The Future IT Summit Asia and ESG Summit 2022 kicked off in Mumbai on 17 June

GEC Media Group and Global CIO Manufacturing Forum kicked off the six-city mega-event ‘The Future IT Summit Asia and ESG Summit 2022’ with Mumbai edition at ITC Maratha on 17th June 2022. The event was opened by Deepika Chauhan, Digital Content Lead, GEC Media Group with an inauguration speech and highlights of the event.

The FITS Asia and ESG Summit 2022 were brought to you by Global CIO Manufacturing Forum; Title partner Yotta Infrastructure and other partners HP; Orbit; HPE; Unique Solutions; Freshworks; Infinite Blue; Peocit; Blueprint Technologies; Global CIO Forum; Global CISO Forum; International Group of Artificial Intelligence; Finesse; Indian Chamber of Commerce; Governance for Growth; Theistic; Redefine; CIO Connect; CISO Connect; Satisfied Media; Software Technology Parks of India, Bhubaneswar; NASSCOM; International Society of Automation; MAIT; Association for Information Technology; SME Chamber of India; Cyber Society of India; ITAMMA; ADCTA; FITDAK; FKCCI Bangalore; TAIT; TEMA; CMDA; SPIN Chennai; Maharashtra Section; UCCIL and media partner Business Transformation Asia.

The event was honoured with the presence of Vinod Jadhav, General Manager IT, Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation; Dr Sanjay Gupta, Director, Software Technology Park of India; Champakraj Gurjar, Founder President and Chief Mentor, Federation of All India IT Associations; Viren Bavishi, President, Trade Association of Information Technology; Santosh Patil, President, (ISA – Maharashtra); and Chandrakant Salunkhe, President, SME Chamber of India.

The Future IT Summit Asia and ESG Summit 2022 Mumbai 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 panellists shared their insights and their course ahead on ways to promote the digital transformation to bring a change in the country.

The distinguished speakers of the FITS Asia and ESG Summit 2022 Mumbai edition include Sunil Gupta, Co-Founder & CEO, Yotta Infrastructure; Venkata Satish Guttula, Director Security, Rediff.com India; Kaushik Shaw, Market Development Manager, HPI with Orbit; Pratap Pat Joshi, EVP IT & Chief Evangelist, Yotta Infrastructure Solutions/ Board Member, GCMF; Binita Prasad, Head of IT, Saint Gobain/ Board Member, GCMF; Saurabh Godbole, Head Enterprise Business, HPE with Unique Solutions; Sanjay Shirsat, IT Head, The Motwane Manufacturing Company; Rajeev Dutt, General Manager, Infinite Blue; Rahul Pandey, Head of Manufacturing & Technology Analytics at SG Analytics and Key Member of IGOAI.

 

The event also witnessed two panel discussions on Cloudification Roadmap in 2022 enterprises and Heading for Convergence in Digital Transformation and Sustainability Objectives in Asian enterprises joined by the experts Yogesh Dadke, APAC IT Leader, Adient; Satyanarayana Kasturi, Group IT Head, Ashok Piramal Group; Viren Bavishi, President- Trade Association of Information Technology; Chandrakant Salunkhe, President, SME Chamber of India; Santosh Patil, President, ISA Maharashtra; Champakraj Gurjar, Federation of All India IT Associations; Dr Chitranjan Kesari, CIO & IT Head, Hive Carbon Zero (Fosun Group-MNC); Navin Nathani, Head IT Projects and Transformation Management Office, Aditya Birla Group (Hindalco Industries Limited); Tejas Shah, Sr. IT Professional (Infra Management); and Rajesh Garg, EVP Chief Digital Officer & Head of Cybersecurity, Yotta Infrastructure.

The event also witnessed the successful launch of the Global CIO Manufacturing Forum in the presence of Pratap Pat Joshi, Board Member, GCMF; Binita Prasad, Board Member, GCMF and Subodh Dubey, Board Member, GCMF.

The event with its theme as #evolvetechnology – AI and Cloud, brought together some of the leading names of the Technology industry and also organised a series of events like Presentations, Fireside Chat with an Incisive Panel Discussion on transforming lives through technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Big Data, IoT, and future-proofing of businesses and organisations.

 

The event was concluded with the felicitation of the Catalyst Excellency, Catalyst CIO and Catalyst CMO Award winners.

The winners of the Catalyst Excellency Award 2022 Mumbai edition include Dr P. Anabalagan, Deependra Singh Kushwah, and Dr Sanjay Gupta.

The winners of the Catalyst CMO Award 2022 include Anita Kukreja, Piyush Advani, Siddharth Singh, Rajeev Dutt, Neeraj Kumar, Ankita Datey and Ashutosh Jha.

The winners of the Catalyst CIO Award 2022 include Sarabjeet Singh, Akhil Kumar, Ashok Thouti, Amit Jaokar, Mihir Bhavsar, Viren Popatbhai Italiya, Dr Jitendra Panchal, Dr Deepak Kalambkar, Lalit Trivedi, Sourabh Tiwari, Tejas Shah, Lakshmana Vadaga, Vinod   Deshmukh, Manish Kishore, Ashok Tiwari, Nandkishor Jaiswal, Sanjay Shirsat, Navin Nathani, Rajesh Panchal, Dr Amrut Urkude, Allauddin Fakir Mohamad, Pragnesh Mistry, Sunil Sonare, Abhijit Bhalerao, Farhan Khan, Atanu Kumar Pramanic, Ashok Kannan, Vikas Gupta, Satyanarayana Kasturi, Dr Chitranjan Kesari, Gaurav Midha and Sundeep Kumar Tiwari.