| 0900 – 1000 hrs | Registration |
| 1000 – 1130 hrs Inaugural Session Welcome address Chief Guest Keynote Address Operator Keynote Moderator Inaugural Panelist Inaugural Panelist Inaugural Panelist Inaugural Panelist Inaugural Panelist Vote of Thanks |
Session 1: Opening Ceremony Open RAN: Challenges and Opportunities for India’s 5G Success Mr. Rajat Mukarji, Director General, Broadband India Forum Mr. Paul Miller, Chief Technology Officer, Wind River Mr. Ben Panic, Vice President, Telco, Media & Entertainment, Red Hat APAC Mr. Shyam Mardikar, Group Chief Technology Officer - Mobility, Reliance Jio Inaugural Panel Discussion: Mr. Kunal Bajaj, CEO & Co-Founder, CloudExtel Mr. Rajesh Singh, Executive Vice President (Radio & Strategy Planning), Vodafone Idea Mr. Saurabh Mittal, Head - Network Infra Products R&D, Bharti Airtel Mr. Ben Panic, Vice President, Telco, Media & Entertainment, Red Hat APAC Mr. Narendra Rawat, Vice President-Technology, India & South Asia region, Mavenir Shri K. Rajaraman, IAS, Chairman (DCC) & Secretary (T), DoT, Govt. of India Mr. Shashi Dharan, Managing Director, Bharat Exhibitions |
| 1130 – 1145 hrs | Refreshments & Networking Break |
| 1145 – 1330 hrs Technical Session Session Chair 1150-1205 Speaker 1 1205-1220 Speaker 2 1220-1235 Speaker 3 1235-1250 Speaker 4 1250-1305 Speaker 5 |
Session 2: Technical Presentations Open RAN Infrastructure & Future Business Model
Mr. Aayush Bhatnagar, Sr. Vice President, Reliance Jio (Introductory Remarks) Mr. Michael Tadault, Chief Technologist Telco, Red Hat APAC Mr. Charles Santhosam, Associate Vice President-RAN System Engineering, Mavenir Theme: Open RAN Architecture for NextGen Mobile Networks Mr. Gil Hellmann, VP Telco Solutions Engineering & Architecture, Wind River Mr. Arif Khan, CEO & Founder, Coredge.io Mr. Chitwan Arora, System Design Engineer, Hughes Systique Corporation Theme: Federated Learning in O-RAN Architecture |
| 1330 – 1400 hrs | Networking Lunch |
| 1400 – 1600 hrs Discussion Theme Special Address Moderator Distinguished Panelist Distinguished Panelist Distinguished Panelist Distinguished Panelist Distinguished Panelist |
Session 3: Panel Discussion Role in Open Source and Open Ecosystem for Accelerating the Edge Shri Alkesh Kumar Sharma, IAS, Secretary, Ministry of Electronics & IT (MeitY) * Mr. Rajesh Gangadhar, Member Outreach Committee, TSDSI Mr. Abhishek Shukla, Head of Sales – Telco, Media & Entertainment Red Hat India & South Asia Mr. Sanjay Raina, Vice President-Sales, India & South Asia region, Mavenir Mr. Gil Hellmann, VP Telco Solutions Engineering & Architecture, Wind River Dr. R.K. Upadhyay, Executive Director, C-DoT Mr. Krishna Sirohi, Professor of Practice, IIT Delhi |
| 1600 hrs onwards | Concluding Remarks followed Networking Tea/Coffee |