mBILLIONTH MOBILE & TELECOM CONGRESS 2011
M-Billionth South Asia Mobile & Telecom Congress 2011 opens with India’s best minds to share new perspective and thoughts on ‘Linking with the Masses with 3G’. The focus will be on high-level strategies, policies and scaling up opportunities with 3G technology. The Congress session will elicit various options and solutions from speakers to link citi- zens in cost-effective ways with both 2G and 3G. This will offer an excellent platform to interact with wide and diverse development community in the field of mobile, telecom and wireless technology. The Congress session would be at- tended by various stakeholders including representatives from government, mobile technology experts, practitioners, industry, academia and civil society organizations.
Chief Guest for the Entire mBillionth Award 2011
Proceedings for the Day
Mr. Sachin Pilot, Honourable Union Minister of State, Ministry of Communication & IT, Govt. of India
Power Panel:
Welcome by Mr. Osama Manzar, Founder
Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation
• Mr. N. Ravi Shanker, Additional Secretary, Depart- ment of IT, Govt. of India
• Mr. Ravinder Takkar, Regional Director – Asia Pacific and Middle East, Vodafone Group
• Mr. S Ramkrishna, Director Corporate Affairs, Nokia India
• Mr. Hitesh Oberoi, Chairman, Internet & Mobile Asso- ciation of India
• Mr. Arvind Rao, Chairman, CEO & Co-Founder, On- Mobile
• Mr. R. Sukumar, Editor, Mint
Dr. Amir Ullah Khan, Deputy Director – Strategy, Plan- ning & Management, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [Moderator of the Inaugural Session]