7th India Digital Summit 2013
Sunil Abraham is the moderator for Plenary Session 3: Discussion on Social Media – Freedom, Moderation or Regulation.
Theme of the Summit
951 million mobile users with 448 million mobile data subscribers; 137 million Internet users and rural Internet growing 7x in the last two years make India one of the top three digital markets in the world. One of only top two at this scale with free market economy democratic polity; and the only one where there is still headroom for growth. The time to invest in Digital India is now.
By 2020 riding on a government investment of 4 billion USD [roughly 10 billion USD on PPP terms] Internet users is expected to be 600 million; and mobile would possibly penetrate 100% of rural India creating the largest free economy digital market in the world.
The Digital Opportunity now and in the next 5 years in India is explosive. And the need to create a Digital Economy on scale is a developmental necessity. The opportunity, however, lies in addressing the current challenges of the ability to provide: low cost connectivity, universal access, usable content, secure networks, affordable devices and enabling policy.
Building on the theme of “Creating the World’s Largest Free Market Digital Economy” the 7th India Digital Summit will focus on five tracks: Infrastructure, Regulatory Frameworks, Services & Content, Entrepreneurship / Innovation and Business 3.0.
Webcast of the Event
Day 1, January 16, 2013
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Welcome Address |
| Plenary Session 1: 1000 digital startups a year: How to make it happen? |
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Business track |
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Session Chair and presenter Neville Taraporewalla, Sr. Director - Emerging Markets| India, Malaysia,Thailand & Korea, Advertising and Online, Microsoft Discussion:
Audience Interaction |
| “Lowering the barrier for mobile web - for both operators and users” |
| Keynote Address by Mr. Peter Panait Løjmand, Senior Vice President, Opera Software Interaction with Mr. Sanjay Goyal, Chief Executive Officer, ACL Wireless |
| Plenary Session 2: Cloud – Leveraging the Cloud for Business Efficiency |
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| Email Marketing Roundtable with juvlon |
| Email Marketing in the Year of the Snake - 2013 Presented by Mr. Naresh Bhagtani, CEO, Juvlon, Niche Software |
| “Unique Identity and Its Positive Externalities for Inclusiveness" |
| Keynote Address by Mr. Nandan Nilekani , Chairman, UAIDI Interaction with Mr. Shubhashis Gangopadhyay, IDF research |
| “Bharat Broadband [NOFN]: Going extra mile with public investment” |
| Keynote Address by Mr. Sam Pitroda Interaction with Mr. Lalitesh Katragadda, Country Head-India Products, Google |
| Plenary Session 3: Discussion on Social media – Freedom, moderation or regulation |
| Session Chair & Moderator: Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, The Centre for Internet and Society |
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Discussion with:
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| Track 3: The last mile of customer connect: m-Engagement from OPENHOUSE |
| Presenter: Mr. Ankit Singh, Senior Manager, Enterprise mobility, IMI Mobile Mr. Ramesh Raman , Senior manager, Marketing, IMI Mobile |
Day 2, January 17, 2013
| “Future of Apps and their Monetization” |
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| Keynote Address by Mr. Ilja Laurs, Founder and Chairman, GetJar Moderated by : Mr. Kiruba Shankar |
| “Communications challenges in the age of Social media” |
| Keynote address by Dr Shashi Tharoor, Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Government of India Interaction with audience Moderated by Mr. R Jagannanthan |
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Track 4: CXOs Closed door discussion on Local Language – The Game Changer |
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Session moderated by Audience Interaction |
| Start-Up Unconference |
| A peer to peer, informal sharing of views between new entrepreneurs and start-ups of our industry |
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| Plenary Session 5: Discussion on e-Commerce 2.0– Emerging trend |
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| Plenary Session 6: Marketers Viewpoint – Online and Mobile Marketing |
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| Plenary Session 7: Interaction: Attracting and retaining talent for Digital Industry |
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Thought sharing by Industry Leaders Interaction between Industry leaders and Students
Student Entrepreneurs: |
| India Digital Award Ceremony |
