We are swiftly advancing towards the next Industrial Revolution – a phenomenon which is popularly known as Industry 4.0. The Digital sector has been the major driver of this monumental change that has engulfed businesses and industries. The Drivers of Digital Awards and Summit is the leading program in India that has been designed to identify, acknowledge and reward the enterprises, agencies, and individuals who have significantly transformed the following functions of the industry by leveraging the power of Digital and Automated processes: Online and Mobile applications and services, Digital Marketing, FinTech, MarTech, AdTech, eCommerce, Startup Ecosystem, Content development and publishing, Media Management, etc.
Additionally, we shall have the business leaders and connoisseurs share their views, experiences and knowledge pertaining to Digital transformations through Keynote Addresses, Panel Discussions and Insightful Presentations. Into the third edition this year, the Drivers of Digital Awards and Summit has emerged as the top property that discusses and rewards Digital innovations. Numerous stalwarts and stakeholders of the industry come together to form the Jury of this program and contribute to making the Drivers of Digital Awards the best in its category, while adding unmatched value and credibility to the entire initiative. Multiple factors have combined to ensure that the Drivers of Digital Awards is the most coveted and sought-after honour for the digital fraternity in India.
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Date: December | Venue: Mumbai
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With an eclectic mix of over 400 attendees represented by the leadership, senior and mid-level officials from the leading brands and agencies, DOD 2019 offers a wide spectrum of marketing, branding and partnership opportunities.Eminence Forum
DOD 2019 presents a great platform for professionals and enterprises to position themselves as thought-leaders in the market by representing at the exclusive Speaker and/or Juror panel of this highly anticipated programme.Previous Speakers
Jürgen Hase
Chief Executive Officer | UNLIMIT - A Reliance Group CompanyJürgen Hase is the CEO of UNLIMIT wherein he is responsible for strategic planning as well as the growth and expansion of Unlimit. He plays a crucial role in strategizing and overseeing the execution.
Jürgen has been a part of Unlimit ever since its inception in 2016. In less than 2 years, he has implemented all the relevant IoT layers, right from managed connectivity to device management and application software to any form of analytics, setting a global benchmark in implementing IoT services.
With over 20 years of experience in the global telecommunications industry, Jürgen has extensive IT expertise spanning technical and solution engineering to strategic alliances, keeping in mind the needs and requirements of the Indian market. In parallel, Jürgen is also the founder of a partner certification program for all relevant IoT services for Automotive, Industry 4.0 and Transport & Logistics industry.
Prior to joining UNLIMIT, Jürgen was the Director of IoT / M2M at the Ooredoo Group where he was responsible for the overall IoT activities and services in Middle East, North Africa and South Asia for multiple vertical segments such as Automotive, Telematics, Smart Cities, Healthcare, Insurance and Energy. Previously, Jürgen was also the Vice President for Deutsche Telekom and Founder of the M2M competence center at the organization.
Mukesh Jain
CTO | VFS GlobalA Techno-Biz Leader with 22+yrs experience leading multinational organizations (MICROSOFT, RELIANCE JIO, NICE & VFS Global) in Digital Transformation, Product Engineering, Management, Large-Scale Development, Big Data Analytics, AI, IoT, Blockchain, Advertising, FinTech, MarTech, Social, Media, Cloud, Mobility, Product Quality, setting up & managing Large GIC (Global Inhouse Centres) in India and leading business globally & delivering innovative results consistently.
Unique mix of Technology, Business, Analytics, Management, Execution and People.
As recognized leader in the field of Analytics, Digital Advertising, Software Engineering, User Experience, Product Management & Process Excellence community. Frequently speak at international conferences, business schools & engg colleges on these topics. Have authored and published 2 books in USA and now writing 3rd book.Currently working @ VFS Global as CTO leading Technology Product Innovation & Business Transformation.
Successfully Setup GIC (Global In-House Center) for NICE in Pune (0 to 509 employees in 17 months). Built 4 Large R&D teams delivering innovation in Large-Scale Big Data Analytics.
Prior to NICE, I worked at Reliance Jio as Vice President & Head of Big Data Analytics, Advertising Business and Social Media Monitoring, Product Management, provide end-to-end analytics and build new age Monetization techniques that deliver value to advertisers and users.
Prior to Jio, worked at Microsoft for 13+ yrs – Leading large global teams delivering very large scale engineering products like Outlook, OWA, Bing, Hotmail, MSN, Advertising, Analytics, that enable billions of people across the globe to realize their full potential. I provided techno-biz leadership for MS-Verizon and MS-Yahoo! partnerships.
Naveen Kukreja
Co-Founder & CEO, Paisabazaar.com; CMO - Policybazaar.comNaveen Kukreja is the co-founder and CEO of Paisabazaar.com and the Chief Marketing Officer of Policybazaar.com. Under Naveen’s leadership, Paisabazaar.com today stands tall as India’s biggest marketplace platform for lending products, within 3 years of inception.
Naveen comes with a deep financial services experience of over 16 years, having worked with Citibank in India, Capital One Bank in the UK and as the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Strategy at Aviva Life Insurance. He has most recently been felicitated by Business World with the ’40 under 40’ award – a recognition to India’s top 40 leaders under the age of 40.
As co-founder and CEO, Naveen has grown Paisabazaar.com as one of India’s biggest fintechs.
Naveen also plays the role of Advisor and Mentor to a couple of promising start ups – to help nurture entrepreneurial ecosystem:
- Analytics Vidya
- Internshala
Naveen holds an MBA from IIM Calcutta and has studied engineering from Delhi College of Engineering.
Srinivas Jain
Executive Director and Chief Marketing Officer SBI Funds Management Private Limited Read More
Srinivas Jain
Executive Director and Chief Marketing Officer SBI Funds Management Private LimitedSrinivas Jain is a Executive director & Chief Marketing officer at SBI Funds Management – SBIFM (SBI Mutual Fund), SBIFM mission is to provide best in class investment management expertise to investors, SBIFM is building products, solutions and tools from small retail investors to sophisticated global institutional investors.
Srinivas Jain is a senior CXO level professional with over 23 years experience in Banking and financial services industry of which 19 years in Investment management industry.
Naveen Surya
Chairman Payments Council of IndiaNaveen, a distinguished name in the Digital and Retail Payment Systems and FinTech in the country, is The Chairman of Payments Council of India (PCI).
Since the year 2000, Naveen chose to drive ‘Converging Economy Concept’ with a set of new businesses in the digital economy. First business set up with Essel Group by him was Intrex India Limited which was set up as India’s first Trade Exchange which allowed businesses to transact both digitally and in cashless manner using Exchange’s unique digital money ‘Trade Credit’.
Naveen’s continued vision coupled with the inherited spirit of entrepreneurship led to the emergence of Itz Cash Card Ltd., in the year 2005. ItzCash Card, India’s first ever MultiPurpose Prepaid Cash Card that revolutionized the paradigm of electronic payment solutions in India.Mr. Naveen Surya, is a graduate in Management with specialization in Finance. He is also an Associate Member of Company Secretaries Institute (ACS) besides Graduation degree in both Commerce and Law.
After his MBA he worked at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) where he was associated with TCS for three years as Management Consultant, where he worked on projects for organizations and institutions like ACC, GE Capital (UK) and UBS (Japan).An avid reader, he prefers to read books on subjects that give newer insights to human lives. He supports social causes related to Child Education and life-impacting diseases like Epilepsy but one will rarely see him speak about it. He prefers to let his actions speak for themselves.
Vivek Bhargava
CEO DAN Performance GroupVivek Bhargava has been elevated as the CEO of DAN Performance Group. The former CEO of iProspect now heads all-digital performance agencies of Dentsu Aegis Network. This includes iProspect, SVG, Sokrati and the newly launched iProspect Consult. Vivek is the direct manager of all 4 CEOs of these organizations; Rubeena Singh, CEO of iProspect India, Anurag Gupta, CEO of SVG Media, Ashish Mehta, CEO of Sokrati and Lalit Bhagia, CEO of iProspect Consult. Overall, Vivek has more than 650 people, across four agencies, reporting to him.
He consults an impressive roster of 500+ clients in offices based out of Mumbai, New Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai, Kolkata, and Pune. He advises clients on the most effective digital strategies for their brands. An early frontrunner in the digital revolution of India, Vivek believes that �digital� is no longer optional in the marketing mix, it has developed at such an astounding rate that it has changed business models, making it essential for every brand to be online.Previous Jurors
Sanjeev Handa
Vice President and Head of Marketing | Maruti Suzuki India LimitedSanjeev is an Indian School of Business- Hyderabad Alumni and an Economics Graduate with over two and half decades of varied experience in Marketing, Strategy, Brand Management, Advertising, CRM and Sales in leading global organizations across varied industries. His expertise has been in strategizing and creating innovative marketing plans, both offline and digital, steering the execution of marketing programs and new product launches. He has demonstrated success by driving growth in targeted markets through implementation of key projects.
As Vice President and Head of Marketing at Maruti Suzuki India Limited, he is presently leading planning and strategy for NEXA, Motorsports, Digital, corporate and media initiatives. Over the past decade at Maruti Suzuki, he has orchestrated and augmented strategies for launch of the power brands in Maruti’s portfolio – Swift Diesel, Maruti SX4, Swift Dzire, Grand Vitara and Kizashi. He’s enabled Swift’s turnaround and shaped it up to become an iconic brand in India. And is now managing Nexa – the next game changer for Maruti Suzuki.
Molly Kapoor
Head of Marketing | Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund
Anuradha Bose
Head | Marketing Shoppers Stop20+ years of experience in Strategic Marketing across industries with specialisation in Retail Marketing & Customer Loyalty programs.
Specialise in Strategic Brand planning and execution of complete Marketing programs at all India level with Revenue generation and customer entry achievements.
Established the digital marketing initiatives for the brand and rolled out Social media marketing program with quantifiable and measurable metrics.
Managed CRM based Retail Loyalty program that is one of the largest in India with competence in Database creation, Data analytics, Direct Marketing and Alliances.
Rachna Prasad
Chief Marketing Officer | Oxigen WalletChief Marketing Officer & Head of Special Initiatives for Oxigen Wallet – a mobile wallet for the Urban youth . Her role encompasses developing Go- to-market Strategy planning & budgeting, 360 degree campaign and communication – across owned, earned and paid media with focus on brand Building, Customer Acquisitions,Retention & Engagement .
She is well versed and experienced in creative conceptualization and strategy for ATL and BTL campaigns across Radio, TV, Print, Films , Outdoor, Activations / street theater, Celebrity endorsements & Events, Sponsorship, Social Media Marketing ,Digital and PR
She is experienced in working for large corporations as well as in start up environments.
Balaji Vaidyanathan
Deputy Head – Marketing | Franklin Templeton Asset ManagementMr. Balaji Vaidyanathan is an integrated marketing and communication specialist with over 15 years of extensive experience in Financial Services.
As Deputy Head – Marketing for Franklin Templeton Investments, Mr. Vaidyanathan is responsible for building the marketing value proposition and leading key brand initiatives for the firm in India. Franklin Templeton Investments is a global investment management firm headquartered in San Mateo, California with over 70 years of investment expertise across 35 countries and with assets under management of close to US $750 billion. In India, Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund has a rich heritage of over 2 decades of managing investor monies.
Mr. Vaidyanathan’s priority is to make consumers in India and other parts of the world aware of that little thing called Mutual Funds and how it can help change their lives in the long run. However, given that most consumers live in the present and hence, planning for one’s future is hardly a priority, it gets kind of interesting and challenging at times. Mr. Vaidyanathan has been a pioneer in the Indian Mutual Fund industry with his initiatives on using gamification and video content to promote investor education in the online space.
Prior to his current stint with Franklin Templeton Investments, Mr. Vaidyanathan was associated with other financial services brands like Edelweiss Financial Services and Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund in key marcom roles.
Lipika Ganguli
Head Marketing | Reliance BrandsHaving worked with a diverse set of companies & brands that are leaders in their space, she is a marketing leader who is performance focused and collaborative and believes in leading the marketing function as a critical business enabler, owning KPIs’ both at a brand and customer level. Her strength lies in having an entrepreneurial mindset and hence tends to take on brand challenges as a personal challenge, whether it be new launches, startups, global brands coming into India or established brands seeking a new customer base.
In her current role for more than 7 years as Marketing head for Reliance Brands,part of the largest publicly-listed company in India, Reliance Industries Group her mandate entails leading the marketing strategy, devising integrated marketing programs & retail activation programs, customer interfacing tools that enhance experience at the point of sale, customer loyalty programs, provide thought leadership, lead the new media initiatives like web and social media initiatives, in-store events, PR and internal communications
An avid trekker, she takes off once a year to unexplored virgin peaks in the Himalayas and when in Mumbai finds her peace in running.
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Early Bird EntryPrice Per Entry
- Less than 5 Entries INR 7999 + GST
- 5 to 14 Entries INR 7499 + GST
- 15 to 29 Entries INR 6999 + GST
- 30+ Entries INR 6499 + GST
- 09 September - 27 September 2019
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- Less than 5 Entries INR 8999 + GST
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- 15 to 29 Entries INR 7999 + GST
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- 28 September - 01 November 2019
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- 02 November - 15 November 2019
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