29th November – 5th December, 2021

About The Event

Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) is celebrating its Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav Week from November 29 – December 5, 2021 for a period of 7 days at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.

Driven by our Hon’ble Prime Minister’s vision of an AatmaNirbhar Bharat, Digital India is paving the way forward to fulfill our PM’s vision of a rising new India, where technology has the power to unleash the vast potential of our citizens, and improve their lives, bringing in transparency and inclusive development. Propelled by the AatmaNirbhar movement, MeitY’s AKAM Week will conduct different activities such as theme based sessions comprising of key speakers from the Government, Industry and Academia, launches, exhibitions, demos and award ceremonies for winners of several Challenges that MeitY has conducted with diverse stakeholders from school children to startups to budding entrepreneurs.

Event Speakers

Here are some of our speakers

Speaker 1

Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw

Minister for Electronics & Information Technology, Railways and Communications

Speaker 5

Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar

Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship

Speaker 4

Shri Ajay Sawhney

Secretary, MeitY

Speaker 3

Ms. Debjani Ghosh

President, NASSCOM

Speaker 2

Dr. Rajendra Kumar

Additional Secretary, MeitY

Event Schedule

Here is our event schedule


Plenary Session with Hon’ble MEIT & Hon’ble MoS

Minute to Minute Program
Hubert Hirthe

Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw

Minister for Electronics & Information Technology, Railways and Communications

Hubert Hirthe

Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar

Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship

Jack Christiansen

Shri Ajay Sawhney

Secretary, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology

Hubert Hirthe

Dr. Rajendra Kumar

Additional Secretary, MeitY

Cole Emmerich

Ms. Debjani Ghosh

President, NASSCOM

Brenden Legros

Shri Abhishek Singh

P&CEO, NeGD & MD -DIC

Session 2 |
Public Digital Platforms enabling Good Governance

Alejandrin Littel

Shri Ajay Sawhney

Secretary, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology

Alejandrin Littel

Shri Rajeev Chawla

Additional Chief Secretary to Government Center e-Governance, Karnataka

Alejandrin Littel

Shri Santosh Sarangi

Additional Secretary, Ministry of Education

Alejandrin Littel

Shri Abhishek Singh

P&CEO, NeGD & MD -DIC

Alejandrin Littel

Shri Kunal Kumar

Joint Secretary, MoUD

Alejandrin Littel

Dr. Vijay Kumar D

Commissioner and Secretary, Planning, Meghalaya

Alejandrin Littel

Shri Deepak Chandra Misra

Deputy Director General, NIC

Dr. Vivek Raghavan

Chief AI Evangelist, EkStep Foundation

Session 3 |
Presentation and Interaction on State/UT Initiatives

Alejandrin Littel

Ms. Abha Shukla

Principal Secretary IT, Maharashtra

Alejandrin Littel

Shri Santosh Kumar Mall

Secretary IT, Bihar

Alejandrin Littel

Shri Raj Narayan Kaushik

Special Secretary IT, Haryana

Alejandrin Littel

Shri Amit Sharma

Secretary IT, Jammu & Kashmir

Alejandrin Littel

Shri Sunil Reddy

Deputy Secretary IT, Andhra Pradesh

Alejandrin Littel

Shri Ashutosh Deshpande

Director (Technical), Rajasthan

Alejandrin Littel

Ms. Rama Devi Lanka

OSD ITE&C, Telangana

Alejandrin Littel

Ms. Sangeetha Rangarajan

Assistant Director (IT), Gujarat

Session 1 |
Leveraging AI to build solutions at population scale

Minute to Minute Program
Alejandrin Littel

Shri Ajay Sawhney

Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology

Alejandrin Littel

Prof. Vijay K. Raghavan

Principal Scientific Advisor

Alejandrin Littel

Shri Prakash Kumar

CEO, Wadhwani Institute of Technology and Policy

Alejandrin Littel

Shri Jayesh Ranjan

Principal Secretary, Information Technology, Electronics and Communication, Government of Telangana

Alejandrin Littel

Shri Abhishek Singh

P&CEO, NeGD & MD -DIC

Alejandrin Littel

Shri Saurabh Gaur

Joint Secretary, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology

Session 2 |
Use of Emerging Technologies for Social Empowerment-Blockchain, AR/VR, Drone, IoT, GIS

Alejandrin Littel

Dr. Lalitesh Katragadda

Founder –Indihood

Alejandrin Littel

Shri Amit Sinha

IG Telecom & Director Vigilance, Uttarakhand

Alejandrin Littel

Prof. Manindra Agrawal

Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering IIT Kanpur

Alejandrin Littel

Dr. Neeta Verma

DG – NIC

Alejandrin Littel

Shri Amitesh Kumar Sinha

Joint Secretary, e-Governance, MeitY

Alejandrin Littel

Shri Shekar Sivasubramanian

Head - Solutions & Operations, Wadhwani AI

Session 3 |
Government Initiatives for strengthening startup ecosystem post-pandemic; (Round Table Discussion)

Program Directors & Heads from MeitY/MSH,

Startup India

Atal Innovation Mission/NITI Aayog,

BIRAC

DST/NSTEDB

IDEX/MoD

Session 4 |
New Paradigms & Trends for Tech -Startups Funding (Panel discussion by VCs, Angels, Investment Platforms for funding Tech-startups)

Mohan Das Pai (3one4 Capital)

Inderneel Chetle

Mahavir Pratap Sharma

TiE Global

Shilpa

Omidyar Network

Anjani Bansal

Gates foundation

BVR Naidu

AbhinavChaturvedi

Excel partner

LetsVenture

Seqoiua

Blume VC

Session 4 |
GRAND FINALE- Responsible AI for Youth- Felicitating Winners of Top 20 Projects
And Awards to Winners of BSF Challenge

Hubert Hirthe

Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw

Minister for Electronics & Information Technology, Railways and Communications

Hubert Hirthe

Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar

Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship

Jack Christiansen

Shri Ajay Sawhney

Secretary, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology

Jack Christiansen

Ms. Nivruti Rai

Country Head, Intel India and Vice President, Intel Foundry Services

Brenden Legros

Shri Abhishek Singh

P&CEO, NeGD & MD -DIC

Session 1 |
Panel discussion 1: Scaling up production and Making India Export hub for Mobile phone& IT Hardware

Minute to Minute Program

Session 2 |
Panel discussion 2: Making India AtmaNirbhar in Electronic Components

Session 3 |
PMaking India AtmaNirbhar in IoTs, Drones, Emerging Technologies and New Age Devices

Session 4 |
Developing a Semiconductor &Display Ecosystem in India

Session 5 |
Networking Lunch

Report BackSession: With Shri. Ashwini Vaishnaw, Hon’ble Minister of Electronics & IT, Communications and Railways

Welcome Address by Shri Saurabh Gaur

Joint Secretary, MeitY

Short movie on Achievements@75 in ESDM

Report Back Session

Awards Ceremony

Address by Shri Ajay Sawhney

Secretary, MeitY

Keynote address by Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar

Hon’ble MoS, Electronics & IT and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship

Special address by Shri. Ashwini Vaishnaw

Hon’ble Minister of Electronics & IT, Communications and Railways

Vote of Thanks by Shri S. K. Marwaha

Senior Director, MeitY

Registration

Welcome Guests

Hon'ble Minister

MeitY/Other Dignitaries on Dais

Lighting of Lamp and Inauguration of the Event

CSC Song

Dr. Dinesh Kumar Tyagi, Welcome Address

MD, CSC-SPV

Address by Secretary

MeitY

Film on CSC

Award to 10 Top Performing CSCs/PMG DISHA VLEs

Exchange of MoU - New Initiatives

Secretary, School Education

With School Education

Chairman, NABARD

With NABARD

HDFC

With HDFC for CSC Kisan Credit Card

CSC-SPV

Launch of CSC Pay

Hon'ble Minister of State, Electronics & IT

Keynote Address

Hon'ble Minister, Electronics & IT and Railway

Inaugural Address

Joint Secretary, MeitY/CEO, CSC-SPV

Vote of Thanks

National Anthem

Registration

Welcome Address

IESA

Keynote addresses on Microprocessor Development |
Programme- Achievements & opportunity

Prof. V. Kamakoti, IIT Madras (SHAKTI Processor)

IESA

Shri KK Rao, Sr. Director, C-DAC Trivandrum (VEGA Processor)

IESA

Shri Sanjay Wandhekar

Sr. Director, CDAC Pune (AUM Processor) IESA

Making India #AatmaNirbhar with Swadeshi Microprocessors |

Shri E. Magesh, ED

C-DAC, Thiruvananthapuram

Dr Neel Gala

CTO, Incore Semiconductors

Dr. Ajay Joshi

Distinguished Engineer, ARM

Shri Chinnu Senthilkumar,

Managing Partner, Exfinity (VC)

Shri Parimal Patel

Xilinx, USA

Shri Muthu Chinnaswamy

CEO, SFAL

National Supercomputing Mission - Developing indigenous Supercomputing Ecosystem |

Background and Journey of NSM by Shri Sanjay Wandhekar

Senior Director C-DAC Pune, Keynote address

Applications under NSM by Rajendra Joshi

Senior Director, C-DAC, Keynote address

Exascale vision of India by Dr. Hemant Darbari

ex-DG, C-DAC, Keynote address

Felicitation of Jury members & organizers

MeitY

Technology Demonstration, Award Ceremony & Announcements

Visit of Hon’ble MEIT/ Hon’ble MoS to stalls of 30 Finalists under Swadeshi Microprocessor Challenge

MeitY

Welcome address by Shri Arvind Kumar

GC(R&D in E), MeitY

Keynote address on Microprocessor and NSM initiatives of C-DAC by: Col.(Retd) A. K. Nath, DG, C-DAC

MeitY

Launch of Rudra Server and Bio Inferno by Hon’ble MEIT/ Hon’ble MoS |

Short Movie and Launch of Rudra Server

Short Movie and Launch of Bio Inferno

Journey of Swadeshi Microprocessor Challenge |

Background on Swadeshi Microprocessor Challenge by Dr Neel Gala

CTO, Incore Semiconductors

Short Movie on Swadeshi Microprocessor Challenge

Incubation support to Challenge participants by Shri. Nizam CEO, MakerVillage

Address by Shri Ajay Sawhney

Secretary, MeitY

Award Ceremony |

Short movie of award Winners

Prize distribution to Winners of Swadeshi Microprocessor Challenge by Hon'ble Minister (MeitY)/ Hon'ble MoS (MeitY)

MeitY

Hon'ble MoS

Special Address, (MeitY)

Hon'ble Minister

Keynote Address, (MeitY)

Vote of Thanks, Smt. Sunita Verma, Sr.

Director, MeitY,

MyGov Schedule Programme Schedule

Registration

Welcome Guests

Lighting of the Lamp

Welcome Address by CEO MyGov

MyGov Azadi @ 75 Special Video

Address by Shri Ajay Sawhney, Secretary, MeitY

Special Address by Hon’ble MoS, Electronics & IT and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship

Honoring MyGov @ 75 winners

Address by Hon’ble Minister, Electronics & IT, Railways and Communications

Vote of Thanks by Shobhendra Bahadur

Informal Chai Interaction

MyGov Saathi Voices & Chintan

Address by Shri Ajay Sawhney, Secretary, MeitY

Enabling Citizen Engagement (Session with MyGov & Stakeholders)

MyGov Partner Showcase

Lunch

Capacity Building Session

Informal Chai Interaction

Participative Governance for Transforming India (Exclusive session with Ministry Partners)

Digital Payments Utsav

Registration

Tea and B2B Networking(09:30 AM - 10:00AM)

Seating inside Stein Auditorium (10:00 AM)

AV on Digital Payment Stories (10:00 AM - 10:15 AM)

Presentation by Start-ups (10:15 AM - 10:45 AM)

AV on Digital Payment Stories (10:45 AM - 10:50 AM)

AV on Digital Payments Sandesh Yatra (10:50 AM - 10:55 AM)

Announcements by Anchor (10:55 AM - 11:00 AM)

Arrival/ Welcome of Hon’ble MoS and Hon’ble MEIT (at Porch)

Lighting of Lamp (at Foyer)

Unveiling of DIGIDHAN Mission Logo (at Foyer)

Opening Remarks by Economic Adviser, MeitY

AV on Journey of Digital Payments

Digital Payment Show: Nukkad Naatak

Context Setting Address by Additional Secretary, MeitY

Special Address by Secretary, MeitY

AV on awareness campaign plays

Launch of awareness campaign and digital payment anthem

Video messages of prominent personalities on digital payment

Launch of Innovative Digital PaymentsProducts

Rupay Credit cards

Special Address by Secretary, Post for launch of IPPB-PNB RuPay Credit Card

Kotak Veer RuPay Credit Card

Yes Bank - Prosperity Rewards RuPay Credit Card

ICICI Bank - Coral RuPay Credit Card

Indian Bank - Commercial RuPay Credit Card

Indian Overseas Bank - Select RuPay Credit Card

City Union Bank - Platinum RuPay Credit Card

Bank of Maharashtra - Platinum RuPay Credit Card

Wearables

Union Bank of India SOFTPOS

Felicitation of PM SVANidhi Aggregator Partners (Paytm, PhonePe, BharatPe, Aceware) for onboarding of Street Vendors to digital payment modes

Felicitation of Centre for Digital Financial Inclusion (CDFI)

DIGIDHAN Awards 2019-20 (23 awards)

DIGIDHAN Awards 2020-21 (23 awards)

Strategic Addressby Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Hon’ble Minister of State, MeitY

Keynote Address by Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw, Hon’ble Minister, MeitY

Vote of Thanks by Economic Adviser, MeitY

Visit of Ministers to Art & Culture Arena in Stein Hub Lawn (Outdoor)

Artwork on digital payment(Dhol with verses on digital payment, Flower Rangoli, Speed Painter, Puppetry - all on digital payment)

Flash Mob(volunteers - MeitY Employees, College & School Students) on Digital Payment Anthem)

Digital Payment Expo(Public and Private Sector Banks, Fintechs, Start-ups)

‘Flag off’ of Digital Payments Sandesh Yatra

Presentation of Memento and Certificate to Flash mob volunteers and Group Photographs

Lunch

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Contact Us

For any query email us at

akam.di@digitalindia.gov.in