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2022 Global Technology Summit

November 29, 2022 - December 1, 2022
New Delhi | Geopolitics of Technology

The critical significance of technology policy has manifested itself in multiple forms in this past year. Geopolitical disruptions have confirmed the potential for the weaponization of technology. Disputes over data flows and access are leading to new dialogues on international norm-building. India has demonstrated that a public infrastructure for digital services can promote welfare objectives from financial inclusion to vaccine delivery.

These developments are taking place in the larger global context of supply chain disruptions, semi-conductor shortages and the race to lead on data-related technologies. Against this backdrop, and as India takes the G-20 presidency later this year, the seventh iteration of the Global Technology Summit explored the present climate in the shapeshifting world of international alliances, emerging technologies, and geopolitics.

To discuss these issues and many other questions, we hosted the 7th iteration of the Global Technology Summit, themed Geopolitics of Technology from November 29 to December 1. Carnegie India convened industry experts, policymakers, scholars, scientists, and other stakeholders from all over the world to take an in-depth look at the changing nature of technology and geopolitics.

Co-hosted with the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India.

The critical significance of technology policy has manifested itself in multiple forms in this past year. Geopolitical disruptions have confirmed the potential for the weaponization of technology. Disputes over data flows and access are leading to new dialogues on international norm-building. India has demonstrated that a public infrastructure for digital services can promote welfare objectives from financial inclusion to vaccine delivery.

These developments are taking place in the larger global context of supply chain disruptions, semi-conductor shortages and the race to lead on data-related technologies. Against this backdrop, and as India takes the G-20 presidency later this year, the seventh iteration of the Global Technology Summit explored the present climate in the shapeshifting world of international alliances, emerging technologies, and geopolitics.

To discuss these issues and many other questions, we hosted the 7th iteration of the Global Technology Summit, themed Geopolitics of Technology from November 29 to December 1. Carnegie India convened industry experts, policymakers, scholars, scientists, and other stakeholders from all over the world to take an in-depth look at the changing nature of technology and geopolitics.

Co-hosted with the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India.

  • November 29, 2022
  • November 30, 2022
  • December 1, 2022
November 29, 2022India’s Digital Way: The Road to G20
Welcome Remarks
Speakers
 

Rudra Chaudhuri

Director
Carnegie India
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
 
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