Digital Leadership Summit 2017

Bombay Management Association organized Digital Leadership Summit 2017 in Mumbai in October. Highlights of the keynotes:

Keynote address by Mritunjay Mohapatra, DMD and CIO, State Bank of India:

Earlier, we used to look up for leadership. Today, we must look outside. This is the disruptive paradigm shift. In moments of stress, we think creatively.

Where is the action at digitization? It is at the bottom of the pyramid. It is not in metros where it is projected through PowerPoint presentations. In digital age, poverty is not the poverty of wealth. Digital poverty is staring at us. The digitally poor will create an upheaval in society if we don’t address digital poverty. Amartya Sen quite accurately said: ‘Famine is not due to shortage of food, but supply chain problems’.