South Gulf
[ September 19, 2021 by BTX Show News Desk 0 Comments ]

BTX Roadshow South Gulf edition concludes with keynotes

GEC Media Group, publishers of Business Transformation, Enterprise Channels MEA, The Titans, Cyber Sentinels, announced the winners of the BTX Top Executive Awards, BTX Enterprise Awards, BTX Solution Awards at BTX Road Show South Gulf edition on 8th September 2021. The half-day event was organised at Grand Ballroom, Conrad Dubai, Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai in person.

The title sponsors of BTX Roadshow were Aruba HPE, Riverbed, Pure Storage, Veeam, Logicom, Netapp, Western Digital, Arcon, Veritas, SilverPeak, Alcatel-Lucent enterprise, SecureNet, Synology, Finesse, CORK information technology, International Group of Artificial Intelligence – IGOAI, Global CISO Forum, Business Transformation, and Enterprise Channels MEA.

The face-to-face event was started with the registration of all attendees and proceed with lunch and networking. GEC Media Group extended warm wishes to all the champions for their victory.

Here are the highlights of the various speaker keynote presentations.


Success and failures of business and digital transformation

In his keynote, Dr Corrie Block, CEO, Paragon Consulting talked about the lack of alignment to business outcomes and lack of awareness within the organisation and lack of control of vendors.


Panel discussion: How digital transformation, innovation, technology making businesses in UAE more resilient and efficient

The first-panel discussion on how digital transformation, innovation, technology, making businesses in UAE more resilient and efficient was moderated by Arun Shanker, Moderator, GEC Media Group.

Taking the discussion forward, Mohamad Rizk, Senior Regional Technical Director for Middle East, Russia, and CIS, Veeam said, In the next 18-24 months, organisations in the UAE are driving plans for innovation. They should catch up plans with multiple perspectives with checkpoints. Some of those points are culture, educating people and from technology’s perspective, they need varied solutions. A digital organisation should be always online. Any downtime of service means loss of money.

Shah E Room Khan, Information Technology Manager, Emirates College of Technology, Abu Dhabi, said, we have merged with different universities and colleges in Abu Dhabi for education. We are planning to implement new technologies especially Customer Experience technology which will help us to facilitate the students in different sectors where they can open a ticket for the help desk system, register online and payment as well. We have also done an agreement with a service provider for AI services to facilitate the students more.

Pankaj Bajaj, Head of IT, Capital Health, said they run as a business project. These are not technology projects at the end of the day. They are enabling business, operations and have already started the business intelligence where we are giving the insights to the management about how the revenue is going on, what are the patients experience we are getting, what are the clinical KPIs we are getting. Next our journey is artificial intelligence on existing EMR plus we are planning to publish our medical research in rehabilitation.

While addressing the event, Elie Kamel, Regional Channel Manager, NetApp said there would always be new innovations in healthcare, education etc. As he has been reading about digital twin which is a kind of a virtual twin of any physical object. Imagine in healthcare industry, they can create a virtual twin of a human being to study the effect of health and testing. So, it will create a huge influx of data.


Digital and business transformation initiatives in Tabreed

Ahmad Hilmi Lutfi Al Obaidi, Manager Capital Plant Performance and Investment, O&M Support, National Central Cooling Company talked about the transformation of operations function and said their Tasheel programme and i-Connect programme are targeting their digital infrastructure.


Technology Keynote: Maximizing Visibility and Performance for The Hybrid Enterprise

Salman Ali, Technical Channel Manager, Riverbed Technology discussed COVID pandemic and the new work culture in organisations and said managing digital experience is one of the most critical business objectives for most of the enterprises.


Smart technologies and sustainability in urban landscapes

Engineer Mohammed Ahmed Alrayees, Director of Sewage Treatment Plants and Drainage Network Department Dubai Municipality talked about their vision and said our vision is to develop a sustainable city for all citizens of Dubai and we emphasise on innovation for a healthy future.


Panel discussion: Threat actors and challenges for regional CISOs

The next panel discussion was moderated by Dr Hoda Alkhzaimi, Director of Center of Cyber Security, New York University Abu Dhabi, President, Emirates Digital Association for Women and joined by Mohammed Shakeel Ahmed, Aviation Cyber Security Advisor, Abu Dhabi Aviation and Jacob Mathew, IT Consultant, IT Governance, Architecture, Services, Security, Infrastructure and Operations – Government of Abu Dhabi. They panelists briefed about digitalisation and Cyber Security.

BTX Road Show 2021 South Gulf edition was organised with all the safety guidelines announced by the Emirates of Dubai.

With the successful completion of the BTX Road Show 2021, South Gulf edition in Dubai, the next BTX Africa will take place on 27 September.

 

South Gulf
[ September 19, 2021 by BTX Show News Desk 0 Comments ]

BTX Roadshow South Gulf announces 25+ winners for prestigious transformation awards

GEC Media Group, publishers of Business Transformation, Enterprise Channels MEA, The Titans, Cyber Sentinels, announced the winners of the BTX Top Executive Awards, BTX Enterprise Awards, BTX Solution Awards at BTX Road Show South Gulf edition on 8th September 2021. The half-day event was organised at Grand Ballroom, Conrad Dubai, Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai in person.

The title sponsors of BTX Roadshow were Aruba HPE, Riverbed, Pure Storage, Veeam, Logicom, Netapp, Western Digital, Arcon, Veritas, SilverPeak, Alcatel-Lucent enterprise, SecureNet, Synology, Finesse, CORK information technology, International Group of Artificial Intelligence – IGOAI, Global CISO Forum, Business Transformation, and Enterprise Channels MEA.

The face-to-face event was started with the registration of all attendees and proceed with lunch and networking. GEC Media Group extended warm wishes to all the champions for their victory.

There were three sets of awards as described below.

BTX Top Executive Awards

Recognising leadership driving transformation

This award recognises a top executives who have accelerated digital and business transformation through the pandemic and created a better future for their business. They have empowered remote teams, managed change, flattened organisational structure, made it agile and secure, managed customer satisfaction, and implemented digital tools like cloud, analytics, data integration, amongst others.

Aditya Kaushik Adyard Abu Dhabi
Eng Mohammed Ahmed Alrayees Dubai Municipality
Gigi George Koshy Empay
Hadi Anwar Group42
Hussein M Dajani Nissan Motor Co
Lt Col Dr Hamad Khalifa Al NUAIMI Abu Dhabi Police
Ritesh Singh Laticrete Middle East and Africa
Abbas Dandach Network International

BTX Enterprise Awards

Recognising success stories in transformation

This award recognises enterprises that have embraced digital transformation and digital tools through the pandemic and achieved success in various areas. Such enterprises would have rebuilt customer experiences, managed customer expectations, leveraged online sales models, built forecasting models, have an in-depth and ready analysis of market and demand trends, built close collaboration and data sharing amongst teams, amongst others.

Abu Dhabi Health Services Company Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals and Biotech
United Al Saqer Group of Companies Diversified Services
National Central Cooling Company, Tabreed Energy and Utilities
Gulf Diagnostic Center Hospital, Abu Dhabi Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals and Biotech
Amity University Dubai Education
Global Village Media and Entertainment
Government of Sharjah- Department of Town Planning & Survey SDTPS Non-Profit or Government Organizations
Dubai Holding Entertainment, Attractions Media and Entertainment
 Department of Community Development, Abu Dhabi Non-Profit or Government Organizations
Capital Health Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals and Biotech

BTX Solution Awards

Recognising solutions for transformation

This award recognises the leading, exemplary, heroic efforts by vendors, channel partners, integrators, consultants, to manage the challenges of the end-user community through the lockdowns of the pandemic. This part of the IT industry helped the end-user community to successfully pivot their business models by using digital technologies and create a sustainable business through the pandemic and ahead, amongst others.

Technology Strategies Middle East
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise
Oregon Systems
Software AG
Riverbed Technologies
AVEVA
Automation Anywhere
Veeam
NNTC

BTX Road Show 2021 South Gulf edition was organised with all the safety guidelines announced by the Emirates of Dubai.

With the successful completion of the BTX Road Show 2021, South Gulf edition in Dubai, the next BTX Africa will take place on 27 September.

Asia
[ September 19, 2021 by BTX Show News Desk 0 Comments ]

BTX Roadshow 2021 announces 35+ winners for prestigious transformation awards

GEC Media Group, publishers of Business Transformation, Enterprise Channels MEA, The Titans, Cyber Sentinels, announced the winners of the BTX Top Executive Awards, BTX Enterprise Awards, BTX Solution Awards at BTX Road Show Asia edition on 2nd September 2021.

The half-day event was hosted at the GEC Media Virtual Arena. The title sponsors of BTX Roadshow were Aruba HPE, Riverbed, Pure Storage, Veeam, Logicom, Netapp, Western Digital, Arcon, Veritas, SilverPeak, Alcatel-Lucent enterprise, SecureNet, Synology, Finesse, CORK information technology, International Group of Artificial Intelligence – IGOAI, Global CISO Forum, Business Transformation, and Enterprise Channels MEA.

GEC Media Group extended warm wishes to all the champions for their win.

There were three sets of awards as described below.

BTX Top Executive Awards

Recognising leadership driving transformation

This award recognises a top executives who have accelerated digital and business transformation through the pandemic and created a better future for their business. They have empowered remote teams, managed change, flattened organisational structure, made it agile and secure, managed customer satisfaction, and implemented digital tools like cloud, analytics, data integration, amongst others.

BTX Enterprise Awards

Recognising success stories in transformation

This award recognises enterprises that have embraced digital transformation and digital tools through the pandemic and achieved success in various areas. Such enterprises would have rebuilt customer experiences, managed customer expectations, leveraged online sales models, built forecasting models, have an in-depth and ready analysis of market and demand trends, built close collaboration and data sharing amongst teams, amongst others.

BTX Solution Awards

Recognising solutions for transformation

This award recognises the leading, exemplary, heroic efforts by vendors, channel partners, integrators, consultants, to manage the challenges of the end-user community through the lockdowns of the pandemic. This part of the IT industry helped the end-user community to successfully pivot their business models by using digital technologies and create a sustainable business through the pandemic and ahead, amongst others.

The announced winners of the BTX Road Show 2021 Asia edition include:

Top Enterprise Awards Winners:

Name Organisation Key Verticals
Anil Kamble Sushil Financial Services Financial Services and Banking
Anshul Srivastava Seniority Retail
Anuroop Sundd Siemens Industry Software India Information Technology Software
Ashish Desai Grasim Industries Manufacturing
Bijender Mishra Alkem Laboratories Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals and Biotech
CA Navratan Bohra Anand Rathi Shares and Stock Brokers Financial Services and Banking
Chandran R Bahwan Cybertek Information Technology Services
Dr Deepak Kalambkar SafexPay Financial Services and Banking
Pragnesh Mistry RPG Enterprises Manufacturing
Shankar Sunnathi Omega Healthcare Management Services Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals and Biotech
Srinivasan Mahalingam Fusion BPO Services Information Technology Services
Ts Saiful Bakhtiar Osman ASCENT Fund Services Singapore Financial Services and Banking
Vikas Gupta H-ENERGY Energy and Utilities
Viren Popatbhai Italiya GSC Bank Financial Services and Banking

BTX Roadshow Asia – Top Executive Awards Winners:

Name Organisation Key Verticals
Agi Agung Galuh Purwa West Java Digital Service, Jabar Digital Service Non-Profit or Government Organisations
Alex Ustaris Hijo Group of Companies Diversified Services
Amit Phadke Toll Group Transportation, Storage and Logistics
Anil Menon LULU Group India Retail
Captain Nivedita Bhasin B787 Captain, superannuated after 37 years as Executive Director and Chief of Flight Safety, Air India Consultancy
Christopher James Martin CIMB Bank Berhad Accounting, Banking and Financial Services
Dr Mukesh Mehta Batlivala and Karani Securities Financial Services and Banking
Iftikhar Arif Muller and Phipps Pakistan Wholesale and Distribution
Manish Kishore AMTZ Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals and Biotech
Muhammad Lukman National Clearing Company of Pakistan Financial Services and Banking
Nicole Tretwer SWAROVSKI Manufacturing
Professor Tadhg O’Donovan Heriot-Watt University Dubai
Rajiv Arora Siemens Global IT Hub Information Technology Services
Ramanamurthy H Pentakota ADIENT Automotive and Related Equipment
Sajith Chakkingal TMF Group Financial Services and Banking
Saket Gore The Himalaya Drug Company Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals and Biotech
Saravanan Kumar Incofin Investment Management Financial Services and Banking
Shekher Kumar Agrawal Indorama Ventures Manufacturing
Subhash Singh Punjabi Alicon Castalloy Automotive and Related Equipment
Syed Aun M. Bukhari Apollo Telecom Pvt. Ltd. Information Technology Services
Vijoy Basu Cognizant Information Technology Services

BTX Roadshow Asia – Top Solution Awards Winners:

Name Organisation Key Verticals
Biswajit Mohapatra IBM Information Technology Services
Jaydeep Ruparelia Infopercept Consulting Information Technology Services

With the successful completion of the BTX Road Show 2021, Asia edition, the next BTX South Gulf edition will take place on 8th September in-person at Grand Ballroom, Conrad Dubai, Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai followed by BTX Africa on 27 September.