Business Technology Panel - Think Small: Technology for Emerging Markets
Emerging markets like India, China and Brazil are now the new economic powerhouses and with their large populations joining the development race, the economic and technological action has shifted to these countries. Ever wondered how the Indian cellular operators are maintaining exponential growth employing one of the cheapest tariff structures in the world? How the Indian IT industry is slowly transforming and focussing on the internal market to boost growth? How does Tata manage to come up with a $2500 priced cheapest car in the world? However we also have seen the inefficiencies that exist in the government sector. Can technology help cut down corruption by introducing transparency and creating a successful e-governance platform for these markets? Can mobile technology utilise its penetration to establish itself as the most important channel for dissemination of education to rural areas? Is the model reversible? Can some of these best practices and learning of operating in an emerging market be taken up by companies and applied globally as they expand? Through this theme “Think Small: Technology for emerging markets” we want to understand how the business leaders of these emerging economies are using the power of technology to not only establish a viable and profitable business model but in the process also reduce the social and economic inequality. We also seek to understand the vision of the government as to how technology can be leveraged for the betterment of masses and yet prove to be a sustainable business model to attract private partnerships.

Speakers

• Suman Bose-Country Director - Dassault Systèmes,India
• Ravi Mallela- Delivery Head, Microsoft Global Services
• Cyprian D'Souza-India Head, PRM Chief People Officer, Financial Services - Capgemini
• Manish Soman- Senior Vice President, Genpact