CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

23rd September 2021 – Day 1

   
1500 – 1700 hrs

Session Theme






Welcome Address
(1500 - 1505 Hrs)

Industry Keynote
(1505 - 1520 Hrs)

Industry Address
(1520 - 1530 Hrs)

Industry Address
(1530 - 1540 Hrs)

(1540 - 1630 Hrs)

Moderator

Operator Panelist
Operator Panelist
Operator Panelist

Chief Guest

(1630 - 1645 Hrs)

Vote of Thanks
(1645 - 1650 Hrs)
Session 1: Inaugural Ceremony

A Policy Roadmap for India’s Transition to a Digital Economy
- What are the deployment modes of 5G?
- 5G Spectrum Auction and Trials of 5G Networks
- Digital Infrastructure
- Network virtualization is future of 5G Networks
- Digital Transformation & Emerging Challenges for Service Providers

Mr. TV Ramachandran
, President, BIF


Mr. Sanjay Bakaya,
Country Head - India & Regional Vice President, India & South Asia, Mavenir


Ms. Shikha Sayal,
Director Enterprise Sales, VMware


Mr. Tarun Chhabra,
Head of Mobile Networks Business, NOKIA India


Inaugural Panel Discussion:


Lt. Gen. Dr. S.P. Kochhar, Director General, COAI

Mr. Jagbir Singh, Chief Technology Officer, Vodafone Idea
Mr. Shyam Mardikar, Group Chief Technology Officer - Mobility, Reliance Jio
Mr. Randeep Sekhon, Chief Technology Officer, Bharti Airtel  

Shri. A K Tiwari
, Member (Technology), Digital Communications Commission, DoT, Ministry of Communications


Mr. Shashi Dharan
, Managing Director, Bharat Exhibitions       
   

24th September 2021 – Day 2

   
1000 – 1200 Hrs

Session Theme








Session Chair

1005-1020       Speaker 1
1020-1035       Speaker 2

1035-1050       Speaker 3

1050-1105       Speaker 4
Session 1: Technical Business Presentations (Sponsors Session)

Open RAN Infrastructure for 5G

- 5G Opportunities and Challenges for Infrastructure Modernization
- The Evolution of the 5G Radio Access Networks
- The impact on technology choices for the Cloud Native Telco
- Collaborating to Accelerate 5G vRAN Deployments
- 5G Security Concerns
- Network virtualization is future of 5G Networks
- The role of fiber in 5G backhaul and GPON technologies

Mr. H.L. Gupta, President - Network and Service Operations, Reliance Jio
(Introductory Remarks)
Mr. John Baker, SVP, Business Development, Mavenir
Dr. Rakesh Misra, Director R&D, Telco & Distributed Edge Business Unit, VMware
Theme: Unlocking the Full Potential of Open RAN with RAN Intelligent Controller
Mr. Manish Tiwari, Sr. VP & CISO, Bharti Airtel
Theme: Security and Resilience in 5G
Mr. Girish Baliga, Marketing Manager, Keysight Technologies
Theme: O-RAN for 5G: The Path Forward Q/A Post Technical Presentations

1200 – 1330 hrs


Session Theme  






Session Chair   

1205-1220       Speaker 1

1220-1235       Speaker 2
1235-1250       Speaker 3

1250-1305       Speaker 4

Session 2: Technical Business Presentations (Sponsors Session)

  
5G Infrastructure & Future Business Models
  • - Emerging Technology in a 5G Future
  • - Leveraging AI in 5G and Wireless Networks
  • - How the 5G revolution will drive future innovations of IoT
  • - Is AI a path to reducing latency in the Core Network?
  • - How wearable devices become more Science Fiction with 5G

Shri Vikram Tiwathia, Deputy Director General, COAI
(Introductory Remarks)        

Mr. Shamik Mishra
, Vice President & CTO Connectivity, Capgemini Engineering
 Accelerating Intelligent Industry through Convergence of 5G Connectivity, AI & Cloud
Professor Kiran Kuchi, IIT Hyderabad
Mr. Sumith S. Pillai, EMAG Solution Engineer, VIAS3D India
Theme: Developing Reliable 5G Products with Electromagnetic Simulation
Mr. Shamik Biswas, Head of Marketing, Plintron India
Theme: How 5G can aid MVNOs and IoT Q/A Post Technical Presentations

1400 – 1600 Hrs

Discussion Theme







Session Moderator

Panel Discussion
Panelist
Panelist
Panelist
Panelist
Panelist

Special Guest of Honour & Valedictory Address

Session 3: Valedictory Session
  • - Transition to a 5G World
  • - Policy & Regulation for facilitating accelerated deployment of 5G
  • - Readiness of the 5G Ecosystem, particularly  in terms of Digital Infrastructure and Device availability
  • - Most popular use cases of 5G
  • - How will the combination of 2G, 4G and 5G play out in the Indian market and is the presence of 2G & 4G likely to reduce possible offtake of 5G in the near and medium term 
 
Mr. Rahul Vatts, Chief Regulatory Officer, Bharti Airtel (Introductory Remarks)


Mr. Kuntal Chowdhury,
SVP & GM, AI & Analytics Business Unit, Mavenir
Mr. Vinod Joseph, Technical Leader of Asia Pacific & Japan, VMware
Mr Amit Marwah, Head of marketing & Corporate Affairs, NOKIA India
Mr. Sandeep Kapoor, Director Marketing, Europe, Middle East, Africa & India, Keysight Technologies
Professor Kiran Kuchi, IIT Hyderabad

Shri R.K. Pathak
, DDG (IC), DoT, Ministry of Communications