In Collaboration With

Virtual NASSCOM International SME Conclave 2020

THRIVING IN THE
NEW DECADE
Biggest IT-SME Conclave Delivering
True Business Value is Here

INNOVATE, GROW AND

GO GLOBAL!

1 st – 2 nd Dec’20
 About NISC

The 2nd edition of NASSCOM International SME Conclave is

here. This year's theme for the event is Thriving in the New
Decade with a view to help SMEs overcome unprecedented
challenges and also provide them with unparalleled Business,
Networking and Market Access Opportunities that help them
Go Big! Here are some of the key event offerings that you
should definitely look forward to.

A Truly Mega Event

300+ 20+ 1000+

CIOs 80+ Sponsors &
Partners
20+ Delegates
Speakers Exhibitors

4 vertical-specific 3 International 2 Domestic

CIO Panel 4 Workshops Market Access Market Access 40 Engaging
discussions Sessions Sessions Sessions

CIOs present Insightful Curated to guide Exclusive CIO Insightful

sector specific sessions with SMEs looking at Pitch Sessions Speaker
opportunities leading experts, cross-border for BFSI and Sessions,
that can be delivering business Healtcare Sector Fire-side Chats
fulfilled by IT insights for opportunities. and Panel
SMEs. Business Growth Sessions offering
broad range of
latest market
insights.
 Inaugural Address

Hear Shri Nitin Gadkari lay out vision

for IT SMEs in the New Decade

Hon’ble Minister of RTH & MSME,

Govt. of India

SHRI NITIN GADKARI

Key Speakers at NISC 2020

Shri. Subhash Desai Shri. Satej UB Pravin Rao Debjani Ghosh CP Gurnani
Govt. of Maharashtra (Bunty) Patil Infosys NASSCOM Tech Mahindra
MIDC; Govt. of Maharashtra

Shiv Khera Rekha M. Menon Keshav Murugesh Hanuman Tripathi Dr. Anand
International Best-Selling Accenture in India WNS NASSCOM SME Deshpande
Author and Business Council Chair Persistent Systems
Consultant

Neil Patel Vijay Sethi Sunil Gupta Andrew Smith Farokh Engineer
Neil Patel Digital Hero Motocorp Ltd. Harvard Business School High Commission of Iconic Cricketer & Brand
Canada, New Delhi Ambassador
 Agenda

DAY 1: December 1, 2020

(all times in IST)

10:00AM WORKSHOP SPEAKERS

12:00PM Dr. Ajay Data, Data Xgen Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Dreamers & Unicorns
Screen - 3 Abhijit Bhaduri, Abhijit Bhaduri & Associates

11:00AM PITCH SESSION SPEAKERS

1:00PM Mukesh Thumar, SME Council Member, NASSCOM

SME - CIO Pitch Session for
BFSI sector (Invite Only) Hanuman Tripathi, NASSCOM SME Council Chair
Screen - 4

12:00PM WORKSHOP SPEAKERS

2:00PM Vineet Tyagi, Biz2Credit

Bootstrapped Branding
Screen - 3 S. Subramanyeswar, Lowe Lintas, India

2:30PM PLENARY SPEAKERS

2:40PM Hanuman Tripathi, NASSCOM SME Council Chair

Welcome Address &
Screen - 1
Context Setting

2:40PM PLENARY SPEAKERS

2:55PM Debjani Ghosh, NASSCOM

Thriving in the New
Decade
Screen - 1

2:55PM PLENARY SPEAKERS

3:10PM UB Pravin Rao, Infosys

Small Business, Big
Screen - 1 Opportunity

3:10PM PLENARY SPEAKERS

3:40PM Hanuman Tripathi, NASSCOM SME Council Chair

Mantras on Scaling
Faster, Building a Global Rekha M. Menon, Accenture in India
Brand and Creating a CP Gurnani, Tech Mahindra
Screen - 1 Niche Keshav Murugesh, WNS

3:40PM SPONSOR SPEAKERS

4:00PM Sabarinathan Sampath, ZNet Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Reduce CAPEX & Scale
your Business Rapidly with Sunil Gupta, Yotta Infrastructure
Screen - 1 Everything-as-a-Service

3:50PM PLENARY SPEAKERS

4:00PM
Keynote by Subhash Desai, Shri. Subhash Desai, Government of Maharashtra
Minister for Industries,
Screen - 3 Government of Maharashtra

4:00PM INDUSTRY SPEAKERS

4:20PM Gaurav Hazra, NASSCOM

Fire Side Chat with MoS –
IT, Govt of Maharashtra Shri. Satej (Bunty) Patil, Government of Maharashtra
Screen - 3 Shri. Satej Patil
MODERATOR
4:00PM STRATEGY SPEAKERS
4:20PM Ajay Ray, Ray Business Technologies Pvt Ltd
Post-Covid World: What
Screen - 2 Will it Take to Win? Vikash Jain, The Boston Consulting Group

4:20PM STRATEGY SPEAKERS

4:40PM Maulik Bhansali, NetWeb Software

The Post-pandemic
Workplace: Shaping up Krunal Patel, TeamViewer
Screen - 2 for the New Normal

4:20PM PANEL SPEAKERS

4:50PM Ajay Mian, Alletec

[CIO Panel] Powered by
Digital- A Post-Pandemic Prasad Pudipeddi, Hafele India Private Limited
Retail Recovery Priya Dar, Amway India
Screen - 3 Anil Mennon, Tata Starbucks Pvt Ltd

4:40PM STRATEGY SPEAKERS

5:00PM Vineet Tyagi, Biz2Credit

Importance of Credit
Education and Access to Sujata Ahlawat, TransUnion CIBIL
Capital for SMEs in Tough
Screen - 2 Economic Conditions

4:50PM OPPORTUNITIES SPEAKERS

5:15PM Gaurav Hazra, NASSCOM

Governement - A Catalyst
Dr. P Anbalagan IAS, Government of Maharashtra
Screen - 3
for SME Growth
Shri. DK Singh IAS, Government of India

5:00PM INDUSTRY SPEAKERS

5:30PM Avinash Sethi, InfoBeans

SME Torchbearers: The
Next Billion Dollar Club Praveen Jaiswal, Vehere
Prashant Deshpande, Expert Global Group
Screen - 2 Krishna Kumar, Simplilearn

5:15PM OPPORTUNITIES SPEAKERS

6:15PM Shivendra Singh, NASSCOM

Capturing Opportunities
in Emerging Markets Roshan Cariappa, VYMO
Seema Bhardwaj, India Germany Trade and Invest
Swastik Kulkarni, Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO)
Andrew Smith, High Commission of Canada, New Delhi
Screen - 3 Vineet Garg, The Swedish Trade & Invest Council

5:30PM PANEL SPEAKERS

6:00PM Noam Oren, Payoneer

[CIO Panel] Emerging
Opportunities in Financial Sankarson Banerjee, RBL Bank
Services Ecosystem K. R. C. Murty, Kotak Mahindra Bank
Screen - 2 Nitin Agarwal, Edelweiss Financial Services Ltd.

6:00PM PLENARY SPEAKERS

6:30PM Debjani Ghosh, NASSCOM

Keynote by Mr. Nitin Gadkari,
Union Minister of Micro, Shri. Nitin Gadkari, Government of India
Small & Medium Enterprises,
Screen - 1 Government of India
MODERATOR
6:30PM OPPORTUNITIES SPEAKERS
6:50PM Ashutosh Sharma, Forrester Research
Drive Success With Future
Fit Technology Strategy In
Screen - 1 Next Decade

6:50PM PLENARY SPEAKERS

7:15PM Hanuman Tripathi, NASSCOM SME Council Chair

How to Build a Unicorn
Naveen Tewari, InMobi Group
Screen - 1

7:15PM STRATEGY SPEAKERS

7:30PM Rajat Jain, Dell Technologies India

Screen - 1
Work at Full Speed

7:30PM PLENARY SPEAKERS

8:00PM Sameer Jain, Net Solutions

The Future of SEO: 9
Hacks That'll Transform Neil Patel, Neil Patel Digital

Screen - 1 Your Traffic

8:00PM PLENARY SPEAKERS

8:10PM Dr. Chetan Samant, NASSCOM

Closing Note
Screen - 1

DAY 2 : December 2, 2020

10:00AM WORKSHOP SPEAKERS

12:00PM Vineet Tyagi, Biz2Credit

Taking Off into the
Second Orbit Dr. Anand Deshpande, Persistent Systems
Screen - 3 Dr. Ashok Korwar, Independent Consultant

11:00AM PITCH SESSION SPEAKERS

1:00PM SME - CIO Pitch Session Hanuman Tripathi, NASSCOM SME Council Chair
for Healthcare Sector Mukesh Thumar, SME Council Member, NASSCOM
Screen - 4 (Invite Only)

12:00PM WORKSHOP SPEAKERS

2:00PM Turn Setbacks Into Dr. Ajay Data, Data Xgen Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Comebacks Shiv Khera, International Best-Selling Author and
Screen - 3 Business Consultant

2:00PM OPPORTUNITIES SPEAKERS

2:50PM Gagan Sabharwal, NASSCOM

David vs Goliath: How
SMEs are taking on Big Christian Villumsen, 2021.ai
Business and Succeeding Yasuhiro Tsuchida, AWL, Inc.
Globally Gunjan Bhardwaj, Innoplexus AG
Screen - 2

2:20PM PLENARY SPEAKERS

2:30PM Gaurav Hazra, NASSCOM

Opening and Context
Screen - 1 Setting

MODERATOR
2:30PM PLENARY SPEAKERS
3:00PM Jagdish Mitra, Tech Mahindra
Keynote by
Col. Rajyavardhan Rahtore, Col. Rajyavardhan Rathore, Member of Parliament
Screen - 1 Member of Parliament

3:00PM INDUSTRY SPEAKERS

3:15PM Varoon Rajani, Blazeclan Technologies

Changing SME Global
Business Landscape & Rohit Kulkarni, Payoneer
Screen - 1 Future of Business Banking

3:15PM STRATEGY SPEAKERS

3:30PM Anuj Gulati, Care Health Insurance Ltd.

Importance of Health
Insurance for SMEs
Screen - 1

3:30PM PLENARY SPEAKERS

3:50PM Vijay Sethi, Hero MotoCorp Ltd.

Selling to the CIO
Screen - 1

3:50PM PLENARY SPEAKERS

4:10PM Dr. Omkar Rai, Software Technology Parks of India

SMEs Re-inventing
Screen - 1
Themselves in Techdecade

4:00PM OPPORTUNITIES SPEAKERS

4:20PM Srikanth Velamakanni, Fractal Analytics

Roadmap of AI
Application Adoption:
Screen - 2 Opportunity for SMEs

4:00PM STRATEGY SPEAKERS

4:30PM Kirti Seth, NASSCOM

The Skilling Imperative
for SMEs: Building Digital Mahesh Krishnamoorthy, Mahindra Integrated
Business Solutions
Fluency for a Digital M.V. Subramanian, Future Focus Infotech
Future Maulik Bhansali, NetWeb Software
Screen - 3

4:20PM STRATEGY SPEAKERS

4:40PM Dr. Deepa Mani, Indian School of Business

Covid-19 and SMEs: A
Screen - 2
Roadmap for Growth

4:30PM PANEL SPEAKERS

5:00PM Kallol Hazra, Dell Technologies APJ

[CIO Panel] How AI,
Connected Health & Rajiv Sikka, Medanta
Telemedicine are Nandkishore Dhomne, Manipal Health Enterprises Pvt. Ltd
Transforming Healthcare Arvind Sivaramakrishnan, Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd.
Screen - 3

4:40PM STRATEGY SPEAKERS

5:00PM Krishnakumar Natarajan, Mela Ventures

How to Enhance the
Value of your Enterprise
Screen - 2

MODERATOR
5:00PM STRATEGY SPEAKERS
5:20PM Farokh Engineer, Iconic Cricketer & Brand Ambassador
Farokh Engineer: The
Screen - 2 Lighter Side of Cricket

5:00PM STRATEGY SPEAKERS

5:30PM Sonal Bahl. SuperCharge

Hello World. The Gig Chandrika Pasricha, Flexing It
Screen - 3 Economy is Here Madhura Dasgupta Sinha, Aspire For Her
Anuranjita Kumar, Women in Technology

5:20PM STRATEGY SPEAKERS

5:35PM Sukeerthy M, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Post-Pandemic Future:
Reviving Business Via
Frugal Digital
Screen - 2 Transformation

5:30PM INDUSTRY SPEAKERS

6:20PM Rajesh Nath, German Engineering Federation VDMA

Digitisation in
Manufacturing Jonathon Azzopardi, Laval Tool and Mould Limited
Uwe Wiss, WEISS GmbH
Screen - 3 Stefan Hoppe, OPC UA Foundation

5:35PM PANEL SPEAKERS

6:05PM Vivek Saha, NASSCOM

[CIO Panel] Automotive
4.0- New Technologies Sudhakar Bhagavatula, Royal Enfield
Jasmine Gorimar, Mahindra Group
New Opportunities
Screen - 2 Shaveta Wadhera, Hero Cycles Ltd.

6:00PM STRATEGY SPEAKERS

6:20PM M.V. Subramanian, Future Focus Infotech

Lessons From Scaling A
Global Company Ram Nagappan, BNY Mellon | Pershing
Screen - 1

6:05PM INDUSTRY SPEAKERS

6:20PM Ben Goodman, New Relic

Observability in a Highly
Screen - 2
Competitive Market

6:20PM PLENARY SPEAKERS

6:40PM Hanuman Tripathi, NASSCOM SME Council Chair

Fireside Chat with Mr.
Bharat Goenka Bharat Goenka, Tally Solutions
Screen - 1

6:40PM PANEL SPEAKERS

7:10PM Jagdish Mitra, Tech Mahindra

A Buyer’s Perspective:
Collaboration Between Amit Saxena, State Bank of India
SMEs & Large Providers Krishnasai Tanneeru, Biocon
Screen - 1

7:10PM PLENARY SPEAKERS

7:35PM Fredricks John, Personiv

Reinventing Business
Sunil Gupta, Harvard Business School
Screen - 1
MODERATOR
7:35PM PLENARY SPEAKERS
8:05PM Sameer Jain, Net Solutions
10 Ways Small Businesses
Crush it With Inbound Dennis Yu, BlitzMetrics
Screen - 1 Marketing

8:05PM PLENARY SPEAKERS

8:15PM Hanuman Tripathi, NASSCOM SME Council Chair

Closing Note
Screen - 1

Sponsors and Partners

STATE HOST INDUSTRY GROWTH DATA CENTER PLATINUM

PARTNER PARTNER PARTNER SPONSOR

GOLD SPONSORS

CREDIT SILVER SPONSOR SME MEMBER SPONSORS

EMPOWERMENT
PARTNER

ONLINE MEDIA PARTNERS

ECOSYSTEM PARTNERS

For more information on #NISC2020, write to nisc@nasscom.in