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INDIA TELECOM 2010
Broadband for All
9thDecember 2010
Venue: FICCI Auditorium, Federation House, Tansen Marg, New Delhi
INAUGURAL CEREMONY
10:30AM- 11:00AM Registration
Moderated by Dr. Amit Mitra, Secretary General, FICCI
11:00AM – 11:05AM Lighting of the Lamp
11:05AM – 11:10AM Welcome Address by Mr. Y.K. Modi
Past President, FICCI
11:10AM – 11:15AM Release of Report on India Telecom by Shri Kapil Sibal
Hon’ble Minister for Human Resource Development, Minister for
Communications and Information Technology & Minister of Science &
Technology and Earth Sciences, Government of India
11:15AM – 11:25AM Address by Shri Sachin Pilot
Hon’ble Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology,
Government of India
11:25AM – 11:35AM Address by Shri Gurudas Kamat
Hon’ble Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology,
Government of India
11:35AM – 11:50AM Key Note Address by Shri Kapil Sibal
Hon’ble Minister for Human Resource Development, Minister for
Communications and Information Technology & Minister of Science &
Technology and Earth Sciences, Government of India
11:50 AM – 11:55AM Concluding Remarks by Shri R. Chandrashekhar
Secretary, Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications
& Information Technology, Government of India
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INDIA TELECOM 2010
Broadband for All
9th-10th December 2010,
Venue: Hall No 7D & 7E, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi
PROPOSED PROGRAM
CONFERENCE SESSIONS
9.00 AM -01:00 AM CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
01.30 PM -03.30 PM SESSION I: Broadband as a Vehicle for Social and Economic Development
Venue: Hall No 7D & Chair: Shri R. Chandrashekhar, Secretary (T), Department of
7E, Pragati Maidan, Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology,
New Delhi Government of India
Panelists
• Role of Broadband in socio-economic development - Mr. Urs
Pennanen, Region Head – India, Nokia Siemens Networks Pvt. Ltd
• Broadband wireless access for rural & remote India - Mr. P Balaji,
Vice President Communications, Corporate Affairs & Business
Development, Ericsson India Pvt. Ltd.
• Enriching lives of customers through Broadband - Mr K Srinivas
President - Telemedia Business, Bharti Airtel
• Broadband – The Road to Investment & Innovation - Dr. Viswanath
Poosala, Head of Bell Labs India, Alcatel-Lucent
• Driving Inclusive Growth through the broadband - Examples from
other Emerging Markets- Mr. Sigve Brekke, Executive Vice President &
Head of the Telenor Asia operations & Managing Director, Uninor India
• Wide broadband network: Way to bridge digital divide - Mr. Declan
Byrne, Marketing Director, WiMAX Forum
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Question & Answer
Summing-Up by Chair
03.30 PM -03.45 PM Tea/Coffee Break
03.45 PM -05.30 PM SESSION II: Strategies for boosting broadband penetration in India
Venue: Hall No 7D & Chair : Shri Chandra Prakash, Member (Technology), Department of
7E, Pragati Maidan, Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology,
New Delhi Government of India
Panelists
• 3G & BWA- enabling broadband - Mr. Jaikishan Rajaraman, Senior
Director, Asia-Pacific, GSMA
• Wireless broadband-an operator outlook - Mr. Vsevolod Rozanov
CEO & President, Sistema Shyam Teleservices Ltd.
• Compute, Connectivity & Content : Three Essentials for Broadband
penetration in India - Mr. Vivek Vasishtha, Director-Technical Policy
and Standards, Corporate Affairs, Intel South Asia
• Broadband: Enabling New Opportunities - Sir Terry Matthews,
Chairman, Wesley Clover, Canada
• Enabling mobile broadband for future communications - Dr. C.S Rao,
President, Strategy & Corporate Affairs, Reliance Communications
• GPON: Future proof solution for rural broadband - Mr. Vipin Tyagi,
Director, Center for Development of Telematics (C-DOT)
Question & Answer
Summing-Up by Chair
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Day 2 (10th December 2010, Friday)
09:00AM - 10:00AM CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
Venue: Hall No 7D &
7E, Pragati Maidan,
New Delhi
10:00AM - 11:30AM SESSION III: Accelerating Growth Through Next Generation VAS
Venue: Hall No 7D & Chair: Dr. Vijayalakshmy K. Gupta, Member (Finance), Department of
7E, Pragati Maidan, Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology,
New Delhi Government of India
Panelists
• DECT technology for real value add on wire line - Mr. Erich
Kamperschroer, Chairman, DECT Forum
• New Frontiers in Mobile Entertainment - Mr. Neeraj Roy, MD &
CEO, Hungama Mobile
• Killer Applications in VAS for India - Mr. Kumar Ramanathan ,Chief
Marketing Officer, Vodafone Essar Ltd.
• Solutions for NGN Growth - Dr. Hung Song, Vice President, Global
Marketing Group, Telecommunication Systems Division, Samsung
Electronics Company Ltd.
Question & Answer
Summing-Up by Chair
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11:30AM - 12:30PM OPEN HOUSE SESSION
Venue: Hall No 7D & Chair: Shri Chandra Prakash, Member (Technology), Department of
7E, Pragati Maidan, Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications and Information
New Delhi Technology, Government of India
Co-Chair: Shri S. C. Misra, Member (Services), Department of
Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications and Information
Technology, Government of India
Panelists
1. Shri Subodh Kumar, Additional Secretary (T), Department of
Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications & IT, GoI
2. Shri Ajay Bhattacharya, Administrator, USOF, Department of
Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications & IT, GoI
3. Shri Ram Kumar, Advisor (Operations), Department of
Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications & IT, GoI
4. Shri Ashok Chandra, Wireless Advisor, Department of
Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications & IT, GoI
5. Shri Malay Shrivastava, Joint Secretary (T), Department of
Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications & IT, GoI
6. Shri N K Joshi, DDG (SU), Department of Telecommunications,
Ministry of Communications & IT, GoI
7. Shri A K Srivastava, DDG (AS), Department of Telecommunications,
Ministry of Communications & IT, GoI
8. Shri Ram Narain, DDG (Security), Department of Telecommunications,
Ministry of Communications & IT, GoI
9. Shri Shankar Aggarwal, Joint Secretary, Department of Information
Technology, Ministry of Communications & IT, GoI
10. Panelist from Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
12:30 PM –12:45PM Tea/Coffee Break
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12:45 PM –02:30PM SESSION IV: Indian Telecom Sector : Future Roadmap & New
Opportunities
Venue: Hall No 7D &
7E, Pragati Maidan,
New Delhi Chair: Shri S. C. Misra, Member (Services), Department of
Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications and Information
Technology, Government of India
Panelists
• A Radically New Next Generation Telecom Network for the Video
Internet and Smartphone Era - Mr. John Gerald Dunne, Founder &
Chief Technology Officer, Intune Networks Ltd
• Best practices in Infrastructure Management - Mr. Sharat Chandra,
President & Chief Operating Officer - Strategy & New Technologies,
GTL Limited
• Opportunity & Challenges in Infrastructure Management - Mr.
Umang Das, Viom Networks Limited
• Green Telecom - Mr. Tim Wells, Vice President Business Development
Global, SPX Communication Technology
• Strategies for sustainable growth through broadband penetration -
Mr. A Sethuraman, Executive Director, Huawei Telecommunications (I)
Co. Pvt. Ltd.
• Creating IPR through supporting R&D to enable indigenous
manufacturing - Mr. N.K. Srivastava, Sr.DDG, Telecom Engineering
Center
Question & Answer
Summing-Up by Chair
02:30PM – 03:15PM Lunch
SESSION V: Regulatory & Policy Framework
Venue: Hall No 7D &
7E, Pragati Maidan, Chair: Dr. J S Sarma, Chairman, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
New Delhi
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Panelists
• Regulatory environment for growth and innovation - Ms. Jacquelynn
L. Ruff, Vice President, International Public Policy and Regulatory
Affairs, Verizon Communications Inc
• Regulation of next Generation access network - Shri Gopal Das,
CMD,BSNL
• Emerging issues in broadband regulation - Mr. Sean Collins, Global
Chair, Communications & Media, KPMG
Question & Answer
Summing-Up by Chair
04:45PM – 06:30PM VALEDICTORY SESSION
Venue: Hall No 7D & 7E, Moderated by Dr. Amit Mitra, Secretary General, FICCI
Pragati Maidan, New
Delhi • Welcome Address by Dr. Amit Mitra, Secretary General, FICCI
• Special Address by Ms. Suvi Linden, Hon’ble Minister of
Communications, Finland
• Concluding Remarks by Shri Sachin Pilot, Hon’ble Minister of State
for Communications and IT, Ministry of Communications & Information
Technology, Government of India
• Vote of Thanks by Shri R. Chandrashekhar, Secretary (T), Department
of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications & Information
Technology, Government of India
07.00PM onwards Networking Dinner
Venue: Hub, Habitat
World, India Habitat
Centre, Lodhi Road, New
Delhi[