busway increases the reliability and availability of a Data Center Speaker Alfred Victor, Senior Application Engineer, Asia Pacific & ME region, Starline Holdings LLC

11:15 AM - 11:35 AM	Necessity for a strong connection between Data & Energy In this session, Fuji Electric will demonstrate the need to establish a strong connection between Data & Energy with the implementation of well-known and advanced energy efficiency measures to reduce data centres energy demand. We will also discuss “bring your own power”, integration with other onsite energy resources. Speaker: Lohithashan Potti - Head of Product & Engineering - Energy Division, Fuji Electric India

11:35 AM - 12:15 PM	Panel Discussion Preparing the DCs For The Earth’s Newest Climate Climate is changing, and while the data centre business must do all possible to avoid contributing to it, it must also prepare for the repercussions of a more pervasive environment. The panel discussion will focus on the initiatives and steps to be taken to shield your data centre from global warming and how to be prepared for a more demanding situation. Also, we try to answer the most impending question: How will the data center industry sustain growth rates that support exponential data usage in the face of a global climate emergency? Moderator NK Singh, Founder & CEO, Data Center Guru Panelists Sreejith G, VP - Data Centre, ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (India) Subhamkar Das, VP - Data Centre Design & Build, Nxtra Data Ltd. Manikiran Kumar, Vice-president Technical Datacenters, GTPL Jatin Bhatt, Head - IT, Healthium Medtech Limited	Panel Discussion Responsible procurement - Involving priorities Often it is noticed that we majorly choose ‘one stop shop’ solutions over diverse innovative technologies, risking the progression and use of ‘best of breed’ technology in the data centre industry. However, when it comes to improving data centre efficiency, having the opportunity to adopt new solutions will help organisations make strides towards energy efficiency. This panel discussion will revolve around how to go about with the purchase of ‘best of breed’ technologies, products, services with reduced environmental impacts. Moderator Ashwani Goyal, Group Head of Procurement, Quess Corp Limited Panelists Subramanian. T. V. , Category Manager - Global Procurement, Iron Mountain Adarsh Appukutan, Director - Global Facilities, Procurement & India Operation, BGRS Anand Mangalam, Group CIO, Arjas Group

12:15 PM - 13:00 PM	Panel Discussion Call of Duty - The Black Ops Commandos of Infra and Data Centre Security The purpose is to keep everything safe from vulnerabilities that could jeopardise the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of company data or intellectual property. However, in a rush to build or expand the facility, many overlook the single most important factor - building security into every detail.The CISOs’ come together to give us a sneak peak into the complexities of managing the critical assets of the infrastructure and Data centre and securing the A-Z of the same. Moderator Vivek Khare, Director IT, VerSe Innovation Panelists Niranjan Singh, Solution Architect, Information Security, Sify Technologies Satish Kumar Dwibhashi SVP & CISO, InMobi Navaneethan. M, Senior VP, Chief information security officer and Head IT, Groww	Panel Discussion Nailing the Cloud : Migrate - Secure - Modernise - Innovate Industry leaders will discuss their cloud migration journey experiences and case studies. This panel will also discuss how migration may help you boost productivity, save costs, and ensure the finest security and how the true power of this technology is speeding up the digital transformation for businesses. Moderator Vasudev Prabhu, Director - IT Resilience, Cognizant Panelists Cylesh Gadi, Deputy General Manager - IT, Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. Revanur Harikrishna, Head- Technology & Transformation, Tata Consultancy Services Aneelkumar Savalagi, Head IT Infrastructure & Operations, Giant Eagle GCC Sampath Kumar Sunkesala, Senior Director, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle Madhu Kumar, CIO, Nanda Group

13:00 PM - 14:00 PM	Lunch \| Expo Networking \|

14:00 PM-14:20 PM	Data Centres for Connected World Speaker Ashok M.N., Director Strategic Sales, STT GDC India

14:20 PM-15:10 PM	Panel Discussion Infra 2022 - For The Data Centres of The Future Since storage and memory plays a fundamental part of all digital systems, and are key to enabling the new technologies, we can expect increased demand for on-device memory resources as well as data infrastructure to support them. This panel would discuss what's in store for infrastructure, how will it affect data consumption and storage, what type of infrastructure we will be building next, and what technology is around the corner that’s going to change the way we build data centers and enterprises. Moderator Prashantha Kumar, Partner, Fox Mandal Panelists Utkarsh B, Chief Architect, Flipkart Kranti Kiran Kumar Gedela, Assistant Vice President, Deutsche Bank Dr. Selvam. K., VP - ICT, Bangalore International Airport Ltd. Prasad Rao, Head - Infra Operations CRED	Panel Discussion Hyperscale - Collaborate To Compete Hyperscale data centers have emerged as a visionary solution that can propel your data center environment past obstacles, past limitations, past the industry peers, and past what you thought was impossible. Hyperscale data centers have an unparalleled ability to be agile compared to traditional enterprise data centers. In this session, we will see how hyperscale data centers are reshaping all of IT ecosystem. Moderator Shibu Kurian, Global CIO & COO, 10kInfo Data Solutions Pvt. Ltd Panelists: Mahesh Trivedi, Exec. Vice President, NTT Global Data Centers India Mayank Bedi, Asst. Executive Director, Dalmia Cement Subramanya Gupta Boda, Head - IT & Digital, Brigade Group Manish Shah, Head - IT, Golden Seams Industries Vinod Chacko, Business Development Director, Vultr

15:10PM -16:00 PM	Panel Discussion How we choose what we choose - A Tale by the Data Leaders Considerations while choosing a data centre infrastructure - How we choose what we choose! As the CIO’s & CTOs of new Digital World Order continue to be the bridge-builders between the enterprises and the data centres, their strategies to create a resilient data-driven ecosystem has led them to be decision makers of these entire-supply and demand situation. Making the final call on a data centre or colocation provider is Mammoth task taken with due diligence. This thought leadership session will give you the key considerations that enterprises will look into while choosing a data centre solution! Moderator Abhishek Singh, CTO, Deccan Herald Panelists Paul Raj M, CIO, Purankara Ltd. Shiva Ellur, Sr. Vice President - Data Engineering & Analytics, HDFC Bank Sanchita Basu, Director - Global IT, Baxter International Inc Jhansi Vijayrajan, Senior Director IT Infrastructure and Global OPS Strategy PMO Nasdaq	Panel Discussion Building the Sharpest Edge For A Dynamic Environment Edge solutions and its rapid proliferation are becoming the most feasible option for real-time data processing and for harnessing data-driven insights at or near the source of data generation. However, such is the scale of the infrastructure requirement that there is a need to have will be many collaborations and approaches - the challenge lies in the management and monitoring of all these devices – especially at scale, and in dynamic environments. This panel brings together the many different leaders who will dive deep into the impact of 5G, mobile edge cloud, and the effects of data gravity and velocity on the new network architecture. Moderator Venkatesh Ganesh, Editor, W.Media Panelists Ajay Bakshi, Global Transformation Head - Shared Services, Xerox Chirag Bharatia, Director - Infrastructure Services, Oracle Cerner Ajeet Kumar, Head Of Data Integration Platforms, Alstom Jagadeesh Sunkad, MD & CEO, Kanakadhara Agricultural Innovations Pvt.Ltd.

16:00 PM -	Coffee Break \| Technology Bench Presentation

16:00 - 16:10 PM	A unified platform-based approach to data centres’ security, operations, and business intelligence Speaker Anand Thirunagari, Country Manager, Genetec Inc

16:30PM - 17:15 PM	Panel Discussion Keeping Up With The Innovations Driven By Security When cutting-edge technologies go from physical, on-premises to virtual in a ‘super-mario’ speed, security innovation gets lagged behind the evolving technology. In all its practicality, organisations take years to finally figure out the right way to secure a new technology/platform. By the time the appropriate security solution come on par with the technology, the world demands for a better version of it or an altogether a new tech innovation! This panel discussion will throw a definite light into how to build security into new technologies as they are developed, rather than adding it as an afterthought - to innovate with security rather than before security! Moderator Mubin Shaikh, Partner – Cybersecurity – Technology Consulting, EY LLP Panelists Shaik J. Ahmed, Vice President Information Security, Mashreq Bank Nitin Ajmera, CISO, Manipal Hospitals Dr. Lopa Mudra Basuu, Advisor Cloud Security Alliance APAC Research Council Devam Shah, CISO, Great Learning

17:15 PM - 17:30 PM	Closing Remarks By W.Media

17:30 PM Onwards	Networking With Drinks