Business IT Conclave 2023

Mr. Prasun Nandy

Prasun is a Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers and has over 15 years of experience in helping his clients strategizing analytics competency and implementing core analytics and artificial intelligence / machine learning based applications. Prasun has authored / co-authored various thought leadership papers and publications in the space of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science and is a regular speaker at various manufacturing summits organised by industry bodies and chambers. He also voluntarily teaches at IIMC, ISI and other premier business schools. Prasun is an Electronics and Telecommunication engineer from Indian Institute of Engineering, Science and Technology, Shibpur and has worked as research assistant at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.

Over the last decade in PwC, Prasun has been advising his clients on a range of matters from Analytics Strategy, Data Governance, Data Discovery, Business Insights, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. His primary areas of focus are Supply Chain management, Customer Analytics, Logistics optimisation and Finance Analytics.

Prasun also leads the platform based analytics services that are helping his clients subscribe for end to end outsourcing of Analytics/ Business Insights, Data Conversion and Point Solutions in the area of Spend Analytics, Logistics Visibility Centre, Asset Health Prediction, Inventory Optimisation and Demand Accuracy Improvement. He represents PwC India in Global SAP Architects group across PwC Network.

Mr. Subir Chakraborty

Mr. Chakraborty is President, The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Managing Director and CEO, Exide Industries Limited.

Mr. Chakraborty has spent nearly four decades working in various capacities in several organizations, out of which he spent more than twenty five years at Exide Industries Ltd, rising from the level of General Manager to the position of Managing Director & CEO.

He chairs the Boards of several companies such as Chloride Batteries S E Asia Pte Ltd (CBSEA), Espex Batteries Ltd (Espex), Chloride Metals Ltd, Exide Leclanche Energy Pvt Ltd, Exide Energy Solutions Ltd and Chloride International Ltd. CBSEA and Espex are located in Singapore and UK respectively, while the other companies are located in India.

Academic Qualification:
B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Madras in 1980.
Post Graduate Diploma in Management from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta in 1984.

Mr. Arnab Basu

Mr. Arnab Basu is the Advisory Leader for PwC in India. He has two decades of consulting experience in diverse fields like Digital Strategy & Business Transformation, Financial Performance Management, Removing Complexity, and defining the Digital Journey leveraging Enterprise Applications. He is part of our Global Advisory Leadership team and has worked for a range of top tier clients across multiple geographies and industries including Industrial Products, Discrete Manufacturing, Metals & Mining, Oil & Gas.

In his previous role, he was the Technology Consulting leader for PwC India for five years. As the Regional Managing Partner of East region, Mr. Basu expanded PwC's footprints across the region including Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan.

Mr. Basu joined PwC post his MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta in 2001. He has previously done his bachelors in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University. He is closely associated with several Business Chambers.

Mr. Surinder Kumar Gupta

Mr. S. K. Gupta assumed charge as Chairman and Managing Director of MSTC Ltd on 17th December 2019.

Mr. Gupta is Bachelor of Engineering from NIT, Kurukshetra and M. Tech. from PEC, Chandigarh. After serving as lecturer in NIT, Kurukshetra for 2 years, he joined Indian Railway Stores Service. He has 31 years rich experience of materials management activities involving Procurement/ Warehousing of materials required for manufacture, maintenance and operations in Indian Railways as well as global procurement for purchase of sophisticated machinery etc.

He has shouldered important assignments spread over various states like Gujarat, Maharashtra, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh. While working in Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS), New Delhi, he has been instrumental in design, development and implementation of Indian Railways E-Procurement and E-Auction Systems which are widely used by all Indian Railways Zones and Production Units.

Mr. Ranganath Sadasiva

Mr. Sadasiva is responsible for bringing in thought Leadership across HPE Hybrid IT business and delivering best-in-class technology experience for customers. He works closely with the enterprise segments, understanding their business and technical needs, and developing HPE's point of view aligned with HPE Technology Vision.

With more than 28 years of experience in technology industry, he is an accomplished technologist and Management Executive across core ICT technologies working predominantly in India, Asia Pacific and Japan regions.

He has done various customer centric roles across sales, product development and consulting in these geographies.

As a Mentor in HPE's Digital Catalyst Programme, he works towards aiding co-innovation with Startups for a digital future.

Mr. Sanjay Kumar Das

Mr. Sanjay Kumar Das is currently the Managing Director of West Bengal Electronics Industry Development Corporation Limited (Webel) with more than 25 years of experience in the IT, ITeS and electronics services development, consulting, delivery and management. Mr. Das is the member of West Bengal Civil Service (Executive), 1996 batch; presently posted as Joint Secretary in the IT&E Dept., besides holding posts of State Information Security Officer; Director of West Bengal Cyber Security Incident Response Team and Member-Secretary of Cyber Security Centre of Excellence. From January 1994 to August 1997 he served as the Assistant Central Intelligence Officer to IB, MHA, Government of India as In-charge of security of different areas of the country including high value government installations.

Dr. Chiranjib Bhattacharya

Dr. Chiranjib Bhattacharya, Executive Fellow, ISB Hyderabad has a unique blend of experience in leading IT systems Integration business, Software business as Well as IT Services and Consulting for Global Corporations like HCL and Oracle and emerging organizations like Wizertech. He has initiated several new businesses, led profit centres consisting of multiple businesses, significantly improved return on Investments and Growth, created enablers for differentiated delivery and business models, expanded into new markets, hired and groomed the best of talent and built winning teams.

He remains focused on strategic transformation and growing Consulting / Advisory businesses. His areas of interest are business strategy, valuation of a firm, building practices to create sustainable business models, building teams capable of value creation at customer places through consulting based on transformational technologies.

Currently, CEO & Director of Wizertech Informatics Pvt LTD, he has earlier served as Country Director at Oracle and Associate Vice President at HCL. A Chairperson of IT Entrepreneurship and E-Commerce Committee, Co-Chairperson of IT Committee & Member of Management Committee and Education Committee of Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

He is an alumnus of the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad and IIT Kharagpur. He is certified in "Leadership and Profitable Pricing" from Kellogg School of Management, North Western University. He is also certified in "Mergers & Acquisition and Competitive Marketing Strategy" from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and in "Global Strategy & Leadership" from Fundacao Dom Cabral - Brazil. He has served as a Visiting Professor of Strategy at Great Lakes Business School - Chennai, Indian Institute of Management - Udaipur and B2B Marketing at Xavier's Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar.

Mr. N. K. Ghosal

Mr. N.K.Ghosal is currently working as an independent Consultant and conducting Information Systems Audits and Consulting for various Financial Institutions. Prior to this he was based in Bangalore working for Societe Generale heading their security for Asia Infrastructure.

He is currently putting together solutions based on ZTA (Zero Trust Architecture) which is important in this current situation of WFH (work from home) & WFA (work from anywhere).

Apart from this N. K. Ghosal has during his approximate 20 years of experience worked for various IT companies like IBM, HCL, Computer Associates - TCG in India and for HCL Malaysia and SVOA plc in Thailand.

He is CISA & CEH certified & recently qualified as ISO27001:2013 LA. He is on the Board of ISACA Kolkata Chapter, Member of the IT Committee, The Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry (BCC&I), Life member of Computer Society of India (CSI) and member of The Agri-Horticultural Society of India.

Mr. Sudeep Kumar Das

Mr Sudeep Kumar Das is a Cloud & Security technical professional focusing on empowering organizations to protect their business at the speed and scale of cloud.

Most enterprises are faced with daunting security challenges on their journey to cloud, and security insights is frequently spread across different tools, clouds and on-premise IT and OT environments - Mr Das helps organizations to plan a program that can prepare and onboard a journey towards a more trusted environment to operate in.

Mr. Jagathpathy Subramaniam

Mr. Subramaniam is a trailblazer with a couple of decades of rich experience as a Delivery leader with strong Engineering acumen - enabling product and platform development and driving digital transformations.

A catalyst with high business acuity and hands-on delivery, he has established strong delivery engines, building high performance teams, underpinned with trust.

Mr. Manjit Nayak

Director, STPI, West Bengal

Mr Manajit Nayak, is Jurisdictional Director of STPI, Kolkata along with other four sub centers i.e. Durgapur, Siliguri, Kharagpur & Haldia in West Bengal under Ministry of Electronics and IT, Govt. of India. Shri Nayak is an Engineering Graduate from Utkal University and earned MBA from Sambalpur University.

He has more than 25 years of association with Government Sector as well as Corporate and 20 years experience in policy making and statutory services for IT & ITES industries. He has served in STPI in various capacities and at several location places throughout the country. His active support and decisive actions have created many opportunities for SMEs to avail maximum benefits of policies and services.

Earlier he was also looking after simultaneously the IT/ITES SEZs in the State of West Bengal for three years. He has been playing a key role jointly working with the State Government and different industries associations and chambers for various policy formations, IT/ Electronics promotional activities and key decisions with regard to development of IT sector and infrastructure. His leadership quality fulfilled to the expectations of the IT/ITES industries by providing efficient and timely support.

Dr. Chiranjib Bhattacharya

Dr. Chiranjib Bhattacharya, Executive Fellow, ISB Hyderabad has a unique blend of experience in leading IT systems Integration business, Software business as Well as IT Services and Consulting for Global Corporations like HCL and Oracle and emerging organizations like Wizertech. He has initiated several new businesses, led profit centres consisting of multiple businesses, significantly improved return on Investments and Growth, created enablers for differentiated delivery and business models, expanded into new markets, hired and groomed the best of talent and built winning teams.

He remains focused on strategic transformation and growing Consulting / Advisory businesses. His areas of interest are business strategy, valuation of a firm, building practices to create sustainable business models, building teams capable of value creation at customer places through consulting based on transformational technologies.

Currently, CEO & Director of Wizertech Informatics Pvt LTD, he has earlier served as Country Director at Oracle and Associate Vice President at HCL. A Chairperson of IT Entrepreneurship and E-Commerce Committee, Co-Chairperson of IT Committee & Member of Management Committee and Education Committee of Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

He is an alumnus of the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad and IIT Kharagpur. He is certified in "Leadership and Profitable Pricing" from Kellogg School of Management, North Western University. He is also certified in "Mergers & Acquisition and Competitive Marketing Strategy" from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and in "Global Strategy & Leadership" from Fundacao Dom Cabral - Brazil. He has served as a Visiting Professor of Strategy at Great Lakes Business School - Chennai, Indian Institute of Management - Udaipur and B2B Marketing at Xavier's Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar.

Mostafizur Rahaman Sohel

Mostafizur Rahaman Sohel, a serial technopreneur, has over 2 decades of experience in technology, finance and management as a software architect, consultant, mentor and entrepreneur. He is involved in the software business in different countries. During his extensive career, he was involved in the development, implementation, and commercialization of several products, like DreamApps ERP, ERM Anywhere, Core Integrated Business Systems, ERP in a Box, Brand Manager and Dream Apps Work Space. Currently, he is working on several multi-tenanted hosted SAAS initiatives, Robotic Process Automation, Data Analytics, Business Intelligence and IOT technology.

Mr. Mostafizur Rahman Sohel is one of the pioneers of the Bangladesh ICT industry who has made Enterprise Resource solutions popular in the country. He took a challenging and adventurous career path by opting to come back to his native land after finishing higher studies abroad. His company, Advanced ERP BD Ltd, along with other pioneers of the industry, literally made people understand the importance of automation. It is their combined effort that has been instrumental in the ICT revolution in Bangladesh. Mr. Mostafizur Rahman Sohel has kept himself engaged in the continuous development of the ICT industry and ecosystem. He has been a key contributor in developing GRP, the first ever E-Government ERP Project initiated by Government of Bangladesh.

Mr. Sohel is very much active in international ICT circuit to represent Bangladesh and has been playing a significant role for ICT Development. He is a board member of 'Business for eTrade Development' - the premier private sector voice for optimizing public policies and aid allocations for ecommerce development and fuelling cross-border ecommerce worldwide that was launched alongside the UNCTAD-led 'eTrade for All' initiative. He is a Director at BASIS (Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services), the apex body for ITES industry in Bangladesh. He was the Joint Secretary General of BASIS for the term 2014-2016 and as a Director of BASIS for the term 2016-2018. Mr. Sohel has performed as the Head Judge for BASIS National ICT Award for year 2018 and 2019. He has also been judging as a Head Judge in Asia Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) since 2016.

Mr. Aninda Das

Mr. Aninda Das is currently Vice President Marketing of Infinity Group. In Kolkata, Infinity has catalyzed the growth of Salt Lake Sector V, which is the one of the largest tech-commercial hubs of Eastern More than 450 plus corporates are housed in Infinity spaces.

Mr. Das is an ecosystem enabler and have been helping to draw investments in Kolkata. He is currently in the various committees of Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry, CII and NASSCOM.

He is also the secretary of Salt Lake Sector V Stakeholders' Association. He is associated with not-for-profit organizations such as Vidya Bharati Akhil Bharatiya Shiksha Sansthan and Sri Aurobindo Society.

Mr. Anirban Gupta

With 20 years of experience, Mr Anirban Gupta is an industry leader with proven expertise in leasing, real estate investments, asset management, and new business development.

Mr. Gupta leads the expansion of our transactions business, including the office services, industrial, retail and data centres divisions in East India.

Throughout his career, Mr. Gupta has advised some leading global occupiers, owners, and investors on their real estate strategies

Mr. Pratik Mehta

Mr Pratik Mehta leads CBRE's Advisory and Transactions - Office Services in East India. Pratik has been with CBRE for 9+ years.

He has concluded transactions in excess of 5 million Sq. ft of commercial space. His role encompasses corporate and office leasing, land acquisitions and dispositions, tenant representation, project marketing, lease negotiations and investments.

His transactional experience and skill allows him to lead and manage complex leasing, acquisition, renegotiation and investment assignments. He has had an exposure to a wide variety of assignments in executing transactions and managing clients in all major markets of East namely Kolkata, Dhaka, Bhubaneswar, Patna, Jamshedpur, Dhanbad and Guwahati.

Mr. Joydeep Paul

Mr. Joydeep Paul heads the Tenant Representation business for C&W in East India, Joydeep is responsible for managing key accounts and relationships of the firm in East India and Bangladesh. With 10+ years of advisory and transaction experience, Joydeep has advised various clients on their real estate strategy in Kolkata, Dhaka, and various cities in East India.

He is known for complex deal structuring, attention to detail and occupier centric transactions. His areas of expertise include transaction advisory, go to market strategy, commercial negotiations, and portfolio management. He comes with excellent market knowledge and client centric approach.

He is a management professional with undergraduate and master's degrees in Business Administration. Prior to joining C&W, he worked with Colliers International & Lemongrass Advisors.

Major Transactions:
IBM India / DLT IT Park - I / New Town - 200,000 SFT
Capgemini / Candor Techspace/ New Town - 230,000 SFT
Wood / DLF IT Park - I / New Town - 45,000 SFT
Vialto / Godrej Genesis / Sector V - 25,000 SFT
Samsung / Awfis - Godrej Waterside / 750 Seats

Mr. Santanu Ghosh

Mr. Santanu Ghosh heads the Office Leasing Advisory (OLA) Business of JLL for Eastern India and Bangladesh. He provides strategic inputs into both the businesses verticals, leads large and important transactions, supervises the team & provides business development plans. Credited with a keen acumen in the field of Real Estate, Santanu is one of the top professionals in the East India Region in terms of vintage, quantum of space leased under his supervision and number of transactions concluded in the past decade. Santanu carries exceptional relationships with the clients he has worked for and has suitable skill-sets of being able to add new clients in the portfolio. Santanu also has significant clout within the supply side and works closely with all developers in the office space domain in Kolkata including national players like DLF, Brookfield, Infinity, Mani Group, Ambuja Etc.

Experience:
Santanu began his real estate journey in 2001 at Pioneer Property Management Limited, a large local broking outfit, where he worked in the retail and residential teams. In 2004, he moved on to Chesterton Meghraj where he was instrumental in developing the office leasing business. As a manager, he fostered connections with MNC's and local companies alike which enabled him to capture new leasing opportunities.

In 2006, he joined JLL as an Assistant Vice President and spearheaded the business by forging strong relationships, understanding the unique needs of clients and structuring deals which are tailor-made for the respective clients. Having a keen entrepreneurial mindset, Santanu became a founding partner in Lemongrass Advisors Private Limited in 2009, where he joined as a Managing Partner. He was critical in driving and growing the office leasing business. He spearheaded high-value transactions where he leveraged his expertise and market knowledge. In 2013, he joined Cushman & Wakefield as a Managing Partner. From managing a distinct team of professionals to providing detailed market and financial analysis, Santanu has used his strategic thought process to seize opportunities.

In 2016, he joined JLL as the City Lead for Office Leasing. Now he manages Kolkata as well as other East Indian emerging markets. His strong relationships and business acumen continue to push him forward.

Mr. Deb Kumar Majumdar

Mr. Kumar is a Partner at IBM India with a wealth of experience in Management Consulting spanning over 28 years. In his current role, he leads the Data & Technology Service Line at IBM India. His responsibilities include developing innovative solutions, assets, and delivery strategies in areas such as AI & Advanced Analytics, Edge & 5G, Automation, Internet of Things, and Blockchain.

Additionally, Mr. Kumar oversees the Talent Transformation Service Line, which focuses on providing HR and Talent solutions to large multinational companies. This involves offering consulting and implementation services in the areas of Strategy and Technology.

His expertise lies in Exponential Technologies, ERP and System Integration implementation and Telco industry. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Presidency College, and he is a graduate of the Institute & Cost Accountants of India. Furthermore, he holds an MBA from the Institute of Business Management (Jadavpur University) and an Advanced Diploma in Systems Management from NIIT.

Dr. D.K. Pratihar

Dr. Pratihar is working now as a Professor (HAG scale) of IIT Kharagpur. He has made significant contributions on the fundamentals and applications of Artificial Intelligence in Industrial Automation, Robotics, Health Care, Education Technology, and others. He has published more than 180 research papers in peer reviewed international journals and more than 100 papers in conferences and national journals.

He has contributed 25 chapters in edited international books. A few of his fundamental contributions published in IEEE, ASME, Elsevier, Springer journals are being highly cited by researchers in the field. His h-index values are found to be as follows: 42 (Google Scholar), 31 (Scopus), 28 (Web of Science). He has written the textbooks on "Soft Computing", "Fundamentals of Robotics", co-authored another textbook on "Analytical Engineering Mechanics", edited a book on "Intelligent Autonomous Systems", co-authored four reference books on "Modeling and Analysis of Six-legged Robots", "Modeling and Simulations of Robotic Systems Using Soft Computing", "Modeling and Analysis of Laser Metal Forming Processes by Finite Element and Soft Computing Methods" and "Multi-body dynamic modeling of multi-legged robots". His textbook on "Soft Computing" has been translated into Chinese language also.

He has filed four patents and received copyright for an intelligent optimization tool named 'Bonobo Optimizer'. He has completed a number of sponsored projects funded by the DST, DAE, DBT, MHRD of Govt. of India, and four consultancy projects of the industries. He is in editorial board of a few International Journals. He is an Associate Editor of two International Journals. He has been elected as a Fellow of Institution of Engineers (I), MASME, MAAAI and SMIEEE.

Mr. Atanu Pramanic

30+ years industry experience with 25 years in Technology Solutions.

Currently, COO & VP(IT) for RPSG Ventures Ltd, a RP Sanjiv Goenka company, responsible for IT Strategy & Operations, supporting Digital business enablement using latest Technology ingestion, ERP, Information Security & Risk.

Previously,
CIO for Hindalco Industries Ltd.
CIO for L&T Construction.
Head for IT Strategy and Global Operations @ Petrofac.
Global Leader - Professional Services (IT Products & Tools) @ Genpact

Technology evangelist, ever green learner, favourite of Business Leaders, challenges status quo, facilitates innovative but seamless business disruption

ICT trained Coach, SMP from IIM - Calcutta, Masters in Engineering (BITS-Pilani), MIE, BME, Chartered Engineer, Oracle Masters, Green Belt in Six Sigma

Speaker in various national and international industrial forums.

Mr. Indranil Chaudhuri

Mr. Indranil Chaudhuri is currently the Chief of e-Procurement Services at mJunction Services Limited, Kolkata. With a cumulative industry experience of 29 years and all of it in West Bengal, Indranil has successfully implemented e-tendering & e-auction platforms for multiple clients in both Government as well as Private sector enterprises. He is passionate about delivering convenience & transparency to users and promoting widescale adoption of e-procurement platforms to fuel exponential growth across businesses. Prior to joining mJunction, he had brief stints with companies like CMC Limited and CESC Limited. Indranil is a B.Tech. from Jadavpur University and MBA from Calcutta University. He loves travelling to the hills and forests of North Bengal in his spare time.