Global Technology Summit 2017

The 2017 Global Technology Summit will take place on December 7 and 8, 2017 at the Hotel Leela Palace, Bangalore. Sunil Abraham is a speaker at the event.
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The inaugural edition of the Global Technology Summit convened leading scholars, experts, and officials from more than ten countries for wide-ranging discussions on policy frameworks for technological innovation.
Building on its success, leading innovators, researchers, and entrepreneurs in cutting-edge technologies from around the world will engage with regulators, policy experts, and civil society actors this December in Bangalore.
The Summit will focus on new directions in technology policy, such as tech-diplomacy, data protection, and building an innovation ecosystem, as well as fields like digital finance, e-mobility, robotics, and smart cities, where massive technological transformation is likely in the coming years.
Agenda
Thursday, December 7
10:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Registration
11:40 to 12:10 p.m.
Technology Diplomacy: Prospects for India and Japan

  • S. Jaishankar, foreign secretary of India
  • Kenji Hiramatsu, ambassador of Japan to India
  • Chair: C. Raja Mohan, director of Carnegie India

12:10 to 1:00 p.m.
Beyond the Bullet Train: Shaping Indo-Japanese Collaboration

  • Masahiro Fujita, professor at the VLSI Design and Education Center of the University of Tokyo
  • Hideaki Shiroyama, vice director of Policy Alternatives Research Institute
  • Teruhide Sato, founder of Beenext
  • Sanjeev Sinha, president of the India Japan Partnership Group and adviser to the Indian High-Speed Rail Project
  • Chair: R.K. Misra, founder and director of Center for Smart Cities

1:00 to 1:30 p.m.
Lunch
1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
New Technologies: Business and Security Imperatives

  • Sanjaya Baru, secretary general of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry
  • Katherine Charlet, director of the Technology and International Affairs program at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  • Arvind Gupta, director of Vivekananda International Foundation and former deputy national security advisor
  • Claude Smadja, president of Smadja & Smadja Strategic Advisory
  • Chair: Alok Joshi, chairman of National Technical Research Organization

2:30 to 3:15 p.m.
Pathways to Innovation Ecosystems

  • Patrick Kilbride, vice president of Global Innovation Policy Center at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
  • Manji Suzuki, vice president of DENSO International America Inc.
  • Dana Kursh, consul general at the Consulate General of Israel to south of India, Bengaluru
  • Chair: Shivnath Thukral, director of public policy for India and South Asia at Facebook

3:15 to 3:30 p.m.
Coffee
3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
The Intellectual Property Bridge: Accessing Global Innovation

  • Sarv Saravanan, corporate senior vice president of Dell EMC
  • S. Sadagopan, director of IIIT-Bangalore
  • Chair: B.V. Naidu, chairman of Sagitaur Ventures India Pvt. Ltd.

4:30 to 5:15 p.m.
Entrepreneurship, Intrapreneurship, and the Digital Transformation

  • Ankit Jain, vice president and head of Ola Play at Ola Cabs
  • Navneet Kapoor, global head at Maersk GSC

Friday, December 8
9:15 to 10:00 a.m.
Registration
10:00 to 10:20 a.m.
Technology, Policy, and Governance

  • J. Satyanarayana, chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India

10:20 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.
Using Technology for Governance

  • Charru Malhotra, associate professor of e-governance and ICT at the Indian Institute of Public Administration
  • Arvo Ott, head of e-Services at the Estonian E-governance Academy
  • Osama Manzar, founder of Digital Empowerment Foundation
  • Rohan Samarajiva, founder of LIRNEasia
  • Chair: P.S. Raghavan, convener of National Security Advisory Board

11:15 to 11:30 a.m.
Coffee
11:30 to 12:30 p.m.
Intelligent and Sustainable Mobility

  • Christina Bu, secretary general of the Norwegian Electric Vehicle Association
  • Mahesh Hariharan, chief executive officer of Baghirathi
  • Chair: Chetan Maini, vice chairman of Sun Mobility

12:30 to 1:00 p.m.
Regulating the New Digital

  • Jeffrey Eisenach, managing director of NERA Economic Consulting
  • Nikhil Narendran, partner at Trilegal Bangalore

1:00 to 1:30 p.m.
Lunch
1:30 to 2:45 p.m.
Navigating Big Data Challenges

  • Ann Cavoukian, executive director of the Privacy and Big Data Institute at Ryerson University
  • Rob Sherman, deputy chief privacy officer at Facebook
  • Rahul Matthan, partner at Trilegal Bangalore
  • Vishnu Shankar, associate at Sidley Austin
  • Sunil Abraham, executive director of the Center for Internet and Society
  • Chair: Justice B.N. Srikrishna, former judge of Supreme Court of India

2:45 to 3:30 p.m.
The Digital Last Mile

  • Nivruti Rai, country head of Intel India and vice president of Data Center Group at Intel Corporation
  • Chair: Naganand Doraswamy, managing director and founder of Ideaspring Capital

3:30 to 3:45 p.m.
Coffee
3:45 to 4:30 p.m.
Building Smart Cities

  • Aamer Azeemi, chief executive officer of Petrus Consulting
  • Anirban Choudhury, vice president of infrastructure at Andhra Pradesh Aerospace Defence Electronics Park
  • Chair: Ravinder Singh, director of strategic and megabusiness at Dell EMC

4:30 to 5:30 p.m.
Governing Modern Biotechnology

  • Gary Marchant, Regents’  Professor at the Arizona State University
  • Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, managing director and chairperson, Biocon
  • Shrikumar Suryanarayan, chairman and co-founder of Sea6 Energy
  • Anand Anandkumar, chief executive officer of Bugworks Research
  • Chair: Vijay Chandru, chairman and managing director of Strand Life Sciences

5:30 to 6:00 p.m.
Concluding Keynote

  • Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan, secretary of the Department of Biotechnology in the Government of India

6:00 to 6:15 p.m.
Closing Remarks

  • C. Raja Mohan
  • Ananth Padmanabhan
  • R.K. Misra

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