Taking one leap forward in Digital Transformation in Bhubaneswar with Debi Prasad Mishra and Pratap Keshari Deb
With an aim to promote Digital Transformation in the country, GEC Media Group and Global CIO Manufacturing Forum organised a six-city mega event. One of its leg is The Future IT Summit Asia and ESG Summit 2022 Bhubaneswar edition being hosted at Welcome hotel By ITC Hotels in Bhubaneswar on 25th June 2022.
The event was honoured with the presence of Shri Debi Prasad Mishra, Hon’ble MLA, Badamba Narsinghpur, Odisha and Vice President, Biju Janata Dal; Shri Pratap Keshari Deb, Hon’ble Minister for Industry, Government of Odisha; Sudhansu Sarangi, Additional Director General of Police, Government of Odisha; JB Pany, Chairman ICC, Odisha State Council along with other delegates.
The Future IT Summit and ESG Summit 2022 Bhubaneswar edition was inaugurated with the Lamp Lighting Ceremony by the Hon’ble Chief Guests and took off with a welcome speech by Ronak Samantaray, CEO and Co-Founder, GEC Media Group along with Sundip Sibal, Executive Director GEC Media Group, Co-founder, Business Transformation Asia.

During the event all the keynote speakers, chief guests, speakers, and panelists shared their insights and their course ahead on ways to promote digital transformation to bring a change in the Indian MSME sector.
The partners of The Future IT Summit Asia and ESG Summit 2022 included Yotta Infrastructure; HP with Orbit; HPE with Unique Solutions; Freshworks; Infinite Blue; Blueprint Technologies; Global CIO Forum; Global CISO Forum; IGOAI; Business Transformation Asia; Finesse; Indian Chamber of Commerce with Governance for Growth; Theistic; Redefine; CIO Connect with CISO Connect; Satisfied Media; Software Technology Parks of India, Bhubaneswar; NASSCOM; International Society of Automation; MAIT; Association for Information Technology; SEM Chamber of India; Cyber Society of India; ITAMMA; ADCTA; FITDAK; FKCCI Bangalore; TAIT; TEMA; CMDA; SPIN Chennai; and Maharashtra Section.
The event also witnessed the successful launch of the Business Transformation Asia and Global CIO Manufacturing Forum in the presence of honourable chief guests and delegates.

Amit Agarwal, Head of Sales and Business Development, Yotta Infrastructure; Sukant Mohakul, Senior Technical Director NIC; Pratap Pat Joshi, Executive Board Member, Global CIO Manufacturing Forum; Sanjeev Mohapatra, Country Head, DashTechs; Niladri Mohanty, Senior Data Scientist, Head IT, NIC; and Binita Prasad, Head IT, Saint Gobain Industries also shared their expertise and experiences during the event.
The event with its theme as #evolvetechnology – AI and Cloud, brought together some of the leading names in the Technology industry and also organised a series of events like Presentations, Fireside Chat along with an Incisive Panel Discussion on transforming lives through technologies such as Artificial Intelligance, Cloud, Big Data, IoT, and future proofing of businesses and organisations.
The event was concluded with the Catalyst CIO and Catalyst CMO Award ceremony.