Conference Agenda

Session Lead: Mohammad Athar

In 2023, the Asia Pacific region emerged as the primary force in the global semiconductor market, claiming the largest market share. The computer chip industry is a complex global ecosystem valued at half a trillion dollars. As India aspires to become a $5 trillion economy and strives for self-reliance, it seeks to integrate into the semiconductor industry. With a robust ecosystem of fabless companies excelling in chip design, India is positioning itself in the intricate landscape of semiconductor manufacturing.

• Foreign investments making a stride
• Strengthening end to end domestic chip-making
• Why is back-end chip-making gaining popularity (ATMP/OSAT)
• India would leverage its good presence in semiconductor design to emerge as a leading player in value-added research covering material science, system-on-chip (SoC), electromagnetics, plasma chemistry, lithography, microelectronics, and chip design

Session Lead: Sumit Sarawgi

• A look at the current industrial landscape – where is 5G being deployed?
• The challenges faced so far in implementing 5G in legacy infrastructures
• 5G is creating new opportunities across these spaces.
• The next frontier – converging 5G, AI, and Edge for the ultimate industrial environment.

Session Partner

Session Moderator: Priya Kapoor

Core Digital Infrastructures, Technologies, and Beyond

• The fundamental components of a robust digital infrastructure in 2024 and Beyond
• How to foster a culture of innovation within the workforce: encouraging adaptability, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• The current digital ecosystem, discussing the latest advancements in AI, ML, IoT, Cloud computing, and industry-specific co-pilots rewriting tech narrative
• Shaping corporate investment strategy around the New Tech roadmap: Ensuring a Secure and Streamlined Digital Transformation—Essential Insights from IT Leaders
• How can digital technologies increase business optimization? Finding Balance in Transformation – Integrating People, Infrastructure, and Systems for Business Excellence
• How has digital transformation become more aligned with sustainability, and how can it help future-proof businesses?

Session Moderator: Punita Sabharwal

• Managing Regulatory Risks & Compliances
• Lending, wealth insurtech—the bright spots
• Analyzing Acquisitions - collaborations between traditional banks and FinTech firms
• Clarity among competence

Session Moderator: Priya Kapoor

• Complying with financial crime, cyber security, and data
  protection and regulatory requirements
• Implementing the most effective controls to mitigate digital payment security risks
• Is it possible to Automate cloud infrastructure security?
• Adopting culture and leadership skills to sustain a mature cyber
  security practice.

Session Moderator: Punita Sabharwal

To say that technology has empowered medical professionals to
delivering improved healthcare would be a massive understatement. It has enabled the IT teams in hospitals to store and analyze patient records, and derive key insights based on their medical history with enhanced accuracy. The integration of robotic implements has resulted in the increased precision and success rates of various medical procedures including surgeries, disease detection, diagnostics, pre-emptive healthcare delivery, etc.

As per a recent Deloitte report, the global healthcare’s financial performance has seen an uptick with the increased adoption of technology, entry of personalized medicine, the emergence of disruptive and innovative medical services providers, advanced payment and public funding models, etc.

• The growing use of health apps
• Tele medicines
• Information and communication technology
• Big data
• The use of emerging
  technologies such as AI, ML, Gen AI in healthcare

Session Lead: Raghavan Vishwanathan

The next decade represents one of the biggest tech disruptions in
the automotive industry– CASE– connected, autonomous, shared, and electric. In today’s automotive market, car companies are no longer just assembling
mechanical parts but developing a computer on wheels. The next-gen automobile ecosystem will include OEMs, software and service suppliers, systems integrators, device manufacturers, online players, and telecom operators

• Empowering tomorrow’s Automotive Software: Use of AI, GenAI, ML, robotics, computer vision and deep learning
• Smarter manufacturing in E-mobility: EV Vehicles and EV chargers
• Roadmap for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles in India
• New Mobility: India’s readiness for Hyperloop and Flying cars
• How technology is fostering the move from fossil-fuel-powered vehicles to their electric counterparts

Session Lead: Nishant Gupta

As the world grapples with changing climatic conditions, the need for sustainable transportation takes centre stage. India’s startup ecosystem is playing a pivotal role in shaping the future of mobility. These homegrown firms are a catalyst for progress in the rapidly growing EV sector.

Sustainable mobility has proven a challenge as it seems more than one type of transportation is necessary in day to day life -- such as the use of cars, trains, buses, trucks – and more -- creating an environmental impact that needs to be addressed for sustainable mobility.

• Energy infrastructure: How can India meet the EV drivers’ need.
• Battery management systems: Battery protection in order to prevent operations outside the safe operating area
• Emerging technologies aimed at improving range, reducing costs, and enhancing overall user experience

Discussing AI’s revolutionary impact and strategies for harnessing its capabilities for business growth.

Session Lead : Harish Chowdhary

A panel of venture investors discuss AI trends they’re focused on, feedback on where they see AI investments within their portfolio, and their approaches to investing in the space.

Session Moderator: Ritu Marya

• Impact of technology on public policy, governance, and national security
• The need to regulate technology
• How the government is enhancing digital infrastructure

Session Moderator: Priya Kapoor

Insights into building, funding, and scaling AI-driven businesses
Integrating tech Stack into AI

Session Moderator: Paromita Gupta

• Business Strategies, Tech Trends, and Business Innovation : Digital Transformation with AI
• How are businesses customizing AI to meet business needs
• AI collaboration without chaos: integrating AI into everyday Tech Stack

• Generative AI Across The Banking Value Chain
• Reimagining Customer Experience with AI For Financial Institutions
• Automation in FInance : How and How much

Session Moderator: Punita Sabharwal

• From autonomous vehicles to seamless and traffic-efficient loops
• Logistics that connect future communities and individuals with seamless access to everything

With a new trend rising every second hour, the world of digital stardom is fast-paced and unpredictable

• The Direction of the Creator Economy for 2024
• Cracking the Code to Growing Organic and Crushing Social Content
• how leading brands are integrating creator
  content in each stage of the funnel as well as using influencers to support
  other internal teams in their business.
• The challenges and opportunities presented by using A.I. and automation tools in the social media landscape.
• YouTube, Instagram, Facebook- Which is the best for content creators?

Session Moderator: Ritu Marya

• The current state of women in tech in India
• Funding roadblocks for tech women founders/co-founders
• Strategies for promoting diversity and inclusion in tech companies in India.
• Future prospects and opportunities for women in the tech industry in India.

• Despite over $35 trillion in ESG assets, increasing regulation, and a plethora of green incentives, why is progress on sustainability still so slow?
• This session identifies the missing link and provides a powerful playbook.

Session Moderator: Punita Sabharwal

• How investors and entrepreneurs are more collaborative: New fundamentals of fundraising
• The quest for strong unit economics: How funds are Creating startup due diligence frameworks from day one
• A renewed focus on profitability and cash flows from both investors and startup founders
• Honest and clear communication between founders and investors
• Why scrutiny without interference is the new mantra

Session Moderator: Priya Kapoor

• Angel investors, HNIs, and VCs looking at India as the next big opportunity
• Global investors relocating to India
• Indian investors fueling economic growth of neighboring countries
• Indian investors diversifying into global markets

Technology is increasingly on the minds of investors as they do their best to get their arms around rapidly unfolding tech-related issues. Technology is evolving so quickly it is difficult to keep pace, let alone understand its implications for investors, or how to integrate it into critical processes. Here, investors share insights on how they weigh future tech investments throwing light on

• investment strategies
• technology-enabled business models
• new technologies emerging

Session Moderator: Punita Sabharwal

• Many have jumped onto the investors' bandwagon in the last few years
• Creators and influencers look at startup investment as a new asset
  class
• Rise of venture debt, corporate venture capital funds in India, the opportunities and challenges

• Detailed pre and post-investment diligence
• Corporate governance placed at the heart of growth and profitability
• Creating benchmarks for the world

Session Moderator: Ritu Marya

• PE firms offering both capital and strategic guidance
• LPs’ heightened interest in PE funds
• How PE firms are relooking startup funding

Session Moderator: Shrabona Ghosh

How has digital transformation become more aligned with sustainability, and how can it help future-proof businesses?

• How startups/companies are entering the green space with renewables, sustainable finance, and transformative tech.
• How they are driving positive environmental impact while ensuring
  economic growth in India's journey towards a sustainable future.
• How they are accelerating net zero

Session Moderator: Priya Kapoor

Be it renewables or solar energy or battery storage or EVs or green hydrogen, India is already emerging as a huge market for climate investments. Most large companies have real intent to solve climate problems.
However, they may not necessarily have the solutions themselves. And those innovations will come from startups.

• The panel will discuss how VCs are scouting for young Indian
  startups that are building sustainable projects.
• Is there more climate capital available now then before?