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Inaugural Ceremony (From Left to Right): Mr. Jiten Mehta, Secretary-ISODA, Dr. Deepak Kumar Sahu, Publisher & Chief editor, VARINDIA, Mr. Rushabh Shah, President-TAIT, Dr. Sumit D. Chowdhury, Founder & CEO- Gaia Smart Cities, Mr. Champak Raj Gurjar, President-FAIITA, Shri. Vinit Goenka, Member Task Force-Ministry of Road, Transport, Highways & Shipping-GOI, Mr. Satish Babu, SAP Practice India Head - CTRls Data Center, Shri. Suresh Pansari, CEO, Rashi Peripherals, Ms. Sandhya Shetty, Commercial Head- Canon India, Mr. Anil Bhargavan, Head- Certified Partners (West)-Tally Solutions, Mr. Kshitij M Kotak, Chairman, ASIRT and Mr. Chander Purswami, M.D- Connect Star Networks Pvt. Ltd.

Marking the sixth year of the Western India Information Technology Fair, the 6th WIITF, 2016 provided the foremost multi-stakeholder platform, bringing together international and national speakers in Mumbai who have invested in building a sustainable roadmap for India’s future. The WIITF is the definitive platform to discuss and evaluate the India opportunity. It addresses the policy framework and guidelines required to attract investors, large corporate and industries and is an ideal platform to explore the intersection of technology, innovation, vision of CIOs, Technology Gurus and investors. The summit, besides focussing on the segments where Solution and start-up businesses will reach a new high, highlighted the challenges faced by the CIOs and how the process can be simplified to create business strategies, develop and evaluate solution effectiveness. It also presents a strong medium for Indian businesses to scale a new high.

Making it truly a global platform to connect with the industry leaders in Mumbai, WIITF was inaugurated in the august presence of 250 luminaries and was witnessed by CIOs of corporates and solution partners from across Western India. The Summit was inaugurated by Shri. V.K. Gautam, IAS, Principal Secretary-IT, Govt of Maharastra; Shri Vinit Goenka, Member Task Force-Ministry of Road, Transport, Highways & Shipping-GOI; Shri. Suresh Pansari, CEO- Rashi Peripherals and other distinguished guests joining the inaugural ceremony that included Dr. Sumit D. Chowdhury, Founder & CEO- Gaia Smart Cities; Mr. H.K. Behera, GM (Govt. Business) - Union Bank of India; Mr Kshitij M. Kotak, Chairman, ASIRT; Mr. Vishal Jain, Director- Inspira Enterprise India Pvt. Ltd.; Mr. Suresh A Shan, Head Innovation & Future Technology-Mahindra Finance; Mr. Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Bus. Head, Distribution IT- LG Electronics India; Mr. Champak Raj Gurjar, President-FAIITA; Mr. Rushabh Shah, President-TAIT; Mr. Jiten Mehta, Secretary-ISODA; Mr. Chander Purswani, MD - Connect Star Networks Pvt Ltd.; Ms. Sandhya Shetty, Commercial head- Canon India; Mr. Satish Babu, SAP Practice India Head - CTRls Data center; Mr. Vipul Mehta, CEO-Tipping Point and Mr. Anil Bhargavan – Head - Certified Partners ( West)-Tally Solutions.

The event was supported by LG, Canon D-Link, Tally, CtRLS, Inspira and Union bank of India.

The summit gathers the system Integrators, Solution Partners, VARs and CIOs to discuss some of the important aspects of technologies, who are crucial to our continued success by enabling us to deliver the best experiences to our customer by addressing the ‘technology glitches’ inside the organization, key trends and issues & challenges in implementing the technology. Being a real opportunity for the VARs, WIITF tried to understand on how CIOs are reacting to it and whether any big risks are coming with such digital investments.

Addressing the audience, Mr. Deepak Sahu, Publisher spoke about how Technology is the key enabler in this digital transformation and the rise of start-up companies in India and the emerging efforts to put the power of analytics in the hands of CIOs. “Technology has changed the face of VARs and Resellers over the decade and the pace of disruption is now quickening with digital transformation being a top priority for many resellers. But does technology change really deliver the benefit retailers expect and desire? There are fast track transformation happening, resulting in many organizations experimenting it while others making big investments in it.” Shri. Vinit Goenka, Member Task Force-Ministry of Road, Transport, Highways & Shipping-GOI spoke in general of where the country is heading, Dr. Sumit D. Chowdhury, Founder & CEO- Gaia Smart Cities in his speech talked about how Smart City is the way ahead for India and is an opportunity for VARs in the eco-system.

Among the corporates, LG, CtRlS, Tally and Inspira gave presentations, with Mr. Girish Mamtani, Manager- Business Development, OEM & Government Projects- LG Electronics; Mr. Satish Babu, SAP Practice India Head - CTRls Data center; Mr. Anil Bhargavan, Head, Certified Partners, (West)-Tally Solutions and Mr. Om Ahuja, Vice President: Information Security at Inspira Enterprise India Pvt. Ltd. from their respective organizations spoke at length about the opportunities that they sense and how these can be translated into real-time scope for growth.