18th Convergence India 2010, International Exhibition & Conference, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, India, 23-25 March 2010
     
 
Conference Programme
 
     
 
Workshops
 
     
 
Convergence India Technology Summit:
“Digital Convergence... Empowering a Billion Lives”

1130 - 1330 hrs Inaugural Conference Session [Hall 8 (First Floor)]


18 March 2009


Inaugural Conference Session


Chairperson: Shri. R. N. Prabhakar, Member – Technology, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India

Distinguished Panelists:

  • Shri. Ajay Bhattacharya, Administrator, USO Fund
  • Mr. Jagjit Singh Kohli, Managing Director & CEO, Digicable Network India Pvt. Ltd.
  • Mr. Ashok Venkatramani, CEO, Media Content & Communications Services (India) Pvt. Ltd.
  • Mr. Subhendu Mohanty, Country Head & Senior Director - Home & Networks Mobility Business, Motorola India
  • Lt. Col. (Retd) H. S. Bedi, Chairman, Tulip Telecom Limited
  • Mr. Vijay Yadav, Managing Director South Asia, UTStarcom
  • Mr. Deval Parikh, Chief Officer - Handset, VAS & Procurement, Virgin Mobile India

Track I

Hall 8 (First Floor) Track II Hall 8 (Ground Floor)
 
1430 – 1740 hrs Session: Broadband: Capturing the Indian Market (Panel Discussion)

Chairperson: Ravi Sharma,
CEO, Phi Televentures Pvt. Ltd.

Speakers:
  • Prasad Dasika, Director Asia Pacific Marketing, Ciena
  • Paritosh Shah, DGM, BSNL
  • Lalit K. Chandak, President, Span Group
  • A. Sethuraman, Executive Director, Huawei Telecommunications (I) Co. Pvt. Ltd.
  • Sunil Kulkarni, President, Oxigen Services India Pvt. Ltd.

1555 – 1615 hrs Tea/coffee break

1615 – 1740 hrs Session Continued

  • Hakon Dahle, CTO, Tandberg
  • Dr. Mo Shakouri, Vice President, WiMAX Forum
  • Chandan Mendiratta, Vice President- Systems Engineering, Service Providers, India and SAARC, Cisco
  • S.S Prasad, CTO, Tirumala Seven Hills
  • Amitabh Singhal, Director, Telex Consulting Services Pvt. Ltd.
  • Narender Sharma, Chairman & Managing Director, Chandigarh Consulting Pvt. Ltd.


 

1430 – 1600 hrs Session: Regulatory Aspects of the Broadcast Industry (Panel Discussion)

Key areas to be covered:

  • Content Regulation
  • Regulations regarding operators & services

Chairperson: Lt. Col. V C Khare, Technical Advisor, BECIL

Panelists:

  • Simon Twiston Davies, CEO CASBAA
  • Anshuman Sharma, Chief Legal & Regulatory Affairs Officer, Tata Sky Ltd
  • Roop Sharma, President, Cable Operators Federation of India

1600 – 1620 hrs Tea/Coffee break


Track III Hall 8 (Ground Floor)
 

1620 – 1740 hrs Session: DTH, MSOs and Cable – The Battle for Supremacy

Chairperson: N. Arjun, Executive Director, Bharti Airtel Ltd.

Speakers:

  • Tryggve Arveschoug, CEO, Conax Access Systems Private Ltd
  • Subhendu Mohanty, Country Head, Home & Networks Mobility Business, Motorola
  • Doug Mahy, Tandberg TV
  • Himanshu Dave, Regional Manager, South Asia (Business Development), Cisco
19 March 2009

Track IV

Hall 8 (First Floor) Track V Hall 8 (Ground Floor)
 

1000 – 1330 hrs Session: Mobile Information Society – Strategy & New Business Models

Chairperson: Tarvinder Singh, Director Marketing & Product Management, Home & Networks Mobility, Motorola

Speakers:

  • Nick Hawkins, Director Service Providers APAC, Polycom
  • Ron Agam, Director - Product Management & Business Development RAD Data Communications Ltd
  • Lars Persson, Director Technology, Senor Lambda Group
  • Dr. Sarath Kumar, Vice President – Engineering (Ethernet Products), Tejas Networks

1130 -1145 hrs Tea/Coffee break

1145 – 1330 Session Continued

  • Vishal Agarwal, Product Marketing Manager, Ditech Networks
  • Sanjay Dhar, Director, RGB Networks
  • M. Arun Kumar, DGM (R & D), ITI Ltd
  • Joerg Krahnert, Director Business Development, Net Biscuits

 

1000 – 1330 hrs

Workshop by Center for Content Protection (CCP) and Motion Pictures Distributors Association (MPDA)

Theme: “The Future Role of Watermarking and Fingerprinting for Content Distribution”

About CCP:
The Centre for Content Protection (CCP) promotes the research, awareness and implementation of technological solutions for the protection and exploitation of digital and analogue media content.

Some of the CCP members are Thomson, Nagravision, NDS, Microsoft, Verimatrix, Walt Disney etc.

Speakers:

  • Rajiv P. Dalal, Director, Motion Pictures Distributors Association (MPDA) India
  • Steve Christian, VP Product Management, Verimatrix Inc.
  • Rajeev Fernandes, Head Business Development India, NDS
  • Eric Diehl, Security Technology Director, Thomson
  • Gautam Gandhi, New Business Development, Google
  • Mr. Sanjiv Kainth, Country Manager India and Head – South Asia, Irdeto
  • Vidar Sanvik, Product Manager Advanced Security, Conax AS
  • Isa Seow, Director, Center for Content Protection

1115 – 1130 Tea/Coffee break


1330 – 1430 hrs – Networking Lunch

Track VI

Hall 8 (First Floor)

Track VII Hall 8 (Ground Floor)
 

1430 – 1630 hrs Workshop by ECI Telecom 

Theme: “ Migrating the Backhaul Network - Technology Alternatives and Transition Paths”

Speakers:

  • Gil Epshtein, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Network Services Division, ECI Telecom
  • Yoav Valadarsky, Associate Vice President, Solutions Marketing, Network Solutions Division, ECI Telecom
  • Jagannath Radhakrishnan, System Engineer, ECI Telecom India

 

1430 – 1530 hrs Session: Satellite in Broadcasting – Emerging Technologies

Speakers:

  • Alan Dishington, Sales Director, NDS India
  • Alan Smith, Senior Director Marketing - Satellite Operator Segment, NXP Semiconductors
  • David Ball, Regional Vice President, Asia Pacific, Intelsat

Track VIII

Hall 8 (First Floor)

Track IX Hall 8 (Ground Floor)
 

1650 – 1750 hrs Session: Place of WIMAX in the Mobile Broadband Revolution

Chairperson: C.S. Rao, President, WiMAX Forum India

Speakers:

  • K.P Venugopal, Chief Operating Officer, Nu Tek
  • Siavash Alamouti, CTO of Intel's Mobile Wireless Groups
  • Protip Ghose, Vice President Sales & Marketing, Telsima Communications Pvt. Ltd.
  • Yatish Pathak, CEO & Founder, Soma Networks Software Engineering Pvt. Ltd.
  • Q&A


 

1545 – 1745 hrs Workshop by CISCO

Theme: “Transforming MSOs to an Experience Provider”

  • Yongsub Lee, Business Development Manager, APAC, Cable and Video Group, Cisco
  • Srinivasa Ketavarapu, Senior Vice President, Services Delivery, Cisco Service Provider

1615 – 1630 Tea/Coffee break


20 March 2009

Track X

Hall 8 (First Floor)

Track XI Hall 8 (Ground Floor)
 

1000 – 1335 hrs Session: VAS in Indian Telecom Industry – Successful Growth Strategies

Chairperson: Girish Trivedi, Deputy Director Telecom ICT Practice, Frost & Sullivan

Speakers:

  • Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Managing Director, One 97
  • Kunal Bajaj, Managing Director, BDA
  • Jagdish Mitra, CEO, CanvasM
  • Ronan Casey, Senior Vice President, Acision

1130 – 1150 tea/Coffee break

1150 – 1335 Session Continued

  • Aveek Roy, Regional Director, VAS & OEM Sales, AudioCodes
  • Deepak Swamy, AVP Head & Strategy, Infosys Technologies Ltd



 

1000 – 1135 hrs Session: Transition to a New Television Experience: Indian Perspective on the Myths and Realities of Offering IPTV

Chairperson: Vijay Yadav,
Managing Director South Asia, UTStarcom

Speakers:

  • William Simmelink, President, CopperGate
  • Yongsub Lee, Business Development Manager, APAC, Cable and Video group, Cisco

1130 – 1150 Tea/Coffee break

 

Track XII Hall 8 (Ground Floor)
 

1150 – 1330 hrs Session: The Infosecurity Challenge: How do the Good Guys Win?

Chairperson: Kartik Shahani, Regional Director – India/SARRC, McAfee India Sales Pvt. Ltd.

Speakers:

  • P.K. Lim, Managing Director – South Asia & ANZ, Blue Coat Systems Inc
  • Dr. Kaustubh Phanse, Wireless Architect, Airtight Networks

 

1330 – 1430 Networking Lunch
 
 

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