Join Us at the 5th Edition of Technology Senate - South 2025
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 01:00 pm - 03:00 pm | Lunch & Registration |
| 03:00 pm - 03:15 pm | Lamp Lighting & Inauguration |
| 03:15 pm - 03:30 pm |
Keynote Address: Reimaging the Role of the CIOs in a New World Order Anand Srinivasan, Co-Founder & CIO, Akasa Air |
| 03:30 pm - 03:45 pm |
Engineering Cohesion: From point solutions to Unified Outcomes Romanus Prabhu Raymond, Director of Technology, ManageEngine |
| 03:45 pm - 04:00 pm |
Universal SASE: Simplifying Security and Networking to Achieve Scale, Performance, and Cost Efficiency Prasad T, Field CISO, Versa Networks |
| 04:00 pm - 04:15 pm | Fireside Chat: Driving Innovation from the Top: How CIOs Can Foster a Culture of Digital-First Thinking Manikandan Thangarathnam, Senior Director, Platform Engineering, Uber & Sayantan Mondal, Correspondent, Express Computer |
| 04:15 pm - 04:30 pm |
Fireside Chat: The Boardroom CIO: Tech Leadership in the Age of Disruption Shuvankar Pramanick, Deputy CIO, Manipal Hospitals & Srikanth RP, Editor, Express Computer |
| 04:30 pm - 04:50 pm | Networking Tea Break |
| 04:50 pm - 05:05 pm |
Fireside Chat: Driving Enterprise-Wide Digital Transformation: Lessons from the Frontlines Annapurna Vishwanathan, VP & Head of Digital, Airbus & Sayantan Mondal, Correspondent, Express Computer |
| 05:05 pm - 05:20 pm |
AI Done Right: From Hype to RoI Rohit Yadav, Principal Solution Architect, Qlik |
| 05:20 pm - 05:35 pm |
Do cloud right Simranjeet Singh, Solutions Engineer, HashiCorp, an IBM Company |
| 05:35 pm - 06:20 pm |
Panel Discussion: CIO War Stories: What Complex Projects Teach About Leadership, Agility, and Resilience Moderator: Srikanth RP, Editor, Express Computer Panelists: Santhosh TG, Global Chief Digital Officer, Switch Mobility - EV Arm of Ashok Leyland Sandeep Bansal, CIO, A-One Steels India Limited A.R.Srinivasan, HEAD – Information Technology, SPIC Ltd & Greenstar Fertilizers Piyush Prabhakar, Head of Data & Analytics and FP&A, Fossil Group Gaurav Duggal, CTO, Jio Platforms Anil Nama, CIO, CtrlS |
| 06:20 pm - 06:35 pm |
A CIO's Guide to AI Adoption: Strategy, Governance, and ROI Shankar Rao, CIO & CDO, Bosch India |
| 06:35 pm - 08:30 pm | Free & Easy |
| 07:00 pm - 08:00 pm | Power Discussion on Future of SOC by CrowdStrike |
| 07:00 pm - 08:00 pm | Power Discussion on AI Sovereignty for Indian Enterprises: Control, Compliance, and Continuity by E2E Networks |
| 08:30 pm - 08:45 pm | Buidling Digital Resilience in the age of AI Vasant Kumar, Director Solution Engineering, India & South Asia, Splunk |
| 08:45 pm - 09:15 pm | Technology Senate Awards |
| 09:15 pm onwards | Cocktails & Dinner |
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 07:30 am - 09:00 am | Breakfast |
| 08:00 am - 09:00 am | Power Discussion on Smart Visual Decision making systems for Enterprise’s by Barco Control Room |
| 08:00 am - 09:00 am | Power Discussion on Beyond 'Red/Green' Charts: Measuring the ROI of Digital Resilience by Splunk |
| 09:30 am - 09:45 am |
Keynote Address: Designing the Digital Blueprint - Innovation, Agility & Impact at Scale Tushar Zade, CIO & CDO, Aurigene Pharmaceuticals |
| 09:45 am - 10:00 am |
Modern security, powered by Agentic AI Sandeep Rao, Regional Sales Engineering, CrowdStrike |
| 10:00 am - 10:15 am |
Sustainable Audio Visual Technology Priyanka Ekbote, Deputy manager: Business Development and Technical Sales, Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Company Limited & Aneesh Kumar Kumaresan, Director, Customer Experience, Crestron |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am |
The CIO Playbook for Navigating Uncertainty - Agility, Resilience, And Risk Mitigation in Tech Leadership Srikrishna Narsimhan, Chief Information Officer, Pricol Ltd. |
| 10:30 am - 10:45 am |
Freshworks' People-first AI: The key to unified, future-ready IT Maneesha Kosaraju, Regional Solutions Manager, Freshworks |
| 10:45 am - 11:30 am |
Panel Discussion: The AI-First Enterprise - Evolving Roles of the CXOs in Driving Scalable, Responsible Innovation Moderator: Srikanth RP, Editor, Express Computer Panelists: Raman Srinivasan, Chief Digital Officer, InMobi Group Hariharan Veeramuthu, Global CIO, VA Tech Wabag Ajitt Kolhe, Global Head-IT and Digital, Carborundum Universal Limited (Murugappa Group) Jojy Payyanickal, CTO, Geojit Financial Services Nagharajan K P K, Head of Digital Twin, TAFE Nagendran Ponnan, Head of Technology, Infrastructure & Data Center Operations, Ramco Cements Linson Paul, Chief Technology Officer, Muthoot Microfin Ltd Anil Menon, CIO, LuLu Group |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Networking Tea Break & Check Out |
| 12:00 pm - 12:15 pm |
Fireside Chat: From Factory Floor to Cloud: Strengthening Cybersecurity in Manufacturing Abhinav Srivastava, CIO, Daimler India Commercial Vehicles & Srikanth RP, Editor, Express Computer |
| 12:15 pm - 12:25 pm |
Integration - The Key Invincible Ingredient of the Digital Jungle! Himansu Patel, Chief Revenue Officer - India, Magic Software Enterprises |
| 12:25 pm - 01:10 pm |
Panel Discussion: The Role of CIOs & CTOs in 2025 & Beyond - Balancing Innovation, Governance & ROI Moderator: Srikanth RP, Editor, Express Computer Dr. Girish Kulkarni, CIO, NIMHANS Manjunath Prasad, Vice President - ITS, TVS Mobility Gangadhar Reddy Yasam, Head IT, Ford Motor Company Private Limited Venkata Sudhakar Nagandla, SVP & Global Head - IT Infrastructure & Cloud for Allcargo Group, ECU Worldwide Sivasubramanian M, Vice President & CDIO, JK Fenner (India) Ltd Ashok Goenka, Head IT Infra & Cyber Security Officer, Tata Hitachi Construction Machinery Company Sanjay Khiyani, CIO, Allcargo Logistics Romanus Prabhu Raymond, Director of Technology, ManageEngine Apoorva Goyal, Manager, Systems Engineering, Versa Networks |
| 01:10 pm - 02:00 pm | Networking Lunch |
| 02:00 pm - 02:15 pm |
Integrating IT-OT to Unlock Smart Factory Capabilities Chitti Babu, Group CIO, Aurobindo Pharma |
| 02:15 pm - 02:30 pm |
Reimagining Enterprise Innovation: Building AI-Native, Scalable Platforms for the Digital Era Karthick Raja S, CIO & CDO, Granules India |
| 02:30 pm - 03:15 pm |
Panel Discussion: How CISO's are Handling Burnout Crisis & Proactively Addressing Workforce Fatigue Moderator: Sayantan Mondal, Correspondent, Express Computer Panelists: Ratan Jyoti, CISO, Ujjivan Small Finance Bank Palanikumar Arumugam, CISO, Hinduja Leyland Finance Krishnendu Dutta, Head of Information Security, Decathlon Sports India Sunil Karanth, Deputy CISO, Karnataka Bank Jacxine Fernandez, VP - Information Security & ICT Governance, Bangalore International Airport Ltd |
| 03:15 pm - 03:30 pm | Closing Note |
| 03:30 pm onwards | Networking Tea & Airport Transfers |
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