Speaker Bio:  

Vijay Sethi
Vice President-IS and CIO, Hero MotoCorp
Sethi is the Vice President and CIO at Hero MotoCorp – World’s largest two wheeler manufacturing company. He is also part of the leadership team of the organization. He has more than 23 years of experience in industry and consulting environment and prior to Hero MotoCorp he has worked with M/s Ranbaxy Laboratories and M/s Tata Consultancy Services. He has extensive experience in IT and has led a number of global projects. Vijay is a member of various national forums including National IT and ITeS committee of CII, CII Knowledge Council and is also Co Chairman of the IT committee of SIAM. He is also the Board member and North India Region Head of SAP India User Group (INDUS ) and is a member of advisory councils of some of the leading organizations. Widely respected as a leading IT thought leader in the country, Vijay is a regular speaker at various forums across the globe. He has won several prestigious awards and recognitions including Global CIO, CIO of the year, CIO Hall of Fame, Champion CIO, India’s Best CIO, CIO Grandmaster, BI Mastermind, Cloud Pioneer and India’s Best IT Manager. He has also been the jury member for some of the leading IT and telecom awards in India.
Virendra Bansal
Group CIO, Luminous Power Technologies
Virendra is currently the Group CIO at Luminous Power. He has over 30 years of experience in Managing IT of various Manufacturing Companies. Earlier he was VP & Corporate Chief of IT at Jubilant Organosys and VP -IT at Bajaj Hindustan. Virendra has been successful in implementing 4 end to end SAP projects for which he was honoured by SAP for best implementation.
Sudhir K Mittal
CIO, Samtel
Sudhir is currently the Group CIO at SAMTEL with over 27 years of rich experience. Earlier he has been the Group CIO at Pantaloon Retail India, Head (MIS) at Reliance Industries and also Head (IT & ERP) at Grasim Industries. He has done his M.Tech, Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.
Dr. Mahesh Taneja
V.P. (Finance & I.Tech.), Munjal Showa
Dr. Mahesh has more than 24 years of experience. He is a seasoned professional with considerable exposure and experience in the Industries with Companies of significant standing and repute. His specific area of specialization and competence are the completion of management and administration of Rs.1800.00 crores Company for Finance, Accounts, Legal, Secretarial & IT department (SAP Environment functional) as HOD, liaising with the banks and financial institutions for securing long terms loans and working capital requirements both in Indian Rupee as well as foreign currency & ECB, gainfully employing surplus funds of the Company in securities and instruments, control and contain exchange fluctuation through formulation of exchange risk policy and its monitoring routinely and negotiation of the pricing with the renowned OE customers being part of the team and heading the costing area. He is also a visiting Faculty Member of Army Institute of Management & Technology, Greater Noida.
S. Ramasamy
Executive Director - IS, Indian Oil
Ramasamy is responsible for IT strategy at Indian Oil and his portfolio includes Business Information Management,applications development, technology infrastructure, telecommunication networks and data centre operations. He has 33 years extensive experience and expertise in Petroleum Industry especially in the specialized functions like Process Operation, Advance Controls, Optimization and Information Systems coupled with strategic planning and management. He has the consultancy experience of implementation of SAP at SriLankan National Oil Companies too. He has presented many technical papers at industry events across the region. He has also implemented one of the India’s Biggest Inter company Oil Exchange B2B project using SAP PI Platform. He is a member of the SAP Regional Services Board of Advisors too. Amongst several awards and recognitions during his distinguished career,he has led the Indian Oil team to receive the most coveted eGov award of Govt of India three times for 2009,10& 11 and SAP ACE Awards consecutively four times. Some of the recent awards to IndianOil under his leadership include CIO 100 Security award, 2010, CIO100 APC Green IT Award,eWorld Award, Check-Point Express Security Strategist Award and BCI Continuity & Resilience Award.
S.P. Arya
Sr.VP Corporate(IT), Amtek Group
S.P. Arya is a technocrat with an experience of more than 28 years in Information Technology, with reputed Organizations. Presently working with AmtekGroup for past more than 5 years as Sr.Vice President Corporate (IT)/Global CIO. He has transformed the IT setup spanning from Infrastructure to ERP/application implementations, successfully. Implemented SAP in Hero Cycles and four other companies in year 2000 as first SAP project in Punjab state.
Jatin Mehta
AVP IT and Head - IT End User Services, ABB
Jatin is a result-driven IT Professional with vast years of diverse IT experience across domain verticals like Project Management, IT Infrastructure, ITSM, Product Development, Techno functional ERP Implementation, ERP Administration, Database Administration ,SDLC, Systems Administration.
Venkata Lavu
GM, Schneider Electric
Venkata comes with 17 years experience in the IT space of Manufacturing domain. As a GM in APC, he heads the Manufacturing vertical specializing in solutions in the Data Center Infrastructure space specifically for the unique needs of Manufacturing customers.
Kavita Arora
Software Development Head, IFS India
Kavita has over 20 years of experience in implementing ERP Systems. Kavita has implemented IFS for over 5 customers worldwide. She is also a visiting faculty of Institute of Management Studies, Noida. Earlier she worked with IT Group of Escorts. She has a bachelors degree in EEE (Electrical and Electronics Engineering) from BIT, Mesra, Ranchi.
Balwant Singh
Head - IT, C&S Electric
Balwant has vast years of experience in IT. He did his BSc, Advance Diploma in Software Engineering and MBA - IT. He is an open source fan. Used it very aggressively. He has got Next 100 CIO Award in 2010 by IT Next Magazine. Presently working with C&S Electric. Working on expansion of ERP and standardization & centralization of IT applications / services.
Atul Govil
Head (SAP & IT) , India Glycols
Atul has more than 18 years of experience. His major tasks include Migration from legacy package to SAP in 2007 – 08, subsequent roll outs in added plants, support on SAP with in house team and conduction of periodic, structured IT Audits. He is expert in deployment of Business Intelligence tool and Employee Portal on MS Sharepoint. Currently working on Compliance dashboards, RFID based Vehicle tracking system, HR workflows migration from legacy system. Prior experience includes expertise in Process Control Systems, Advanced Process control strategies, Energy Conservation techniques in manufacturing processes, Discrete and Continuous process instrumentation.