APAC 2nd PSU Tech Conclave
On Friday, 12th May, 2023 in New Delhi
Objective– To bring together technology and Cybersecurity leaders from PSU organizations to discuss and deliberate on strategic inputs on their digital transformation roadmaps
Partner Organisations-
BECIL
RUCKUS Networks
Red Hat
Fortinet
Dassault Systemes
Accops
Pinnacle Teleservices Pvt. Ltd.
innspark
RAH Infotech
Fidel Softech
Participants-
Sanjay Kumar Das, Joint Secretary, Department of Information Technology & Electronics and State Information Security Officer, Government of West Bengal
Manish Grover, Executive Director (Strategic IS & IS), Indian Oil Corporation Limited
Dr B Chandrasekar, Executive Director, EdCIL
Kalyan Chakravarthy, Head – Systems Engineering, India & SAARC, Ruckus Networks
Sharat Sahai Mathur, Group General Manager, CRIS
Vishal Mittal, General Manager, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited
Ajay Kumar Nema, GM- IT, HSCC India Ltd
Ritu Narang, Senior General Manager, Container Corporation of India Ltd. (CONCOR)
Chandan Kumar Barman, DGM- IT, Oil India Ltd
Ajay Kumar Patil, AGM, NTPC
Sarabjit Singh Madan, Chief Architect, Red Hat & South Asia
Hiral Sharma, Principal Architect – India & SAARC, Fortinet
Golok K Simli, Principal Advisor & Chief Technology Officer, Passport Seva Programme, Ministry of External Affairs , Government of India
Pankaj Bhutani, Joint Advisor, Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB)
Sandeep Khanna, Director (Information Security) & CISO, UIDAI
B Paparaju, Executive Director – CISO, ONGC
Susheel Kumar, Chief General Manager (BIS) & CISO, GAIL (India) Ltd
Shaleen Khetarpaul, Assistant Vice President & CISO, BSES Rajdhani Power Limited
Some Nath Kundu, DGM & Alternate CISO, NTPC
Lay Smrity, Vice President, CSC SPV
Harish Menon, CEO, Accops
M P Singh, Director, Punjab Energy Development Agency
Yogesh Kumar, Director (Commercial), Madhyanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam, Uttar Pradesh
Er. Rashwinder Singh Grewal, Chief Engineer- IT, PSPCL
Tanuj Mittal, Senior Director, Customer Process Experience, Dassault Systemes India
Muktesh Narula, Chief Marketing Officer, Pinnacle Teleservices Pvt. Ltd.
Dipesh Jain, Chief Manager-IT, Power Finance Corporation
Haritima Jaipuriar, General Manager – IT, RailTel Corporation of India Ltd
Avneesh Vats,General Manager – IT, EESL
Alok Shankar Pandey, Additional General Manager – IT, Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Ltd
Rajeev Kumar Surolia, Director- Strategic Business, RAH Infotech (P) Ltd.
Manoj Tandon, Director – Project, O&M, Railtel Corporation of India Ltd
Rajagopal A, Chief General Manager – IT, Food Corporation of India
Gautam Kumar, DDG & CGM (IT), BBNL
Vidya Sagar Singh, Sr. GM (SG) & Head, Digital Services, National Small Industries Corporation Ltd.
Beneficiaries- Technology decision makers and technology influencers from 50+ PSU organizations who would inculcate and incorporate the learnings and best practices in their tech transformation roadmaps
Synopsis- The 2nd PSU Summit organized by APAC News Network in New Delhi brought together technology leaders from 50+ PSUs to discuss various facets of digital transformations of their organizations and challenges incurred thereof. Some speakers discussed on different facets to make the Indian PSUs more globally competitive through digitization.
Cybersecurity was one such key facet brought out by Sanjay Kumar Das, Joint Secretary, Department of Information Technology & Electronics and State Information Security Officer, West Bengal India witnessed 13.91 lakh cybersecurity incidents reported in 2022 and 40% of them were against PSUs, he informed. “High value data, large attack surfaces, decentralized IT environment, limited cybersecurity policies, regulatory compliance challenges, limited funding and insider threats are some of the pain points of security in the public sector,” added Das. “Identity challenge, data exchange platforms and periphery are the three critical security issues today,” added Golok K Simli, Principal Advisor &CTO, Passport Seva Program, Ministry of External Affairs.
Amongst PSUs, oil & gas has undergone major digital transformation, and Indian Oil has been the front runner in this journey, revealed Manish Grover, Executive Director—Strategic IS, Indian Oil. He highlighted how new and emerging technologies have helped Indian Oil move forward. “Deep analytics and machine learning have improved our productivity. The RPA platform has provided us 4-10 times our returns and the data lakes too have helped us optimize. We have also created an OT SOC,” Grover highlighted.
B Chandrasekhar, Executive Director, EdCIL outlined how NPTEL and DIKSHA are platforms enabled by technology for both students and teachers to enable capacity building in education. “ Asynchronous, synchronous, hybrid learning, augmented reality, virtual reality—learning has changed paradigm with what technology has made available,” concluded Chandrasekhar. India has taken a lead among Asian countries in utilizing the pool of learning resources available, he added.
The PSU summit was supported by a host of industry leaders including Ruckus Networks, Red Hat, Fortinet, Dassault Systems, Accops, Pinnacle, innspark, RAH Infotech and Fidel Softech. “Waiting for delicensing for 6GHz spectrum would be the key for the networking industry in the future,” revealed Kalyan Chakravarthy, Head—Systems Engineering, India & SAARC, Ruckus Networks. “Digital leaders move fast, look beyond processes and strategy shifts, navigate economic and market disruptions and are interoperable, flexible and scalable,” added Sarabjit Singh Madan, Chief Architect, Red Hat South Asia. “OT infrastructure attacks are getting worse in petroleum, nuclear or oil plans and in metro railways,” informed Hiral Sharma, Principal Architect, India & SAARC, Fortinet.
Sharat Sahai Mathur, Group General Manager, CRIS, Vishal Mittal, GM – ONGC, Ajay Kumar Nema, GM –IT, HSCC India, Ritu Narang, Sr GM, Container Corporation of India, Chandan Kumar Barman, DGM-IT, Oil India and Ajay Kumar Pathak, AGM-NTPC discussed and deliberated on the different roles played by PSUs in the digitization of the economy. Sandeep Khanna, Director (IS) & CISO, UIDAI, B Paparaju, CISO, ONGC, Susheel Kumar, CISO, GAIL, Shaleen Khetarpaul, Assistant Vice President & CISO, BSES Rajdhani Power and Some Nath Kundu, DGM & Alternate CISO, NTPC discussed on creating a protection framework against malicious attacks in the PSU ecosystem.
Dipesh Jain, Chief Manager-IT, Power Finance Corporation, HaritimaJaipuriar, GM-IT, RailTel Corporation, Avneesh Vats, GM-IT, EESL, Aloke Shankar Pandey, AGM-IT, Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India and Rajeev Kumar Surolia, Director—Strategic Business, RAH infotech discussed about the opportunities and challenges for cloud enabled digital infrastructure in PSUs. Manoj Tandon, Director-Project, RailTel Corporation, Daman Yadav, Chief GM, PowerGrid, Rajagopal A, CGM-IT, Food Corporation of India, Gautam Kumar, CGM-IT, BBNL, Vidya Sagar Singh, Sr GM, NSIC and Rishi Raj, Dy Manager, BHEL deliberated how PSUs are embracing emerging technologies for digital transformation.
