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15th INFOTECH FORUM 2017 – Making a Digital-ready Future possible

(From L to R): Shri Prashant Gupta, Partner, Risk Advisory, BDO; Mr Srikanth Doranadula, Sr Director, Alliances & Channel, Oracle; Dr Alok Bharadwaj, Founder & MD, CreoVate Transformations & Consulting; Shri B. K. Murthy, Senior Director (Scientist-G), Department of Electronics & IT, Government of India; Mr Vishal Dhupar, Managing Director, South Asia, NVIDIA; Shri P. P. Choudhury, Minister of State of Law, Justice and Electronics & IT, Government of India; Mr Deepak Kr Sahu, Chief Editor - KDMPL; Mr Damodar Sahu, Partner & Industry Advisor, WIPRO; Shri Rajesh Kumar, Sr General Manager (NB), BSNL and Ms S Mohini Ratna, Editor - VARINDIA

The VARINDIA INFOTECH FORUM entered its 15th year by bringing together the who’s who of the ICT industry, IT consultants and senior government officials and PSUs and setting up a platform for a day-long event consisting of power-packed sessions of technical presentations, panel discussions and discourses on issues impacting the technology landscape and, most importantly, business networking.

The theme of the 15th INFOTECH FORUM was – “Digitization and Role of IoT for NextGeneration Enterprise”.

Shri P. P. Choudhury, Minister of State of Law, Justice and Electronics & IT, Government of India, graced the occasion as Chief Guest.

The presence of other high-profile guests from the Government and ICT Industry includes Shri Anil Swarup, Secretary, Department of School Education & Literacy, Government of India; Shri S. N. Tripathy, IAS, Additional Secretary & Development Commissioner, MSME, Government of India; Shri Rajesh Aggarwal, IAS, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India; Shri M Akhaya, CVO, Department of Telecom- Government of India; Shri B. K. Murthy, Senior Director (Scientist-G), Department of Electronics & IT, Government of India; Mr Raman Roy, Chairman-NASSCOM and CMD- Quatrro; Mr Vishal Dhupar, Managing Director, South Asia, NVIDIA; Shri Rajesh Kumar, Sr General Manager (NB), BSNL; Shri Prashant Gupta,

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Partner, Risk Advisory, BDO; Dr. Avik Sarkar, Head of Data Architect Cell, Niti Aayog; Mr Pavan Duggal, Advocate, Supreme Court of India (Cyber law Expert); Mr Yog Raj, General Manager, MTP- Railtel Corporation of India; Dr Alok Bharadwaj, Founder & MD, CreoVate Transformations & Consulting; Mr Srikanth Doranadula, Sr Director, Alliances & Channel, Oracle; Mr Sandeep Sehgal, Director and Head Government and Defence, VMware India; Mr Subroto Panda, CIO, Anand and Anand; and Mr Damodar Sahu, Partner & Industry Advisor, WIPRO, raised the scale and grandeur of the event to a new high.

Mr Deepak Sahu, Chief Editor, Kalinga Digital Media, started off the session by throwing some light on the recent ransomware attack that has hit the developing and the developed economies really hard and how India been able to shield itself better than several other countries.

“Industry experts peg the number of infected computers at more than 50,000 desktops and laptops running on the Windows operating system across industries, including banking, retail and manufacturing. It is also true that most of the people are ill-equipped to deal with ransomware,” he said. He also commended the job done by the GST Council by having reduced the impact of GST on the common man and maintaining the status quo on GST rates on the items largely consumed by the upper middle class.

Shri P. P. Choudhury, Minister of State of Law, Justice and Electronics & IT, Government of India, set the stage open with his keynote address, followed by Dr B. K. Murthy, Senior Director (Scientist-G), Department of Electronics & IT, GoI, who spoke at length on digitization. Thereafter, Shri Anil Swarup, Secretary, Department of School Education & Literacy, GoI, shared his perspective on Digital India and its scope in e-governance.

There were also many deliberations and presentations lined up where the top technocrats and subject-matter experts participated to discuss technology and its impact on today’s business at length. Mr Prashant Gupta, Partner Risk Advisory - BDO in his presentation shared his vision towards the adoption of IoT in the country. Mr Raman Roy, CMD, Quatrro and Chairman, NASSCOM, who is deeply involved in shaping the future of the BPO industry in India, also gave a detailed study about the industry.

Mr Pavan Duggal, Advocate, Supreme Court of India (Cyber Law Expert), enlightened the audience on the present cybersecurity situation in the country. Mr Vishal Dhupar, Managing Director, South Asia, NVIDIA, on his part addressed the audience on Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning and how digitization could take the country to the next level. Mr Rajesh Kumar, Sr General Manager (NB), BSNL, being the champion in the conceptualization of getting

new business opportunities in BSNL, shared his perspective with everyone.

Dr Alok Bharadwaj, Founder & MD, CreoVate Transformations & Consulting, spoke on the entrepreneurship challenges in the country, while Mr G. B. Shaikh, Vice-President – Security, CtrlS Datacenters Ltd, spoke on the impact of cyber terrorism on IoT-enabled infrastructure.

In the partner presentation, Mr Vishweshara Shankar, Presales Team Lead India and SAARC, Veeam Software, spoke on how Veeam is driving the concept of the “always-on” Enterprise and Mr Kumar Anand, Sr Consultant, INSPIRA Enterprises, gave his presentation on how the company is influencing important decisions with the help of its products and solutions.

The much-awaited part of the event was, however, the launching of the 6th Brand Book Carving a niche of its own, the annual Brand

Book has attracted attention of thousands of technology brands which have used it as a reference book to understand the ecosystem.

But the launch of the Brand Book was not the only attraction of the evening, as the 15th IT Forum also had recognised Top companies in Indian ICT Industry and received the award as the Most-Trusted Company Awards and the Most- Admired Company Awards. While 25 top companies (VAR Top 25) have been chosen in the category of the Most-Trusted Company, a total of 80 companies have been named as the Most-Admired Companies by VARINDIA. The awards were based on the votes cast on the VARINDIA website where respondents voted for their favourite companies.

The website for the Brand Book, www. mybrandbook.co.in, was also relaunched at the event in the presence of the revered Chief Guest.

Shri P. P. Choudhury Minister of State of Law, Justice and Electronics & IT, Government of India “As far as the Digital India mission of the PM of India is concerned, it is based on largely 3 pillars – infrastructure, e-governance & service on demand and digital empowerment. In our country we are in the path of robust infrastructure for achieving the vision of digital India with respect to financial inclusion. We have 110 crores mobile phones and 114 crores Aadhaar numbers of citizens. So far as the connectivity part is concerned, the internet connectivity is around 47 crores. Digital payment is one of the sectors which is increasing day by day.

But it needs awareness programs because in rural India where huge infrastructure is required to be laid down. We have today already connected 90,000 Gram Panchayats through optical fibre cables and the remaining is targeted to be completed by December 2018. And once this is over, the next step will be to connect these Gram Panchayats with high-speed broadband connections. Apart from this infrastructure, we will be having common service centres in every Gram Panchayats that will cover 5000 population. We expect these centres to provide digital literacy or awareness programs. If we succeed in doing this, technology for our country will be a game changer.”

S. N. Tripathy IAS, Additional Secretary & Development Commissioner, MSME, Government of India “As long as your behaviour is ethical, you need not worry about anything. But if you are working against the law, then any law can take care of it. The Government is a sleeping giant, but when it comes to taking action, it takes very heavily. In today’s world if a nation, an individual or an organization has to be competitive, 2 things are utmost necessary – man and machine. The machine should be efficient, free from any cyber security issues and the man/woman behind managing that machine should be super efficient and competent. In an IoT environment, it is always argued whether a man would control the machine or the machine would control the man. We are entering into an area where nobody knows who will be doing the bigger crime; you store a message in your computer, there will be an app in your device that will be dispersed to everybody. Ultimately it will be you who will be responsible.”

Mr Sunil Sharma, Vice-President – Sales, Sophos (India & SAARC), became a Motivational Guru for the event and conducted a knowledge session for the guests. He spoke on Decode Your Mind Power Today by citing examples from the Gita and encouraged everyone to realize how powerful the mind is and that anything impossible can be made possible by using the mind power.

The Lucky Draw contests organized by VARINDIA are another sought-after part of its events. To keep the interest of its audience glued to the sessions, VARINDIA conducted several lucky draws sponsored by Seagate when the guests walked away with 1TB hard drives.

There was also a round table session held with the CIO/CTO/CISOs of the Industry where 25 CIOs participated and gave their insights on the current technology landscape in the country.

Shri Anil Swarup Secretary, Department of School Education & Literacy GOI “No matter what technology we have, until and unless we use that technology in the Indian context, it would not work.

Technology itself will not solve my problems. Just to drive home a point that private businesses can play a very critical role in tandem with the government to bring about a transformation in which government services are delivered.

I say because they are being delivered, but the quantum and association has to increase. When I was posted as the School Secretary under the government of India, it was the time when all the scams had happened and probably the government thought that this gentleman called Anil Swarup will be able to cleanse the system. But the good point is that the system was so bad, any good thing done in it will become an improvement.”

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Raman Roy Chairman-NASSCOM and CMD- Quatrro “Whoever builds the enterprise of tomorrow by using next generation technologies like AI, IoT will make multibillion dollars. From January 2015 to June 2016, out of the population of 7.2 billion on this planet, active internet users were 3 billion, active social accounts were 2 billion, mobile users 3.6 billion and active mobile social accounts were 1.6 billion. In 2015 there was a huge penetration but if you take the number of connected devices, by the year 2020 we will have 50 billion connected devices, whether it is your car, refrigerator or air conditioner. I monitor all of them on my smartphone today. Sitting in US, I have some cameras fixed to see what is happening in the periphery of my house merely by clicking one of the apps on my phone, other than the fact that I am connected to the internet or to a 3G/4G network.”

Vishal Dhupar MD, South Asia – NVIDIA “If you ask me what enterprises need, in one word it is intelligence. Intelligence will be the only way that they are going to differentiate themselves each day and making progression so that our lives are better. You require machines that learn, rationalize and interact. Each time you use Google for search, it magically finds out what your interests is. When you are watching movies, Netflix knows what your interests are and does recommendations. Similarly your shopping habits on Amazon are captured and every single page is personalized for you. There are cars meandering that are self driven and in the night they return back to There arewww.varindia.com robots that are trying June 2017 40the garage. to equip themselves with motor skills in different areas.”

Pavan Duggal Advocate, Supreme Court of India (Cyber law Expert) “Just after 15 days of the WannaCry attack, a new malware called Adylkuzz has come in the vector which is going to attack our systems remotely. Our systems are said to still work but the malware will capture all the processing power so that it can be used for generating digital currency, Monero. Detected on 21st April, this malware is going to be even bigger than WannaCry. European news says that the malware has already collected a million Euros and it is going to be big. If we see the statistics across the globe, ransomeware has gone massive. Cyber security has come to hit us in a big manner. In India, Aadhaar is potentially the most unsafe thing that you can think of for the fact that India has not put in place adequate cyber security frameworks. It has been successful only in guarding the central data repository but the concern should be about the big Aadhaar eco-system.”

Rajesh Aggarwal IAS, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India “Very few people know that while working as IT secretary in Maharashtra, I passed 70 judgements as the adjudicating officer under the Act. Lot of them were about cyber crimes, ATM frauds, cloning of credit/debit cards. This is the famous Sanjay Dhande judgement. On privacy there were only 3 judgements in the country, and I was fortunate to be handling all 3 of them.

So what would you call hacking is really very interesting. If your spouse checks your phone and looks at the last dialled number, then that could be called hacking.”

Shri B K Murthy Senior Director (Scientist-G), Department of Electronics & IT – GoI “During the last 3 decades, India has made its IT footprint across the globe and contributed immensely in different developing and developed countries. Today if you see across the globe, behind any successful IT application, IT product, there is an Indian behind it. So we can proudly say that I am an Indian. 20-25 years back, when I used to travel outside, the immigration officers were hardly able to spell or pronounce my name. But today they can pronounce it correctly, Krishnamurthy. That is because of the Indian talent that is soon spreading across the globe. But this is also the time we will have to think about ourselves and how this IT can help India grow its economy.”

Rajesh Kumar Sr General Manager (NB) – BSNL “BSNL was corporatized in 2000 and prior to that it was part of the Dept of Telecom. After that we have traversed a journey of 17 years. When we started, we started as an old generation enterprise, but now we are trying to become a next generation enterprise by adopting the latest generation technologies, by associating itself in different areas which are very relevant to the current conditions.

We are known as a telecom service provider but we have taken a lot of initiatives to enter into the area of IoT, digitization as well as Smart City initiatives of the Govt. of India. We are also trying to associate ourselves with the common people of the country.

We have got a huge infrastructure and our presence is throughout the country. We have started from landline business and today we are virtually offering all types of telecom solutions required by the subscribers and enterprise customers.”

Vishweshara Shankar Presales Team Lead India and SAARC, Veeam Software “We are a 10 year old company and we provide availability for modern datacenter. We have close to 12, 35,000 customers. 56% of the global 2000 companies and 73% of the Fortune 500 companies use Veeam Availability to protect their virtual modern datacenter. Most of the enterprises today have invested on modern datacenter or hyperconverged environment and we are pretty much strong in this area. Our alliance partners are HPE, Cisco, NetApp and EMC in terms of hardware and storage integration. We basically provide back-up, replication and end-to-end visibility monitoring.

We also introduced Veeam Availability Orchestrator which automates your complete DR. You can both have on-premises environment and your DR on the Cloud, which ensures that your environment is up and going every time.”

Kumar Anand Sr Consultant - INSPIRA Enterprises “We are a 9 year old company and have branches, support centres, tech centres and 24x7 service centres pan India. We work with Sis and have tieups with OEMs too. We have partnership with more than 20 OEMs for BFSI and system integration projects. Gartner says that many companies still use next generation firewall to control their perimeter security. But if anything happens from inside to outside traffic that commands your control center, you do not have control over that because you are not monitoring that data. Your entire security set-up needs to be integrated so that if anything happens, your perimeter device would be informed and you are able to block the traffic. And continuous monitoring of all layers and by doing a retrospective analysis will enable you to block the perimeter.”

Prashant Gupta Partner, Risk Advisory – BDO “Today we are all talking about bringing different devices, means together and working for providing better services to the citizens and across the globe. An interesting thing I have observed in Germany’s e-Healthcare is that there were a bunch of special kids who used to previously come to the hospital for treatment, but now they are all treated at homes with the help of IoT solutions. We are seeing an era where lot of information is getting digitized over a period of time.

But digitization is also enabling IoT, which has its own pros and cons. An example is that of patients across US and Europe with pace makers experiencing a massive attack, because some people were trying to exploit the vulnerabilities without thinking that it can have an impact on people’s lives.”

Dr Alok Bharadwaj Founder & MD, CreoVate Transformations & Consulting “You cannot be a business leader without understanding technology to some extent and therefore it is vital that we look at everyone as business leader. The most important leadership agenda is no doubt transformation. It is so important that today the company that you represent, there are 2 things that are common – that every company wants to grow and we all worry for future. We do not know what kind of future environment is going to turn out. We are now in the era of discontinuity where you cannot connect past with the future. And if that be the case, how do you work out the strategy for the company’s transformation? This is the most important discussion everywhere.

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G B Shaikh VP-Security, CtrlS Datacenters Limited “What has happened in the IoT threat landscape is an eye-opener. Anything that is getting connected to the internet has the potential to be hacked, however vigilant you may be. Gartner predicts that by 2020, the 25% IT defined enterprise attacks is actually going to the IoT side of the story. A recent instance that happened at a nuclear power station in Korea, where tight security has been broken and the information taken out also sparks alarm. Even in the 9/11 attack, the terrorist group has extensively studied the infrastructure of US and Europe through leaked information before launching an attack on the trade towers. In India the 26/11 attack was carried with advanced technologies which even our intelligence guys could not have decoded at that point in time. US National security administration has accepted that there have been 19 successful cyber attacks.”

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Panel Discussion- Digitisation and role of IOT for the next generation enterprise

(From L to R): Pravin Prashant, Consulting Editor - VARINDIA; Virender Kumar Bansal, Group CIO- SAR Group; Damodar Sahu, Partner & Industry Advisor, WIPRO; B. K. Murthy, Senior Director (Scientist-G), Department of Electronics & IT, Government of India; Anuj Aggarwal, Founder, Computer Society of India, Noida Chapter; Sandeep Sehgal, Director and Head Government and Defence, VMware India; Subroto Panda, CIO, Anand and Anand; Deepak Maheshwari, Head of Govt. Affairs- Symantec Corporation; G B Shaikh, VPSecurity- CtrlS Datacenters Limited and Prashant Gupta, Partner Risk Advisory-BDO A panel discussion modelled around “Digitization and Role of IoT for Next-Generation Enterprise” was moderated by Mr Pravin Prashant, Consulting Editor, VARINDIA. While discussing digital transformation, Subroto Panda, CIO, Anand and Anand said, “Where I work is a law firm, which has the maximum volume of physical files. Now we have come to a stage where everything is required by the lawyers in their mobile devices.

Making all those physical files into a digital format and then churning out the required information, a lawyer cannot read all those files even if it’s in a soft form. He needs to have the correct information which is related to the matter while standing inside the court room. We have made our own Ana bot system which picks up relevant cases and throws it up in a device. We are doing more with respect to AI, case matter management system and thus have written a lot of algorithms.”

Virender Kumar Bansal, Group CIO- SAR Group said, “We are a manufacturing company and in manufacturing IT budget has always been a challenge. We have to work with a very low budget always and especially when I see the necessity of getting everything digitised, it is very less. But if we see real digitisation like mobility, we are working very extensively on mobility but deploying in the field is always a challenge."

Deepak Maheshwari, Head of Govt. Affairs - Symantec Corporation cited the example of the healthcare sector where typically WHO tells everyone to take care of three basic things - the pre and post natal vaccination, basic hygiene and basic nutrition. “So even if something happens, you will have faster and better chances of recovery. Similar is the case in our security system. A study done by our members 2 years back revealed that the impact of 9 out of 10 attacks can be mitigated by following some basics - keeping your software updated, keeping backups, using strong but different passwords for different services, using solutions like data loss prevention and encryption,” he said.

Prashant Gupta, Partner Risk Advisory-BDO opined, “Probably many people who are working with global organisations might be trying to tackle with how they categorise their organisation policy, how they restructure their overall IT infrastructure and whether they can outsource to India or to any other part of the world the critical activities they are doing. They also have to keep in mind that the arbitrage was not only because they are providing security but because they are efficiently trying to do the things.”

G B Shaikh, VP-Security- CtrlS Datacenters stated that on the GDPR (General data protection regulation) front, one new thing that is coming will get the customers some kind of relief. “Earlier if you look at any bank where you submit your data, there would be general KYC norms wherein they say we use this and you just need to tick it against the options and then you are given a blanket approval for the PII (personal identifiable information).

Now in GDPR what is going to change is that for every citizen PII handled you have to consult in such a way that you are not legally caught for misuse of that information.”

Sandeep Sehgal, Director and Head Government and Defence, VMware India was of the view that the whole networking system consisting of firewall, VPN has not changed in the last 30 years. “The networking component has not changed. You go and meet any CIO or any architect, he will design the same standard architecture. Now when you talk about all these malwares and ransomwares, there is a way they attack. Lot of east west traffic happens and we only worry about the north south."

Damodar Sahu, Partner & Industry advisor- WIPRO quoted a Cisco survey that says that 80 per cent out of 100 customers are still at POC concept or pilot mode and only 20 per cent have got the real benefit and have gone ahead with a full fledged implementation of IOT. “So why is the 20% not able to move ahead beyond the proof of context? The reason is the IT budget. If you talk about the digitisation and IOT, it is going to impact not only that particular enterprise but even the other ecosystem or enterprises around that ecosystem.”

Anuj Aggarwal, Founder, Computer Society of India, Noida Chapter said, “When we, especially in India talk about cyber security and cyber security budgets, ICT and different industries talk about buying gadgets. You spend 5, 50 or 500 crores on cyber security, both for the law enforcement as well as for buying hardware and software. Believe me across the world if you check the major incidents of cyber breaches, it is not because of any system failing, but it is because of the failure of the work of the people."

B K Murthy, Senior Director (Scientist-G), Department of Electronics & IT, GoI said that since it is a connected world, no matter how secured you are, if the person next to you is not secured and you are connected to him, he will become a gateway to enter into your computer. “Whatever the tools you are having, whatever training you are undergoing, how secured your infrastructure is and your computer system, you need to see that other’s environment too are equally secured.”

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The unveiling of the Brand Book at the 15th VARINDIA Infotech Forum took place in the august presence of the Chief Guest, Shri P. P. Choudhury, Minister of State of Law, Justice and Electronics & IT, Government of India and other eminenet guests like Shri B. K. Murthy, Senior Director (Scientist-G), Department of Electronics & IT, Government of India; Vishal Dhupar, Managing Director, South Asia, NVIDIA; Shri Rajesh Kumar, Sr General Manager (NB), BSNL and Srikanth Doranadula, Sr Director, Alliances & Channel, Oracle.

The Brand Book 2017 recognizes those who are building and leading successful brands and growing as the Most Admired Brands in India’s ICT industry. It speaks volume about the ICT companies, the Think Tanks of India, the current Indian MarketScape, the Icons of India, Start-up companies, Made in India Brands and many more. The Book encapsulates an array of useful and interesting information a reader would require on a regular basis. It has been designed with a unique navigation system that allows you to search by company name and product category.

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