Power Panels

Power Panels are comprised of an articulate moderator with in-depth knowledge of the topic area and expert panelists. The panel discussion focuses on business trends, market forces and factors or best practices across the six featured tracks of the summit -- SOA & Web Services, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Content Management (ECM) & Storage, Virtualisation, Information Security and Business Intelligence. The Power Panels will be held at at the CIO/Executive edition that will take place Nov 06 2009 at the Grand Hyatt, Mumbai, featuring an audience of over 100 C-level executives and senior IT decision makers from verticals including BFSI, Retail, Government, Healthcare, Energy and so on. See complete Agenda: Bangalore | Mumbai.

Achieving Business Technology Leadership: The Best Practices

Moderator: Robert Schneider
Speakers:Arun Gupta, Sandeep Phanasgaonkar, Tamal Chakravorty, Dhiren Savla, Surendra Shetty

Executive Edition: Mumbai
Date: 6 November 2009
Location: Grand Hyatt Mumbai

As leaders of technology teams, CIOs rely on a vast number of skills to meet the challenges they face. Which of these skills are essential to a successful CIO? What's more, are these skills learned or were they born with them? This panel of CIOs will discuss how they match their skills with the business leaders they collaborate with and how they motivate the business environment they operate within, as well as:

What are the essential qualities of an effective IT leader?
Which new competencies you must embrace today to play tomorrow's leadership game?
What are the 5 must-have attributes of a successful CIO?
How can CIOs be leaders of IT and businesses?

Business Technologies to Shape Your Enterprise - Part I

Moderator: Bob Marcus
Speakers: Nils Puhlman, Robert Schneider, Anil Bakshi, Abhay Kumar Sinha, Jinesh Varia.

Executive Edition: Mumbai
Date: 6 November 2009
Location: Grand Hyatt Mumbai

This holistic BT power panel is broadly divided into three sections focusing on:

Wringing the Best Out of Virtualization
Cloud Computing - Impact on Businesses
SOA & BPM Wisdom, Advice, Strategies and Tactics

The first 20-mins of this panel will address ways virtualization can answer pressing budget questions, the current and future state of virtualization and cloud computing, industry trends and personal experiences with the technology. It will provide a drill down into the trends shaping how CIOs are leveraging virtualization. It'll look at wringing out the maximum cost savings; hidden benefits like green IT and disaster recovery; how virtualization is poised to push cloud computing past the tipping point; best practices for managing your virtual environment; Open Source Virtualization: Ready for Prime Time?; and virtualization and security: the critical issues confronting CIOs.

Are today's Cloud services ready for prime time? How do I manage my Data Center hosted in Cloud? How do I secure my Data Center hosted in a Cloud? What are the underlying technologies on which a Cloud is built? What will promote corporate ITs to make a beeline to Cloud providers? How will corporate IT department move their Data Centers to a Cloud? These are the questions that the panelists will wrestle in the next 20-minutes of this panel.

In this economic situation, many companies' IT investment has been frozen, or has been in significant cost cutting mode. However, there are risks in there to lose the company's original abilities. Now is the time to accelerate to build the fundamental strength to not only survive but come out on tops in a post crisis world. In the final 20-mins, the panel will provide forward looking wisdom and advice on how to build your enterprise's architecture, strategies and tactics using SOA and BPM.

Business Technologies to Shape Your Enterprise - Part II

Moderator: Alan Pelz-Sharpe
Speakers: Pawan Desai, Japjit Sandhu, Babji VS, Vinay Hinge, Nirmal Jajodia, Gopi Krishna Garge.

Executive Edition: Mumbai
Date: 6 November 2009
Location: Grand Hyatt Mumbai

This holistic BT power panel is broadly divided into three sections focusing on:

Saving and Making Money with Business Intelligence Insights
Storage & Enterprise Content Management In a Challenged Economy
New Enterprise Security: Winning ways, New Formulae

New IT initiatives and leadership are the need of the hour in this era of economic undertainity. As CIOs grapple with these fundamental challenges facing their organizations, their top priorities are transcending beyond the usual technology systems issues and now more than ever delve into the deep waters of managing business process change, increasing knowledge worker productivity, business model innovation and exploitation of information as a strategic asset. In the first 20-mins of this power panel, learn not only how to make and save money in today's economy using Business Intelligence, but also on how those insights can help shape your enterprise in a post crisis world.

In a challenged economy, CIOs are being scrutinized for their ability to deliver better business efficiency, risk reduction and more rapid ROI. At the same time, employees, partners and customers are demanding transparency and a more open flow of information enabled by social networks and collaborative Web 2.0 applications. In the next 20-mins, learn insights on how visionary CIOs and IT executives successfully promoted their Storage & ECM initiatives, to find answers to the tough questions and evaluate the strategies and tools available to help you get the most return on your investment.

Security has featured highly on Indian CIOs agenda for some time. However, like the song that never ends, CIOs still find themselves on the back foot in terms of consistent alignment and tracking execution from year to year. The last 20-mins of this power panel will enrich this debate by sharing best practices and emerging security challenges to prepare CIOs & CISOs with what lies beyond the horizon.