ARC Advisory Group’s seventeenth India Forum (July 4-5, 2019) for the process and discrete industries was hosted in Bangalore, India.  This year’s India Forum Driving Digital Transformation in Industry and Cities attracted over 270 delegates.

This two-day forum was structured to disseminate information and technology effectively and provide end users, solution providers and decision-makers an opportunity to network and get an overall view of the market and its requirements. Presentations revolved around how companies are digitalizing business processes, the digital journey, and where they are on the digital maturity curve. Emphasis was on the importance of seamless convergence between information technology (IT), operational technology (OT), and engineering technology (ET) on the plant floor.  In 2019 we see further acceleration of the IT/OT/ET  convergence to support the ongoing digital transformation of industries and cities. 

Growing Deployment of Solutions that Combine Cloud and Edge Computing

Given the increasing convergence of information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) and today’s emphasis on digital transformation, manufacturers must focus on deploying computing resources where it makes the most sense to do so on an application-to-application basis.  A simultaneous approach that utilizes both cloud and edge solutions have emerged to enable industrial organizations to distribute computing resources more broadly. By combining both edge and cloud technologies, industrial and infrastructure organizations can provide the appropriate personnel with actionable information to support real-time business decisions.

Forum Sponsors

The success of our forum is largely due to the tremendous support we received from our supplier, industry association, and media sponsors. Supplier sponsors included: Global Sponsors: Bentley Systems, Mitsubishi Electric, Siemens; Silver Sponsors: Knowledge Lens, STEAG, Uniper.

Industry Association Sponsors AIA, CABA, ODVA, The  Open Group.

Media Sponsors – A&D, Automated Buildings.com, CED, Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering World, Chemical Industry Digest, IED Communications, IIoT World, Industrial Automation, Industrial Products Finder, Infrastructure Today, OffshoreWorld, Power, Reliability Web.com, The Record, Uptime, and  World of Chemicals.