Focus Areas

Multi-disciplinary Skills for the Future

Aligning Institutions for New Age Skills

Winning the Double-disruption - Automation & COVID-19

Acceleration, Normalization and Remodelling Education and Skill Development

2022 – The Year of Hybrid Everything

Women in Technology

Features

Keynote by Motivational Awards & Stalls &

Tech Talks
Policymakers Talks Recognitions Exhibition

Awards Night
I C T A CA D E M Y
ACADEMIC PARTNER

EXCELLENCE
AWARD 2022
 PROGRAM AGENDA
0900 - 0905 Hours Tamil Thai Vazhthu & Lighting of Lamp/Theme video

0905 - 0910 Hours Welcome Address

Hari Balachandran, Chief Executive Officer, ICT Academy of Tamil Nadu

Conference Keynote address

0910 - 0920 Hours
Lakshmi Narayanan, Emeritus Vice Chairman, Cognizant and Chairman, ICT Academy of Tamil Nadu

Guest of Honour Address

0920 - 0940 Hours Prof K K Aggarwal, Chairman, National Board of Accreditation
0940 - 1000 Hours K V Ramani, Founder & Chancellor, Sai University and Co-Founder & Chairman Emeritus, NASSCOM

Special Address
1000 - 1010 Hours Dr Velraj, Vice Chancellor, Anna University
1010 - 1020 Hours Prof Dr S Gowri, Vice Chancellor, University of Madras

Inaugural Address
1020 - 1040 Hours Kumar Jayant IAS, Principal Secretary - Revenue and Disaster Management Department, Government of Tamil Nadu and Information
Technology and Digital Services Department (I/C)

Chief Guest Address

1040 - 1100 Hours
Thiru T Mano Thangaraj, Hon'ble Minister for Information Technology, Government of Tamil Nadu

MOU Exchange
1100 - 1115 Hours Automation Anywhere University u Telecom Sector Skill Council u Media & Entertainment Sector Skill Council
u Launch of Polytechnic Membership u Launch of Placement Portal & MOU Exchange

1115 - 1130 Hours Networking Tea Break

Women in Technology
Unconscious bias - the need for introspection
1130 - 1150 Hours
Srimathi Shivashankar, Corporate Vice President and Head Edtech Business, HCL Technologies
Inclusivity, skills and training in the post COVID workplace
1150 - 1210 Hours
Kirti Seth, Chief Executive Officer, SSC NASSCOM
 Aligning Institutions for New Age Skills
1230 - 1245 Hours Deepankar Bhattacharyya, Head - India & ASEAN Education Experiences, Autodesk
1245 - 1300 Hours Suresh Kalpathi, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Kalpathi Investments

1300 - 1400 Hours Networking Lunch Break

New Age Technologies

Mahesh Ramachandran, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Tech Innovations
M Balasubramaniam, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Stratinfinity Inc.
1400 - 1500 Hours
Ashok Balasubramanian, Chief Executive Officer, Open Weaver Inc.
Rohit Garg, Vice President, RRD GO Creative
Moderator : Vishesh Rajaram, Managing Partner, Speciale Incept Advisors LLP

Digitization and Future of Work - Post Pandemic

1500 - 1520 Hours Debapriya Nandan, Senior Director and Head - Public Sector Business Development, Oracle India Pvt. Ltd.
1520 - 1540 Hours A Robert Jerard Ravi ITS, Chief Technology Officer, Department of Information Technology & Digital Services, Government of Tamil Nadu
1540 - 1600 Hours Paramantapa Dasgupta, Principal Evangelist, Automation Anywhere University

Future Skills & Talent Preparation

Tamil Nadu as a Talent Destination
1600 - 1615 Hours
Kewyn George, Council Member - Future IT & Emerging Technologies, Government of Tamil Nadu
Experiential learning will reshape the Future of Education
1615 - 1630 Hours
Maya Sreekumar, Vice President Human Resources, GenC Program, Cognizant
1630 - 1645 Hours Remote working Pros & Cons
Mike Murali, Chief Fun Officer, Capgemini India
1645 - 1700 Hours
Preparing talent for the distributed work world
Reemadevi Thottathil, Chief Human Resources Officer, Bahwan CyberTek

Motivational Speaker
1700 - 1730 Hours
Mridula Ramesh, Founder, Sundaram Climate Institute

1730 - 1740 Hours Vote of thanks & closing of conference

Networking Tea Break

 PROGRAM AGENDA
1800 - 1810 Hours Classical Dance

1810 - 1815 Hours Awards Night Video

Special Guest
Ajay Yadav IAS, Managing Director, Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu
1815 - 1835 Hours
Chief Guest Address
Thiru T Mano Thangaraj, Hon'ble Minister for Information Technology, Government of Tamil Nadu

1835 - 1850 Hours Academic Partner Excellence Awards

1850 - 1920 Hours Performance by Gokulnath, Founder, Unique Talent Academy

1920 - 1930 Hours Power Seminar Contributor Awards

1930 - 1940 Hours Young Gen- Edupreneur Awards

1940 - 1950 Hours Women Edupreneur Award

1950 - 2000 Hours Establishments of COE in Colleges

2000 - 2010 Hours Partner in success Awards

Vote of Thanks & Closing

2010 - 2015 Hours
Hari Balachandran, Chief Executive Officer, ICT Academy

2015 Hours Networking Dinner