National Workshop On New Wi-Fi Spectrum In 6GHz

About Event

Wireless Communications have become a life-line for connecting people when social distancing/physical isolation has become imperative due to global pandemic caused by the COVID19 menace. Wi-Fi already carries more than half of the Internet’s traffic and offloading mobile data traffic to Wi-Fi was critical support for our mobile cellular networks from being overwhelmed during the COVID-19 pandemic but is getting choked due to limited unlicensed spectrum. Read More

Wednesday 15th July, 2020 At 5PM (IST:GMT+5.30)

Our Speakers

Shyam Prabhakar Mardikar

President,Group CTO Mobility , Reliance Jio

JS Deepak

Former Secretary Dot
Ambassador to UNO-WTO

Michael Tseytlin

Director of Engineering,Spectrum and Standards at Facebook.

Claus Hetting

CEO & Chairman Wi-Fi Now CEO Hetting Consulting

U.K Srivastava

Principal Advisor in Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.

Paramjit Singh Puri

Director and Head-Industry Engagement and Membership Wireless Broadband Alliance

Dr.PK Jain

Associate Director ISRO Headquarters.

Bharat Bhatia

President, ITU-APT Foundation
Chair, SWG PPDR, ITU-T WP5D
Chair, TG PPDR, APT.

K. Ramchand

Member technology of the department of Telecommunications

Prof. Rekha Jain

Professor And Executive Chair IIM Idea TelelecomCentre Of Excellence At Indian Institute Of Management

Kishore Babu Yerraballa

Deputy Director General,Standards- R&D Innovation, Ministry of Communications.

Jitendra Singh

Senior Director Govenment Affairs (India & South Asia) Qualcomm

Michael Kraemer

Head Of European Spectrum Stategy Intel Corp. USA

TIlak Raj Dua

Director General, TAIPA and Chairman ITU-APT

Jayne Stancavage

Global Executive Director, Digital Infrastructure Policy at Intel Corporation

Dilip Chenoy

Secretary General, FICCI

Satyan Gupta

CEng, DIISc, DRP IRSSE (VR)

MPS Alawa

Senior Deputy Wireless Advisor, Department Of Telecom

Ms. M Rewathi

Senior Deputy Wireless Advisor To The Government Of India.

N.K Panda

Sterlite Power & Managing Director, Mtcil(JV-Maharastra State Transco&Sterlite).

Sandeep Agrawal

Product Manager(Owner) C-DOT

Agenda

ITU-APT Foundation of India National e-Workshop on NEW 6 GHZ FOR WIFI SPECTRUM - A NECESSATY FOR INDIA 15th July 2020 (Virtual Room Opens at 4.30 PM) Please Register at
www.itu-apt.org
Agenda
Inaugural Session from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM Moderated by Shri Bharat Bhatia, President, ITU-APT
Speakers
Welcome speech by Shri T R DUA, Chairman, ITU-APT Background Presentation and introduction to the e-Workshop by Shri Bharat Bhatia, President, ITU-APT Necessity of Wi-Fi for Digital India by Shri Shyam Mardikar, President and Group CTO, Mobility, JIO ITU Regulations and sharing of 6 GHz Wi-Fi Spectrum by Mr. Michael Kraemer, Chairman, WG Spectrum, WP5D, ITU and Head of EU Spectrum, Intel Economics of delicensing of Wi-Fi spectrum in 6 GHz by Prof. Rekha Jain, Professor of Economics, IIM, Ahmedabad Keynote Address by Shri K Ramchand, Member Technology, DCC, DOT Keynote Address by Shri J S Deepak, IAS, Former Secretary DOT & Ambassador WTO Keynote Address by Dr. RS Sharma, Chairman, TRAI* Vote of Thanks by Shri N K Goyal, Vice Chairman IAFI & Chairman Emeritus, TEMA
Session 2 – Discussion on 6 GHz Spectrum for Wi-Fi - 6 PM to 7 PM (IST) Session Moderator: Shri UK Srivastava, Principal Advisor, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)
Speakers:
Mr. Michael Tseytlin, Director Engineering, Spectrum and Standards, Facebook
Ms. Jayne Stancavage, Executive Director, Intel
Shri M P S Alava, Sr. Deputy Wireless Advisor, Ministry of Communications, Wireless Planning & Coordination Wing
Shri P K Jain, Associate Director, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)
Smt. M Revathi, Sr. Deputy Wireless Advisor, Ministry of Communications, Wireless Planning & Coordination Wing
Q & A Moderated by Shri U K Srivastava, Principal Advisor TRAI
Session 3 Discussion on Necessity of Wi-Fi for Economic Development, Atamnirbhar India and Digital India 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM Session Moderator Shri Kishore Babu, DDG, Digital Communications Commission, India ,
Speakers
Shri Dilip Chenoy, Secretary General, FICCI
Mr. Claus Hetting, CEO & Chairman, Wi-Fi NOW*
Shri Paramjit Puri, Director, Wireless Broadband Alliance Shri N K Panda, Head Convergence Sterlite
Shri Sandeep Agrawal, Team Leader, C-DOT
Shri Himanshu Motial, Regional Vice President, Asia Pac, Cambium Networks
Shri Satyen Gupta, Blue Town

To fulfil the information and communication needs of citizens and enterprises through the establishment of a ubiquitous, resilient, secure, accessible and affordable Digital Communications Infrastructure and Services; and in the process, support India’s transition to a digitally empowered economy and society. Missions In pursuit of accomplishing these objectives by year 2022, the National Digital Communications Policy, 2018 envisages three Missions: 1. Connect India: Creating Robust Digital Communications Infrastructure To promote Broadband for All as a tool for socio-economic development, while ensuring service quality and environmental sustainability.

About ITU-APT Foundation

ITU-APT Foundation of India (ITU-APT) is a non-profit, non-political, non-partisan Industry foundation registered as a society under the Societies Registration Act, 1960. ITU-APT is working for last 16 years with the prime objective of encouraging involvement of professionals, corporate, public/private sector industries, R&D organizations, academic institutions, and such other agencies engaged in development of Indian Telecom sector in the activities of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Asia Pacific Telecommunity (APT)... Read More