Friday, 7 March 2025 | 08:30 AM – 05:00 PM IST
Ritz Carlton Bangalore
SHIFT From in the Cloud to Cloud First Resilience
As businesses embrace cloud strategies for complex modern workloads like AI, cloud resilience has become a top priority for every modern organization. It’s not enough to focus on preventing crises — continuous business depends on your ability to recover quickly from threats like ransomware. That calls for a cloud-first approach to data management and security.
At the SHIFT Cloud Summit 2025, you’ll join peer IT, security, and cloud professionals for an immersive all-day event dedicated to new horizons in cloud resilience. Find out how you can enhance data management, strengthen data security, and keep complex modern workloads safe in an expert-led agenda featuring:
- Continuous revelations from industry leaders.
- Continuous improvement with proven tips from the companies putting it into practice.
- Continuous learning that will give Commvault customers a continuous advantage.
Discover new ways of thinking about cloud resilience — and robust, scalable solutions to ensure always-on business for your organization.
Explore new approaches to:
- Architect resilient cloud solutions that navigate the complexities of modern workloads.
- Optimize cloud resilience and efficiency for advanced workloads.
- Leverage AI to enhance cloud resilience.
- Integrate security and recovery to prevent issues before they start.
- Ensure clean and reliable recovery from issues to get back to business fast.
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Presented by
Shikha Singh
Professional Compere
Speakers
Sarv Saravanan
Chief Customer Officer,
Commvault
Govind Rangasamy
Founder Cloud Rewind - Commvault
Poojan Kumar
Chief Product Innovation Officer, Commvault
Woon Ho Jung, Chief Technology Officer Cloud Native, Commvault
Tim Zonca
VP – Product Marketing, Commvault
Balaji Rao
AVP- India & SAARC Commvault
Ramesh Kalanje
VP – Center of Excellence, Commvault
Bhavyan Mehta
VP - Engineering Commvault
Sam Curcuroto
Director- Product Marketing
Commvault
Ralstan Vaz
Sr. Engineering Manager, BookMyShow
Venkata Sudhakar Nagandla Senior Vice President & Global Head - IT Infrastructure & Cloud, ECU
Biswajit Das
Head- Data & AI - India & South Asia, AWS
Prasanna Bhaskaran Surendran
Cybersecurity Specialist Channel & Alliance APAC, Google Cloud
Kapil Chawla
Director ISV & SAAS Partnership, Microsoft
Kunal Ruvala
SVP & GM, India, Palo Alto
Rajiv Ranjan
Associate Research Director, IDC
Agenda
08:30 AM onward: Registrations, Exhibition Floor opens
09:30 AM – 09:40 AM: Opening Act, Rhythm & Resilience
09:45 AM – 10:00 AM: Welcome Address: Embrace the SHIFT, Balaji Rao, AVP- India & SAARC Commvault & Ramesh Kalanje, VP – Center of Excellence, Commvault
10: 00 AM – 10:30 AM: KEYNOTE: Architecting Resilience in the Cloud to Deliver Continuous Business | With the increasing shift to the cloud, organizations are grappling with the complexities of managing workloads across multi-cloud, AI, and SaaS platforms. Delve into the essential strategies for building cloud resilience, focusing on robust data security, swift reliable recovery, and seamless application rebuild. Learn how to maintain continuous business operations, enabling your organization to stay agile and competitive in a dynamic landscape, Sarv Saravanan, Chief Customer Officer, Commvault
10:30 AM – 10:55 AM: RESILIENCE INSIGHTS: Building Robust Enterprise Resilience to tackle modern cloud complexity | Experts from Microsoft and Commvault share strategies to navigate the complexities of modern cloud workloads and strengthen your enterprise resilience. This session will cover strategies to protect next-generation applications, secure AI application logic, and protect critical apps like Microsoft 365, Entra ID, and Active Directory, Kapil Chawla, Director ISV & SAAS Partnership, Microsoft & Bhavyan Mehta, VP - Engineering Commvault
11:00 AM – 11:25 PM: SPOTLIGHT: Optimizing Cloud Resilience for Efficient Data Management | Explore how to optimize cloud resilience by defining minimum viability and resilience strategies. Streamline data protection and recovery processes to optimize costs, improve operational efficiencies, and reduce downtime, Poojan Kumar, Chief Product Innovation Officer, Commvault
11:25 AM – 11:40 AM: BREAK
11:45 AM – 12:00 PM: CUSTOMER CORNER: ECU Worldwide and their Journey to the Cloud | Join us as ECU shares their cloud transformation journey. Discover how they transitioned from on-premises infrastructure to the cloud, achieving remarkable cost optimization, scalability, and resilience, Venkata Sudhakar Nagandla, Senior Vice President & Global Head - IT Infrastructure & Cloud, ECU & Sam Curcuroto, Director- Product Marketing, Commvault
12:05 PM – 12:30 PM: PUSHING THE ENVELOPE: Advanced Resilience Practices for the AI Era | Discover strategies to protect, recover, and rebuild complex cloud native applications and AI data pipelines with ease and enable continuous business wherever workloads live. Learn how to leverage powerful automation and recovery as code for rapid frictionless recovery that goes beyond data, Govind Rangasamy, Founder Cloud Rewind - Commvault
12:30 PM – 12:55 PM: PANEL DISCUSSION: Strengthening Resilience in a Multi Cloud World | Join experts from GCP and Commvault for a panel discussion on cloud resilience in a multi-cloud world. Explore the challenges and opportunities of managing multi-cloud security risks and resilience, especially as organizations navigate a complex patchwork of interconnected technologies. Discuss strategies for seamless data migration and integrated security tooling to enable robust recovery, Prasanna Bhaskaran Surendran, Cybersecurity Specialist Channel & Alliance APAC, Google Cloud & Sam Curcuruto, Director- Product Marketing, Commvault
12:55 PM – 01:50 PM: LUNCH BREAK
01:50 PM – 02:00 PM: KAHOOT, Shikha Singh, Professional Compere
02:05 PM – 02:25 PM: ANALYST CORNER: Cloud for Resilience OR Resilience for Cloud? | Join cloud analyst Rajiv Ranjan from IDC, for a deep dive into the challenges of securing cloud environments, especially in the face of exploding AI data. Gain valuable insights into cloud adoption and resilience, dispelling common myths and misconceptions. Discover practical strategies to fortify your cloud infrastructure and enable robust, reliable operations, Rajiv Ranjan, Associate Research Director, IDC
02:25 PM – 02:35 PM: CUSTOMER CORNER: Architecting Resilient Cloud Solutions: Hear from Infosys, a customer and major GSI partner, about how they have built cloud and hybrid resilience solutions into theirown internal technology strategy, Kiran Bhojaraju & Sam Curcuruto, Director- Product Marketing, Commvault
02:35 PM – 03:00 PM: RESILIENCE INSIGHTS: Harnessing the Cloud for Resilience and Recovery at Cloud Scale | Explore how AWS’s scalable, secure, and advanced compute capabilities, including AI-driven data pipelines, are enhanced by Commvault’s advanced data protection enabling comprehensive resilience & seamless business continuity. From cloud-native serverless strategies to AI-powered recovery of operational errors across billions of objects, this power-packed session is one you don't want to miss, Biswajit Das, Head- Data & AI - India & South Asia, AWS & Woon Ho Jung, Chief Technology Officer Cloud Native, Commvault
03:05 PM – 03:15 PM: CUSTOMER CORNER: How BookMyShow Built a Cloud-first Strategy for Resilience | Join us as BookMyShow shares their cloud transformation journey. Discover how they transitioned from on-premises infrastructure to the cloud, achieving remarkable cost optimization, scalability, & resilience, Ralstan Vaz, Sr. Engineering Manager, BookMyShow & Sam Curcuruto, Director- Product Marketing, Commvault
3:15 PM – 03:30 PM: BREAK
03:35 PM – 04:00 PM: RESILIENCE INSIGHTS: Integrating Security & Recovery for Better Resilience | Learn how to integrate security and recovery to enhance overall resilience from Palo Alto and Commvault experts. Discover the value of bi-directional threat indicators to accelerate response and recovery and facilitate better, more coordinated security practices across the organization (SecOps, IT Ops). Gain insights into continuous improvement strategies to stay ahead of emerging threats, Kunal Ruvala, SVP & GM, India, Palo Alto & Bhavyan Mehta, VP - Engineering Commvault
04:05 PM – 04:30 PM: THE LAST WORD: Enabling Clean Recovery: Advanced Strategies for Data Compromise | In the event of data compromise, learn how powerful data intelligence combined with threat and anomaly detection can identify and validate trusted recovery points for rapid, clean recovery. Explore testing methodologies and robust strategies to enable reliable and secure data restoration, safeguarding your operations against unforeseen threats, Tim Zonca, VP – Product Marketing, Commvault
04:30 – 05:00 PM: Resilience Diary: Cyrus Broacha
05:00 PM: BOOTH VISITS AND NETWORKING
Co-Presenters
Don’t miss this essential event for senior enterprise leaders. Embrace a transformative shift in perspective to cloud-first resilience — for always-on business in the AI and ransomware era.
