CIO100 Symposium & Awards : How CIOs in India are strategizing the Right Tech-Ready Infrastructure for any future

In today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape, enterprise IT decision-makers are grappling with unprecedented complexity.  In State of the CIO survey 2024 by Foundry, over half of the respondents predicted technology budgets would increase, as organizational security needs seek an upgrade, keeping pace with rising tech costs and investment in emerging technologies like AI.

The CIO100 Symposium and Awards, celebrating its 19th Indian edition at The Leela Bhartiya City, Bengaluru from 11^th to 13^th September, will honor over 150 of India’s top CIOs and technology leaders. Over this 2-day event, the CIOs will be celebrated for pioneering new ideas and technologies and driving their organizations toward a more resilient and dynamic future.

Companies face the challenge of navigating a maze of emerging technologies and shifting market demands and CIOs spearhead this quest, embracing distributed systems, cloud-native technologies, and the transformative power of AI and GenAI to build future-ready infrastructures. This CIO100 honors the theme, ‘Strategizing the Right Tech-Ready Infrastructure for any Future’.

The CIO100 awards – labelled The Progressive 100 – acknowledges CIOs that are using information technology in smart and relevant ways to engage employees, customers and partners in a digital era marked by profound disruption, which will be announced at the glittery awards night.

Excellence takes centerstage

The Symposium promises to explore and evangelize hot-button topics around proactive cybersecurity, AI shaping the future of innovation, the takeover of low-code tech and cloud technology.

Besides the welcome address by Yogesh Gupta, Editorial Director, Events, India & META, Foundry. ; Sandra Ng, Group Vice President, Practice Group, IDC Asia/Pacific, will deliver the keynote, addressing burning questions on problems and priorities as organizations scramble from GenAI experimentation to scale AI adoption in a way that effectively deliver desired outcomes for their organizations.

IDC Future Enterprise Awards will capture the changing face of innovation and leadership in the digital-first world, rewarding the strategies to redefine DX, aligning its categories and selection criteria to reflect how organizations can successfully bring their businesses into the future.

Jyoti Lalchandani, Group Vice President & Regional Managing Director (META and India), IDC, said of this year’s event, “At the CIO100 event hosted by IDC & CIO, we celebrate the innovative leaders across India who are redefining the future of technology and driving transformative change within their organizations. These gathering highlights their remarkable achievements and serves as a testament to the power of visionary leadership in shaping the digital landscape.”

Additionally, the CIO100 Trailblazers, will honour leading CIOs and CTOs who in their illustrative career have leveraged new technologies through innovative strategy while inching their way towards a successful digital transformation.

Select CIOs will also be awarded special awards in four categories across AI, datacentre, digital transformation, cybersecurity. CIOs who have won CIO100 Award for the last 3 or more consecutive years will move into ‘Hall of Fame’ Club.

A symposium of knowledge

Another highlight of the event will be Adrian Hayes, a former British Army Gurkha officer and Airbus sales director, now a World-Record Adventurer and Renowned Speaker, who has set two Guinness World Records for polar expeditions – for reaching the Earth’s ‘3 Poles’ in the shortest period of time in history. For those who pride themselves on pushing boundaries and daring to discover, this one’s for you.

Yogesh Gupta, Editorial Director, Events, India & META, Foundry, highlights the significance of this edition, saying, “In its 19th year in India, the CIO100 Awards continue their rich legacy as an established annual event, bringing together tech partners to showcase their latest solutions amidst CIOs and senior tech leaders of the region. With AI, Gen-AI, Zero Trust, and other emerging technologies taking centre stage, the event promises to serve as a kaleidoscope into the future of enterprise IT and the evolving role of CIOs.”

The symposium agenda includes innovative parallel Platinum and Gold sessions, for delegates to tune into their preferred session from the multiple sessions, being engaged to the hilt at the Symposium, switching between hyper-automation and multi-cloud in a heartbeat.

The several roundtables organized by esteemed partners will have delegates engage on topics like AI, Cyber Resilience and AppSec, on the sidelines. The partners instrumental in the event, and their senior leaders will spearhead important tech sessions talking about AI, Cloud, infrastructure and all things cybersecurity.

As CIOs square up to new challenges of business, operations and excellence, the CIO100 Symposium and Awards will reward them for the journey traversed, while arming them with the intuition and innovation for the road ahead.