Ms. Priyanka Mahani and Ms. PoonamYadav Faculty of Electronics & Computer Engineering Department from Dronacharya College of Engineering, Gurgaon attended a seminar on “Advancing your future on the Cloud” conducted by the “IBM Cloud Innovation Forum” at The Leela Ambience, Gurgaon on 21st August’14.

The event begins with a welcome & opening remark by Mr. Sameer Batra, Founder Vice President, Enterprise Business Unit, North and East IBM India Pvt. Ltd. The Keynote Speaker – Mr. Christian Klezi, Vice president, Cloud Solutions, IBM Corporation, talked about the “Cloud is a growth engine for business”. He discussed about how enterprises need to securely balance the integration of cloud with back end systems.

This was followed by a brief round of discussion with 5 CIO’s about their Cloud journeys and experiences. Mr. Sanchit Vir Gogia from Grey Hound Research, Sandeep Bhatia from Anik Systems, Harnath Babu from Aviva Life Insurance, Pratap Kumar Singh from IBIBO Group and Mr. Vineet Baid from Jabong. They talked about what were the main challenges they had to face while using Cloud for their respective organizations.

The next session was taken by Mr. Subram Natarajan, Executive- Systems & Technology Group IBM India pvt ltdand Dr. Rajendra K. Gupta, Chief Technical Architect, IBM India Pvt. Ltd. They discussed about Build your own cloud- Infrastructure matters. Mr. Sanjay Siboo, County manager, Offering Management, Global Technology Services IBM India Pvt. Ltd. discussed about Tap into IT: Next gen Private Modular Cloud & Achieving, Optimization & Economics.

Overall it was an informative and innovative seminar as the attendees learnt how to deal with building our own cloud and achieving optimization.