Lamp lighting ceremony VARIndia IT Forum 2011: (From Left to Right) Dr. Madhu Nambiar, M.D., & CEO- SRIT, S N Srivastava, Director-IT, DGSND, S. Mohini Ratna, Editor- VARIndia, Deepak Kumar Sahu, Publisher-VARIndia, Surya Narayan Patro, Minister of Revenue & IPR- Govt. of Orissa, Shankar Aggarwal, IAS, Addl. Sec-IT, Govt. Of India, Dr. Ajay Mathur, Director General, Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Ministry of Power, Vipin Tyagi, Director, C-Dot, Govt. of India, Prakash Kumar, Director, Public Sector, IBSG, Cisco Systems, Dr. Jaijit Bhattacharya, Director - Govt. Affairs, HP India

Evening session

The evening session highlighted the “Latest Trends and Technologies and Opportunities in Government TVerticals”. The evening kick-started with the lamp lighting ceremony by Shri Surya Narayan Patro, Minister of Revenue and I&PR, Government of Orissa; Shri Shankar Aggarwal, IAS, Additional Secretary - IT, Goverment of India; Shri Savitur Prasad, IAS, Secretary - IT, Government of Delhi; Dr Ajay Mathur, Director General, Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Ministry of Power, Government of India; Shri A. J. Kurian, ISS, Additional Commissioner, Municipal Corporation of Delhi; Shri B. Chandrashekhar, Director, Directorate of EDCS, Government of Karnataka; Shri Sanjiv Mittal, CEO, National Institute of Smart Governance; Shri B. B. Nanawati, Deputy Director General, UIDAI, Government of India; Shri Vipin Tyagi, Director, C-Dot, Government of India; Dr. Madhu Nambiar, Managing Director & CEO, SRIT; and Shri Sunil Verma, Deputy Controller & Auditor General of India.


Hon'ble Shri. Surya Narayan Patro, Minister of Revenue and I & PR, Government of Orissa, speaking about the benefits of e-Governance system which ensures time saving at every level	Savitur Prasad, IAS, Secretary -IT, Govt. Of Delhi, talks about the various e-Gov initiatives in the state of Delhi. He also shared the need for an IT advisor in every ministry like a financial advisor	Shankar Aggarwal, IAS, Addl. Sec-IT, Govt. Of India talking about the importance of social networking sites like FB, Twitter to connect to the masses.

The event had speeches and presentations from the industry bodies, Government and corporate houses on the “Latest Trends and Technologies and Opportunities in Government Business”, “Importance of saving Energy and the various means to Save Energy”, “Cloud Storage”, “Opportunities in Virtualization”, and “Intelligent Security”.

The evening session of the Forum also had a panel discussion on “Enhancing Citizen Services”, moderated by Dr. Jaijit Bhattacharya, Director - Government Affairs, HP India. Other Panelists were Prakash Kumar, Director, Public Sector, IBSG, Cisco Systems, Sunil Verma, Dy. Controller and auditor General of India, Sameer Choudhury, DGM-IT, PGCIL, Nitin Garg, Country head-Govt Affairs, Lenovo India, Balaji Rao, Regional Sales Manager-West & North, VMware The valedictory address was made by Shri Prakash Kumar, Director, Public Sector, IBSG, Cisco Systems.


Rohit Vig, Country Manager- Enterprise and PS sales, HP India spoke about evolution and need of Cloud storage.	Dr. Ajay Mathur, Director General, BEE, Ministry of Power, Govt. of India informed the IT corporate on importance of saving energy for the growth of our country.	Ramandeep Singh Walia, Head - System Engineering, Checkpoint Software Technologies shared the need of Security and introduced the audience with a new terminology "Intelligent Security"

Balaji Rao, Regional Sales Manager-West & North, VMware India describing the challenges in setting and managing the datacenters highlighted the different form factors that have enabled customers to access different applications not possible couple of years back.	Audience listening to all the speakers and pannelists	Shri Prakash Kumar, Director, Public Sector, IBSG, Cisco Systems concluding the panel discussion while delivering the valedictory address to the audience

VARIndia, as per its policy, tries to recognize the industry players based on the feedback of the users (customers) at their annual IT Forum. In keeping with the tradition, “Best e-Governed State” award was bagged by the Government of Delhi.

There were seven awards for the “Most Trusted Companies of the Year 2011” category and the winners were Canon India, SAP India, Intel Technology India, Cisco Systems India, HP India, Samsung Electronics India and Polycom. Iomega, Microsoft India, IBM India, Check Point India, Dell India, Western Digital and Zicom Electronics bagged the award in the category of “Brand of Excellence for the Year 2011”.

While concluding, S. Mohini Ratna, Editor, VARIndia, thanked the audience for attending and making the event a success. She said, “ICT has a major role to play in all the realms of our life in one way or the other. Now is the time when we should understand each other's needs and then work towards achieving a common goal. Be it education or government verticals or any other market verticals, ICT vendors have solutions for all. Through our events, we try to bring face to face the niche buyers and suppliers to be the winners.”