Centre for Software and IT Management (CSITM) of IIM Bangalore in association with Wadhwani Institute of Technology and Policy (WITP) to host Masterclass webinar series titled “Being Future Ready”
06 OCTOBER, 2022: Wadhwani Institute of Technology and Policy (WITP), a part of Wadhwani Foundation, is a not-for-profit organization focused on empowering the Government of India (GoI) and State government policymakers with case-based knowledge of emerging technologies. As part of its aim to get bureaucrats to implement digital transformation projects in their departments and ministries, WITP has been conducting various outreach programmes for senior bureaucrats to motivate and interest them in such projects and training the starting point. As part of this, a series of webinars under the titled “Masterclass Series – Being Future Ready” with Industry experts who have implemented digital transformation projects in the government or large enterprises has been planned. WITP has partnered with CSITM for conducting the webinar series.
The first in the series will be a webinar on the topic “Design & Systems Thinking for Digital Transformation” and has been scheduled for 20th October 2022, Thursday between 10:00 am to 11:00 am IST.
Successful digital transformation requires us to think about ‘the whole-of-government / organization’ - the various factors that impact the key objectives of the transformation. Two tools come in handy in achieving these sometime conflicting objectives. Design thinking is a powerful tool by placing citizens' needs at the center of a product, service, process, or a governing model, to reframe strategic challenges and develop more effective solutions. Drawing on right-brained creativity and left-brained analytics, this design thinking program enables you to broaden your strategic perspective and find novel opportunities for innovation. Systems Thinking on the other hand allows you to look at multiple objectives and model the pushes and pulls of different stakeholders and strive to find small leverage actions can see major digital transformation projects.
Date: October 20 (Thursday)
Time: 10:00 am to 11:00 am (IST)
Click here to register: https://iim-b.zoom.us/webinar/
NOTE: You will be sent a Zoom link for the webinar after you register for it. For any questions, please write to: csitm@iimb.ac.in
SPEAKER DETAILS
Dr. Chowdhury is a global thought leader and CXO in the field of Asset Performance Management, Artificial Intelligence, Smart Cities, Telecom & Information analytics. He was the Program Director of Swachh Bharat Mission and IT Expert for several Smart Cities.
He is the Founder Chairman of Gaia, an innovative SaaS platform for Enterprise Process Automation. His prior roles include being a President/CIO of Reliance Jio, VP of IBM, CIO of Reliance Communications, and Managing partner of KPMG / BearingPoint. He provides mentoring & funding to entrepreneurs in areas like M2M, Internet of Things & Smart Cities and serving as an independent director for a listed company.
His focus has been on technology-based transformation of companies. He is a futurist and an entrepreneur at heart - creating Digital and Phygital Solutions involving AI, ML, IoT and mobile technologies. He is an advisor for (BARC) Broadcast Audience Research Council and was also the consulting CTO of Brookfield Properties in India.
Sumit is a graduate of IIT Kanpur followed by MS and Ph.D from Carnegie Mellon University. He has a Certificate Diploma from Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Centre for Software and IT Management (CSITM) of IIM Bangalore in association with Wadhwani Institute of Technology and Policy (WITP) to host Masterclass webinar series titled “Being Future Ready”
06 OCTOBER, 2022: Wadhwani Institute of Technology and Policy (WITP), a part of Wadhwani Foundation, is a not-for-profit organization focused on empowering the Government of India (GoI) and State government policymakers with case-based knowledge of emerging technologies. As part of its aim to get bureaucrats to implement digital transformation projects in their departments and ministries, WITP has been conducting various outreach programmes for senior bureaucrats to motivate and interest them in such projects and training the starting point. As part of this, a series of webinars under the titled “Masterclass Series – Being Future Ready” with Industry experts who have implemented digital transformation projects in the government or large enterprises has been planned. WITP has partnered with CSITM for conducting the webinar series.
The first in the series will be a webinar on the topic “Design & Systems Thinking for Digital Transformation” and has been scheduled for 20th October 2022, Thursday between 10:00 am to 11:00 am IST.
Successful digital transformation requires us to think about ‘the whole-of-government / organization’ - the various factors that impact the key objectives of the transformation. Two tools come in handy in achieving these sometime conflicting objectives. Design thinking is a powerful tool by placing citizens' needs at the center of a product, service, process, or a governing model, to reframe strategic challenges and develop more effective solutions. Drawing on right-brained creativity and left-brained analytics, this design thinking program enables you to broaden your strategic perspective and find novel opportunities for innovation. Systems Thinking on the other hand allows you to look at multiple objectives and model the pushes and pulls of different stakeholders and strive to find small leverage actions can see major digital transformation projects.
Date: October 20 (Thursday)
Time: 10:00 am to 11:00 am (IST)
Click here to register: https://iim-b.zoom.us/webinar/
NOTE: You will be sent a Zoom link for the webinar after you register for it. For any questions, please write to: csitm@iimb.ac.in
SPEAKER DETAILS
Dr. Chowdhury is a global thought leader and CXO in the field of Asset Performance Management, Artificial Intelligence, Smart Cities, Telecom & Information analytics. He was the Program Director of Swachh Bharat Mission and IT Expert for several Smart Cities.
He is the Founder Chairman of Gaia, an innovative SaaS platform for Enterprise Process Automation. His prior roles include being a President/CIO of Reliance Jio, VP of IBM, CIO of Reliance Communications, and Managing partner of KPMG / BearingPoint. He provides mentoring & funding to entrepreneurs in areas like M2M, Internet of Things & Smart Cities and serving as an independent director for a listed company.
His focus has been on technology-based transformation of companies. He is a futurist and an entrepreneur at heart - creating Digital and Phygital Solutions involving AI, ML, IoT and mobile technologies. He is an advisor for (BARC) Broadcast Audience Research Council and was also the consulting CTO of Brookfield Properties in India.
Sumit is a graduate of IIT Kanpur followed by MS and Ph.D from Carnegie Mellon University. He has a Certificate Diploma from Australian Institute of Company Directors.