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 |
Theme
Inspire. Innovate. Collaborate.
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Venue and Date
8-9th March 2018 | New Delhi