About The Event
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) is celebrating its Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav Week from November 29 – December 5, 2021 for a period of 7 days at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
Driven by our Hon’ble Prime Minister’s vision of an AatmaNirbhar Bharat, Digital India is paving the way forward to fulfill our PM’s vision of a rising new India, where technology has the power to unleash the vast potential of our citizens, and improve their lives, bringing in transparency and inclusive development. Propelled by the AatmaNirbhar movement, MeitY’s AKAM Week will conduct different activities such as theme based sessions comprising of key speakers from the Government, Industry and Academia, launches, exhibitions, demos and award ceremonies for winners of several Challenges that MeitY has conducted with diverse stakeholders from school children to startups to budding entrepreneurs.
Event Speakers
Here are some of our speakers
Shri Abhishek Singh, IAS
President & Chief Executive Officer
Dr Rajendra Kumar
Additional Secretary, MeitY
Debjani Ghosh
President of NASSCOM
Ajay Sawhney
Secretary of MeitY
R. S. Sharma
CEO, National Health Authority
Event Schedule
Here is our event schedule
Session 1 |
Plenary Session with Hon’ble MEIT & Hon’ble MoS
P&CEO, NeGD (Welcome Address)
AS, MeitY (Address)
President, NASSCOM
Secretary, MeitY (Address)
Hon’ble MoS (Keynote Address)
Launches (MSH, Book: Use Cases of AI, Video, Assisted Access on UMANG Services)
Hon’ble MEIT (Keynote Address)
Moderator- P&CEO, NeGD
Session 2 |
Public Digital Platforms enabling Good Governance
Secretary, MeitY
AS, MeitY
DG, NIC
P&CEO, NeGD
CEO, National Health Authority
Secretary, School Education
Rajeev Chawla, Fruits
Vijay Kumar, Secretary, Planning, Meghalaya
Moderator- P&CEO, NeGD
Session 3 |
Presentation and Interaction on State/UT Initiatives
Moderator- P&CEO, NeGD
Session 4 |
Interaction with States/UTs
Session 1 |
Leveraging AI to build solutions at population scale
PSA to Hon’ble PM
Ajay Sawhney, Secretary, MeitY
Prakash Kumar, Wadhwani AI
Secretary, Telangana
P&CEO, NeGD
JS, Saurabh Gaur (Moderator)
Session 2 |
Use of Emerging Technologies for Social Empowerment-Blockchain, AR/VR, Drone, IoT, GIS
CEO, Centre for Excellence (IoT)
Lalitesh Katragadda (GIS)
Amit Sinha (Drone)
AR/VR (MSH)
Neeraj Mittal, Secy, Tamil Nadu (Blockchain)
DG, NIC
IoT/ Blockchain (MSH)
Amitesh Sinha, JS, eGovernance (Moderator)
Session 3 |
Government Initiatives for strengthening startup ecosystem post-pandemic;
(Round Table Discussion)
Program Directors & Heads from MeitY/MSH,
Startup India
Atal Innovation Mission/NITI Aayog,
BIRAC
DST/NSTEDB
IDEX/MoD
Session 4 |
New Paradigms & Trends for Tech -Startups Funding (Panel discussion by VCs, Angels, Investment Platforms for funding Tech-startups)
Mohan Das Pai (3one4 Capital)
Inderneel Chetle
Mahavir Pratap SharmaTiE Global
Shilpa - Omidyar Network
Anjani Bansal- Gates foundation
BVR Naidu
AbhinavChaturvedi - Excel partner
LetsVenture
Seqoiua
Blume VC
Session 4 |
GRAND FINALE- Responsible AI for Youth- Top 20 Projects + Showcase
Award to winners of BSF & various challenges- 4 Projects
Hon’ble MEIT
Hon’ble MoS
Secretary Sir
Joint Secretary Sir
Session 1 |
Panel discussion 1: Scaling up production and Making India Export hub for Mobile phone& IT Hardware
Session 1 |
Panel discussion 2: Making India AtmaNirbhar in Electronic Components
Session 1 |
PMaking India AtmaNirbhar in IoTs, Drones, Emerging Technologies and New Age Devices
Session 1 |
Developing a Semiconductor &Display Ecosystem in India
Session 1 |
Networking Lunch
Report BackSession: With Shri. AshwiniVaishnaw, Hon’ble Minister of Electronics & IT, Communications and Railways
Welcome Address by Shri Saurabh Gaur, Joint Secretary, MeitY
Short movie on Achievements@75 in ESDM
Report Back Session
Awards Ceremony
Address by Shri Ajay Sawhney,Secretary, MeitY
Keynote address byShri Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Hon’bleMoS, Electronics & IT and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
Special address by Shri. AshwiniVaishnaw, Hon’bleMinister of Electronics & IT, Communications and Railways
Vote of Thanks by Shri S. K. Marwaha, Senior Director, MeitY
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