The SECURITY TODAY Knowledge Summit 2015 held at the Sheraton New Delhi on Wednesday, 16th December 2015 was a resounding success with Mr. RK Sinha, Member of Parliament, pioneer and doyen of the Indian Security Industry as the Guest of Honour, Keynote addresses were delivered by Mr. Gopal K Pillai, the former Union Home Secretary of India and Chair of the Advisory Board of SECURITY TODAY, Mr. Jeff Horkey, Regional Security Officer, Embassy of the United States of America in New Delhi and Mr. N. Ramachandran, President, Indian Police Foundation.
Luminaries who Chaired the sessions and delivered valuable insights included Mr. Arvind Ranjan the former Director General of CISF and NSG, Mr. PC Haldar, former Director of the Intelligence Bureau, Mr. Ajay Chagti, Special Secretary (IT), Government of Delhi. Perhaps the highlights were the sessions where, for the first time, a business leader, Mr. Balvinder Singh Kalsi, President South Asia and ASEAN of DuPont spelled out the deliverables that a business head should expect from his security team.
Sessions on Cyber Security that were conducted by Mr. Rajan Luthra, Head Special Projects, Chairman’s Office, Reliance Industries and Cdr Manish Tiwari, National Security Officer of Microsoft India were indeed insightful and thought provoking.
Stellar contributions to the ongoing discussions on various topics were made by several of the most experienced and well informed security oriented brains in the Indian Industry including; Mr. HS Pannu, Advisor Security, Reliance Industries; Brig DS Ahlawat, Head Security & Administration ITC Hotels, Col. Mahendra Yadav, Head of Security of Cairn India; Col. Ravi Bedi, Chief Information Security Officer of Maruti Suzuki, Lt. Gen. DS Chauhan, Security Advisor Maruti Suzuki, Brig. Govind S Sisodia, the former head of the NSG commando team that neutralised the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai and Head of Security of TCS, Mr. Ramendra Shekhar Singh Head of Security of Bharti Airtel, Major Avtar Singh, CPP – Head of Security Concentrix, Capt, Amit Sharma, CPP – Vice President, Corporate Security, Bank of America; Col. Harendra Bana Security Head – India Region, Pepsico; Mr. Inderjit Sehrawat, Managing Director, DvTel India; Mr Jayant Kapatker, President, STAM Interactive Technologies, USA; Mr. Aman Arora, COO, CP Plus; Mr. Prasenjeet Bhattacharyya, Business Head – Security & Mobility, Panasonic India and Mr. Abhay Ranjan, Chairman ASIS International New Delhi India Chapter
This was perhaps the first security conference in India which was attended by the top CSOs from organisations, departments and government institutions such as, CISF, Gas Authority of India, Indian Oil, Pepsico, Bank of America, World Bank Group, Fidelity International, ASIS India, CISF, ICICI Bank, Medanta the Medicity, US Embassy, Alcatel-Lucent, ITDC, Bharat Hotels Limited, Gulf Air, Honda Motorcycles & Scooters India Ltd. EY Global Delivery Network India, Holiday Inn, IBM, State Bank of India, Yes Bank, Leela Ambiencce, Teleperformance India, Reliance Retail, Reliance Jio, Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Nokia Seimens Network, Convergys, Deloitte, Accenture, ITC Grand Bharat, ONGC, Artemis Hospitals, Supertech & DS Homes, Four Seasons Hotel Mumbai and Parliament House etc.
The feedback received from the participants till the time of the publishing of this report included comments such as – “It’s the best Knowledge Summit that I’ve attended” – Col. Mukesh Lakhanpal, Certification Representative of ASIS India Chapter, “It’s heartening to see the respect that the event enjoys in the environment comprising of specialists in security philosophy, consultancy, technology, management and governance” – Brig, S.C. Uppal, former Security Head of Cairn Energy, “Session on Making a Business Case of Security that was conducted by CEO OF DuPont was brilliant. It was insightful to hear a business leader share his thoughts on security”, – Col. Harendra Bana, Security Head Pepsico, “The seminar was organised phenomenally well,” said Capt. Navtej Gill from Reliance Industries.
It would be improper to close this report without mentioning the contribution of Mr. Gopal Choudhary the Head of Security of Tata Steels who sent in a message from Mr. TV Narendran, the Managing Director of Tata Steels, India and South East Asia, sharing his thoughts on security and wishing the SECURITY TODAY Knowledge Summit well.
