BWI: India’s Leading IT Decision Makers to Attend naseba’s 4th Annual CIO Strategies India Forum on March 18-19, 2010 at the Grand Hyatt in Mumbai

Press release from Business Wire India
Source: naseba
Monday, March 15, 2010 11:44 AM IST (06:14 AM GMT)
Editors: General: People; Business: Business services, Information technology, Media & entertainment; Technology
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India's Leading IT Decision Makers to Attend naseba's 4th Annual CIO Strategies India Forum on March 18-19, 2010 at the Grand Hyatt in Mumbai


Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Monday, March 15, 2010 -- (Business Wire India) -- naseba, a global business information company, is organising the 4th Annual CIO Strategies India Forum on March 18th-19th, 2010 at the Grand Hyatt in Mumbai, India.

More than 175 IT decision makers from leading companies, including CIOs from India's largest and biggest corporations, will participate in the forum aimed at addressing the challenges faced by them as strategic decision makers of their organisations. Leading solution providers including Adobe and Salesforce have partnered with naseba to host exclusive workshops at the 4th Annual CIO Strategies India Forum in Mumbai.

This exclusive forum will have keynote presentations by prominent IT industry leaders; interactive panel discussions on strategic topics of interest to CIOs and IT decision makers, and workshops customised for CIOs and senior IT professionals to excel in their roles as change leaders and drivers of growth for their companies. The forum will include case studies conducted by IT thought leaders and will feature panel discussions that highlight strategies to optimise business-IT alignment.

CIOs and IT professionals will gain practical insights on overcoming the challenges in adopting an IT-focused approach to improve operational excellence, selecting the right mix of tools and technologies to create value and aligning IT to business processes for accelerating business transformation, which reduces operating costs.

"We are proud to host the 4th Annual CIO Strategies India Forum in Mumbai and we welcome the participation of leading CIOs from across the country. Our endeavour is to make this forum the perfect platform for knowledge sharing and business expansion for participants and solution providers by providing insights on the latest trends in business-IT collaboration and the opportunities that it presents for IT decision makers in India," said Mohammed Saleem, General Manager India, naseba.

The forum will feature keynote addresses, panel discussions, and workshops on topics related to Cloud computing, intuitive user experiences, reducing the costs associated with IT integration, Green IT, enterprise data storage, unified communications, risk management and IT governance, customer relationship management, optimising network performance, improving performance of web infrastructure, IT infrastructure management, workforce optimisation, business process management, business intelligence, enterprise application integration, decision management, and more.

Speakers at the 4th Annual CIO Strategies India Forum 2010 include:

- Sandeep Phanasgaonkar, President & Chief Technology Officer, Reliance Capital Ltd. - Laxman Badiga, Chief Information Officer, Wipro Technologies
- Vikas Gadre, Chief Executive Officer, Tata Chemicals - Biofuels
- Sunil Pandita, Business Head, Adobe Systems
- Brad Rinklin, Vice President of Global Marketing and Channels, Akamai Technologies, Inc.
- Bihag Lalaji, Vice President - Special Projects, Ambuja Cement
- Anwer Bagdadi, Former Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Bank of America Consortium India
- Rakesh Bhatt, Chief Information Officer, Bajaj Finance
- Rahul Neel Mani, Editor, CTO Forum
- Upal Chakraborty, Chief Information Officer, DLF India
- Paritosh Basu, Group Financial Controller, Essar Investment Limited
- Tamal Chakravorty, Chief Information Officer, Ericsson India
- Hari Misra, Managing Director, Finsight Media
- Sumeet Vaid, Chief Executive Officer, Freedom Financial Planners
- Mani Mulki, Executive Vice President and Information Systems, Godrej Industries
- Satish Pendse, Chief Information Officer, Hindustan Construction Company
- Pravir Vohra, Group Chief Technology Officer, ICICI Bank
- Ajay Dhir, Group Chief Information Officer, Jindal Steel
- Aruna Rao, Chief Technology Officer, Kotak Mahindra Group
- Bill Tan, Senior Portfolio Lifecycle Manager, Plantronics
- David Briskman, Chief Information Officer, Ranbaxy Laboratories
- Dr. Sumit Chowdhury, Chief Information Officer, Reliance Communications
- Stephen Morse, Senior Director, Sales Engineering, Asia Pacific - Salesforce
- Sanjiv Aiyar, Chief Executive Officer Global Markets & Wholesale, Singapore Telecommunications Limited
- Asmita Junnarkar, Chief Technology Officer, Voltas Limited
- Rajeev Venkat, Solutions Director, Verint Systems, Inc

Leading IT solution providers will be showcasing their solutions at the forum including Adobe, Salesforce, Akamai, SingTel, Plantronics, Verint, Alcatel Lucent, APC by Schneider Electric, Citrix, Lifesize, Mphasis, Trignon, Bakbone, Emptoris, Bob Tech Solutions, Netex.es, and RedHat.

Visit http://www.ciostrategiesin.com/ for more information on naseba's upcoming 4th Annual CIO Strategies India Forum at the Grand Hyatt in Mumbai. Follow live updates from the forum on http://twitter.com/nasebaevents on March 18-19, 2010.

About naseba

"The secret to our success is that we understand that all participants, sponsors, executive clients and partners, must have a return on investment - whether that investment is time or money. Our high rebooking rate of both executive delegates and sponsors is proving that we are delivering this ROI to our clients." - Scott Ragsdale, naseba, Chairman.

naseba produces, promotes and hosts upper level executive B2B congresses and forums across several industries across five continents. Each event is focused on re-education, networking - and most importantly - deal flow opportunities for all attendees. Whether the 'deal' is capital raising, vendor sales contracts, or purely sourcing a strategic partner, each naseba platform gives our clients the perfect opportunity to do business. We work with highly-qualified industry experts to engage with pressing issues and cutting edge topics in several industries - each of which is extensively researched by our teams.

During the event, buyers and solution providers within a specific industry meet in an exclusive five-star hotel to conduct business, share knowledge and network with peers. All participants are pre-qualified to ensure that only the ultimate decision makers attend.

naseba has worked in partnership with leading media and local authorities such as TIME, CNBC Arabia, BBC World, NDTV Profit, zawya, DEWA, Council of Saudi Chambers and the Principality of Monaco.

Since inception in 2002 naseba has organised over 350 business events, opening five strategically located offices throughout the world including in Monaco, Dubai, Bangalore, Singapore and Cairo.

At naseba, we make it happen. For more information on naseba, please visit www.naseba.com.


CONTACT DETAILS
Chirayu Parikh, naseba Communication Pvt. Ltd., +91 (80) 30222015, chirayup@naseba.com

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PEOPLE, BUSINESS SERVICES, IT, MEDIA, TECHNOLOGY

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