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Need clarity on your business continuity strategy in the ‘new normal’? Or on the lookout for revival strategies? We’ve got you covered with a week-long SMB Digital Boardroom where industry leaders and AWS experts will have informative and useful discussions to provide relevant insights, best practices, learnings and advice for SMBs to draft resilient business continuity plans tailored to get through the new normal. 

This is an exclusive, invite-only, five-part series catering to SMBs across five key sectors: BFSI, Retail & Ecommerce, Manufacturing, Healthtech & Pharma and Business Technology & ITES

Agenda and Sessions

Manufacturing

Riding the ‘Atma Nirbhar' wave

With the new norms of classification of MSMEs that will come into effect from July 2020, along with the hand holding ‘Champions’ initiative and a mighty push towards Make in India, the session will discuss how MSMEs in the manufacturing sector can make use of these initiatives to thrive in the new normal and tailor their business continuity plans accordingly. It will also explore ways and means for MSMEs to adopt AI and cloud technologies to scale up and drive business growth.

HealthTech & Pharma

Agility and transparency in the new normal

In light of the pandemic, businesses in the healthtech and pharma sector are currently more focused on operational resilience and accelerating initiatives that enable more agility and transparency. As a result, 2020 has seen a tremendous growth in the pace of digital and technology adoption to disseminate healthcare. . In this session, experts discuss how this sector is evolving in the post-COVID world with a focus on agility, the adoption of automation and digital and analytics tools, among other new technologies, and an added push towards research and development to ensure business continuity.

Business Technology and ITES

The cloud advantage in building resilient business continuity plans

With a sudden need to enable remote working for most of their workforce, companies that are already implementing cloud solutions went through a much simpler process of transition. An internet connection was enough to conduct business operations with agents, supervisors and managers using the same tools as before. This session will have industry leaders in the Business IT and ITES space discuss the advantages of migrating to the cloud to ensure business continuity, the way forward for the sector and best practices to ensure smooth services in the new normal.

Retail & Ecommerce

Balancing between cost efficiency and innovation

The retail and e-commerce sectors were among the few that witnessed growth amid the global slowdown due to the pandemic and subsequent lockdowns. As companies now look to build more resilient business continuity plans to survive and thrive in the new normal, consumer-facing sectors like these need to take into account its customers. In this session, experts discuss ways for retail and e-commerce companies to strike a balance between innovations like appointment-based entries to shops, contact-less shopping, and online to offline commerce, to push sales and optimise costs.

Banking and Financial Services Industry (BFSI)

Adopting Automation for Operational Efficiency

Stakeholders of the BFSI sector have seen significant operational, financial, and human capital risks as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. It became imperative for businesses to understand what the “new normal” is in order to ensure business continuity, and as a result, they have had to rapidly adapt and deliver customer experiences in new ways. .. In this session, we explore the need for AI and cloud adoption to deliver a better user experience, boost product efficiency, and reduce input costs to secure this much-needed continuity.

Key Takeaways

  • Know the need for AI and cloud adoption to deliver a better user experience, boost product efficiency, and reduce input costs in the BFSI space to ensure business continuity.
  • Tips for retail and e-commerce companies to strike a balance between innovations like appointment-based entries to shops, contact-less shopping, and online to offline commerce to push sales and optimise costs.
  • How MSMEs in the manufacturing sector can make use of ‘Atma Nirbhar Bharat’ initiatives to thrive in the new normal and tailor their business continuity plans accordingly.
  • How agility, adoption of new technologies and an added push towards research and development will take centre-stage for Healthtech and Pharma players.
  • Understand the advantages of migrating to the cloud to ensure business continuity, the way forward for the ITES sector and best practices to ensure smooth services in the new normal.
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