Emtech India 2018

Overview

Following a tremendous response last year, Mint and MIT Technology Review brought to you the 3rd chapter of EmTech India – an iconic platform where technology, business, and culture converged. It brought together business leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs, and change makers who are passionate about addressing major global issues by turning ideas into solutions.

On this stage, we presented cutting-edge technologies in the context of innovation, disruption and societal impact.

The world’s most influential leaders and innovators came to EmTech India.

Highlights

EmTech India – March 2018

DAY 1 – March 8, 2018 (Thursday)
Time		Speakers
8:30 AM	Registration and Breakfast
9.30 AM	Setting the context	Leslie D’Monte, National Technology Editor, Mint
9:32 AM	Welcome Address	R Sukumar, Editor-in-chief, Hindustan Times
9.35 AM	Welcome Address	David Rotman, Editor, MIT Technology Review
9.37 AM	TBA
9.55 AM	Keynote: Understanding the Omni-channel customer with AI	Fiona Tan, Sr VP, Consumer Technology, Walmart Labs
10.20 AM		Fiona Tan in conversation with David Rotman
10.25 AM	Meet the Innovators Under 35 from India	Antoinette Matthews, VP-Licensing & Communities, MIT Technology Review (First batch)
10.40 AM	Keynote: Future of Payments	Edwin Aoki, Chief Architect at PayPal
11.05 AM NETWORKING BREAK — 20 MTS.
11.25 AM	Future of Payments	Ajeet Khurana, Head of the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Committee of India (BACC), unit of IAMAI
11.40 AM		Monika Halan, Consulting Editor, Mint in conversation with Edwin and Ajeet
11.55 AM	Special Address	V Vaidyanathan, Chairman, Capital First Group
12.05 PM FIRST QUIZ
12.10 PM	Short keynote: How to make India truly Digital	R Chandrashekhar, President, Nasscom
12.30 PM	Short keynote: Unbundling the India stack	Sharad Sharma, co-founder, ISPIRT
12.50 PM	Digital Transformation 2.0 : The rise of Artificial Intelligence	Ralf Dreischmeier, Senior Partner & Managing Director, Global Leader, Technology Advantage Practice, BCG & Rajiv, Partner & Director, New Delhi, BCG
NETWORKING LUNCH BREAK 1 HR. 15 MTS.
2.30 PM	Short keynote: Going digital: The Mahindra Group way	Anish Shah, Group President of Strategy, Mahindra Group
2.50 PM	Short keynote: Reskilling Digital India with Robotics	Prof. Kavi Arya, IIT-Bombay
3.10 PM	Keynote: Digital disruption in a hyper-connected world	Graeme Beardsell, MD, Asia Pacific & Japan, Akamai Technologies
3.30 PM		Graeme Beardsell in conversation with David Rotman
3.35 PM NETWORKING BREAK 20 MTS.
4.00 PM	Cyberlaw in a digital world	N.S. Nappinai, Advocate, Supreme Court and Bombay High Court
4.15 PM	Redefining the Lingual face of Digital India	Umang Bedi, President, Dailyhunt, Verse Innovation Pvt. Ltd
4.30 PM	Future of communication with 5G	Larry Paulson, MD, Qualcomm India
4.50 PM SECOND QUIZ
5.00 PM	CEO PANEL DISCUSSION: Road to a truly Digital India: Opportunities, Challenges and the Way Forward	* Karan Bajwa, Managing Director, IBM * Prakash Mallya, Managing Director, Sales & Marketing Group, Intel India * Alok Ohrie, President and MD (India Commercial), Dell EMC * Dipesh Shah, Corporate SVP & MD; Samsung R&D Institute India–Bangalore * GNV Subba Rao, MD, ABB R&D, India * Akshay Kothari, Country Manager and Head-Product, LinkedIn India * Moderator: Shereen Bhan, Managing Editor, CNBC-TV18
6.00 PM	CLOSING REMARKS
Networking over Tea and Snacks

DAY 2 – March 9, 2018 (Friday)
Time		Speakers
8.30 AM	Registration & Breakfast
9.32 AM	Setting the context	Leslie D’Monte, Technology Editor, Mint
9.35 AM	Opening Remarks/ Welcome Address	David Rotman
9.40 AM	Keynote: Building smart infra with cloud and AI	Raghu Raghuram, Chief Operating Officer, Products and Cloud Services, VMware
10.05 AM		Raghu Raghuram in conversation Leslie D’Monte
10.10 AM	Keynote: AI to serve (or, break language barriers for) Indian users	Barak Turovsky, Head of Product, Google Translate and Machine Intelligence
10.35 AM		Barak Turovsky in conversation with David Rotman
10.40 am	Meet the Innovators Under 35 from India	Antoinette Matthews, VP-Licensing & Communities, MIT Technology Review
10.52 AM FIRST QUIZ
10.55 AM NETWORKING BREAK 20 MTS.
11.15 AM	Keynote: Role of Big Data in today’s Digital World	Oliver Schabenberger, Exec VP, COO & CTO, SAS
11.35 AM		Oliver Schabenberger in conversation with David Rotman
11.40 AM	Special Address	Arvind Gupta, CEO, myGOV
12.00 PM	Keynote:Towards smarter transportation	Phil Allen, Vice-President for Sales at TomTom Maps for the Asia–Pacific (APAC) region
12.25 Noon	Making AI work for you: The Tata way	Sauvik Banerjee, VP-Digital Initiatives, Advisory to Group Co’s & CTO of TATACLIQ at Tata Industries Ltd
12.40 PM SECOND QUIZ
12:45 – 2:00 PM	NETWORKING LUNCH 1 hr 15 MTS.
2.00 PM	Understanding digital product development	Shanmugh Natarajan, MD & VP (Products), Adobe Systems, India
2.20 PM	Operating Models for the Digital Age	Richard Windischhofer, SVP, Collaborative Operations, ABB Industrial Automation Division, Finland
2.40 PM	Using AI to improve Healthcare — Part-I	Vijayananda J., Chief Architect and Fellow, Data Science and AI, Philips
2.55 PM	Using AI to improve Healthcare — Part-II	Geetha Manjunath, CEO and CTO, NIRAMAI Health Analytix
3.10 PM THIRD QUIZ
3.15 PM	Automating videos with deep learning	Venkat Prasad, Co-founder, CTO & COO, Culture Machine Media
3.30 PM	Deep Learning: Present and Future	Arijit Biswas, Machine Learning Scientist, Amazon India
3.45 PM	Collaborative telepresence in real worlds using VR	Hemanth Satyanarayana is the Founder & CEO of Imaginate
4.00 PM	Making water potable	Sunil Dhole, Director and Co-Founder, Technorbital Advanced Materials
4.10 PM NETWORKING BREAK 15 MTS.
4.30 PM	3D Printing in India	Jiten Saini, CTO, Shapecrunch
4.40 PM	Cobots – Collaborative Robots	Pradeep David, General Manager, Universal Robots – South Asia
4.50 PM	Future of Transportation: Make in India	Sibesh Kar, Founder and Team Leader, Hyperloop India
5.00 PM	Investing in Data & Automation – Insights from Startups in India	Paul Meinshausen, Data Scientist in Residence, Montane Ventures
5.10 PM	Identifying a Nextgen startup	Manish Singhal, Founding Partner, pi Ventures
5.20 PM		David Rotman in conversation with Paul and Manish
5.30 PM	Meet the Innovators Under 35 – awards	Antoinette Matthews, VP-Licensing & Communities, MIT Technology Review
5.45 PM	Ceremony Honoring Winners of Innovators Under 35-India edition
Closing Remarks & Hi-Tea