CIO100 Symposium & Awards 2017
Honouring the 2017 CIO 100 winners
CIO100 is the acknowledged mark of excellence in enterprise IT and was ranked by CEOs among the top 10 most influential corporate scorecards globally. This proud tradition of recognizing CIOs began in the USA over 25 years ago and is now a celebrated annual event across continents. In India, the 1st Friday of September has become a red-letter date that unites the industry and showcases the best of Indian enterprise IT at the annual CIO10 Symposium & Awards ceremony. This ultimate recognition platform for winners only, ensures CIO100 remains exclusive to the crΓ¨me de la crΓ¨me of enterprise IT leaders and accounts for its reputation as the βOscars of the IT industryβ.
This year, the CIO100 β Digital Innovator honored those CIOs who are using IT in smart and relevant ways to not only deliver business value but also reinvent what the IT department represents within an organization.
Being the keynote partner for a second year in a row at CIO100 Symposium, Sify Technologies gained high visibility among the crΓ¨me de la crΓ¨me IT leaders of the country. With ample and exciting fun activities like Digitally innovate your selfie, Mini Golf, Photo Mug and wackiest selfie contest β the Sify experience zone was designed to stimulate thought and facilitate networking.
The event spotlight was when Mr. Kamal Nath, CEO, Sify Technologies struck a synergy with the audience during his keynote session on βDigital Transformation & Innovationβ and shed light on how CIOs can transform to become Chief Innovative Officers.
In the International Keynote, addressing CIO100 2017 on human technology, Danielle Di-Masi, “As leaders CIOs must reach out to team members constantly”.
In the Focused Business Series, Bhavesh Mathur, VP and Head β Data Center Transformation conducted an enriching session on βDigital Master Class β Crash Course for Innovation & Transformationβ for the 15 top CIOs who attended this session.
Venue
JW Marriott, Pune
Date
31st August 2017 – 1st September 2017
Organizers
International Data Group (IDG)









CIO 200 Tech Summit and Awards 2017
Addressing technological gaps in organizations and acknowledging their work in digital transformation
The Enterprise IT World ‘CIO200 Tech Summit’ and βChange Agents 2017β Awards was an unprecedented milestone for the Indian IT industry where the awards recognized 200 of the top CIOs pan India and encouraged them to take technology in the Indian corporate world to new heights.
This event was designed to connect the two key pillars of IT, the vendors and decision makers with an aim to address the challenges faced by IT leaders in enterprises today through panel discussions and presentations around the theme of Digital Transformation. The highlight of the evening, the Change Agents 2017 Awards recognized the work of CIOs from across sectors in the digital transformations of the organizations. The gala event witnessed valuable deliberations from the industry leaders on the role and empowerment of the CIO Community.
The objective of the event was to empower the CIOs and ITDMs to address the technological gaps in their organizationβs infrastructure and acknowledge their work in the digital transformation which helped their organizations to drive growth through IT.
Sify was the presenting partner at the mega event to discuss and deliberate on future roadmap of the IT landscape. Sify leveraged multiple engagement opportunities at the forum to showcase itself as an end-to-end ICT solutions provider and shared its deep industry expertise.
Sify shared valuable insights on the CIOs role for Digital Transformation and key drivers for technology adoption. Sifyβs industry focused expertise, leveraging digital technologies and alliance strategies on an outcome based business model, was the talk of the event.
Venue
JW Marriot, Mumbai
Date
3 Nov 2017
Organizers
UBS Transformance














The Oscars of the IT industry with Sify as Keynote Partner
The Oscars of the IT industry with Sify as Keynote Partner
For the 3rd time in a row Sify Technologies was the Keynote partner and positioned itself right at the top above other partners like Intel, Samsung, AWS, CTRLS , Oracle and others.
The 13th India Edition of CIO 100 Symposium and Awards, Oscars of the IT industry, celebrated top Digital Architects of India. This year the event turned the spotlight on key themes such as Reimagineering India 2020, Daring to Delight, Customer Innovation, Scaling for Global Impact chaired by eminent personalities like Mr. Avi Liran, Mr. Raymond Miranda, SBI CDO Mr. Mrityunjay Mahapatra. The symposium also included sessions on future technologies such as artificial intelligence, advanced analytics and augmented reality.
Sify CEO delivered the Keynote address and took a cue from Digitization of India Post and its impact across India. He highlighted upon changing dynamics in the rural states and technology enablement in the fields of Education, Healthcare, Finance, Food & Nutrition. β Digital ICT is embedded at the core of everything and inside every industryβ Mr. Kamal Nath Said. He concluded by sharing the changing personas of a CIO and key digital tools to execution.
As part of our Cloud @ Core strategy Sify along with IDG constructed a first of its kind Cloud Think Tank- a panel of eminent CIOs who came together to share the future of Cloud and the insecurities surrounding it. Our customer Max CIO shared a presentation on how Sify has helped them in their digital transformation journey and the evolution of Cloud in the healthcare vertical. Ms. Lisa from Apollo presented the global manufacturing and automotive industry context in enabling cloud technology. Mr. Ravinder from Air Vistara acknowledged adopting cloud is the easiest decision from CAPEX perspective and their expectations from Cloud to the next level of digitization. Our CEO concluded the session by sharing a view on Cloud enhanced services driving key digital businesses and our Cloud @ Core strategy on how it is aligned to our customers journey.
The Sify Experience Zone at the event stood out and helped in driving interactions with CIOs while engaging them through experiential activities. There were 80 plus CIOs at the zone to engage with Sify Senior leadership team- Mr. Sandeep M, Mr. Nihar C, Mr. Pankaj G, Mr. Aman M, Mr. Dhyanesh Mr. T, Chinamy M, and Mr. Arvind G.
Venue
Vivanta by Taj, Surajkund
Date
6th September 2018 – 7th September 2018
Organizers
International Data Group (IDG) (The worldβs leading technology media, data & marketing services company)



