Guests of Honor

• Honorable Salmaan Khurshid, External Affairs Minister, Govt. Of India
• R Chandrasekhar, President-Designate, Nasscom
• Dr Wajahat Habibullah, Chairman, National Commission for Minorities
• Dr. Peter Bruck, Chairman of the Board of Directors, World Summit Award, and WSA, Mobile Award
• Dr. Ajay Kumar, Joint Secretary, Department of Electronics & Information Technology
• Ashis Sanyal, e-Governance and ICT4D Consultant
• Sheo Shekhar Shukla, IAS, Government of Madhya Pradesh
• Supriya Sahu, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
• Poonam Muttreja, Executive Director, Population Foundation of India
• Brian Cute, CEO, Public Interest Registry
• Iskra Panveska, Advisor for Communication & Information,UNESCO
• N.K.Dhamija, Deputy Commissioner, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
• Dr. Rajendra Kumar, Joint Secretary (e-Gov), DeitY
• Indrajit Banerjee, Director, Knowledge Societies Division, UNESCO
• Dr Lalit K Panwar, Secretary, Minority of Minority Affairs
• Nipun Mehta, Founder, ServiceSpace.org
• B. M. Baveja, Scientist G and Group Coordinator, R&D in Convergence, Communication and Broadband Technologies Group, DeitY, Ministry of C&IT
• Tushar Pandey, Country Head, YES Bank
• Parul Soni, Global Deputy Leader-Not For Profit Organizations & Leader-Development Advisory Services, Ernst & Young
• Moe Chiba, Section Chief & Programme Specialist for Culture, UNESCO
• Shashi Malik, Director, e-panchayat
• Amitabh Singhal, Board member, PIR.ORG
• Venki Nishthala, CTO, Rediff.com
• Subho Ray, President, IAMAI
• Dr. Ravina Aggarwal, Program Officer for Media Rights and Access, Ford Foundation
• Ashish Dhawan, Founder and CEO of Central Square Foundation (CSF).
• Sandeep Aurora, Director-Marketing, Intel
• Sushil Kumar Joint Secretary (e-Panchayat), Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Government of India
• Smita Jha, Director, PwC
• Kamal Taori, Ex-member, Planning Commission of India, Wardha, Maharashtra
• Deepak Chandra Misra, Rural Development and Panchayatiraj, NIC
• Sunjay VS, Senior Manager-Agribusiness Practices, PwC
• N. Ravi Shankar, MD, BBNL & Administrator, USOF, DoT, MoCIT
• Dr. Rajneesh Ashthana Deputy Director, NIELIT, MoC&IT
• DilipChenoy, CEO & MD, NSDC

Honorable Guests

• Basheerhamad Shadrach, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Independent Consultant and Voice to the Voiceless Trust
• Prof. DarveshGopal, Director, School of Social Sciences, IGNOU
• Dr. SheelaTaori, Educationist & Chairperson of LEARNINGMANTRA
• Manmohan Singh Thandi, Patron, Computer Shiksha
• Surender Singh Rana, Practice Partner, Wipro Consulting Services
• Marvin Mathew, U.S.Ambassador, One Young World
• Raheel Khursheed, Communication Director, Change.org
• AVV Prasad, Additional Commissioner Rural Development, Government of India
• Jonathan Bill, Founder, Pluggedindia
• Monika Halan, Editor, Mint Money
• Jinesh Shah, Co- founder, Omnivore partners
• Dr. Usharani Narayana, Professor, University of Mysore
• Anuraj Gambhir, Strategic Advisor and Innovation Evangelist, Steadworks
• Shalini Kala, Independent Consultant
• Prof Rekha Jain, Executive Chair, IIMA-IDEA Telecom Centre of Excellence & Professor, Computers and Information Systems Group, IIM –Ahmadabad
• Gautam Chikermane, Columnist, Inc.
• Yudho Giri, Lecturer, ICT Expert, Consultant Trainer, and Researcher
• Soumya Sarkar, National Editor, MINT
• Manju Dhasmana, Microsoft
• Shubhranshu Chaudhury, Founder, Cgnet Swara
• Saleema Razvi, Health Economist
• John Borgoyary, Programme Manager: Supporting Democratic Electoral Management, UNDP
• Deepak Maheshwari, Public Policy Professional
• Nilesh Khare , Mumbai Bureau Chief, ABP Maza News Channel
• Aditya Gupta, Co-founder, Social Samosa
• Abhishek Baxi, Digital Consultant, Technology columnist
• Anika Gupta, Digital Strategy & Outreach, Whypoll Foundation
• Dr. Amir Ullah Khan, President, Glocal University
• Hempal Shrestha, IT Consultant
• Rita Soni, CEO, Nasscom Foundation
• Vibhas Sharma, Founding Director and CEO, Aura Ventures Pvt. Ltd.
• Sanjay Diwan, Managing Director, Consulting IN
• Asif Syed, Editor, Current Newspaper
• Gunjan Veda, Program Director, WISH
• Vineeta Dixit, Principal Consultant, NeGP-DIT
• Anisha Singh, Founder & CEO, Mydala
• Kapil Gupta, Founder & CEO, OMLogic
• Sairee Chahal, Founder & CEO, Applied Life Pvt Ltd
• Rajen Varada, Founder, Technology for People
• Mahesh Venkateswaran, Principal-Innovation & Engagement, NSDC·
• Manju Dhasmana Lead – CSR/Community Affairs, Microsoft
• Kishore Balaji Digital Inclusion-South Asia & Head Strategic Alliance, Corporate Affairs – South Asia at Intel
• Dr. Sumant Pande, Asso. Professor, State institute of Rural Development, YASHADA, Pune
• Chintan Raj, PM Fellow, Ministry of Rural Development, GOI
• R. Viswanathan, Chief Learning Officer, Avaikalam Solutions
• PoonamMutreza, Executive Director Population Foundation of India
• WajahatHabibulla, Chairman, NCM, GOI
• Dr. Lalit K Panwar (IAS) Secretary Ministry of Minority Affairs
• Fr. Dominic Emmanuel Chief Spokesperson New Delhi Roman Catholic Archdiocese