It pays to keep your head in Cloud, say CIOs at Business Standard webinar

In the Indian context, attracting talent remains a big issue because tech folks are used to work in new-age entities like an Amazon, Facebook, Google or a Flipkart

Ramesh Lakshminarayanan, HDFC Bank’s chief information officer (CIO), spends two hours briefing the bank’s boss, Sashidhar Jagdishan, every day on “technology-related issues. Not necessarily on business, but on concepts.” That’s because the kind of terminology that geeks like him use may appear Greek to traditional bankers.
 
The CIO of India’s largest private bank was part of a panel discussion at Business Standard’s webinar on “Getting Cloud right: key to risk management in banks”; and sharing space with him were Akhil Handa, head of fintech and new business initiatives at Bank of Baroda; Murali Rao, chief technology officer at DCB