WhiteSpace Alliance Global Summit
Event Information
Description
GLOBAL SUMMIT ON DIGITAL INDIA
ACCELERATING THE PROMISE OF PERVASIVE BROADBAND USING WHITESPACES
26th – 27th October, 2015 BSNL Auditorium, 9th floor, Bharat Sanchar Bhavan, Janpath, New Delhi, India
Agenda
Monday, 26th October 10:00 – 10:15 Welcome from the WSA Chairman 10:15 - 12:00 Introduction to WhiteSpacesPanel Discussion on Introduction to WhiteSpaces followed by Q&A – The Panel will Provide a Quick Introduction on what are WhiteSpaces and how they may be used to Realize the Vision of Digital India
Session Chair: Darrell Owen (USAID, USA)
Panelists: Rashmi Doshi (FCC, USA), Prof. H. Nwana (DSA, UK), John Malyar (iconectiv-Ericsson, USA), Jim Carlson (Carlson Wireless, USA), Kentaro Ishizu (Group Leader, NICT, Japan), Dr. Oh Ser Wah (I2R, Singapore)
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch and Walkthrough of the Sponsor Demonstrations 13:00 – 14:30 Digital India - Accelerating the Promise of Pervasive Broadband Using WhiteSpacesIIT-Bombay and Tata Communications will provide the Field Test Results from their Commercial WhiteSpace Pilots in Palghar and Haryana (India)
Panel on WSA WhiteSpace Strategy in India
Session Chair: Dr. Malcolm Johnson (Deputy Secretary General - International Telecommunications Union - Geneva)
Panelists: Prof. Abhay Karandikar (IIT-Bombay, India), Kalyan Pal (VP, Tata Communications, India), Parag Naik (CEO Saankhya Labs, India), Arun Jacob (United Nations, Geneva), Prashant Shukla (National Technology Officer, Microsoft), Dr Ashok Chandra, (Former Wireless Advisor, Government of India), B. Shadrach (Alliance for Affordable Internet)
14:30 – 15:00 Tea and Networking 15:00 – 16:30 Chip Sets, Devices, Databases and Funding for DeploymentVarious WhiteSpace Chipset, Device and Database Vendors will Showcase their Offerings
Session Chair: B. Shadrach (Alliance for Affordable Internet)
Panelists: Bruce Kraemer (President, IEEE-SA, Marvell) (Invited), Praveen Ganapathy (Texas Instruments), Anindya Saha (CTO, Saankhya Labs), Jim Carlson (Carlson Wireless), Kentaro Ishizu (Group Leader, NICT), John Malyar (iconectiv), D. A. Tambe (Chief General Manager (IT), State Bank of India)
20:00 – 21:30 Dinner for Invited Guests Tuesday, 27th October 08:30 – 09:00 Tea and Networking 09:00 – 09:15 Welcome from the WSA Chairman 09:15 – 10:45 Taking Advantage of Underutilized Spectrum - Regulatory PerspectivesRegulators from Several Nations will describe their Approaches to WhiteSpace Regulations and Spectrum Sharing in General.
Session Chair: Dr. Malcolm Johnson (Deputy Secretary General - International Telecommunications Union - Geneva)
Panelists: Rashmi Doshi (FCC), Prof. H. Nwana (DSA / Ex UK OfCom), Arun Jacob (United Nations, Geneva), Dr. Oh Ser Wah (I2R, Singapore), Sh. Sudhir Gupta (Secretary, TRAI) (Invited), Sh RP Khushwaha (Wireless Advisor, DoT) (Invited), Sh. Umashanakar (Joint Secretary, DOT) (Invited), Sh O. P. Sharma (Additional Director General) (Invited)
11:00 – 13:00 Inaugural Session – The Vision of Digital IndiaWelcome by Prof NK Goyal and Felicitation of VIPs
Welcome by Dr. Apurva N. Mody, Chairman of the WSA
Guest of Honour, Honourable Member of Parliament, India, Dr. Udit Raj, will describe the Government’s plan for connecting the Nation’s 1.3 Billion Citizens.
Address by Dr. Malcolm Johnson (Deputy Secretary General - International Telecommunications Union - Geneva) (Confirmed)
Address by Secretary of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (Invited)
Address by Shri Rakesh Garg, Secretyary DOT and DeITY (Invited)
Address by Guest of Honour, Minister of Information & Broadcasting - Mr. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (Invited)
Address by Chief Guest, Minister of Communications and Information Technology - Mr. Ravishankar Prasad (Invited)
Video - WhiteSpace Field Trials Results from Palghar and Jaunty, the Adopted Village of Dr. Raj will be Presented - Video Presentation
Vote of Thanks - Prof NK Goyal and Dr. Apurva N. Mody
13:00 - 13:45 Lunch and Walkthrough of the Sponsor Demonstrations 13:45 – 15:15 Innovative Applications of WhiteSpaces – From Digital Inclusion to Smart Cities to Internet of ThingsInternational Panel Discussion on how Spectrum Sharing can be used to Provide Wide Variety of Services – From Digital Inclusion to Smart Cities to Internet of Things
Session Chair: TBA
Panelists: Prof. Monisha Ghosh (University of Chicago, USA), Darrell Owen (USAID, USA), Jim Carlson (Carlson Wireless, USA), Chris Weasler (Facebook, internet.org, USA) (invited), Pankaj Sharma (I2R, Singapore), Sh. AK Mittal (Sr DDG TEC) (Invited), Sh. Arvind Chawla (DDG TEC) (Invited), Mrs. Aruna Sunderrajan (CMD, BBNL), Sh. Anupam Srivastava (CMD BSNL)(Invited)
15:15 – 16:30 Lessons Learnt and What Comes NextPanel Members will Summarize the Outcomes of the Summit and Define Next Steps
Discussions and Q&A
Session Chair: Dr. Apurva N. Mody (Chairman, WhiteSpace Alliance)
Panelists: Sh. Piyush Aggarwal (Member(T)) (Invited), Sh. NK Yadav, (Member Services) (Invited), Sh. Tapan Roy (Addll. Secretary, DIT) (Invited), Dr Ashok Chandra, (Former Wireless Advisor, Government of India)
16:30 – 17:30 Press Conference Wednesday, 28th October 06:00 – 19:00 Visit to Taj Mahal
Organizer WhiteSpace Alliance
Organizer of WhiteSpace Alliance Global Summit
WhiteSpace provides a solution to reduce the Digital Divide
The mission of the Whitespace Alliance is to promote the development, deployment and use of standards based products and services as a means of providing broadband capabilities via WhiteSpace spectrum. By promoting the use of standards, the Alliance will enable companies to provide broadband connectivity at reasonable cost. The WSA will also act as an enabler of the emerging white spaces ecosystem by helping to put in place interoperability, conformance, and compliance testing to make sure that our member stakeholders get the needed information & collaborations to succeed both in the market place and with regulatory requirements. Interoperability specifications will allow multiple vendors to enter the market and help to reduce the costs for the consumers. WhiteSpace Alliance promotes the use of IEEE, 3GPP and IETF Standards for use in the WhiteSpaces.
WSA™ is a registered trademark of the WhiteSpace Alliance.
Wi-FAR™ and WSAConnect™ are the inter-operability specifications developed by the WhiteSpace Alliance. They are also trademarks of the WhiteSpace Alliance.
