Report on CXO Meet-2016
The 2nd CXO Meet was organized by Department of IT at the institute on Saturday, 17th September, 2016.
The event was formally inaugurated with the Lamp Lightening before Goddess Saraswati by the Guests including Prof. V. Ramgopal Rao, Director – IIT Delhi, Shri Manoj Chugh, President – Tech Mahindra, Shri Srinivas KRD – Executive Director, IBM, Prof. M.M. Pant, Former Pro Vice Chancellor – IGNOU & Founder Chairman – Planet EDU and Dr. Anupam Gupt – Jt. Secretary, Ministry of Comm. & IT, Govt. of India, Dr. R.P. Chadha, Chairman, I.T.S – The Education Group, Prof. A.K. Puri, Director General – I.T.S Ghaziabad and Prof. Sunil Kr Pandey, Director (IT), I.T.S Ghaziabad.
In his welcome address, Shri Arpit Chadha, Vice Chairman, I.T.S – The Education Group welcomed the guests and said that presently with the developments, fast changing nature of IT applications and the researches, it is the need of the hour that Academia and Industry joins hand together to work closely for mutual existence, sustainability and inclusive growth.
Earlier, the Director (IT), Dr. Sunil Kr Pandey presented a brief of this CXO Meet and its theme “Digital India Mission: Transforming India for Tomorrow” and spoke about the objectives and need of the event I.T.S CXO Meet. He said that to ensure that as a nation we grow and move forward, it is very important that citizens have access to the digital resources on a affordable cost, high degree of availability that creates a next time use experience.
In the beginning of each session, Shri Surinder Sood, Chief Administrator, I.T.S - The Education Group introduced & welcomed the guests. The Guests in all three sessions:
Following Guests Addressed in the gathering of the CXO Meet:
1. Maj. Gen (Dr.) G.D. Bakshi, National Security Expert
2. Dr. V. Ramgopal Rao - Director, IIT Delhi
3. Mr. Manoj Chugh, President (Enterprise Business), Tech Mahindra
4. Mr. Pramod Panda, Principal Chief General Manager, Reserve Bank of India
5. Dr. Anupam Gupt, Dy. Director General, Min of Com & IT, GoI
6. Mr. KRD Srinivas, Executive Director, IBM
7. Dr. M.M. Pant, Chairman, PlanetEDU
8. Mr. Rajiv Garg, Executive Director, BHEL
9. Mr. Ajay Ranjan Mishra, Director (Technology), Ericsson
10. Mr. Hilal Khan, Vice President & Operations Head (IT), Honda Cars
11. Mr. Ashok Sharma, Associate Vice President, Amar Ujala
12. Mr. Sunil Ranjhan, Global Head (HR) - APMEA of Apollo Tyres Ltd
13. Dr. Kumar Padmanabh, Lead Scientist (IoT), BOSCH
14. Ms. Karnika Seth, Cyber Law Expert, Seth Associates
15. Mr. Rajan Agarwal, Director, Ebix
In the beginning, Chief Administrator, I.T.S – The Education Group, Sh. Surinder Sood welcomed and introduced all the speakers of the CXO Meet-2016. While addressing the gathering, he also congratulated Director(IT), Dr. Sunil Kr. Pandey and his team for organizing such a big event.
While addressing the gathering Sh. Arpit Chadha, Vice Chairman, I.T.S – The Education Group welcomed the guests and said that students are fortunate to listen and meet the visionaries & Top Leaders of Corporate & Academia in this CXO Meet. He very nicely narrated the success story of ………………………… He also congratulated the Department of I.T for the initiation and organizing such a big event.
Director General, Dr. A.K.Puri while addressing the gathering said that the vision and mission of Digital India is to transform India into a digitally empowered society and a knowledge economy. The mission symbolizes the Government of India’s vision for connecting and empowering citizens. He said that this is a great opportunity for all of us to listen the Top Leaders of industry and academia.
Earlier, the Director (IT) & Convener of CXO Meet, Dr. Sunil Kr Pandey presented a brief of this CXO Meet and spoke about the objectives and need of the event I.T.S CXO Meet.
Following Guests Addressed in the Session-1 of the CXO Meet:
1. Dr. M.M. Pant, Founder Chairman, Planet EDU
2. Dr. V. Ramgopal Rao, Director, IIT Delhi
3. Sh.Manoj Chugh, President (Enterprise Business), Tech Mahindra
4. Dr. Anupam Gupt, Jt. Secretary, Dy. Director General – Telecom Services, Min of Com & IT, GOI
5. Sh. KRD Srinivas, Executive Director, IBM
Speaking as the first Speaker of the first session on the theme “Digital India: Its impact on Socio-Economic & Framework of India” renowned academician, researcher and established scientist, Dr. M.M. Pant said that organizing an event like this is certainly an opportunity to connect the present business leaders with the future CEOs. Dr. Pant emphasized on the fact that presently wealth is created through knowledge and then wealth is re-invested to produce new knowledge and then to understand how new knowledge can be used and applied for generating wealth and the cycle continues. There is a need to create the opportunity which comes out of some existing challenge and find out the solution for the same. This cycle keeps continue to consistent efforts to identifying challenges and working on finding out the solution which will continue to change regularly and thus we cannot afford to be on ease once we develop solution for any identified problem as tomorrow somebody else may come up with better solution and challenge is to keep solution optimal, convenient & easy to use.
Dr. V. Ramgopal Rao, Director, IIT Delhi while addressing the gathering said that Digital India is an ambitious program initiated by the Govt. of India with an objective to digitally empower the citizens of the country by creating a competent IT enabled infrastructure for effective delivery of services and products.
While addressing the gathering Shri Manoj Chugh, President (Enterprise Business), Tech Mahindra said that India is becoming a robust domestic data consumption market with digital data consumption expected to increase at twice as fast as the worldwide rate from being around 40,000 petabyte in 2010 to 2.3 million petabytes in 2020. He had an interactive session with students and he emphasized on the need for Innovations and then continues to innovate to sustain and assess consistently the Impact of Technology as it will ensure the sustainability.
Dr. Anupam Gupt, Jt. Secretary, Dy. Director General – Telecom Services, Min of Com & IT, GOI in his address, said that being the dream of our Prime Minister Sh. Narendra Modi ji, it would provide momentum to cover digital infrastructure as a utility to every citizen, digital empowerment with universal digital literacy to common citizen mandated delivery of various government’s services electronically through ‘e-governance’. He also congratulated the Department of I.T for organizing such a big event.
Sh. KRD Srinivas, Executive Director, IBM Digital said that the mission of Digital India is to have High-speed Digital Highways which will unite the Nation, where 1.2 billion connected Indians drive Innovation and Knowledge is strength which empowers the People to access the Information. Technology will ensure that the Citizen-Government Interface is Incorruptible, Quality Education reaches the most inaccessible corners driven by Digital Learning, e-Commerce drives Entrepreneurship, the World looks to India for the next Big Idea and where the Netizen is an Empowered Citizen.
Following Guests Addressed in the Session-2 on theme “ Leading Innovations & Technology: Future Ahead”:
1. Maj. Gen(Dr.) G.D. Bakshi
2. Sh. Sunil Ranjhan, Sr. Vice President(HR), Honda
3. Sh. Rajiv Garg, Executive Director, BHEL
4. Sh. Ashok Sharma, Associate Vice President, Amar Ujala
5. Ms. Karnika Seth, Managing Partner & Cyber Law Expert, Seth Associates
6. Sh. Pramod Panda, Principal Chief General Manager, RBI
While addressing the gathering Maj. Gen(Dr.) G.D. Bakshi said that today we are not afraid of physical attacks on the country but we are worried about the cyber attacks.
Sh. Sunil Ranjhan, Sr. Vice President(HR), Honda said that Digital India mission is an initiative of Govt. of India which aims at Digital Empowerment of citizens and creates an environment through competent infrastructure where the benefits of IT and IT enable tools ITeS are extended to the masses. Such occasions play very crucial role in creating awareness & taking the vision, benefits, provisions and the implementation mechanism through experience, vision, thought & Knowledge sharing by those who are involved in conceptualizing and implementing the same.
Sh. Rajiv Garg, Executive Director, BHEL said that on early public policy in an independent India focused on economic planning, adopting new technologies, and nurturing indigenous science and technology talent. About 50 years down the line, the early 1990s saw a move towards market-oriented economic policies to expand private investment in driving growth. This gave a fillip to the IT and ITeS industry. The 1990s was seminal not only for the IT and ITeS industries, but for the country as a whole. From policies that looked at regulated growth, we moved ahead, buoyed by the winds of liberalization. By the year 2019, 2.5 lakh villages will have broadband connection along with the added feature of phone connectivity.
While speaking to the students, Sh. Ashok Sharma, Associate Vice President, Amar Ujala emphasized on the security of data on the cyber space. He advised students to take care while sharing the data on facebook and whatsapp. He said that today’s youth is having full support of IT and he can take various advantages of it.
Ms. Karnika Seth, Managing Partner & Cyber Law Expert, Seth Associates while addressing the gathering said that in the age of social media and cloud computing, investigation of cybercrimes require data and evidence often located in another jurisdiction. There are widespread phishing attacks, global attacks on infrastructure, transnational organized crimes and cyberwars. Therefore, international cooperation in cybercrime matters is not an advantage but a necessity today. She make audience aware about various IT Law Acts which were regarding sending the obscene pictures, illegal text messages, chatting with wrong intention, videos and many more. She said that especially students while sharing data on net should be aware of its pros and cons. She also said that how involvement of technology is helping the court in solving many cases in a day. She advised students to take advantages of technology rather that to misuse it.
Sh. Pramod Panda, Principal Chief General Manager, RBI also talked about the various pillars of Digital India Mission and advised students to be industry ready products where IOT will play an important role in the coming days.
Following Guests Addressed in the Session-3 on theme “Indian IT Industry- Driving Nation’s Growth at Global Market Place”:
1. Sh. Hilal Khan, Vice President & Operations Head(IT), Honda Motors
2. Sh. Ajay Mishra, Director(Technology), Ericsson
3. Mr. Rajan Agarwal, Director, Ebix
4. Dr. Kumar Padmanabh, Lead Scientist(IOT), BOSCH
While talking to the audience, Sh. Hilal Khan, Vice President & Operations Head(IT), Honda Motors said that By the year 2019, 2.5 lakh villages will have broadband connection along with the added feature of phone connectivity. It is estimated that by 2019, about 1.7 crore young Indians will have proper training in IT, Telecom and electronics. This directly leads to 1.7 crore jobs for Indian Youth in about four years from now. With these developments, India is expected to become the world leader in IT interface with e-Governance and e-services getting maximum exposure.
Sh. Ajay Mishra, Director(Technology), Ericsson talked about many projects taken by their company. He also said that the 5G era is upon us. An era where every person, thing, and use case will be enabled with both seamless connectivity and massive computing power for the very first time, transforming the way we interact with our world. He also talked about the Gartner’s prediction that IoT’s powerful force for business transformation and its disruptive impact will be felt across all industries and all areas of society. This is presumably a great leap forward towards a more efficient lifestyle that will make our lives better, safer and easier.
While addressing the gathering, Mr. Rajan Agarwal, Director, Ebix also that iinitiative on Internet of Things (IoT-GSI) defined the IoT as "the infrastructure of the information society." The IoT allows objects to be sensed and/or controlled remotely across existing network infrastructure, creating opportunities for more direct integration of the physical world into computer-based systems, and resulting in improved efficiency, accuracy and economic benefit. Now students have to take up the live projects on IOT and make themselves prepared for the future.
Dr. Kumar Padmanabh, Lead Scientist(IOT), BOSCH being the scientist in the field of IOT, Mr. Kumar said that about in tomorrow’s world, a device will no longer be just a device, but rather one of billions of nodes, communicating via an intelligent network that surrounds us. Any “thing” connected will be a gateway to a virtually unlimited range of new capabilities and experiences, powered by rapid and ubiquitous access to the cloud. From self-driving cars, drones and robots, to wearable devices, to sensors embedded in virtually everything—by 2020 more than 50 billion connected devices will be in use, making our homes, our cities, and our lives richer and smarter. As we speed toward 2020, we must start to connect “things” now, allowing them to become greater than the sum of their parts. He also advised students that they should update their skills in IOT too.
On this occasion, a Souvenir printed on the occasion of this CXO Meet was also released by the eminent guests present on this occasion. The Souvenir comprised of messages from Hon’able Padhma Bushan , Dr. F.C Kohli who is regarded as father of IT Industry in India, Dr. V.Ramgopal Rao, Dr. Anupam Gupt, Dr. M.M.Pant, Sh. Manoj Chugh and other guests from India & Abroad. During the release of the Souvenir apart from the dignitaries on the stage, Sh. Arpit Chadha, Vice Chairman, ITS-The Educations Group, Sh. B.K. Arora, Secreatry, I.T.S-The Education Group, Sh. Surinder Sood, Chief Administrator, I.T.S The Education Group and other eminent speakers of the CXO Meet were also present.
At the end of the event Director(IT) & Convener of CXO Meet, Dr. Sunil Kr. Pandey presented a vote of thanks.
Overall the CXO Meet ended on a success note. About 500+ delegates including guests from Industry, Academia and students attended the event.
Prof. Puja Dhar Prof. S.K. Pandey