The businesses most prepared for the way ahead are those ready and equipped for dealing with and moving through change: to absorb it, respond to it and turn it into competitive advantage. But how can we identify a path to the future when we do not know what it may hold? How can we meet the needs of customers, when they continue to evolve?

To support and partner our customers as they prepare for, shape and achieve their way ahead, Oracle is establishing a knowledge exchange platform: The Way Ahead. Through this platform, you’ll hear industry chieftains deliberate on new capabilities, skills, tools and behaviours, as well as outline how to use data in new ways to innovate, evolve and adapt.

In the inaugural edition, Amol V Pai, CTO of State Bank of India (SBI), viz. one of the oldest global banks, shares his experience and learnings from the current situation via a Fireside Chat with Mitesh Agarwal, VP, Oracle India. In this freewheeling discussion, Amol also throws light on how the current business climate is triggering project reprioritization, while accelerating digitalization.

Find out how SBI’s practical approach to achieve business readiness is helping the bank shape the way ahead.

Our Speakers

Amol V Pai

Amol V Pai

Chief Technology Officer
State Bank of India

Amol Pai is the CTO at the State Bank of India (SBI) since October 2019 and is based in Mumbai. His current portfolio includes managing the IT infrastructure of the Bank and the YONO application. Prior to SBI, Amol worked with Yes Bank as Group President & Head - Digital Banking Technology, Treasury Technology, Testing Center of Excellence and AI – NLP. He started his banking career with ICICI Bank and was an Assistant General Manager there from 2008 - 2013.

Amol has a Masters degree in Financial Management, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), a Post Graduate Diploma in Software technology and an engineering degree in Bio-medical Engineering from the University of Mumbai.

Mitesh Agarwal

Mitesh Agarwal

Vice President – Global Key & Lead Accounts
Oracle India

Mitesh Agarwal is the Vice President of Global Key & Lead Accounts at Oracle India. Oracle established the Global Key Accounts program as a direct response to customer feedback and the need for more effective account management, to address the complexity brought on by volatile market dynamics including acquisitions, digitization, policy mandates and large transformation projects.

In this role, Mitesh manages Oracle’s top customers, and provides strategic guidance across major industry segments.

Until recently, Mitesh led the Oracle India Sales Consulting organization and was the CTO for the company. He has been instrumental in driving the company's Cloud & Digital Strategy agenda, supporting Oracle's customers tide through these transitions. He has been involved in working across Oracle's product portfolio of Cloud, Applications, Database, Analytics, Digital & Hardware. Mitesh came into Oracle with the Sun acquisition where he led the Systems Sales Consulting team followed by a stint leading the Engineered Systems Sales where he delivered outstanding growth.

Mr. Agarwal holds a Master’s degree (Hons) in Physics and a B.E. (Hons) Mechanical Engineering from BITS, Pilani.