6:35 PM to 7:20 PM: Panel 1:
Forging Stronger Business-IT Relationships
The IT organization's relevance depends on its ability to leverage understanding of current business needs and future direction – and then deliver technology solutions and services with greater impact. This understanding can only be achieved through deep, mutually beneficial connections between IT and the business units it serves. Yet for many organizations, this relationship remains a challenge.
Speakers
Arvind Sivaramakrishnan, CIO, Apollo Hospital Enterprise
L. Veeraragavan, CIO, Esab India
S Sridharan, Executive VP-IT, Orchid Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals
Moderator
Gourav Srivastava, CIO, Randstad India

7:40 PM to 8:00 PM: Building on the Cloud: Why should CIOs consider moving to the Cloud
Speaker
Pramod Rao, Head - Microsoft Solutions, Dimension Data
Vivek Ravindran, Director – Core & App Platform, Microsoft

8:00 PM to 8:15 PM: Innovative DLP, GRC & SMM Solutions for Indian Enterprises
Speaker
Alexander Zarovsky, Chief of International Business Development, InfoWatch

8:15 PM to 9:00 PM: Panel 2:
The Business Impact of IT Consumerization, Mobility and the Cloud
A trio of mega-trends in mobility, social and cloud computing are converging on the IT/business landscape today, fast becoming a core component of leading-edge innovation as well as significant cost savings. Whether it’s the rollout of an iPhone or iPad application, a newly mobilized customer application or an e-collaboration system that accelerates business change, the drive to leverage new kinds of data “on the move” is having a profound strategic impact in many industries.
Speakers
Vardarajan N, Senior General Manager-IT, Madras cements
Siva Padmanabhan, Vice President, Information Technology , Flextronics
Rajiv Shankar, CIO, ColorPlus
Moderator
Rangaraja Sundarraj P, Professor, IIT Madras

9:00 PM Onwards: Cocktails & Dinner.