1. business and industrial
2. business operations
3. management
4. business process

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May 29 - 30, 2014 | Bangalore, India
Vision
Business Analysis Convention is an effort to bring Industry, Academia and National Bodies together to
create a much needed Eco-System with a Vision to:
• Bring best-in-class Innovation and
Thought-Leadership in business analysis closer
to the stakeholders
Industry
• Become a Global Platform of Collaboration
Bodies
among the “Top Thinkers” in the
business analysis
• Foster the Best Networking and Knowledge
IIBA
Sharing opportunities at the serving and
aspiring business analysis community
Company
• Bridge Industry - Academia Gaps to
Academia
nurture the relevant business analysis
capabilities in India
Participation @ Second Edition of BA Convention
Companies
60
Delegates
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600+
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Highlights of BA Convention 2014
There were two highlights of this year's BA Convention, which made this event
vent different and much valuable to all
the stakeholders:
1.
We had first of its kind “Joint Keynote” covering a client and a partner's point of view on the criticality
of Business Analysis role.
• First part of the Joint Keynote delivered by Mr. Ramnath Venkataraman, Managing Director,
Accenture addressed the role of Business Analyst in Digital Age, which was extremely well received by
the attendees
• Second part of the Joint Keynote delivered by Mr. Narender Pasupuleti, IT Manager, Caterpillar
stressed upon their Business and Technology strategy and how Caterpillar sees the value and
importance of Business Analysis in their organizational success
2.
The other key highlight of this year's convention was the launch of Analyst Report for the academic research
planned by IIBA in India. The objective of this research was to access the Industry-Academia gap and present the
roadmap of transformation along with the roles and responsibilities of every stakeholder including corporate,
academia, global standards bodies like IIBA as well as policy makers. This research covering 75 B-Schools pan
India was envisioned by IIBA, funded by Cognizant and conducted by Offshore Insights under the supervision of
India's eminent analyst Mr. Sudin Apte.
Key takeaways from BA Convention 2014
Second edition of BA Convention followed the theme of BA's role in the context of Social, Big Data, Mobility, Cloud and
Agile. This edition lived up to its promise of delivering highest quality content in these areas. Thanks for all our 40+
exceptional speakers. As expected, there are few key points that everyone could take away from this edition of BA
Convention:
• Ever changing technology world is leading to constant change in the expectation from the Business Analyst role,
especially in the context of outsourcing
• Business Analysis role needs to cope up with these expectations and up skill themselves to seize the opportunity.
• IIBA is helping drive the changing profession of Business Analysis by bringing in Business Analysis Body of Knowledge
Version 3.0
• Live case studies / experiential learning from exceptional speakers/practitioners can help provide amazing insights on
the value that business analysis can deliver in areas like Social, Big Data, Mobility, Cloud and Agile
• Eye opening road map on how every stakeholder can contribute to building a mature and structured business analysis
capability across India
List of Speaker @ BA Convention 2014
ABDUL AZIZ SEYID
Head - Business Domain Learning
HCL Technologies Ltd.
PAROMITA GANGULY
Senior Associate Consultant
(U.S. Healthcare Solutions),
Infosys Limited
SUNEET KUMAR GARG
Senior Manager, Business Analysis SME
Accenture
AJIT KUMAR
Director - Deloitte Digital
Deloitte
PRASAD KAMATH
Contributing Member
IREB
SURENDRA SAXENA
Founder and Managing Director,
Vellicate Technologies
AMBARISH PUROHIT
Associate Manager - Business Analysis
Ernst & Young India
PRASANNA VENKATESH JAYAPRAKASH
Technical Architect
HCL Technologies
HARESH CHETNANI
ASHISH MEHTA
VP, Global Practice Head - Business Analysis
NTT DATA, Inc.
PRAVEEN KUMAR B
Associate VP – Business Solutions
Scope International Pvt Ltd
DR. SANDEEP KUMAR SHARMA
Specialist Leader
Deloitte
ASHU POTNIS
VP - Product Development
Top Team Analyst
PREM KUMAR
Project Lead
HCL Technologies Ltd.
SRIRAM NAGARAJAN
Specialist Senior,
Deloitte
BADRINATH SETLUR
Senior Director, ManLog Practice Leader
Cognizant Business Consulting
RAGHAVENDRA KUMAR
Head - Business Analysis Practice
HSBC Technology and Services
PRAVEEN SANKARANARAYANAN
Business Analyst,
Deloitte
DEEPTHI ANANTHARAM
Technology Evangelist
Microsoft
RAJEEV NAIR
Senior Manager
Business Analysis Practice Lead (FS)
Accenture
VEENA RAO
Head - Domain Solutions
(strategic Banking Clients)
HCL Technologies
KANNAN SANTHANAM
A. D. & Global BA Capability Manager
CSC
RAMNATH VENKATARAMAN
MD, Products Lead for Global Application Services
Accenture
SOMNATH MUKHERJEE
General Manager - Healthcare,
HCL Technologies
KISHORE NALAM
Senior Manager,
Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd.
SANJEEV NARSIPUR
Managing Director - IT Strategy
Accenture
DR. DEVANATH TIRUPATI
Director In-charge & Dean Academic
IIM Bangalore
LALITHA RAVINDRAN
SATHIAMURTHY KANNAN, CBAP®
Head - Business Analysis Research & Innovation Director - Business Analysis Practice,
Syntel
NTT DATA, Inc.
General Manager - Global Services,
Fiserv
SANJAY KUMAR
Head-Learning & Development
ITC Infotech
MANISH BAHL
Vice President Serving CIOs, Country Manager
Forrester Research, Inc.
SNEHA PRABHU
Business Analyst
ThoughtWorks
SNEHA PRABHU
Senior Manager
Business Analysis Practice Lead (CMT)
Accenture
NAMITHA ANAND
Lead Consultant
ThoughtWorks
SUDIN APTE
CEO & Research Director
Offshore Insights
PROF. DEVANATH TIRUPATI
Director In-Chanrge & Dean - Academics
IIM, Bangalore
NATARAJAN RADHAKRISHNAN
Senior Vice President & India CEO,
Capgemini Consulting
SUKESH CHOUBEY
Managing Director, SAP Platform Lead
Accenture
NIZAM MOHAMED
CEO
Sparx Systems India
SUNDAR RAJAN V.M
Lead Business Analyst
Scope International, Standard Chartered Bank
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