Event Highlights: 2nd Collaboration Retreat 2011 Dates: 23rd and 24th Sept 2011, Pune

Synopsis: Apart from offering a first-of-its-kind

interactive platform for sharing CIO and CFO

perspectives on Collaboration Infrastructure

Strategies, it offered a good opportunity to the CXOs

and delegates for networking and informal

conversations.

Golf Clinic: 23rd Sept 2011Venue: Poona Club Golf Course, Pune

15 CXOs participated in the Golf Clinic and it

was a big hit. It was conducted by a national

level Golf coach and trainer.

The Golf Clinic provided an opportunity for the

CXOs to get to know each other while the

coach elucidated the nuances of the game.

Conference: 24th Sept 2011Venue: MCCIA Trade Tower, Pune

In his opening address, Mr. Tarun Malaviya,

CEO of Mithi, explained the theme of the Retreat

and how this event is shaping up as a platform for

seeding new ideas on collaboration.

With the help of several real life examples, he

talked about how in today’s world, collaboration is

more important than competition as a means for

progress.

He explained how Collaboration impacts our work

and social life and how Collaboration

Technologies will define how business is done in

this century. .Mr. Tarun Malaviya,

CEO, Mithi Software Technologies

Pvt Ltd

Mr. Ashok Malaviya, talked about how Mithi

has been consistently trying to lower the cost of

Email and Collaboration for its customers

through successive generations of its product.

He spoke on how every time Mithi attempted to

reduce the costs for its customers, it had to

improve performance.

He explained how it is never really possible to

reduce costs without first improving

performance..

Mr. Ashok Malaviya,

Director - Sales, Mithi Software

Technologies Pvt Ltd

In his Keynote Address, Mr. Chinar Deshpande,

dwelt on the Business impact of collaboration. He

shared some of the technology pillars for driving

collaboration in today's economy, and how

successful companies have weaved collaboration

into their corporate strategy.

He discussed examples of modern day

collaboration patterns like co-innovation as

against mergers and acquisitions. He also shared

the results of an independent survey which

underlined how the performance of companies

considerably increased in profitability, productivity,

sales growth, innovation, open culture etc, after

they adopted collaboration technologies.

He also touched upon how organizations are

incorporating collaborative social media platforms

into their business strategies.

Mr. Chinar Deshpande,

CEO, Creative IT (India) Pvt Ltd

Keynote Address: How

Collaboration is shaping business

today

Moderator: Mr. Arun Gupta (Group CTO, Shoppers Stop)

Panelists:

1. Mr. J.S. Puri - Advisor, Corporate Affairs and IT (Fortis

Healthcare Ltd.)

2. Mr. Sandeep Suryavanshi - CIO (Zensar Technologies

Ltd.)

3. Mr. Anil Khopkar – CIO (Bajaj Auto Ltd.)

1st Panel Discussion: “Is the role of CFO now more

critical in shaping the organization's collaboration

strategy?”

1st Panel Discussion: Is the role of CFO now more critical in

shaping the organization's collaboration strategy?”

1st Panel Discussion: Is the role of CFO now more critical in

shaping the organization's collaboration strategy?”

Mr. Arun Gupta started the discussion by asking the panelists whether they report to

CFOs and what kind of relationship they enjoy with their CFOs.

The animated and participative discussion brought out some interesting aspects about

the CIO-CFO relationship and the CIO's role in an organizations, like:

• What matters more than the nos. (ROI etc.) is the business strategy, the long-term

vision of the company, what is the business value that IT can offer, etc

• CIO has to work with the business heads to deliver value to them, so whether CIO

reports to CFO or CEO does not really matter

• IT can create disruptive business models to directly impact the top-line, or help invent

new markets or business models, and so IT should be viewed as a strategic function

• The discussion on technology should be about competitive advantage (more so

today), and not so much about TCO, ROI etc.

• CIOs should be measured not just on how much cost savings they can bring in year

on year in the maintenance cost, but also on the new technologies, initiatives &

innovations brought in by them

Mr. Gupta summed up the discussion with the observation that all the business functions

would need technology to excel and should collaborate in jointly defining the business

value of IT to the organization.

Mr. LN Sundarrajan advocated a pragmatic

approach for leveraging IT to deliver value by

involving the business/functional leaders as

stakeholders.

He explained how the cloud phenomenon is

forcing even huge monolithic systems to be

ready for being available on the web, and how

new paradigms like mobility are changing the

way transactions are done and impacting

business agility.

He opined that cloud and mobile can be a

powerful combination to deliver a strong

business value in terms of competitive

advantages, operational efficiencies, profitability

etc.

Mr. LN Sundarrajan

Founder-Director at Rewire

How Cloud, New Devices & Social

Networking are impacting Collaboration

1st Panel Discussion: Is the role of CFO now more critical in

shaping the organization's collaboration strategy?”

Moderator: Mr. J.S. Puri (CIO, Fortis Healthcare)

Panelists:

1. Mr. Prasad Badiwale - Sr. VP, Group IT (Aditya Birla

Group)

2. Mr. Baiju Gujarathi - Sr. VP, IT Governance & IS

(Repro India Ltd.)

3. Mr. Milind Choudhari - Head IT (Edelweiss Tokio Life

insurance Co. Ltd.)

4. Dr. Ajay Dani - Principal Research Scientist (CREATE

LABS, PISL)

2nd Panel Discussion: “Is Collaboration Infrastructure

the starting point for a wider adoption of Open Source

Software in an enterprise?”

1st Panel Discussion: Is the role of CFO now more critical in

shaping the organization's collaboration strategy?” The panel discussion threw some thought-provoking points like:

• With proprietary software, cost goes up and innovation comes down, with open

source it is the reverse

• Change is coming to an industry from a seemingly unrelated source, through

innovations in some other industries or fields

• Openness and interoperability are key to success of the collaboration

infrastructure

• While it will take time for enterprises to adopt open source Business software as

these are currently available mostly in proprietary format, it is easier to adopt

open source collaboration software as these are fairly mature and stable

In his Concluding Address, Mr. Arun Gupta

observed how the culture of innovation, making

things work, and dealing with adverse situations

make India what it is.

He shared how the risk-averse nature of Indian

companies and CIOs prevents moving business

critical applications onto open source platform.

He said when the Indian business overcomes

this, there'll be a big leap forward for IT in India.

He ended by posing a question to the audience:

“How does an organization prepare for the next

generation of employees who have a very

different set of expectations and form of

collaboration?

Mr. Arun Gupta,

Group CTO, Shoppers Stop

Concluding Address

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