Global Technology Summit 2019

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 

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 

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