Is India Ready with its Sovereign Digital Workplace?
IDC-Zoho Exclusive Dinner Roundtable
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Overview
The promise of public cloud is limitless. But the scale and agility of public cloud should blend with adequate security and sovereignty to realize real business outcomes. Public cloud, along with many benefits, comes with challenges of security, compliance, cost and performance at times. With rising ransomware attacks and tightening government regulations, emphasis on sovereignty and data residency is higher. Enterprises need to evaluate and adopt sovereign infrastructure while modernizing their digital workplace applications on public cloud.
Why Attend
Join us for an exciting and insightful round table evening brought to you by Zoho Corporation and moderated by IDC. The round table will discuss the importance of security and sovereignty of your cloud infrastructure in the digital and AI era. Discuss, learn and network with industry leaders.
Agenda
Is India Ready with its Sovereign Digital Workplace?
One day event
Registration & Networking
Welcome Address
India’s Sovereign Digital Workplace: Readiness, Risks, and the Road Ahead
Rajiv Ranjan
Associate Research Director, IDC India
Customer Stories
Building a resilient digital workplace
This session explores how a modern digital workplace can be architected so that collaboration, security, and data sovereignty are built in by default.
You will gain actionable insights into creating a unified digital workplace that not only meets today’s regulatory demands but is also resilient enough to withstand tomorrow’s threats.
Rakeeb Rafeeque
Head of Brand Marketing, Zoho Workplace
Summary & Close
Dinner & Networking
Speakers
Rajiv Ranjan
Associate Research Director
IDC India
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Rajiv Ranjan
Based in the IDC Bangalore office, Rajiv Ranjan works as an associate research director with the Asia/Pacific team and leads the Future of Digital Infrastructure Research for India. Rajiv has a specific focus on cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) research program management. He manages the advisory assignments for IT vendors in the areas of cloud infrastructure strategy, go-to-market strategy, strategic marketing, and end-user insights across technologies and industry verticals. In a previous stint with IDC, Rajiv led the Asia/Pacific Enterprise Storage Infrastructure research practice.
Prior to joining IDC, Rajiv worked with Dell Technologies managing the product marketing assignments for the company’s storage portfolio for selected Asia/Pacific geographies. In this role, Rajiv managed the field marketing, product management, go-to-market, and marketing campaigns for its storage products, driving storage revenue and market share in the operating geographies. He has an overall 17 years of work experience in market research, product marketing, and sales/business development.
Rajiv is a management graduate from ITM group of institutions and has completed his Engineering degree in Telecommunications from the BMS college of Engineering, Bangalore.
Event Sessions
Wednesday, December 10 2025 6:35 pm | Location:
India’s Sovereign Digital Workplace: Readiness, Risks, and the Road Ahead
Rakeeb Rafeeque
Head of Brand Marketing
Zoho Workplace
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Rakeeb Rafeeque
Event Sessions
Wednesday, December 10 2025 7:45 pm | Location:
Building a resilient digital workplace
This session explores how a modern digital workplace can be architected so that collaboration, security, and data sovereignty are built in by default.
You will gain actionable insights into creating a unified digital workplace that not only meets today’s regulatory demands but is also resilient enough to withstand tomorrow’s threats.
Venue
Sheraton Grand Bangalore Hotel at Brigade Gateway
Bene Hall
Grand Ballroom
26/1 Dr. Rajkumar Road, Malleswaram, Rajajinagar, Bengaluru