Welcome to Manufacturing CIO's Symposium
The COVID19 pandemic and Industry 4.0 are driving the manufacturing industry to modernize their technology, accelerating digital transformation efforts. The next industrial revolution is here, focusing not just on advanced technologies, but on the collaboration between humans and smart systems. Now is the time for manufacturers to be implementing smart, connected and robust digital capabilities to prepare for a more responsive and resilient future.
Join us for the Manufacturing CIO's Symposium, which will be brought to you virtually, to discover the trends that will define the manufacturing industry in the years to come. Hear from industry leaders as they discuss the current and future of Industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0, analyse upcoming trends and provide examples from the innovations and transformations happening in their own organizations.
500+ Attendees
45+ Speakers
Expo
Forward-looking, future-facing manufacturing leaders from across sectors are coming together on the 25th August, where they will explore the ways, technology is growing margins and boosting growth by compressing innovation & NPI cycles.
The online summit platform brings together attendees in a single virtual room – concentrating the event’s focus on a series of high-profile content sea, creating online conversations in a series of small, group conversations, creating a relaxed environment for discussion, and enabling everyone to lean in and be a part of the industry’s most important conversation.
Get Answers
Discover the answers to your most pressing questions for enhancing your workplace
Ensuring Collaboration
How can you ensure your factory floor enables the collaboration of people & intelligent machines, rather than opposition?Driving Change
How should OCM be optimized as key to driving behaviour and process changes, while increasing manufactured output?
Are you Using the Data?
What should you do with all the data in terms of customer experience, product end-value, and customer retention?Upskilling
Beyond the soft skills required, what technical skills are required to enhance and support your workforce?
World class IT
How can you ensure your organization is enabled with “world-class IT” to ensure a successful smart manufacturing strategy for business?Measuring Success
What are key performance indicators to measure success?
Preparing for the Future
What technological advances should manufacturers be prepared for in next year, 5-years, 10-years?Elevating the Customer Experience
How can you transform and elevate your customers’ experiences using technologies such as artificial intelligence?
Conference Schedule
Registration & Networking
Welcome Address
Opening Panel Discussion
Theme: The CIO And The Connected Enterprise - Connecting People, Processes And Technology
- Benchmark your digital enterprise strategy, create your blueprint, promote effective change management and how to become a smarter, more connected manufacturer
- Latest Industry 4.0 trends, challenges and opportunities
- How potent technology solutions such as IIoT, digital twins, robotics and predictive analytics are driving process and cost improvements
- Change management & workforce training for the future to create and support more agile organizations for Industry 4.0 implementation
- The value of automation in manufacturing
- Smart manufacturing & AI to drive productivity, quality & yield improvements
Panel Discussion
Theme: Securing The New Normal: How To Protect Your Cloud, Workforce And Assets In The Post Pandemic World
Facing the first and second waves of the Covid19 pandemic, businesses have set urgent solutions like suitable remote working systems. But as it largely admitted that the crisis will last long, CIOs are seeing much more challenges on the horizon. This roundtable will enable a practical discussion on the potential impact of the post pandemic world, more specifically:
- How are data, AI and cloud technologies helping build agility and resilience for a future-proof organisation
- Reinventing your data protection strategy in the work from home era
- What is your Cloud strategy to ensure organisational stability and sustainability
- Protecting your organization against ransomware attacks
- Innovating in the cloud to ensure operational flexibility and agility in an organisation
- How to take full advantage of the cloud to enable big data analytics, AI, ML, IoT, blockchain, and edge computing
Networking Break
Panel Discussion
Theme: Resilient Leadership: Prepare Today - Prevail Tomorrow
Facing the first and second waves of the Covid19 pandemic, businesses have set urgent solutions like suitable remote working systems. But as it largely admitted that the crisis will last long, CIOs are seeing much more challenges on the horizon. This roundtable will enable a practical discussion on the potential impact of the post pandemic world, more specifically:
- Leading IT through a pandemic: How Manufacturing CIOs can help in turning adversity into an advantage during times of crisis
- Thriving In the age of insight: How leaders are sparking innovation for a data-centric future
- How a digital thread strategy connects the product development process to the people, products, and places where work gets done
- New technologies and innovations paving the way for plant and factory floors, smart supply chains, and advanced robotics to supercharge growth and efficiency in manufacturing
- Rethinking talent strategies to gain an edge in recruiting the next generation of talent for the future
- Delivering customer centric business transformation for manufacturers and their channel partners
Tea and coffee break
Panel Discussion
Theme: What Does “World-Class IT” Mean for Your Enterprise?
How can you ensure your organization is enabled with “world-class IT” to enable a successful smart manufacturing strategy for business? Our panel of industry experts will discuss:
- Which best-in-class KPIs need to be tracked to measure success
- What technological advances should manufacturers be prepared for in next year, 5-years, 10 years
- How do you know which solutions will deliver the most value to your organization
- What are the best practices towards security in an integrated IT+OT environment
- What technologies can you use to augment rather than replace your workforce
- How digital transformation can create enterprise value, empower greater worker productivity, and make the world a better place
Concluding Panel Discussion
Theme: Towards The Exponential CIO: New Role, New Mandate, New Leadership
CIOs and digital leaders are facing unprecedented societal and technological changes. From explosive data growth to IoT to robotics to AI, technologies are creating new opportunities - and risks - that directly impact the CIO’s role and mandate within and outside the physical organization. What new business models could be developed through the use of industry 4.0 technologies Our panel of experts would discuss in this closing panel - The new moving role of the CIO from a business cost to a revenue driver in the ‘new normal’ post-covid 19 world
Closing of day / Networking
Speakers
Although change management, agility and innovation beyond traditional boundaries is a constant discipline for all IT organizations, never has it been more vital than in current times.
Therefore, Tech Leadership Awards 2021 will solely focus on initiatives aimed at moving from an unwelcome disruptor of very traditional ways of working, to become a stabilizer and furthermore a catalyst to do business differently with a clear focus on collaboration, productivity and customer connectedness.
Award Categories
Best IT Driven Innovation In
- Automotive Business
- Banking
- Education
- Energy & Utilities
- Financial Services & Insurance
- Healthcare
- Infrastructure
- IT / ITeS
- Manufacturing
- Retail & eCommerce
- Telecom Service Provider
- Transportation & Logistics
Project Excellence
- Automation Project
- Best Public Sector IT Project
- Best Use of Cloud Services
- Best User Engagement Project
- Best Security, Defence or Law Enforcement IT Project
- Digital Transformation Project
- Data Science Project
Technology Excellence
- Business IT Innovation of the Year
- Cloud Innovation Provider of the Year
- Emerging Technology of the Year
- Collaborative Technology of the Year
- Infrastructure Innovation of the Year
- Security Innovation of the Year
Organisational Excellence
- Services Company of the year
- Specialist Vendor of the Year
- Sustainable Organisation of the Year
- Organisational Response to the Pandemic
- Best Place to Work in IT 2021
- Development Team of the Year
- IT Project Team of the Year
- IT Team of the Year
- Educational Response to the Pandemic
- IT Vendor of the Year
- IT Department
Personal Excellence
- Business Analyst of the Year
- Inspirational Individual of the Year
- IT Apprentice of the Year
- DevOps Engineer of the Year
- Operational Excellence Leadership
- IT Service and Support Professional
- Digital Transformational Leader
- Next-Generation Leadership
- CIO of the Year
Manufacturing IT Excellence
- Business Innovation – Covid Response
- Business Innovation – Workforce Wellness
- AI & Advanced Analytics Leadership
- Collaborative Innovation Leadership
- Engineering & Production Technology Leadership
- Enterprise Integration Technology Leadership
- Industrial Internet of Things Leadership
- Digital Transformation Leadership
- Best-in-Class Manufacturing IT Award
- Manufacturing Tech Disruptor of the Year
- Manufacturing Transformation through Technology
Future Enterprise Awards
- Best In Future of Connectedness
- Best In Future of Customers & Consumers
- Best In Future of Digital Infrastructure
- Best In Future of Digital Innovation
- Best In Future of Industry Ecosystems
- Best In Future of Operations
- Best In Future of Health, Wellness & Safety
- Best In Future of Women’s Advancement
- Best In Future of Initiatives for Working Mothers
- Best In Future of People Focused Workplace Design
- Future Enterprise of the Year
- Special Award for Digital Resiliency
Jury Members
Ganesh Ramachandran
Global CIO, Alkem Laboratories Ltd.
Jagdish Narayanan
CIO, Reliance Jio Payments Bank & Financial Services
Shobhana Lele
CIO, The Bombay Dyeing Company
Abhishek Chandra
CIO, IIFL Wealth & Asset Management Ltd.
Khushru Mistry
CIO, Eureka Forbes Ltd.
Ranganathan Iyer
Group CIO, JBM Group
Alka Selot Asthana
CTO, Indus Towers Ltd.
Ritu Madbhavi
CIO, FCB Ulka Advertising
Tushar Vagal
CIO, Larsen & Toubro Ltd.
Gautam Garg
Sr. Director & CIO, PepsiCo India
Milind Khamkar
Group CIO, SUPER-MAX
Sunil Pandey
CIO, HFCL Ltd.
Keyur Desai
VP - IT, CIO - Essar Ports & Shipping, Head Info-Security, Network & Communications, Essar Group
Sourabh Chatterjee
President, Head - Technology, Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Ltd.
Shiju Rawther
Chief Information & Technology Officer, CARE Ratings Ltd.
Ashok Kannan
President - IT, Sintex Industries Ltd.
Kirti Patil
Joint President & CTO, Kotak Mahindra Life Insurance Co. Ltd.
Chander Khanduja
CIO, Luminous Power Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
WHO IS ATTENDING
SECTORS REPRESENTED
- Automobiles & Auto Components
- Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
- Chemicals & Fertilizers
- Food Processing
- Electrical Equipment
- Cement & Construction Materials
- Electronics
- Textiles
- Heavy Engineering
PROFILES
- Head - IT
- Chief Information Officer
- Chief Information Security Officer
- Group IT Director
- Chief Technology Officer
- Director - IT
- Group Chief Information Officer
- Chief Digital Officer
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We work with solution providers and consultants who are:
- Getting overlooked as their brand lacks market awareness and recognition
- Striving to compete with well-known and established players
- After a business breakthrough and to establish inroads into a growth market
- Setting the groundwork to cement their position as market leader and remain at front-of-mind to customers
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Thought Leadership & Program Involvement
We work with solution providers and consultants who are:
- Planning to debut a new product or service
- Relishing face time to educate senior decision-makers who can appreciate your brand / technology / approach
- Seeking a focused platform to deliver the value proposition and competitive edge of their solutions / services
- Keen to build brand credibility and solution awareness as a new market entrant or less known provider
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Business Development & Lead Generation
We work with solution providers and consultants who are:
- New market entrants and lack a solid contact base within the industry / region
- Looking to open new doors within existing clients or prospect accounts
- Struggling to access and engage key members of a complex decision-making unit
- Wanting to qualify sales prospects and convert the best opportunities
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