Broadband India Forum

Celebrating World Telecommunications and Information Society Day (WTISD) 2021 – 17th May, 2021
2021-05-17 17:00 - 18:30 UTC
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Event – Partner: Bharat Exhibitions (BE)
Session Moderator:- Mr. Rajat Mukarji, Director General, BIF
Sign Language Interpreters:- Dr. Renuka Rameshan and Mr. Saurav Roychowdhury

Eminent Speakers:

Mr. Houlin Zhao, Secretary-General, ITU (Chief Guest)
Shri K Ramchand, Former DG (Telecom), Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications (Special Guest of Honour)
Shri R Shakya, DDG (Satellite), Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications (Guest of Honour)
Mr. Mats Granryd, Director General, GSMA (Guest of Honour)
Ms. Nivruti Rai, Country Head, Intel India & Vice President, Product Supply Chain, GSC, Intel (Industry Speaker)
Prof. Rekha Jain, Senior Visiting Professor, ICRIER & Past Chair for IIIMA TCOE (Presentation on the report being released)
Mr. T V Ramachandran, President, BIF
Mr. Debashish Bhattacharya, Sr. DDG, BIF

The joining link for the session is here: https://meet.google.com/odd-bfio-ibr (On Google Meet)

The Digital Dialogues on the occasion of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) - 20th May, 2021
2021-05-20 12:00 - 15:00
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Co – Partners: ADOBE & FACEBOOK
Event – Partner: Bharat Exhibitions (BE)
What is GAAD?
Global Accessibility Awareness Day is an awareness day focusing on digital access and inclusion for the more than one billion people with disabilities and impairments. It is marked annually on the third Thursday of May.
The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access/inclusion and people with different disabilities.
Session 1: INAUGURAL SESSION (1200 – 1300 Hrs IST)
Session Moderator:- Ms. Karishma Chhabra, Co-Chair, BIF’s Committee on ‘ICT for Inclusive Ability (PwDs)’ (Microsoft)
Eminent Speakers:

Dr. Malcolm Johnson, Deputy Secretary-General, ITU (Chief Guest)
Dr. Rajendra Kumar, Additional Secretary, MeitY (Special Guest of Honour)
Dr. Prabodh Seth, Joint Secretary, Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilites (DEPwD), Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment (Guest of Honour)
Ms. Monica Desai, Director & Global Head, Connectivity and Access Policy, Facebook
Dr. Nirmita Narasimhan, Chairperson, BIF’s Committee on ‘ICT for Inclusive Ability (PwDs)’ (Programme Director, Saksham and Senior Fellow and Programme Director with the Global Initiative for Inclusive ICT –G3ict)
Mr. T V Ramachandran, President, BIF
Mr. Arun Mukarji, Sr Director, Operations, BIF

Session 2: IMPORTANCE OF STAYING CONNECTED DURING THE COVID ENVIRONMENT & ROLE OF STANDARDS (1315 – 1445 Hrs IST)
Session Moderator:-Mr. Dinesh Chand Sharma, Co-Chair, BIF’s Committee on ‘ICT for Inclusive Ability (PwDs)’, (Director SESEI)
Eminent Speakers:

Shri. BK Jog, DG (Telecom) & Member (S), DoT, Ministry of Communications (Chief Guest)
Prof. Abhay Karandikar, Director, IIT Kanpur (Keynote Address)
Dr. Subramanian Neelakantan, Sr. Director & Head (R&D), CDAC, Pune Centre/ Ms. Lenali Singh, Associate Director, CDAC, Pune Centre
Ms. Karishma Chhabra, Co-Chair, BIF’s Committee on ‘ICT for Inclusive Ability (PwDs)’ (Microsoft)
Mr. Andrew Kirkpatrick, Head of Accessibility, ADOBE
Mr. Dinesh Kaushal, Manager (Technology), Publicis Sapient
Mr. Dipendra Manocha, Director Developing Countries Program, THE DAISY Consortium
Dr. B M Baveja, Principal Advisor, BIF
Dr. Nirmita Narasimhan, Chairperson, BIF’s Committee on ‘ICT for Inclusive Ability (PwDs)’ (Programme Director, Saksham and Senior Fellow and Programme Director with the Global Initiative for Inclusive ICT –G3ict)

The joining link for the session is here: https://meet.google.com/vco-tnfm-aqx (On Google Meet)

The Digital Dialogues on Atmanirbharta in Telecom Manufacturing - 9th June, 2021
2021-06-09 17:00 - 18:00
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Event – Partner: Bharat Exhibitions (BE)
Session Moderator:- Mr. Harish Krishnan, Co-Chair, BIF’s Manufacturing Network Committee (CISCO)
Eminent Speakers:

Shri Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog (Chief Guest)
Shri T K Paul, Member (T), Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications (Special Guest of Honour)
Mr. Amit Marwah, Chairman, BIF’s Manufacturing Network Committee (Nokia)
Ms. Monica Desai, Director & Global Head, Connectivity and Access Policy, Facebook
Mr. T V Ramachandran, President, BIF
Mr Subrata K Mitra, Co-Chair, BIF’s Manufacturing Committee (Ericsson)

The joining link for the session is here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sujaVpyjQG2VlLYu5tau_Q (On Zoom)

COMMITTEE MEETING: Rural Digital Initiatives (RDI) Committee Meeting - 16th June, 2021
2021-06-16 15:00 - 16:00

Celebrating World Wi-Fi Day 2021 - 18th June, 2021
2021-06-18 17:00 - 18:30
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The joining link for the session is here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tHw1jdKASBScN6F1WzYbKg (On Zoom)

COMMITTEE MEETING: AI & IoT Committee Meeting – 23rd June, 2021
2021-06-23 11:30 - 12:30

COMMITTEE MEETING: New Technologies Committee Meeting – 25th June, 2021
2021-06-25 15:00 - 16:00

COMMITTEE MEETING: Spectrum & Regulatory Framework Committee Meeting – 28th June, 2021
2021-06-28 11:00 - 12:00

COMMITTEE MEETING: Satcom Committee Meeting – 6th July, 2021
2021-07-06 11:00 - 12:00

COMMITTEE MEETING: Device Ecosystem Committee Meeting – 22nd July, 2021
2021-07-22 15:00 - 16:00

BIF hosted Dr Mike Short CBE, Chief Scientific Advisor, Govt of UK, (DIT) - 27th July, 2021
2021-07-27 13:00 - 14:00
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COMMITTEE MEETING: New Technologies Committee Meeting – 29th July, 2021
2021-07-29 11:00 - 12:00

The Digital Dialogues on ‘Satcom & 5G – The Final Frontier’ - 18th August, 2021
2021-08-18 16:00 - 17:30
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Event – Partner: Bharat Exhibitions (BE)
SESSION: 1600 – 1730 Hrs IST
Session Moderator: Mr. Rajat Mukarji, Director General, BIF
Eminent Speakers:

Mr. A K Tiwari, Member (T), Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications (Chief Guest) ;
Mr. Kishore Babu, DDG (S.R.I), Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications;
Mr. R Shakya, DDG (Satellite), Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications;
Mr. Pradip Nath, Chair, BIF’s Satcom Committee (Panel Discussion Moderator) ;
Mr. K Krishna, Co-Chair, BIF’s Satcom Committee;
Mr. Rahul Vatts, Co-Chair, BIF’s Satcom Committee;
Mr. Gautam Sharma, Managing Director, Inmarsat;
Mr. T V Ramachandran, President, BIF;
Mr. Debashish Bhattacharya, Convenor, BIF Satcom Committee

Annual General Meeting (2020-2021) of IPTV Society (BIF) - 29th September, 2021
2021-09-29 16:00 - 17:00
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BIF Technical Session on ‘Opportunities & Challenges in IPv6 Implementation’ - 7th October, 2021
2021-10-07 10:00 - 12:30
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Presentations by Eminent Speakers:
1. Mr. Geoff Huston, Chief Scientist, APNIC
2. Mr. B. Nagaraj, Sr. Executive Vice President, Reliance Industries Limited
3. Ms. Deepa Tyagi, Sr. DDG & Head TEC, Ministry of Communications

TDD to release BIF’s Study report on 6GHz Co-existence Study - 21st October, 2021
2021-10-21 17:30 - 18:30
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COMMITTEE MEETING: Broadband Infrastructure Committee Meeting – 16th November, 2021
2021-11-16 15:00 - 16:00

"3rd Wifi India Virtual Summit 2022" - 22nd January 2022
2022-01-22 10:00 - 13:00
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Presentations by Eminent Speakers:
1. Mr. Osama Manzar, Founder-Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation
2. Mr. Satyam Darmora, Co-Founder & CEO, i2e1
3. Mr. Bryan Tan, Director, Connectivity Ecosystems, Meta
4. Mr. Samar Shailendra – Sr. Standards Architect, Intel
5. Mr Sai Manapragada, Chairman & CEO, XiFi Networks
6. Prof. Rekha Jain, Senior Visiting Professor, ICRIER

COMMITTEE MEETING: ICT for Inclusive Ability (PwD) Committee Meeting – 24th January, 2022
2022-01-24 11:00 - 12:00

“1st edition of Connectivity Accelerator Programme on PM WANI” – 19th February 2022
2022-02-19 11:00 - 12:30
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The Digital Dialogues on ‘Digital Communications Startups Success Stories’ - 23rd February, 2022
2022-02-23 11:00 - 13:00

“2nd edition of Connectivity Accelerator Programme on PM WANI” – 5th March 2022
2022-03-05 11:00 - 12:30
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“3rd edition of Connectivity Accelerator Programme on PM WANI” – 12th March 2022
2022-03-12 11:00 - 13:00

“4th edition of Connectivity Accelerator Programme on PM WANI” – 26th March 2022
2022-03-26 11:00 - 13:00
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The Digital Dialogues on "Framework for Building an Inclusive Digital Society for Rural India" - 26th April, 2022
2022-04-26 10:30 - 12:00
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The Digital Dialogues on "State of IPv6 in India & Way Forward" - 7th June 2022
2022-06-07 17:30 - 19:10

The Digital Dialogues on the occasion of World Wi-Fi Day - 20th June 2022
2022-06-20 17:30 - 19:00

The Digital Dialogues on ICT Accessibility - Policy, Standards & Implementation – 20th July 2022
2022-07-20 11:00 - 13:00

Grand Finale ELEVATING PM-WANI Together! - 17th August 2022
2022-08-17 17:30 - 21:00

4th WiFi India SUMMIT 2023 – 2nd February 2023
2023-02-02 10:00 - 14:30
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