'The Best Minds and Thinkers to be part of 'Digital India Summit 2015'

Times Television Network, part of the Times of India Group, will be hosting the ‘Digital India Summit 2015’ on the 3rd and 4th of February 2015, in New Delhi. Based on the theme – ‘Digital India: Bits & Bytes of a Billion Dreams’, the summit will bring  key policy makers, digital leaders and influential thinkers face-to-face to deliberate suggestions that will prepare India to face technological challenges and devise solutions that will contribute towards realizing the implementation objectives of Digital India.

The Digital India Summit panel discussions will focus on the implementation of the 9 pillars of the Digital India Programme – Broadband Highways, Universal Access to Mobile Connectivity, Public Internet Access Programme, e-Governance: Reforming Government through Technology, e-Kranti: Electronic Delivery of Services, Information for All, Electronics Manufacturing, IT for Jobs and Early Harvest Programmes and other critical themes like Net Neutrality, Digital Wallet & App based service.

Arnab Goswami, Editor-in-Chief, TIMES NOW will kick-start the summit with a welcome address.

The event will be inaugurated by Shri. Ravi Shankar Prasad, Hon’ble Minister for IT & Telecom, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India, who will also deliver the keynote. The inaugural panel has leading business leaders such as Vineet Nayar, Former CEO, HCL Technologies & Founder, Sampark Foundation; Satyan Gajwani, CEO, Times Internet Ltd.; Dr. Jerome Booth, Economist & Leading Expert on Emerging Markets & Chairman, New Call Telecom; Dr. Ganesh Natarajan, Chairman, NASSCOM Foundation & CEO, Zensar Technologies; Ravi Venkatesan, Chairman, Social Venture Partners, India; Dr. Anand Agarwal, CEO & Director, Sterlite Technologies; Sanjay Kapoor, Chairman, Micromax and moderated by R. Sridharan, Managing Editor, ET NOW.
MK Anand, MD & CEO, Times Television Network said, “Times Television Network, with its powerful News platforms and audiences is uniquely poised to present important developmental issues and agenda points that needs the attention of policy makers, managers and entrepreneurs. Putting India on the fast track on the Digital highways is one such subject. We are proud to present India’s first and most comprehensive Information Communication Technology (ICT) forum - Digital India Summit 2015.

The summit has an impressive line-up of  leading minds of the digital revolution from across the industry, government, academia and civil society. It will provide a public platform to hold discussions that will prepare India to face technological challenges and devise solutions that will aim to contribute towards realizing the implementation objectives of Digital India.”

The initiative will also bring together many distinguished speakers such as Arnab Goswami, Editor in Chief, Times Now; Satyan Gajwani, CEO, Times Internet Ltd.; Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, Hon’ble Minister for IT & Telecom, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India; R. Sridharan, Managing Editor, ET NOW; Aruna Sundararajan, Administrator USO Fund & Chairman Cum Managing Director, BBNL; P. Balaji, Director, Regulatory & External Affairs, Vodafone India Ltd.; Marina Kaljurand, Deputy Foreign Minister, Govt. of Estonia; Sandeep Menon, Country Marketing Director, Google – India; Dr. Rajendra Kumar, Joint Secretary, DeitY, Govt. Of India;  Dr.Ajay Kumar, Joint Secretary, DeitY, Govt. Of India; R. Chandrashekhar, President, NASSCOM;  Avinash Ramachandra, Director – Government Affairs & Public Policy, Dell. The discussions will aim at transforming India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy by leveraging IT as a growth engine for a new India.

Weaving together a large number of ideas and thoughts spread across two days, the programme will put together a comprehensive vision by the eminent panelists, so that each of the pillars is seen as part of a larger goal to create a Digital India.