Digital India Roundtable 2015 - Brussels

OVERVIEW

India-EU Strategic Dialogue on Digital India

15th April 2015

Delivering Smart Communities – An Economic opportunity for both India and the EU Roundtable.
Brussels, 15th April 2015

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India Inc. is carrying forward the Indian government’s Digital India drive with an exclusive India-EU Strategic Dialogue Roundtable in Brussels.

A keynote address by Indian IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad will kick off a power-packed agenda bringing senior IT executives from across Europe around the table to delve into India’s leap forward as a global leader in the sector.

Some of the key players at the event:
• Think Tanks
• Investors
• Policy-makers
• Media professionals, with McKinsey on board as our knowledge partners

Senior representation from the European Commission will include the likes of Andrus Ansip, European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Single Market.

The Roundtable follows our hugely successful Digital India summits in New Delhi in Dec. 2014 and Washington DC in Jan. 2015.

India Inc’s Digital India initiative explores the Digital India vision from various perspectives to plug into this bold new programme of the Narendra Modi led Indian government.

AGENDA

Agenda

15 April

Delegate Registration

01:30 pm

Digital India – An opportunity for India and the EU

02:00 pm

Moderated by:
Aditi Khanna
Content Director & Editor, India Inc.

Welcome & Scene Setting
Manoj Ladwa
Founder & CEO, India Inc.

Special Message: via video
Ravi Shankar Prasad
Hon’ble Union Minister
Ministry of Communication & Information Technology
Government of India

Keynote Speech:
His Excellency Manjeev Singh Puri
Ambassador of India to European Union
Belgium and Luxembourg

Panel Discussion - Partnership for tech and innovation: opportunities for India-EU collaboration

02:20 pm

Why is the collaboration between EU and India increasingly important to both regions?
Why is this relationship increasingly mutually important?
What does EU bring to the partnership? What does India bring to the partnership?
How best can these be harnessed to deliver benefits for both parties?
Any best practices to be picked from each other or from other regions?

Moderated by:
Manoj Ladwa
Founder & CEO, India Inc.

Panelists:

Robert Madelin, Director-General, DG Connect –
Communications Networks, Content and Technology,
European Commission (with Keynote speech)
RS Sharma, Secretary, Department of Electronics
& Information Technology (DietY), Government of
India (with Keynote speech) via video link
Eric Hazan, Principal and Leader-EMEA, TMT Sector,
McKinsey & Company
Mark Lange, Director, EU Institutional Relations, Microsoft

Comfort Break

03:20 pm

Panel Discussion - Digital India: Developing Smart Cities & Smart Villages

03:35 pm

Where and how can India use EU’s expertise & skills to
deliver truly smart communities?
Where do the low hanging opportunities lie in
connectivity, infrastructure, data, cloud etc?
Where do the challenges lie in achieving the
opportunities and how can they be best tackled?

Moderated by:
Arvind Gupta
National Head
Bharatiya Janata Party IT Cell
(with Introductory Keynote)

Panelists:

Dr. Colette Maloney, Head of Unit Smart Cities and
Sustainability unit, European Commission
(with Keynote speech)
Andreas Tegge, Head Global Government Relations , SAP
Anu Madgavkar, Senior Fellow, McKinsey Global Institute
John Higgins, Director General, Digital Europe
Ray Pinto, Senior Manager, EU Institutional Relations, Microsoft