Agenda : Digital Learning Asia 2008

Digital Learning Asia 2008 Conference Agenda

DAY I 29 July 2008

8.00 am- 9.30 am

Registration

9.30 am-11.00 am

Shri R Chandrashekhar, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India; Chair: Programme Advisory Board, eINDIA 2008

Plenary Address

• Subash Pani, Secretary, Planning Commission, Government of India

• Jainder Singh, Secretary, Department of Information Technology, Ministry of
Communications and Information Technology, Government of India

• Michael Rawding, Vice President, Unlimited Potential Group, Microsoft Corporation

• Praveen Vishakantaiah, President, Intel India

Inaugural Address

• D Purandeswari, Minister of State for Higher Education, Ministry of Human
Resource Development, Government of India

• Vote of Thanks

• Dr Ravi Gupta, Executive Director, CSDMS

11.00am-1.15am

Inauguration of eINDIA 2008 Exhibition

11.30 am-1.00 pm

Keynote 1:
Vision for Transforming Education with Technology

Chair: Terry Culver, Executive Director, Global Nomads Group

• Dr V N Rajashekharan Pillai, Vice Chancellor, Indira Gandhi National
OpenUniversity (IGNOU)

• Prof. Deepak Pental, Vice Chancellor, University of Delhi

• Shantanu Prakash, CEO, Educomp Solutions Ltd

• David Mc Bride Sample, Sr Vice President, Global Sales, BLACKBOARD

1.00 pm-2.00 pm

Networking Lunch

2.00 pm-3.30 pm

Keynote:2

Leading Change in e-Education: How to Succeed Amid Endless Challenge

Chair: Subhash C Khuntia, JS, Ministry of HRD

•       S Regunathan, Advisor, National Knowledge Commission

•       Rajiv Katyal, Director- Education, Microsoft India

•       Joya Chatterjee, Director-Emerging Markets Platform Group,Intel

•       Capt KJS Brar, CEO, Designmate India

3.30 pm-
4.00 pm

Tea & Coffee Break

4.00 pm-5.30 pm

Higher Education Track

Session 3: Unleashing the Strength of Universities Through ICTs

Chair-: Dr. Harsha Vardhan Tiwari, Former Vice Chancellor, Barkatullah University, Bhopal

•    Prof A K Bakhshi, Director, Institute of Life Long Learning, University of Delhi

•     Aparna N, Marketing Service Manager, Edutech

•    Prof Sheshasayee, Everonn

•    Indresh Chauhan, General Manager Operations, Sify Technologies

School Track

Session 4: Smart Classrooms with ICTs

Chair: B Anand, Commissioner, Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti, Director, Dept of School Education & Literacy, Ministry of HRD

•     M M Joshi, Asst Commissioner, Kendriya Vidyalay Sangathan

•    Abhinav Dhar, President-K-12 Solutions, Educomp Solutions Ltd

•    Nancy Knowlton, CEO, SMART Technologies

•    Srikanth B Iyer, CEO, Edurite

•     Amit Gupta, CEO, S Chand

4.00pm –5.30pm

Leadership Technology Forum – (Workshop by Intel)

DAY II 30 July 2008

8.00am-9.00am

Breakfast / Registration

09.00am-
11.00 am

Session 5: Towards Building a National Policy on ICTs in School Education: Perspectives of States as Implementers

Keynote Address: Shri Arun Kumar Rath, Secretary, Department of School Education & Literacy, Govt of India

Chair: Subhash Khuntia, Joint Secretary, Department of School Education & Literacy, Govt of India

Moderator: Ashish Garg, Programme Director, India, GeSCI

Experts in the Panel

• Dr Chandramohan, Advisor Education, Planning Commission

• Prof Vasudha Kamat, Joint Director, Central Institute of Educational Technology, NCERT

• Prof Marmar Mukhopadhyay, Director, Educational Technology and Management Academy

• Prof MM Pant, Former Pro Vice-Chancellor, IGNOU

• Utpal Mallik, Head, Comp Divn, NCERT

• Marmar Mukhopadhyay, Director, Educational Technology &   Management Academy

State Representatives in the Panel

• Shambhu Singh, Secretary, School Education, Govt of Manipur

• Anita Karwal, Secretary- Primary Education, Govt of Gujarat

• P Bhanumurthy, Director, School Education, Govt of Andhra Pradesh

• Ram Sevak Sharma, Principal Secretary, Govt of Jharkhand

• Sanjay Kumar, Secretary, Education Department, Chandigarh

11.00 am- 11.30 am

Tea & Coffee Break

11.30 am-1.00 pm

Session 6: Meeting the Needs of ICT Skills

Chair: G Narendra Kumar, Secretary, Higher & Tech Edn, Govt Of Delhi

•  Sharda Prasad, JS & DG, DGET
N Balagopal, Executive Chairman
of CNRI

•  Faraaz Mohiuddin, Instructional
  Design Coordinator, CAP
Foundation,

•  Jayant S Bhadauria, Head,
  Education Solutions India-Adobe
  Systems

•  Karthik K S, Founder & CEO, 24x7
Learning

•  Surabhi Dewra, strategist ,
Founder, The Shiksha

Session 7: Empowering Educators

Chair: Valsa Williams

•  Prof. Mohammad Akhtar
   Siddiqui, Chairperson, NCTE

• Vasudha Kamath, Joint
   Director, CIET- NCERT

• Vivek Sawant, Maharashtra
   Knowledge Corporation Limited

• Johnnie Wycliffe
   Frank Muwanga-Zake,
   Lecturer, School of Education,
   University of New England,
   Australia

• Dr Shylaja, Everonn

• Ahish Rajpal, Managing
   Director, iDiscovery

1.00 pm– 2.00 pm

Networking Lunch

2.00 pm- 3.30 pm

Session 8: Policy, Foresight and Innovation for higher learning

Chair- Dr V S Ramamurthy, Chairman Board Of Governers, IIT Delhi

• Dr Jyotsna Dikshit & Dr Moumita
Das, Joint Director, National
Centre for Innovation in Distance
Education, IGNOU

• Dr. S. Senthilnathan,
Dy. Co-ordinator, UGC-SAP(DRS),
Department of Educational
Technology, Bharathidasan
University, Tamil Nadu

• Rahul Bedi, Director-Corporate
Affairs, SA, Intel

• Rohit Kumar, President-Higher
Education, Educomp Solutions Ltd

Session 9: Quality development, quality assurance and quality education

Chair: V S Prasad, Former Director, NAAC
Co Chair: Dr R Sreedher, Director, Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA)

• Dr. Kiran Bansal- Professor,
IGNOU

• Anuradha Deshmukh- Head of
programme evaluation and
the quality assurance resource
centre of Yashwantrao Chavan
Maharashtra Open University

• B S Bhatia- Former Direcotr,
DECU-ISRO

• Savithri Singh, Principal,
Acharya Narendra Dev
College, University of Delhi

• Meera Balachandran, Director,
Quality Foundation of India

4.00pm – 5.30pm

Technology Demo Session-

Intel (Sunil Pathak, Director Business Ecosystem, Emerging Market Platform Group)

SMART (Terry Wason, Area Manager, SMART Technologies)

Edutech (Lic. Rafael Lami Dozo, International Sales Mnager, Questionmark Corporation)

3.30 pm- 4 .00 pm

Tea & Coffee Break

4.00 pm- 5.30 pm

Session 10: ICT integration in teaching and learning processes

Moderator: Seema Parihar, Deputy Dean, Students Welfare, University of Delhi

Dr K Kasturirangan, Memebr of Parliament

Dr Utpal Mallik, Head, Computer Division, NCERT

Dr Anjalee Prakash, CEO, Learning Links Foundation

K K Dhawan, Director, Meera Model School

Peter Ormerod, International Business Development Manager, Promethean, UK

5.30 pm onwards

Gala Dinner- eINDIA Leaders' Forum

DAY III 31 July 2008

9.00 am-11.00 am

Session 11:

Alternative assessment strategies, Innovative approaches in Evaluation

Chair: Madhav Chauhan, CEO, Pratham

• Madan Padaki, Co-Founder & CEO, MeritTrac

• Charles B Johnston, VP, Pearson VUE

• Suchismita Srinivas, Vice President- Digital Adaptive Learning,
   Educational Initiatives

• K Venkateswaran, Country Manager, DELL

11.00 am-
11.30 am

Tea & Coffee break

11.30 am-
1.00 pm

Session 12: Building ICT infrastructure: Flexible integration solutions in a dynamic environment

Chair: N Ravi Shanker, Joint Secretary, e-Learning Group, DIT

• Dr. Gautam Bose, Deputy
   Director General

• Seema Parihar, Deputy Dean,
  Students Welfare, University of
Delhi

• Kuldeep Nagi Assumption
   University of Thailand

• Rajesh Malik, Dawson College,
Concordia University, Montreal,
Canada

Session 13: Universal Education: Assistive and Learning Designs for All

Chair: N K Sinha, JS, Technical Education, MHRD

• Puja Goyal, Regional Online
Community
  Coordinator, TakingITGlobal

• Anshu Rohatgi, Technical Director
   & Regional Editor, Informatics
   NIC, Lucknow

• Archana Rane, CDAC B- Marathi
   Tutor, Senior Staff Scientist
   Sridhar Iyer, Associate Professor,
   IIT B

• Dr. Stella Samuel, Regional
Consultant of FasTraKids

• Paramjeet Kaur Johar, Director,
Designmate

1.00 pm-2.00 pm

Networking Lunch

2.00 pm-3.30 pm

Session 14: Teaching and Learning at a Distance

Chair: Dr V N Rajashekharan Pillai, VC, IGNOU

• M C Pant, Chairman, NIOS
   Terry Culver, Executive
Director,Global Nomads Group

• Arvind Patil, Technical Officer,
    I I T Bombay

• Ananya Shankar Guha, Jt
   Director, Indira Gandhi
   National Open University

• Shameema Parveen, Chief
   Knowledge Officer, Learning
   Solutions, Edutech

• Sachin Torne, Practice Head
   Education, Tata Interactive
   Systems

Session 15: Innovating for the FUTURE of Education: Technology challenges & leadership insights!

Chair: Randeep Kaur, Learning Advisor, Plan International India

• Pratap Kumar Mohanty, Deputy
   Education Advisor,Department of
   School Education & Literacy,
   Ministry of HRD

• Annie Koshi, Principal, St Mary
   School Kalpana Kapoor, Principal,
   DPS Vasundhara

• Nancy Knowlton, CEO, SMART
  Girish Prabhu, Director- Research,
  Intel

• Soumya Kanti, President-ICT,
  Educomp Solutions Ltd

2.00 pm-3.30 pm

Technology Demo Session

Promethean: Peter Ormerod (International Business Development Manager)

COL: (Easy Now) Dr. Krishnamurthy, Consultant CEMCA

Hitachi:

3.30 pm-4.00 pm

Tea & Coffee break

4.00 pm-6.00 pm

Valedictory Session

The Schedule is subject to change without notice at last minute