As INFOCOM –  India’s leading business, technology and leadership conference – steps into its fifteenth year, Kolkata headquartered Ananda Bazar Patrika (ABP) Group is proud to initiate the second edition of INFOCOM 2016 – New Delhi Chapter on July 7, 2016 at the Jacaranda Hall, Habitat World at India Habitat Centre. The theme for the daylong conference is “Transform, Disrupt and Transform” and it will be inaugurated by chief guest Ravi Shankar Prasad, union minister of Communications and IT, Government of India. The inaugural ceremony addressals would be presented by guests of honour Hari Om Rai, founder, chairman and managing director, Lava International; Anupam Shrivastava, chairman and managing director, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd; Dr Omkar Rai, director General, Software Technology Parks of India and Dr. Aruna Sharma, IAS, secretary – Department of Electronics and IT (DeitY), Government of India. The welcome address would be given by Dhruba Mukherjee, vice president, The Telegraph, ABP Pvt Ltd.
The event would be attended by over 300 delegates from large corporates, SMEs, policymakers, academia and media along with participation from 100 top CIOs/CISOs of India and over 30 speakers from amongst well-known industry leaders, ICT experts and gurus, top corporates, think tanks, entrepreneurs, government officials and academia from across the world.

Focus sessions of the conference would be Disruption, Innovation and Industry Change, 2020 Digital Bank, Digital Disruption in Manufacturing, Creating Breakthrough Experience in the Age of Digital, Building a Robust Cyber Security Defense Mechanism, Digital Economy: Embracing Innovations and the New Age of Industry with IoT, Nurturing SMEs – The Way Forward, How to Monetise IoT and the Inspirational Keynote: The Mumbai Dabbawalas Story.

Erudites like Jayant Sinha, minister of state for Finance, Government of India; Piyush Goyal, minister of state with independent charge for Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy Government of India; Dr. Pawan Agarwal, international motivational speaker on Mumbai Dabbawalas; Vijay Sethi, chief information officer & Head Corporate Social Responsibility, Hero MotoCorp and many others would be heard sharing their mission and vision on the disruption and innovation technology.

INFOCOM is an initiative from the house of ABP started in 2002 as a forum that would demonstrate India’s quest to be the IT superpower.