The document summarizes the activities of the Business Continuity Institute (BCI) Hyderabad Forum in 2017. It held several events focused on business continuity, disaster recovery, and risk mitigation. These included knowledge sharing sessions, conferences, and partnerships with organizations like NASSCOM to develop skills frameworks. The BCI Hyderabad Forum grew from 12 to 62 members in its first year and launched initiatives such as the India Think Tank and contributions to the BCI Sector Skill Council.

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4. BCI Forum Meeting: Jan 2017
Jan
Mar Apr
May
Key topics being;
• Trends in risks
associated with BPO &
Datacenters by Jai
Prakash
• A live demo on
exploiting a public mail
server’s SMTP services
by Sameet Jena
• Cybersecurity – Business
Risk Mitigation &
Contingency Planning –
by Manu Puthumana
Organiser: BCI Hyd Forum, Date - 20th January 2017
Premises Sponsor: Wells Fargo

5. Nasscom BCI Risk Mitigation Series - Mar 2017
Jan
Mar Apr
May
The theme of this
meet was ‘Adapting
to a brave new
world – evolving
landscape &
transformation of
governance, risk &
compliance in the
context of today’s
organization’. We
had almost 100+
participations from
different industry
segments.
Organiser: Nasscom
BCI Role: Knowledge Partner on 17th Mar at Hotel Radisson.

6. BCI Hyderabad Forum completed 1 Year
BCI Forum Meeting: Apr 2017
Jan
Mar Apr
May
Vikrant Varshney, Chairman
gave an insight to
achievements and way ahead
BCI Hyderabad Forum, launched
on 7 April 2016 with a group of 12
members turned 62 member
strong within a year later. This
progress was achieved through
focused desire to promote
thought leadership and awareness
of BCM.
Key topics being;
• Recent Incidents – a case study
by Raghavendra Giri P
• Best practices to try during BC
Awareness week by Phani K
Voruganti.
• Formal Introduction of Think
Tank 20-20Organiser: BCI Hyd Forum, Date - 21th April 2017
Premises Sponsor: Cognizant Techology Solutions (CTS)

7. Formal Introduction of India
ThinkTank 2020 Program - Apr 2017
Jan
Mar Apr
May
Anurabh Mitra, Chairman – India Think Tank, Vice
Chairman BCI Hyderabad Chapter;
Introduced the concept of 20-20 Think Tank for BCI
India chapter in a joint video conference session with
BCI Chennai Forum meeting. He presented the
purpose, mission of Think Tank and need for research
focused around Indian ecosystem. He gave a picture of
the exploratory research to unearth methodologies
that will strengthen India’s
resilience.
He outlined the nomination,
selection and launch process and invited
members of the forum to patriciate.

8. Business Continuity Awareness Week - May 2017
Jan
Mar Apr
May
A knowledge sharing session in collaboration with BSI
[British Standards Institute]. An engaging session by Mr.
Vasudeva Murthy, BSI on Basic Understanding of ISO 22301
Standard on 12th May’17.
We had an overwhelming response towards this event with
more than 62 registrations. A full house for the session.
• Organiser: BCI Hyd Forum, Knowledge Partner - British Standards Institute - BSI
• Date - 12th May 2017
• Premises Sponsor: DXC Technology

9. Focus Group Discussion: Industry Preparedness - May 2017
Jan
Mar Apr
A ‘Focused Group Discussion’ on risk
assessment in large IT corridor/SEZ of
Hyderabad in collaboration with
NASSCOM
This discussion was organised to
identify key risk areas across Hyderabad
city and/or IT Corridor/ SEZ Zone of the
city and discussing on possible solutions
to mitigate the risk. Discussion revolved
around Crisis Management
preparedness and response mechanism
This would remain our annual exercise
and a baseline for engaging with
various bodies to deal with Disasters
better.
• Organiser: Nasscom
• Knowledge Partner – BCI Fyderabad Forum
• Date - 19th May 2017

10. Nasscom BCI Risk Mitigation Series - Aug 2017
Jan
Mar Apr
May
The theme of this meet
was ‘Cyber Resilience and
Privacy Challenges in a
Digital World’.
Key topics being;
• Risk and Responsibility
in a Hyper Connected
World – The Future of
Cyber Security
• The Dark Side of the
Fourth Industrial
Revolution
Organiser: Nasscom
BCI Role: Knowledge Partner on 09th Aug at Novotel HICC.

11. First BCI India Conference - Sep 2017
Jan
Mar

12. BCI India Awards - Sep 2017
Jan
Mar Apr
HSBC, Cognizant and Accenture Teams won 3 awards in large category.
Vikrant Varshney was chosen Industry Personality of the Year, based on public votes

13. Formal Launch of India Think Tank - Sep 2017
Mar Apr
May
During BCI India Conference on 8th Sep 2017 at Bengaluru, Selection of Think
Tank 2020 Members was announced

14. Jan
Mar Apr
BCI Hyderabad chapter took lead in
partnership with NASSCOM to build and
map sectoral skills and requirements for
BCM jobs. The build out involved
identifying, assessing and mapping unique
job roles within DR and BCM at various
levels along with maturity requirements.
BCM & Resilience Sector Skill Council –- Nov 2017
• Organiser: Nasscom SSC
• Knowledge Partner – Business Continuity
Institute (BCI Hyd Forum)
• Date – 22nd Nov 2017

15. Jan
Mar Apr
May
Key Topics covered:
• Business Update and changing landscape – Mohit Kapoor, CEO – DBS Asia Hub, Hyderabad
• Annual BCI Hyd Forum Update by Sameet Jena,
• IT DR Control Measures (Preventive, Detective and Corrective measures) by Ganesan
Ramani, AVP Risk Management at DBS
• New Threats and Trends with Cloud Computing by Chandra Sekhar Achyutuni, Asst Director
Cloud Computing at DXC Technology India.
• IT DR Testing and its challenges (Business Impact, Inter Functional collaboration, Cost) by -
Jaiprakash Singh, Lead - BCI Hyderabad Forum
• Brief Progress Update on BCI India ThinkTank by Arunabh Mitra, Chairman - Think Tank 2020
• Brief Progress Update on Nasscom BCI Sector Skill Council Work
• Update from BCI India and vote of thanks - by Vikrant Varshney – Chairman, BCI Hyd Forum
BCI Hyderabad Forum Meeting: 2017
Organiser: BCI Hyd Forum, Date - 21th April 2017
Premises Sponsor: DBS Asia Hub, Hyderabad