Broadband India Forum

The Digital Dialogues on ‘Satcom & 5G – The Final Frontier’ - 18th August, 2021
2021-08-18 16:00 - 17:30 UTC
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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

COMMITTEE MEETING: New Technologies Committee Meeting – 29th July, 2021
2021-07-29 11:00 - 12:00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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)

Celebrating World Telecommunications and Information Society Day (WTISD) 2021 – 17th May, 2021
2021-05-17 17:00 - 18:30
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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)

An Interactive Workshop in association with Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs on "Connect India: In-building Solutions” by BIF - 19 February, 2021
2021-02-19 10:00 - 13:30
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The Digital Dialogues on "5G Opportunities with Satellite Broadband" - 17th November, 2020
2020-11-17 17:00 - 19:00
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Session Presentations

Mr Nicolas Chuberre, Rapporteur, 3GPP Satellite Group
Mr. Anil Tandan, Former CTO, Idea Cellular
Mr. Rajesh Mehrotra, Principal Advisor, Broadband India Forum

The Digital Dialogues on "Digital Transformation: The Path to Exabyte Era" - 14th October, 2020
2020-10-14 10:30
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The Digital Dialogues on "Quality of Experience in Broadband" - 14th September, 2020
2020-09-14 15:30 - 17:00

Annual General Meeting (2019-2020) of IPTV Society (BIF) - 9th September, 2020
2020-09-09
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The Digital Dialogues series on Digital Highway to 2025 – Suggested Milestones - 9th September, 2020
2020-09-09

Special Session with University of Tokyo on use of Open Source Software to help combat COVID-19 -26th August, 2020
2020-08-26

Connecting Bharat - Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Internet in India -19th August 2020
2020-08-19
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The Digital Dialogues series on ICT Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities - 10th August, 2020
2020-08-10

The Digital Dialogues series on Internet Governance - Session 3 - 6th July, 2020
2020-07-06 11:00 - 12:15

The Digital Dialogues series on Internet Governance - Session 2 - 3rd July, 2020
2020-07-03 10:00 - 12:15
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The Digital Dialogues series on Internet Governance - Session 1 - 29th June, 2020
2020-06-29 11:00 - 12:15

Celebrating World Wi-Fi Day 2020 - 19th June, 2020
2020-06-19 17:30 - 19:00

Celebrating World Telecommunications and Information Society Day (WTISD) 2020 - 15th May, 2020
2020-05-15 10:00 - 17:00
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BIF lecture at CCI
2020-02-27 10:00 - 17:00
BIF President Mr. TV Ramachandran delivered a lecture on Importance of Competition Aspects for Developing Digital Infrastructure to the Competition Commission of India (CCI) leadership and officials, on CCI’s invitation, as part of its “Distinguished Visitor Knowledge Sharing Series”
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India Satcom 2019 – 28th November, 2019
2019-11-28 10:00 - 17:00
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Data Centre India 2019 - 20th November 2019
2019-11-20 10:00 - 17:00
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