ANNUAL CONVENTION
March 22, 2010

10.30 – 11.00	Registration
11.00 – 12.00	Opening Plenary : Equitable Communication for All Welcome Address : Mr. R.N. Agarwal, President, ITU-APT Foundation of India Chairman Address: Dr. S.K. Hajela, ITU Expert & Chairman, ITU-APT Foundation of India   Keynote Address : Mr. Sameer Sharma, Senior Advisor, ITU Regional Office for Asia Pacific & Bangkok Inaugural Address: Mr. R.K. Upadhyay, Chairman & Managing Director, Telecom Consultants India Ltd Vote of Thanks : Mr. NK Goyal, President CMAI and Vice Chairman, ITU-APT Foundation of India
12.00 – 12.30	Networking Tea Break

12.30 – 13.30	Session 1: Equitable Communication for All: Regulatory and Policy Issues Chair : Mr. RN Prabhakar, Former Member TRAI Speakers:  Mr. Bharat Bhatia, Director, Motorola & Vice President, ITU-APT Foundation  Mr. S Banzal, Jt. Advisor (MN), TRAI  Mr. Vivek Vasishtha, Director, INTEL & Vice President, ITU-APT Foundation  Mr. SN Gupta, Chief Regulatory Advisor, BT Global Services, India
13.30 – 14.30	Networking Lunch Break
14.30 – 15.30	Session 2: Equitable Communication for All : Technology & Services Chair: Mr. Anuj K Srivastava, General Manager (E), MTNL, Delhi   Speakers:  Mr. Tim Wells, Executive VP, SPX/Dielectric  Dr. Rohan Samarajiva, Chair and CEO, LIRN Asia  Prof. Subrat Kar, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi  Dr. Aloknath De, Director, ST Ericsson  Major Abhijit Bhattacharjee (Retd.), CEO, LUNA Ergonomics
15.30 – 16.00	Networking Tea Break
16.00 – 16.45	Session 3: Panel Discussion : Equitable Communication for All Chair: General Prakash Gokarn (Retd.)   Speaker: Mr. David O’Conner, Managing Director, Mint Systems, Networking Element Management / QoS Monitoring systems Panelists:  Dr. Aditeshawar Seth, Department of Computer Science, IIT Delhi  Cmde. Shyam Kaushal (Retd), Regional Director, WiMax Forum  Dr. Rakesh Mehrotra, ITU-APT Foundation of India
16.45 – 18.00	Session 4: WTDC-2010 Chair : Mr. R.N. Jha, DDG(IR), Department of Telecommunication Co-Chair: Mr. Sameer Sharma, Sr. Advisor, Head, ITU Regional Office for Asia Pacific   ITU-APT Foundation’s Perspective : Dr. SK Hajela, Chairman, ITU-APT Foundation of India Speakers:  Mr. SN Gupta, President, Association of Competitive Telecom Operators  Dr. RN Bhardwaj, ITU-APT Foundation of India
18.00	Closing of the Convention
18.30	Networking Cocktail Dinner