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Agenda

   
 Day I: Friday, March 16, 2007 Venue: Hotel Hilton Towers
 8.30 a.m. Registration
 9.30 a.m. Inaugural Session
  Lighting of the Lamp  
Welcome Address

Mr. Nayan Patel
President, IMC
Why this Conference?

Mr. Nanik Rupani
Chairman, Electronics & Telecommunications Committee, IMC
Theme presentation

Mr. Vijay Mukhi
Chairman, IT Cell, IMC
Special Address

Mr. Jignesh Shah
Founder CEO, Financial Technologies Group

Mr. Anand Mahindra
Vice Chairman & Managing Director, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.

Key-note Address Mr. Jayantrao Patil
Hon’ble Minister for Finance & Planning, Government of Maharashtra
Inaugural Address Mr. Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi
Hon’ble Union Minister for Information & Broadcasting
Vote of Thanks Mr. Niraj Bajaj
President-Elect, IMC
 11.00 a.m.
Tea / Coffee
 11.30 noon. Plenary Session:Future of Communications:The Converged World
 
Chairman

Mr. Nanik Rupani
Chairman, Enkay Technologies (India) Pvt. Ltd.

Speakers

Role of R & D in Shaping the Converged World

Dr. R A Mashelkar
Former Director-General, CSIR & CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow, NCL

Communications Technologies and the New Global Village

Ms. Lara Srivastava
Senior Policy Analyst, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Geneva

Computers & Telecom : How they are Merged & its Impact

Dr. Vijay P Bhatkar
Chairman, ETH Research Lab

Release of a background paper on Telecom & presentation

Ms. Arpita Pal Agrawal Associate Director - InfoComm Advisory Services

 
 1.00 p.m. Lunch
 2.00 p.m. Parallel Business Session
IA:Entertainment:Globalisation of Indian Content

  Chairman Mr. S Ramani Iyer
Telecom Consultant
  Speakers

An Insider’s View of Globalisation of Indian Content

Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri
Dean, Centre for Economic Research & Advanced Studies, IIPM

Mr. Ramesh Meer
CEO, The FX Factory

  Floor Participation
 2.00 p.m. Parallel Business Session
IB:Telecom as Business Enabler
  Chairman Mr. C.B. Pundlik
Vice President (Business Development), Finolex Cables Ltd.
  Speakers

Cable: The Telecom Backbone

Mr. Deepak Chhabria

Managing Director , Finolex Cables Limited

The Converged Office

Mr. Ajit Thatte

Chief Executive Officer, Enkay Technologies (India) Pvt. Ltd.

Financial Strategies for Developing Telecom

Mr. E. Sankara Rao

Director – Business Development, IDFC Ltd.

Space-age Technology in the Office

Mr. V Rangan

Vice- President, Neutron Electronic Systems Pvt. Ltd.

RFID : The Next Big Thing

Mr. Ashim A. Patil

CEO, Infotek Software & Systems (P) Ltd.

  Floor Participation
 3.30 p.m. Tea / Coffee
 4.00 p.m. Parallel Business Session
IIA:Success stories in Convergence (Actual Cases)
  Chairman Mr. K V Seshasayee
Director, India-Israel Ventures
  Speakers

MTNL’s Experience in Convergence

Mr. Peeyush Agrawal

General Manager (Broadband), Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited

Current Technologies in Offices Worldwide

Mr. Aldrin Castelino

Sr. Marketing Manager, Architectural audio (I) Pvt. Ltd.

Management Strategies for Successful Convergence

Mr. Raj Nair

Chairman, Avalon Consulting

  Floor Participation
 4.00 p.m. Parallel Business Session IIB
e-Theft and e-Law in the New World
  Chairman Mr. Shailesh Haribhakti
Managing Partner, Haribhakti & Co
  Speakers

Cyber-Crime

Mr. Vijay Mukhi

Managing Director, Vijay Mukhi’s Computer Institute

Mumbai: Safest Stock Exchange in the World

Mr. Rajnikant Patel

Managing Director & CEO, Bombay Stock Exchange Ltd.

Information Security and Good Corporate Governance

Mr. Kutty Nair

Chairman & Managing Director, MIEL e-Security Pvt. Ltd.

Anti-money Laundering

Mr. Hanuman Tripathi

Managing Director, Infrasoft Technologies Ltd.


 Day II : Saturday, March 17, 2007
 9.30 a.m. Parallel Business Session
IIIA : DTH v/s CAS v/s Wireless v/s Mobile v/s IPTV v/s ??
  Chairman Mr. N K Goyal
President, Indian Manufacturing Foundation
  Speakers

Different ways of sending Video to end users

Mr. Yugal Sharma
Country Manager, Polycom India

Creating a Backend for the Broadband System

Mr. Sumit Chowdhury

CIO, Reliance Communications Ltd.

The Web v/s the Rest

Mr. Anil Wanvari

Founder CEO & Editor-in-Chief, Indiantelevision Dot Com Pvt. Ltd.

Why Cable?

Mr. Ashok Mansukhani

Executive Director-Corporate Services
IndusInd Media & Communications Ltd.

IPTV v/s CAS v/s DTH

Dr. Ajay Chauhan

Executive Director, IOL Broadband Ltd.

 9.30 a.m. Parallel Business Session
IIIB:Software & BPO:Making India a Superpower

  Chairman

Mr. Harish Mehta
Chairman & Mg. Director, Onward Technologies Ltd

  Speakers

From Egovernance to eGOVERNANCE--transition necessary for becoming superpower

Mr. Vinay Dharmadhikari

Sr. Director, eGovernance Group, DIT, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology

Why a billion dollar BPO is small?

Mr. Atul Nishar

Chairman, Hexaware Technologies ltd.

BPO: The next industry driver
Mr. K. Chandrasekaran
President, Reliance Infostreams Pvt. Ltd.

Real Estate & BPO

Mr. Ashok Gulati

Chairman, Sun Realty India

 11.00 a.m. Tea / Coffee
 11.30 p.m. Business Session IV
Disruptive Innovation in Financial Markets
  Chairman

Mr. Dewang Neralla
Director & Chief Technology Architect
Financial Technologies India Ltd.

  Speakers

Mr. Vinay Agrawal
Executive Director – E-commerce, Angel Broking

Mr Giby Mathew
Executive Director, JRG Securities Ltd.

Dr Mohan Natarajan
Director, Kotak Securities Ltd.

Mr Jaideep Arora
Director, Sharekhan

 12.15 p.m.
Panel Discussion
Convergence is here : Are we Ready?
  Chief Guest

Mr. Kuldeep Goyal
Chief General Manager, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.

Mr. Piyush Goyal
Chairman & Managing Director, Flashnet Info Solutions India Ltd.

 1.00 p.m. Lunch
 2.00 p.m.
Business Session V: Special Debate on Future of Converged World
  Speakers

Role of Films in the Converged World

Mr. Pritish Nandy

Chairman, Pritish Nandy Communications Ltd.

Role of TV in the Converged World

Mr. Kunal Dasgupta 
CEO, Sony Entertainment Television Pvt. Ltd.

     

 

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