Speakers

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Time: IST=> 10:00 – 18:00 Hrs / CET=> 04:30 – 13:30 Hrs
Venue (Physical): Hotel Lalit Barakhamba Road, New Delhi
Virtual Platform: Zoom

Plenary Session: Vision and Mission for the EU – India Strategic Partnership
IST=> 0900 – 1000 Hrs / CET=> 0430 – 0530 Hrs	Registration & Tea/Coffee
IST=> 10:00 – 11:00 Hrs / CET=> 05:30 – 06:30 Hrs	Session Moderator: Mr. Dinesh Chand Sharma, Director Standards & Public Policy Project SESEI
	Official Opening of the Conference: Lamp Lighting Ceremony
	Welcome Address: Ms. Maive Rute, Deputy Director-General & Chief Standardization Officer, European Commission – DG GROW (Video Message: Click here)
	Welcome Address: Mr. Laurent Le Danois, Team Leader Cooperation Section, Delegation of the European Union to India
	Release of Study Report: on Circular Economy (e-Waste & Plastics), Connectivity in Smart Cities (Digital, Energy & Transport) and Data Privacy & Cyber Security Presentation on Key Findings and Recommendations from the Study Report by TERI and Combine Ways.
	Special Address: Shri. Chandan Bahl, Deputy Director General (IR&TISD, MSC and SCM), Bureau of Indian Standards
	Special Address: Shri. Vineet Mathur, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Consumer Affairs
	Keynote Address: Ms. Gunjan Dave, Member (Technology), DoT
	Vote of Thanks: Ms. Margot Dor, Director Government Affairs, ETSI
	Presentation of Green Certificates & Photo Ops
IST=> 11:00 – 11:30 Hrs / CET=> 06:30 – 07:00 Hrs	Tea / Coffee Break
	Director General & Industry Dialogue
IST=> 11:30 – 13:00 Hrs / CET=> 07:00 – 08:30 Hrs
	Session Moderator: Mr. Dinesh Chand Sharma, Director Standards & Public Policy Project SESEI
	Welcome Address: Mr. Olivier Peyrat, Director General of AFNOR, CEN Vice-President Policy (Video Message: Click here)
	Welcome Address: Mr. Luis Jorge Romero Saro, Director General ETSI (Video Message: Click here)
	Welcome Address: Mr Henri Gétaz, Secretary-General of European Free Trade Agreement (Video Message: Click here)
	Industry Address: Mr. Vipin Sahni, Executive Director, CII- Institute of Quality
	Industry Address: Mr. N Mohanram, Director General, TSDSI (Video Message: Click here)
	Special Address: Mr. Girish Sethi, Director TERI
	Industry Address: Mr. T. V. Ramachandran, President Broadband India Forum
	Special Address: Mr. R. K. Upadhyay, Chief Executive Officer, CDoT
	Special Address: Mr. G. Narendra Nath, Joint Secretary NSCS, National Security Council Secretariat
	Vote of Thanks: Mr. Shashi Dharan, Managing Director Bharat Exhibitions
	Presentation of Green Certificates & Photo Ops
IST=> 13:00 – 14:00 Hrs / CET=> 08:30 – 09:30 Hrs	Lunch Break

Parallel Sessions Session 1: Presentations by both EU and Indian sides sharing updates around Policy & Standards

IST=> 14.00 – 15.30 hrs / CET=> 09:30 – 11:00 Hrs

Circular Economy(e-Waste, Plastics)

Connectivity in Smart Cities
(Digitization, Energy & Transport)

Data Privacy & Cyber Security

Special Address: Dr. Sandip Chatterjee, Scientist G & Group Coordinator, Meity

Moderator: Mr. Michael Bucki, Counsellor & Head of Section – Sustainable Modernization, Delegation of the European Union to India

Speaker – Physical:

1. Mr. Arun Agarwal, Dy. Director General, DoT, Jammu, J&K, Ministry of Communications
2. Dr. Rachna Arora, Team Leader, EU-REI
3. Sh. Ajay K. Lal, Head (CHD), BIS

Speaker – Virtual:

4. Dr. Aparna Dhawan, Senior Counsellor, CII Institute of Quality
5. Mr. Christian Dworak, Chairperson of the European CEN-CENELEC SABE Circular Economy Topic Group
6. Mr. Justin Wilkes, Executive Director, ECOS
7. Mr. William Neale, Adviser on Circular Economy and Green Growth European Commission’s Environment Directorate General

Special Address: Shri A. Robert J. Ravi, DDG, Standards-R&D-Innovation,
Department of Telecommunications

Moderator: Mr. Laurent le Danois, Team Leader Cooperation Section, Delegation of the European Union to India

Speaker – Physical:

1. Mr. Sushil Kumar, Additional Director General Telecom, DoT
2. Mr. Jagan Shah, Resident Senior Fellow, Artha International
3. Mr. Kishore Narang, Narnix Technologies

Speaker – Virtual:

4. Prof. Ramesh Loganathan, Co-Innovation & Head Research Outreach, IIIT-Hyderabad
5. Mr. Roland Hechwartner, oneM2M
6. Mr. Christophe Colinet, Chairman, ETSI ATTM SDMC (Sustainable Digital Multiservice for Cities) working group.

Special Address: Shri Golok Kumar Simli,
Principal Advisor and Chief Technology Officer, Ministry of External Affairs

Moderator: Mr. Wim De Kesel, Group Vice-President, Standardization and Regulation, Legrand “CEN-CENELEC”

Speaker – Physical:

1. Mr. Ajay Kr Garg, Director & Head (Digital Tech & Law) Anand and Anand Associates
2. Dr. Debabrata Nayak, Head of Cyber Security Ericsson
3. Dr. Sriram Birudavolu, Data Security Council of India
4. Mr. Kshitij Bathla, Scientist-C/Deputy Director (LITD), BIS
5. Mr. P. K. Singh, DDG Security, DoT

Speaker – Virtual:

6. Mr. Lal Chandran, CTO iGrant.io
7. Dr. Walter Fumy, Chair CEN-CENELEC JTC 13 Cybersecurity and Data Protection
8. Mr. Slawomir Gorniak, Senior Cyber Security Expert, ENISA
9. Mr. Martin Michelot, Executive Director of TIC Council, Europe

IST=> 15:30 – 16:00 Hrs / CET=> 11:00 – 11:30 Hrs

Tea/Coffee Break

Parallel Session 2 – Panel Discussion for 60 Minutes, discussing the Gaps & Challenges as highlighted in the study report

IST=> 16.00 – 17.00 hrs / CET=> 11:30 – 12:30 Hrs

Circular Economy (e-Waste, Plastics)

Connectivity in Smart Cities
(Digitization, Energy & Transport)

Data Privacy & Cyber Security

Moderator: Mr. Souvik Bhattacharjya
Associate Director and Sr. Fellow, TERI

Panelist – Physical:

1. Dr. Rachna Arora, Team Leader, EU-REI
2. Dr. Anjali Taneja, Senior Policy Specialist and Group Head, CSTEP
3. Col. Suhail Zaidi (Retd), Director General, MAIT
4. Ms. Seema Shukla, Executive Director,

TIC Council, India

Panelist – Virtual:

5. Mr. Mathias Falkenberg, Program Manager, ECOS
6. Mr. Anders Andrae, Chair of WG EE M-ICT

Moderator: Mr. Jagan Shah, Resident Senior Fellow, Artha International

Panelist – Physical:

1. Mr. Sudhendu J. Sinha, Adviser NITI Aayog
2. Mr. Aurindam Bhattacharya, Group Leader, CDOT
3. Mr. Kishore Narang, Narnix Technologies
4. Mr. Lohith MV, Technology and Innovations Head @ Siemens Advanta India.
5. Ms. Margot Dor, Director Government Affairs, ETSI
6. Mr. Wim De Kesel, Group Vice-President, Standardization and Regulation, Legrand

Panelist – Virtual:

7. Mr. Andreas Neubacher, oneM2M & Deutsche Telekom (Confirmed – Virtual

Moderator: Dr. N Subramanian
Executive Director, SETS
Under O/o PSA to Govt. of India.

Panelist – Physical:

1. Mr. Vijay Madan, Advisor & Mentor TSDSI
2. Mr. Debabrata Nayak, Head of Cyber Security Ericsson
3. Mr. Narendra Nath, ITS, Joint Secretary NSCS
4. Dr. Sriram Birudavolu, Data Security Council of India
5. Mr. Sachin Gaur, Industry Expert on Data Privacy & Cyber Security

Panelist – Virtual:

6. Mr. Manojkumar Parmar, Founder, CEO & CTO, AIShield powered by Bosch.
7. Mr. Martin Michelot, Executive Director of TIC Council, Europe

IST=> 17:00 – 18:00 Hrs. / CET=> 12:30 – 13:30 Hrs

Valedictory Session:

Moderator: Mr. Dinesh Chand Sharma, Director Standards & Public Policy Project SESEI

Circular Economy (e-Waste, Plastics): Mr. Souvik Bhattacharjya, Associate Director and Sr. Fellow, TERI

Connectivity in Smart Cities (Digitization, Energy & Transport): Mr. Jagan Shah, Resident Senior Fellow, Artha International

Data Privacy & Cyber Security: Dr. N Subramanian, Executive Director, Society for Electronics Transaction & Security (SETS)

Closing Remarks by Session Moderators

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Venue (Physical): Hotel Lalit Barakhamba Road, New Delhi
Virtual Platform: Zoom