The Economic Times CIO Annual Conclave is India’s premium forum that deliberates on top issues confronting CIOs. The second edition concluded with a grand evening celebrating the accomplishments of IT leaders of India followed by award ceremony. ETCIO Annual awards has been instituted to recognise the outstanding work done by CIOs in innovatively leveraging technology resulting in transformed businesses or business processes. The award celebrates the spirit of innovation in the enterprise technology domain.

The conclave witnessed more than 100 top CIOs from across the country discussing and debating the best strategies to adopt for staying relevant in the age of disruption. CIOs were felicitated for their outstanding achievements in making their enterprises future ready. The winners were selected by eminent jury on the basis of projects nominated by CIOs by themselves.

The jury comprised- Pulak Ghosh, Chair of Excellence and Professor of Decision Sciences IIM B among with Sanjay Verma, Associate Professor, IIMA, Burgess Cooper, Partner, EY, Vijay Sethi, CIO & Head- HR, CSR, Hero MotoCorp, Jayantha Prabhu, Group CIO, Essar group, V S Parthasarathy, Group CFO & Group CIO, Mahindra Group, Rajesh Uppal, Sr ED (HR & IT), Maruti Suzuki India ltd, Joydeep Datta, Director-Finance, Sapient and Burgess Cooper, Partner, EY.

List of winners:

Cloud Computing

Arun Attri, VP-IT, Wonder Cement (RK Group)
Chitranjan Kesari, Head IT, Kanakia Group
Dr.Vijay Choudhary, CTO, HRH Group of Hotels
Dy Comdt V Natarajan, Asst Director (IT), Indian Coast Guard
Jagdip Kumar, Head IT, Cosmo Films
Jayanta Bhowmik, SVP-IT, & Group CIO, Usha Martin
Pradeep Chankarachan, Director, Digital- Regional CIO – Connected Car (Asia), HARMAN International
Rohit Kilam, Head Technology & Digital, Aditya Birla Finance
Sachin Jain, CIO, Evalueserve
Sendil Kumar Venkatesan, VP-IT, Shriram Value Services
Sourabh Tiwari, CIO, Meril group
Suswaram Sridhar, Global CIO, Rain Industries


Data Analytics

Ashish Bajaj, CTO, DSP Investment Managers
Munish Mittal, Group Head- IT, HDFC Bank
Priya Dar, CIO, Godfrey Phillips India
Rajeev Agarwal, CTO, Hindustan Aeronautics
Shweta Srivastava, CTO, Paul Merchants


Enterprise Mobility

Arvind Singh, Head – Mobility, Future Group
Chandra Gupta, CTO, Rel Nippon LAM
Kiran Komatla, CIO, Burger King India
Pooja Chatrath, CIO, Cryoviva Biotech
Sanjay Rastogi, VP & Head IT Applications, Reliance Jio Payments Bank
Sarabjeet Singh, DVP Change management, Indiafirst Life Insurance Co
Satyanarayana Kasturi, Group IT Head, Ashok Piramal group
Sreenivasa Reddy Inukollu, VP, Karvy
Yagnesh Parikh, EVP & CTO, ICICI Securities


Enterprise Security

Munish Mittal, Group Head- IT, HDFC Bank
Aditya Khullar, IT Leader, Paytm


Enterprise Technology

Chandra Kishore Prasad, Regional GM & Head IT, Railtel Corporation of India
Madhusudan Warrier, Director – Information Technology, IDFC
Maulik Pathak, Head PMO, Collabera
Mohan Shah, Head -IT, DTDC Express
Nirvan Biswas, CIO, National Bulk Handling Corporation
Panish Javagal, General Manager, Hinduja Global Solutions
Rajeev Seoni, CIO, EY India
Rajendra R Bhandare, VP-IT, IDFC Securities
Rajgopal Nayak, Head of Business Applications & PMO, Marico
Rupesh Nain, Head IT, JCB India
Saloni Vijay, GM- IT, Vodafone Idea
Sandeep Jamdagni, CIO, Ashiana Housing
Sanjay Rastogi, VP & Head IT Applications, Reliance Jio Payments Bank
Satyanand Shukla, Head- IT, IFFCO MC Crop Science
Subroto Kumar Panda, CIO, Anand and Anand
Sunil Nair, CTO, SPAR India (Max Hypermarket India)
Vikas Gupta, CIO, H-Energy
Anis Pankhania, Head Security Compliance and Data Privacy, Vodafone Idea
Kamal Goel, VP IT, Anand Rathi
Ashok Jade, CIO, Shalimar Paints
Mayank Bedi, Head IT,VST Tillers Tractors


IoT Applications

A.Sathyanarayanan, GM – IT, Ashok Leyland
Arindam Singha Roy, Group CIO, EIUL
Ashish Desai, VP IT and CIO, Grasim Industries
Badar Afaq, Head IT, Antara Senior Living
Bimal Puri, Vice President IT, SRF limited
Naresh K Pathak, Regional CIO – India + South East Asia, ANDRITZ
Vipul Anand, Group CIO, Hindware group
Venkatesh Babu S, President & Head – IT/SSG, Coffee Day Global


Next Gen Technologies

Anil Porter, AVP IT & GDS Services, Interglobe Technology Quotient
Byju Joseph, CTO, Future Generali
Chander Deep Khanduja, CIO, Luminous Power Technologies
Dipak Rout, CIO, Arihant Capital Markets
Harnath Babu,CIO, KPMG India
Mahesh Prabhu, VP, Global head of innovation, ITC Infotech
Manoj Kumar Mishra, SVP IT, Jana small Finance Bank
Mayank Bhargava, CIO, DHFL Pramerica Life Insurance Company
Milan Kumar, Global CIO, WABCO
Munish Mittal,Group Head- IT, HDFC Bank
Narottam Sharma, Head IT, Sterlite Technologies
Pankaj Goyal, VP-IT, Genpact
Piyush Chowhan, CIO, Arvind Fashions
Ramakrishnan Sudarshanam, Divisional Vice President – IT, United Breweries
Ravi Vashisht, AVP IT, Genpact
Rohit Ambosta, CIO, Angel Broking
ST Sathiavageeswaran, ED- Information Systems, HAL
Shaji Abraham, CIO, Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals
Srinivas Rao Kollipara, Group CIO, Cavinkare
Sumit Puri, CIO, Max healthcare
V S Srirangrajan, CIO, Grasim Industries
Ravindra Pal Singh, CIO, Tata AIA
Rajendranath M, VP-IT, Bharti AXA General Insurance Company
Amit Kapil, Group CTO, Caparo


Social Media

Avadhut Parab, AVP-IT, Wockhardt
Bhavesh lakhani, SVP & Head-IT, SBI Mutual Fund


Lifetime Achievement

Rajeev Seoni, CIO, EY India
Yagnesh Parikh, EVp & CTO, ICICI securities


Iconic Award

Sunil Mehta, SVP, JWT
Jayantha Prabhu, Group CIO, Essar Group