Powered by Ctrls Datacentres, the event witnessed who’s who of Kolkata CIO fraternity
The largest CIO event series of 2018 – Enterprise IT World 7 City CIO Dinner and Discourse powered by CtrlS Datacenters wrapped up its Kolkata event on 23rd March, 2018. Attended by 70 plus CIOs and IT Leaders from various vertical industries, the event witnessed involvement of the CIOs actively in the powerful topic of “transforming role and road ahead”.
This event happened, after the successful engagement of 150 IT leaders in New Delhi and Bengaluru. The venue was JW Marriott, one of the luxurious hotels in Kolkata. The event continued the momentum from the previous two engagements in March as veteran IT leaders took part in a Panel Discussion on the role transformation for current CIOs in the new technology landscape and the road ahead for emerging leaders of tomorrow.
The discussion at the Kolkata event was moderated by veteran IT leader Sudipta Biswas, VP and CISO, Prime Infoserv who has previously been at the helm of IT leadership as CIO, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL). Among the panelists were Ashok Cherian, Group CIO, Emami Agrotech; Jayanta Bhowmik, CIO, Usha Martinl; Manik Paul, Vice President IT, Vikram Solar and Raj Kumar Chhattani, GM IT, UCO Bank. The panel discussion was followed up by the open forum where CIOs and IT leaders from the audience took part in the discussion, gave their view points and raised questions.
The event also saw an informative presentation by Abhinav Mishra, Regional Manager, SAP Practices – North and East, CtrlS Datacenters where he shed light on the history of Datacenters followed by one on SAP Services powered by CtrlS Datacenters. Sanjay Mohapatra, Group Editor, Accent Infomedia and Enterprise IT World made a keynote address pondering on the idea behind these events and also announced the CIO500 Mega Tech Summit and Awards event, locally unveiling the CIO500 logo with Senior CIOs from the area.
The Seven City CIO Dinner and Discussion events are conceptualized to give enterprise IT leaders an open platform to come and express their views among peers, gain insights and gather actionable experience to add to the value of their organizations. The event series which is India’s first CIO Open Forum of its kind will stretch to four more cities in the month of April. The next city on the roadmap is Ahmedabad which hosts the event on the 6th of April at Courtyard by Marriott, Satellite Road followed by Mumbai on the 13th, and Chennai on 19th before wrapping up with this year’s initiative at Pune on the 26th of April 2018. The events across seven cities are conceptualized and hosted by India’s leading CIO publication Enterprise IT World and are powered by India’s largest Tier4 Datacenter organization CtrlS Datacenters.
