When:

Friday, July 30th 2010 15:00 - 22:30 pm.

Where:

India Habitat Center

New Delhi

PRE-REGISTRATION (ONLINE) IS REQUIRED Bring photo ID on check-in.

15:00 - 16:00 p.m.

Registration and Reception

16:00– 16:15 p.m.

Inaugural address: “ BI Powered Business - Shifting the Paradigm” by Ajay Dhir ,Group CIO, JSL Limited

16:15 - 16:40 p.m.

Key Note: “BI - A View from the Business” by Sri Mosur, CEO, Jubilant Biosys.

This session would provide a direct customer perspective to BI. We will hear from a business leader, who has successfully harnessed the power of BI to drive business results. The leader will share the heightened challenges faced in today’s business environment and how BI needs to shape-up to these demands. This is a ‘listening to the customer’ session; giving us insights into the expectations from IT functions, consulting organizations and platform providers.

16:40 - 17:00 p.m.

“Building a Decision support System” by Amrita Gangotra, Director-IT (South Asia & India), Airtel.

Bharti-Airtel has implemented one of the largest DWs in India. This session will discuss various rewards and challenges of these initiatives. This would also focus on the mechanisms currently in place to capture value realization. An overall BI journey from the inception, development of various analytical capabilities, plans for the future would be touched upon. Some major lessons learned in this journey will be shared.

17:00 - 17:20 p.m.

“Executing BI as a Business discipline” by Rajan Gupta, Founder & Chief-Practitioner, Execution MiH.

This session talks about functional competencies, which make BI happen for the business. It will take the audience through the needed skills of defining business rules, consistently explaining KPIs & measures, rationalizing information needs, creating universal data-models, managing decision-trees, maintaining focus on analysis priorities, avoiding information glut and building flexible BI models.

17:20 - 17:40 p.m.

Tea Break

17:40 - 18:40 p.m.

Panel Discussion :“CIO Leadership in Maximizing BI” by Distinguished panelists

Armed with techno-business perspective, CIOs are natural thought-leaders for enhancing business capability and maximize the value of BI. They can influence upper management team to promote a higher functional-ownership of BI, help build additional organizational capabilities through information management.

• BI and Business Alignment – Challenges and opportunities

• Perspectives from CIO’s customers and business

• How is value created and measured

• How to create new capabilities to help drive business performance

• What are their biggest lessons learned

18:40 - 19:00 p.m.

“BI as a Business Solution” by Narasimham Peri,

Partner, BAO service, IBM GBS, India.

This session promotes the concept – ‘BI is as much a business subject as it is an IT subject’. It delves into solutions available and needed to translate a BI platform into a razor-sharp enterprise sensory system.

19:00 – 20:00 p.m

Panel Discussion: “BI Best Practices for Maximizing Benefits” by Distinguished panelists

There is no formal agreement on the %age of BI projects, which do not meet the business expectations. However, we all agree that there is a significant room for improvement. This panel will discuss the top-5 actions which audience can take home for taking their enterprise BI to next level of effectiveness.

• What are new age services, value additions and unique service needs for Indian scenario

• Preparing the next generation workforce

• Best practices/experience around BI Adoption strategies

• Measuring value, emphasis on ‘execution’ cycle in the Information supply chain

• Ways and means of RoI measurement

20:00 – 22.30 p.m

Closing & Gala Dinner