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Secretary, DST exhorts corporates to leverage

digital disruptions to shape the future

s COVID acts as a key
catalyst for acceleration
Aof digital technologies,
organisations need to leverage
these disruptions as future will
be increasingly digital. To offer
an insight in the same, SCOPE
organised a Webinar on ‘Digital
Transformation in COVID-19'
on 7 August, 2020. The Webinar
th
was addressed by Prof. Ashutosh
Sharma, Secretary, Department
of Science & Technology (DST),
Mr. S. M. Vaidya, Chairman,
IOCL, Mr. Atul Sobti, DG, SCOPE,
Mr. S. Sakthimani, Director (Fina-
nce), CCI, Mr. Sushant Rabra and Mr. Atul Sobti, DG, SCOPE, Prof. Ashutosh Sharma, Secretary, Department
Mr. Manas Majumdar, both part- of Science & Technology (DST), Mr. S. M. Vaidya, Chairman, IOCL, Mr. Manas
ners in KPMG India. The Webinar Majumdar, Mr. Sushant Rabra Partners, KPMG India, Mr. S. Sakthimani, Director
was attended by over 2300 par- (Finance), CCI and Member, SCOPE Executive Board during the Webinar.
ticipants including senior official
from Public Sector Enterprises a strong urge to the corporate competitive. He highlighted three
(PSEs) through SCOPE’s various sector to make optimal use of this focus areas for PSEs in order to
platforms. clear and present opportunity make most of the available
to emerge stronger and skilled opportunity – skilling, digital
Prof. Ashutosh Sharma in his ad- digitally. infrastructure and digitally en-
dress stated that the present era abled systems.
is of Industry 4.0 based on con- Mr. Vaidya appreciated SCOPE
trol of data, knowledge and wis- for organising the webinar on KPMG team gave a presentation
dom and hence whoever is able digital transformation. While on Digital integration in organ-
to generate, control and build on emphasizing on the need of isations during COVID and how
data/ information shall succeed. digital transformation, he also it has brought new opportunities
He stated that it is imperative briefed how IOCL leveraged and innovative technologies at
for organisations to assess their technology for both business and the threshold of all organisations.
digital maturity and also where employees. They also highlighted how digital
they want to reach so as to make Mr. Atul Sobti DG, SCOPE can be utilised for value realisa-
most of the available opportunity speaking about the digital jour- tion for organisations.
to leverage digital tools. He also ney stated that digital technol- While giving closing remarks,
said that PSEs are strong pillars ogy has broadened the horizon Mr. Sakthimani, Director (Finance)
of the Indian economy and hence of business in the times of cri- CCI and Member, SCOPE Exe-
need to take advantage of latest sis. DG, SCOPE said that digi- cutive Board reiterated the
technology, upskill and integrate tal shall be the key even in post fact that digital transformation
business with emerging technolo- COVID times and hence the same is the need of the hour and hence
gies so as to enlarge scope of or- needs to be leveraged by PSEs all corporate should join hands to
ganisations. Secretary, DST made in order to be globally maximise this opportunity.

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