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