India Today Conclave Next 2017: As it happened

The most respected leaders driving the technology revolution participated in the India Today Conclave Next 2017. Here are the highlights from the conclave sessions.

 

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November 7, 2017 | UPDATED 19:34 IST
India Today Group Editorial Director Raj Chengappa with Union Finance Minister Arun JaitleyIndia Today Group Editorial Director Raj Chengappa with Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella delivered the keynote address at the first edition of the India Today Conclave Next 2017, an exhaustive technology thought leadership forum that was held all-day long today.

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley participated in a session titled "India - Technology and Governance, the Indian Experience."

The India Today Conclave Next 2017 was a daylong CXO only event. It explored the impact of some of today's biggest technology trends, and featured the best thought leaders from industry and academia.

The most respected leaders driving the technology revolution came together to discuss, debate and decode the next I-T evolution, and how it will shape businesses and lives.

Here are the highlights from the conclave sessions.  You can watch stories and videos from each session here. 

HIGHLIGHTS

  • India Today Conclave Next 2017 ends. 
  • Saurabh Agarwal advocates cybersecurity education at the school level.
  • Conversation on ecosystem of protection for digital Indians is only beginning to start: Rajeev Chandrashekhar
  • Larger enterprises don't have a choice but to continuously invest in cyber:  Saurabh Agarwal
  • Jaspreet Singh (Partner - Cyber Security at EY), Saurabh Agarwal (Founder & Managing Director, Skill Cube), Pavan Duggal (Cyberlaw Expert & Head of Pavan Duggal Associates), Dr. Gulshan Rai (National Cyber Security Coordinator, Prime Minister's Office) and MP Rajeev Chandrasekhar join India Today TV Managing Editor Rahul Kanwal for a discussion on 'The Challenge of Cyber Security and Cyber Privacy'.
  • What constitutes reasonable restrictions will be debated: Rajeev Chandrashekhar
  • Supreme Court's ruling on privacy is a milestone; a beautifully written judgement: Rajeev Chandrashekhar
  • MP Rajeev Chandrashekhar delivers keynote address on  'The Fundamental Right for the Digital Citizen.'
  • India Today Conclave Next 2017 will be back after a short break. 
  • Abhijit Singh, Head of Business Technology Group, ICICI Bank, talks about how the bank major has experimented with chatbots.
  • Flipkart uses cognitive services and abilities for product images and to handle customer service calls: Mayur Datar,  Chief Data Scientist, VP of Engineering, Flipkart 
  • There are going to be accidents, what matters is how we deal with it: Radhakrishnan Srikanth, Group Program Manager at AI and Research Division Microsoft, on AI research.
  • AI is in at the stage of being a five-year-old, it needs to be taught a value system: Dr. Badri Raghavan, SVP & Chief Data Scientist, OLA
  • S Anantha Sayana explains how data generated by IoT-enabled devices can be valuable to their manufacturer. 
  • Industrial IoT applications have great potential: Sridhar V
  • Sachin Gupta (CIO, Havells India), Rachna Nath (Partner, Digital Consulting, KPMG India), Vineeth Purushothaman (CIO, Fortis Healthcare), Sridhar V (Group Vice President & Director, Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India Pvt. Ltd), and S Anantha Sayana (Vice President & Head – Digital, L&T Construction) discuss the maturing of IoT (Internet of Things).
  • The India Today Conclave Next 2017 will now break for lunch.
  • Privacy of an individual is far more meaningful for that individual than employment: Kiran DB
  • There is a very thin line between tracking your employees' activity and being creepy: Manish Bahl
  • Employee surveillance and its impact on privacy is the unfortunate impact of the digitisation of the workplace that we are seeing: Mayur Danait
  • I am all for work-life balance, but is it practically possible to implement it in today's technology-drive work? I am not sure: Keshav Murugesh
  • Will the workplace of the future have space for temporary workers?  Yes, says Harmeen Mehta.
  • You can't stop employees from accessing social media at work: Manish Bahl
  • I don't believe in putting boundaries or rules, Harmeen Mehta says on the subject of employees using social media.
  • At a country-level, we are creating a new curriculum on responsible use of social media: Keshav Murugesh
  • There is a lot of work employers need to do to educate employees about ensuring priveleged information does not end up on social media: Mayur Danait, who replaced Ramesh Swaminathan, the CFO of Lupin Limited, on the panel.
  • The younger the workforce gets, the more technology minded they are: Harmeen Mehta
  • Keshav Murugesh brings up a recent experiment in South Africa, where employees were given the option to choose every aspect of their work life, including how many hours they put in and what compensation they earned.
  • The future is all about skills, not scale - when you see technology and these technology tools, don't get scared, says Keshav Murugesh.
  • Talent will be immensely difficult to acquire: Kiran DB on the workplace of the future.
  • They way we are seeing the modern workplace - it's like a film production where the best people come together and create a fantastic project, says Kiran DB.
  • Kiran DB Senior, Director - Solution Sales, Microsoft India, Harmeen Mehta, CIO & Head of Digital, Bharti Airtel, Keshav Murugeshm, Group CEO, WNS, Manish Bahl, Senior Director, Center for the Future of Work, Cognizant, Padmaja Alaganandan, Partner Consulting, PwC India, Ramesh Swaminathan, Chief Financial Officer & Executive Director, Lupin Limited, are now discussing how technology will define the workplace of the future.
  • The  India Today Conclave Next 2017 will return at 1 pm after a short networking break.
  • I don't think industry can correct the country's education system:  CP Gurnani
  • Organizations are not making the investment to teach the skill set required for the future:  Sri Rajan
  • There is a debate for the first time in the history of technology, whether technology is destroying more jobs than it is creating:  R Chandrashekhar
  • The world is more connected, more boundary-less: CP Gurnani
  • R Chandrashekhar (President, NASSCOM, CP Gurnani (CEO & MD, Tech Mahindra) and Sri Rajan (Chairman, Bain & Co India) participate in the session, 'Getting ready for Digital Disruption'

  • It was a way of life to not pay taxes in India before demonetisation: Jaitley
  •  We've succeeding in bringing to the centre stage the issue of how financial transactions in India should be carried out: Arun Jaitley on demonetisation
  • Jaitley discusses the impact of demonetisation ahead of its first anniversary
  • Technology has a powerful role at almost every stage of governance: Arun Jaitley
  • Technology has brought about a disconnect between the assessing officer and the assesse: Arun Jaitley on tax returns, in conversation with India Today Group Editorial Director (Publishing) Raj Chengappa
  • Finance Minister Arun Jaitley unveils Business Today's new emoji. 

  • Satya Nadella's on India in 2040: The choices that people make in 2017 will shape 2040. 
  •  Our nation has the ability and the opportunity to lead in this future paradigm of mobility: Ola Cabs CEO Bhavish Aggarwal
  •  The worlds of technology and transportation are converging very quickly: Ola Cabs CEO Bhavish Aggarwal
  • Ola's mission is to build mobility for a billion Indians: Ola Cabs CEO Bhavish Aggarwal
  • Satya Nadella invites his colleague Puneet Agarwal to introduce the chatbot Ruuh
  • 70 of the 100 companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange use our cloud: Satya Nadella
  • Satya Nadella invites Dr. Anthony Vipin Das on stage to explain how the L V Prasad Eye Institute is using mixed reality.
  • Our mission is to empower every person and every organisation on the planet to achieve more: Satya Nadella
  • Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella delivers keynote address.
  • Tweet about the conclave with the hashtag #CONCLAVENEXT17 !
  • India Today Group Editorial Director (Publishing) Raj Chengappa delivers the welcome address.
  • Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will deliver the keynote address.
  • India Today Conclave Next 2017 to begin shortly.