Curtain Raiser -The India Decade:

From L to R: Nandan Nilekani, Hon’ble Chairman, UIDAI; Ravi Venkatesan, Chairman, Microsoft Corporation (India); Mr G K Pillai, Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs; Sameer Kochhar Chief Editor & CEO, Skoch; M Ramachandran, Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development;Rajan Swaroop, Executive Director, Enterprise Services, Bharti Airtel Ltd; Hari Sankaran, Managing Director & CEO, IL&FS

The inaugural session for the 22st Skoch Summit had eminent personalities from various backgrounds who gave their invaluable inputs and provided it with a momentum which was carried forward in the other sessions throughout the two days of 22st Skoch Summit.

The Panelists in the session were Mr G K Pillai, Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, Mr Nandan Nilekani, Hon’ble Chairman, UIDAI, Dr M Ramachandran, Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, Mr Hari Sankaran, Managing Director & CEO, IL&FS, Mr Ravi Venkatesan, Chairman, Microsoft Corporation (India), Mr Rajan Swaroop, Executive Director, Enterprise Services, Bharti Airtel Ltd, Dr Deepak B Phatak, Skoch Development Foundation & Chair Professor, IIT-B, Mumbai...   more

Leveraging Urban Rural Continuum for Growth:

Power Panel on Leveraging Urban-Rural Continuum for Growth, it was chaired by Dr. M. Ramachandran, Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development.

In the panel were eminent speakers like, Mr Arvind Mayaram, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Rural Development; Dr Jairaj Phatak, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Panchayati Raj; Mr S R Rao, Additional Secretary, Department of Information Technology; Mr Ramchand Karunakaran, Managing Director & CEO, IL&FS Transportation Networks; Dr Bibek Debroy, Distinguished Fellow, Skoch Development Foundation; Mr B P Mukherjee, Director – Industry Solutions Group, SAP; Mr Rajat Mishra, Associate Vice President & Head of Public Sector & Defence, Siemens... more

Creating Safer Cities

From L to R: Durgadutt Nedungadi, Director, Marketing & Alliances,TSG,HP; Capt Raghu Raman, CEO & Secretary, National Intelligence Grid, Ministry of Home Affairs India; Maj Gen T M Mhaisale, Commander HQ Technical Group EME; Deepak Mhaisekar, Municipal Commissioner, Nanded Municipal Corporation; Dalbir Singh, National Secretary, All India Congress Committee; Sameer Kochhar Chief Editor & CEO, Skoch; Gursharan Dhanjal, Editor, Inclusion; Harald Jung, Head of Business Segment Civil & National Security, Siemens; Thomas Mathew, Deputy Director General, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses; Col Sandeep Sudan, Regional Head-North India, Mahindra Special Services Group.

Capt Raghu Raman, CEO & Secretary, National Intelligence Grid, Ministry of Home Affairs chaired the power panel on ‘Creating Safer Cities’. Panel discussed need of safety and security of Indian cities. Being centres of our economic development, they should be safe and secure so that every citizen can earn livelihood peacefully also safer cities attract more FDI.

The eminent panellists at this panel were Dr Thomas Mathew, Deputy Director General, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses; Maj Gen T M Mhaisale, Commander HQ Technical Group EME; Mr Durgadutt Nedungadi, Director, Marketing & Alliances, TSG, HP India; Mr Harald Jung, Head of Business Segment Civil & National Security, Siemens; Col Sandeep Sudan, Regional Head-North India, Mahindra Special Services Group.

Issue of safer cities becomes important for India because of the geopolitically disturbed neighbourhood, Naxalite and Maoists problems, sophisticated terror attacks and insecure hinterlands... more

Power Panel: Information Infrastructure - Unleashing Potential

From L to R:Sameer Kochhar Chief Editor & CEO, Skoch; Neeta Verma, Senior Technical Director, National Informatics Centre; N Vijayaditya, Controller of Certifying Authorities; Milan Rao, Bharti Airtel Ltd; Maj Gen T M Mhaisale, Commander HQ Technical Group EME; Deepak B Phatak, Skoch Development Foundation & Chair Professor, IIT-B, Mumbai; Mahesh Chandra, Deputy Director General, National Informatics Centre.

To unleash the potential of the available information infrastructure in the country and augment the same, there is a need to have 1) reliability of services, 2) robust computing infrastructure, 3) Unique identity of the user – UID would play important role in this regard, once it rolls out, and 4) content integrity.

The Power Panel on “Information infrastructure – Unleashing Potential” was chaired by Dr N Vijayaditya, Controller of Certifying Authorities and the power panellists of the session were Dr Mahesh Chandra, Deputy Director General, National Informatics Centre, Maj Gen T M Mhaisale, Commander HQ Technical Group EME, Mr Milan Rao, Bharti Airtel Ltd, Dr Deepak B Phatak, Skoch Development Foundation & Chair Professor, IIT-B, Mumbai, Ms Neeta Verma, Senior Technical Director, National Informatics Centre.