Collating the best of the best throughout South Asia’s Cloud and Datacenter professionals. The most prestigious Award throughout the APAC region. Judges of the most distinguished caliber will be presenting individuals at the top of their game, with the honored W.Media Award.
Categories to include: Best Datacenter project, Best IT & Cloud Projects and Outstanding Individuals.
1) In South Asia while digitization is a priority there are still many basic issues which need to be addressed like business agenda for adopting technologies, lack of availability for skills, knowledge, security and data issues.
2) With the type of challenges that SAARC countries face from others in the continent it’s highly essential that the countries and enterprises in the sub continent take challenges seriously and address them head on which means investing in people, skills, allocating resources to organization wide digital transformation from cloud adoption, migration and security.
3) SAARC countries especially India & Bangladesh are going through huge cloud adoption from organizations including the SME sector which in recent years has realized the benefits of cloud computing. With an increase in cloud computing, data center investors are rushing to develop DC parks and with the pandemic and constant surges and outages the service and operations for DC is becoming a huge challenge.
The progress for areas ranging from cloud to security in South Asia is immense but with growth comes a list of challenges too.
As a tech enthusiast In order to make sure you are well versed with these updates W.media has created the largest platform for South Asian tech enthusiasts to join together and get insights from the top experts from across the world along with celebrating these developments through W.Media’s 2nd edition South Asia Cloud and Data Center Awards Digital Summit on the 07th October, 2021.
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| 09:55 AM | Welcome Address by the W.Media Team: – | |
| 10.00 AM | Keynote Session: – Scaling up the Capabilities; Government Initiatives for making India a New Technology Leader
India has the 3rd largest startup ecosystem in the world. The manufacturing and services sector in India comprises 17% and 65% of the GDP. When we put all of these numbers together we find out how much India is leading across various sectors and these numbers have only been possible due to the initiatives by the Gov of India to lead the country as a technology hub from Cloud, Data Centers and Digital transformation. Learn more about how your Gov is leading the country and the various incentives and measures it takes to make the Indian technology hub dream a possibility. Keynote Speaker: Shri Abhishek Krishna, Jt. CEO – IT, Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation |
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| 10:15 AM | Panel Session: – In a post-pandemic world, are Data Centers the new gold mines?
Data Centers have seen a huge uptake, helped considerably by the pandemic. As India puts in place Data localization initiatives, data centers will assume new significance. However, challenges remain – from availability of land to setting up data centers in urban centers such as Mumbai puts considerable stress on the State’s power requirements. With help of this panel session, thought leaders can put in place a roadmap, which could help all the stakeholders. Moderator: Venkatesh G, Deputy Editor, W.Media Panelists: Mr. Mayank Srivastava, Chief Development Officer, BDx Data Centers |
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| 11:00 AM | Presentation Session by Legrand Data Centre Solutions | |
| 11:10 AM | Presentation Session by Web Werks India Pvt Ltd. | |
| 11:20 AM | Panel Session: – Hear from the best technology and business leaders across South Asia on managing disruption.
There have been multiple success stories of resilience and innovation during this pandemic. Many organizations have set a new bar for success and that has happened mainly due to contributions by technology and business leaders. So as this pandemic resides let’s now hear from South Asia’s top business and tech leaders from various domains like data center, cloud, IT and cyber security on the work & success they have achieved in the past 1 and half year. Panelists: Yogesh Kumar, Head of IT & Business Applications & CISO, Tata Advanced Systems Limited Mr. Mahendra Upadhyay, Chief Information/Technology Officer, BARC India Mr. Sujoy Sen, Director IT, South Asia, The Linde Group |
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| 12:10 PM | Presentation Session: – PaaS Platform as an Effective tool to scale up your Web Applications & drive high end results
PaaS providers host everything from servers, networks, storage, operating system software, databases at their data center. Faster time to market, less-risky adoption, cost-effective scalability and overall lower costs enable content developers to focus on their core business capabilities. Let’s learn more about how PaaS platforms can be helpful for your organization to drive technology growth and results. |
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| 12:20 PM | Panel Session: – Cloud consolidation & Migration Success Stories – How to Overcome Challenges?
Fast growing organisations are experiencing far greater application and infrastructure density than ever before. Scalability, reliability and interoperability of IT infrastructure environments are some of the key reasons for enterprises to move their business-critical systems to the cloud. However many organizations are facing challenges in projects involving the consolidation of several data centres or enterprise IT infrastructure resulting in migration to the Cloud. So in order to help them we have created this panel session to learn about solutions and success stories. Panelists: Nitin Sawant, Partner – Cloud and Enterprise Architecture, EY Arvind Koul, Head-IT Infrastructure & Security, UNO Minda |
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| 01:05 PM | Presentation Session: – Adopting Managed Services & Hosting to Edge out South Asia’s Security & Compliance Threats
Rising number of enterprises rely on technology to drive their business operations. Managed Service and Hosting providers are valuable partners in ensuring Controlled IT Cost, Experienced and Qualified Expertise, Increase Efficiency and Competitiveness, Compliance and Security for example. So this session will help us learn about the valuable outcomes coming from managed services and hostings. |
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| 01:20 PM | Panel Session: – Critical Role of Data Center Service & Maintenance Teams in Evolving Data Centers during this Pandemic.
During this pandemic the respective teams for operations and services at various data centers companies have helped maintain high performance and uptime standards with these teams one of the least recognized across in the technology industry it’s time to appreciate their hard work and learn on the measures and innovations these teams made during the initial pandemic period with help of this panel session. Panelists: Girish Dhavale, Chief Technical Officer – Data Center Business, Sify Technologies Prasad Rao, Director IT Infrastructure, Unacademy |
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| 02:05 PM | Panel Session: – Pivot your Digital Transformation culture & Amp up the Organization’s Cybersecurity & Technology Infrastructure Needs.
When it comes to success in the technology world the one thing which matters most is creating a culture that can help your team and leaders focus on what are the needs to drive growth in areas of necessity whether it’s cyber security or ICT. This panel session will be a gathering of experts of digital transformation who have worked in various domains from cyber security to IT to Cloud who will be sharing their insights on how they curated a culture of development to meet project deadlines. Panelists: Alok Khanna, Executive Director (Strategic IS), Indian Oil Corporation Limited |
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| 02:50 PM | End of India Track. | |
Date
Thursday, 7th October 2021
Time
10:00am – 02:00pm
– CEO, CIO, CTO, COO, CFO
– Head of Engineering/Facilities
– Head of IT/Networks and digital transformation
– Cloud & Infrastructure Engineers
– OTT Publishers, Security experts
– IT/DC Procurement & Sourcing
– Data Center architects, consultants and engineers
– Cloud service providers
– IT / M&E Consultants & Engineers
– System Integrators
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