Speakers at TCS Summit 2022
Connect directly with world leaders and senior directors across the globe
Andrea Catherwood
Renowned TV Anchor
Natarajan Chandrasekaran
Chairman of Tata Sons
Rajesh Gopinathan
Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director, Tata Consultancy Services
N Ganapathy Subramaniam
Chief Operating Officer & Executive Director, Tata Consultancy Services
Andrea Catherwood
Renowned TV Anchor
This year’s Summit will be anchored by the leading international news broadcaster and journalist Andrea Catherwood. In her longstanding career, Andrea has anchored bulletins for Channel 5, NBC Asia, CNBC, ITN, Five News and ITV. In 2009, Andrea presented Bloomberg TV’s flagship business news, politics and current affairs show “The Pulse with Andrea Catherwood”. She has interviewed several global political figures as well as leading CEOs. She is now a regular contributor to ITV’s “This Morning” and writes opinion editorials for the Times and travel articles for the Mail on Sunday. She has also written for the Guardian, Telegraph, Sunday Times and Independent, among others.
Natarajan Chandrasekaran
Chairman of Tata Sons
Natarajan Chandrasekaran (Chandra) is Chairman of the Board of Tata Sons, the holding company and promoter of more than 100 Tata operating companies with aggregate annual revenues of more than $100 billion. He joined the board of Tata Sons in October 2016 and was appointed Chairman in January 2017. Chandra also chairs the boards of several Group operating companies, including Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Tata Power, Indian Hotels and TCS – of which he was Chief Executive from 2009 to 2017. His appointment as Chairman followed a 30-year business career at TCS, which he joined from university. He serves as a Director on the Board of India’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of India. In April 2017, he ran the London Marathon, completing the World Marathon Majors, which also include: New York, Boston, Chicago, Berlin and Tokyo.
Rajesh Gopinathan
Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director, Tata Consultancy Services
Rajesh Gopinathan is the CEO and Managing Director of TCS, being elevated to this role in February 2017 after serving as the Chief Financial Officer since 2013.
Under his leadership, TCS clocked in a revenue of USD 20.09 billion at the end of FY19 and saw TCS emerge as the most valuable company in India with a market capitalization of over USD 100 billion.
Rajesh was named one of Top 100 Global CEOs in the Brand Guardianship Index 2019, and was ranked ‘Best CEO’ in Institutional Investor's 2018 All Asia Executive Team rankings.
An electrical and electronic engineer from REC Trichy (now NIT, Trichy), Rajesh graduated in 1994, before pursuing his Post-Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM, Ahmedabad.
N Ganapathy Subramaniam
Chief Operating Officer & Executive Director, Tata Consultancy Services
N Ganapathy Subramaniam (NGS) has been Chief Operating Officer of TCS since February 2017. He has also been an Additional Director and Chairman of Tata Elxsi Limited since November 2014. Prior to taking over the COO’s role he served as the Executive Vice President and Head of TCS Financial Solutions, a strategic business unit of TCS.
In that role, he was responsible for overseeing the non-linear growth strategies, products and platform businesses for TCS. In steering TCS Financial Solutions, he led the company’s efforts in launching a suite of products for banking, capital markets and insurance domains – TCS BaNCS – many of which have become world-class solutions used by major financial institutions globally. Over the past 35 years, he has held many key leadership positions in TCS across client delivery, business development, integration of businesses and product development.
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Here’s a short synopsis of our previous events:
Geneva
Mastering Business 4.0™: Harnessing Abundance and Ecosystems
Budapest
Business 4.0™: Going Agile in a Machine First World
Madrid
Business 4.0™ – Intelligent, Agile, Automated and on the Cloud
Berlin
Breaking All Walls: Unleashing Innovation and Evolution in your Smart Enterprise
Venice
Default is Digital: Leadership in a Hyperconnected World
Geneva
Switzerland
Over 360 business, technology, economic and political leaders from all the top 10 competitive economies in Europe, representing 50 per cent of the Financial Times Europe 100 companies, participated in the TCS Summit Europe 2015. Former Prime Ministers (Mario Monti of Italy and Carl Bildt of Sweden), nine-time grand slam winner Monica Seles, and senior management executives such as CEOs, COOs and CIOs from organisations such as Legal & General, Royal DSM, Infineon, Telefonica, Visa Europe, ABN Amro, Unicredit, Ericsson and The Economist captured themes of “digital”, “leadership” and “hyper-connectivity” in their own unique manner. Former grand slam tennis champion Monica Seles sat down with Andrea Catherwood (ex-ITN and Bloomberg journalist) to discuss her career and the transferable lessons she’d learned as an elite sportswoman. The traditional gala evening of the summit was organised at the ‘Isola delle rose’ or ‘Island of roses’, a private island resort in the Venetian lagoon in the north of Italy. Besides the special tennis clinic led by the legendary Monica Seles, guided tours of Venice, a workshop on traditional Murano glassworks and golf were the networking activities on offer.
The story of TCS Summit Europe 2015 on social media is captured here.
Budapest
Hungary
Global companies are increasingly leveraging the combined effect of digital technologies to be “future fit,” helping to drive business decisions, growth and their transformation journeys. At TCS, we call this amalgamation of business and technology Business 4.0, where organizations are becoming more intelligent, agile, automated, and on the cloud. They are shifting mind-sets from one of optimizing scarce resources to that of harnessing an abundance of resources, capital and talent. In turn, they are characterized by their ability to mass personalize, actively leverage ecosystems and embrace risk in delivering exponential growth.
TCS Summit 2018 showcased how global companies across industries are adopting a Business 4.0 framework. How the cloud is powering location independent agile methodologies at scale — allowing enterprises to meet ‘on-demand’ customer expectations, significantly compress innovation project life cycles and deliver differentiated value. And how artificial intelligence, automation and robotics require a vast sea-change in conventional thinking regarding human-machine collaboration – where machines get the first right of refusal on time intensive and complex tasks, and human productivity and customer experiences are elevated to new heights.
Madrid
Spain
TCS Summit Europe 2017 took place at Madrid’s landmark Westin Palace Hotel. The programme saw world leaders from business, politics and sports discuss adapting to the Fourth Industrial Revolution and going beyond their regular digital strategies to reimagining every aspect of their enterprise – Business 4.0.
The rapid integration of the physical, digital and biological worlds is impacting all industries and sectors. This provides significant opportunities to those companies who are ready to take advantage.
The word ‘disruption’ has negative connotations, but in today’s digital world it is something that companies should be striving for. If organizations don’t disrupt themselves, then others will enter the fray to disrupt the status quo and take away market share from sleepy incumbents.
In the summit’s discussion of superaccelerators – companies that are able to sustain long-term organic growth – it was made clear that part of these businesses’ success was their ability to bring ideas to market quickly.
Networking activities included guided tours of Real Madrid’s iconic Santiago Bernabéu Stadium and a visit to the Spanish stock exchange, Bolsa de Madrid.
Berlin
Germany
TCS Summit Europe 2016 at Berlin’s landmark Adlon Hotel attracted more than 320 senior executives from Europe’s leading businesses, representing half of the Financial Times top 100 companies. The programme saw world leaders from business, politics and sports discuss how organisations can align their cultures, strategies and mindsets to stay relevant in the ever-evolving digital economy. Senior politicians including former UK Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg MP, and Joschka Fischer, Germany’s Foreign Affairs and Vice Chancellor from 1998 to 2005, were joined by leading figures from the European world of business and Formula One champions Mika Häkkinen and David Coulthard.
The latter shared their experiences of learning from losing rather than winning grands prix, reinforcing the need to embrace failure in sport as in business. Another key learning for delegates was that the traditional dichotomy of business-to-business and business-to-consumer no longer exists, which means that we now need to think about people-to-people business models. Similarly, the worlds of brand and risk management are increasingly merging in an environment where organisations have to be transparent like never before. Networking activities included guided tours of Berlin and a visit to the world-renowned Friedrichstadt Palast theatre, visits to Berlin’s many museums.
Venice
Italy
Over 360 business, technology, economic and political leaders from all the top 10 competitive economies in Europe, representing 50 per cent of the Financial Times Europe 100 companies, participated in the TCS Summit Europe 2015. Former Prime Ministers (Mario Monti of Italy and Carl Bildt of Sweden), nine-time grand slam winner Monica Seles, and senior management executives such as CEOs, COOs and CIOs from organisations such as Legal & General, Royal DSM, Infineon, Telefonica, Visa Europe, ABN Amro, Unicredit, Ericsson and The Economist captured themes of “digital”, “leadership” and “hyper-connectivity” in their own unique manner. Former grand slam tennis champion Monica Seles sat down with Andrea Catherwood (ex-ITN and Bloomberg journalist) to discuss her career and the transferable lessons she’d learned as an elite sportswoman. The traditional gala evening of the summit was organised at the ‘Isola delle rose’ or ‘Island of roses’, a private island resort in the Venetian lagoon in the north of Italy. Besides the special tennis clinic led by the legendary Monica Seles, guided tours of Venice, a workshop on traditional Murano glassworks and golf were the networking activities on offer.
The story of TCS Summit Europe 2015 on social media is captured here.