05:25 MC on stage

Ladies and Gentlemen a very warm welcome to all of you at

Tomorrow’s Edge- Business Innovation Tour organized jointly
by VMware - a world leader in virtualization. & The Guild -
India’s first progressive business media brand, with a unique
editorial focus on innovation in technology, business,
leadership, and design.

Before we begin, may I request all of you to please put your

handhelds to silent mode.

You will notice a short feedback form in the dockets you

received. I request you to fill it up as we proceed and drop it at
the registration Desk, on your way out and exchange it for a
small token appreciation from our end.

BRIEF INTRO:
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Tomorrow’s Edge, is a unique emerging business focused
technology session, which will articulate how institutions like
yours can adopt newer technologies to accelerate its digital
transformation agenda. This is a 20 cities cross country tour
which endeavours to highlight emerging enterprises
technologies like mobility, end-user computing, virtualization,
business continuity & disaster recovery etc enable business to
achieve more with less. This initiative is jointly organized by
VMware a world leader in virtualization technologies and The
Guild.
Today’s higher education environment is marked by changing
student expectations related to their increasingly diverse
computing needs. Higher education institutions are striving to
create student-friendly IT infrastructures that support students’
desire to bring their own mobile devices to campus. Gone are
the days when these colleges and universities asserted their
control over students by regulating everything from computer
lab hours to acceptable computing devices.
Depending on the particular higher education institution,
instructors and/or department heads are charged with working
with CIOs to ensure that students have equal access to a wide
variety of computing tools—from legacy applications to high-
performance, 3D applications. Prior to desktop virtualization,
students had to install and support each application. With
desktop virtualization, the IT department can install an
application on a single golden image and deliver that same
image to all students in the class. This forum is designed purely
for the Business Leaders on how they can accelerate their
digital transformation agenda.

So, without further ado, Let’s begin the evening with we

have an exclusive Address by renowned Industry Leader,
Mr. Mohankumar C M Assistant Director-Systems VIT
University
Postgraduate in Computer Science having 26 years of
experience in IT. Mr Kumar is currently working with VIT
University as Assistant Director-Systems and is
responsible for the IT Infrastructure Management of Vellore
Campus. Prior to Joining with VIT, he has worked with
TATA Coffee Limited, TVS & Sons and Futurenet
Technology Pvt Ltd in various roles.
Mr. Kumar has vast experience in building large IT
Infrastructure, Campus Network and Wireless Networks.
He played a key role in deployment of ERP in both
plantation and Education verticals. He has actively
participated in the design and Installation of Smart Data
Centre, Software Defined Data Centre, Video Surveillance
System and Digital Signage Systems.
Mr. KUMAR REQUEST YOU TO JOIN US ON THE STAGE
PLEASE.

Over to Mr. Kumar

(MC moves backstage)
Session/Q&A

Thank you, Mr. Kumar, for a very insightful session.

We would like to extend a small token of appreciation from
our end.
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Session 2 –
Moving forward to the next session which is the Industry
panel discussion on “Tomorrow’s Edge: Driving Digital
Equality in the Digital Age” I would like to invite our
esteemed Moderator for this discussion we have with us
this evening:

Mr. Rajiv Jayachandran, Regional Head Commercial Sales,

South, VMware India
Mr. Jayachandran has more than 14 years of experience in IT
sales, he has been with VMware for close to 5 years and
currently he is regional head for south at VMware.
Welcome Mr. Jayachandran.
Moving forward I would like to invite our Panellists for this
session:
Panellists:
First, I would like to invite Dr. E. Kirubakaran, Professor &
Head - Computer Science Technology, Karunya University

With more than 38 years of work experience Dr. Kirubakaran

is a Professor & Head - Computer Science Technology at
Karunya University. Prior to joining, he was working with Bharat
Heavy Electricals Ltd., he retired as Additional General
Manager and subsequently joined in Karunya University.

Dr. Kirubakaran had been a visiting faculty to several

institutions in and around Trichy. He was a visiting Faculty,
Member of Board of Studies, Member of Academic Council,
Member of Governing Board and Doctoral Committee member
in several Educational Institutions. He is an approved Research
Guide and has guided many Research Scholars for the award
of Ph.D and has about 200 Publications in Journals/
Conference.
Dr. Kirubakaran had earlier held the post of Secretary, Vice
Chairman and Chairman in Computer Society of India, Trichy.

He is also a qualified Lead Auditor for Information Security

Management Systems (ISMS).

Our next panellist is Dr. K. Umamaheswari, Professor &

Head, Department of Information Technology, PSG College
of Technology

Dr. Umamaheswari is a Professor & Head, Department of

Information Technology at PSG College of Technology. She
has completed her bachelor’s degree in computer science and
Engineering in 1989 from Bharathidasan University and her
master’s in computer science and Engineering in 2000 from
Bharathiar University. She had completed her PhD in Anna
University Chennai in 2010. She has rich experience in
teaching for about more than 21 years. Her research areas
include Classification techniques in Data Mining and other
areas of interest are Cognitive networks, Data Analytics,
Information Retrieval, Software Engineering, Theory of
Computation and Compiler Design. She has published more
than 75 papers in international, national journals and
conferences. She is a life member in ISTE and ACS and Fellow
member in IE. She is the editor for National Journal of
Technology, PSG College of Technology and reviewer for
many National and International Journals.

Dr. M Sundaresan, Professor & Head – IT, Bharathiar

University

Dr. Sundaresan has more than 33 years of experience of

working out of which 23 years of rich experience in teaching.
He has published 7 International and National Journals 24
international conferences and 31 National conferences. His
area of interest is in Data Compression, Image Processing, E-
Commerce, Cloud Computing.

Welcome sir.

Mr. A Suresh, Professor & Head - Computer Science,

Nehru Institute of Engineering & Technology

Mr. Suresh has more than 17 years of experience in teaching &

coordination activities. He is involved in Department and
Management responsibility work. He gives Lecture on various
topics of Computer Science and Engineering subjects and
Information Technology subjects. He has published around 13
International Journals, 7 International Conferences, 18 National
Conferences.

Welcome sir.
Our next speaker is Mr. D Sathya Srinivas, Head- Computer
Applications, Karpagam University

Mr. Mohammed Hayath, Regional Head Systems

Engineering South, VMware India

Mr. Hayath is currently leads the Pre-Sales function at VMware,

handling the South Region for Commercial and Multi-national
accounts. He has been in the IT industry for ~ 23 years working
both in International markets and in India. Having worked in
multi-national organizations such as Cisco, Avaya, Dell-EMC,
he brings a rich set of experience across the entire spectrum of
Compute, Storage, Networking, Security & Management. He
also has done country to regional roles cutting across various
customer verticals & thereby enriching his experience.
He does carries multiple vendor certifications to his credit.
Welcome Mr. Hayath.
Now I would like to handover to Mr. Jayachandran to moderate
the panel session, Rajiv the stage is all yours.
MC To leave
Back on stage, Q/A
Thank you, panellists, please do accept a small token of
appreciation from our end. - by Mr. Rajiv Jayachandran
SESSION 3: Now, moving on we have a technical
presentation titled “Accelerating Digital Transformation in
Higher Education” and I would like to call on stage Mr.
Mohammed Hayath, Regional Head Systems Engineering
South, VMware India

Thank you, sir.

So, Ladies and Gentlemen, this brings us to close of this
wonderful evening. On behalf of VMware and the Guild we
would like to extend our sincere gratitude for your valuable
time and attention.

And now before we proceed to Dinner, may I request

you to please fill in your valuable feedback in the
feedback forms given to you in the docket and submit
the same at the registration desk. Please do accept a
small token of appreciation in return from our end.