ASIS INTERNATIONAL NEW DELHI, INDIA CHAPTER recently organized it first ever high end leaders CXO Conclave, with the theme ‘Strategies for Reinvention and Business Impact 2025.’ The event took place at the cutting-edge DLF Cyber Park Auditorium in Gurgaon bringing together an elite group of executives.
With 140+ Attendees including C-suite Executives and diverse business leaders from various industries and domain, the meeting kicked off with Mahesh Singh Chauhan, Chairman ASIS International New Delhi India Chapter giving the opening speech.
That set the tone for an afternoon full of eye-opening talks. The conference started with a keynote speech by the powerful industry Leader Kumaran W R, Senior Executive Director DLF Ltd. He talked about ‘Changing the C-Suite, Pushing Risk Leaders/ CSOs to take on big roles,’ and also focused on the importance of AI in today’s business security. He emphasised on need of security and technology together working hand in hand. He also reflected his dream vision of a highly automated security command centre. DLF is designing under his direct supervision which will bring DLF into next space of security automation and AI in managing physical security of the infrastructure.
The conference provided a crucial space to talk about how important security is in today’s business world. The events followed with next two panel talks:
CEO Panel Group
The panel discussed the topic ‘The Next Big Bang: Industries of the future: what Chief Security & Risk Officers should expect & how to help them get ready for what’s coming.’
The leaders on this panel were Arun Karna, MD & CEO AT&T Global Services India, Neerav Nanavaty, CEO, Blu- Pine Energy, Vivek Bhatia, MD & CEO, TKIL Industries, and. Amit Narayan Partner and MD, Control Risk, India & South East Asia. The session pointed to various security demands & challenges encountered by different domains in industry, use of AI & tech driven solutions to tackle security related issues like geo tagging, facial recognition and drones for surveillance.
Second Leadership Panel
The session focused on ‘Inclusive Leadership – What CSO’s should do to support business owners & how business can work well with CSOs/ risk leaders.’ The people on this panel were Col Davinder Kassal, Head of Security, HCL Technologies, Ms. Kalpana Sachdeva, Regional Director Asia, Unique Logistics International, Ms. Kanika Bhutani, Head of Ethics & Compliances, Pernod Ricard India, Maj Chander Dadlani, Vice President, Security – DLF India, Roopali Mehra, Director – GCA, and Rumit Singh, Vice President, Ops-CorroHealth. These sessions delved into modern security issues, team-based answers, understanding one’s risk and how to weave security ideas into every part of a business. Having top bosses from different domains showed that everyone agrees that a strong security stance is the key to grow and keep things running.
The eager participation showed everyone agreed with a concluding note that security is a job we all share that leads to success. The conference aimed to support that view and prepare leaders for today’s tricky environment.
The conference was concluded with a final speech and vote of thanks by Girish Kaushik, Vice Chairman, and Mrs. Jyotsana Bhalla Chapter Secretariat, ASIS New Delhi – thanking our respected hosts Kumaran W R, Senior Executive Director DLF Ltd., Shrish Wagh, Executive Director – Operations Head Pan India, Maj Chander Dadlani, Vice President and Head of Security DLF India, and Amit Nirwal – Head Security North India, DLF Limited respectively.
The CXO Conference also thanked the sponsor – Lt. Col Arvind Sirohi, MD and Maj Manoj Varma, CEO of Jaguar Security Services Pvt Ltd for their exceptional Support.
ASIS Executive Committee also thanked the Media Partners Santosh Pathak from SecurityLinkIndia for covering the conference, and Association Partners OSAC New Delhi, GACS India, CAPSI Kunwar Vikram Singh, and ISACA Delhi President. Rajiv Nandwani for their exceptional Support.
The ASIS New Delhi Chapter keeps working to enhancing security awareness and skills, and the CXO Conclave shows its efforts to bring important security talks to the top of executive lists.
