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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:


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: 

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:

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