A Peek into the BTOPEX Summit 2025
The Business Transformation & Operational Excellence Confex & Awards event was held on Feb 20, 2025, at the The Grand Magrath Hotel, Bengaluru, bringing together leading CXOs, experts, innovators, and professionals from the diverse tech and business domain to inspire the global audiences. Showcasing inspiring success stories of companies that have achieved remarkable growth, innovation, and operational excellence from Asia, Europe and US, the event served as a platform for the thought leaders to discuss unparalleled business ideas and discuss cutting-edge technologies and advancement around IT and industries as a whole. siliconIndia is proud to take center stage as a media partner, actively witnessing and boosting the insightful experience at the summit.
The speaker panel comprised 30 to 35 decision-makers and experts focused on transforming their organizations' business models and operations through a process-oriented framework, technology integration, and right financial assessments. Few of the recognized doyens were – Achyuta Ghosh, Senior Director and Head, Nasscom, Amandeep (Aman) Chauhan, Principal Risk Manager, Amazon, Ranan Bhattacharya, Head of Intelligent Automation, Shell, Suresh Khadakbhavi,Chief Executive Officer, Digi Yatra Foundation, including others.
While the event ‘Navigating the Digital Frontier: Business Transformation and Operational Excellence in a Changing World’ commenced with a welcome remark from Eimran Kahn, Founder & CEO, Confexco leading the event. The opening keynote presented by Achyuta Ghosh, Senior Director and Head, Nasscom emphasized ‘How India tech industry is enabling Business transformation for clients across the world?’
Later Aura Bhattacharjee, Europe Lead – Data Quality & Performance, Mondelez International, Nithya Subramanian, Head of Data and Analytics, Kellanova, Amandeep (Aman) Chauhan, Principal Risk Manager, Amazon, Ranan Bhattacharya, Head of Intelligent Automation, Shell, came together for a panel discussion and discussed the challenges and opportunities associated with implementing AI solutions, including data quality, talent acquisition, and ethical considerations, The Power of IoT, how to maximize technology investments, and build a technology-driven future.
Also, it was intriguing to hear from Suresh Khadakbhavi, Chief Executive Officer, Digi Yatra Foundation in the next keynote session which was extensively about travel & tourism expansion today. Nithya Subramanian, Head of Data and Analytics, Kellanova in her keynote session stated how generative AI will reshape the future of work, creating new opportunities and challenges for organizations and employees. She said, “Technology and especially Gen AI has advanced hugely today. When we think of Quantum computing, it is phenomenal. Technology is driven by multiple factors coming together, and innovation in the hardware ecosystem is one amongst those. Quantum computing represents the aspirational target we are striving towards and next, we need to focus on contextual learning and develop a deeper understanding of natural language. From here, the next step will be the evolution of Agentic AI”.
When siliconindia in an interview at the event asked Suresh Khadakbhavi, Chief Executive Officer, Digi Yatra Foundation his views on the evolving travel & tourism, he said, “The opportunities are huge across travel industry. Through Digi-Yatra, we are working towards promoting our business concept across the travel, transportation, and hospitality industries. This initiative could have a significant socio-economic impact because it will change the experience of travel itself. When travel becomes more seamless, travelers are more likely to share their positive experiences. As a result, we can expect greater tourism, with people saying how enjoyable it is to visit India and explore various destinations”.
No doubt, the scope of technology is vast industry-wide and enthralling to observe and experience. There were many more panel discussions, Fire Side Chat, and more that led to rethinking the concepts and ideations around certain topics.
The summit successfully delineated meaning to the businesses and industries across through vast collaboration, innovation, and deep discussions among the thought leaders and experts who came to discuss the future of business and operational excellence. It well addressed the critical challenges and opportunities talking around ‘Navigating complex transformation challenges with agile and resilience approach’, ‘Overcoming Macro-economic challenges’, ‘Envisaging approaches & government models to scale up business impact of automation, ‘Inflation, cost control and high entry barriers’, ‘Implementing technology to enable digital transformation and IoT’ and ‘Quality customer service and fast changing market. The BTOPEX Awards 2025 were a great add to celebrate the CXOs’ hard work and achievements!
