by Soumik Ghosh

Agenda 2018: Trailblazer for India Inc.’s IT journey

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Jan 16, 2018
BusinessFinancial Services IndustrySmall and Medium Business

Agenda 2018 by IDG is the one-stop shop for enterprise IT leaders and solution providers. Spanning across five verticals and covering the five most trending technologies, it lays down a comprehensive roadmap for India’s enterprise IT in 2018.

With IT spending in India forecast to cross USD 87 billion, and the enterprise racing to adopt the newest and most promising technologies, IT in India has never been a more exciting space.

Agenda 2018 combines the takeaways from CIO 18: The Year Ahead hosted in Bangalore and the voices of all stakeholders – right from industry experts, to solution providers, to the consumers.

Through years of collaboration with IT leaders, IDG has recognized the diversity in IT needs across various verticals. The website gives you an immersive experience into the BFSI, manufacturing, retail & e-com, IT/ITeS, and healthcare sectors. We throw light on the five important technologies that are changing the business of tech in India: security, mobility, analytics, cloud, and internet of things (IoT).

Additionally, the site showcases the voices of the most recognized experts and industry veterans in the country today like Sivarama Krishnan from PwC, TG Dhandapani and Arun Gupta. We bring to the spotlight, top leaders from the biggest enterprise IT players like HPE, IBM, Intel, Cisco, NetApp, and a whole lot more.

Agenda 2018 provides CIOs practical ways to lead transformation, and future-proof their organizations to embrace and effectively deploy new technologies. This microsite is unique in that it includes takeaways from thought paper discussions, where CIOs and CSOs across various verticals discuss key technologies, share best practices, challenges, and ways to overcome them.

If numbers and graphs is your language of choice, we’ve got you covered. The 2018 State of the CIO (SOTC) survey gathers inputs from IT heads across five verticals and sheds light on everything concerning the present day CIO. And there are findings from the State of the Market (SOTM) survey as well as findings from the Global State of Information Security Survey (GSISS) conducted jointly by IDG and PwC.