Cyber criminals are becoming more mature in their approach to exploit every area of an enterprise’s security landscape. Cyber-attacks on all businesses are becoming more frequent, targeted, and complex. Not only does a cyber-attack disrupt business-as-usual operations, but it also leads to impairment of IT assets and infrastructure. Unmitigated approach to tackle external and internal security threats can lead to loss of significant tangible and intangible expenses that enterprises are not aware of or do not anticipate in their planning such as data loss, business disruption, revenue loss, brand damage, and eventually trust. In this round table, we will discuss on how enterprises can deal with the dynamically evolving security and network landscape, what should be the first step enterprises should look at while deploying a SASE framework, and how can a future enterprise build trust by encompassing zero-trust at the foundation.

The pace of digitalization has hastened during the last couple of years and enterprises are under increasing pressure to deliver newer experiences to end customers, improve operational efficiencies or build new business models. Behind this drive lies the digital infrastructure that needs to be optimized and redesigned where energy efficient data centers and interconnect fabrics need to connect with business ecosystems. On demand, high scalability, and all-in-one platform like solutions that provide easy manageability and control are the need of the hour. One such technology firm that offers such services and solutions is Equinix. In this session we will discuss trends, need and how enterprises are ramping up their digital infrastructure to meet new business demands.

As the world recover from the pandemic, the war in Ukraine is still raging on. Recession is threatening to loom. We are living in uncertain times. With that, governments, and enterprises, big and small, are seeking ways to improve their value to citizens and customers and yet decreasing the cost, enriching the offerings by providing security, speed, and scale.

Connected Data, beyond just data, provide you with the insights embedded in the relationships between your data points to make decisions faster, better with more relevance to the data you collected.

A platform-based managed service is one where an enterprise leverages a unified platform to accelerate its journey toward becoming a resilient future enterprise with an automated, intelligent, data-driven, and self-healing IT environment. The lack of a modern IT services delivery platform can detract from an IT organization’s ability to leverage IT automation, DevOps, and security best practices that support enterprise agility goals. It is very important and critical to leverage an optimized, scalable, managed services platform with features such as self-service, reporting, monitoring, API-enabled integration, end-to-end service management, and machine learning capabilities.

Innovation is a key DNA for digital business. The pace of innovation differentiates between winners and losers. Technology advancements have enabled increased adoption of agile/devsecops, low-code/no-code platforms, and cloud native technologies to deliver new products and services in a faster and efficient manner. In this session we will discuss the role of these technologies in driving innovation, associated challenges and lessons learnt.

As we traverse the path of digital evolution, enterprises are increasingly looking for work from anywhere models, which not only provides seamless experience but are also secure and cloud delivered. This has in return enabled enterprises to not only think about managing multiple workloads but also be prepared to tackle external and internal security threats. In this fireside chat, we will discuss on what are the security challenges enterprises are facing as they move towards a cloud-based ecosystem, how can frameworks such as SASE and zero-trust enable enterprises to be proactively protected and what are the ways in which a future enterprise become more cyber resilient.

India has started rolling out 5G and the buzz around the changes it can bring to the way we do business is high. There are a lot innovative use cases around IoT, edge, gaming and metaverse that are on the verge of becoming a reality due to 5G. In this session we will discuss some practical use cases that 5G can deliver, potential challenges/pitfalls and how to navigate through them

Spurred by continued technological advancement, the world today is more connected than ever. However, with persistent political and social unrest, decreasing trust, financial meltdown and global instability, enterprises require to continuously reset to identify the systemic challenges and create solutions for a more resilient, equitable, sustainable and connected world.

The pandemic has taught us that companies that invest in sustainability find improved resilience, better operational performance and business success. The pandemic has helped to reach a widespread cognizance of the fact that actions pertaining to Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) issues cannot be delayed further, and a strong sustainability implementation is the only way forward into the new normal.

2020 and 2021 have been eventful for India enterprises due to pandemic and tested the CIOs in terms of resiliency and agility. As we progressed to 2022, the role of CIO became more strategic and CIOs are expected to play a critical role in driving business outcomes, act as change agents and help enterprises to be future-ready. In this session, we will discuss how the CIO agenda will shape up for 2023 and what are the areas they need to focus on.

Customer experience or customer engagement has been one of the top priorities’ Indian enterprises especially in the last few years. Most businesses have invested heavily in the transformation of technologies, processes, data/analytics, and talent necessary to create better customer experiences, yet few excel in creating superior, differentiated experiences. Despite those significant investments, many customers and thus many business leaders are not satisfied with results. One of the primary reasons for this can be attributed to enterprises taking a tactical solution/tool-based approach towards customer experience rather than looking at what problem needs to be addressed and how to make customer journeys frictionless. What is needed is an integrated, intelligent, connected and unified approach towards customer engagement.