The DQ Technology champions

As part of the leadership award to recognise the efforts, innovations, and achievements by those at the helms of implementing digital technologies, Dataquest presented the Digital Warrior award to 23 practitioners from across the industry.

LARGE ENTERPRISE

RAJIV ARORA

GLOBAL IT HUB HEAD – SIEMENS AG

For empowering the business by executing ambitious workplace transformation through a new normal hybrid working model, enabling enhanced collaboration, productivity and scalability. Rolled out remote field services, AR/VR solutions for sales and marketing, as well as incubated a solution center to drive digitalisation of niche technologies.

LARGE ENTERPRISE

ASHISH DESAI

CIO, GRASIM INDUSTRIES LIMITED (ADITYA BIRLA GROUP)

For his impressive role in successfully leveraging the Internet of Things (IoT) in manufacturing and showcasing how to reduce mean time to recovery (MTTR), mean time between failures (MTBF) and avoid procurement of new equipment by predictive alerts.

SMB

MANJUNATH PRASAD

HEAD – IT, TV SUNDRAM IYENGAR & SONS

For driving cost optimisation initiative in servers, network, and end-user support, and rolling out collaboration tools and cloud infrastructure, along with secure access to sustain end user productivity across the organisation.

SMB

SUBODH JHA

GM-IT, WHEELSEMI PRIVATE LIMITED

For creating eye-catching customer service infrastructure leading to business impact and speed with remarkable use of ERP and digital transformation tools.

CHEMICAL SECTOR

DR. MAKARAND SAWANT

SR. GM-IT, DEEPAK FERTILISERS AND PETROCHEMICALS CORPORATION