A two-day global event facilitated over 150 Chief Information Officers, IT leaders from across key industry verticals embarked on a technological emprise on 14 – 15 March 2018 at The Leela Mumbai.
Mumbai, 22nd March – The Seventh Edition Big CIO Show and Awards cleared the deck in India’s commercial capital for the leading Chief Information Executives, IT leaders & tech gurus from around the world. The show which saw some of the brightest thought leaders in the IT industry, kicked off with a welcome address by Mohammed Saleem, CEO of Trescon; and the opening keynote address was presented by Chairwoman Danielle Di-Masi, winner of 2016 Stevie Award for ‘Most Innovative Communications Professional of the Year’.
45+ speakers of the show strongly emphasized a concise and structured framework that needs to be adopted by companies in order to excel in their technological initiatives and why it is the best time to adapt technologies of that future that fall under IR 4.0. Big CIO Show & Awards turned into a gathering of cutting edge thoughts for implementing technology in different sectors. IT experts present at the show conceptualized on basic business challenges and discovered solutions for the future technology.
“There are 4 important pillars for transforming industries. Data analytics forms the foundation, leveraging to new technology is the second pillar, making technology real-time is third and eventually, building self-autonomous systems in industries forms the fourth pillar,” said Dr. Satyam Priyadarshy, Chief Data Scientist at Halliburton, and Trescon’s very own advisory board member while delivering his intent in an open discussion with audience.
Big CIO Show & Awards, spread across two days had an event format like never before. Surprisingly, a CIO event included sessions like motivational talk by Nikhil Desai, a motivational speaker who has showed up on TV and radio in India, USA, Philippines, South Africa and Oman discussing stress management. The show additionally included an hour-long yoga session by Isha Foundation, an initiative of the Yogi Sadhguru.
One of the stand out session of the show was an all-woman panel discussion which brought together top woman IT experts discussing ‘Woman CIOs in the IT industry’, where the panel being elegantly moderated by Danielle Di-Masi. Other panelists included Vipin Luthra, Associate Director, PepsiCo; Ritu Madbhavi, CIO, FCB Ulka Advertising; Vineeta Singh, Co-founder, FAB BAG and Anuprita Daga, CISO, Reliance Capital Ltd. The panel spread the light on various issues like cultural & gender biases affecting the female leadership in the IT sector.
Two special workshops were conducted by Avaya on ‘reinventing the customer experience strategy’ and by Digital Ocean on ‘how to scale business on the cloud.’ Participants saw numerous insights on how to re-invent a customer experience strategy and how to effectively manage data on the cloud, respectively.
Maitreya Parikh, Senior Manager – Territory Sales – BFSI (India), Thales e-Security said in an interview, “The pre-qualification process & a dedicated event for CIOs are two of the catchy things for us. Having done business with Trescon in the past using their pre-qualification process, we have proven statistics of leads conversion and thus it is a sound investment to do an event with Trescon.”
K T Prasad, Sales Director, Zendesk India said in an interview, “While there are things like email & chat which are very popular in India, what we believe with the Millennials playing a big role, is they want to do things on their own using a messaging platform or a self-service. You can start by simply one channel and keep on adding channels in the future, but you simply cannot miss the experience.”
Speaking about the Big CIO Show, Mr Prasad said, “The quality of delegates in attendance is superior and you can feel that from the kind of questions & conversations you get. It definitely has helped us reduce our sales cycle because we got an opportunity to talk to wider audience while giving a view on what kind of company are we or what innovations are we bringing. The other advantage is when we had a parallel conversation in the lunch or networking break, it really enabled us to have fast-track of sales process. We believe an event like this will cut-down our sales cycle by months.”
Speaking on the successful completion of Seventh Edition Big CIO Show & Awards, Mohammed Saleem, CEO, Trescon stated, “CIOs accept the change like no other C-level Executive. The IT innovation has been re-examining itself all the time since the PCs were invented in the 1950s, each time bringing another innovation to test. We are glad to learn that every year, hundreds of CIOs attend Big CIO Show & Awards to be a part of conversations that can change the way they do their business. I congratulate all the winners of Big CIO 100 Awards.” Mr Saleem concluded by saying, “To commemorate their achievement, Trescon will additionally give Big CIO 100 Award winners a free access to any of our 3 ticketed International/Indian events in 2018.”
Some of the technology providers presented their solutions at the show included Aryaka, DigitalOcean, Avaya, Ameyo, Algorisys Technologies, Zendesk, Thales e-Security, WinMagic Data Security, Tufin, Team Computers, Embee, Locuz Enterprise Solutions Ltd, Symphony Summit IT Solutions Pvt Ltd, WebWerks Data Centres, Finesse IT Labs Private Limited, Just Dispose, AGL Digital & Flock. Media partners of the show included Free Press Journal, Dalal Street Investment Journal, CXO Today, Support Biz and Channel Times.
About Trescon:
Trescon is a global business events and consulting firm that provides wide range of business services to a diversified client base that includes corporations, governments and individuals. We are specialised in producing highly focused B2B events that connect businesses with opportunities through conferences, road shows, expos, demand generation, investor connect and consulting services.
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