Join Us at 38th Edition of Technology Sabha 2025 - India’s Digital Revolution Needs You!
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 01:00 pm – 03:30 pm | Lunch & Registration |
| 03:00 pm - 03:05 pm | Inauguration with Lamp Lighting by the Dignitaries |
| 03:05 pm - 03:10 pm |
Welcome Address: India Ascending: A new era of Digital Leadership -The 38th Edition of Technology Sabha Srikanth RP, Editor, Express Computer, The Indian Express Group |
| 03:10 pm – 03:50 pm |
Inaugural Session - India Ascending: A new era of Digital Leadership Dhirendra Kumar Tiwari, Additional Chief Secretary, Good Governance and Information Technology, Punjab Amod Kumar, Joint Secretary (Digital Governance Division), Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, India Archana Singh, Secretary, Information Technology and Communications Department, Rajasthan |
| 03:50 pm – 04:05 pm |
Shaping India’s AI Future : Kapil Makhija, Vice President Technology Cloud at Oracle India |
| 04:05 pm – 04:20 pm |
Empowering Agriculture and Health System through AI for Resilience and an Inclusive Future : Prashant Rai, Senior Business Solution Manager – Customer Advisory, SAS India |
| 04:20 pm – 04:35 pm |
Key Address: Transforming Service Delivery: The DBT Model for Tech-Enabled Governance Saurabh K Tiwari, Additional Secretary, Direct Benefit Transfer, India |
| 04:35 pm - 04:50 pm |
AI For All- Leading the Digital Leap Together Sumit Wadhwa, Director and Head of Enterprise Government Business, Samsung India Electronics Pvt. Ltd. |
| 04:50 pm - 05:05 pm |
AI & Open Source: Powering India’s Ascent in Digital Leadership: Mangesh Surve, Senior Director - Solution Architecture, Red Hat India & SA |
| 05:05 pm - 05:20 pm |
Key Address: Smart Policing in the Digital Age: Driving Safety Through Technology and Innovation Vinit Dev Wankhede, Director General of Police, Headquarters, Chennai |
| 05:20 pm - 05:30 pm | Tea Break |
| 05:30 pm - 05:45 pm |
Key Address:Strengthening India’s Digital Backbone: The Role of NIXI in Enabling Faster and Safer Access Dr Devesh Tyagi, Chief Executive Officer, National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) |
| 05:45 pm - 06:00 pm |
DNS Security: Laying the foundation for an Impenetrable Fortress : Jiten Pareek, Senior Solutions Architect, Infoblox |
| 06:00 pm - 06:15 pm |
Shaping India’s Digital Future : Ranjit Metrani, President, CtrlS Datacenters |
| 06:15 pm - 06:30 pm |
Building Digital India's backbone: From last mile to the AI core : Amit Agrawal, President, Techno Digital |
| 06:30 pm - 08:00 pm | Stall Visits / Free and Easy |
| 06:30 pm - 07:30 pm | Power Discussion : Cloud-Powered GenAI: Transforming Governance with Intelligence and Scale by Oracle |
| 08:00 pm - 08:15 pm |
Key Address: Auditing through AI & Analytics: A New Paradigm for Smarter Governance Naveen Jain, Secretary, Finance (Expenditure) Department, Rajasthan |
| 08:15 pm - 08:30 pm |
Fortifying Cyber Resilience : Hiral Sharma, Manager Systems Engineering, Fortinet |
| 08:30 pm - 09:00 pm | Technology Sabha Excellence Awards & Partners Felicitation |
| 09:00 pm - 11:00 pm | Networking Cocktails and Dinner |
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 08:00 am - 09:30 am | Breakfast |
| 08:30 am - 09:30 am | Power Discussion: Improving Citizen Centric Services with Data and Trustworthy AI by SAS India |
| 09:30 am - 09:45 am |
Key Address: India's 5G–6G Roadmap: From Indigenous Core to Global Leadership Dr. Rajkumar Upadhyay, CEO and Chairman, Project Board, C-DOT |
| 09:45 am - 10:00 am |
Delivering and Securing India’s AI-Driven Future with F5 : Vimal Ignatius, Lead - AI Ecosystem Strategy & Partnership, F5 |
| 10:00 am - 10:15 am |
Transforming Governance with Innovative display solutions : Vipul Jain, National Vertical Manager - Government Business, Samsung Display Solutions, Samsung India Electronics Pvt. Ltd |
| 10:15 am - 10:45 am |
Key Address: Digital Panchayats: Building Rural Egovernance from the Ground Up Sushil Kumar Lohani, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Panchayati Raj, India Key Address: Innovating at Scale: Leveraging IT & Electronics for Inclusive Governance in Uttar Pradesh Anurag Yadav, Principal Secretary, Information Technology and Electronics, Uttar Pradesh |
| 10:45 am - 11:15 am |
Empowering customers to build scalable & resilient Data Center infrastructure for their Digital Initiatives : Vinay H. P, Director - IT Business Unit, Rittal |
| 11:15 am -11:30 am |
Key Address: Trusted AI for Trusted Governance: Securing Digital Public Goods at Scale Dr. Rajesh Kumar Mishra, Managing Director, NICSI |
| 11:30 am - 11:45 am |
Reimagining Governance with AI & Collaboration Tech : Sandeep Kumar Bhagat, Regional Business Manager - North & East, Logitech |
| 11:45 am - 12:00 pm |
Securing India’s digital frontiers : Akamai’s approach to Cybersecurity for the Public Sector: Arvind Ganesan, India Business Head - BFSI, Enterprise & Public Sector, Akamai Technologies |
| 12:00 pm - 12:15 pm |
Innovating Public Systems: How Platforms Like GeM are Shaping the Next Decade of Governance Ajit B Chavan, Additional CEO, Government eMarketplace (GeM) |
| 12:15 pm - 12:30 pm |
AI Powered Automation : Lakshmi S, Automation Technical Specialist, IBM Technology, IBM ISA |
| 12:30 pm - 12:45 pm |
Security Operations Reloaded-Embedding Threat Simulation into the Daily Grind. "Fuel Your Playbooks with Adversarial Knowledge—So You’re Not the Next Headline" : Kapil Awasthi, Picus Security |
| 12:45 pm - 01:00 pm |
Amplify Run time Security and Compliance and with Progress Solution : Arpan verma, Senior Sales Engineer APAC region, Progress Software |
| 01:00 pm - 02:00 pm | Networking Lunch |
| 02:00 pm - 02:15 pm |
Key Address: Bridging Digital Divide - Inclusiveness Holds the Key for Digital Transformation Abhishek Jain, Secretary (Public Works, Finance, Planning, Economics & Statistics, Twenty Point Programme), Himachal Pradesh |
| 02:15 pm -03:00 pm |
Panel Discussion: Building a Secure, Scalable, and Sovereign Digital India: Strategies for the Next Decade Moderator:Srikanth RP, Editor, Express Computer,The Indian Express Group IPS Sethi, Deputy Director General, National Informatics Centre Dr P K Singh, Commissioner, Agriculture, Department of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare, India Mukesh Kumar Gupta, Sr. Director-IT, National Informatics Centre Dr. K.P. Karthikeyan, Managing Director, ELCOT, Information Technology and Digital Services Department, Tamil Nadu Sanjay Kumar Das, Additional Secretary, Science & Technology Dept, West Bengal Jitender Mehta, Director – Cloud Engineering, Oracle India Vinay H. P, Director - IT Business Unit, Rittal |
| 03:00 pm - 03:15 pm |
Securing India's Digital Leap: A Zero Trust Approach to Government and Public Sector Transformation : Brijesh Miglani, Solutions Engineering Leader, Netskope Rohit Bhat, Solutions Engineer, Netskope |
| 03:15 pm - 03:30 pm |
Building Digital India's back-bone: From last mile to the AI core : Amit Agrawal, President, Techno Digital |
| 03:30 pm - 04:15 pm |
Panel Discussion: Tech-Driven Transformation: How IT Innovation is Powering Next-Gen Governance and Strengthening Social Structures Moderator:Srikanth RP, Editor, Express Computer,The Indian Express Group Dhirendra Kumar Tiwari, Additional Chief Secretary, Good Governance and Information Technology, Punjab Anurag Yadav, Principal Secretary, Information Technology and Electronics, Uttar Pradesh Ashwani Kumar, Director, Directorate of Information Technology, Electronics & Communication (DITEC), Assam T. Ravi Kiran, Commissioner, Electronic Service Delivery (MeeSeva), Dept. of IT, Electronics & Communications, Telangana Kanhuraj Bagate, Director, Information Technology, Department of IT, Maharashtra Dr Binu Francis, Joint MD, Kerala Water Authority and Executive Director, Kerala Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Agency Aashish Jain, Principal Business Manager – Customer Advisory, SAS India |
| 04:15 pm - 04:30 pm |
Governance in Real time- Activating Data for National Impact : Miti Sinha, Director Government & Public Sector, Qlik |
| 04:30 pm - 04:45 pm |
Avaya Next Generation Solutions in Government Vertical : Ankush Sharma, Account Director Government Sales, Avaya |
| 04:45 pm - 05:00 pm |
Zoho for Government- Made in India, Made for the World : Haresh, Regional Head – Government Affairs, Zoho |
| 05:00 pm - 05:45 pm |
Panel Discussion: Building the Digital State: Executive Dialogue on Policy, Tech, and People Moderator:Srikanth RP, Editor, Express Computer,The Indian Express Group Ajay Chagti, Secretary, Health & Family Welfare, Chandigarh Sanjay Katkar, Managing Director, Maharashtra Information Technology Corporation Limited, Maharashtra Kabir Shirgaonkar, Director (ITE&C), Department of Information Technology, Electronics and Communications, Goa Munish Chandan, Addl. Chief IT Officer and Dy. CISO, Haryana Dr Abhishek Roy, CTO, Department of Personnel & Administrative, and e-Governance, West Bengal Anuj Mittal, Regional Specialist Sales Leader Red Hat India & South Asia Nitin Gupta, Director - Public Sector Sales, Fortinet |
| 05:45 pm - 06:00 pm | Technology Sabha Excellence Awards |
| 06:00 pm - 09:00 pm | Free and Easy |
| 07:00 pm - 08:00 pm | Power Discussion on DNS Data as a Goldmine – In Zero Trust Framework by Infoblox |
| 07:00 pm - 08:00 pm | Power Discussion on API 360 : Delivering superior digital experiences with Effective, scalable API discovery , Access and Security platform by F5 |
| 08:30 pm - 11:00 pm | Sufi Night & Gala Dinner |
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 07:30 am - 09:30 am | Breakfast and Departure |
Express Computer is one of India's most respected IT media brands and has been in publication for 33 years running. We cover enterprise technology in all its flavours, including processors, storage, networking, wireless, business applications, cloud computing, analytics, green initiatives and anything that can help companies make the most of their ICT investments. Additionally, we also report on the fast emerging realm of eGovernance in India.
