Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka,
who was to be the first keynote speaker at Cebit India’s inaugural
edition, is dropping out to join Prime
Minister Narendra Modi's three-nation, 10-day tour beginning Wednesday
Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka, who was to be the first keynote speaker at
Cebit India's inaugural edition, is dropping out to join Prime Minister
Narendra Modi's three-nation, 10-day tour beginning Wednesday.
Sikka will be part of the business delegation that accompanies Modi to Myanmar and Australia. Modi will also go to Fiji. It's not clear if Sikka will be part of the entire tour.
Cebit, the world's largest and most international computer expo, has been planning its India edition for over a year. The three-day event, starting in Bengaluru on Wednesday, is organized around the theme 'New perspectives in IT business', and Sikka was to set the ball rolling with a talk on 'Software and the future of the services industry'.
When contacted, Mehul Lanvers-Shah, MD of Cebit India, said, "We have just been informed that he will give a video keynote now."
The event, organized by Germany's Deutsche Messe, includes a few keynote addresses, a number of panel sessions, and an extensive exhibition. Other keynote speakers include Mark McDonald, MD and digital business strategy lead in Accenture, Helmut Schutt, CIO of Daimler trucks, buses and vans, Vanitha Narayanan, MD of IBM India, Kumud Srinivasan, president of Intel India, Marten Pieters, CEO of Vodafone India, and Nikhil Pathak, country GM of Schneider Electric India.
Sikka will be part of the business delegation that accompanies Modi to Myanmar and Australia. Modi will also go to Fiji. It's not clear if Sikka will be part of the entire tour.
Cebit, the world's largest and most international computer expo, has been planning its India edition for over a year. The three-day event, starting in Bengaluru on Wednesday, is organized around the theme 'New perspectives in IT business', and Sikka was to set the ball rolling with a talk on 'Software and the future of the services industry'.
When contacted, Mehul Lanvers-Shah, MD of Cebit India, said, "We have just been informed that he will give a video keynote now."
The event, organized by Germany's Deutsche Messe, includes a few keynote addresses, a number of panel sessions, and an extensive exhibition. Other keynote speakers include Mark McDonald, MD and digital business strategy lead in Accenture, Helmut Schutt, CIO of Daimler trucks, buses and vans, Vanitha Narayanan, MD of IBM India, Kumud Srinivasan, president of Intel India, Marten Pieters, CEO of Vodafone India, and Nikhil Pathak, country GM of Schneider Electric India.
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