Name: DataNext - Putting AI Innovation into Action
Start: 22/03/2022 04:30 AM +00:00
End: 22/03/2022 12:15 PM +00:00

How modern data strategies can build smart, customer-centric solutions on cloud & edge by Infoqort

NextBillion AI (NextBillion) is an industry-leading spatial data and AI platform that helps enterprises build, scale, and manage their own mapping ecosystem. The company enables enterprises to tackle highly complex location problems with the help of tailored location and navigation technology solutions. It offers location tools and APIs such as last-mile delivery, telematics, logistics, transport, food delivery, automotive, and ride-hailing/ride-sharing.
Read more: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1468140243794230392-nextbillion-ai-other-azure-en-india<a href="https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1468140243794230392-nextbillion-ai-other-azure-en-india">https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1468140243794230392-nextbillion-ai-other-azure-en-india</a>

Nextbillion.ai

Bajaj Auto

The lending industry in India has long been dependent on traditional processes for business development, data acquisition, verification, and validation. This meant cumbersome processes that required many personal visits, and ultimately led to underutilization of time and resources.
Read more: <a href="https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/860505-paisabazaar-azure-en-india">https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/860505-paisabazaar-azure-en-india</a>
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PaisaBazaar

Wipro Limited is an Indian multinational corporation that provides information technology, consulting and business process services to customers across the globe. Its flagship AI platform Wipro HOLMES&trade; is well-known for excellence, fueled by cognitive services and automation solution expertise. To accelerate its culture of cutting-edge technology innovation, Wipro HOLMES&trade; migrated to Microsoft Azure DevOps.
Read more: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/841025-wipro-holmes-professional-services-azure-en-india<a href="https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/841025-wipro-holmes-professional-services-azure-en-india">https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/841025-wipro-holmes-professional-services-azure-en-india</a>

Wipro Holmes

As an applied technology services company, Mphasis offers highly specialized digital transformation expertise to clients worldwide.
Read more: <a href="https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/848945-mphasis-azure-en-india">https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/848945-mphasis-azure-en-india</a>

Mphasis

CropData Technologies is on a mission to help the smallest farmer in the remotest part of India make a viable living powered by Microsoft Azure and AI-driven agritech solutions. Its offerings help farmers to maximize returns and bring trust and transparency in the agriculture value chain. To augment scalability and accelerate its go-to-market speed, the company took advantage of Microsoft technologies and reaped bountiful rewards.
Read more: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/859360-cropdata-azure-en-india<a href="https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/859360-cropdata-azure-en-india">https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/859360-cropdata-azure-en-india</a>

Crop Data

Founded in 2004 in the United Kingdom, Canonical is a private company that was created alongside the Linux distribution Ubuntu to help the platform reach a wider market and offer commercial support to its customers. Canonical provides an ecosystem of tools and multiple applications across different environments&mdash;such as mainframes, containers, Internet of Things (IoT), and robotics.&nbsp;
Read more: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1368157682676366558-canonical-azure-it-en-india<a href="https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1368157682676366558-canonical-azure-it-en-india">https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1368157682676366558-canonical-azure-it-en-india</a>

Canonical

Hiring and nurturing a talent pool is a challenging task for HR professionals. Interview Mocha, with its bouquet of more than 1,500 skill assessments, aims to make that process simple and efficient. Built on the Azure platform, Interview Mocha is taking advantage of Microsoft cloud and AI technologies to ensure high availability and speedy product deployment.
Read more:<a href="https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/814625-interview-mocha-professional-services-azure-ai-india-en"> https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/814625-interview-mocha-professional-services-azure-ai-india-en</a>

Interview Mocha

Wrench Solutions Pvt Ltd. is a leading provider of project management information solutions for the engineering and construction industry. Founded in 1998, the company now has a presence in seven countries.
Read more: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1367075190598667489-wrench-solutions-other-unsegmented-azure-en-india<a href="https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1367075190598667489-wrench-solutions-other-unsegmented-azure-en-india">https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1367075190598667489-wrench-solutions-other-unsegmented-azure-en-india</a>

Wrench Solutions

VuNet Systems (VuNet) has an integrated platform which uniquely combines Big Data, Domain-Centric ML Models and MLOps to accelerate digital transformation at organizations. Its AI-led business observability platform vuSmartMaps&trade;, connects business, operations, and user experience at scale through an intelligent unified view of business journeys for digital enterprises.
Read more: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1462471103451577816-vunet-systems-other-azure-en-india<a href="https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1462471103451577816-vunet-systems-other-azure-en-india">https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1462471103451577816-vunet-systems-other-azure-en-india</a>

VuNet Systems

Mailmodo is an email marketing platform that helps businesses create and send interactive emails, embedding forms and widgets such as calendars, shopping carts, NPS surveys within them. It is bringing Web 2.0-like features to emails, so that users can interact within the email itself, without going through numerous redirections. This reduces attrition and increases conversion, benefitting marketers.
Read more: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1468503659412409701-mailmodo-professional-services-azure-en-india<a href="https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1468503659412409701-mailmodo-professional-services-azure-en-india">https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1468503659412409701-mailmodo-professional-services-azure-en-india</a>

MailModo

SwiftAnt provides insurance technology solutions aimed at fostering digital transformation of insurers using advanced automation and artificial intelligence tools. The company has a presence in India, US, UAE, and Kenya.
Read more: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1460115180488636608-swiftant-insurance-azure-en-india<a href="https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1460115180488636608-swiftant-insurance-azure-en-india">https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1460115180488636608-swiftant-insurance-azure-en-india</a>

Swift Ant

Founded in Bangalore - the Silicon Valley of India &ndash; in 1989, Tata Elxsi provides technology consulting, product design, development, and testing services to leading organizations around the world. In a bid to take on more complex projects using computational tools in a more controlled and efficient manner, Tata Elxsi was exploring cloud-based high-performance computing. For this purpose, It adopted the Azure-based SyncHPC solution to meet its needs.
Read more:<a href="https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1392403391275477944-tata-elxsi-other-azure-en-india"> https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1392403391275477944-tata-elxsi-other-azure-en-india</a>

TATA ELXSI

Indus Towers Limited is India's largest passive telecom infrastructure company. It deploys, owns, and manages telecom towers and communication structures for various mobile operators.
Read more:<a href="https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1461949796446292409-indus-towers-telecommunications-azure-power-en-india"> https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1461949796446292409-indus-towers-telecommunications-azure-power-en-india</a>

Indus Towers

The evolving Indian real estate industry demands agility and quick decision making. For this reason, Tata Realty and Infrastructure Limited wanted to revamp its analytics framework. To support its growing talent pool with 360-degree visibility into real-time data and AI-powered insights, the company developed a comprehensive analytics platform. Built using several Microsoft technologies, including Azure Analytics Services, Power BI, Windows Virtual Machine, and Azure Data Factory, the solution is helping Tata Realty succeed in the new normal.
Read more:<a href="https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/856637-tata-realty-and-infrastructure-limited-azure-en-india"> https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/856637-tata-realty-and-infrastructure-limited-azure-en-india</a>

TATA REALTY

iMocha

Rezo.ai

UST is an industry-recognized digital technology company that provides advanced digital transformation services, products, and platforms to enterprises worldwide. Our solutions are designed, developed, and deployed to exceed our clients&rsquo; expectations, power the transformation of their business, and improve the lives of their customers.
Read more: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/850792-UST-global-professional-services-azure-en-india<a href="https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/850792-UST-global-professional-services-azure-en-india">https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/850792-UST-global-professional-services-azure-en-india</a>

UST Global

ExtraaEdge Technology Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (ExtraaEdge) is a venture-backed, martech SaaS company that focuses on helping educational institutes increase, manage, and predict admissions. It builds customized software stacks to solve student acquisition challenges in the education marketing industry.&nbsp;
Read more:<a href="https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1371957072724994384-extraaedge-technology-solutions-private-limited-azure-en-india"> https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1371957072724994384-extraaedge-technology-solutions-private-limited-azure-en-india</a>

ExtraaEdge

Discover Dollar

A cloud-based intelligent contact center that uses Azure Cognitive Services to provide customer service agents with real-time insights into customer interactions. This allows agents to provide faster and more accurate customer service. This system can recognize and understand natural language, identify emotions, and provide recommendations for customer service representatives.

Cloud based Intelligent Contact Center

GPT-3 is a set of autoregressive models with one billion parameters that can perform well on a variety of tasks, ranging from question answering to classification, with just a few short demonstrations. Here is a sneak peak into this very exciting technology which could potentially revolutionize the way we analyze text content today.

GPT3 – A new Wave Of Machine Learning

We are moving into an era of ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence. Microsoft has created an entire echo system of offerings from edge to the cloud enabling you to infuse intelligence into a variety of workloads in minimal time. Here is a peek into key innovations around this thematic including Spatial Analysis containers, Azure Stack Edge and IOT Hub.

Introducing Microsoft’s Echo System for Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence

vChek +vTalli +vInspkt

Voice Bots in Hinglish

This session will cover a brief overview of Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise and then dive into a detailed demo of the Active Active functionality of Redis Enterprise which allows customers to handle use cases like Roaming user sessions, region failovers, and build geo distributed applications having sub millisecond latency and global scale

Supercharge Real Time Customer experiences with Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise

In-A-Box solutions with Microsoft

Azure Machine Learning Studio Experience

Demos on Cosmos DB features, capabilities and its instant scalability 

How modern data strategies can accelerate innovation and build smart, customer-centric, scalable solutions on cloud and edge by Infoqort

Voice Bots in Hinglish (With Speech Analytics) by Celebal Tech

Digital Transformation through Data Modernization by Knowledge Lens

Microsoft Azure Synapse & Cognitive Services: Unleashing the Power of Your Data

Join us at Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: Data Fundamentals to build your foundational knowledge of cloud data services in Azure. Explore relational and non-relational data offerings, including key capabilities and provisioning. Also learn about big data and modern data warehouse analytics solutions in Azure.
Day 1 - 6th April 2022 - 2:00 PM to 5:30 PM | (GMT+05:30) Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi Day 2 - 7th April 2022 - 2:00 PM to 5:30 PM | (GMT+05:30) Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi

Data Fundamentals

Join us at Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: Data Fundamentals to build your foundational knowledge of cloud data services in Azure. Explore relational and non-relational data offerings, including key capabilities and provisioning. Also learn about big data and modern data warehouse analytics solutions in Azure.
Day 1 - 13th April 2022 - 2:00 PM to 5:30 PM | (GMT+05:30) Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi Day 2 - 14th April 2022 - 2:00 PM to 5:30 PM | (GMT+05:30) Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi

Join us at Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: Data Fundamentals to build your foundational knowledge of cloud data services in Azure. Explore relational and non-relational data offerings, including key capabilities and provisioning. Also learn about big data and modern data warehouse analytics solutions in Azure.
20th April 2022 - 2:00 PM to 5:30 PM | (GMT+05:30) Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi 21st April 2022 - 2:00 PM to 5:30 PM | (GMT+05:30) Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi

Join us at Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: Data Fundamentals to build your foundational knowledge of cloud data services in Azure. Explore relational and non-relational data offerings, including key capabilities and provisioning. Also learn about big data and modern data warehouse analytics solutions in Azure.
Day 1 - 27th April 2022 - 2:00 PM to 5:30 PM | (GMT+05:30) Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi Day 2 - 28th April 2022 - 2:00 PM to 5:30 PM | (GMT+05:30) Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi

Join us at Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: Fundamentals for an introduction to cloud computing concepts, models and services &ndash; from public to private to hybrid cloud. You&rsquo;ll also learn the basics of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Prepare to take full advantage of the key Azure pillars of security, privacy, compliance and trust.
Day 1 - 5th April 2022 - 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM | (GMT+05:30) Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi Day 2 - 6th April 2022 - 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM | (GMT+05:30) Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi &nbsp;

Azure Fundamentals

Join us at Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: Fundamentals for an introduction to cloud computing concepts, models and services &ndash; from public to private to hybrid cloud. You&rsquo;ll also learn the basics of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Prepare to take full advantage of the key Azure pillars of security, privacy, compliance and trust.
Day 1 - 11th April 2022 - 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM | (GMT+05:30) Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi Day 2 - 12th April 2022 - 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM | (GMT+05:30) Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi

Join us at Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: Fundamentals for an introduction to cloud computing concepts, models and services &ndash; from public to private to hybrid cloud. You&rsquo;ll also learn the basics of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Prepare to take full advantage of the key Azure pillars of security, privacy, compliance and trust.
Day 1 - 14th April 2022 - 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM | (GMT+05:30) Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi Day 2 - 15th April 2022 - 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM | (GMT+05:30) Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi

Join us at Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: Fundamentals for an introduction to cloud computing concepts, models and services &ndash; from public to private to hybrid cloud. You&rsquo;ll also learn the basics of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Prepare to take full advantage of the key Azure pillars of security, privacy, compliance and trust.
Day 1 - 14th April 2022 - 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM | (GMT+05:30) Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi Day 2 - 15th April 2022 - 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM | (GMT+05:30) Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi &nbsp;

Join us at Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: Fundamentals for an introduction to cloud computing concepts, models and services &ndash; from public to private to hybrid cloud. You&rsquo;ll also learn the basics of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Prepare to take full advantage of the key Azure pillars of security, privacy, compliance and trust.
21st April 2022 - 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM | (GMT+05:30) Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi 22nd April 2022 - 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM | (GMT+05:30) Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi &nbsp;

Join us at Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: Fundamentals for an introduction to cloud computing concepts, models and services &ndash; from public to private to hybrid cloud. You&rsquo;ll also learn the basics of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Prepare to take full advantage of the key Azure pillars of security, privacy, compliance and trust.
Day 1 - 25th April 2022 - 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM | (GMT+05:30) Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi Day 2 - 26th April 2022 - 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM | (GMT+05:30) Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi

Join us at Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: Fundamentals for an introduction to cloud computing concepts, models and services &ndash; from public to private to hybrid cloud. You&rsquo;ll also learn the basics of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Prepare to take full advantage of the key Azure pillars of security, privacy, compliance and trust.
Day 1 - 28th April 2022 - 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM | (GMT+05:30) Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi Day 2 - 29th April 2022 - 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM | (GMT+05:30) Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi &nbsp;

Join us at Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: AI Fundamentals to learn the core concepts of AI and get started building your own solutions using Azure services.
27th April 2022 - 2:00 PM to 5:30 PM | (GMT+05:30) Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi

AI Fundamentals

This course will discuss the various methods and best practices that are in line with business and technical requirements for modeling, visualizing, and analyzing data with Power BI. The course will also show how to access and process data from a range of data sources including both relational and non-relational data. This course will also explore how to implement proper security standards and policies across the Power BI spectrum including datasets and groups. The course will also discuss how to manage and deploy reports and dashboards for sharing and content distribution. Finally, this course will show how to build paginated reports within the Power BI service and publish them to a workspace for inclusion within Power BI.

Certificates

Join us at Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: AI Fundamentals to learn the core concepts of AI and get started building your own solutions using Azure services.
29th March 2022 - 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM | (GMT+05:30) Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi
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Join us at Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: Fundamentals for an introduction to cloud computing concepts, models and services &ndash; from public to private to hybrid cloud. You&rsquo;ll also learn the basics of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Prepare to take full advantage of the key Azure pillars of security, privacy, compliance and trust.
23rd March 2022 - 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM | (GMT+05:30) Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi 24th March 2022 - 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM | (GMT+05:30) Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi

Join us at Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: Data Fundamentals to build your foundational knowledge of cloud data services in Azure. Explore relational and non-relational data offerings, including key capabilities and provisioning. Also learn about big data and modern data warehouse analytics solutions in Azure
Day 1 - 29th March 2022 2:00 PM to 5:30 PM | (GMT+05:30) Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi Day 2 - 30th March 2022 2:00 PM to 5:30 PM | (GMT+05:30) Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi

Join us at Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: AI Fundamentals to learn the core concepts of AI and get started building your own solutions using Azure services.
8th April 2022 - 2:00 PM to 5:30 PM | (GMT+05:30) Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi

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Opening session – Natural intelligence: Teaching humans to use data

By Ravi Vijayaraghavan, SVP (CDAO), Head - Analytics &amp; Applied Sciences, Flipkart
At Flipkart, there is a deep focus on leveraging Data, Analytics and Machine Learning (ML) in improving all aspects of consumer experience in E-commerce. This talk will cover real-world use cases in the application of Analytics and ML in improving our app experience, assortment variety, product quality and delivery experience.

Ravi Vijayaraghavan

Spotlight session: Analytics and Data Science for Ecommerce - An overview and use cases on customer experience

By Renee Lo, GM Data &amp; AI, Microsoft Asia
Perspective on what is on top of mind for CDOs and leveraging data to help businesses evolve.

Renee Lo

Microsoft Keynote – Future of Decisions: A Chief Digital Officer’s ‘Top of Mind’

By Biswajit Das, Director- Advisory (Analytics | AI | Data Lakes | CVM) - KPMG
Dahnesh Dilkhush - Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft Azure,India,&nbsp;&nbsp;
Meduri Ravi Kumar - Executive Vice President, IP and Digital Solutions, Innominds
Ajay Agrawal -SVP, Global Head of Analytics and Artificial Intelligence, Center of Excellence at Happiest Minds Technologies&nbsp;
Gokulraj Perumal - Software Services Associate Principal at eClerx
Gaurav Mehta - VP and Global Head, Alliances and Analysts RelationsVP and Global Head - Alliances and Analysts Relations, Capillary Technologies
Rohit Kilam - Chief Technology Officer, CMS Info Systems
Rajesh Pawar - SVP Global Delivery (Digital Engineering Services), Cigniti Technologies
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● The critical importance of building data cultures ● State of data &amp; analytics adoption and risks ● Building an innovation culture &amp; and info-savvy organisation ● The relationship &amp; synergies between CDO/ CIO/ CTO and influence on other decision makers

Dahnesh Dilkhush

Biswajit Das

Meduri Ravi Kumar

Ajay Agrawal

Gaurav Mehta

Rohit Kilam

Rajesh Pawar

Roundtable: How CDOs can enable data-driven culture within organisations

By Ankit Saran, Partner, Consulting | AI &ndash; Data &amp; Analytics (India), Deloitte
Swapna Bapat, Senior Director - Data &amp; AI, Microsoft India
Srivatsa Subbanna Vice President - Analytics, Data Science and AI, Maveric Systems Ltd
Srinidhi Shama Rao Chief Strategy Officer at Aegon Life
Dinesh Sharma Head - Data Analytics &middot; Utkarsh Small Finance Bank
Puneet Shivam President, US, and Co-head, Enterprise Technology &amp; Services, Avendus&nbsp;
Armish Sonkar Head of Data Science, Risk &amp; Data Engineering at Eko
Gouri Shankar Yadav Head - Analytics &amp; Decision Management, Shubham Housing Development Finance Company&nbsp;
Ankush Gadi Director - Data Management &amp; Analytics at CRISIL Limited
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● The rising partnership and best practices of traditional banks &amp; fintech organizations ● Building a modern data strategy for securing data on cloud ● Revising security regulations and policies in the data modernization environment ● Redefining strategic priorities across elevated customer experience with a balance between scale, experience, and security ● Understanding customer data, challenges, and preferences, using data analytics for hyper-personalization ● Capitalizing on Customer Analytics Tools, delivering real value from AI investments

Gouri Shankar Yadav

Ankush Gadi

Armish Sonkar

Puneet Shivam

Srinidhi Shama Rao

Srivatsa Subbanna

Swapna Bapat

Ankit Saran

 Accelerated digital transformation roadmap of banking and fintech

By: Prashant Kaddi, Partner | AI &amp; Data, Deloitte&nbsp;
Sunita Kannan, Data and AI Solutions Lead, APJ of Microsoft Corporation Saurabh Agrawal SVP &ndash; Analytics &amp; CRM, Lenskart.com Arun Pai SVP &ndash; Head of Analytics and Decision Sciences at Dream11 Karthik Sivakumar Head of Data Products at Pine Labs Anand Tuli Head Of Analytics and Decision Sciences at Vedantu Ravindra Yadav Senior Director &ndash; Data Science, Meesho 
● Personalisation, when &amp; how ● Questioning the technological infrastructure of data ● Insights-based data collection // unifying data and accelerate insights ● Future of work in hybrid ● Responsible AI &amp; ML ● Key obstacles faced ● Unleashing the full potential of the data lake &amp; data warehouse across hybrid environments ● Deploying the right cloud infrastructure with the latest AI frameworks and analytics capabilities ● Effective ways of securing data, matching the speed of digital transformation

Sunita Kannan

Arun Pai

Ravindra Yadav

Karthik Sivakumar

Saurabh Agrawal

Anand Tuli

Rethink their data strategies, a priority for digital-native companies

By : Ankit Saran, Partner, Consulting | AI &ndash; Data &amp; Analytics (India) at Deloitte&nbsp;
Bhavana Yerrumreddy, Country Leader &ndash; Retail, Healthcare &amp; Growth Vertical, Microsoft India Rishit Jain, Product Management Leader &ndash; Digital, Data Science and IoT products | Principal Product Manager, Tata 1mg Pradeep Jayaraman, Terminal Head &ndash; Adani Mundra Container Terminals &amp; RORO Operations at Adani Ports and SEZ Srinivas Gopinath, Head &ndash; Digital and Analytics at Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd. Vineet Shukla, Group Vice President at Mahindra Group Sudip Mitra, SVP at Aditya Birla group 
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● Lack of a unified data strategy ● Impact on real-time insights generation and accelerated speed to service ● Challenges faced by companies in transforming data strategy of the organisation (including database technology) ● Processing, analysing and managing data in the cloud environment ● Enhancing data visibility and managing unstructured data ● Developing a robust unified data strategy and decoding data modernisation for a next-gen&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;enterprise ● Power of prediction ● Management of the data lake, data governance, and data analytics platform ● Understand the entry barriers for AI in your enterprise ● Innovate with AI/ML ● Balance business growth with an ethical approach&nbsp;

Pradeep Jayaraman Jayaraman

Srinivas Gopinath

Sudip Mitra Mitra

Bhavana Yerrumreddy

Vineet Shukla

Rishit Jain

Unlock value from data in real-time in a post-COVID retail world

By Eric Boyd - CVP AI Platform, Microsoft
Beatriz Stollnitz - Principal Cloud Advocate &ndash; Azure ML, Microsoft
Ayşeg&uuml;l Y&ouml;net - Senior Cloud Developer Advocate, Microsoft
Amit Mistry - Solution Architect, Ecolab
Ketul Patel - Sr. Director, Digital Transformation Office, Johnson and Johnson
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AI is at the center of everything, and Azure AI provides our customers with the most comprehensive AI offering for their business needs. In this session, we&rsquo;ll talk about the latest in Azure AI and how it helps you build scalable, enterprise ready and responsible AI solutions. You&rsquo;ll hear from us on how we&rsquo;re investing across products and infrastructure and from some of our customers on how they&rsquo;re utilizing these capabilities to build state-of-the-art AI solutions for their businesses. If AI is on your mind, this session should be on your schedule.

Eric Boyd

Beatriz Stollnitz

Ayşegül Yönet

Into Focus - Data & AI: Highlights from Ignite 21

Future proof your business and innovate faster with a fully managed PostgreSQL database on Azure. By Brian McKerr, Senior Specialist - Data &amp; AI, Microsoft Australia
Azure Database for PostgreSQL is fully-managed, community PostgreSQL in the Azure cloud. Focus on app innovation, not database administration, with valuable Postgres features, intelligent performance recommendations, and built-in security.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL is based on the latest community versions of PostgreSQL. It lets you continue using your favorite languages, tools, and extensions. You can provision new databases in minutes and independently scale compute and storage in seconds, knowing you&rsquo;ll get built-in high availability, automatic backups and updates, and a service-level agreement of 99.99 per cent.
With turn-key horizontal scalability, Azure Database for PostgreSQL can handle even the most demanding workloads. You&rsquo;ll also get advanced data security and compliance with Azure Database for PostgreSQL, you can pay as you go under a simple yet flexible pricing model, knowing that your database service is built on a world-class infrastructure with unmatched global reach.
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Brian McKerr

 Data Modernization

Limitless analytics service with a unified experience possible with Azure Synapse Analytics By Aditi Rathi, Director Product Growth - Analytics &amp; AI, Microsoft India
zure Synapse Analytics is indeed a unified data platform that encompasses all kind of analytics engines viz. DWH, Spark (BigData) and ADX (streaming data) engines inbuilt and it's seamless integration with market leading BI (PBI) and MLOps (AML) engines. Thus it is a unified cloud-scale service that addresses all possible needs of a scalable analytics business.

Aditi Rathi

 Cloud Scale Analytics

Democratizing Intelligent and Humanoid Automation with Azure Speech and Language AI By Sandeep Alur, Director, India Microsoft Technology Center.
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Azure's Speech and Language AI services can enable a multitude of intelligent automation use-cases built on the power of Transcription, Translation, Sentiment amd Semantic cognition. An all encompassing and cross-industry example is that of an intelligent contact center.

Sandeep Alur

Azure AI

Unlock single-digit millisecond response times, instant scalability and speed with Azure Cosmos DB By Srikanth Sridhar, Global Black Belt | Sr Specialist - Azure Cosmos DB, Microsoft Asia
Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed NoSQL database for modern app development. Single-digit millisecond response times, and automatic and instant scalability, guarantee speed at any scale.
Business continuity is assured with SLA-backed 99.999% availability and enterprise-grade security. App development is faster and more productive thanks to turnkey multi-master data distribution anywhere in the world, open source APIs and SDKs for popular languages.
As a fully managed service, Azure Cosmos DB takes database administration off your hands with automatic management, updates and patching.
It also handles capacity management with cost-effective serverless and automatic scaling options that respond to application needs to match capacity with demand.
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Srikanth Sridhar

Data Modernization

Build modern data solutions with real-time insights using Azure Synapse Analytics with Power BI By Arvind Raman, Azure Solution Specialist, Microsoft India
BI tools are critical for visualizing data, but when you use all your data it becomes the engine for business-changing insights. Maximize the utility of a market leading BI tool (PBI) with a unified cloud scale analytics platform (Azure Synapse Analytics) that brings speed, security, and business changing insights with combined power of DWH, BigData and Streaming Data engines.

Arvind Raman Raman

Cloud Scale Analytics

Build &amp; deploy accurate models in a faster &amp; secure way with Azure Machine Learning By Aruna Chakkirala, Senior Cloud Solutions Architect, Microsoft India
Azure Machine Learning empowers data scientists and developers of all skill levels to collaborate in building, training, and deploying ML models automatedly, securely and at scale. It provides end-to-end lifecycle management for machine learning through MLOps. It also enables responsible and trustworthy development of machine learning solutions through responsible AI/ML capabilities which provides transparency and explainability for the models.

Aruna Chakkirala

Modernise your applications and enjoy hybrid flexibility with Azure SQL By Shashank&nbsp; Pawar, Azure SQL Modernization Engagement Lead, Microsoft Asia
When it comes to Data Modernization, many businesses have a large estate of SQL Server on-premises. Microsoft is the SQL company. We have perfected the SQL engine over 30-years of investment, and re-invented it to be cloud native. When it comes to choosing a database, we know that customers care about price, price performance, security, and ease of use. Azure SQL scores highly across all of these dimensions! Customers who migrate to Azure SQL are thrilled with the scalability, cost and performance gains. Customers are also implementing latest SQL innovations like Hyperscale and Serverless for faster time to market and immediately accommodate its customers&rsquo; changing and often unpredictable workload patterns.

Shashank Pawar

Azure Purview &ndash; Unified Data Governance approach for a diverse data estate By Athena DSouza, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft India
Azure Purview is a unified data governance solution from Microsoft that helps you manage and govern your data across your entire data estate, whether that data is housed on-premises, in other clouds, and or in software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. With Azure Purview, you can easily create a holistic, up-to-date map of your data landscape with automated data discovery, sensitive data classification, and end-to-end data lineage while enabling data consumers to find valuable, trustworthy data. In addition, it's roadmap entails an end-to-end data privacy stack enabling organizations to manage their obligations to both local and international privacy regulations

Athena DSouza DSouza

Leverage Azure&rsquo;s AI-powered RPA to manage unstructured data and actionable insights By Lini Karanath, Director of Customer Success - Data &amp; AI, Microsoft India
Learn how to leverage AI-powered robotic process automation to extract volumes of data from unstructured documents or forms and unlock digital actions or meaningful insights from it.

Lini Karanath

Microsoft Azure Synapse and Cognitive Services: Unleashing the Power of Your Data By Shikha Agarwal, Sr. Technical Architect, Microsoft Technology Center
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FSI Organizations are accelerating their technology adoption to fortify their digital capabilities that enhance business growth and Customer Delight with a frictionless personalized experience across multiple channels. Data-led Intelligent solutions to play a pivotal role in automating the key business processes and advancing the digital transformation. This session demonstrates the Power of Microsoft Data Analytics Platform &ndash; Azure Synapse - &nbsp;together with cognitive services such as form recognizer, text analytics and azure machine learning enable that unlock insights from petabytes of data and enables to accomplish smarter business outcomes.

Shikha Agarwal

Solution Showcase

GPT3 &ndash; A new Wave Of Machine Learning By Shikha Agarwal, Sr. Technical Architect, Microsoft Technology Center
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GPT-3 is a set of autoregressive models with one billion parameters that can perform well on a variety of tasks, ranging from question answering to classification, with just a few short demonstrations. Here is a sneak peak into this very exciting technology which could potentially revolutionize the way we analyze text content today.

Cloud based Intelligent Contact Center -&nbsp; Demo By Shikha Agarwal, Sr. Technical Architect, Microsoft Technology Center

Introducing Microsoft&rsquo;s Echo System for Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence By Shikha Agarwal, Sr. Technical Architect, Microsoft Technology Center
We are moving into an era of ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence. Microsoft has created an entire echo system of offerings from edge to the cloud enabling you to infuse intelligence into a variety of workloads in minimal time. Here is a peek into key innovations around this thematic including Spatial Analysis containers, Azure Stack Edge and IOT Hub.

Azure Machine Learning Studio Experience By Aruna Chakkirala, Senior Cloud Solutions Architect, Microsoft India&nbsp;
Organizations are witnessing an accelerated pace in building machine learning fueled solutions. An implicit requirement for the teams involved is working collaboratively while constantly building &amp; managing a large number of models. This session highlights the various components of Azure Machine Learning which enables data science and IT teams to collaborate and increase the pace of model development and deployment via monitoring, validation, and governance of machine learning models. Inherently enabling the machine learning life cycle

By Srikanth Sridhar, Global Black Belt | Sr Specialist - Azure Cosmos DB, Microsoft Asia

Demos on Cosmos DB features, capabilities and its instant scalability

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By Sanjeev Sadhwani, Head of Operations, Infoqort Abhishek Srivastava &ndash; Partner Solution Architect. Redis

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 How modern data strategies can accelerate innovation and build smart, customer-centric, scalable solutions on cloud and edge by Infoqort

By Abhishek Srivastava - Partner Solution Architect. Redis
This session will cover a brief overview of Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise and then dive into a detailed demo of the Active Active functionality of Redis Enterprise which allows customers to handle use cases like Roaming user sessions, region failovers, and build geo distributed applications having sub millisecond latency and global scale

Agenda

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Renee Lo

Eric Boyd

Dahnesh Dilkhush

Swapna Bapat

Bhavana Yerrumreddy

Brian McKerr

Srikanth Sridhar

Shashank Pawar

Aditi Rathi

Sandeep Alur

Aruna Chakkirala

Lini Karanath

Shikha Agarwal

Beatriz Stollnitz

Sunita Kannan

Ayşegül Yönet

Ajay Agrawal

Biswajit Das

Meduri Ravi Kumar

Gaurav Mehta

Rohit Kilam

Rajesh Pawar

Ankit Saran

Srivatsa Subbanna

Anand S

Ravi Vijayaraghavan

Puneet Shivam

Gokulraj Perumal

Srinidhi Shama Rao

Armish Sonkar

Gouri Shankar Yadav

Prabhu Rangarajan

Ankush Gadi

Saurabh Agrawal

Arun Pai

Hari Krishnan Krishnan

Rishit Jain

Pradeep Jayaraman Jayaraman

Srinivas Gopinath

Vineet Shukla

Sudip Mitra Mitra

Prashant Kaddi

Karthik Sivakumar

Athena DSouza DSouza

Anand Tuli

Dipta Panda Panda

Abhishek Srivastava Srivastava

Anirudh Kala

Arvind Raman Raman

Ravindra Yadav

Deepanjali J

Srikar Kumar

Sanjeev Sadhwani Sadhwani

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How modern data strategies can build smart, customer-centric solutions on cloud & edge by Infoqort

Nextbillion.ai

Bajaj Auto

PaisaBazaar

Wipro Holmes

Mphasis

Crop Data

Canonical

Interview Mocha

Wrench Solutions

VuNet Systems

MailModo

Swift Ant

TATA ELXSI

Indus Towers

TATA REALTY

iMocha

Rezo.ai

UST Global

ExtraaEdge

Discover Dollar

Solution Demos13 Solution Demos

Cloud based Intelligent Contact Center

GPT3 – A new Wave Of Machine Learning

Speakers53 Speakers

Customer Success Stories21 Customer Success Stories