Thought leaders from media companies underscored the importance of cloud adaption to deliver content available anytime, anywhere, and on any device
IntelliGrape, the technology arm of TO THE NEW group, organised India’s first “Media on Cloud” Summit in Delhi, where technology thought leaders from various media houses came together to share their experience on cloud technology. IntelliGrape is a premium technology company that conceives, develops and manages mission critical applications for web, mobile, cloud and social media platforms.
The Summit saw presence of experts like Bikram Bedi, Head – India Region, Amazon Internet Services, Ajay Kumar Meher, Sr. Vice President & Head – IT, Sony Entertainment Television, Abhijay Chopra, Director, Punjab Kesri, Sukirti Gupta, CEO, Dainik Jagran, Manish Verma, CTO, Network 18, Jasbir Khehra, Head – Infrastructure, NDTV, Goutam Kumar Biswas, General Manager & Technology Head, The Hindu, Sudeep Jain, Head – Business & Commercial, Times Internet and others.
On the occasion Mr Deepak Mittal, CEO and Co-founder, IntelliGrape said “Every industry goes through a period of revolution and evolution and in the present times media companies are increasingly facing challenges to deliver content, which is available anytime, anywhere, and on any device. As a result, Cloud computing, as an evolving technology, will surely make huge impact by supporting the next round of breakthroughs. Through our partnership with Amazon Web Services and with presence of leaders from the industry we aim to bring forth emerging practices and trends which help the companies to keep pace with changing times.”
Mr. Ajay Kumar Meher, Sr. Vice President & Head – IT, Sony Entertainment Television said, “With media and entertainment industry experiencing an industry revolution, new device, delivery, and workflow technologies will offer huge opportunities for high performers. With consumers getting unlimited supply of content and information coming from traditional media sources as well as new media and social network Internet sites via more and more portable consumer devices, media houses are under tremendous pressure to keep pace with the ever-accelerating rate of innovation. Cloud computing holds the key for the industry and through the summit we hope to bring best practises followed by the leaders in the sectors.”
The summit was attended by CIOs and CTOs from Amar Ujala, TV18 Broadcast limited, Indices Netlabs pvt Ltd. (popularly known as raftaar.in), Tehelka.com, Siti cable networks, Dishtv, Pearson Education, DEN Networks, Samvad Media, ZEE Media Corporation Ltd, Macmillan Publishers, Disha Media Pvt Ltd, Nextgen Publishing Ltd, Sage Publications, Bharti Airtel, Vasundhara Media, I Media Corp Ltd, Digivive, Ogaan Publications and Bag Networks.
IntelliGrape Software is on-track to achieve 100 percent plus growth in revenues this financial year and is planning to expand its presence in United States of America to further strengthen its global footprint.
