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Online Workshop on “Standards-driven Research and Innovation in India” (July 28, 2020: Webinar)
July 28, 2020 @ 9:45 am - 1:15 pm
Indian Academic Institutes and Technology Startups are playing a significant role in driving research, innovation and IP creation in the digital technologies space, ranging from IoT/M2M, AIML, Cloud to 5G.6G and beyond that are appropriate to India marker requirements. There is a need to channelize these activities for incorporating into global standards so as to enable similar regions to benefit from the innovations and also offer a global platform for commercializing the same.
TSDSI, along with its member IIT Bhilai, organized an online workshop on “Standards-driven Research and Innovation in India”, to deliberate on standardization potential of research activities being carried out in the premier technology institutions in the central part of India.
About the Workshop:
The workshop focused on creating awareness among students and faculty members about the strong standardization activities in the field of Telecommunications in India. It also expanded on the coverage of the ongoing technical activities within TSDSI and provided a wider forum for the researchers to share their innovations. IIT Indore, IIT Patna, IIIT Naya Raipur and IIITDM Jabalpur collaborated in this workshop.
Webinar Recording: Click here to view the recording
Program Agenda:
| START | END | SESSION NAME | TOPICS & SPEAKERS |
| 9:30 | 9:45 | Online Networking – AIRMEET SOCIAL LOUNGE | |
| 9:45 | 9:50 | Welcome Note and Workshop Introduction | Prof Arzad Kherani, IIT Bhilai & Ms Bindoo Srivastava, TSDSI |
| 9:50 | 10:05 | Inaugural Address | Prof. Rajat Moona, Director IIT Bhilai |
| 10:05 | 10:20 | Keynote Address
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Keynote Address on “The Standards -Research and Innovations Triad” by Mr Kishore Babu, DDG-SRI, DoT |
| 10:20 | 10:25 | Session Change | |
| 10:25 | 11:10 | Overview of Standardization Bodies | “Role of TSDSI in driving India appropriate requirements and IP in Global standards” by Ms Pamela Kumar, Director General, TSDSI;
Overview of oneM2M by Mr Aurindam Bhattacharya, Member TSDSI (CDOT); |
| 11:10 | 11:25 | Networking Break – AIRMEET SOCIAL LOUNGE | |
| 11:25 | 12:10 | Representative Research Topics from participating Institutes | Dr. Sreejith, IIT Bhilai,
Dr. Ravi Panwar, IIITDM Jabalpur |
| 12:10 | 12:55 | Panel Discussion on areas of engagement w.r.t Standards Development | Moderator: Prof Uday Desai, Prof Emeritus & Founding Director, IIT Hyderabad,
Dr. Sreejith, IIT Bhilai, Dr. Vimal Bhatia, IIT Indore, Dr. Ravi Panwar, IIITDM Jabalpur, Dr. Rajarshi Mahapatra, IIIT Naya Raipur, Dr. Preetam Kumar. IIT Patna, Mr Anindya Saha, Chair- Roadmap Committee, TSDSI (Saankhya Labs) |
| 12:55 | 13:00 | Session Change | |
| 13:00 | 13:10 | ITU – WTSA | “Overview of WTSA 2020” by Mr M P Singhal, Former Advisor-Telecom Engineering Centre (TEC) |
| 13:10 | 13:15 | Closing Remarks and Way Forward | Prof Uday Desai, Prof Emeritus & Founding Director, IIT Hyderabad |