Program

The program schedule for inSIG2021 is provided below. Please note that all times are in IST (UTC +05:30).

Start (IST) End (IST) SESSION NAME SPEAKERS
Day 0 – Sunday : 14-Nov-21
11.00 AM 1.00PM Introduction to inSIG: Meet & Greet inSIG Steering Committee Members+ Fellows
Day 1 – Friday : 19-Nov-21
6.30 PM 7.15 PM INAUGURAL SESSION
5 min Welcome Address Dr.Sudha Bhuvaneswari Narayanaswamy
President Internet Society Chennai
5 min Message Vint Cerf
Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google
10 min Keynote Address 1 Anriette Esterhyusen
Chair, United Nations Internet Governance Forum Multistakeholder Advisory Group
15 min Keynote Address 2 T Santhosh
Scientist F, MeitY
7.10 PM 5 min Concluding remarks Satish Babu
Chair, APRALO
7.15 PM 7.30 PM BREAK
7.30 PM 8.00 PM THEMATIC SESSION 1.1: Internet Governance (IG): Perspectives on the Current and Future Dr. Olivier Crepin-Leblond
Chair of UK Chapter of Internet Society ( ISOC)& Ex Chair, ALAC, ICANN
8.00 PM 8.45 PM THEMATIC SESSION 1.2: Journey of IG in India Dr. Govind
Former CEO, NIXI & Vice-Chair, APSIG and Deepak Maheshwari, Public Policy Consultant
Day 2 – Saturday : 20-Nov-21
2.00 PM 2:45 PM SPECIAL SESSION: Internet Governance in the Asia-Pacific Region Rajneesh Singh
Regional Vice President for the Asia-Pacific, Internet Society
Samiran Gupta
Head of India, ICANN
Joyce Chen
Senior Advisor – Strategic Engagement,APNIC
2:45 PM 3:30 PM THEMATIC SESSION 2: Introduction to the Core Internet Technologies Sunny Chendi
Senior Advisor – Policy and Community Development / South Asia Liaison Officer, APNIC
3:30 PM 3:45 PM Break
3:45 PM 4:45 PM THEMATIC SESSION 3: Emerging Technologies: Trends and Security Sheetal Kumar
Head of Global Engagement and Advocacy at Global Partners Digital
Dr Gulshan Rai
Distinguished Fellow at ORF and Chief Information Security Officer at the Prime Minister’s Office, Government of India.
4:45 PM 5:30 PM Perspectives: Privacy, Data Protection N.S.Nappinai
Advocate, Supreme Court, Founder-Cyber Saathi
5:30 PM 5:45 PM Competition issues in the Digital Economy Mansi Kedia
Research Fellow, ICRIER
5:45 PM 6:15 PM SPECIAL Session: Digital Policy Legislations in India Rakesh Maheshwari
Scientist G, MeitY
Day 3 – Sunday : 21-Nov-21
11.00 AM 12.00 PM Social Session Internet Society Chennai Chapter
5.00 PM 5.45 PM THEMATIC SESSION 6: Perspectives on India’s Participation in IETF Shraddha Hegde
Principle Engineer, Juniper Networks
Abhijan Bhattacharyya
Consultant, Sr. Scientist TCS Research
Anand Raje
Chair, Internet Society Kolkata
5.45 PM 6.30 PM Gender and Diversity on the Internet Osama Manzar
Founder & Director at Digital Empowerment Foundation
Gayathri Khandatai
Asia policy regional coordinator, APC
6:30 PM 6:45 PM Break
6:45 PM 7:15 PM Special Session Pandemic and Recovery: Role of Technology Siddharth Sinha
NITI Aayog
7:15 PM 8:00 PM Concluding Session
1. Welcome
2. Closing Keynote
3. Special Address
4. Update from India Youth IGF
5. Message from VSIG
6. Vote of Thanks
Satish Babu
Chair, APRALO
Maarten Botterman
ICANN Board
Anil Jain
CEO NIXI
Ihita Gangavarapu
Youth IGF India
Glenn McKnight
Information Officer at Virtual School of Internet Governance
K Mohan Raidu
President, Internet Society Hyderabad