IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems

16-19 December 2018 – Radisson Blu, Indore, India “Towards a Hyper-Connected World: Emerging Trends in ICT”

Panel Discussion on “Emerging ICT Architectures for Smart Infrastructure in the Hyper-

Connected World” 18th December 2018

When we think about technology, we often think about physical devices that are electrical or digital. In fact, technology encompasses far more than that. The dictionary definition refers to Technology as, “methods, systems, and devices which are the result of scientific knowledge being used for practical purposes.” As we look to the year ahead tech disruption will be driven as much by the methods and systems as it is by the devices, we associate with tech disruption. It’s impossible to predict exactly which trends will become the most disruptive over the course of 2019. That being said, there are a number of developments that have and will continue to shape business strategies. From automation to sustainability, organizations need to adapt to meet a whole new wave of societal preferences & imperatives. With proponents of paradigms like Smart Cities, Smart Manufacturing (Industry 4.0) evaluating the strategies to leverage the new disruptive technologies in comprehensively sustainable way, be it Cloud, Big Data, AI, Quantum Computing, 5G or Green ICT; it becomes imperative to have a fresh look on the way we deploy these technologies in the Infrastructure domain to get the maximum value in a sustainable manner. The Panellists from diverse domains shall discuss, how to develop the most optimized & sustainable yet delivering high performance ICT Architectures leveraging the new technologies… Attend, interact with heterogeneous mix of IT & Communication experts and go back with actionable insights within your own area of interest within the heterogeneous IoT Ecosystem… Moderator - N. Kishor Narang, NARNIX Panellists - Rajeev Shorey, TCS Goutam Chakraborty Iwate Prefectural University Ashwani K. Kumar Ericsson Tulika Pandey MeitY

narang n. kishor

mentor & principal design architect narnix technolabs pvt. ltd.

Technology Philanthropist, Innovation & Standardization Evangelist

• Kishor is currently leading the Smart Cities Standardization Globally as

“Convener of Reference Architecture Work Group in IEC Systems Committee on Smart Cities”, and also as Co-editor of a few ISO Standards.

• At the National level, he is leading the Smart Cities Standardization work in ICT & Electrotechnology domains as the Chairman of LITD 28 – Sectional Committee on Smart Infrastructure at BIS (Bureau of Indian Standards), where the main focus is on Standards development for Unified & Secure ICT Architecture for Smart Cities/ Infrastructure.

• Professionally, Kishor is Technology Consultant, Mentor & Design Architect in

Electrical, Electronics & ICT with over 40 years of professional experience in education, research, design and consulting. Over 30 years of hardcore Research and Design Development Experience in Solutions, Systems, Products, Hardware, Software & Firmware (Embedded Software) in fields of Industrial, Power, IT, Telecom, Medical, Energy and Environment, and over 10 years of Consultancy Experience to different segments of business & industry. He has over 200 Research & Design Mentees in the Electronics, ICT & STI Ecosystems. Professionally, he is an Electronics Design Engineer practicing design & development of a wide spectrum of Products, Systems & Solutions as an Independent Design House - NARNIX.

www.narnix.com +91 9810163990 kishor@narnix.com

Prof. Goutam Chakraborty Brief Resume: Prof. Goutam Chakraborty received his Ph.D. in 1993 from Tohoku University, Japan. Before joining Tohoku University, he worked in Telecommunication Industry in India. Presently, he is Professor and head of the Intelligent Informatics laboratory, Department of the Software and Information Science, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan. His research interests are Soft Computing algorithms and their applications to solve pattern recognition, prediction, scheduling and optimization problems

including applications in wired, wireless, and sensor Networks. He works in the analysis of various time-series signals, collected by sensors from nature, human body as well as machines. Recently, he is also interested in scale-free networks and applications in large-data mining problems.

Rajeev Shorey

Dr. Rajeev Shorey is a Principal Scientist with TCS Research and Innovation. He received his Ph.D and MS (Engg) in Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India in 1997 and 1991 respectively. He received his B.E degree in Computer Science and Engineering from IISc, Bangalore in 1987.

Dr. Shorey’s career spans several reputed research labs – General Motors (GM) India Science Laboratory (ISL), IBM India Research Laboratory and SASKEN Technologies. He has been an adjunct faculty in the Computer Science & Engineering Dept at IIT, Delhi from 1998 to 2005 and again from 2017 onward. He was a faculty in the Computer Science Dept at the National University of Singapore from 2003 to 2004, while on leave from IBM Research Labs in New Delhi. Dr. Shorey served as the first President of NIIT University from 2009 to 2013 before joining the TCS Innovation Labs in 2014.

Dr. Shorey’s work has resulted in more than 60 publications in international journals and conferences and several US patents, all in the area of wireless, wired networks, including wireless security. He has 12 issued US patents and several pending US patents to his credit. His areas of interest are Wireless Networks, Internet, Telecommunications, Telematics, Data Security and Data Analytics.

Dr. Shorey has served on the Editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and is currently serving on the Editorial board of WINET (Wireless Networks Journal of Mobile Communication, Computation and Information) journal. He is the editor of the book titled “Mobile, Wireless and Sensor Networks: Technology, Applications and Future Directions” published by John Wiley, US in March 2006. Dr. Shorey has given numerous talks, tutorials and seminars in industry and academia all over the world. He is the founding member of the Communication Systems & Networks (COMSNETS) conference in India.

For his contributions in the area of Communication Networks, Dr. Shorey was elected a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2007. Dr. Shorey was recognized by ACM as a Distinguished Scientist in December 2014. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India and a Senior Member of IEEE.

Ashwani Kumar Director, Head of Technology Standardization, Ericsson India Pvt. Ltd.

Ashwani brings 25 years of rich global experience in ICT industry, having worked in various roles and capacities in wireless and wireline domains. He is currently leading technology & spectrum standardization for 3GPP mobile technologies and technical regulations for Ericsson in India. In past he has worked with Indian state telco BSNL, DoT and Telecom Engineering Centre for 15 years followed by British Telecom at UK.

He has been with Ericsson since 2008 having worked in various roles comprising network planning, deployment and managed operations for enterprise and mobility services. He is currently leading 5G standardization at 3GPP and playing an active role in global harmonization of mmW spectrum for 5G under WRC-19 and IMT-2020 evaluation initiatives of ITU-R. He is also actively engaged in regional standardization at TSDSI as a Governing Council member and as Chair for Study Group 5 on 5G for smart cities at BIS LITD28.

At TEC, Ashwani has played a key role in standardization and induction of SDH, DWDM, ADSL2+/VDSL and GPON, IP/MPLS, DWDM technologies in India; and successful indigenous development of STM-1/4/16 and DWDM technology in collaboration with CDoT (Center for Development of Telematics) in India. He has actively led Optical and IP/MPLS transport technologies in actively engagement with key global SDOs (ITU, IEEE, MEF, TMN Forum, ITU-APT etc.) representing India for 6 years during 2001-2006.

At British Telecom in UK, Ashwani worked on BT’s prestigious 21st Century NGN transformation program for two years for IP/Voice network & OSS designs.

A B. Tech. (Electronics & Communication) and M. Tech. (Micro-Electronics) from IIT-Roorkee, he started his career with DoT (India) through Indian Telecom Services (ITS). He is currently pursuing MBA from Amity University (India).

Ms. Tulika Pandey

Director

Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology Government of India

Qualification

i. B. Tech. Electronics & Communication Engineering (BIT Sindri, Jharkhand) ii. Course in Digital Structures (Lund University, Sweden)

iii. Course on Governance & Informatization, KADO, South Korea

iv. Diploma in Internet Governance (Diplo Foundation, Department of International Relations at the University of Malta)

v. Internet Resource Management Essentials, Training Course, APNIC, Australia

vi. Diploma in Intellectual Property Rights (Indian Law Institute, New Delhi)

Current Position - Scientist ‘F’ & Director, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India.

Work Experience – 26 years stint with the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India, since 1992.

Areas of Work - Microelectronics & Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems(MEMs); Digitization & Digitalization, E-Learning, E-Readiness Assessment Methodologies; Technology Development for Indian Languages; Domain Names; E-Infrastructure; IPv6; Internet Governance; Convergence, Communications & Broadband Technologies; 5G; Convergence of Cognitive Radio Frequency with Internet; Alternate Technologies for Connectivity in Rural India; Smart Cities; Digital Payments, Security especially in Digital Payments, Emerging Technologies - IoT, Data Analytics, Blockchain Technology & Artificial Intelligence; Transforming Villages to Smart Villages is a new assignment.

Technical Reports – Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMs); E-Learning Models for Secondary Education; E-Readiness Assessment of India; Internet Governance Position Paper of India; Secondary Usage of TV White Space in UHF Band to provide Broadband connectivity; Smart City – IoT Framework; Security – Digital Payments, IoT, 5G; Women Empowerment through ICT, Standards - Smart Grid, IoT, Digital Payments.

Research Papers – Digitization & digitalization; Network Engineering; Cyber Trailing, Wireless Sensor Networks; Pervasive Computing; Security in IoT/CPS; Blockchain Technology.

Policy and Country Position Papers – Internationalization of Internet – ICANN & IGF Functions and Representation of India; Domain Names and Internationalized Domain Names; Internet Proliferation and its last mile outreach using Alternate Technologies; Internet Governance; Women in STEM; Digital Payments Promotion in India;

Member Engineering, Research, Standards, Technical Committees • IEEE Women in Engineering Society • Standards for Telecom Equipments of the Telecom Engineering Centre (TEC, Dept. of

Telecommunications, Govt. of India • International Advisory Board of the International Conference on “COMmunication

System & NETworkS (COMSNETS)”. • United Nation’s ‘Internet Governance Forum’ and was instrumental in establishing the

Indian Chapter of Internet Governance Forum (IIGF) • Governmental Advisory Committee of ‘Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and

Numbers’.