AUTOMATION IS THE NEED OF THE HOUR : 10TH VARINDIA EIITF

(From Left to Right): Lamp lighting ceremony: Sourav Das,CIO-ESSEL MINING (Aditya Birla Group), Sandeep Pradhan, CIO, Exide Industries, Dr. Deepak Kumar Sahu, Publisher & Editor-in-Chief-VARINDIA, Manjit Nayak, Additional Director-STPI, Mr. Prodip Mukhopadhyay, M.D.-WEBEL, Govt. Of West Bengal, Man Mohan Goyal, Advisor IT, Tide Water Oil Co, Mr. Sanjeev Sinha, President IT- India Power Corp. Ltd., Ramachandran Ramamoorthy,Head India- Logistics & Customs,India- Foxconn (Rising Stars Mobile India Pvt. Ltd.), Jitendra Trikha, General Manager (Operations) - Aditya Infotech and Mr. Bibek Maity, CIO- Lux Industries Ltd.

AUTOMATION HAS BECOME AN IMPERATIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR ORGANIZATIONS. IT WILL MAKE THINGS EASIER FOR EMPLOYEES, INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY, COST SAVINGS, IMPROVE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCES ETC.

It is true that disruption brings technology innovation and advancement. Digital transformation has been adopted by most of the organizations to harmonize business processes. Organizations are empowering its employees with updated technologies to work quicker, easier and more in-sync. Automation has become an imperative technology for organizations to make things easier for employees, increase productivity, cost savings, improve customer experiences etc. On the other hand, it is also a fact that it'll affect the job industry. On this backdrop, the 10th edition of Eastern India Information Technology Fair (EIITF) took place at Hotel The Park in Kolkata. This year the topic centered around “Transforming businesses through Automation”. 

The session has witnessed with the presence of industry celebrated names Prodip Mukhopadhyay , MD, WEBEL, Government of West Bengal, Manjit Nayak, Additional Director- STPI, Kolkata, Man Mohan Goyal, Advisor IT, Tide Water Oil Co, Sandeep Pradhan, CIO, Exide Industries and Saradindu Paul V.P & Group CIO - Electrosteel Castings. 

The event kick started with the key note of Dr. Deepak Kumar Sahu, Publisher & Chief Editor, Kalinga Digital Media & VARINDIA. While delivering his speech he said, “Transforming Business Through Automation, it is on the top of the mind of the CXOs for 2019. Disruption is an inevitable result of technological innovation and advancement. It is also a fact that newer technologies are bringing newer opportunities in business and investment into certain emerging technologies, offering both quantitative and qualitative insights.”

He further adds, “Our recent Union Budget reflects as a platform for announcing major policy pronouncement of the Modi 2.0 government. To be fair to the finance minister, the Budget speech had a decent component of information technology; the need for India to move in technology value chain; digital transformation that are taking place and many other initiatives. These are welcome and redeeming features of the Budget. Yet, I feel that the nation has to introspect whether technology and information technology have been assigned their due importance in the Budget.”

The evening followed the auspicious lighting of lamp ceremony in the presence of Manjit Nayak, Additional Director - STPI, Prodip Mukhopadhyay, MD, WEBEL, Man Mohan Goyal, Advisor IT, Tide Water Oil Co, Sandeep Pradhan, CIO, Exide Industries, Saradindu Paul, V.P & Group CIO - Electro steel Castings, Sameer Bhatia, Director & Country Head ( South Asia)- Seagate Technology, Ramachandran Ramamoorthy, Head India- Logistics & Customs- Foxconn, Sanjeev Sinha, President IT- India Power Corp. Ltd., Arjit Das Gupta, Head ITRupa & Co. Ltd., Bibek Maity, CIO- Lux Industries Ltd., Jitendra Trikha, General Manager (Operations) - Aditya Infotech, Viloo Williams, CIO & Head Digital Transformation - C.K. Birla Hospitals, Gopal Rangaraj, President & CIO- Emami Cement & Agrotech and Dr. Deepak Kumar Sahu, Publisher & Chief Editor, Kalinga Digital Media & VARINDIA.