Why India Needs to Hear These Thought-Leaders

Being the IT capital of South Asia and home to some of the highest paid top global CEOs, India is all set to jump on the blockchain bandwagon. The nation is a leader in producing IT infrastructure and manpower with more than 50% of its population being below the age of 25 and more than 65% below the age of 35.

However, labour is just one among the other factors of production that India can offer. Despite the nation’s rich financial and technological infrastructure capacity and the Indian government’s support, there is still a great deal of scepticism around blockchain technology.

How can corporates leverage blockchain on their innovation journey? What are the adoption challenges for enterprises? What encompasses the Legal and Regulatory landscapein India and What will be the impact potential of Blockchain in the BFSI Sector?

You will hear the answers to all these questions by these preeminentspeakers at the internationally acclaimed global tech event series – World Blockchain Summit India 2019.

KaustubhDhavse

Joint Secretary & Officer on Special Duty to the Hon. Chief Minister
Government of Maharashtra

He drives Technology and Infrastructure in the state via various programs and Special Projects.
16+ years of experience in providing Strategic, Operations and Fiscal Leadership solutions
He is credited for establishing “Aaple Sarkar” Portal which is the Government’s interface for citizen’s grievances, Govt. services and collaboration
He runs the “CM’s War Room”, a unit under the CM to monitor and drive key projects in Maharashtra.
Director on the Maharashtra IT Corporation (MITC), a unit under the Govt. Of Maharashtra to execute large-scale projects across the state.

Vivekdeep Gupta

Country Head – India
R3

Worked with PM’s advisor to create policies
Secured $130Mn investment from Singapore for India’s biggest vocational school, drafted amendments to two key national labour laws.
Over the past decade, he has built a successful record of accomplishments of growing businesses across multiple industries and geographies.
Launched “Fintech for the Last Mile” incubator with a $1Mn fund and 12+ partners.
Creating bottom of pyramid “Alternative Credit Score” with Government and alternate data
Short-term project as Economic Advisor to Chief Minister on state’s FDI strategy.
Designed strategy and campaign for the state at World Economic Forum’17 held in Davos.
Identified investors, secured meetings and pitched the state to multiple global CXOs.

Bharat B Anand

CIO& CTO, Ministry of Home Affairs,
Government of India

He has 22+ years of experience, worked across geographies globally and industry sectors while holding senior management positions in companies.
Bharat was VP and Head Enterprise Applications with Mphasis.
A seasoned IT thought leader proficient in IT strategy, IT governance and innovatively uses both contemporary (Digital, Mobility, Analytics, Cloud, IoT, etc) & traditional technologies to deliver business transformation
A well-networked speaker at national conferences, winner of many Industry accolades and guest faculty.

Dr. N. Rajendran

Chief Technology Officer,
National Payments Corporation of India

He is responsible for the entire Technology Infrastructure at NPCI
He has efficiently led the transformation of the INFINET application intoNPCINet, which now hasa robust architecture that supports over 100 member banks with more than 1 lakh ATMs with 100 lakh transactions per day, collectively
He is credited as one of the key founders of National Financial Switch and played a crucial role in architecting and establishing NPCI's biggest Payment network –NPCINet
Under his leadership, NPCI has been able to achieve some of the technology benchmarks including - PCI DSS certification project, data centre establishment & data centre migration, the new network of NPCI NET for NFS, CTS, RuPay, ACH, APBS, IMPS and AEPS.
He has been a member of a working group on 'Network and Security Standard for e-governance', and worked as a co-investigator for the R&D project - 'Protocol and Security Frameworks for Mobile Payments', under Ministry of Information Technology.

World Blockchain Summit is a global summit series that has successfully facilitated forums to connect leading industry players to discuss the latest trends in enterprise-grade blockchain solutions for businesses. For the first time in India, World Blockchain Summit will gather governments and global thought leaders to explore India’s potential to be the next blockchain technology epicentre of the world.