This year's Global Technology Summit focused on the theme, The Future of Data. The summit convened policymakers, industry experts, and scholars to debate and deliberate crucial questions on data privacy, 5G technologies, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and financial technology in the age of digital globalization.
Check out highlights from six key conversations at the summit below.
Day-Wise Streams
- Day 1
- Day 2 Part 1
- Day 2 Part 2
- Day 3
Agenda
Wednesday, December 4
11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
KnowledgeTransfer@CarnegieIndia Workshops
2:30 to 4:00 p.m.
Registration
4:00 to 4:20 p.m.
Welcome Remarks
Rudra Chaudhuri, director of Carnegie India
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, founders committee at Carnegie India and chairperson & managing director of Biocon
4:20 to 4:30 p.m.
Special Message to Carnegie India's Global Technology Summit
S. Jaishankar, external affairs minister of India (by videolink)
4:30 to 5:00 p.m.
Keynote Address
T.S. Tirumurti, secretary (economic relations) in the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India
5:00 to 5:45 p.m.
Identity, Payments, and Data Empowerment
Nandan Nilekani, co-founder & non-executive chairman of the Board at Infosys and former chairperson of the Unique Identification Authority of India
5:45 to 7:00 p.m.
Data Flows and Data Access
Rajat Kathuria, director and chief executive at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations
Ralf Sauer, deputy head of the Unit for International Data Flows and Protection at the Directorate General for Justice and Consumer, European Commission
Robert Garverick, minister counselor for economic, environment, science & technology affairs at the U.S. Embassy, India
Shivnath Thukral, public policy director at Facebook
Suranjali Tandon, assistant professor at the National Instittute of Public Finance and Policy
Chair: Rudra Chaudhuri, director at Carnegie India
Thursday, December 5
8:30 to 10:15 a.m.
Registrations
10:15 to 10:30 a.m.
Opening Remarks
10:30 to 11:00 a.m.
Keynote Address
Ashwath Narayan C.N., deputy chief minister of Karnataka and minister for higher education, information technology, biotechnology, and science and technology in the Government of Karnataka
11:00 to 11:45 a.m.
Future of Data
Alok Prasanna, senior resident fellow and team lead at Vidhi Karnataka
Evan Feigenbaum, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, founders committee at Carnegie India and chairperson & managing director of Biocon
T.V. Mohandas Pai, chairman of Manipal Global Education Services and co-founder and chairman of Aarin Capital
Chair: Shekhar Gupta, editor-in-chief and chairman of ThePrint
11:45 a.m. to 11:55 p.m.
Artificial Intelligence and its Implications
Kai-Fu Lee, chairman and chief executive officer of Sinovation Ventures and president of Sinovation Ventures Artificial Intelligence Institute (by videolink)
11:55 to 12:30 p.m.
India's Digital Economy: Opportunities and Challenges
Ajit Mohan, vice president and managing director India at Facebook
Chair: Shekhar Gupta, editor-in-chief and chairman of ThePrint
12:30 to 12:40 p.m.
Shaping the Digital Future
Matt Sheehan, fellow at MacroPolo
12:40 to 1:30 p.m.
Governing A.I.: The Challenges of Autonomous Decision Making
Chinmayi Arun, fellow at the Information Security Project at Yale Law School and affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center of Internet and Society at Harvard University
François Godement, senior advisor for Asia at Institut Montaigne
Matt Sheehan, fellow at MacroPolo
Umakant Soni, cofounder of AI Foundry
Chair: Evan Feigenbaum, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Lunch
2:30 to 2:50 p.m.
Evolution of Fintech in India
Sahil Kini, chief executive officer and founder of Setu
2:50 to 3:15 p.m.
Building Technology for Bharat
Jeyandran Venugopal, chief product and technology officer at Flipkart
3:15 to 4:15 p.m.
Fintech: Balancing Innovation and Regulation
Nandkumar Saravade, chief executive officer of Reserve Bank Information Technology Private Limited
Philipp Von Restorff, deputy chief executive officer at Luxembourg for Finance
Smriti Parsheera, fellow at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy
Sopnendu Mohanty, chief fintech officer at the Monetary Authority of Singapore
Chair: Suyash Rai, fellow at Carnegie India
4:15 to 4:30 p.m.
Coffee Break
4:30 to 5:00 p.m.
Special Address
K. VijayRaghavan, principal scientific advisor to the Government of India
5:00 to 5:45 p.m.
Health Security: Combating Pandemics
Frederik Kristensen, deputy chief executive officer at the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations
Krishna Ella, chairman & managing director at Bharat Biotech International
Chair: Gagandeep Kang, executive director of the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute
5:45 to 6:15 p.m.
Drones: Assessing Opportunities and Challenges
Ananth Padmanabhan, dean of academic affairs at Sai University and visiting fellow at the Centre for Policy Research
Friday, December 6
9:00 to 11:25 a.m.
Registration
11:25 to 11:30 a.m.
Opening Remarks
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
5G and Data Security
Aruna Sundararajan, former secretary in the Department of Telecommunications, Government of India
François Godement, senior advisor for Asia at Institut Montaigne
Gulshan Rai, former national cyber security coordinator, Government of India
Kanav Monga, managing director of the Virgo Group
Chair: Rajesh Bansal, senior adviser at Carnegie India
12:30 to 1:00 p.m.
Data Explosion in the Auto Industry
Aravind Doss, associate vice president of Harman International
1:00 to 1:45 p.m.
Data Protection in the Digital Age
B.N. Srikrishna, former judge of the Supreme Court of India
Bhairav Acharya, public policy manager at Facebook
Chair: Rahul Matthan, partner at Trilegal
1:45 to 2:30 p.m.
Governance of Dual-Use Technologies
George Perkovich, Ken Olivier and Angela Nomellini Chair and vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, distinguished fellow and head of the Nuclear and Space Policy Initiative at the Observer Research Foundation
Tom Uren, senior analyst at the International Cyber Policy Centre at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute
Chair: Rakesh Sood, distinguished fellow at the Observer Research Foundation
2:30 to 2:40 p.m.
Concluding Remarks
Rajesh Bansal, senior adviser at Carnegie India
2:40 to 3:30 p.m.
Lunch
Speakers Spotlight
- Ajit Mohan
- Alok Prasanna
- Ananth Padmanabhan
- Aruna Sundararajan
- Aravind Doss
- Ashwath Narayan C.N.
- B.N. Srikrishna
- Bhairav Acharya
- Chinmayi Arun
- Evan Feigenbaum
- François Godement
- Frederik Kristensen
- Gagandeep Kang
- George Perkovich
- Gulshan Rai
- Jeyandran Venugopal
- K. VijayRaghavan
- Kanav Monga
- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
- Krishna Ella
- Matt Sheehan
- Nandan Nilekani
- Nandkumar Saravade
- Philipp von Restorff
- Rahul Matthan
- Rajat Kathuria
- Rajesh Bansal
- Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan
- Rakesh Sood
- Ralf Sauer
- R.K. Misra
- Robert Garverick
- Rudra Chaudhuri
- S. Jaishankar
- Sahil Kini
- Shekhar Gupta
- Shivnath Thukral
- Smriti Parsheera
- Sopnendu Mohanty
- Srinath Raghavan
- Suranjali Tandon
- Suyash Rai
- Tom Uren
- T.S. Tirumurti
- T.V. Mohandas Pai
- Umakant Soni