naseba, a leading business information company, organized the BFSI Technologies CXO Summit India at the Grand Hyatt in Mumbai on October 29-30, 2009. The 2-day Summit brought together up to 125 IT decision makers from India's leading companies in a knowledge sharing, business networking, and business expansion environment that focused on reducing costs and improving operating efficiencies.

The Summit highlighted the latest trends in the industry including data warehousing and business intelligence (DW&BI), risk management, data protection, data integration, innovation in insurance, reducing IT costs, strategic outsourcing of IT operations, data center management and application consolidation, real-time enterprise risk reporting, regulatory compliance, master data management (MDM), IT governance, desktop virtualization, business performance management, business continuity planning, and more.

?BFSI Technologies CXO Summit provides a platform for IT decision makers and solution providers to share knowledge for driving business transformation with better business-IT alignment. We thank all our partners, participants, speakers, moderators, and media partners whose continued support made this Summit a success," said Mohammed Saleem, General Manager - India, naseba.

The Summit included insightful keynote presentations, educational workshops, and interactive panel discussions. The panel discussions focused on desktop virtualization, essential steps to combat identity management, emerging role of IT in the current economic environment, and managing tech-savvy human capital. Cognizant Technology Solutions, Informatica, and Trend Micro conducted exclusive knowledge sharing workshops for CIOs at the Summit.

"This is a good initiative that offers a common platform for users and technology providers to come together and push the envelope further," said Vishal Khare, National Sales Head, Citrix Systems India Pvt. Ltd.

Notable speakers and moderators at the BFSI Technologies CXO Summit India included:

-- C.N. Ram, Co-Founder and Director, Rural Shores Business Services Pvt. Ltd.
-- Radhakrishnan Rajagopalan, Global Delivery Head, DWBI & Performance Management, Cognizant Technology Solutions
-- Umesh Jain, CIO & President, Yes Bank
-- Sriram Naganathan, CTOO, Reliance General Insurance
-- Suganthi Shivkumar, Managing Director, South Asia, Informatica S.E.A. Pte Ltd.
-- Soumya Das Gupta, Senior Delivery Manager, CRM Practice, Cognizant Technology Solutions
-- Sandeep Phanasgaonkar, President & Chief Technology Officer, Reliance Capital Ltd.
-- Ajay Kotkar, Executive Director & CTO, RBS
-- Vivek Sharma, Country Sales Manager, Compuware
-- Arun Das, VP & Business Head for BFSI Vertical in Enterprise Services, Bharti Airtel Ltd.
-- Harish Shetty, Sr. VP - IT, HDFC Bank
-- Ramesh Lakshminarayanan, CIO, Kotak Bank
-- Vasudevan Thiruvengadam, Director - Advanced Solutions Group, Cognizant Technology Solutions
-- Prashant Tewari, Country Manager - Enterprise Sales, Sybase Software India Pvt. Ltd.
-- Manoj Kumar Mauni, Associate VP, Kotak Mahindra Old Mutual Life Insurance
-- Meher Nori, Executive Manager, Broadridge Financial Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
-- Souma Das, Area Vice President - Indian sub-continent, Citrix Systems India Pvt. Ltd.
-- Sunil Dhaka, Chief Information Security Officer, ICICI Bank Ltd.
-- Abhinav Karnwal, Regional Product Marketing Manager - APEC, Trend Micro
-- Hari Misra, Managing Director, Finsight Media
-- Manoj Agarwal, Editor, Banking Frontiers

Leading BFSI solution providers associated with naseba for the Summit including Cognizant Technology Solutions, Informatica, Trend Micro, Sybase, Bharti Airtel, Citrix, Adobe, Genesys Telecommunications Labs, Omnitech, Broadridge, Redhat, and Compuware.

For more information on the recently concluded Summit, please visit: http://www.bfsitech.com/.

About naseba

naseba (Euronext Paris: MLNSB) is a publicly listed business information company that produces, promotes and hosts upper level executive B2B congresses and forums across twenty-six industries on five continents. Each event is focused on business networking, knowledge sharing, and deal flow opportunities for all attendees. Whether the ?deal? is capital raising, vendor sales contracts, or purely sourcing strategic partner each naseba platform gives our clients the perfect opportunity to do business. Since inception in 2002, naseba has organized over 300 business events, and has opened four offices strategically located throughout the world - Bangalore, Dubai, Cairo, and Monaco. For more information please visit: http://www.naseba.com/.