Meet our executive speakers
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Jyoti Lalchandani
Event Sessions
Friday, August 29 2025 6:30 pm | Location:
IDC Welcome Address
Sakshi Grover
Sakshi Grover is a senior research manager for IDC Asia/Pacific Cybersecurity Services, supporting its research and client engagement activities across Asia/Pacific markets. Additionally, she serves as the lead security analyst for IDC India. Sakshi is responsible for delivering syndicated custom research and consulting engagements on next-generation emerging and disruptive technologies. Her tasks include developing and socializing IDC’s point of view within security services, covering both legacy and modern cybersecurity technologies. Her role involves close collaboration with technology vendors and buyers, developing market insights, and providing research, consulting, and advisory services in the fields of security software and services. This includes partnering on research efforts with relevant country analysts in the local IDC offices. Sakshi’s views on security have been quoted in numerous publications, such as the Economic Times, Business Standard, Data Quest, CRN, and others.
Sakshi has a wealth of experience in the IT space, managing diverse areas such as research and analysis, business development, product management, and client-centric engagements. Before joining IDC, Sakshi was a principal analyst at Gartner Inc., where she managed research on datacenter infrastructure and cloud security products. Prior to Gartner, she was associated with Accenture and Wipro Ltd., where she was responsible for business development across EMEA and Asia/Pacific markets within the TMT space.
Event Sessions
Friday, August 29 2025 6:50 pm | Location:
Strategic Security in Motion: Navigating AI, Quantum, and Compliance at Speed
As AI accelerates threat evolution and quantum computing challenges legacy defenses, security strategies must evolve in parallel. Join us to explore how enterprises are embedding security into the core of digital transformation—through continuous compliance, agile governance, and quantum-aware infrastructure planning.
Sharath Srinivasamurthy
Sharath Srinivasamurthy is an associate vice president who heads the research group for IDC India. His research expertise cuts across the multiple facets of digital transformation (DX).
Sharath has around 20 years of experience in different leadership roles with leading IT services firms. Before IDC, he worked in different roles including solutioning, presales, project management, business analysis, and application support and development. Sharath has worked in various capacities in global markets, namely the United States, Asia, Europe, and the United Kingdom.
Sharath previously worked with DXC Technology as Asia Head-Solutioning for Application Services, Global Head-Solutioning and Business Unit head in the application services business of Xchanging and led application support and development services for Zensar Technologies. He also worked with Hewlett-Packard and Cognizant
He is a distinguished leader and a frequent keynote speaker. Sharath’s views on technology have been quoted in numerous publications such as CNBC, Forbes India, The Economic Times, and CIO.com.
Sharath holds a Global MBA from SP Jain, Singapore and a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from VTU, Karnataka.
Event Sessions
Saturday, August 30 2025 10:20 am | Location:
Balancing Innovation and Integrity in the Age of AI and Quantum
This session explores the critical balance organizations must strike between embracing innovation and upholding trust, security, and digital integrity. As enterprises pursue digital acceleration, they must ensure that their security strategies evolve in tandem—building resilience into AI-driven systems and future-proofing their architectures for a post-quantum world.
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
Saturday, August 30 2025 10:50 am | Location:
Modernizing Cyber Governance in a Multi-Vector Risk Environment
The cybersecurity landscape has evolved into a multi-vector battlefield, where threats are not only more frequent but also more sophisticated, adaptive, and interconnected. From AI-generated social engineering to supply chain compromise and regulatory non-compliance, organizations face a constant barrage of risks that can impact operations, brand reputation, and regulatory standing.
This session will explore how to elevate cyber governance from a control mechanism to a strategic enabler of enterprise-wide security and trust.
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