Conference Programme

0900 – 1015Hrs

Registration

1015 – 1130 Hrs
Session Theme

Session 1: Inaugural Session (75 mins)
 AI for acceleration to a 5 Trillion Economy

Welcome (5 mins)

Mr. Ashwani Rana, Vice President, BIF (Chief Public Policy Officer, Zupee)

Introductory Address (10 mins)

Smt. Aruna Sundararajan IAS (Retd.), Chairperson, BIF

Industry Speaker 2 (10 mins)

Mr. Ashutosh Chadha, Director & Country Head, Government Affairs & Public Policy, Microsoft

Special Guest of Honour (15 mins)

Mr. N G Subramaniam, Chairman, TSDSI & COO, TCS

Special Guest of Honour (15 mins)

Mr. Arvind Kumar, Director General, Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)

Chief Guest (15 mins)

Dr. Rajkumar Upadhyay, CEO, C-DOT & BIF’s Chairman for New Technologies Committee

Vote of Thanks (5 mins)

Mr. Shashi Dharan, Managing Director, Bharat Exhibitions

1130 – 1140 Hrs

Refreshments & Networking Break

1140-1310 Hrs
Session Theme

Session 2: Technical Presentations (90 mins)
Artificial Intelligence: Current Trends, Key Challenges

Session Chair (5 mins)

Dr. Sumit D. Chowdhury, Founder, Chairman & MD, Gaia Smart Cities

Technical Speaker 1 (15 mins)

Mr. Vikram Gupta, Founder & CEO, AWIROS
Theme:  Large Scale Video AI App Deployments with Awiros

Technical Speaker 2 (15 mins)

Dr. Chinmay Hegde, Managing Director, Astrikos Consulting Pvt. Ltd.

Technical Speaker 3 (15 mins)

Mr. Saurabh Agarwal, CEO, TechBridge
Theme: How to Quantify the Contribution of AI in Enterprise CyberSecurity

Technical Speaker 4 (15 mins)

Colonel Surender Kumar Rohilla, Colonel (SDA), Directorate of Standardisation, Department of Defence Production Theme: Artificial Intelligence: Key Challenges

Technical Speaker 5 (15 mins)

Mr. Debjit Ghatak, Centre Head, Brij Disa Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, IIMA –  Theme: AI Readiness

Q&A and Closing remarks
(10 mins)

Session Chair

1310 – 1350 Hrs

Networking Lunch

1350-1435 Hrs

Session 3: (45 mins)
AI Ethics & Governance in India

Session Chair (5 mins)

Mr. N Kishor Narang, Founder, Mentor, Principal Design Strategist & Architect, Narnix Technolabs Pvt. Ltd.

Speaker 1 (10 mins)

Shri Avinash Agarwal, DDG (Standardisation/Convergence & Broadcasting/ Radio), TEC, Department of Telecommunications

Speaker 2 (10 mins)

Prof. Nisheeth Srivastava, Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering and Cognitive Science, IIT Kanpur

Speaker 3 (10 mins)

Mr. Kanishk Gaur, Founder, India Future Foundation

Q&A and Closing Remarks
(10 mins)

Session Chair

1435-1445 Hrs

Networking Break

1445 - 1530 Hrs

Session 4: Technical Presentations (45 mins)

AI-empowered BlockChain Applications

Session Chair (5 mins)

Dr. Sarat Chandra Babu, Honorary Principal Advisor, BIF

Speaker 1  (10 mins)

Mr. Raj Kapoor, Founder & CEO, India Blockchain Alliance

Speaker 2 (10 mins)

Ms. P R Laskhmi Eswari, Sr Director & Head, CDAC, Hyderabad (MeitY)

Speaker 3 (10 mins)

Mr. Akhilesh Srivastava, IT Advisor, Govt. of Uttrakhand; Road Safety Ambassador-World Economic Forum & Former CEO-NHAI InvIT, FASTag

Q&A and Closing Remarks
(10 mins)

Session Chair

1530 - 1540 Hrs

Networking Break

1540 – 1635 Hrs

Session 5: (55 mins)

AI-enabled 5G-6G Ecosystem

Session Chair (5 mins)

Prof. Kiran Kuchi, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Hyderabad

Speaker 1 (10 mins)

Mr. Rohit Jain, VP & Head of Technology, Airtel IQ

Speaker 2 (10 mins)

Dr. Shrihari Vasudevan, Principal Data Scientist, Ericsson's Global AI Accelerator @ India

Speaker 3 (10 mins)

Mr. Manoj Gurnani, CTO, Nokia

Speaker 4 (10 mins)

Mr. Jishnu A, Principal Architect Technology in CTO'S office, TEJAS Networks

Q&A and Closing Remarks
(10 mins)

Session Chair

1635 - 1640 hrs

Wrap-up and Concluding Remarks - Dr. Shiv Kumar, Principal Advisor, BIF & Convener New Technologies and AI & IoT Committee