PROGRAM
| SCHEDULE | SESSION | SPEAKERS |
| 08:30-09:15 | Registrations & Welcome | |
| 09:15-09:45 | Welcome Address | Ibrahim Ahmad, Group Editor, CyberMedia |
| 09:45-10:00 | The Year Ahead Key business, technology and regulatory challenges that the telecom sector is likely to face as the nation moves ahead on it's Digital India march |
Dr. Rajat Kathuria, Director & Chief Executive, ICRIER |
| 10:00-11:00 | Building A Digital India What are the key focus areas of various telecom stakeholders to build a digital India? How are operators and the telco ecosystem, making the best out of all the business disruptions India is witnessing? And how are technologies like network IPfication, network function virtualization and SDN being deployed and leveraged for revenue maximization as well as customer empowerment and delight? |
RS Sharma, Chairman, TRAI Himanshu Kapania, MD, Idea Cellular Sanjay Kaul, MD, GSP Cisco India & SAARC Shubha Bhambhani, General Manager, BSNL |
| 11:00-11:15 | Networking Tea/Coffee Break | |
| 11:15-12:15 | Smart India - Smart Life & Smart Enterprises How are operators and the telco ecosystem working on solutions for speeding up the broadband infrastructure rollout in the country? And how fiber will be the backbone for strengthening broadband infrastructure? |
Anupam Srivastava, CMD, BSNL Neeta Verma, DG, NIC & CEO, MyGov Ashutosh Vasant, CMD, Railtel Sridhar Krish, COO, Tikona Broadband Sandeep Arora, Service Provider Business, Cisco India & SAARC Dr. Pravin Bhagwat,Co-founder & CTO, Mojo Networks KS Rao, COO, Sterlite Technologies Moderator : PK Roy, Head – Domestic & Internet Council, NASSCOM |
| 12:15-13:15 | 5G – Transforming Aspirations into Reality How will 5G transform the current 4G network, service delivery and customer experience? How will it speed up IoT, and a range of new emerging valued added services for various sectors such as ---transport, healthcare, security, education, and energy? |
Abhay Savargaonkar, CTO, Airtel Vishant Vora, CTO, Vodafone Sameer Dave, CTO, Aircel Ashwani Khillan, COO, American Tower Rajesh Chainani, Managing Director-Service Provider Network & Cloud, Cisco APJ Ankit Agarwal, Director, Telecom Products, Sterlite Technologies Nitin Bansal, MD, Ericsson India Moderator: Vikram Tiwathia, DDG,COAI |
| 13:15 | Networking Lunch
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| 13:15 - 14:00 | Captain's Lunch Roundtable | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Beyond the Consumer Market How telcos and other communication service providers can help organizations to integrate customers, partners, and employees to increase revenue, decrease operating costs for the big and growing enterprise market? How sectors like BFSI, IT/ITeS, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Educations, Govt etc., are turning more agile and customer centric with solutions such as collaboration, cloud, managed solutions et al. |
Anil Jain, CGM, National NGN Center, BSNL LV Sastry, National Head, Enterprise Business, Aircel Kapil Ahuja, CEO (North India), Reliance Jio Dr Jai Menon, Group CTO & Mantor, HT Media Vijay Sethi, Group CTO, Hero Motors Deval Parikh, Chief Executive Officer, Bright Star India Hemant Kumar Ruia, CFO, Indus Tower Moderator: Sukanta Dey, Former President - Emerging Business, Tata Teleservices |
| 15:00-15:30 | Defining the Skills Manifesto for Telecom 2022 For an industry in the throes of rapid change, the importance of skills, both generic and specialist, cannot be overemphasized. How do we plan for the skills and competencies required by telcom industry in the next four years? |
Lt. Gen SP Kochhar,
CEO, Telecom Sector Skill Council Srikanth Balachandran, Global CHRO, Airtel Moderator:Faisal Kawoosa,General Manager - Research & Consulting, CyberMedia Research (CMR) |
| 15:30-17:00 | Valedictory Session 1. Voice&Data Leadership Awards 2. Democratizing Telecom for Digital India (Keynote & Panel) |
Valedictory Keynote - Aruna Sundararajan, Secy, DoT Panel - Aruna Sundararajan, Secy, DoT Anupam Shrivastava, CMD, BSNL Dr Anand Agarwal, CEO, Sterlite Tech Nitin Bansal, MD, Ericsson Shyam Mardikar, CTO, Airtel Harish Krishnan, MD, Public Affairs & Strategic Engagement, CISCO Mathew Oommen,President Network, Global Strategy and Service Development, Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited Anchor – Pradeep Gupta, CMD, CyberMedia |
| 17:15- onwards | Celebration High Tea | |