(Artificial Intelligence – Applied Research and Industry Focus)

Ananth
Ananth Krishnan
Chief Technology Officer, TCS

Great responsibility follows inseparably from great power. As the horizon of this digital age unfolds in front of us, we stand at the cross-roads today which gives rise to two differing perspectives about the times to come.

P
P Anandan
CEO, Wadhwani AI
Ajay
Ajay Sawhney
Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
Neha
Neha Kumar
Asst. Professor, Georgia Tech
PP
PP Chakraborty
Director, IIT Kharagpur
Rajesh
Rajesh Krishnan
CEO, ITS Planners and Engineers
C
C V Jawahar
Professor, IIIT Hyderabad
Dr.
Dr. Shailesh Kumar
Chief Data Scientist, CoE AI/ML, Jio

How will machines impact what humans do in the future? A critical question that confronts policy makers is how to think about human employment in an era of increasingly intelligent machines that are capable of sophisticated decision making.

Kevin
Kevin C. Desouza
Professor, QUT Business School
Amit
Amit Basole
Associate Professor of Economics, Azim Premji University
Jayant
Jayant Sinha
Minister of State, Civil Aviation
Surjit
Surjit Bhalla
Member Eac, Chairman, Oxus Research & Investments

‘Black Box’ is the term used to refer to obscurity around functioning of an algorithm between its input(s) and the output(s). This germinates a trust deficit between humans and AI enabled systems in place.

Rajat
Rajat Moona
Director, IIT Bhilai
Subhashish
Subhashish Banerjee
Professor in CSE Department, IIT Delhi
Rajeev
Rajeev Rastogi
Technical Director, Amazon
Ajay
Ajay Bhushan Pandey
CEO, Unique Identification Authority of India
Gautam
Gautam Shroff
Vice, TCS
Shyam
Shyam Divan
Sr. Advocate, Supreme Court
Sameer
Sameer Garde
President, CISCO India

Performances by Shabana Azmi, Javed Akhtar and Jaswinder Singh

Education must be seen from multiple perspectives when mulling the role of AI in this industry. Education is not only necessary for making an individual job-ready but is also important in making him/her understand concepts like principles & morals, acknowledge likes-dislikes, differentiate between good-bad etc.

G.
G. S. Raghavan
Professor, IIIT- Bangalore
Sudha
Sudha Ram
CSE and IS, University of Arizona
Anand
Anand Rangarajan
engineering director, Google
Delip
Delip Rao
CEO, Joostware AI Research
S
S Sadagopan
Director (President), IIIT-Bangalore
Sujit
Sujit Kumar
Founder and CEO, MindMatrix.io
Anil
Anil Srivastava
Advisor, Niti Aayog

AI is set to have a revolutionary impact in the Manufacturing Industry and be a key driving factor of Industry 4.0. AI powered manufacturing includes automation taking over repetitive jobs on the one hand and creating better designs, processes and solutions on the other hand leading to higher productivity, better quality and optimum utilization of resources.

PP
PP Chakraborty
Director, IIT Kharagpur
Venkat
Venkat Runkana
Chief Scientist Manufacturing Engineering, TCS
Aloknath
Aloknath De
CTO, Samsung India
Luis
Luis Gonzalez
Head of ASEAN ANZ, Element AI
Satyam
Satyam Priyadarshy
Chief Data Scientist, Halliburton
Sudeshna
Sudeshna Sarkar
Professor, IIT Kharagpur

821 Million! That’s the estimated number of people who did not get enough food in 2017. Thanks to climate change, among other factors, this number has been rising continuously since 2014. Increasing arid regions, changing seasonality and an ever-increasing population demands an agricultural revolution across the globe.

Timothy
Timothy Gonsalves
Director, IIT Mandi
Suhas
Suhas Wani
Sceintific Cordinator, ICRISAT
Tv
Tv Prabhakar
CSE, IITK
P
P Srinivasu
Global Head, Digital Farming Initiatives, TCS
Abhijit
Abhijit Joshi
Vice President, Jain Irrigation
Sriram
Sriram Raghavan
Vice President, IBM Research & CTO IBM India/South Asia

In this session, we will unveil itihaasa Research and Digital's report on the Landscape of AI/ML Research in India. The panel will discuss ideas to nurture the AI Research Ecosystem in India including enhancing AI student researcher talent, augmenting computing infrastructure, and establishing institutional mechanisms for conducting multi-disciplinary research and translational research.

Krishnan
Krishnan Narayanan
Co-founder & President, Itihaasa Research & Digital
Balaram
Balaram Ravindran
Professor, IIT Madras
Mausam
Mausam
Professor, IIT Delhi
K.
K. Vijayaraghavan
Principal Scientific Adviser to the PM, Adviser to the PM
Partha
Partha Ghosh
Leadership Adviser

India’s startup ecosystem has evolved in the last several years to be ranked 3rd largest startup ecosystem in the world, producing several unicorns. With a strong momentum, the latest trends are on building deep tech startups and b2b startup.

Ravi
Ravi Narayan
CEO, t-hub
Manish
Manish Singhal
Founding Partner, Pi Ventures
Ashish
Ashish Gupta
Managing Director, Helion Ventures
Debu
Debu Chatterjee
Head of ML, Service Now
Apurv
Apurv Anand
Co-founder and COO, SigTuple
Ashutosh
Ashutosh Sharma
Secretary, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India

By their very nature AI techniques need not be always correct, and may exhibit undesirable bias, or result in unsafe behavior. In this session we will discuss whether AI needs governance, and if so at what level, i.e. at the intra-enterprise, industry, national or even international level, and in which contexts. For example, arenas that might need governance could include autonomous vehicles, weapons, algorithmic inclusion/exclusion from state/financial sector benefits (loans etc.), clarifying ownership of data (telematics/health/location etc.), and industrial/public safety (in the robotics context).

Gautam
Gautam Shroff
Vice, TCS
Anna
Anna Roy
Adviser, NITI Aayog, Govt. of India
Roger
Roger Taylor
Chair of the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, Data Ethics and Innovation
Isaac
Isaac Ben-Israel
Professor, Chairman, Israel Space Agency
Nipun
Nipun Mehrotra
Chief Digital Officer, IBM India/South Asia
PP
PP Chakraborty
Director, IIT Kharagpur
Devang
Devang V. Khakhar
Professor, IIT Bombay
Bhaskar
Bhaskar Ramamurthi
IIT Madras
Abhay
Abhay Karandikar
IIT Kanpur
V.
V. Ramgopal Rao
Professor, IIT Delhi
U.
U. B. Desai
Director, IIT Hyderabad
Balaram
Balaram Ravindran
Professor, IIT Madras

Action Plan for India Cocktail/Dinner for Distinguished IIT Allumni, Speaker and special Invitees.

Sessions might subject to change before the event.

Globally, financial services have always attracted bright engineers, PhDs and statisticians for “quant” roles to perform high frequency trading, options structuring, loan decisioning. Since the 1970s in the US and late nineties in India, logistic regressions have become the new loan officers.

V
V Kamakoti
Professor at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IITM
Rajiv
Rajiv Sabharwal
MD, Tata Capital
Pulak
Pulak Ghosh
Professor, IIM Bangalore
Sankarson
Sankarson Banerjee
Chief Information Officer, RBL Bank

A popular AI for healthcare platform named Watson has already begun handling patient concerns about their upcoming surgery through an interactive digital concierge. Yet, there have been instances where the current stage of AI with minimal training is not fully equipped to solve healthcare problems at large and there were some setbacks too.

Jayanthi
Jayanthi Sivaswamy
Professor and Dean, IIIT Hyderabad
Niranjan
Niranjan Joshi
Dept of BioTech, BREC
Tanveer
Tanveer Mahmood
Chief Scientist, IBM
Vivek
Vivek Shekhar
Director, AIIMS
Navakanta
Navakanta Bhat
Professor, Centre for Nano Science and Engineering
Babu
Babu O Narayanan