Jury Finalises Winners For BW CIO Awards 2017

BW Businessworld will be organising Digital Leadership and CIO Imperatives on 20 July in ITC grand Central in Mumbai. The jury meet to finalise the list of winners in all the categories was held at Le Meridian on Wednesday (12 July).

The jury was headed by Dr Kiran Karnik , Former President - NASSCOM, Member of PM‘s Committee on E- Governance. Lalit Sawhney, Former IT Consultant, NSDC, Debjani Ghosh, Former MD Intel, Board Member, Yes Bank, Raman Roy, Chairman, Nasscom, Dr Arvind Gupta, Tech Head, BJP were the jury.

The awards have been divided into 8 categories across enterprise and SME’s along with 3 stand-alone categories.

“The CIO and CDO community is the backbone of digital India. We as jury members were delighted to choose from the best of companies. Banks in India have used digital tech in their advantage and they are the global case study in the use of fintechs. The success of digital India lies with great CIO’s present at this event. We have been proud to judge the categories today. SME’s were competing very well using technology with the big companies. It’s a welcome trend to recognize two categories; CIO and the CDO, and I congratulate BW for that,” said Dr Arvind Gupta, Tech Head, BJP.

The process of awarding the nominees was a four tier process. BW Businessworld had invited the entries to various categories via the website. 

The first round of filtering was done where all the nominations were checked for completeness and validity. In the second round of filtering all the nominees were segregated into Large enterprise, SME, Enterprise Mobility Cloud. IN the third round of filtering all the nominees were looked at and the jury finalized the winners. The winner declaration will be made after the conference on 20 July.

“So happy to see the new innovations in the tech field. So many new applications have been developed for the innovative users. It’s a great win for the small countries that use innovation. All the innovative work will soon translate into business opportunities,” said Lalit Sawhney, Former IT Consultant, NSDC.

Debjani Ghosh, Former MD Intel, Board Member, Yes Bank said “Its fantastic to see the awardees, from big and small companies. The innovation has taken a shift from the big companies to the smaller SME’s. They are disruptive and extremely focused on India. This innovation will define the future of India.”

“Its truly fascinating to be a part of the CIO awards. A total of 186 entries to select from the field of technology and it’s so good to see the amount of work happening. It was really tough to choose the winners. It was a really educative experience to go through,” Raman Roy, Chairman, Nasscom

BW awards have been conceived to acknowledge the people who significantly contribute to the digital transformation of their respective organizations . The awards will recognize technology leaders and functional heads who have made an impact in the digital space. The awards and recognition would be for projects that have been executed and implemented over the last 18 months.

BW CIO Awards will see participation from CMD’s, CEO’s, MD’s, CXO’s, Presidents, IT finance , digital, security Directors, VP’s , GM’s Chief Managers and Senior Manager of Banks across the country.