23rd Convergence India 2015 Expo

Conference Programme
Day 1: 21 January 2015
0900 - 1000 hrs
1000 - 1100 hrs

Registration
Opening Ceremony

1130 - 1330 hrs

Panel Discussion: Connecting India

Welcome Address by: Mr. Prem Behl, Chairman, Exhibitions India Group
Keynote Address by: Mr. Manoj Kohli, MD & CEO, Bharti Airtel Ltd.
Special Address by Guests of Honour:
Shri Rakesh Garg, Secretary, Department of Telecommunications*
Shri Ram Sewak Sharma, Secretary, Department of Electronics &
Information Technology*
Mr. P K Purwar, CMD, MTNL
Mr. William Wong, Global CEO, UTStarcom
Mr. N K Goyal, President, CMAI
Special Address by Guest of Honour: Honble Minister of State
Colonel Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Ministry for Information &
Broadcasting*
Inaugural Address by Chief Guest: Honble Minister Shri Ravi Shankar
Prasad, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology *
Vote of Thanks by: Mr. Umang Das, Chief Mentor, Viom Networks Ltd.

Hall 12 
Conference Hall - Krishna

Inaugural Conference Session

Chair & Opening Remarks:

Mr. Akhil Gupta, Vice Chairman, Bharti Enterprises
Panelists:
Mr. P.K. Purwar, CMD, MTNL
Mr. Anshoo Gaur, President, Head of Amdocs India
Dr. Zhaochen Huang, Managing Director & Vice President,
UTStarcom
Mr. Shriraj Gaglani, Global Head of Corporate Business
Development, Broadcom
Mr. Pankaj Mohindroo, National President, ICA
Mr. Sanjay Kaul, Managing Director, SP, Cisco India and SAARC
Mr. Rajiv Bawa, Chief Representative Officer, Telenor
Mr. Rahul Nehra, Joint Managing Director, Highstreet Riviera
Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. and National Secretary, SCTE India

Broadband Hall 12
Conference Hall - Ganga

1430 - 1600 hrs

Session: LTE/4G Adoption: A key growth driver for a connected India
Moderator:
Ms. Taru Agarwal, Country Head, Business Wire India
Panelists:
Mr. Vipin Tyagi, Executive Director, C-Dot
Mr. Roy Wittert, VP Marketing and Sales (APAC), Cambium
Networks Limited
Mr. Vikram Tiwathia, Dy. Director General, Cellular Operators
Association of India
Mr. Mombasawala Mohmedsaeed, General Manager (Applications), Keysight Technologies, India
Mr. Sameer Rawal, Director - Strategy and Marketing Huawei
Telecommunications
1600 1615 hrs - Tea/Coffee break

Hall 12 
Conference Hall - Krishna

Digital India - The Big Picture

1430- 1600 hrs

Session: Digital India- Advanced solutions for mass market
digitisation
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Moderator:
Mr. Sridhar T. Pai, Vice President, APAC, Dataxis Research
Panelists:
Mr. Brett Tischler, Associate Product Line Director, Broadcom
Mr. John McCorkindale, Director- Business Development, Cisco
Mr. Patrice Fryson, Vice President-Sales, Wyplay
Mr. Raymond Tse, Vice President- Sales, Novel Super TV
Mr. Steven Soenens, Vice President Product Management and
Product Marketing, Newtec
Mr. Avinash Mittal, CIO, Uninor
1600 1615 hrs - Tea/Coffee break

1615 1745 hrs

Session: Internet for All- Driving a new wave of E-commerce,
media, education for a connected India.

Hall 12
Conference Hall - Ganga

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1615 1745 hrs

Session: Post Digitization: Explore new business opportunities for
DTH, Cable and IPTV video services

21-23 January 2015, Hall 12, Pragati Maidan

Connecting India
Conference Programme
Day 1: 21 January 2015 Contd...
Chairperson & Moderator:
Mr. Viraj Malik, Managing Director & CEO, PK Online Ventures
Pvt. Ltd.

Chairperson & Moderator:

Mr. Ashok Mansukhani, Director, Indusind Media and
Communications Limited

Presentations by:
Mr. Vivek Sood, CEO, Telenor
Dr. Rishi Mohan Bhatnagar, Vice President & Head - Digital
Enterprises Services, Tech Mahindra

Presentations by:

Panelists:
Mr. Vivek Sood, CEO, Telenor
Dr. Rishi Mohan Bhatnagar, Vice President & Head - Digital
Enterprises Services, Tech Mahindra
Mr. Ashish Kaistha, Regional Director, Sales & Alliances, SingTel
Global (India) Pvt Ltd
Ms. Lathika Regunathan, Executive Director, Mann India
Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Dr. Jayshree K Tangirala, Vice President- Product & Services,
Vodafone Shared Services India
Mr. Aman Sehgal, Head of WiFi Portfolio & Head of North
America Sales & Business Development, UTStarcom Inc.
Vodafone Shared Services India
Mr. Aman Sehgal, Head of WiFi Portfolio & Head of North
America Sales & Business Development, UTStarcom Inc.

Mr. Toby Finch, Major Accounts Director, Ericsson

Mr. Peter Simpson, VP Product Marketing, Pace International
Panelists:
Mr. Amit Kharbanda, CEO, Mybox
Mr. Peter Simpson, VP Product Marketing, Pace International
Mr. Steve Christian, VP - Marketing, Verimatrix Inc.
Mr. Toby Finch, Major Accounts Director, Ericsson
Mr. Piyush Mishra, Director (Sales & Technology), Surbhi
Broadband Pvt. Ltd.
Mr. Paulus C. W. Chau, Senior Regional Manager, Asia Satellite
Telecommunications Company Limited

Day 2: 22 January 2015

Hall 12
Conference Hall - Krishna

Hall 12
Conference Hall - Ganga

1000 1130 hrs

Session: Enabling Green Telecom in a Digital India

1000 1145 hrs

Session: OTT Transforming the future of TV and competition
landscape of the broadcast space

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Chairperson & Moderator:
Shri Tarun Kapoor, Joint Secretary, Ministry of New and
Renewable Energy, Government of India*

Chairperson & Moderator:

Mr. Rahul Nehra, Jt. Managing Director, Highstreet Riveria
Entertainment & Co-Founder VASC Association

Presentation by:
Mr. Sharat Chandra, Chief Mentor COSLIGHT India

Presentations by:
Mr. Taral Parikh, Solutions Expert, Nagra India
Mr. Swastik Chakraborty, Senior Datacenter Interoperability
Architect, HP Servers APJ - DIA Team
Mr. Jagannathan Balaji, Founder, President and CEO, RiverSilica
Mr. Sanjiv Kainth, Country Manager, India Head,
Irdeto Access India Private Ltd.

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Connecting India
Conference Programme
Day 2: 22 January 2015 Contd...
Panelists:
Shri. Sunil Kumar, Director (HR), MTNL
Mr. Saurabh Chaturvedi, Director, DoT*

Panelists:
Ms. Vidya S Nath, Director, Digital Media, Global Innovation
Center (GIC), Frost & Sullivan

Mr. Sudhir Prasad, COO, Viom Networks

Mr. Gautam Chhabra, Sr. Director- Cable & DTH Sales, Harmonic

Mr. T.R. Dua, Executive Director, TAIPA

Mr. Einar Vgmo, Product Director, Conax

Mr. Rajesh Srivastava, Regional Director, COSLIGHT India

Mr. Letchu Narayanan, Vice President, South Asia,

CSG International

Mr. Saji Mathew, Head- Network Implementation &

Infrastructure Management, VP- Tata Teleservices
Mr. Devender Singh Rawat, Chief Executive Officer, Bharti
Infratel Ltd*

Mr. Sriram Senthil Kumar, Head- Marketing and Strategy,

Riversilica
Mr. Nishikant Ameira, Head of Engineering, Nagra India

Mr. Prashant Singhal, Partner Telecom Industry, E&Y*

1145 -1200 hrs - Tea/Coffee break
1130 -1145 hrs - Tea/Coffee break

Hall 12
Conference Hall - Krishna

Hall 12
Conference Hall - Ganga
1200 1330 hrs

1145 1330 hrs

Session: TV White Space & its utility for mobile services

CEOS Power Panel

Chairperson & Moderator:

Prof. Abhay Karandikar, Professor & Head EE Coordination
TICET, IITB

Session: Next Gen Television: Reshaping content with new solutions

for multiscreen content delivery and interactive experiences

Presentations by:
Mr. Prashant Shukla, Chief technology Officer, Microsoft Topic
Panelists:
Shri B M Baveja, Scientist G & Group Coordinator, Department of
Electronics & IT, Ministry of Communication & IT
Mr. Rajat Mukarji, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Idea Cellular Ltd.
Mr. Shyam Ponappa, Distinguished Fellow of the Centre for
Internet and Society

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Chairperson & Moderator:
Mr. Jay Chauhan, CEO, Skyhub
Presentations by:
Mr. Carl Walter Holst, CEO, Appear TV
Mr. Matthias Greve, CEO & Founder, ABoX42

Mr. S Chandrasekhar, Group Director, Government Affairs &

Public Policy, Microsoft

Panelists:
Mr. Carl Walter Holst, CEO, Appear TV

Mr. Parag Naik, Chief Technology Officer, Saankhya Labs Pvt Ltd

Mr. Matthias Greve, CEO & Founder, ABoX42

Prof. Debabrata Das, Dean - Academic and R&D, IIIT-B

Mr. G.D. Singh, Managing Director, Digivive

Mr. Rajiv Kapur, MD, Broadcom India

1330 1430 hrs Networking Lunch

Mr. Jagannathan Balaji, Founder, President and CEO, RiverSilica

1330 1430 hrs Networking Lunch

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Connecting India
Conference Programme
Day 2: 22 January 2015 Contd...
Hall 12
Conference Hall - Krishna

Hall 12
Conference Hall - Ganga

1430 1600 hrs

1430 1600 hrs

Session: M2M adoption- challenges, growth & potential

Session: TV VAS- Drive for growth of Digital TV India to

experience a quality Television viewing

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Moderator:
Mr. Neil Carey, Director of Sales EMEA, MultiTech Systems Inc.
Panelists:
Mr. Campbell Elder, EMEA Technical Director, MultiTech
Ms. Reena Malhotra, Director (Networks and Technologies),
DOT, Ministry of Communications & IT, Govt. of India
Mr. Sandeep Puri, Global Key Advisor, Oracle Key Accounts,
Oracle India
Mr. Shailesh Kanolkar, Technical Director, One Network
Mr. Gurunathan Dhanapal, International Sourcing Manager,
Verizon Enterprise Solution
Narang N. Kishor, Mentor & Principal Design Architect,
Narnix Technolabs Pvt. Ltd.

Chairperson & Moderator:

Mr. KV Seshasayee, Founder & Director, Win Broadband
Services Pvt. Ltd.
Presentation by:
Mr. Robert Vermeer, Global Product Marketing Manager,
Sony Device Solutions Business Group
Topic : Digital Terrestrial TV Receiver Development
Panelists:
Mr. Sachin Tummala, CEO, Corpus Software Ltd.
Mr. Ravi Gupta, Executive Director, DDC(MSO)
Mr. Bibhu Prasad Rath, President & CEO, Ortel Communication
Mr. Peter Simpson, VP Product Marketing, Pace International
Mr. Ravi Manik, Director- Business Development, Broadcom
International Pte Ltd.
Mr. Sudhish Kumar GS, Director, Mirai Communication
1600 1615 hrs - Tea/Coffee break

1600 1615 hrs - Tea/Coffee break

Hall 12
Conference Hall - Krishna

Hall 12
Conference Hall - Ganga
1615 1745 hrs

1615 1745 hrs

Session: : The changing face of broadcasters in a Converged world

Session: Cloud solutions for businesses: The new paradigm to

create secure and smarter workplace

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Moderator:
Mr. Raman Kalra, Executive Director & Partner IBM Global
Business Services, India/South Asia
Panelists:
Mr. Steven Chen, VP, Product & Marketing, UTStarcom
Mr. Vijay Sethi, VP & CIO, Hero MotoCorp Ltd.
Mr. Mark Cousins, Elemental Technologies
Mr. Ambarish Gupta, CEO & Founder,
Knowlarity Communications
Mr. Neeraj Mediratta, CEO, Ace Data Devices

Moderator:
Mr. Amitabh Srivastava, Regional Head - South Asia at AIB,
Association of International Broadcasters*
Panelists:
Mr. Sanjay Bhatt, Head-Asia Pacific, BT Broadcast
Ms. Anurradha Prasad, Chairperson & Managing Director,
B.A.G Network
Mr. Raghwesh Asthana, CEO, Mahuaa Plus
Mr. M. Regunathan, Director, Raj TV
Mr. Amit Tiwari, Director, Country Head Media & Digital,
Philips India

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Connecting India
Conference Programme
Day 3: 23 January 2015
Hall 12
Conference Hall - Krishna

2nd Telecom Summit 2015 on Rural Broadband Technologies and

Applications for Citizen Services
0930 0955 hrs Registration

Hall 12
Conference Hall - Ganga
1000 1330 hrs
FTTH Council Asia Pacific Conference
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1000 1130 hrs

Session: Broadband Applications for Model Village (Adarsha Gram)
Session Overview and Moderated by:
Mr. Osama Manzar, Member of Working Group, DEITY
Chairperson:
Ms. Aruna Soundararajan, Additional Secretary & Administrator
(USOF)
Panelists:
Dr. Rajendra Kumar, JS (E-Govt), DeitY
Mr. V Umashankar, JS (T), DoT
Mr. A S Mathew, JS (MoRD)
Mr. P. K. Aggarwal, Director (Planning & Operations), BBNL
Mr. P. Balaji, Director Regulatory and External Affairs, Vodafone
Prof. Hegde, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur
Prof. Dharmendra Singh, Prof-in-charge, RICET, IIT Roorkee
1130-1145 hrs - Tea/Coffee break
1150-1320 hrs
Session: Rural Broadband Technologies
Session Moderated by:
Prof. Abhay Karandikar, Prof-in-Charge, TICET
Chairperson:
Ms. Rita Teaotia, Special Secretary (T), DoT
Panelists:
Mr. A. K. Bhargava, Member (Technology), DoT
Mr. R. K. Bahuguna, CMD, Rail Tel
Mr. Vipin Tyagi, Executive Director, C-DoT
Mr. Prashant Shukla, National Technology Officer,
Microsoft India
Prof. Saif K Mohammed, Department of Electrical Engineering,
IIT Delhi
1320-1325 hrs
Vote of thanks by: Mr. Pankaj Mohindroo, National President, ICA
1325 hrs Onwards Networking Lunch
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