Narendra Modi to address 400 CEOs from ICT industry

NEW DELHI: Narendra Modi, Gujarat Chief Minister will address over 400 CEOs from the ICT industry during the CyberMedia ICT Business Awards 2013 program on January 17 in Delhi.

The initiative comprises awards based on business performance and leadership in various ICT segments as well as three jury-based awards that include IT Person of the Year 2013, Lifetime Achievement Award and IT Path Breaker of the Year. Some of the past winners of these awards include N Vittal, Shiv Nadar, Azim Premji, Sunil Mittal, NRN Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, S. Ramadorai, and Francisco D'Souza.

Modi will also participate in a closed door round-table discussion with over 30 select industry captains from 15 strategic industry segments like ESDM ecosystem, e-Governance, products and innovation, domestic market, and IT skill development. Each industry segment is slated to highlight critical challenges, opportunities, and recommendations.

Some of the Indian ICT industry leaders who would be part of this event include Akhil Gupta of Airtel, Rajan Anandan of Google, Jeff White of Cisco, Rajan Mathews of COAI, P. Balaji of Nokia, CP Gurnani of Tech Mahindra, R. Chandrashekhar of Nasscom, Debjani Ghosh of Intel, Neelam Dhawan of HP, Amar Babu of MAIT, Ajai Chowdhry, and Kiran Karnik amongst others.