Digital India Week 2022
The Digital India Programme was launched on July 1, 2015 by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India with a vision to transform the country into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. India’s story of digital transformation is a story of Digital Innovation, Implementation and Inclusion. India has pioneered innovative digital projects, implemented transformational projects at populations scale, and the benefits of various services and initiatives have percolated to the common man living in the rural hinterland, ensuring digital inclusion. The positive impact of this tremendous journey is being felt in all aspects, in the lives of Indian citizens, which is ensuring digital access, digital delivery of services and digital inclusion of all, based on technology that is sustainable, affordable and transformative.
Today India boasts of the world’s 3rd highest number of Startups with new unicorns sprouting almost every week. During the pandemic, Digital India has played a significant role in the nation’s resilient response. Digital technologies have enabled the Government to reach the remote parts of the country at the click of a button. Post the pandemic, India has emerged as the preeminent nation in the use of technology for a resilient economy and governance.
Digital India: Building India’s Techade
To celebrate the unprecedented digital transformation of India, a Digital India Week is being proposed from July 12-15, 2022 at the Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.
Physical Event
| Start Time | End Time | Programme Details |
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| 16:30 PM | Prime Minister arrives at Venue | |
| 16:30 PM | 16:57 PM | Walkthrough of Mela and Interaction with Beneficiaries & Startups |
| 16:58 PM | Prime Minister arrives on Dais | |
| 16:58 PM | 17:00 PM | Welcome and Felicitation of PM on Dais |
| 17:00 PM | 17:03 PM | Welcome Speech by Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Union MoS, Electronics and IT, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship |
| 17:03 PM | 17:08 PM | Speech by Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw, Union Minister, Electronics and IT, Railways and Communications |
| 17:08 PM | 17:13 PM | Speech by Shri Bhupendra Patel, Chief Minister, Gujarat |
| 17:13PM | 17:28 PM | Launch of Key Initiatives under Digital India by screening of short films
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| 17:28 PM | 18:00 PM | Address by Prime Minister |
| 18:00 PM | PM departs |
Digital Government : Presentations by States
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| 09:00 AM | 10:00 AM | Registrations | ||||
| 10:00 AM | 11:00 AM | Inaugural Session - Digital India Accelerating the Start-up Ecosystem in India and Expanding it to Tier II/III towns through next generation programs and schemes under a single hub | Special Address |
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| 11:00 AM | 11:30 AM | Break | ||||
| 11:30 AM | 11:40 AM | Keynote Address: Digital India’s Opportunity in Accelerated Digital World | Speaker | Sudhir Sethi, Chiratae | ||
| 11:40 AM | 12:30 PM | Panel Discussion: India’s Vibrant Start-up Ecosystem - Continuing its growth | Panel | Vineeth Rao, Founder & CEO, Dealshare | ||
| Panel | Sameer Nigam, Phone Pe | |||||
| Panel | Varun Khaitan, Urban Company | |||||
| Panel | Rajiv Gupta, PolicyBazaar | |||||
| Moderator | Prem Barthasarathy, Pontaq Ventures India LLP | |||||
| 12:30 PM | 12:40 PM | Keynote Address: Re-imagining Future with Deep Tech Start-ups | Speaker | Atul Batra, Algonomy | ||
| 12:40 PM | 13:30 PM | Panel Discussion: Building Technologies for India & World | Panel | Rohan Verma, MapMyIndia | ||
| Panel | Varun Alagh, MamaEarth | |||||
| Panel | Sandeep Aggarwal, Droom Technology | |||||
| Moderator | Atul Batra, Algonomy | |||||
| Panel | Aprameya Radhakrishna, Koo | |||||
| 13:30 PM | 14:30 PM | Lunch | ||||
| 14:30 PM | 14:40 PM | Keynote Address: Talent & Opportunities - expanding technology Sector in Tier II & Tier III cities | Speaker | Anil Sharma, TCS | ||
| 14:40 PM | 15:30 PM | Panel Discussion: Catalyzing Start-up Ecosystem in Tier II & III cities | Moderator | Vipul Patel, Partner – Seed Investing CIIE | ||
| Panel | Parminder Singh Kakria, Wipro | |||||
| Panel | Arvind Kumar, DG, STPI | |||||
| Panel | Harshil Mathur, Razorpay | |||||
| Panel | Dhruba Jyoti Deka, Brahmaputra Fable | |||||
| Panel | Souvik Sengupta, Infra.Market | |||||
| 15:30 PM | 15:40 PM | Corporate Program Recognitions | Recognitions | Corporates and MeitY Team | ||
| 15:40 PM | 16:30 PM | Panel Discussion: Corporates and Start-ups | Moderator | Aastha Grover, Startup India | ||
| Panel | Amey Mashelkar, Jio GenNext | |||||
| Panel | Rajiv Aggarwal, Meta | |||||
| Panel | Paul Ravindranath, Google | |||||
| Panel | Sudip Goswami, DELL Technologies | |||||
| Panel | Feli Visco, Embassy of France, India | |||||
| 16:30 PM | 17:00 PM | Break | ||||
| 17:00 PM | 18:00 PM | Valedictory Session | Felicitation and Special Address | Announcement/Felicitation Special Addresses Vote of Thanks | ||
Digital Government : Presentations on Impactful and Scalable Projects by States
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| 09:00 AM | 10:00 AM | Registration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10:00 AM | 10:05 AM | Welcome address by Dr. Rajendra Kumar, Additional Secretary, MeitY | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10:05 AM | 10:15 AM | Special address by Shri Alkesh Kumar Sharma, Secretary, MeitY | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10:15 AM | 10:25 AM | Launch of IT initiatives by Shri Jitubhai S. Vaghani, Hon’ble Minister of IT, Govt. of Gujarat | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10:25 AM | 10:40 AM | Address by Shri Jitubhai S. Vaghani, Hon’ble Minister of IT, Govt. of Gujarat | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10:40 AM | 10:45 AM | Vote of Thanks by Shri Vijay Nehra, Secretary (IT), Gujarat | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10:45 AM | 11:00 AM | Tea Break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Panel Discussion on Public Digital Platforms and Citizen-Centric Public Services | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Panel Discussion on Aadhaar – Enabling Ease of living | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Panel Discussion on Metaverse & Web 3.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Panel Discussion on 5G and the future of Internet in India's Techade | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Digital Government : Presentations on Impactful and Scalable Projects by States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Summarization & Closing of Physical Event – By Shri Abhishek Singh, President & CEO, NeGD, MeitY | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
India Stack Knowledge Exchange
Given the fact that India is getting the Presidency of G20 in December 2022, and that the country would be hosting the G20 Summit in 2023, one of the initiatives that could be shared globally is India’s leadership in Digital Technologies and its experience in implementing Digital Transformation projects at population scale. In addition, there have been continuous requests received on India’s contribution to the Global Digital Public Goods repository. The lessons from India Stack are there for the world to adopt. The DIW 2022, therefore, has included a three days’ long orientation programme – “India Stack Knowledge Exchange: Showcasing India Stack and India’s Digital Products & Services”, scheduled on July 07 – 09, 2022.
This is a virtual event with the intent of bringing together practitioners and Digital Transformation leaders to share their experiences of implementing pioneering projects, which have percolated to the Indian citizens across the urban and rural landscapes of the country. This platform, in turn, would help in the formation of a India Stack Knowledge Exchange, which would serve as a collaborative platform and mechanism for replication of some of the digital initiatives.
Event Speakers
Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw
Minister for Electronics & Information Technology, Railways and Communications
Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar
Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship
Shri Alkesh Kumar Sharma
Secretary, MeitY, Government of India
Sudhir Sethi
Founder & CEO at Dealshare
Vineet Rao
Founder & CEO at Dealshare
Sameer Nigam
Founder & CEO of Phonepe
Varun Khaitan
Co-Founder and COO at Urban Company.
Rajiv Gupta
President at policybazaar
Prem Kumar Barthasarathy
Managing Partner at Pontaq Ventures India LLP
Parag Naik
CEO at Saankhya Labs Pvt. Ltd.
Rohan Verma
CEO & Exec Director @ Mapmyindia
Sanjay Nekkanti
Founder & CEO at Dhruva Space
Sandeep Aggarwal
Founder & CEO at Droom Technology
Atul Batra
Manthan Systems
Aprameya Radhakrishna
Co-Founder and CEO @ Koo
Anil Sharma
Head,Corporate Incubation and Head-Digital Impact Square
Vipul Patel
Partner ,Seed Investing.
Parminder Singh
Head Government Affairs & Public Policy Wipro Americas Europe & APAC
Arvind Kumar
Director General ,STPI
Harshil Mathur
CEO & Co-Founder at Razorpay
Druba Jyoti Deka
Founder of Brahmaputra Fables.
Souvik Sengupta
Founder at Infra.Market
Ms. Aastha Grover
Head- Startup India Hub
Amey Mashelkar
Head - JioGenNext
Rajiv Aggarwal
Head Of Public Policy at Meta
Paul Ravindranath
Sudiip Goswami
Director & GM at Dell Technologies
Virtual Event Schedule
| Start Time | End Time | Theme | Role | Speaker Name | |||
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| Inaugural Session Watch | |||||||
| 10:00 AM | 11:00 AM | Context Setting for Digital India Programme and Digital India Knowledge Exchange | Speaker |
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| Building Aadhaar - Hall A Watch | |||||||
| 11:00 AM | 12:30 PM | Laying Foundation of Aadhaar | Speaker | Dr. R. S. Sharma, Founding CEO, UIDAI | |||
| 11:00 AM | 12:30 PM | Current State of Aadhaar | Speaker & Moderator | Dr. Saurabh Garg, CEO, UIDAI | |||
| 11:00 AM | 12:30 PM | Technology Architecture and Use of emerging tech | Speaker | Dr Pramod Varma, ex-Chief Architect & Advisor, UIDAI | |||
| 11:00 AM | 12:30 PM | e-KYC and e-Sign | Speaker | Mr. Suresh Sethi, MD & CEO, Protean eGov Technologies Ltd | |||
| 11:00 AM | 12:30 PM | Open Q&A Session | |||||
| Building Unified Payment Interface (UPI) – Leading Digital Payment Ecosystem in India - Hall AParallel Watch | |||||||
| 01:30 PM | 03:00 PM | India’s payment revolution and UPI International Availability | Speaker | Mr. Dilip Asbe, MD & CEO, NPCI | |||
| 01:30 PM | 03:00 PM | Regulatory Support to Payment Ecosystem | Speaker | Mr. Sudhanshu Prasad, General Manager, RBI | |||
| 01:30 PM | 03:00 PM | Innovations on top of UPI | Speaker | Ms. Deeksha Kaushal, Director, Financial Services and Banking Partnerships, Google Pay | |||
| 01:30 PM | 03:00 PM | Digital Payment Division | Moderator | Mr. Amit Agrawal, Additional Secretary, MeitY | |||
| 01:30 PM | 03:00 PM | Open Q&A Session with NPCI team | |||||
| Technology Stack for Education - Hall BParallel Watch | |||||||
| 01:30 PM | 03:00 PM | National Digital Education Architecture | Speaker & Moderator | Mr. Rajnish Kumar, Director (Digital Education), Dept of School Education & Literacy | |||
| 01:30 PM | 03:00 PM | Vidya Samiksha Kendra | Speaker | Mr. Vijay Kiran Anand, Director-General of School Education (DGSE) | |||
| 01:30 PM | 03:00 PM | DIKSHA – Learning Platform | Speaker | Dr. Amarendra P. Behera, Joint Director, Central Institute of Educational Technology (CIET) | |||
| 01:30 PM | 03:00 PM | SWAYAM - Massive Online Open Courses Platform | Speakers | Dr. Angel Ratnabai, Assistant Professor, NCERT | |||
| 01:30 PM | 03:00 PM | Open Questions & Answers | |||||
| Paperless governance and Data empowerment - Hall A Watch | |||||||
| 03:30 PM | 05:00 PM | API Setu: Building Blocks for Innovation | Speaker & Moderator | Mr. Amit Savant, Amazon Web services | |||
| 03:30 PM | 05:00 PM | DigiLocker: Providing document anywhere anytime | Speaker | Mr. Amit Jain, Addl. Director, NeGD | |||
| 03:30 PM | 05:00 PM | Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture (DEPA) | Speaker | Ms. Anna Roy, Sr. Advisor - Niti Aayog | |||
| 03:30 PM | 05:00 PM | Open-Source Protocol | Speaker | Mr. Siddharth Shetty, lead DEPA open source protocol depa.global | |||
| 03:30 PM | 05:00 PM | Open Q&A Session | |||||
| Start Time | End Time | Theme | Role | Speakers |
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| Health Stack - Enabling Universal Healthcare - Hall A Watch | ||||
| 10:00 AM | 12:00 PM | Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) | Speaker | Dr. Praveen Gedam, Additional CEO, NHA & Mission Director, ABDM |
| 10:00 AM | 12:00 PM | CO-WIN & Unified Health Interface | Speaker | Dr. R. S. Sharma, CEO – NHA |
| 10:00 AM | 12:00 PM | Aarogya Setu | Speaker | Dr. Seema Khanna, DDG, NIC |
| 10:00 AM | 12:00 PM | E-Sanjeevani | Moderator and Speaker | Dr. S. P. Sood, Head-Health Informatics Group - CDAC |
| 10:00 AM | 12:00 PM | Open Q&A Session | ||
| AgriStack - Hall AParallelWatch | ||||
| 01:30 PM | 03:00 PM | IDEA – India Digital Ecosystem for Agriculture | Keynote speaker | Mr. J. Satyanarayana, Chief Advisor, C4IR India, World Economic Forum |
| 01:30 PM | 03:00 PM | FRUITS | Speaker | Mr. Rajeev Chawla, Chief Knowledge Officer & Advisor to M/o Agriculture |
| 01:30 PM | 03:00 PM | E-NAM | Speaker | Dr. Kapil Ashok Bendre, Director, M/o Agriculture and Farmer’s Welfare |
| 01:30 PM | 03:00 PM | Soil Health Card | Speaker & Moderator | Dr. Ranjna Nagpal, DDG –NIC |
| 01:30 PM | 03:00 PM | M4AGRI | Speaker | Dr. Vinay Thakur, COO - NeGD, ADG -BiSAG and Senior Director -DIC |
| Technology Stack for Skilling - Hall B ParallelWatch | ||||
| 01:30 PM | 03:00 PM | Capacity Building Through Technology and iGoT | Speaker | Mr. Hemang Jani, Secretary, Capacity Building Commission |
| 01:30 PM | 03:00 PM | Atal Tinkering Lab | Speaker | Ms. Deepali Upadhyay, Director - AIM (NITI Aayog) |
| 01:30 PM | 03:00 PM | FutureSkills Prime | Speaker | Ms. Kirti Seth, CEO NASSCOM - Future Skills |
| 01:30 PM | 03:00 PM | Digital Literacy | Speaker & Moderator | Dr. Jaideep Kumar Mishra, AS - HRD, MeitY |
| 01:30 PM | 03:00 PM | Open Questions & Answer | ||
| Digital Inclusion and connecting unconnected - Hall A Watch | ||||
| 03:30 PM | 05:00 PM | MyGov | Speaker | Mr. Abhishek Singh, CEO, MyGov |
| 03:30 PM | 05:00 PM | Common Services Centres | Speaker | Mr. Sanjay Kumar Rakesh, CEO, CSC |
| 03:30 PM | 05:00 PM | UMANG | Speaker | Mr. Anil Agarwal, Addl. Director, NeGD |
| 03:30 PM | 05:00 PM | mSeva AppStore | Speaker | Dr. Padmaja Joshi, Sr. Director, CDAC |
| 03:30 PM | 05:00 PM | Open Questions & Answers | Speaker & Moderator | Mr. Sushil Pal, JS (e-Gov),MeitY |
| Start Time | End Time | Theme | Role | Speaker Name |
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| Urban Stack - Hall A Watch | ||||
| 10:30 AM | 12:00 PM | Smart Cities Mission & Integrated control and command centre | Speaker | Mr. Kunal Kumar, Jt. Secy & Mission Director, SMART Cities Mission |
| 10:30 AM | 12:00 PM | DIGIT – Digital Infrastructure For Governance, Impact and Transformation | Speaker | Mr Manish Srivastava, CTO, E-Gov Foundation |
| 10:30 AM | 12:00 PM | Indian Urban Data Exchange (IUDX) | Speaker | Dr. Inder Gopal, CEO – IUDX |
| 10:30 AM | 12:00 PM | Unified Logistics Interface Platform | Speaker & Moderator | Mr. Abhishek Chaudhry, Vice President, National Industrial Corridor Development Programme |
| 10:30 AM | 12:00 PM | Open Questions & Answers | ||
| Technology Stack for e-Commerce - Hall A ParallelWatch | ||||
| 01:30 PM | 03:00 PM | Government E-Marketplace | Speaker | Mr. Rajesh Jain, Addl. CEO,GEM |
| 01:30 PM | 03:00 PM | Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) | Speaker & Moderator | Col. Pankaj Dikshit, Senior Vice President (IT), GSTN |
| 01:30 PM | 03:00 PM | E-Way Bill and E-Invoice | Speaker | Mr. P. V. Bhat, DDG, NIC |
| 01:30 PM | 03:00 PM | Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) | Speaker | Mr. T. Koshy, CEO, ONDC |
| 01:30 PM | 03:00 PM | Open Questions & Answers | ||
| Space Technology Stack - Hall B ParallelWatch | ||||
| 01:30 PM | 03:00 PM | SATNAV - Satellite Navigation | Speaker | Mr. Nishkam Jain, SAC/ISRO |
| 01:30 PM | 03:00 PM | SATCOM - Satellite Communications | Speaker | Ms. Vibha Jain, SAC/ISRO |
| 01:30 PM | 03:00 PM | VEDAS - Visualization of Earth observation Data and Archival System | Speaker | Mr. Pankaj Bodani, SAC/ISRO |
| 01:30 PM | 03:00 PM | Ocean and weather services using MOSDAC data | Speaker | Mr. Utkarsh, SAC/ISRO |
| 01:30 PM | 03:00 PM | Bhoonidhi and Bhuvan-Solutions | Speaker | Mr. Arulraj Murugvel, NRSC/ISRO |
| 01:30 PM | 03:00 PM | Open Questions & Answers | Moderator | Mr. Shashikant Sharma, SAC/ISRO |
| Valedictory Session – Future Roadmap - Valedictory Hall Watch | ||||
| 04:00 PM | 05:00 PM | Speaker | Dr. Rajendra Kumar, AS, MeitY | |
| 04:00 PM | 05:00 PM | Speaker | Mr. Abhishek Singh, President & CEO, NeGD | |
| 04:00 PM | 05:00 PM | Speaker | Mr. Rajesh Gera, DG, NIC | |
Key Stakeholders
Ministry of Electronics and IT
Ambassadors of various countries
MeitY Startup Hub
State Governments
Invest India
Startup India, DPIIT
PSUs
Foreign Missions
Industry Associations (CII, FICCI, ELCINA, MAIT etc.)
Startups, IT Firms and Semiconductor Firms
PE/VC Firms
Banking Sector
Private Sector Stakeholders
Colleges and Academic Institutions
General Public