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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
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