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Agenda

09:30 – 10:00 hrs Registration
10:30 – 11:30 hrs Inaugural Session :
  • Importance of local language in internet and mobile adoption
  • Moving away from exclusive to inclusive web with Indic
  • Opportunities in Local languages
10:30 – 10:35 hrs Welcome Address :
Dr Ajay Kumar Joint Secretary, DIT [to be confirmed]
10:35 – 10:40 hrs Address by :
Alan Bird, Global Business Development Leader, W3C
10:40 – 10:50 hrs Theme address:
Ajit Balakrishnan, Chairman Emeritus, IAMAI
10:50 – 11:05 hrs Address by Guest of Honor:
Shri. R. Chandrashekhar, Secretary, Ministry of Communications and IT and Chairman, Telecom Commission [to be confirmed]
11:05 – 11:25 hrs Address by Chief Guest:
Shri Sachin Pilot, Minister of State for Communications and IT, Ministry of Communications and IT
11:25 – 11:30 hrs Vote of Thanks
IAMAI
11:30 – 11:45 hrs Tea/Coffee Break
11:45 – 12:50 hrs Session1: "Challenges of Indic Adoption on Mobile Web"
  • Technology for enabling Indian Languages on Mobile Platform
  • Lack of multi standard interoperability
11:45 – 11:50 hrs Moderator:
Swaran Lata, Country Manager, W3C India
11:50 – 12:20 hrs Address by:
Ramesh A Vaswani, Executive Vice Chairman, Intex Technologies
Jonathan Bill, Sr Vice President, Internet & Data Services, Vodafone Essar ltd
Abhinav Mathur, Chief Technology Officer, Spice
Muthu Nedumaran, Murasu Systems Sdn Bhd, Malaysia
S Chandra, Deputy Country Head, W3C India
12:20 – 12:35 hrs Panel discussion
12:35 – 12:45 hrs Q & A
12:45 – 12:50 Summing Up
12:50 – 13:50 hrs Lunch
13:50 – 14:55 hrs Session 2: Best Practices for building Indic Web content for Mobile Web
  • Business Opportunities in Indic Content: Converting Disincentives into Incentives
  • Lack of Local Language support on commonly visited websites
  • Lack of Discoverability of existing websites
  • General perception about consumption of Local Language content
13:50 – 13:55 hrs Moderator :
Gyan Gupta, CEO-Online, Dainik Bhaskar
13:55 – 14:25 hrs Address by:
Rajesh Kalra, Chief Editor Times Internet
Shekhar Suman, Head-Business Development and Technology, J9 ventures
Arvind Kalia, National Marketing Head, E-Patrika (Rajasthan Patrika)
Santosh George Jacob, Content Coordinator Malayala Manorama
Venkatarangan Thirumalai, Chairman, Vishwak Solutions
14:25 – 14:40 hrs Panel Discussion
14:40 – 14:50 hrs Q&A Session
14:50 – 14:55 hrs Summing UP
14:55 – 15:00 Change Over
15:00 – 16:05 hrs Session 3: "Enabling mobile & wireless handheld devices in Indian Languages"
  • Indic as key to handset adoption
  • Standardization in Text transmission in Indian Language
  • Current barriers, challenges and limitations for rendering vernacular content
  • Best practices of delivery in Mobile device in Indian languages
15:00 – 15:05 hrs Moderator :
Vikram Tiwathia, Associate Director General, COAI
15:05 – 15:35 hrs Address by :
Abhijit Bhattacharjee, CEO, Luna Egronomics
Gulzar Azad, Mobile Partnerships Lead - India and Apac, Google India* Micromax
Swapnil,C-DAC & Prof. Davinder Jalihal, IIT Chennai
15:35 – 15:50 hrs Panel Discussion
15:50 – 16:00 hrs Q&A Session
16:00 – 16:05 hrs Summing Up
16:05 – 16:20 hrs Tea / Coffee
16:20 – 17:35 hrs Technology Demo for Deployment of Mobile Based Services
16:20 – 16:30 hrs Agricultural prices info through Mobile (Speech recognition)
- S Umesh, IIT Chennai
16:30 – 16:40 hrs Text to Speech (Android Platform for Hindi)
- Hema Murthy, IIT Chennai
16:40 – 16:50 hrs "Machine Translation Services through Mobile (English to Hindi and Bengali)"
- Vishwajeet, C-DAC Kolkata
16:50 – 17:00 hrs “Personalized multimodal delivery of Agro-Community Deployment limitations of Cell phones in Indian languages”
-Rajesh Hegde, IIT Kanpur
17:00 – 17:10 hrs Demo “TBD”
17:10 – 17:30 hrs Q&A Session
17:30 – 17:35 hrs Summing up
* Subject to Confirmation


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