The two day ISACA, Bangalore Annual Karnataka Conference on ‘Risk Governance’ kicked off today with key speakers from the industry addressing various aspects of the phenomenon. Prof Nara Srinivasan, (Professor of security and risk director, ECU ? Emirates Center, Edith Cowan University, Perth) and Prof Sadagopan ( Founder Director ? IIIT-B) were the first speakers of the day who addressed the audience on the subject at hand.
Prof Nara Srinivasan’s presentation looked at the current challenges facing IT Governance and compared findings of several recent studies in trying to understand issues facing CIO’s and CEO’s in the same arena. Peppered with case studies his presentation drew focus on the research in the area and drew analysis on a global arena. He also touched upon corporate governance reforms and security related reforms in the field in a global context. Prof Sadagopan also stressed upon the fact that information security should be viewed holistically and not from a narrow perspective of tools and technologies as IT is impacting every one across the spectrum it is even more important now to engage the larger civic society.
The session was followed by other eminent speakers like Randeep S Chhabra (IBM India / South Asia-Business Manager) , Dr.S.Satchiadananda ( Founder & CEO ? Srichid Techonologies ); Maheshwaran S , Senior Consultant, Websense , SAARC Region) ; Mukund Durange ( CEO ? eGestalt India) ; Sri Lakshmi ( GM & Practice Head , Wipro) ; Jayaraj Puthanveedu ( VP-APAC Regional Head, Northern Trust Bank) ; Premnath (Array Networks) ; Nishith Seth ( Managing Director, Substratal Solutions). The day ended with Abhay Bhargav ( CTO ? we45 Solutions ) and Chandra Prakash Suryawanshi ( Director , CPA , iRisk Advisor) engrossing the audience in more intersting aspects of governing risk within their systems.
The Day 2 of the conference is also planned out to engage the audience in numerous sessions by prominent speakers on risk and its governance. Dr.K Subramaniam (Prof & Director, IGNOU;Advisor to Comptroller & Auditor General of India) will be delivering the key note address at the conference tomorrow on “Risk Assurance & Cyber Governance: The need of enterprises of tomorrow. “