Sumit D Chowdhury

ABM KNOWLEDGEWARE LTD. (ABM), IT Company listed on Bombay Stock Exchange, is one of the few IT companies in India with exclusive focus on e-Governance since 1998. ABM's e-Governance solutions are currently delivering 18 Million Citizen Services per year. ABM has developed a thorough insight in implementing and institutionalizing e-Governance in the Indian context, which is evident from the various projects implemented and sustained by ABM so far. These solutions and expertise can have wider applicability in Commonwealth countries due to similarities in administrative systems used in these countries.

Sumit's focus is on collaboration between Industry and Academia for solving Urban problems and to take cutting edge research into the real world - enabling a Smart City. The Summer course on Smart Cities is a Multidisciplinary Master's course that aims to give an overview of the concepts and practices in the development, feasibility and sustainability of Smart Cities. The course focuses on stages of Smart City development and the design of New Urban Systems for mobility, energy, communication, information technologies. It covers integrated design and systems thinking, modern urban design and Information and Communication technologies to manage infrastructures more efficiently, offer services provided rationally, provide a higher quality of service to citizens. The course focuses on the technology and information infrastructure requirements for smart cities and ways to measure success.

BARC India is a joint industry company founded by stakeholder bodies that represent Broadcasters, Advertisers and Advertising & Advertising Agencies. Built upon a robust and future-ready technology backbone, BARC India owns and manages a transparent, accurate, and inclusive TV audience measurement system. Apart from the currency products to the TV industry, BARC India also provides a suite of Insight products designed for broadcasters, advertisers and agencies. The Big Data and Insights generated by BARC India powers efficient media spends and content decisions in a highly dynamic and growing television sector. With a panel that is currently being scaled up to 180,000 individuals, BARC India is also the largest measurement company of its kind in the world. I am an Independent Director of the MDPL (Metrology Data Private Limited), a subsidiary that produces , installs and look after at the installed BARC Barometers across the country.

Gaia is a full service GovTech, Urban Proptech and Infratech Solutions and Services provider engaged in the business of providing innovative solutions for operational improvement and asset performance of businesses and governments. Gaia has created platform for connecting networks of sensors, actuators, people and processes, that enable rapid deployment of Smart City digitisation projects, Industrial Automation projects and B2C applications connecting THINGS to the internet. Gaia also connect people, process and things across heterogenous networks to create complex adaptive intelligent ecosystems. They engage in strategic consulting and Digitalization solutions using their network of global experts in Smart Cities, IOT, Devices, Networks and follow up with execution of the concepts. Gaia's Consumer Sentiment Measurement service (SmartFeedback.in) is being implemented across several hundred cities, airports and Railways across India. Gaia also offers a complete Private Low-Power WAN Solution for Communities, Cities and Industries for running wide-area IoT solutions for Smart City MSI (Master System Integrators), Industrial and Residential campuses. Gaia Consulting team is working as the ICT Specialists for five Smart Cities in India. Other projects include Safe Cities, Traffic management and general Program management. Gaia's platforms are being used for various Government Programs, Indian Railways, Airports, Defence, Hospitals, Factories and other similar facilities where people and assets are distributed across the geography.

Responsible for all technology and digital initiatives of Brookfield Properties in India. Created a Technology Roadmap for implementation of digitisation in all internal and external facing processes. Helped improve procurement efficiency of technology items and a roadmap of implementation of operational efficiency platform.

Reliance Infotel Broadband is India's newest telecom enabled service provider, revolutionizing the digital lifestyle in India. I worked as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for Jio for one year and then moved into business leadership role for defining and setting up the Enterprise Business of Jio. In this role I was responsible for creating the ecosystem of companies that will build solutions on top of superior platforms and network to provide innovative consumer services. I also led their effort in Smart Cities, Internet of Things, M2M communications.

I was the Communications Sector Leader for the Global Business Services team in India and South Asia. In this role, I oversaw the Transformation initiatives and Application Management program across all the large telecom companies in India and other projects across telecom, energy utilities, media and entertainment industries. I was responsible for Consulting and Solution sales, delivery and resulting profit and loss of the Sector.

I was the Founder CEO of Reliance Tech Services that is the Consulting, IT and Managed Services company of Reliance ADA Group. It specializes in helping customers manage all aspects of technology. It takes on end-to-end turnkey projects that require scale and complexity.

As the CIO, I was responsible for IT Strategy & Governance, Architecture, Projects and Development, IT Operations, Security, Compliance & Risk Management, IT Budget Management and to lead a 2500-person IT team. I was responsible for consolidating IT teams across the company into a coherent, process managed and predictable delivery and operations factory that could keep the costs to industry-best practice while delivery significant value to the business in its period of hyper-growth.

Managed the Systems Integration Practice, Telecommunications Industry and subsequently the entire Australian practice of BearingPoint as the Country Head.

Managed large project implementations, created innovative industry solutions in the telecommunications industry. Managed a team of industry professionals across multiple geographies.

Taught multiple courses on Database Systems, Decision support Systems, Operations Research, Telecom Management.

Responsible for architecting industrial engineering projects and designing electro-acoustic communication solutions for stadiums, airports, conference halls etc. Biggest project was the entire acoustic engineering of Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi.