The VARINDIA INFOTECH FORUM entered its 15th year by bringing together the whoās who of the ICT industry, IT consultants and senior government officials and PSUs and setting up a platform for a day-long event consisting of power-packed sessions of technical presentations, panel discussions and discourses on issues impacting the technology landscape and, most importantly, business networking. The theme of the 15th INFOTECH FORUM was ā āDigitization and Role of IoT for Next-Generation Enterpriseā.
Shri P. P. Choudhury, Minister of State of Law, Justice and Electronics & IT, Government of India, graced the occasion as Chief Guest. The presence of other high-profile guests from the Government and ICT Industry includes Shri Anil Swarup, Secretary, Department of School Education & Literacy, Government of India; Shri S. N. Tripathy, IAS, Additional Secretary & Development Commissioner, MSME, Government of India; Shri Rajesh Aggarwal, IAS, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India; Shri M Akhaya, CVO, Department of Telecom- Government of India; Shri B. K. Murthy, Senior Director (Scientist-G), Department of Electronics & IT, Government of India; Mr Raman Roy, Chairman-NASSCOM and CMD- Quatrro; Mr Vishal Dhupar, Managing Director, South Asia, NVIDIA; Shri Rajesh Kumar, Sr General Manager (NB), BSNL; Shri Prashant Gupta, Partner, Risk Advisory, BDO; Dr. Avik Sarkar, Head of Data Architect Cell, Niti Aayog; Mr Pavan Duggal, Advocate, Supreme Court of India (Cyber law Expert); Mr Yog Raj, General Manager, MTP- Railtel Corporation of India; Dr Alok Bharadwaj, Founder & MD, CreoVate Transformations & Consulting; Mr Srikanth Doranadula, Sr Director, Alliances & Channel, Oracle; Mr Sandeep Sehgal, Director and Head Government and Defence, VMware India; Mr Subroto Panda, CIO, Anand and Anand; and Mr Damodar Sahu, Partner & Industry Advisor, WIPRO, raised the scale and grandeur of the event to a new high.
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Mr Deepak Sahu, Chief Editor, Kalinga Digital Media, started off the session by throwing some light on the recent ransomware attack that has hit the developing and the developed economies really hard and how India been able to shield itself better than several other countries. āIndustry experts peg the number of infected computers at more than 50,000 desktops and laptops running on the Windows operating system across industries, including banking, retail and manufacturing. It is also true that most of the people are ill-equipped to deal with ransomware,ā he said. He also commended the job done by the GST Council by having reduced the impact of GST on the common man and maintaining the status quo on GST rates on the items largely consumed by the upper middle class.
