Thursday, 7th Oct 2021, 10am – 2:45pm (GMT +5:30), India
2nd Edition SA Cloud & Datacenter Awards Summit 2021
Collating the best of the best throughout South Asia’s Cloud and Datacenter professionals. The most prestigious Award throughout the APAC region. Judges of the most distinguished caliber will be presenting individuals at the top of their game, with the honored W.Media Award.
Categories to include: Best Datacenter project, Best IT & Cloud Projects and Outstanding Individuals.
1) In South Asia while digitization is a priority there are still many basic issues which need to be addressed like business agenda for adopting technologies, lack of availability for skills, knowledge, security and data issues.
2) With the type of challenges that SAARC countries face from others in the continent it’s highly essential that the countries and enterprises in the sub continent take challenges seriously and address them head on which means investing in people, skills, allocating resources to organization wide digital transformation from cloud adoption, migration and security.
3) SAARC countries especially India & Bangladesh are going through huge cloud adoption from organizations including the SME sector which in recent years has realized the benefits of cloud computing. With an increase in cloud computing, data center investors are rushing to develop DC parks and with the pandemic and constant surges and outages the service and operations for DC is becoming a huge challenge.
The progress for areas ranging from cloud to security in South Asia is immense but with growth comes a list of challenges too.
As a tech enthusiast In order to make sure you are well versed with these updates W.media has created the largest platform for South Asian tech enthusiasts to join together and get insights from the top experts from across the world along with celebrating these developments through W.Media’s 2nd edition South Asia Cloud and Data Center Awards Digital Summit on the 07th October, 2021.
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Our Conference Agenda:
Our Speakers:
![Abhishek Krishna IAS Jt. CEO Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation](https://cybersecurity.w.media/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Abhishek_Krishna_Profile_Photo-150x150.jpg)
IAS Jt. CEO
Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation
![Alok KhannaExecutive Director - Strategic Information Systems Indian Oil Corporation Limited](https://cybersecurity.w.media/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Alok-Khanna-IOCL-1-150x150.jpg)
Executive Director - Strategic Information Systems
Indian Oil Corporation Limited
![Anjani Kumar KommisettCountry Manager - India & SAARC Raritan](https://cybersecurity.w.media/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/anjani-kumar-150x150.jpg)
Country Manager - India & SAARC
Raritan
![Arvind Koul Head- IT Infrastructure & Security UNO MINDA Group](https://cybersecurity.w.media/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Arvind-1-150x150.jpg)
Head- IT Infrastructure & Security
UNO MINDA Group
![Ashish Dandekar Council MemberGerson Lehrman Group](https://cybersecurity.w.media/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Ashish-Dandekar-1-150x150.jpg)
Council Member
Gerson Lehrman Group
![Brahma Reddy Kasu Vice President - Infra & Designs CtrlS](https://cybersecurity.w.media/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Brahma-150x150.jpg)
Vice President - Infra & Designs
CtrlS
![Dheepak Rajoo SVP, IT HeadRBL Bank](https://cybersecurity.w.media/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/dheepak-rajoo-150x150.jpg)
SVP, IT Head
RBL Bank
![Dr. Jitendra Mohan Bhardwaj Sr. VP, CIO & CISO, Global Business Head - Cyber Security Service LineCoforge](https://cybersecurity.w.media/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Jitendra-Mohan-Bharadwaj-150x150.jpg)
Sr. VP, CIO & CISO, Global Business Head - Cyber Security Service Line
Coforge
![Girish DhavaleCTO Sify Technologies Limited](https://cybersecurity.w.media/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/girish-dhavale-1-150x150.jpg)
CTO
Sify Technologies Limited
![Kushal VarshneyCTOVirescent Infrastructure](https://cybersecurity.w.media/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Kushal-1-150x150.jpg)
CTO
Virescent Infrastructure
![Lalit KalraPartnerEY](https://cybersecurity.w.media/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/lalit-kalra-150x150.png)
Partner
EY
![Louise Bunting CIOYondr Group](https://cybersecurity.w.media/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/louise-150x150.jpg)
CIO
Yondr Group
![Mahendra Upadhyay Chief Information Officer BARC India](https://cybersecurity.w.media/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Mahendra-1-150x150.jpg)
Chief Information Officer
BARC India
![Manish ShangariVP Business Leader, Data Center, Digital Infrastructure - Global Buildings + Places AECOM](https://cybersecurity.w.media/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Manish-Shangari_200.2e16d0ba.fill-200x200-1-150x150.jpg)
VP Business Leader, Data Center, Digital Infrastructure - Global Buildings + Places
AECOM
![Mayank Srivastava Chief Development OfficerBDx Data Centers](https://cybersecurity.w.media/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Mayank-1-150x150.jpg)
Chief Development Officer
BDx Data Centers
![Michael Goh VP & GM, APAC, Data CentersIron Mountain Data Centers](https://cybersecurity.w.media/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/michael-goh-150x150.jpg)
VP & GM, APAC, Data Centers
Iron Mountain Data Centers
![Nikhil RathiFounder & CEOWeb Werks India Pvt. Ltd.](https://cybersecurity.w.media/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Nikhil-sir-formal-min-1200x1798-1-150x150.jpg)
Founder & CEO
Web Werks India Pvt. Ltd.
![Milind KulkarniSVP Corporate Strategy, Government Relationship, Digital & ITSTT GDC INDIA](https://cybersecurity.w.media/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Milind-Kulkarni-min-1200x1800-1-150x150.jpg)
SVP Corporate Strategy, Government Relationship, Digital & IT
STT GDC INDIA
![Nitin Sawant Partner - Cloud and Enterprise ArchitectureEY](https://cybersecurity.w.media/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/nitin-sawant-150x150.jpg)
Partner - Cloud and Enterprise Architecture
EY
![NK Singh CEOData Center Guru](https://cybersecurity.w.media/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/nk-singh-150x150.png)
CEO
Data Center Guru
![Prasad Rao Director – IT InfrastructureUnacademy](https://cybersecurity.w.media/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/peasad-rao-150x150.jpg)
Director – IT Infrastructure
Unacademy
![Shashwat Singh CIOboAt](https://cybersecurity.w.media/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/SHASHWAT-SINGH-150x150.jpg)
CIO
boAt
![Sreejith GVP- Datacentre Operations STT GDC INDIA](https://cybersecurity.w.media/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Sreejith-G-1200x801-1-150x150.jpeg)
VP- Datacentre Operations
STT GDC INDIA
![Sujoy SenHead IT, South Asia The Linde Group](https://cybersecurity.w.media/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Sujoy-sen-1-e1632900345354.jpg)
Head IT, South Asia
The Linde Group
![Surajit Chatterjee Managing DirectorCapitaLand India, Data Centre Group](https://cybersecurity.w.media/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Surajit-Chatterjee-Managing-Director-–-Data-Center-Group-CapitaLand-India-150x150.png)
Managing Director
CapitaLand India, Data Centre Group
![Venkatesh G Deputy EditorW.media](https://cybersecurity.w.media/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/venks-webiste-150x150.png)
Deputy Editor
W.media
![Yogesh Kumar Head of IT & Business Applications and CISO Tata Advanced Systems Limited](https://cybersecurity.w.media/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Yogesh-Kumar-pic-1283x1536-1-150x150.jpg)
Head of IT & Business Applications and CISO
Tata Advanced Systems Limited
![Shankar JadhavMD - BSE Investments Ltd, Head Strategy - BSEBSE](https://cybersecurity.w.media/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/PHOTO-2021-10-05-12-37-07-150x150.jpg)
MD - BSE Investments Ltd, Head Strategy - BSE
BSE