C-Change sees top 100 IT executives converge at Bangalore

Bangalore

February 22nd, 2008

C-Change 2008, the three-day forum for the best chief information officers (CIOs)
and chief technology officers (CTOs) in the Indian circuit, began in Bangalore.
Over top 100 CIOs and CTOs will brainstorm over three days on how to create an
agile organization using Information Technology.

The participants, from a range of manufacturing, technology and services
organizations, will also learn about the role of emerging technologies from
eminent technology and brand building experts like Ajit Balakrishnan, CEO of
Rediff.com; David Nishball, President, Airtel Enterprise Services; R. Sridhar,
CEO of Brand-Comm, Suresh Menon, Country Business Manager, HP and Kaushik Bagchi,
Country Manager (Information Management), IBM India.

C-Change, now in its fifth edition, has been put together by CyberMedia's
technology portal CIOL and its flagship technology publication Dataquest.

In the first leg of the program the participating CIOs actively contributed to
an online forum, over the last six weeks, by sharing best practices and ideas
for using technology to create an agile enterprise.

"At the 2008 C-Change event, Top 100 CIOs and CTOs will share
fast-evolving business paradigms to create an agile enterprise using
technology," says E Abraham Mathew, President of CIOL. The 100 participants
will deliberate as part of four distinct teams led by Arun Gupta of Shoppers
Stop, Prince Azariah of MRF, Venkat Iyer from Pfizer and Rajesh Uppal from
Maruti Udyog.