Hysea holds 2nd edition of Biz Summit 2021

Hyderabad: Hyderabad Software Enterprises Association (Hysea) today organised its 2nd edition of 'BizSummit 2021' on the theme of 'Expanding Growth Horizons in the new Normal'. The summit will focus on SMEs' growth and extending facilities to these organisations.

Rajesh Nambiar, Chairman and MD, Cognizant Technology Solutions, India virtually addressing the audience as chief guest, said, "The Covid-19 pandemic has widened the divide between digital natives and legacy economy companies struggling to shift to a fully digital operating model." "As more organisations look to become digital, more quickly, the secular trend of digital transformation is going to be the key driver of growth for the IT industry," he added.

With digital moving beyond technology and into the heart of business operating models and processes, expanding growth horizons, including for SMEs, will be about deepening and broadening new-age capabilities required to realise agile, data-driven and automated processes with an eye on accelerating innovation and enhancing customer experience."

Jayesh Ranjan, IAS, Principal Secretary, ITE&C Department who was the guest of honour on the occasion, applauded the contributions made by Hysea since the start of the pandemic in helping with the smooth transition of Industry operations to Work from Home. He also spoke about the new opportunities these (pandemic) times provide for IT companies in areas of Education, Agriculture, Digital Transformation and Servicing new geographies. He also said that govt will announce a policy with exclusive focus on MSMEs in the near future.

Mazher Hashmi, Senior Director and Executive Leader at Forrester, delivering the keynote address on 'Being Normal in the New Normal' spoke about five connected pandemic-induced shifts that will change business and technology forever. Customer expectations, he said, "will shift on the spectrum of safety and convenience, businesses will ride the digital engagement wave to create hybrid experiences, firms and governments will invest in the once-impossible to drive the future of work, smart firms will retire technical debt fast and then ride the tech disruption wave, and business resilience will become a competitive advantage." Saurabh Gaur, IAS, Joint Secretary Ministry of Electronics & IT, Govt of India, New Delhidelivered a special keynote and talked about the six important pillars to build the vision of digital India including: Digital Services, Digital inclusion, Digital Infrastructure, Digital Trust, Digital Economy, and Emerging Technologies. Sridhar Pinnapureddy, Chairman, CtrlS and Cloud4C delivered the leader note address 'Hyper scaling and Reaching the next Orbit', sharing the success story of CtrlS journey, he said "The key differentiators which aided them in their success were Speed of deployment, Price, Power efficiency, scalability, and 100 per cent uptime. CtrlS today has four Tier 4 rated Data Centers because they as an organisation obsessed about Innovation, Alliances and expanding to Global Markets.