The 10th edition of Big CIO Show - India gathered major stakeholders of India's technology ecosystem such as government think-tanks, technology experts and leading technology solution providers, to discuss the critical infrastructure, where digital transformation can help the nation boost economic competitiveness.

The attendees were enlightened by the speakers from governments and enterprises such as Dr Rajendra Kumar - Additional Secretary, MeitY, Government of India; Ripu Bajwa - Director and GM, Data Protection Solutions, Dell Technologies; Golok Kumar Simli - Chief of Technology, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India; Sudhir Kanvinde - Executive Director - IT, Ministry of Ports Shipping, Government of India; Sanjiv Mehta - Country Manager, AMD; Sridhar S - VP, Managed Services - Cloud, Hosting and Security, Tata Communications Ltd; Veneet Sharma - Regional Sales Director - APAC(IAM), Thales; Rajiv Ramanan - Director - Technology Partnerships, Freshworks Inc.; Harish Sekar - Senior Technical Evangelist, Manage Engine, a division of Zoho Corp; to name a few.

The show covered key topics such as driving businesses to reassess transformation roadmap, understanding the value of customer data platforms, the rise of native clouds, cyber security implications of working remotely, edge computing gaining the edge, emergence of the software-defined enterprise, future of data centres, and more.

Key highlights and takeaways from Big CIO Show - India include:

Sridhar S, VP, Managed Services - Cloud, Hosting and Security Tata Communications Ltd discussed at length on the topic 'From Technology to Business Innovation with Unified Cloud Experience'. He stated that "It is very clear that cloud is becoming a biggest business improvement machine. The innovations that one can bring about in your business model has made us realize that all these are important as we go ahead into the future because we need to be present everywhere and we need to be present close to the customers."

In a panel discussion on the topic 'The Cyber security Implications of Working Remotely', moderated by Jacxine Fernandez, VP, Cyber Security at Adani Group, the panellists discussed key areas such as 'Protecting the remote workforce' major cyber-attack trends of 2020 and alternatives to the current solutions on remote working and much more.

Dell Technologies tech talk on the topic 'Increase your agility with Multi-Cloud flexibility' stated that "Business transformation is a pre-requisite for all organizations and is crucial for every kind of business."

While speaking about 'Digital Transformation in Government', Dr Rajendra Kumar, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India mentioned that "MeitY has unveiled its vision for 2025, to create USD 1 trillion of economic value using digital technology in India."

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