Mr. Amit Jain, President & CEO- Prysm
"I have learnt a very important thing from my mentor (my father) that how it is important to be hardworking and passionate with anything and everything you do. I carried this with me while relocating to USA; I always remained fearless as I moved from industry to industry building companies, especially in storage, then moving on to telecom, data communication, to displays and collaboration space. The potential in India and the growth story that is slowly unfolding kept bringing me back here. There are several trends witnessed in the IT industry and one of them is digital transformation and its impact on millennials and the second one is growth of mobility."
Mr. Vishal Dhupar, Global Head (Business Development), NVIDIA Graphics
"What is the foundation of the Digital World? The invention of printing press, electricity, penicillin, Semi conductors and eye glasses has changed the existence of mankind for better. The IT & semi-conductor industry by itself represents the entire economy of India. Today, 1 out of every 7 human being is using Facebook. That is hyper connectivity. In next 2 years, there will be 10 billion phones, with 77 billion applications uploaded on these devices. We will also be taking about 50 billion connections of internet objects and this is just 1% of the connections. Had it not been for the semi-conductor industry there would have been no internet, no smartphones and no connectivity.”
Mr. K K Shetty, V.P- Enterprise sales-India – COMMSCOPE
“Commscope was at one point of time was known as Tyco Electronics (before a portion of it was merged with it). We are a $ 5.5 billion company, primarily infrastructure, enterprise cabling and telecommunication business. In India we do a large amount of business in telecom and enterprise space. When we started business in 1984, we were in a dilemma whether we should start selling products first or begin with manufacturing our products. Then we figured out that we should start manufacturing first, build the required skill power and then when the market opens up, we should be ready to sell our products. This is something that we have visualised long before the present government’s ‘Make In India’ campaign started.”
Mr. Jaijit Bhattacharya, Partner, Infrastructure & Govt. services –KPMG
“Where are we heading when we are talking about Smart City? The idea of building a Smart City is to have a Cognitive city. A Cognitive City will take learnings from people and machines; if it senses that the air pollution is going up, it immediately shuts down all equipments and machines that is throwing up these pollutants in the air. But you first need to have a Smart city before pushing for a Cognitive city. So a Smart City will use and leverage information, to deliver services to its people better, to make the life of its residents better and will eventually have a network for Internet of Things (IoT), intelligent applications and so on. But you can have all of that only when you have a functional city.”
Mr. Rohit Oberoi, Director, marketing, Middle East- Seclore Technology
"One of the fastest growing things in the world is Data. Some of it is sensitive, some of it is confidential; data security is one of the prime concerns of any organization. In a recent report, Gartner suggested that most of the companies which go in for seeking business information protection solution land up in point solutions, which definitely might not address the risk of data movement. In today’s inter connected world, the pervasive demand for data movement is unavoidable. They have to move out of the controlled environment. And most of the companies today spend money on securing the data in their controlled environment. Seclore as a security company deals with data movement as bulk of the data rests in the outside environment.”