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Collaborating with Industry, Government, and Academia.

About Southern Region

The Southern cities of Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad have been the key contributors to the IT-BPM industry in India. In addition, emerging cities like Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Coimbatore, Vishakhapatnam, Mysore and Kozhikode are creating a further pull factor for the South. Availability of talent, top class educational institutions, quality infrastructure and dominant industry presence has made the industry growth synonymous with south of India.

Nasscom has 5 regional offices in the region across Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kochi and Thuruvananthapuram and 60 percent members are from this region. The region is active across hosting a large number of national initiatives, events and programs.

Nasscom has also set up Startup Warehouses across Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kochi and Vishakhapatnam and is playing a key role in catalyzing the start-up ecosystem. The first IOT Centre of Excellence is also housed at Bengaluru.

Priorities
Karnataka
Digital India initiatives

Work with members and the government to build Digital India and Smart cities programs in Karnataka.

Industry sub-groups

Create focused groups – CFO, HR, Diversity, GIC to create best practices and share latest industry happenings.

Tier 2 Cities engagement

Work with the government and members to build engagement with industry and academia in Tier 2 cities of Karnataka.

Enhancing Tech capabilities

Nasscom tech series aims to educate members on technology shifts, their impact and capability building.

Infrastructure Development

Work with the members to address issues related to transportation, administration and facilities management.

Innovation and R&D hub

Positioning Bengaluru as the major R&D and Innovation hub for India through focused programs with GIC R&D centers, start-ups and other stakeholders.

Policy and Regulation

Work closely with the state government on building the policy enablement’s for the IT and BPM industry and address issues if any.

Enhancing Tech capabilities new

Nasscom tech series aims to educate members on technology shifts, their impact and capability building

Innovation and R&D hub

Positioning Bengaluru as the major R&D and Innovation hub for India through focused programs with GIC R&D centers, start-ups and other stakeholders.

Infrastructure development

Work with the members to address issues related to transportation, administration and facilities management

Council Members - Karnataka
  • CHAIR
    Lingraju Sawkar President , Kyndryl
  • Chetan Khosla Chairman & MD, Wyzmindz
  • Puneet Kumar Managing Director, Government Relations and Policy Advocacy, Accenture
  • Kishore Balaji Desikachari Executive Director - Government & Regulatory AffairsExecutive Di, IBM
  • Vikas Razdan India Head - GIC & India business, ITC Infotech
  • Prasad Acharya Vice President, Americas Resources and Energy Transition - Business Unit Delivery Head & Location Head for Capgemini Bengaluru Centres, Capgemini
  • Subrata Mitra SVP, Head of Govt Relations & Policy, Ather Energy
  • Natarajan Radhakrishnan President & Global Chief Information Officer, HGS
  • Deepak Satya Senior Vice President, NTT Data
  • Deepa Nagaraj Global Head of Communication & Sparkle Innovation EcoSystem, Mphasis
  • Mohan Mummadi Managing Director, Wissen Technology
  • Gaurav Gupta General Manager ,Global Enterprise and Technology Director, Unilever
  • Satish Sundaresan Vice President - Strategy & Country Manager - India, Elektrobit
  • Parminder kakria Head - Govt Affairs, Policy, Americas, Europe & APAC, Wipro
  • Bindya S Raj AVP & Sr.Grp Mgr Strategy,Planning&Operations for Digital Experience, Infosys
  • Anand Veeramani Senior VP & Geo Head - Happiest Minds, Happiest Minds
  • Sudhir Sharma SVP & BU leader for our Energy & Utilities , CGI
Priorities
Tamil Nadu
HR Best Practices

Work across member companies to build HR best practices and address key challenges collaboratively.

Technology Knowledge Sharing

Build focused programs to educate employees of member companies on technology shifts and imperatives through workshops / skilling initiatives.

Membership Connect

Regular programs to engage members across diverse business and functional areas.

Address Local challenges of transportation in the state

Work with members and local authorities on initiatives that can be driven by member companies like car pooling etc as well as make representation to government on infrastructure issues.

Catalyse the MSME Sector

Build programs for strengthening the MSME companies in the state including leveraging government incentives and programs for the sector.

Policy Advocacy

Work with the State Government on key policy issues impacting the growth of the industry in the state.

Council Members - Tamil Nadu
  • Chair
    Ganesh Kalyanaraman SVP and Delivery Head Global Growth Markets, Cognizant Technology Solutions
  • Manju Bharadwaj Chief People Officer, Straive (erstwhile SPi Global)
  • J K MANIVANNAN CEO, Desicrew Solutions Pvt Ltd
  • Madhavan Srinivasan CEO and MD, Kripya Solutions Pvt Ltd.
  • Balaji Viswanathan Managing Director & CEO, Expleo Solutions Limited
  • Jaya Vaidhyanathan Chief Executive Officer, BCT Digital
  • Jagan Pochiraju SVP and Global Delivery Head, Virtusa
  • Ramesh Ramamurthy Senior VP of Technology & GM, Mastek
  • V Chandrasekaran Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, Congruent Solutions (P) Ltd.
  • Aswin Lakshmanan Director, Strategy & Planning, Verizon India
  • Neeraja Krishnan Director, IDP Education India Services LLP
  • Deepa Madhavan Vice President and India Country Head, Genesys
  • Praveen Gnanasekaran Founder and CEO, TrueTech Solutions Pvt Ltd
  • Rajaraman Srinivasan CoFounder and CEO, Neoware Technology Solutions
  • Rajamanohar Somasundaram Founder & CEO, Aquaconnect
Priorities
Telangana and AP
Ecosystem Collaboration
Ecosystem Collaboration

The Region works closely with Society for Cyberabad Security Council (SCSC), a not-for-profit body which is the collaboration between Cyberabad Police Commissionerate and the IT Industry. SCSC endeavors to work for the safety & security in the Cyberabad IT corridor, thereby promoting Hyderabad as a preferred IT destination apart from putting in a lot of emphasis on Women safety.

Policy Advocacy
Policy Advocacy

Work closely with the state government of Telangana and AP to build policies that support the growth of the industry.

Industry Collaboration
Industry collaboration

Creating focused activities for members to connect and share thoughts, practices etc under the Technology, Operations, Shared Services and Leadership Series of events. Events are conducted in Tier 2 locations also for the benefit of the SMB segment of the Industry.

Focused Forums and Working Groups
Focused Forums and Working Groups

Multiple sub-groups and forums have been created including – GIC, Product, HR, D&I, Sales & Marketing and Business Excellence.

Academia linkages
Academia linkages

The nasscom Sector Skill Council is working closely with academia in the two states for curriculum, teacher training, assessments and specialized programs. Two major programs that are currently running are the QP based programs for Data Analytics and Cyber Security.

Startup Connect
Startup Connect

Two Start-up Warehouses at Hyderabad and Vishakapatnam have been set up.. Focused programs help to connect startups with GIC’s and other large organisations.

Tier-2 cities
Tier-2 cities

Special programs to focus on developing Tier-2 locations to increase industry penetration and reach.

Council Members - Telangana
  • CHAIR
    Manoj Kalra Global Head of Group Business Services & SVP, DSM - Firmenich
  • Sridhar Chunduri VP, Application Engineering, Salesforce
  • Mohit Sharma Sr. Vice President, Virtusa
  • Sairam Vedam Chief Marketing Officer + M&A- Corp Development, Cigniti Technologies
  • Prashanth Nandella Chief Operating Officer, Firstsource
  • Giri Gorjala GBS India COO and Tech Executive, Bank Of America
  • Sudha Raju Sharma Head of Corporate and Employee Technology Services, Thomson Reuters
  • Sumeet Mathur Vice President & Managing Director, ServiceNow India Technology & Business Center, ServiceNow
  • Rajesh Dhuddu SVP & Global Business Head – Emerging Technology, Tech Mahindra
  • Rahul Attuluri Cofounder & CEO, Nxtwave
  • Sravanthi Lanka Senior Director, S&P Global
  • Srinivas Bhimaraju Sr Vice President, Application Services Delivery, NTT DATA Services, India
  • Bala Navuluri Chief Operations Officer, Yash Technologies
  • Ravikanth Bommakanti Country Head Consumer, Wealth and CORE Banking Technology , Global Technology Risk , Audit and Control, DBS Tech
  • Rakesh Mishra Head of Finance, ZF Group
  • Mahender Dubba Managing Director at Global Capability Center, Advance Auto Parts
Priorities
Kerala
Branding of the State

Enable the Kerala state to be positioned as the destination of choice, especially in the area of IT Service, Electronics, Product Startup, and to cater as Innovation hub for India.

Policy Advocacy

Work with the State Governments on key policy issues impacting the growth of the industry in the state.

Focused forums and Working Groups

Multiple sub-groups and forums have been created including – IT Service, GIC, Product, Engineering R&D, HR, D&I, Sales and Marketing and Business Excellence.

Membership Connect

Regular programs to engage members across four broad areas – Technology, Operations, Leadership and Shared Services.

Council Members - Kerala