16th March 2008 Build-up of 16th Convergence India 2008 commenced in 6 exhibition halls.

19th March 2008 1100 hrs

Official opening of the 16th Convergence India 2008 exhibition & conference by

Chief Guest
Shri Siddhartha Behura, Secretary, Department of Telecommunications Ministry of Communications & IT.

Guest of Honor
Shri R.S.P. Sinha, CMD, MTNL

Other dignitaries on the Dias
Mr. Carmine D’ Aloisio, Minister-Conselor for Commercial Affairs Embassy of USA

Mr. S. Narayana, President, IETE

Mr. Rajesh Chharia, President, ISPAI

Mr. Bharat Bhatia, Regional Director-India, SAARC & S.E. Asia Motorola

Shri. N.K. Goyal, Chairman Emeritus, TEMA

Inaugural Conference Session
Panel Discussion: “Convergence…Empowering a billion lives”

Chair & Opening Remarks
Shri R.N. Prabhakar, Member, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India

Keynote Address
Shri S.D. Saxena, Director- Finance, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited

Distinguished Panelists
Mr. Vince Pizzica, Head- Solutions, Strategy & Marketing, Alcatel- Lucent

Mr. Eric D. Stonestorm, President & CEO, Airspan Communications

Ms. Laura Howard, CMO, ECI Telecom

Lt. Gen. S.P. Sree Kumar, PVSM, AVSM, ADC, Signal Officer in Chief Indian Army

Mr. Brian Caskey, Vice President, Worldwide Marketing & Advanced Technology, UT Starcom Inc.

Mr. Sanjay Malik, Sales Director, Nokia Siemens Networks, India

Track I: Next Generation Network

Chairperson
Shri. M. S.S. Rao, DDG- Marketing, BSNL

Track II: Mobile Convergence

Chairperson
Mr. Chen Yunshui, CEO, Airsys

Track III: Creating the Business of Infotainment

Chairperson
Mr. A.K. Bhatnagar, Chief Engineer- R&D, Prasar Bharti

Track IV: Business Drivers & Solutions in Telecom Service & Application

Chairperson
Mr. Neeraj Gulati, Vice President & Managing Director, CIENA India

Chairperson
Mr. Heman K. Chadha, Managing Director, Real Time Systems

Track V: Developing Mobile Communications in Rural Areas- Role of Stake Holders

Chairperson
Mr. N Parameswaran, Pr. Advisor (Regulatory Enforcement), TRAI

Chairperson
Shri A.N. Rai, DDG (RN), BSNL

Track VI: DTH/ IPTV/ Mobile TV

Chairperson
Mr. Reid Stephenson, VP Marketing & Government Affairs, Protostar Ltd.

Track VII: Information Theft: Security Issues, Strategy & Challenges / Data Management for the enterprise

Chairperson
Shri. A.S.A. Krishnan, Sr. Director, DIT

Track VIII: MEF Workshop “Carrier Ethernet”

Workshop Moderator
Mr. Siva Ramamoorthy, Head of Marketing- Tejas Networks

Track IX: GTL Workshop “Operations & Maintenance as a Managed Service”

Welcome Address & Workshop Moderator
Mr. Sharat Chandra, COO & President - GTL International

Track X: Dialogic Workshop “Leverage on Dialogic HMP technology to build value added applications”

Keynote Address
Mr. Jyoti Handa, Regional Sales Director, South Asia, Dialogic Corporation