Participants at the Workshop Final Frameworks: CDR & Gaming
Co-Organisers
Supported by
Agenda
0945 - 1000
Arrival, Meet and Greet
1000 - 1015
Welcome & Opening Remarks: Mr Sameer Kochhar, Chairman, SKOCH Group 
1015 - 1100
Session 1: Final Frameworks for CDR & Gaming
– Final Framework for Corporate Digital Responsibility
– Final Framework for Digital Gaming
1100 - 1130
Session 2: Proposed Responsibility Frameworks for AI
1130 - 1340
Session 3: Discussing Cloud, AI & Languages
– Comprehensive Economic Impact Parametres for Cloud, Data Science & Analytics
– Smoother Transition to AI & Local Languages
– Monetisation of Digital Assets Including Deployment of Data Science & Data Analytics
Background
Cloud has historically been sold with the benefit statements of affordability, scalability and security. Over a period of time, organisations have realised that a switch to cloud may end up increasing IT costs. This then creates a problem to justify the use of cloud to the C-Suite. A Comprehensive Economic Impact looks at organisation-wide benefits that may include:
Cloud has historically been sold with the benefit statements of affordability, scalability and security. Over a period of time, organisations have realised that a switch to cloud may end up increasing IT costs. This then creates a problem to justify the use of cloud to the C-Suite. A Comprehensive Economic Impact looks at organisation-wide benefits that may include:
- Organisation wide impact
- Addressing newer markets and customers
- Better ESG impact
- Smoother transition to AI and Local Languages
- Monetisation of Digital Assets, including deployment of Data Science and Data Analytics
1340 - 1400
Session 3: Discussing Mental Health
– Framework for Digital Mental Health
Discussants
Mr Abhishek Ravi, Chief Information Officer, Dream Sports 
Mr Ajay Singh Rajawat, Digital India Bhashini Division, Ministry of Electronics & IT 
Mr Amitabh Nag, CEO, Digital India Bhashini Division, MeitY 
Mr Golok Simli, Principal Advisor and CTO, Ministry of External Affairs 
Dr Gursharan Dhanjal, Vice Chairman, SKOCH Group
Prof Jyoti Bachani, Saint Mary’s College of California
Prof Karishma Godara, Assistant Professor, Jindal School of of Psychology and Counselling, OP Jindal Global University 
Mr Kersi Tavadia, Former CTO, BSE Ltd
Prof Krishna Deo Singh Chauhan, Associate Professor & Associate Dean, Jindal Global Law School, OP Jindal Global University
Dr N Vijayaditya, Former Director General, National Informatics Centre (NIC) 
Prof Naresh Singh, Executive Dean, Jindal School of Government & Public Policy, O P Jindal Global University 
Mr Rajesh Awasthi, Vice President & Business Head, Cloud & Hosting Services, Tata Communications 
Mr Rohan Kochhar, Head, SKOCH Law Offices 
Mr Rohit Chauhan, Director, Public Policy, Head Digital Works 
Mr Sameer Kochhar, Chairman, SKOCH Group
Mr Sanjay Agrawal, CTC and Head - TechSales, Hitachi Vantara, India and SAARC-Region 
Mr Sanjiv Jaitly, Vice President Sales – Strategic Initiatives, Tata Communications 
Mr Sanjivan Shirke, Former CIO, UTI Asset Management Co 
Mr Shivam Chaudhary, Public Policy, SKOCH Group 
Dr Shefali Dash, Former Director General, National Informatics Centre (NIC) 
Prof Sidharth Chauhan, Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Jindal Global Law School (JGLS), O P Jindal Global University 
Mr Sidheswar (Sid) Misra, Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs & Head, Government Relations, Dream Sports 
Mr Sreeji Gopinathan, Former CIO, Lupin 
Mr Subodh Shukla, Former DDG, NIC 
Mr Sumanta Dey, Head Digital Works 
Mr Sundar Ram, Director of Business Development, AWS India 
Mr Sameer Kochhar
Chairman, SKOCH Group
Reforms historian and author of best-seller ModiNomics, Sameer Kochhar is Chairman, SKOCH Group. He is a passionate advocate of social, digital and financial inclusion and is a foremost expert on governance and inclusive growth. His work has been acclaimed globally and endorsed by Mr Narendra Modi, Mr M Venkaiah Naidu, Dr Manmohan Singh, Mr Arun Jaitley, Mr P Chidambaram, Mr Yashwant Sinha, Dr C Rangarajan and Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia and so on. In his thinking and writings and activities, his profound admiration for India's economic reforms and in extension, those outstanding personalities who strive to make these reforms more meaningful and broad-based comes out clear and unambiguous.
View MoreMr Amitabh Nag
CEO, Digital India Bhashini Division, MeitY
A Thought Leader & Executioner, having over 30 years of experience spanning Business Management, Sales and Marketing and Projects Execution in the field of Information Technology. He has the distinction of managing Business Units which executed IT-led transformation programmes. He has been associated with renowned companies like HP Inc. and TCS in multiple roles.
He also worked in different industries like Manufacturing, Retail, BFSI etc., in different roles like Customer Relationship Management, Business Development in Govt. sector and Business Unit Management. Extensively worked in Govt. sector, extensively interacted with Govt. bodies at the policy level and contributed towards market shaping activities. Developed Business Strategy, and built profitable and sustainable businesses by cost-effectively executing projects.
View MoreMr Golok Simli
Principal Advisor and CTO, Ministry of External Affairs
He is currently working as Principal Advisor and Chief Technology Officer, Passport Seva Program(India/Global), Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, with over 30 years of experience in ICT including 22+ years as CIO/CXO/Team Lead in Government and Public Sectors. He has handled the domain from a 360-degree perspective, both from a service provider and user enterprise perspective. He has in-depth experience in emerging technologies, cloud platforms, full-stack architecture technologies, full-stack observability, container-based microservices architecture, middleware, and API gateways. He also worked with government stakeholders and regulators to shape technology and cyber policies.
View MoreDr N Vijayaditya
Former Director General, National Informatics Centre
Dr N Vijayaditya, PhD in Information Systems from University of North Carolina, was DG, National Informatics Centre. He was responsible for supervising implementation of several e-Governance projects at the Centre and States. He was also Controller of Certifying Authority and worked extensively on developing security systems including digital signatures. He has done research in Pattern Recognition and Information systems and has been deeply involved in drawing the IT roadmap for roll out of GST.
View MoreMr Sreeji Gopinathan
Former CIO, Lupin
He is the founder of SKG Advisory and worked as Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Lupin Limited. Prior to joining Lupin, he was with Reckitt Benckiser. He has also been associated with companies like Philips, Procter & Gamble, ISRO and Asea Brown Boveri.
View MoreProf Naresh Singh
Executive Dean, Jindal School of Government & Public Policy, O P Jindal Global University
Dr Singh Is Professor and Executive Dean, Jindal School of Government and Public Policy; Director of the Centre for Complexity Economics, Applied Spirituality and Public Policy (CEASP), Co-Director of the Centre for Legal Empowerment of the Poor and Senior Fellow at the Jindal India Institute. He has a transdisciplinary PhD in Environmental Sciences, with more than three decades of public policy experience in senior positions in the United Nations and the Federal Government of Canada.
View MoreDr Shefali Dash
Former Director General, National Informatics Centre
Dr. (Mrs.) Shefali S. Dash is a Ph.D in Physics & Former Deputy Director General, National Informatics Centre, New Delhi. Her Areas of Specialization are Planning and implementation of Management Information Systems (MIS) and Decision Support Systems (DSS), development and implementation of e-Governance programmes, Informatics Development Services and Setting up of Computer Centres, Local Area Networks and computer communication infrastructure in rural areas. She has Implemented a number of large scale projects like the Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission computerization Project, Community Information Centre Project, GRAMSAT Project, Warana Wired Village Project, Project Arrow of Department of Post, Setting up of Wide Area Network for connecting all the post offices in the country, Setting up of National Consumer Call Preference Registry for TRAI, Project Nikshaya for Ministry of Health etc. She has been instrumental in preparing e-Governance Plans for various State Governments in India as well as for the Government of Lao PDR.
View MoreMr Kersi Tavadia
Former CTO, BSE Ltd
Kersi Tavadia, CIO at BSE Ltd., has over 40 years of vast industry experience in IT - Software Development, Infrastructure Services (Networks, Operating Systems and Databases) and Cyber Security for organizations operating in Financial Services and Capital Markets.
In his twelve-year stint at BSE, Kersi has played a leading role to transform BSE into world’s fastest exchange with response times of 6 microseconds. He is strong proponent of Open-Source Technologies and has demonstrated “Walk the Talk” by successfully implementing one of the Largest Data Warehouse on Open Source Platform. Taking this to next level, he is instrumental in use of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning in BSE’s surveillance function by implementing Social Media Analytics for rumour verification.
View MoreMr Subodh Shukla
Former DDG, NIC
Mr Subodh Shukla, Senior Fellow, SKOCH Development Foundation, is a Mechanical Engineer from IIT-Kanpur and is a Former Deputy Director General, National Informatics Centre. He is one of the rare professionals who worked on Mainframe Computers for years. After a brief stint abroad, he joined NIC in 1989. The I&B Ministry and its affiliates. He subsequently handled and implemented Aadhaar Enabled Biometric Attendance (AEBA).
View MoreMr Sanjivan Shirke
Former CIO, UTI Asset Management Co
He has more than 3 decades of experience in Information Technology and Information Security and Hands-on Application Development, Database Administrator, Server Administrator, Email Administrator, Network Administrator, and Cyber Security Administrator. He also has experience working in BFSI as well as Information Technology Companies.
View MoreProf Karishma Godara
Assistant Professor, Jindal School of of Psychology and Counselling, OP Jindal Global University
Dr Godara is a clinical psychologist and mental health researcher with a keen interest in addiction research. Her clinical training is from the Department of Psychiatry, PGIMS, Rohtak. Both her M.Phil. and PhD theses, centre on mental health and addiction disorders (substance and behavioural, respectively). Her PhD focuses on risk perceptions and therapeutic intervention for the management of internet use. Following her doctoral studies, she worked at the National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. She has also worked on research pertaining to maternal mental health at the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI).
View MoreMr Sumanta Dey
Head-Public Policy, Head Digital Works
He is head of Corporate Affairs at HDW, a leading online gaming company in India. The mandate includes handling Public Policy, Advocacy, Strategic external engagements, Corporate Affairs, and Public Relations. At Unacademy, he set up and led Corporate Affairs with a mandate to steer stakeholder strategy, Govt. Relations, Public Policy, and Communications. The charter spans strategic engagement and advocacy with Govt. (Centre & States), Media, and Ecosystem partners, besides managing reputation risks. Prior to EdTech, he was a Corporate Affairs lead at Flipkart, where he helped build relationships with key stakeholder groups while heading market access programs for farmers, MSMEs, and Artisans.
Dr Gursharan Dhanjal
Vice Chairman, SKOCH Group
Dr Gursharan Dhanjal, MA, MPhil, PhD from Delhi University and an expert in strategic affairs, is Vice Chairman, SKOCH Group. He is also the Editor of INCLUSION—a quarterly publication that focuses on development and addresses inclusive growth-related issues. INCLUSION has completed six years. He has over 20 years of work experience ranging from academics to research and business journalism to consulting. He started his career as an Assistant Professor and taught at Delhi University for five years before joining Asia Business News (India)—Dow Jones, a premier broadcaster of business and financial news during the mid-90s. He also worked for CNBC for over three years during the late 90s.
View MoreMr Sundar Ram
Director-Business Development, AWS India
He leads the Business Development team at Amazon Internet Services Pvt Ltd (part of AWS globally). His team handles 5 types of activities, 1/ Migrations and Modernizations, 2/ Specialist Products like Analytics, storage, databases, AIML, HPC etc., 3/ Business Value Assessment, 4/ Digital Innovation using Amazon's innovation methodologies, and 5/ Industry BDs. His last role before AWS was to set up and lead the Enterprise Architecture team in Oracle India from June 2015.
View MoreMr Ajay Singh Rajawat
Digital India Bhashini Division, MeitY
He is a professional specializing in AI/ML, Natural Language Processing, and Innovation Management. Since joining the Digital India Bhashini Division in 2023 as a Manager, he has been dedicated to advancing the innovation ecosystem in India and breaking language barriers through technology.
With extensive experience in serving multiple Govt. organizations, he has focused on propelling India's innovation landscape forward. His efforts are centered on building Bhashini as a key element for national growth, ensuring that digital services are accessible in multiple Indian languages.
He has a proven track record of managing national-level programs such as the Smart India Hackathona and his work with the Innovation Cell has been pivotal in promoting innovation and the startup ecosystem in India.
He has been responsible for managing IT systems and cloud services for the Ministry of Innovation Cell, designing and scaling Hackathon-as-a-Service (HaaS) systems for both national and international hackathons, and collaborating with ministries to identify IT and data analysis challenges, conducting hackathons to address these issues.
Furthermore, he has nurtured startups in the NLP ecosystem, bringing in elite use cases like the live speech-to-speech solution, VaniAnuvaad. His passion lies in fostering a robust startup ecosystem and driving innovation to new heights.
View MoreMr Rajesh Awasthi
Vice President & Business Head, Tata Communications
He is Vice President & Business Head of Cloud & Hosting Services at Tata Communications. Before Tata Communications he worked as Director Sales (Cloud Solutions) at NetApp. Mr Awasthi is an Experienced professional in IT/Telecom solution and service sales.
View MoreMr Sanjiv Jaitly
Vice President, Sales – Strategic Initiatives, Tata Communications
He is Vice President and Head BD for GenAI Cloud, 5G Private Network and Total Network Outsourcing at Tata Communications. He is an experienced Sales Head with a demonstrated and successful history of working in the telecommunications & IT industry (Domestic and Global markets). A strong sales professional skilled in Sales Management, People Management, Strategic Partnerships, and Team Building.
View MoreMr Rohan Kochhar
Head, SKOCH Law Offices
Rohan’s work primarily involves research, grassroots field assessments, impact evaluation and dispensing evidence-based policy advice to the government and private sector. He holds an MPA in Public Administration and Management from University College London (UCL) and a B.A. (H) in Economics from Delhi University. He has also received training in Advanced Research Methods for Social Science at the Department of Political Science and International Relations (DPIR), University of Oxford during which time, I was a resident of Brasenose College.
Mr Rohit Chauhan
Director, Public Policy, Head Digital Works
Mr Chauhan is a seasoned professional who understands the pivotal intersection of Technology, Public Policy, Global Affairs, Business Development, Sustainability and the Geopolitical landscape to augment the business drivers for impactful growth, brand reputation, risk mitigation, advocacy, and global expansion. He has insightful experience working with Foreign Embassies & High Commissions and multilateral forums (5+ programs) like the UN, World Bank and other global bodies on Digital Business, Policy & UN SDGs.
View MoreProf Jyoti Bachani
Saint Mary’s College of California
She is working to humanise management with many experiments that bring in fresh perspectives and marginalized/cutting-edge voices.
Early in her career, she was recognized as an expert in case studies, serving as an editor-in-chief for the largest collection of online case studies, the Emerald Emerging Markets Case Study Collection. She advocated for digital and multi-media case studies for participant-centred pedagogy. Some of her other interests are mindful use of technology, experiential pedagogy, simulations, creative leadership, embodied learning and decolonising the mind.
View MoreProf Sidharth Chauhan
Assistant Professor, Jindal School of of Psychology and Counselling, OP Jindal Global University
Dr Godara is a clinical psychologist and mental health researcher with a keen interest in addiction research. Her clinical training is from the Department of Psychiatry, PGIMS, Rohtak. Both her M.Phil. and PhD theses, centre on mental health and addiction disorders (substance and behavioural, respectively). Her PhD focuses on risk perceptions and therapeutic intervention for the management of internet use. Following her doctoral studies, she worked at the National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. She has also worked on research pertaining to maternal mental health at the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI).
View MoreMr Sanjay Agrawal
CTC and Head - TechSales, Hitachi Vantara, India and SAARC-Region
Sanjay Agrawal is the Technology Head for India & SAARC at Hitachi Vantara, India. Sanjay joined Hitachi Vantara in 2017 and brings with him over 30+ years of industry experience.
In this role, Sanjay is responsible for the technical direction at Hitachi Vantara and leads a team of solution consultants and technical experts in India to help customers focus on solutions and initiatives around Digital Transformation. His team is responsible for developing solutions in Analytics, IOT, Content Platform, Public Safety Solutions, Enterprise Storage and Server solutions. Furthermore, Sanjay leads a team that is also responsible for Business Development and Product Specialization.
At Hitachi Vantara, Sanjay strengthens the India Presales team into a niche specialist community to enhance collaboration and further shares his expertise across different regions in India. Through his long career, Sanjay has a diverse set of experience across vertical industries, connected with his knowledge in third and fourth platform technologies.
View MoreMr Abhishek Ravi
Chief Information Officer, Dream Sports
Abhishek Ravi is the Chief Information Officer of Dream Sports. He is responsible for bridging the gap between business and security requirements and identifying the best-suited technical solutions. He also plays an integral part in driving the scale and adaption of technology for Dream Sports’ 10+ portfolio companies.
Abhishek has over 20 years of experience in technology, consumer internet product development and security. Before Dream Sports, Abhishek worked with Inkfruit.com, Tricom India and Infosys in various technology leadership roles.
Abhishek graduated from IIT Kanpur with a Bachelor of Technology. Besides his passion for technology, Abhishek is an avid cricket fan and follows the Mumbai Indians team.
View MoreProf Krishna Deo Singh Chauhan
Assistant Professor
Prof. Krishna Deo Singh completed his undergraduate degree in Law from the National Law Institute University, Bhopal, and his postgraduate degree from the National University of Singapore. His specialization area is Intellectual Property and Technology Law. His research interests are focused on the evolution of legal theory in light of the latest advancements in technology, especially artificial intelligence and its impacts on law, society and human psychology. In the past, he has taught at UPES School of Law where he focused on Law and Technology subjects. He is an avid reader and writer and has published in various journals and blogs.
View MoreMr Sidheswar (Sid) Misra
Senior VP, Corporate Affairs & Head, Government Relations Dream Sports
He is an experienced Media & Entertainment(M&E), Policy, Business Development, Strategy, Operations Effectiveness/Excellence, Regulatory issues, Copyrights & Digital professional having 20+yr experience with competencies in business development/ Strategy Planning, Policy, Regulatory issues, P/L responsibility, sponsorship marketing/sales, internet TV(OT-TV) & digital business, consulting, marketing, general management, corporate strategy & entrepreneurship.
He has worked with leading organizations in the areas of both private and government media; such as Prasar Bharati (Doordarshan & All India radio), Information TV (NewsX & India News), NBS (while partnering with Associated Press GMS, London), OTV. Demonstrated leadership and entrepreneurial ability in strategizing, driving business, organic and inorganic growth, sponsorship marketing and org development as well as setting up and operationalizing businesses for global as well as Indian M&E and Digital organizations. Dealt with all the largest & top-notch digital media companies & Telco in India and overseas countries including Yahoo, Huwaei, Google, YouTube, Daily Motion, MSN, Nokia, Airtel, Vodafone, Alcatel, UTV, Disney etc.
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