Conclave 2015 - India Inc Group

OVERVIEW

India Inc.’s 2nd annual Digital India & Innovation Conclave 2015
Role of Innovation in Delivering Digital India

4th December, 2015 – New Delhi

Role of Innovation in Delivering Digital India

The Narendra Modi led government’s Digital India initiative is pegged around a vision of a knowledge driven economy, enabled and empowered through technology to create a better quality of life for its citizens. Innovation is the driving force required to turn this vision a reality.

India Inc. brings you its second annual conclave to follow up on the issues raised during the inaugural event in New Delhi last year and dig deeper into how the right ecosystem for innovation can be created on the ground.

  The 2nd Digital India Conclave will broadly cover:

  The roadmap to nurturing innovation in India
How can Make in India enable ‘Create in India’ for the country’s IP growth?
How can India best harness the power of Cloud to deliver jobs and growth?
What is the role of mobile technologies in delivering inclusive development?

The conclave will explore a wide range of solutions and produce an actionable report for senior policy-makers of the nation.

Expected Speakers:

  Hon Ravi Shankar Prasad, Hon’ble Union Minister, Ministry of Communications and IT
Amitabh Kant, Secretary, DIPP, India
Ajay Kumar, IAS Addl. Secretary, DeITY
Manoj Ladwa, CEO, India Inc.
Zulfiqar Shivji, International Liaison Partner, BDO
Noshir Kaka, Managing Director, McKinsey India
Sachin Dev Duggal, CEO, SD Squared
Paddy Cosgrove, CEO, WebSummit

AGENDA

Agenda

4 December

Registration & Networking Lunch

01:00 pm

Welcome and Introduction

02:00 pm
Manoj Ladwa
Founder & Chief Executive, India Inc.

Siddharth Zarabi
Executive Editor, Bloomberg TV India

Keynote Address

02:05 pm
Amitabh Kant
IAS
Secretary, DIPP
Government of India

In Conversation with Manoj Ladwa and Siddharth Zarabi
(CEO Table exchanges views with Secretary Amitabh Kant
& In Conversation with Audience)

Panel Discussion - India’s Innovation Capital - Not Just Make In India but Design in India Too

02:30 pm
The session will explore:
Why is Create/Design in India important for the nation’s economic transformation?
What needs to be done to facilitate indigenous disruptive innovation?
Where do the low hanging opportunities lie? What are the bottlenecks?
What is the road ahead?

Moderator: BloombergTV India Anchor

Panelists:
Rajat Dhawan, Director, McKinsey & Company
Bhavesh Thakkar, Partner, BDO India
Purushottam Kaushik, Managing Director-Sales, Cisco’s (India & SAARC)

Panel Discussion - Exploring Role of Cloud & Web Based Services in Digital India

03:00 pm
The session will explore:
CHow Cloud & Web Based Services can proactively contribute to delivering Digital India?
What are some of the successful examples of transforming lives at all levels?
Examining the potential economic impact of cloud & web based services
Where do the bottlenecks & risks lie? How does India tackle them?

Moderator: Nitin Mantri, CEO, Avian Media

Keynote Address:
Ajay Kumar, IAS
Addl. Secretary, DeITY
Government of India

Panelists:
Neeta Verma, Deputy Director General, National Informatics Centre, Government of India
Bikram Bedi, Head, India Region at Amazon Internet (AWS)
Sachin Dev Duggal, Chief Executive Officer, SD Squared
Anu Madgavkar, Senior Fellow, McKinsey Global Institute
Anand Dhand, Director-Intel, South Asia

Q&A with Audience

Keynote Address

03:40 pm
Purushottam Kaushik,
Managing Director- Sales,
Cisco India & SAARC

Q&A with Audience

Comfort Break

03:50 pm

Panel Discussion: Developing an Indigenous Start-‐Up Ecosystem

04:00 pm

The session will explore:
Why is it imperative to foster start-ups & innovation?
What sort of policy framework would best support an effective ecosystem?
How can innovators secure funding? Where do the challenges lie?
What steps need to be taken to ensure India can produce the next Google, the next Facebook?

Moderator: Siddharth Zarabi, Executive Editor, Bloomberg TV India

Panelists:
Paddy Cosgrove, CEO, WebSummit
Zulfiqar Shivji, International Liaison Partner and Head Transaction Advisory, BDO India
Rajan Anandan, VP & MD, Google, India & South Asia*
Ravi Gururaj, Serial Entrepreneur/Angel/Evangelist, NASSCOM Product & Executive Council*

Panel Discussion: Telecom & Mobile Technology: Enabler for Sabka Sath Sabka Vikas

04:30 pm

The session will explore:
How mobile technology is instrumental in delivering inclusive development?
How fixed line broadband is instrumental in delivering inclusive development?
What are the critical success factors for India to ensure role of mobile tech is optimized?
What are the challenges the industry faces? How can government help resolve them?

Session Chair: BloombergTV India Anchor

Panelists:
Udit Mehrotra, CEO, Spectranet
Karan Bedi, COO, Eros Now
Rupinder Singh, Director Sales Business Development – Internet of Everything, Cisco
Pankaj Mohindroo, Founder and National President of Indian Cellular Association (ICA)