On 8^th November 2021, GEC Media Group officially unveiled the Business Transformation Asia edition at Hotel Leela Palace, New Delhi amidst renowned luminaries and subject experts. Packed with solutions for the digital age businesses, GEC Media Group’s Business Transformation Asia justifies its name and brings forth all that is needed for a 21^st Century commerce to be sustainable and competitive simultaneously.

Unveiling of the Business Transformation Asia edition.

(Left to Right) Shubhendu Parth, Group Editor, GEC Media Group, Sandeep Marwah, Founder of Noida Film City and Marwah Studios, Vinit Goenka Member of the Governing Council at CRIS, Ronak Samantaray, CEO GEC Media Group, Sundip Sibal, Executive Director and President of International Affairs, GEC Media Group and Arun Shankar, Chief Editor, GEC Media Group.

With yet another initiative to boost the digitisation of businesses and make them at par with their international competitors, the launch ceremony took place in the presence of guest of honour Vinit Goenka, who is also a Member of the Governing Council at CRIS, Dr Sandeep Marwah, Founder Noida Film City, President Marwah Studios, and Chancellor AAFT University and Manoj Kohli, Country Head of SoftBank India, Ronak Samantaray, CEO of GEC Media Group, Arun Sharkar, Chief Editor of GEC Media Group, Shubendhu Parth, Group Editor, GEC Media Group, Sundip Sibal, Executive Director and President of International Affairs, GEC Media Group and they have unveiled the replica of Business Transformation Asia cover during the event in person.

Business Transformation Asia edition magazine launch event was also attended by the top CIOs of the country.

Taking the first huge leap in the land of the Asian subcontinent, it will be the first official launch of Global CIO Forum in the Indian peninsula since it has created a global presence in over 40 countries. As a repository of content, Business Transformation Asia is focused on showcasing the full stack of milestones along the road of organisational transformation.

Ronak Samantaray, CEO, GEC Media Group.

Speaking at the event, Ronak Samantaray, CEO, GEC Media Group said, “As the fastest growing media, events and research company, GEC Media Group has always adopted the mantra of being innovative, transformative, and steadfast to the market. Our efforts, services, and offerings are aligned towards being the singular voice for the IT and business ecosystem. Today, we are extremely proud to be unveiling BT Asia during the World CIO 200 India edition, in a country that goes above and beyond when it comes to ‘Transformation’ from not only a technology but varied industry point of view as well. This is a crucial step towards further establishing our commitment to the region in terms of bringing the best of content and success stories of the continent.” 

Shubhendu Parth, Group Editor, GEC Media Group.

Sundip Sibal, Executive Director and President of International Affairs, GEC Media Group.

Founded in 2012, GEC Media Group is a leading media and research company and publisher of magazines like Business Transformation, Enterprise Channels, and The Titans. Over the years, it has expanded well beyond the flagship technology publication to provide senior leaders across the enterprise with indispensable business insights whilst forging cross-border knowledge sharing, facilitating the advice and tools they need to achieve their mission-critical priorities and build their company for next-generation.

The event was organised with all the safety guidelines announced by the Government of India. Track updates of our events through the latest World CIO 200 Summit images available in Flickr.

Taking the first huge leap in the land of the Asian subcontinent, Global CIO Forum organised the World CIO 200 Summit – India Edition an in-person event at Hotel Leela Palace, New Delhi on 8th November 2021 amidst renowned luminaries and subject experts.

The event took place in the presence of guest of honour Vinit Goenka, who is also a Member of the Governing Council at CRIS, Dr Sandeep Marwah, Founder Noida Film City, President Marwah Studios, and Chancellor AAFT University and Manoj Kohli, Country Head of SoftBank India. The World CIO 200 Summit – India Edition was also attended by the top CIOs of the country.

GEC Media Group unveiled the Business Transformation Asia edition in India.

GEC Media Group also unveiled the Business Transformation Asia edition magazine on the side-lines of the World CIO 200 Summit – India edition.

The event partners of The World CIO 200 Summit were Infoblox, F5, Exclusive Networks, BMB, Laserfiche Veritas, Finesse and Arcon. The World CIO 200 Summit has four award categories including Legend CIO, Leader CIO, Master CIO, and Next-generation CIO. Track updates of our events through the latest World CIO 200 Summit images available in Flickr.

Ronak Samantaray, CEO, GEC Media Group and Sundip Sibal Executive Director and President of International Affairs, GEC Media Group started the event with their welcome note and extended gratitude to all the guests for attending the event in person.

Ronak Samantaray, CEO, GEC Media Group.

Speaking at the event, Ronak Samantaray, CEO, GEC Media Group said, “As the fastest growing media, events and research company, GEC Media Group has always adopted the mantra of being innovative, transformative, and steadfast to the market. Our efforts, services, and offerings are aligned towards being the singular voice for the IT and business ecosystem. Today, we are extremely proud to be unveiling BT Asia during the World CIO 200 India edition, in a country that goes above and beyond when it comes to ‘Transformation’ from not only a technology but varied industry point of view as well. This is a crucial step towards further establishing our commitment to the region in terms of bringing the best of content and success stories of the continent.” 

Talking about the launch of BT Asia, Sundip Sibal said

Sundip Sibal Executive Director and President of International Affairs, GEC Media Group.

“The Asia Pacific is on a high growth radar as experts predict internet sectors in the region to hit $300 Billion by 2025, thereby increasing the drive for ‘digital connect’. The launch of Business Transformation Asia comes at the right time, and aspires to be the VOICE of the continent where these digital-first and digital-only businesses are on the track to rewrite customer experience models,” said Sundip Sibal Executive Director and President of International Affairs, GEC Media Group.

The event also recognised leading CIOs in three categories – Legends, Leaders, and Masters.

Global CIO Forum is a non-profit community of CIOs and IT leaders with the mission of facilitating networking, sharing of best practices, executive development, and collaboration on issues faced by the CIOs and the IT Executives. It is a vendor-neutral community for the safe exchange of ideas and best practices. The network of 30,000+ strong of C-level executives, spread across 4 continents and 30 countries, also serves as the voice of the community to ensure that CIOs are represented at key industry and government decision tables.

Founded in 2012, GEC Media Group is a leading media and research company. Over the years, it has expanded well beyond the flagship technology publication to provide senior leaders across the enterprise with indispensable business insights whilst forging cross-border knowledge sharing, facilitating the advice and tools they need to achieve their mission-critical priorities and build their company for next-generation.

Here are the highlights of the various speaker keynote presentations.

Holistic wellbeing matters – Transformation through Corporate Wellness Culture

Ektaa Sibal, India’s No. 1 Inner-self Transformation Specialist.

Ektaa Sibal is a globally renowned gifted energy healer, an International Meditation Expert and award-winning India’s number one Inner- self Transformation Specialist. She is also the National Wellbeing Advisor to Shipping Corporation of India – Ministry of Shipping Enterprise. She also works closely in the mental health and well-being space and is often invited by global brands to speak on mental and emotional well-being. During the event, she has conducted a short meditation session and brief about its benefits.

How ESG will Transform Business

Prakash Kumar, CEO, Wadhwani Institute of Technology and Policy and former CEO of Goods and Service Tax Network.

Dipankar Ghosh, Partner and Leader – Sustainability, Climate Change and ESG, Thinkthrough Consulting.

Richard Rekhy, Board Member of KPMG Dubai and Former CEO, KPMG India.

The panel discussion on How ESG will Transform Business was chaired by Prakash Kumar, CEO, Wadhwani Institute of Technology and Policy and former CEO of Goods and Service Tax Network. with panelists including Richard Rekhy, Board Member – KPMG Dubai and Former CEO, KPMG India and Dipankar Ghosh, Partner and Leader – Sustainability, Climate Change and ESG, Thinkthrough Consulting. The leaders highlighted environmental stewardship, social responsibility and persistent control are now the responsibility of the entire human race.

They also talked about the perils of climate change and how it is impacting our society. As a country and as corporate citizens, we must be careful about our SDG responsibilities.

Infrastructure Sector Transformation

Tanmoy Chakrabarty, Group Government Affairs Officer, Tata Sons Private Limited.

Speaking at the event, Tanmoy Chakrabarty, Group Government Affairs Officer, Tata Sons talked about the rapid transformation in the infrastructure sector and some major challenges faced by the country during the pandemic. He added from the technology point the prioritisation should be on prefabricating housing so that it can come in as a major element and peace to be able to plug Millions of homes you must build as a country to be able to convert our slums in the cities into residential areas.

Digital Technologies in Enabling business transformation

Arun Shankar, Chief Editor, GEC Media Group.

Dr Deepak Kalambkar, VP Infosec, Paygate India Private Limited.

Neeti Wahi, Group Chief Information and Digital Officer, Sterlite Power.

Hilal Khan, Vice-President, and Operating Head-IT, Honda Cars India.

Jai Mrug, CEO of M76 Analytics.

The panel discussion was moderated by Arun Shankar, Editor of GEC Media Group with panelists including Hilal Khan, Vice-President, and Operating Head-IT, Honda Cars India Limited, Dr Deepak Kalambkar, VP Infosec, Paygate India Private Limited, Neeti Wahi, Group Chief Information and Digital Officer, Sterlite Power and Jai Mrug, CEO of M76 Analytics.

Shankar said that the role of digital technologies in enabling the transformation of business across industries such as manufacturing of automobiles, distribution of power, and its impact on various tools such as compliance and big data and analytics. He also raised questions including:

• How do you see organisations reinventing themselves to keep pace with the socio-economic changes and to ensure their future growth?
• In 2022 and ahead what technologies will be driving business transformation in your industries.
• Is the concept of a well-integrated front office, middle office, back office, sufficient to measure the effectiveness of digital transformation?

The emergence of the Transformational CIO

Pramod Agarwal, CTO, Automation Anywhere.

Ramkumar Mohan, CIO, Air Works India Engineering Private Limited.

Dr Sushil Kumar Meher, Head IT, AIIMS.

Pramod Agarwal, CTO, Automation Anywhere chaired the panel discussion on Emergence of the Transformational CIO with leaders including Ramkumar Mohan, CIO, Air Works India Engineering Private Limited and Dr Sushil Kumar Meher, Head IT, AIIMS and discussed the evolving role of the CIO has experienced a drastic transformation to keep up with changing organisational cultures and expectations in today’s business landscape of digital transformation.

Shubhendu Parth, Group Editor, GEC Media Group.

Shubhendu Parth, Group Editor, GEC Media Group concluded the event with the Vote of Thanks and said, “Transformation has taken the world by storm and left no sectors untouched. The pandemic was an eye-opener for this. Businesses realised that it is a do-or-die situation for them and those that do not shed legacy infrastructure will see doom. We are extremely happy to be launching the much-awaited ‘Business Transformation- Asia magazine that will put forth the continent’s success stories and strides in digital and business transformation use cases from a government, public and private sector point of view.  Business Transformation Asia will take the lead in bridging the gap between the business and their technological needs in all the manners required. All our keynote speakers at the event today have highlighted this fact and emphasised how business, technology, and customers walk hand-in-hand in this transformation.” 

The announced winners of The World CIO 200 Summit – India edition Legend category include:

The World CIO 200 Summit – India edition winners.

The announced winners of The World CIO 200 Summit – India edition Master category include:

The announced winners of The World CIO 200 Summit – India edition Leader category include:

Highlights of The World CIO 200 Summit:

• Grand Finale with 2 days of networking, collaboration, knowledge sharing and CAC.
• Tech Talk: The most novel way of making your presentations come alive.
• DX Inspire Awards: Global 20 Recognition for the most Transformative Projects and Solutions.

What is new this year

The 2021 edition is ready to build roadmaps for strategic decision making and identify yardsticks that are the key drivers of growth in the digital world. While CIOs can pick on sessions to help them fast-track their growth, the solution providers can build their brand, present their solutions and network with 500+ relevant C-level IT decision-makers flown in from 14 countries.

The top CIOs from respective countries will arrive in the United Arab Emirates for the grand finale in an all-expense-paid trip, on 5-6th December 2021 at Topaz Ballroom, Fairmont Ajman. The event will also be part of the Dubai Expo 2020.

GEC Media Group, publishers of Business Transformation, Enterprise Channels MEA, The Titans, Cyber Sentinels, announced the winners of the BTX Top Executive Awards, BTX Enterprise Awards, BTX Solution Awards at BTX Road Show South Gulf edition on 8^th September 2021. The half-day event was organised at Grand Ballroom, Conrad Dubai, Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai in person.

The title sponsors of BTX Roadshow were Aruba HPE, Riverbed, Pure Storage, Veeam, Logicom, Netapp, Western Digital, Arcon, Veritas, SilverPeak, Alcatel-Lucent enterprise, SecureNet, Synology, Finesse, CORK information technology, International Group of Artificial Intelligence – IGOAI, Global CISO Forum, Business Transformation, and Enterprise Channels MEA.

The face-to-face event was started with the registration of all attendees and proceed with lunch and networking. GEC Media Group extended warm wishes to all the champions for their victory.

Here are the highlights of the various speaker keynote presentations.

Success and failures of business and digital transformation

In his keynote, Dr Corrie Block, CEO, Paragon Consulting talked about the lack of alignment to business outcomes and lack of awareness within the organisation and lack of control of vendors.

Panel discussion: How digital transformation, innovation, technology making businesses in UAE more resilient and efficient

The first-panel discussion on how digital transformation, innovation, technology, making businesses in UAE more resilient and efficient was moderated by Arun Shanker, Moderator, GEC Media Group.

Taking the discussion forward, Mohamad Rizk, Senior Regional Technical Director for Middle East, Russia, and CIS, Veeam said, In the next 18-24 months, organisations in the UAE are driving plans for innovation. They should catch up plans with multiple perspectives with checkpoints. Some of those points are culture, educating people and from technology’s perspective, they need varied solutions. A digital organisation should be always online. Any downtime of service means loss of money.

Shah E Room Khan, Information Technology Manager, Emirates College of Technology, Abu Dhabi, said, we have merged with different universities and colleges in Abu Dhabi for education. We are planning to implement new technologies especially Customer Experience technology which will help us to facilitate the students in different sectors where they can open a ticket for the help desk system, register online and payment as well. We have also done an agreement with a service provider for AI services to facilitate the students more.

Pankaj Bajaj, Head of IT, Capital Health, said they run as a business project. These are not technology projects at the end of the day. They are enabling business, operations and have already started the business intelligence where we are giving the insights to the management about how the revenue is going on, what are the patients experience we are getting, what are the clinical KPIs we are getting. Next our journey is artificial intelligence on existing EMR plus we are planning to publish our medical research in rehabilitation.

While addressing the event, Elie Kamel, Regional Channel Manager, NetApp said there would always be new innovations in healthcare, education etc. As he has been reading about digital twin which is a kind of a virtual twin of any physical object. Imagine in healthcare industry, they can create a virtual twin of a human being to study the effect of health and testing. So, it will create a huge influx of data.

Digital and business transformation initiatives in Tabreed

Ahmad Hilmi Lutfi Al Obaidi, Manager Capital Plant Performance and Investment, O&M Support, National Central Cooling Company talked about the transformation of operations function and said their Tasheel programme and i-Connect programme are targeting their digital infrastructure.

Technology Keynote: Maximizing Visibility and Performance for The Hybrid Enterprise

Salman Ali, Technical Channel Manager, Riverbed Technology discussed COVID pandemic and the new work culture in organisations and said managing digital experience is one of the most critical business objectives for most of the enterprises.

Smart technologies and sustainability in urban landscapes

Engineer Mohammed Ahmed Alrayees, Director of Sewage Treatment Plants and Drainage Network Department Dubai Municipality talked about their vision and said our vision is to develop a sustainable city for all citizens of Dubai and we emphasise on innovation for a healthy future.

Panel discussion: Threat actors and challenges for regional CISOs

The next panel discussion was moderated by Dr Hoda Alkhzaimi, Director of Center of Cyber Security, New York University Abu Dhabi, President, Emirates Digital Association for Women and joined by Mohammed Shakeel Ahmed, Aviation Cyber Security Advisor, Abu Dhabi Aviation and Jacob Mathew, IT Consultant, IT Governance, Architecture, Services, Security, Infrastructure and Operations – Government of Abu Dhabi. They panelists briefed about digitalisation and Cyber Security.

BTX Road Show 2021 South Gulf edition was organised with all the safety guidelines announced by the Emirates of Dubai.

With the successful completion of the BTX Road Show 2021, South Gulf edition in Dubai, the next BTX Africa will take place on 27 September.

GEC Media Group, publishers of Business Transformation, Enterprise Channels MEA, The Titans, Cyber Sentinels, announced the winners of the BTX Top Executive Awards, BTX Enterprise Awards, BTX Solution Awards at BTX Road Show South Gulf edition on 8^th September 2021. The half-day event was organised at Grand Ballroom, Conrad Dubai, Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai in person.

The title sponsors of BTX Roadshow were Aruba HPE, Riverbed, Pure Storage, Veeam, Logicom, Netapp, Western Digital, Arcon, Veritas, SilverPeak, Alcatel-Lucent enterprise, SecureNet, Synology, Finesse, CORK information technology, International Group of Artificial Intelligence – IGOAI, Global CISO Forum, Business Transformation, and Enterprise Channels MEA.

The face-to-face event was started with the registration of all attendees and proceed with lunch and networking. GEC Media Group extended warm wishes to all the champions for their victory.

There were three sets of awards as described below.

BTX Top Executive Awards

Recognising leadership driving transformation

This award recognises a top executives who have accelerated digital and business transformation through the pandemic and created a better future for their business. They have empowered remote teams, managed change, flattened organisational structure, made it agile and secure, managed customer satisfaction, and implemented digital tools like cloud, analytics, data integration, amongst others.

BTX Enterprise Awards

Recognising success stories in transformation

This award recognises enterprises that have embraced digital transformation and digital tools through the pandemic and achieved success in various areas. Such enterprises would have rebuilt customer experiences, managed customer expectations, leveraged online sales models, built forecasting models, have an in-depth and ready analysis of market and demand trends, built close collaboration and data sharing amongst teams, amongst others.

BTX Solution Awards

Recognising solutions for transformation

This award recognises the leading, exemplary, heroic efforts by vendors, channel partners, integrators, consultants, to manage the challenges of the end-user community through the lockdowns of the pandemic. This part of the IT industry helped the end-user community to successfully pivot their business models by using digital technologies and create a sustainable business through the pandemic and ahead, amongst others.

BTX Road Show 2021 South Gulf edition was organised with all the safety guidelines announced by the Emirates of Dubai.

With the successful completion of the BTX Road Show 2021, South Gulf edition in Dubai, the next BTX Africa will take place on 27 September.

GEC Media Group, publishers of Business Transformation, Enterprise Channels MEA, The Titans, Cyber Sentinels, completed the second leg of the BTX Road Show 2021, Asia Edition. The roadshow is focused on digital and business transformation with the overlying theme – The Change.

The half-day event on 2^nd September was hosted at the GEC Media Virtual Arena. The title sponsors of BTX Roadshow were Aruba HPE, Riverbed, Pure Storage, Veeam, Logicom, Netapp, Western Digital, Arcon, Veritas, SilverPeak, Alcatel-Lucent enterprise, SecureNet, Synology, Finesse, CORK information technology, International Group of Artificial Intelligence – IGOAI, Global CISO Forum, Business Transformation, and Enterprise Channels MEA.

The pandemic of 2020 disrupted virtually every industry and every nation. Citizens, social fabrics, businesses, supply chains, trade, communication, value systems, workplaces, leisure, entertainment, decision making, almost everything conceivable had to adapt and change and survive. Information technology and business applications and strategic decision making around how to support everyday life through technology, has also had to adapt.

This has prompted the need to relook at business and the IT organisation, the executives, operations, survival mantras, decision making, and finally outlook and forward-looking vision. The meaning of business continuity, disaster recovery, collaboration, virtual meetings, remote workforce, cloud, security, have overnight changed from esoteric into everyday work life meanings.

BTX Road Show 2021 Asia edition was opened by CEO Ronak Samantaray, Global Head, Content and Strategic Alliances, Anushree Dixit, and President, GEC Media Group, Malavika Shanker, through their welcome notes.

There were four speaker keynote presentations, three technology keynote presentations, and two-panel discussions. The event was followed by the BTX Awards. Close to 100 attendees participated virtually for the event. The event was streamed live from the virtual arena and on Vimeo also.

Here are the highlights of the various speaker keynote presentations.

From analog to digital to space, A pilot’s perspective

In the opening keynote address Captain Nivedita Bhasin, B787 Training Captain, superannuated after 37 years as executive director and chief of flight safety, Air India talked about her journey and explained the present digital era and said, “We are at the digital world, we are surrounded by technology whether it is social media, instruments, flying reporting, training, and weather reporting everything has turned digital.”

Regional trends in business and digital transformation

Manoj Saxena, Chairman RosettaNet Singapore GS1 digital standards, Senior Director Data and Digital transformation, Maxeon Solar Technologies, and Advisory board Global CIO Forum made his presentation on the partnership between government, industry and education system and said, “It is important that the government, the industry, and the education system come together. Always to solve the industry’s problem and challenges which we constantly go through.”

Organisational transformation leveraging sustainability and leadership

In the first panel discussion on Millie Gillon, Global Head Client Experience, Senior Managing Director, Standard Chartered Bank explained from a leadership perspective it is going top-down and bottom’s up so hopefully, we can somewhere in the middle and make some change and it’s really shifting from its no longer just some side project, its moreover cultural shift having dedicated people, resources and its extremely difficult so we are still trying to maintain our business.

Panelist, Vinay Awasthi, Worldwide Head of Print Supply Chain, HP said, “Now I think the most important thing is what are we doing and how intentional are we as we work on our sustainable goals.”

Manoj Saxena, Chairman RosettaNet Singapore GS1 digital standards, Senior Director Data and Digital transformation, Maxeon Solar Technologies, and Advisory board Global CIO Forum highlighted the way of changing consumer behaviour and said, “Today most consumers are cultured with lot of intimations, they have cultured with the information they see in the social media they see environmental issues; they are also conscious about environmental issues.”

Transforming the supply chain

In her presentation titled Transforming the Supply Chain, Nicole Tretwer, Head of Logistics Services, APAC, Swarovski talked about her company’s omnichannel capabilities and said, “In our case, we are focusing on giving the consumers the option on where they wish their items to be delivered to whether it be an in-store order and a to store order.”

Manufacturing and customer-centricity

Saket Gore, CEO Asia Pacific, The Himalaya Drug Company highlighted the evolving customer behaviour and said, “Today most consumers are cluttered with a lot of information on social media. There is a lot of lack of trust because of an overdose of information.”

Regional technology and innovation trends in industrial and consumer robotics

Prof Tadhg O’Donovan, Head of the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences Heriot-Watt University Dubai made his presentation on innovation trends and intelligence and explained “Robotics can be classified into many different areas. One way of classifying them is intelligence. Robotics is not just a typical robot. It is about autonomous systems and interactive systems and how they can all work together.”

Panel Discussion on Artificial Intelligence, powered by the IGOAI Forum

In the second panel discussion on “Panel Discussion on artificial intelligence, powered by the IGOAI Forum”, Moderator Ahmed Buhazza started the session with the introduction of panelists and briefed about artificial intelligence and its role in the present era.

Dr Chiranjiv Roy, Senior Vice-President Data Science and Analytics, SG Analytics, Member Forbes Technology Council talked about where artificial intelligence stands in the last few years and said, “Initially artificial intelligence started with an automation and today artificial intelligence is called as the new oil or the new soil whatever that you want to call it.”

Carrying forward the discussion, Ms Divya Dwivedi, Advocate, Supreme Court of India, Founder and Director, JND Charitable Trust highlighted legal laws and ethics for digital transformation said, “Human brain cannot be surpassed by artificial intelligence. I see artificial intelligence as a baby like we feed baby with all the information and they grow and they tell us that we are beyond you, it is similar with artificial intelligence.”

Mr. Abhivardhan, Managing Partner, Indic Pacific Legal Research, Chairperson and Managing Trustee, Indian Society of Artificial Intelligence and Law discussed what is the prediction for artificial intelligence and how mature it is and how fast it is growing every day.

Sriram Bhargav Madhav, Head of Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Automation, Provenio.ai, Member Forbes Technology Council briefed what should be the key focus an enterprise should take to build artificial intelligence and said, “Every enterprise today is struggling with multiple challenges if I may say that, and I often try to simplify explaining what priorities organisation and enterprise should take.”

With the successful completion of the BTX Road Show 2021, Asia edition, the next BTX South Gulf edition will take place on 8^th September in-person at Grand Ballroom, Conrad Dubai, Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai, and BTX Africa on 27 September.

GEC Media Group, publishers of Business Transformation, Enterprise Channels MEA, The Titans, Cyber Sentinels, announced the winners of the BTX Top Executive Awards, BTX Enterprise Awards, BTX Solution Awards at BTX Road Show Asia edition on 2^nd September 2021.

The half-day event was hosted at the GEC Media Virtual Arena. The title sponsors of BTX Roadshow were Aruba HPE, Riverbed, Pure Storage, Veeam, Logicom, Netapp, Western Digital, Arcon, Veritas, SilverPeak, Alcatel-Lucent enterprise, SecureNet, Synology, Finesse, CORK information technology, International Group of Artificial Intelligence – IGOAI, Global CISO Forum, Business Transformation, and Enterprise Channels MEA.

GEC Media Group extended warm wishes to all the champions for their win.

There were three sets of awards as described below.

BTX Top Executive Awards

Recognising leadership driving transformation

This award recognises a top executives who have accelerated digital and business transformation through the pandemic and created a better future for their business. They have empowered remote teams, managed change, flattened organisational structure, made it agile and secure, managed customer satisfaction, and implemented digital tools like cloud, analytics, data integration, amongst others.

BTX Enterprise Awards

Recognising success stories in transformation

This award recognises enterprises that have embraced digital transformation and digital tools through the pandemic and achieved success in various areas. Such enterprises would have rebuilt customer experiences, managed customer expectations, leveraged online sales models, built forecasting models, have an in-depth and ready analysis of market and demand trends, built close collaboration and data sharing amongst teams, amongst others.

BTX Solution Awards

Recognising solutions for transformation

This award recognises the leading, exemplary, heroic efforts by vendors, channel partners, integrators, consultants, to manage the challenges of the end-user community through the lockdowns of the pandemic. This part of the IT industry helped the end-user community to successfully pivot their business models by using digital technologies and create a sustainable business through the pandemic and ahead, amongst others.

The announced winners of the BTX Road Show 2021 Asia edition include:

Top Enterprise Awards Winners:

BTX Roadshow Asia – Top Executive Awards Winners:

BTX Roadshow Asia – Top Solution Awards Winners:

With the successful completion of the BTX Road Show 2021, Asia edition, the next BTX South Gulf edition will take place on 8^th September in-person at Grand Ballroom, Conrad Dubai, Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai followed by BTX Africa on 27 September.

GEC Media Group, publishers of Business Transformation, Enterprise Channels MEA, The Titans, Cyber Sentinels, announce the winners of the BTX Top Executive Awards, BTX Enterprise Awards, BTX Solution Awards

GEC Media Group, publishers of Business Transformation, Enterprise Channels MEA, The Titans, Cyber Sentinels, completed the first leg of the BTX Road Show 2021, North Gulf Edition.