14th, July 2021 (DAY 1)

Topic - Hey Robot

Wednesday

5:00 - 6:00 pm IST

Panel Discussion

Summary

Human-machine interaction - how it started and what we can experience in the near future

Panelists

Dr. Bharadwaj Amrutur - Professor, IISc

Balaji Vishwanathan - CEO Invento Robotics

Kalika Bali - Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research India

Ashwin Jaishanker - Co-Founder & CEO, AutoVRse

Anirud Thyagharajan - Research Scientist at Intel Labs

Vasu (Moderator) - CMO, Lumos Labs

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Topic - Security in Public Blockchains

Wednesday

7:00 - 8:00 pm IST

Panel Discussion

Summary

Exploring user protection & AML, terror finance prevention, regulatory compliance
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Panelists

Sandeep Shukla -  Professor at IIT Kanpur

Om Malviya - President, Tezos India

Arjun Kalsy - VP Growth, Polygon

Ganesha Upadhyaya - Senior Engineer & Researcher for Interoperability, Harmony One

Dharmen Dhulla (moderator) - Global tech lead, blockchain unit, Tech Mahindra

Topic - Smart Cities; Behind the Scene

Wednesday

6:00 - 7:00 pm IST

Panel Discussion

Summary

Exploring the role of developers, startups & innovators in building next gen smart cities in India

Panelists

Matthew Fontana - Head of Ecosystem, Streamr

Rama Iyer - Head - Innovation, GMR Group

Thiruvenkateswaran Ramachandran - Head of Digital and IoT - India, Planet Smart City

Dr. Manoj Kumar - Assistant Professor, UPES

Mohak Bhambry - Co-Founder & CEO, Smart Cities Wheel

Revathy Ashok (Moderator) - CEO, B.PAC

15th, July 2021 (DAY 2)

Topic - Making India Self Reliant on Electronics

Thursday

5:00 - 6:00 pm IST

Panel Discussion

Summary

What it takes to make India self reliant with its electronic requirements

Panelists

G.S. Madhusudhan - CEO, Incore Semiconductor

Ravi Subramanian - Partner at ekLakshya Innovation Labs

Ramanan Ramanathan - Senior Vice President, TCS

Madhura Purnaprajna - Professor, PES University

Rahul Chopra (moderator) - Editorial Director, (Electronics For You) EFY

Topic - Towards a Secure Defi

Thursday

6:00 - 7:00 pm IST

Panel Discussion

Summary

To make Defi the future with widespread adoption, what are steps needed to make it robust from regulatory, tech, solutions providers & users perspective

Panelists

Sreeram Kannan - Assistant Professor at University of Washington, Seattle

Sunny Jain - CEO, Krystal

Rachid Ajaja - CEO, AllianceBlock

Teddy Woodward - CEO, Notional Finance

Chandresh Aharwar - CEO, UniLend

Vishal Chawla (moderator) - Journalist, CryptoBriefing

Topic - Women in Tech. Code, Lead, Inspire

Thursday

7:00 - 8:00 pm IST

Fireside Chat

Summary

A womans jouney and perspective into Technology. What motives them to Code lead and inspire.

Panelists

Fereshteh Forough - CEO at Code to Inspire

Gnana Lakshmi T C - Product Manager, Emerging Technologies

16th, July 2021 (DAY 3)

TEZ DAY (Tezos Super Meetup)

Friday

5:00 - 5:05 pm IST

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Welcome Note

Katherine NG - Head of TZ APAC Marketing and Operations

Brief on Initiatives by Tezos India

Om Malviya - President Tezos India

Topic - Adoption of Blockchain in Manufacturing Sector

Friday

5:15 - 5:45 pm IST

Panel Discussion

Summary

To understand what it takes for blockchain technology to be adopted in discrete manufacturing, and explore real world blockchain use cases in this sector.

Panelists

Sunil Sanjeev - Senior Program Manager, Microsoft

Rajesh Duddhu - VP & Practice Leader - Blockchain & Cybersecurity, Tech Mahindra

Om Malviya - President Tezos India

Praphul Chandra - CEO, KoineArth

Raghu Mohan (Moderator) - CEO and Co-Founder, Lumos Labs

Topic - Tezos Project Showcase

Friday

5:45 - 6:45 pm IST

Startup Demo

Summary

5 Different projects from different geographies to present their demos and bring out how the Integration with Tezos helped.

Projects

Sandeep Sanghli - Co-Founder, KalaMint

Dorian Johannink - Co-Founder & Business Director, Sylo

Philipp Seifert - Marketing & Business Development Lead at imToken

Adam Cowherd - Founder, AmplifyX

Tam Nguyen - Operations Manager, ShuttleOne

Topic - Demystifying NFTs

Friday

6:45 - 7:15 pm IST

Panel Discussion

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7:15 - 7:30 pm IST

Summary

Understanding the rise and relevence of NFTs in recent time and exploring it's usecases in different industries

Panelists

Gary Bracey - CEO, Terra Virtua

Luke Stokes - Managing Director at FIO

Ganesh Swami - CEO, Covalent

Ishita Srivastava - Research Associate, Woodstock

Ruanth Chrisley Thyssen (Moderator) - Creator and Sound designer

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Vote of Thanks

Katherine NG - Head of TZ APAC Marketing and Operations 

17th, July 2021 (DAY 4)

Topic - Balancing Data Privacy & Security in IoT Solutions

Saturday

4:00 - 5:00 pm IST

Panel Discussion

Summary

With IoT solutions becoming part of our daily lives how to balance data privacy issues & security threats without compromising the user experience from technology perspective

Panelists

Shivesh Ranjan - Distinguished Member Of Technical Staff at Dell EMC

Dilip Krishnaswamy - VP (New Tech R&D) at Reliance Jio Platforms Ltd

Chittaranjan Hota - Professor, BITS Pilani Hyderabad

Dr. A. Nagarathna- Associate Professor at National Law School

Aditi Agrawal (moderator) - Senior Correspondent, Forbes

Topic - Invasive medical devices (focus on implants)

Saturday

5:00 - 6:00 pm IST

Fireside Chat

Summary

In recent years technical innovations have combined to make artificial limbs much more comfortable, efficient, and lifelike than earlier versions. This discussion will expplore innovative new prostheses that are currently available and discusses future developments.

Panelists

Gururaj Parande - Co-founder & CTO, Magloy Tech

Dr. Srinivasan Rajappa MBBS. MD. - Orthopedician

Token - Incentivization & Community

Monday

6:00 - 7:00 pm IST

Panel Discussion

Summary

How to build an effective token incentivization structure in the evolving blockchain ecosystem. Exploring the ways where incentivization mechanism could be used to build a trusted community of investors & users

Panelists

Tarusha Mittal - Co-founder at OroPocket

Veronica Wong - CEO, Safepal

Shane Hong - Head of marketing,Kyber network

John Devdoss - Head of Development, Neo

Pareen Lathia (Moderator) - AVP Marketing at WazirX

Topic - Buiding Efficient Urban Mobility Dystem in India

Monday

7:00 - 8:00 pm IST

Panel Discussion

Panelists

Firdosh Sheikh - CEO, Drife

Mohan Ramaswamy - Terrago Logistics

Vishal Krishna (Moderator) - Editor, Business, Startup community head at KOO

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19th, July 2021 (DAY 5)

Topic - How to Hypothesize well

Monday

5:00 - 6:00 pm IST

Fireside Chat

Summary

Before you can get data to prove your point, you need a point in the first place. How do top researchers and data scientists hypothise well and what are some of the best practices to do this well

Panelists

Anand S - CEO of Gramener

Ganesh Swami - CEO,Covalent

Topic - State of Web3.0 Startup Investments in India

Saturday

6:00 - 7:00 pm IST

Panel Discussion

Summary

Exploring Web 3.0 startup ecosystem in India from tech, talent, investability & market readiness perspectives

Panelists

Pranav Sharma - Founding Partner, Woodstock Fund

Luchang - Founding Partner, Arcanum Capital

Ravinder Singh - Partner, Kalaari Capital

Siddharth Pillai - Head of Partnerships, Fracton Ventures

Ajeet Khurana (moderator) - Serial Entreprenuer / Angel investor

20th, July 2021 (DAY 6)

Topic - Privacy in the realm of ubiquitous AI

Tuesday

5:00 - 6:00 pm IST

Panel Discussion

Summary

With miniaturized smart devices present every where in our daily lives how can user privacy issues be addressed through tech.

Panelists

Divya Gupta - Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research India

Prateek Jain - Sr. Staff Research Scientist, Google AI

Aditi Agrawal (moderator) - Senior Correspondent, Forbes

Topic - Ushering adoption of blockchain beyond crypto

Tuesday

6:00 - 7:00 pm IST

Panel Discussion

Summary

How can you be invovled with blockchain at a technological, innovation and startup level

Panelists

Muthian Sivathanu - Partner Researcher, Microsoft Research

Ashish Anand - CEO, Whrrl Finance

Smt. Rama Devi - Director - Emerging Technologies | Officer on Special Duty (OSD)

Srivatsa Srinivasarao - TraceX

Naimish Sanghvi (Moderator) - CEO, Coin Crunch India

Topic - Developer relations in a decentralised world

Tuesday

7:00 - 8:00 pm IST

Panel Discussion

Summary

How to incentivise developers in a web3 world, and how does it differ from Web 2

Panelists

Gabriel Cardona - Developer Evangelist at Ava Labs

Harish Raisinghani - Developer Relations Manager, Covalent

Urban Osvald - Growth Manager,Web3 Foundatio

Shreyas Narayanan Kutty - Head of Guilds, NEAR Protocol

Parth Oberoi - Co-founder, Gitopia

Raullen Chai - CEO, IoTeX

Raghu Mohan [Moderator] - CEO, Lumos Labs

21st, July 2021 (DAY 7)

Topic - State of Crypto Regulations Globally

Wednesday

5:00 - 6:00 pm IST

Panel Discussion

Panelists

Yosef Shaftal - Executive Director,Israeli Blockchain Alliance

Raj Kapoor - CEO,India Blockchain Alliance

Carol Van Cleef - Chair, Blockchain and Digital Assets Practice at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings

Gerard Dache - Executive Director, Global Blockchain Alliance

Kornel KALOCSAI - President, Hungary Blockchain Association

Tanvi Ratna (MODERATOR) - CEO, Policy 4.0

Topic - Moving from traditional banking to Web3.0

Wednesday

6:00 - 7:00 pm IST

Fireside chat

Topic - State of Crypto in India (Coin Telegraph Report)

Wednesday

7:00 - 8:00 pm IST

Report Launch

Summary

Launch of the report on "The state of Crypto in India", this will be evolved in consultation with various stakeholders including academia, industry, government & startups.

To encourage the emerging tech ecosystem

Wednesday

8:00 - 8:15 pm IST

Closing Note

Initiatives taken by the Govt of Telangana to encourage the emerging tech ecosystem

Mr. Jayesh Ranjan - Secretary, Information Technology (IT); Government of Telangana