November 29, 2022India’s Digital Way: The Road to G20
Inaugural Address
Speakers
S. Jaishankar
External Affairs Minister of India
Inaugural Conversation: ‘Geo-digital’ and its Effects
Speakers
S. Jaishankar
External Affairs Minister of India
Video Message
Speakers
Melinda French Gates
Co-chair and Trustee
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Keynote Address
Speakers
Amitabh Kant
India’s G20 Sherpa
India’s Digital Way: The Road to G20 and Beyond
Speakers
Ashley J. Tellis
Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs and Senior Fellow
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Sunil Bharti Mittal
Founder & Chairman
Bharti Enterprises
Amitabh Kant
India’s G20 Sherpa
Nivruti Rai
Country Head
Intel India
Vice President
Intel Foundry Services, Intel Corporation
Moderator
Sachin Chaturvedi
Director General
Research and Information System for Developing Countries
Video Message
Speakers
Nandan Nilekani
Co-founder and Chairman
Infosys Technologies Limited Founding Chairman, Unique Identification Authority of India
Digital Identities: Foundational Architectures for a Digital Society
Most countries are slowly developing digital identity solutions to provide access to basic public services and facilitate administrative processes. In addition to building national identity systems, both government and industry players across the world are gearing toward developing open-source ID solutions to accelerate digital ID implementation to ensure people have access to valid credentials and public services. Despite the expected benefits of using digital IDs for inclusive development, certain concerns around data privacy and safety still exist.
Speakers
Vyjayanti T Desai
Practice Manager
Identification for Development & Digitizing Government to Persons Payment
The World Bank
Assane Gueye
Assistant Teaching Professor
Carnegie Mellon University Africa
Co-Director
Cylab-Africa
Carsten Maple
Turing Fellow
The Alan Turing Institute
Dushni Weerakoon
Executive Director
Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka
Moderator
CV Madhukar
Chief Executive Officer
Co-Develop
Keynote Adress
Speakers
R.S. Sharma
Chief Executive Officer
National Health Authority
Digital Health Solutions: Road to Sustainable Healthcare Delivery
Countries around the world are leveraging digital technologies to create solutions to enable easy access to healthcare services, strengthen disease surveillance to predict future outbreaks, and tackle disinformation campaigns. CoWin in India, CommCare in Jamaica, Surveillance Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System (SORMAS) in Nigeria, and Bisa app in Ghana are some examples of how nations use open-source technologies to facilitate access to healthcare services. Despite the benefits of these digital health solutions, most of them are built by small and agile teams who sometimes lack access to expert resource pool and stable funding.
Speakers
R.S. Sharma
Chief Executive Officer
National Health Authority
Pradipta Kundu
Director
Health Mission, eGov Foundation
Sean Blaschke
Co-founder and UNICEF Coordinator
Digital Health Centre of Excellence
Venkat Subramanian
Senior Product Manager
Google Research
HSD Srinivas
Project Director
Health Systems, Tata Trusts
Moderator
M Hari Menon
Director
India Country Office, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Address
Speakers
Harsh Vardhan Shringla
G20 Chief Coordinator
Government of India
Conversation
Speakers
Tarun Chhabra
Special Assistant to President and Senior Director
Technology and National Security Council
The White House
Rudra Chaudhuri
Director
Carnegie India
A Connected World: Aligning Principles for Cross-border Payments
Several inclusive real-time payment system models have been developed around the world, such as India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI), Singapore’s PayNow, Brazil’s Pix, and Kenya’s m-Pesa. While countries are developing their own payment systems, interoperability between these different payment platforms are necessary to facilitate faster, cheaper, safer, and transparent cross-border payments.
Speakers
Ritesh Shukla
Chief Executive Officer
NPCI International Payments Limited
Sopnendu Mohanty
Chief Fintech Officer
Monetary Authority of Singapore
Sherab Jamtsho
Director
Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan
Juliet Wangui Maina
Senior Manager
Regulatory and Public Policy
m-PESA
Moderator
Priyadarshini D.
Associate Fellow
Technology & Society Program
Carnegie India
Curtain Riser
Speakers
Rahul Matthan
Partner
Trilegal
The Next Decade of India Stack
The India Stack, that came into effect in 2016, is slowly transitioning India toward a presence-less, paperless, and cashless economy. This stack has allowed governments, businesses, startups, and developers to utilize digital infrastructure to facilitate access to public services and enable digital and financial inclusion in India. In addition to improving access to financial services, India stack is also being used to streamline access to healthcare and educational services.
Speakers
Jawed Ashraf
Ambassador of India to the Republic of France and Principality of Monaco
Abhishek Singh
President & Chief Executive Officer
National eGovernance Division, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
Government of India
Rahul Matthan
Partner
Trilegal
Sanket Atal
Managing Director
Salesforce India Operation
Site Lead - Technology, Marketing, Product
Salesforce
Moderator
Sarayu Natarajan
Founder
Aapti Institute
The World We Live In
Collaborating and competing to develop digital public goods, the SWIFT ban against Russian banks, and the role technology companies have played in the Russia-Ukraine crisis, exemplify how technology is both an object and a driver for international cooperation and competition. The decisions of countries and businesses alike to both provide and restrict access to critical technology and systems, based on their global alignments, clearly shape contemporary geopolitics in times of conflict as well as peace.
Speakers
Keyzom Ngodup Massally
Head of Digital Programmes
Chief Digital Office
United Nations Development Programme
Ashok Malik
Partner & Chair (India)
The Asia Group
Colin Reed
Global Intelligence Manager
Salesforce
Evan Feigenbaum
Vice President for Studies
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Moderator
Samir Saran
President
Observer Research Foundation
Video Message
Speakers
Amandeep Singh Gill
United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology
Digital Public Infrastructure: Building Collaborative Partnerships & Alliances
The coronavirus pandemic encouraged innovators around the world to develop solutions or digital public goods (DPGs) on top of digital public infrastructure (DPI) to slow disease spread or extend financial help to build an equitable global society. However, multi-stakeholder collaboration among policymakers, private sector, philanthropy, academia, international organizations, and other donor organizations is necessary to sustain such innovation.
Speakers
Liv Marte Nordhaug
Co-Lead
Digital Public Goods Alliance
Kathleen McGowan
Senior Director, Policy & Advocacy
Digital Impact Alliance
United Nations Foundation
Chetan Krishnaswamy
Vice President
Public Policy
Amazon India
Moderator
Aubra Anthony
Senior Fellow
Technology and International Affairs Program
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Ministerial Address
Speakers
Michelle Donelan
U.K.’s Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport
Cyber-resilience: Security of the Internet Infrastructure
In 2021, the average number of cyberattacks and data breaches increased by 15.1% from the previous year. With attacks becoming more malicious and frequent, continuous dialogue amongst component makers, software developers, manufacturers, policymakers, and businesses is imperative to develop robust, secure, resilient systems. Business and governments should also implement cyber security strategies that provide a consolidated solution which combines cybersecurity program with recovery mechanism to protect against and recover from disruptive cyber incidents.
Speakers
Noelle van der waag-Cowling
Cyber Program Lead
Security Institute for Governance and Leadership
Stellenbosch University
Manjeet Singh
Joint Secretary (Cyber)
National Security Council Secretariat
David van Duren
Director
Global Forum on Cyber Expertise
Ashutosh Chadha
Director and Country Head
Public Policy and Government Affairs
Microsoft India
Moderator
Nanjira Sambuli
Fellow
Technology and International Affairs Program
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
November 30, 2022Navigating Partnerships and Alliances for the Future
Ministerial Address
Speakers
Meenakashi Lekhi
Minister of State for External Affairs & Culture
Government of India
What’s new IN-SPACe?
Space activities in India, until recently, were predominantly carried out by the Indian Space Research Organisation. The Indian government however recently setup the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Centre (IN-SPACe) to enable commercialization of space technology and boost investments in the space sector. The Indian private sector has positively responded to the creation of IN-SPACe. Moreover, the range of reforms introduced by the Indian government has also made the field ready for foreign investments.
Speakers
Shashank Saxena
Deputy Director
IN-SPACe
T Victor Joseph
Associate Scientific Secretary
Indian Space Research Organisation
Awais Ahmed
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Pixxel
Susmita Mohanty
Director General
Spaceport SARABHAI
Moderator
Konark Bhandari
Associate Fellow
Technology and Society Program
Carnegie India
Conversation
Speakers
Nick Clegg
Global Affairs
Meta
Former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speakers
Rudra Chaudhuri
Director
Carnegie India
India as a Startup Nation
Speakers
Mohandas Pai
Chairman
3one4 Capital
Co-founder and Chairman
Aarin Capital Chairman
Manipal Global Education
Startup 20: An Agenda for G20
Startups worldwide, empowered significantly by technology, are driving economic growth, and addressing global challenges relating to healthcare, climate change, and education, amongst others. While the global startup ecosystem has seen an exponential rise in recent years, both in numbers and value (with over 1000 unicorns globally and over 100 in India), they face the challenge of sustaining their growth responsibly. Recently, India has thoughtfully proposed on an additional G20 engagement group called “Startup 20” under its upcoming G20 presidency, which would recommend actions to the leaders of G20 to address the growth challenges of startups and related constraints.
Speakers
Sean Randolph
Senior Director
Bay Area Council Economic Institute
Mohandas Pai
Chairman
3one4 Capital
Co-founder and Chairman
Aarin Capital
Chairman
Manipal Global Education
Jeet Vijay
CEO
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) Startup Hub
Government of India
Deepak Bagla
Managing Director & CEO
Invest India
Moderator
Lavanya Ashok
Partner
Trifecta Capital
Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM)
Speakers
Basant Garg
Additional Chief Executive Officer
National Health Authority
Healthcare.AI: Disrupting Healthcare for Bharat
The Covid pandemic highlighted the disruptive role that technology can play in ensuring easy access to affordable and quality healthcare. It is imperative for the various players in the healthcare ecosystem to embrace these changes caused by technology as they move toward patient centric digital models.
Speakers
Prashant Tandon
Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer
Tata 1MG
Moderator
Kashyap Chanchani
Managing Partner
The Rainmaker Group
Keynote:: Contours of Building an EU-India Trade and Technology Council
The European Commission, earlier this year, announced a Trade and Technology Council (TTC) with India to encourage compatible standards to boost technical collaboration and deepen cooperation in trade and security. The council is being envisioned to provide the necessary structure to operationalize political decisions and coordinate technical work to ensure sustainable progress of European and Indian economies.
Speakers
Margrethe Vestager
Executive Vice-President
European Commission for a Europe Fit for the Digital Age
Co-chair
Trade and Technology Council
Technology & Trade: Opportunities and Challenges
Recent advancements in digital technologies have the potential to create novel products and open new markets. Such advancements are changing the composition of trade in services and goods and redefining intellectual property rights in trade. These technological changes are also slowly bringing the developing countries to play a major role in global trade. Acknowledging the rising volume of digital transactions in the economy, several countries, including India, are now updating their foreign trade policies to have a dedicated section for e-commerce.
Speakers
Bhupen Wakankar
Director
Global Trade
Amazon India
Anita Prakash
Senior Policy Adviser for International Economic Cooperation
Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia
Christophe Kiener
EU Chief Negotiator for Trade
Sarah Fallon
Regional Director
India and Middle East, Science and Innovation Network
British High Commission
Moderator
Evan Feigenbaum
Vice President for Studies
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Creating Public Infrastructure for an Open Digital Economy: The Indian Experience
Like all markets, markets in the digital economy call for creating public infrastructure that can help reduce transaction costs, bridge information gaps, and foster competition. India is looking to make the most of the digital revolution by developing infrastructure that enables development of digital markets. From the identity platform Aadhaar to the unified payment interface (UPI), to the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), which seeks to make ecommerce more open, India has taken many initiatives to enable the development of secure and open digital markets with low costs for participants. While these are bold initiatives, they carry some risks in terms of crowding out private initiative, the mechanisms for regulating these initiatives, the economics of developing and maintaining digital public infrastructure, and so on.
Speakers
Sumit Seth
Joint Secretary (Policy Planning & Research)
Ministry of External Affairs
Government of India
Rahul Handa
Senior Vice President
Strategic Initiatives
Open Network for Digital Commerce
Sharad Sharma
Co-founder
iSPIRT
Rohini Srivathsa
National Technology Officer
Microsoft India
Moderator
Suyash Rai
Deputy Director & Fellow
Carnegie India
Conversation: National Quantum Mission
Speakers
Ajay Kumar Sood
Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India
Moderator
Michael Nelson
Senior Fellow
, Technology & International Affairs Program
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Talk
Speakers
Nivruti Rai
Country Head
, Intel India
Vice President
Intel Foundry Services
Intel Corporation
Bridgital USP: Building Unique Semiconductor Partnerships
Semiconductors are the fourth most-traded product after crude oil, refined oil, and cars, and are the backbone of the digital economy. Disruptions in semiconductor supply chains have given rise to a global chorus of calls for self-reliance among countries. India’s new semiconductor policy focusing on both chip fabrication and chip design, introduced in December 2021, is also aimed at attracting investment from major global semiconductor firms.
Speakers
Anantha S.
Director
Government Affairs and Public Policy, India
Intel Corporation
Chris Miller
Associate Professor
The Fletcher School
Tufts University
Jason Hsu
Senior Fellow
Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
Harvard Kennedy School
Sagar Sharma
Chief of Staff
India Semiconductor Mission
Moderator
Vrinda Kapoor
Co-founder
3rditech
Talk
Speakers
Matt Sheehan
Fellow
Asia Program
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Responsible AI: A Strategic Imperative
The economic potential of artificial intelligence (AI) is being widely recognized by policymakers, technologists, academics, and civil society across the world. While AI is being deployed in different sectors such as agriculture, health, and education, ethical dilemmas such as lack of transparency, gender and ethnic bias, threats to privacy, and the danger of mass surveillance are also growing. Recognizing this, the 193 member states at UNESCO adopted the first global standard on the ethics of AI to guide countries that are building legal frameworks to ensure that AI is developed in a responsible manner and is deployed for public good.
Speakers
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar
President
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Samantha Hoffman
Senior Analyst
International Cyber Policy Centre
Australian Strategic Policy Institute
Rohit Satish
Program Lead
Art Park
Sarah E. Kemp
Vice president
International Government Affairs
Intel Corporation
Moderator
Matt Sheehan
Fellow
Asia Program
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Book Discussion: After Tiananmen: The Rise of China
Speakers
Vijay Gokhale
Non-resident Senior Fellow
Carnegie India
Samantha Hoffman
Senior Analyst
International Cyber Policy Centre
Australian Strategic Policy Institute
Srinath Raghavan
Non-resident Senior Fellow
Carnegie India
Evan Feigenbaum
Vice President for Studies
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Moderator
Ashley J. Tellis
Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs and Senior Fellow
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
December 1, 2022Fragmentation and Its Effects
Conversation: G20 Troika: Indonesia, India, and Brazil (virtual)
Indonesia, India, and Brazil, a group of three developing countries will form the troika of the preceding, current, and succeeding presidencies later this year. Considering the implications of the disruption caused by the pandemic and thereafter the Russia-Ukraine crisis, Indonesia during its presidency focused on three priority issues including global health architecture, digital transformation, and sustainable energy transition.
Speakers
Amitabh Kant
India’s G20 Sherpa
Speakers
Sarquis José Buainain Sarquis
Brazil’s G20 Sherpa
Moderator
Rudra Chaudhuri
Director
Carnegie India
Ministerial Address
Speakers
James Cleverly
Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs of the United Kingdom
Ministerial Address
Speakers
Josephine Teo
Minister for Communications and Information
Ministry of Communications and Information
Singapore
Save the Data: Localization as Democratization?
Data democratization is often defined to mean the removal of barriers to accessing data. Data localization on the other hand, refers to the process of creating barriers to the free flow of data. If democratization requires greater access to data, why are countries and regions exercising their sovereign power to impose data localisation requirements? How can data localization serve the objectives of data democratization? In contrast, has the free flow of data across borders benefitted different parts of the world? This discussion will unpack why arguments for localizing data persist in spite of the benefits countries have reaped from the free flow of data.
Speakers
Melinda Claybaugh
Privacy Policy Director
Legislation
Meta
Ralf Sauer
Deputy Head
DG Justice and Consumer’s Unit for International Data Flows and Protection
European Commission
Audrey Plonk
Head of Division
Digital Economy Policy
The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Rahul Matthan
Partner
Trilegal
Moderator
Anirudh Burman
Associate Research Director and Fellow
Carnegie India
Ministerial Address
Speakers
Sanae Takaichi
Minister of Economic Security of Japan
Lessons from the War in Ukraine
Technology in the defence sector has been increasing rapidly for a few years. But the recent Russia-Ukraine crisis is the first conflict that deployed a combination of kinetic and digital weapons to gain supremacy. Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence, facial recognition technology, commercial satellite imaging, 3D printing, unmanned aerial vehicles made it easier for everyday citizens, private companies, and civilian institutions to become an active part of the crisis. While many of the technologies used by Russia and Ukraine are not entirely new, their deployment in the recent crisis might place emerging tech into the military mainstream.
Speakers
Raj Shukla
Member
Union Public Service Commission
Joshua T. White
Non-resident Fellow
Foreign Policy
Brookings
Lauren Kahn
Research Fellow
Council on Foreign Relations
Ashley J. Tellis
Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs and Senior Fellow
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Moderator
Indrani Bagchi
Chief Executive Officer
Ananta Aspen Centre
Promoting Sustainability: Transitioning to a Net-Zero Economy
As countries around the world make efforts to meet their zero-emission targets, investment in green technologies such as wind and solar power, electric mobility, and green hydrogen is slowly gaining traction. In addition to governments pooling in money and resources to transition to greener technologies, a lot of private actors have also announced their net-zero ambitions over the last year.
Speakers
Sassoon Grigorian
Vice President
Government Affairs & Public Policy
APAC & Japan
Salesforce
Ashutosh Chadha
Director and Country Head
Public Policy and Government Affairs
Microsoft India
Neeraj Sinha
Senior Adviser (Science & Technology)
NITI Aayog
Sandeep Chakravorty
Joint Secretary (Europe West)
Ministry of External Affairs
Government of India
Varad Pande
Partner
Omidyar Network India
Sharmila Barathan
President
Government Affairs & Policy
General Electric South Asia
Moderator
Anirudh Suri
Non-resident Scholar
Carnegie India
Conversation: Building Technologies for a Sustainable Global Food Chain
Food value chains across the world are built at the intersection of quality and yield. The sole determinant of fairness, transparency and traceability of the world’s food yield is hinged on the axis of ‘quality’. Yet globally, the measurement of quality from farm to fork is more speculative than science.
Speakers
Taranjeet Singh Bhamra
Founder and CEO
Agnext
Moderator
Kunal Bhardwaj
Parther
The Rainmaker Group
Panel: Local Content: Instrument of India’s Soft Power Globally
With the growth of the global streaming market, India is set to become the “content hub of the world.” India’s homegrown content could be a powerful instrument to showcase the rich heritage and cultural diversity of India. In addition, it could be a key soft power tool to garner economic benefits for India and shape the cultural and political landscape of content consuming societies.
Speakers
Gaurav Gandhi
Vice President
Prime Video India
Nanjira Sambuli
Fellow
Technology and International Affairs Program
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Amritpal Singh Bindra
Founder
Still and Still Media Collective
Rangita Pritish Nandy
Creative Director
Pritish Nandy Communications
Moderator
Vikram Chandra
Founder
Editorji Technologies
Architecture for Biosafety and Biosecurity
The field of life science research is going through a revolutionary period with rapid change and innovation. Bioscience and biotechnology advances are vital for fighting disease, protecting the environment, and promoting economic development—but these innovations also can pose risks of accidents or deliberate misuse. Governments play a critical role in providing oversight to prevent abuse and misuse, but they have struggled to keep pace with rapid bioscience and biotechnology advances. There is a lack of shared international biosafety- biosecurity norms and available tools for upholding them.
Speakers
Piers Millett
Executive Director
International Biosafety and Biosecurity Initiative for Science
Jaime Yassif
Vice President
Global Biological Policy and Programs
Nuclear Threat Initiative
Mrinmayee Bhushan
Founder-Director
Mindfarm Novatech Private Limited
Moderator
Shruti Sharma
Senior Research Analyst and Senior Convenor
Global Technology Summit
Carnegie India
Ministerial Address
Speakers
Rajkumar Ranjan Singh
Minister of State for External Affairs and Education
Government of India
Ministerial Address
Speakers
Rajesh Bansal
Chief Executive Officer
Reserve Bank Innovation Hub
Open-Network Technologies: A Driver of Financial Inclusion
Public and private sector banks across the world are deploying digital technologies to offer financial services for financially underserved and excluded population. Despite the rapid progress in leveraging digital technologies to enable inclusion, more than a billion people remain unbanked, with a large fraction of them being women. To bridge this gap, several countries are building digital public infrastructures that enable delivery of financial services. In India, innovations like Aadhar, UPI, and account aggregator have changed the way financial services are provided. Moreover, fintech and big tech companies are now competing with banks and other incumbents across a range of markets.
Speakers
Steven Haley
Director
Market Development and Partnerships
Mojaloop Foundation
Kamya Chandra
Practitioner Economist
Digital Development
Nanjira Sambuli
Fellow
Technology and International Affairs Program
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Siddharth Tiwari
Former Chief Representative for Asia and the Pacific
Bank for International Settlements
MG Vaidyan
Senior Advisor
Financial Inclusion
Tata Trusts
Moderator
Priyadarshini D
Associate Fellow
Technology & Society Program
Carnegie India
Ministerial Address
Speakers
Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami
Minister of Communications and Digital Economy
Nigeria
Address
Speakers
Oddmund Hoel
State Secretary
Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research
Conversation: Personalized Cancer Care (virtual)
Speakers
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Columbia University
Pulitzer Prize Winning Author
Moderator
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Executive Chairperson
Biocon Limited and Biocon Biologics Limited
Book Launch: Grasping Greatness: Making India a Leading
Welcome Remarks
Speakers
Rudra Chaudhuri
Director
Carnegie India
Introduction to the Book
Ashley J. Tellis
Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs and Senior Fellow
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Conversation About the Book
Speakers
S. Jaishankar
External Affairs Minister of India
Moderator
Ashley J. Tellis
, Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs and Senior Fellow
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Panel Discussion About the Bok
Speakers
Ila Patnaik
Chief Economist
Aditya Birla Group
Bibek Debroy
Chairman
Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India (EAC-PM)
Arjun Subramaniam
President’s Chair of Excellence
National Defence College
Moderator
C. Raja Mohan
Senior Fellow
Asia Society Policy Institute