Digital Transformation Framework

Mr Sameer Kochhar

Chairman, SKOCH Group

Reforms historian and author of best-seller ModiNomics, Sameer Kochhar is Chairman, SKOCH Group. He is a passionate advocate of social, digital and financial inclusion and is a foremost expert on governance and inclusive growth. His work has been acclaimed globally and endorsed by Mr Narendra Modi, Mr M Venkaiah Naidu, Dr Manmohan Singh, Mr Arun Jaitley, Mr P Chidambaram, Mr Yashwant Sinha, Dr C Rangarajan and Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia and so on. In his thinking and writings and activities, his profound admiration for India's economic reforms and in extension, those outstanding personalities who strive to make these reforms more meaningful and broad-based comes out clear and unambiguous.

Dr Gursharan Dhanjal

Vice Chairman, SKOCH Group

Dr Gursharan Dhanjal, MA, MPhil, PhD from Delhi University and an expert in strategic affairs, is Vice Chairman, SKOCH Group. He is also the Editor of INCLUSION—a quarterly publication that focuses on development and addresses inclusive growth-related issues. INCLUSION has completed six years. He has over 20 years of work experience ranging from academics to research and business journalism to consulting. He started his career as an Assistant Professor and taught at Delhi University for five years before joining Asia Business News (India)—Dow Jones, a premier broadcaster of business and financial news during the mid-90s. He also worked for CNBC for over three years during the late 90s.

Mr Sanjivan Shirke

Former CIO, UTI Asset Management Co

He has more than 3 decades of experience in Information Technology and Information Security and Hands-on Application Development, Database Administrator, Server Administrator, Email Administrator, Network Administrator, and Cyber Security Administrator. He also has experience working in BFSI as well as Information Technology Companies.

Mr Kersi Tavadia

Former CTO, BSE Ltd

Kersi Tavadia, CIO at BSE Ltd., has over 40 years of vast industry experience in IT - Software Development, Infrastructure Services (Networks, Operating Systems and Databases) and Cyber Security for organizations operating in Financial Services and Capital Markets.

In his twelve-year stint at BSE, Kersi has played a leading role to transform BSE into world’s fastest exchange with response times of 6 microseconds. He is strong proponent of Open-Source Technologies and has demonstrated “Walk the Talk” by successfully implementing one of the Largest Data Warehouse on Open Source Platform. Taking this to next level, he is instrumental in use of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning in BSE’s surveillance function by implementing Social Media Analytics for rumour verification.

Mr Golok Simli

Principal Advisor and CTO, Ministry of External Affairs

He is currently working as Principal Advisor and Chief Technology Officer, Passport Seva Program(India/Global), Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, with over 30 years of experience in ICT including 22+ years as CIO/CXO/Team Lead in Government and Public Sectors. He has handled the domain from a 360-degree perspective, both from a service provider and user enterprise perspective. He has in-depth experience in emerging technologies, cloud platforms, full-stack architecture technologies, full-stack observability, container-based microservices architecture, middleware, and API gateways. He also worked with government stakeholders and regulators to shape technology and cyber policies.

Mr Sundar Ram

Director-Business Development, AWS India

He leads the Business Development team at Amazon Internet Services Pvt Ltd (part of AWS globally). His team handles 5 types of activities, 1/ Migrations and Modernizations, 2/ Specialist Products like Analytics, storage, databases, AIML, HPC etc., 3/ Business Value Assessment, 4/ Digital Innovation using Amazon's innovation methodologies, and 5/ Industry BDs. His last role before AWS was to set up and lead the Enterprise Architecture team in Oracle India from June 2015.

Mr Rajesh Awasthi

Vice President & Business Head, Tata Communications

He is Vice President & Business Head of Cloud & Hosting Services at Tata Communications. Before Tata Communications he worked as Director Sales (Cloud Solutions) at NetApp. Mr Awasthi is an Experienced professional in IT/Telecom solution and service sales.

Mr Sreeji Gopinathan

Former CIO, Lupin

He is the founder of SKG Advisory and worked as Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Lupin Limited. Prior to joining Lupin, he was with Reckitt Benckiser. He has also been associated with companies like Philips, Procter & Gamble, ISRO and Asea Brown Boveri.

Mr Sanjay Agrawal

CTO and Head - TechSales, Hitachi Vantara, India and SAARC-Region

Sanjay Agrawal is the Technology Head for India & SAARC at Hitachi Vantara, India. Sanjay joined Hitachi Vantara in 2017 and brings with him over 30+ years of industry experience.

Prof Sidharth Chauhan

Assistant Professor, Jindal School of of Psychology and Counselling, OP Jindal Global University

Dr Godara is a clinical psychologist and mental health researcher with a keen interest in addiction research. Her clinical training is from the Department of Psychiatry, PGIMS, Rohtak. Both her M.Phil. and PhD theses, centre on mental health and addiction disorders (substance and behavioural, respectively). Her PhD focuses on risk perceptions and therapeutic intervention for the management of internet use. Following her doctoral studies, she worked at the National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. She has also worked on research pertaining to maternal mental health at the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI).

Dr N Vijayaditya

Former Director General, National Informatics Centre

Dr N Vijayaditya, PhD in Information Systems from University of North Carolina, was DG, National Informatics Centre. He was responsible for supervising implementation of several e-Governance projects at the Centre and States. He was also Controller of Certifying Authority and worked extensively on developing security systems including digital signatures. He has done research in Pattern Recognition and Information systems and has been deeply involved in drawing the IT roadmap for roll out of GST.

Dr Shefali Dash

Former Director General, National Informatics Centre

Dr. (Mrs.) Shefali S. Dash is a Ph.D in Physics & Former Deputy Director General, National Informatics Centre, New Delhi. Her Areas of Specialization are Planning and implementation of Management Information Systems (MIS) and Decision Support Systems (DSS), development and implementation of e-Governance programmes, Informatics Development Services and Setting up of Computer Centres, Local Area Networks and computer communication infrastructure in rural areas. She has Implemented a number of large scale projects like the Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission computerization Project, Community Information Centre Project, GRAMSAT Project, Warana Wired Village Project, Project Arrow of Department of Post, Setting up of Wide Area Network for connecting all the post offices in the country, Setting up of National Consumer Call Preference Registry for TRAI, Project Nikshaya for Ministry of Health etc. She has been instrumental in preparing e-Governance Plans for various State Governments in India as well as for the Government of Lao PDR.