Dr.  Anjali Agrawal
Teleradiology Solutions, India
Dr Anjali Agrawal is a consultant radiologist to Teleradiology Solutions, where she heads the Delhi Operations of the group.
She completed her MBBS course from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in 1994, followed by Radiology training at AIIMS and the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas (2002). Dr Agrawal joined as an Assistant Professor of Radiology at the VA Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine (2003) and continues to be involved with resident interactions as an adjunct faculty. She is a founder Member and Secretary of the Society for Emergency Radiology-India. She is an active member of various national and international radiology organizations.
Her academic activities include invited talks in both national and international radiology meetings, scientific presentations on workflow, quality assurance and AI tools in teleradiology and educational exhibits on various subjects in clinical emergency radiology. She is an editorial board member of the Journal Emergency Radiology.
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 Dr. Anurag Agrawal
CSIR Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology, India
Prof. Anurag Agrawal (MBBS, AIIMS; Medical Residency and Fellowship, Baylor; PhD, Delhi) is Director of the Institute for Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB), New Delhi. His research deals with respiratory diseases, health informatics and digital health. Prof. Agrawal is a Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar prize awardee, a Senior Fellow of the Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance and a member of the NITI Aayog group on Artificial Intelligence applications. He co-Chairs the Lancet/Financial Times Joint Commission “Governing Health Futures 2030” and is a member of the World Health Organization Digital Health Technical Advisory Group.
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Dr. Ajay Bakshi
BuddhiMed Technologies, India
Dr. Ajay Bakshi is a former neurosurgeon, neuroscientist, McKinsey consultant and ex-CEO of Max Healthcare, Manipal Hospitals and India Operations of IHH/Parkway Hospitals. He has recently co-founded BuddhiMed Technologies which is an AI based health tech startup that is working to merge modern medicine with computer science to benefit doctors, patients, well individuals and other members of the healthcare ecosystem.
Dr. Bakshi trained as a neurosurgeon at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) from where he completed his MBBS and M.Ch. (Neurosurgery) in 1997. He then worked as a clinical neurosurgeon at a not-for-profit institution in New Delhi for four years. Thereafter he moved to the Department of Neurobiology at Drexel University to set up his stem cell transplantation lab. From both these stints, Dr Bakshi published 8 peer reviewed scientific papers including those in Journal of Neurosurgery, Journal of Neurotrauma, Brain Research and Cell Transplant. At this time, Dr. Bakshi also completed his Wharton Management Program from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Bakshi entered management professionally in 2005 when he joined McKinsey & Company at their New Jersey office. The next 6 plus years Dr. Bakshi worked at McKinsey and served clients in USA, Europe, Africa, Middle East, India and Asia on topics related to Strategy, M&A, Technology and Innovation. In 2011, Dr Bakshi was invited to lead Max Healthcare based out of New Delhi as their CEO following which he was asked to lead Manipal Hospitals based out Bangalore. His last corporate stint was as the CEO of India Operations for Singapore based IHH/Parkway Hospitals. During this period Dr. Bakshi has served on the Boards of nearly 14 companies including those associated with the Max group, Manipal Group, IHH Group and Apollo Group.
Apart from his professional journey, Dr Bakshi is passionate about classical music, reading philosophy and science and travelling. His wife is a successful neurosurgeon with a large clinical practice in Delhi and his daughter is a budding lawyer.
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Dr.  Rainer Berger
AI Singapore, Singapore
Rainer has over 30 years of experience in software development. He started his career in AI at ANZ Bank in Australia after completing his studies at the University of Melbourne. Rainer is presently at AI Singapore, a national programme funded by the National Research Foundation to foster the adoption of AI technologies in Singapore.
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 Mr. Raghu Dharmaraju
Wadhwani AI, India
An alumnus of Cornell, UMass Amherst, and IIT Madras, Raghu is a product and go-to-market veteran. He has launched and scaled impact-focused innovations in start-ups, Fortune 500 companies, and government. At Embrace, he led the market launch of path-breaking infant warmers and ultimately drove adoption in private and public health systems, including many governments, WHO, and MSF. Previously, he has brought diverse products to the market in leadership roles at Duron Energy, Corning, and Xerox PARC.
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Mr. Matthew Guilford
Common Health, Malaysia
Matthew Guilford is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Common Health, a purpose-driven business that uses digital and mobile technology to advance universal health coverage. Prior to Common Health, he served in leadership roles across Asia and Europe for global telecoms firm Telenor Group, including as Co-Founder, Chief Commercial Officer, and Chief Growth Officer of Telenor Health. Over the course of five years living and working in Bangladesh he designed, launched, and scaled Telenor Health's “Tonic" service to five million members, creating the country's largest health insurance program and a primary care operation that has delivered over 350,000 high quality consultations. Before Telenor, Guilford served in the administrations of Chicago mayors Richard M. Daley and Rahm Emanuel as Assistant Commissioner for Digital Excellence and Innovation, launching the City's digital health initiative and helping to shape national policy on healthcare information technology. He holds an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School and completed his undergraduate training in biological basis of behavior (behavioral neuroscience) at the University of Pennsylvania. Guilford was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in March 2019 and was appointed to the Forum's Global Future Council on Health and Healthcare in August 2019. He is based in Kuala Lumpur.
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Mr. Neeraj Jain
PATH, India
Neeraj Jain, is PATH's Country Director for India, based in New Delhi. He oversees the country program and serves as a liaison between the office in India, PATH headquarters, donors, partners, and national-level ministries.
Mr. Jain has more than 27 years of experience in strengthening and leading organizations. His strengths lie in setting up new ventures, organizational development, and he has provided strategic leadership for change management in organizations across Asia and Europe.
Prior to PATH, Mr. Jain led WaterAid India through a dynamic phase of transition as its chief executive. He was instrumental in setting up the India Sanitation Coalition as part of the governing committee and heads their Engagement with Central and State Governments Task Force.
Prior to WaterAid India, Mr. Jain was associated with Children's Investment Fund Foundation, where he worked for child development. He also headed the Asia region for Vestergaard Frandsen, a Swiss company that manufactures water purifiers and insecticidal mosquito nets.
Mr. Jain holds a BA in business studies from Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He completed his MBA from Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi.
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 Dr. Harsha Jayakody
MyDoctor, Sri Lanka
Dr. Harsha Jayakody, Founder of MyDoctor from Sri Lanka, is a graduate from University of Sri Jayewardenepura. He has sound clinical expertise, with over 10 years experience working in tertiary-care hospitals. He is a proud holder of a MBA in Health Administration affiliated to Asia e University in Malaysia and have recently completed his Masters in Health informatics from University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Dr. Jayakody has won many local as well as international awards for his out of the box thinking as the founder of MyDoctor, which is a Digital Health Platform which connects all stakeholders in Healthcare eco-system. As a medical entrepreneur, his vision is to build an AI driven virtual hospital system.
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Prof. Mudit Kapoor
Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), India
Mudit Kapoor is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), New Delhi. He has formally worked at the Indian School of Business (ISB) in Hyderabad and the World Bank in Washington DC. His research papers have been published in international academic journals such as BMJ Open, Journal of Human Hypertension (Nature), Management Science, Journal of Econometrics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Economic and Political Weekly, World Economy and BE Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy. Currently, he is working on data and analytics in healthcare where his mission is to “Convert Data into Information for Optimal Decision Making.” In this endeavor, he has partnered with large public and private health institutions to help improve performance in terms of resource utilization, creation of a data driven Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) software, etc. He has also partnered with a research think tank to democratize health related information by creating a Health monitor index – a tool to assess government performance at the level of a district. His research has featured in national and international press. He has a PhD in Economics from University of Maryland in College Park, USA and an MA in Economics from Delhi School of Economics, and BA (Hons.) from Ramjas College, University of Delhi.
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Dr. Naomi LeeFG-AI4H Vice-Chair; The Lancet, United Kingdom
Naomi Lee is the Executive Editor (Digital) at the leading medical journal The Lancet. Naomi handles peer review and commissioning in her specialist areas of surgery, digital medicine/AI, and medical technology. As part of the marketing and communications team, she is also leading the digital transformation of The Lancet group. Naomi trained in surgery, specialising in urology and has worked in the United Kingdom, Argentina, and Mexico. She studied medicine at Cambridge University and King’s College London, and data science at University College London. Naomi joined The Lancet in 2014.
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Prof. Andrew Lynn
Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Prof. Lynn's areas of research include:
Computational Biology: Computational methods for biological sequence, structure and systems analysis. The use of Hidden Markov Models for functional identification of proteins has been pioneered through the development of HMM-ModE. Methods that improve small molecule docking scores, cheminformatics using data-mining methods, simulations of macromolecular systems,analysis of high-throughput data from biological experiments, and application of data-mining in healthcare is the current focus of the lab in this area
Cyberinfrastructure: Established the university High-Performance Computer Facility in 2004, and managed the university IT infrastructure through a special center established for the purpose: Communication and Information Services. The research area involves the use of cyberinfrastructure for biological data management and social productivity, including with the
Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD): The group was actively involved in the CSIR-lead OSDD, within which the group manages responsibilities associated with the technical infrastructure and project management through the Technical, Science and Budget committees. My group supported OSDD access to grid infrastructure and provides methods for target, as well as ligand, based lead identification. Recent projects from OSDD include the use of crowdsourcing for annotation, development and deployment of applications |
Dr.  Roli Mathur
Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR), India
Dr Roli Mathur received the Young Scientist award for her research in molecular genetics while she was at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi before joining the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) the apex body for promotion of biomedical research in India. She pursued a fellowship in “Bioethics and Ethics Committee Administration” in the US and was trained to be a surveyor of ethics committees in a WHO initiative. Currently, she heads the ICMR Bioethics Unit and involved in developing National ethics policy related to conduct and review of biomedical research.
She has represented ICMR in several national and International platforms and is part of many expert advisory groups. Since 2017, she is Member of Executive Committee, Council of International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS), Geneva and also Member Working Group to develop a Guideline for Clinical Research in Resource Limited Countries. Since 2015, she is special invitee to WHO-SEARO Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR) for ethics. She is an ICMR nominee to represent India at the WHO-UNESCO Global Summit of National Ethics Committees. Recently she has joined the WHO Hqdrs expert committee on Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence in Health.
She is nodal officer at ICMR coordinating with DHR, MOHFW in setting up an online ethics committee registry and is the member secretary of Central Ethics Committee on Health Research (National ethics committee). She is also a member of several ethics committees, stem cell research committees, Steering and Advisory committees of several institutions across the country.
She is passionate about building capacity for ethical conduct and review of research, developing ethics teaching training opportunities, creating tools for ethics committees, holding country wide consultations and engaging with multisectoral stakeholders towards developing ethics policy on several key issues (http://ethics.ncdirindia.org/). Her recent contribution in the field has culminated in the National Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research on Human Participants (2017), National Ethical Guidelines for Research in Children (2017), the Definitions pertaining to End of Life Care (2018), Handbook on Ethical Guidelines (2019) and the ICMR policy on Research Integrity and Publication Ethics (2019) and presently she is finalising a guidance on Do Not Attempt Resuscitation (DNAR) and one on Common Review of Multicentre Research.
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Prof. Khondaker A. MamunAIMS Lab, United International University, Bangladesh
Khondaker A. Mamun received his Ph.D. in Computer and Biomedical Engineering from University of Southampton, UK. After that he worked as a Research Fellow at IBBME, University of Toronto, Canada. Since October 2014, he is working as an A/Professor and then Professor at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, United International University (UIU), Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Prof. Mamun is the founder and president of CMED Health (www.cmed.com.bd), a startup that focuses on health inclusion by enabling preventive and primary healthcare through IoT and AI based digital platform. CMED Health is the Winner of DBS-NUS Social Innovation 2018 (Singapore), SeedStarWorld Global Innovation 2018 (Switzerland), Bangladesh Innovation 2018 and many more.
Prof. Mamun is the founder and Director of AIMS Lab at UIU, where his team actively performs research on the application of AI and IoT in healthcare, disabilities, brain computer interface (BCI) and education. He has published more than 100 international journal and conference articles. He has invented and implemented a number of digital healthcare and rehabilitations service delivery model and mobile based solutions for developing countries. His research and innovation have been featured in local and international news outlets and recognized internationally as well as by the government of Bangladesh. Prof. Mamun is the organizer of the first medical engineering conference (MediTec 2016), first International Neuroscience School (IBRO APRC 2017) and the first Deep Brain Stimulation surgery for Parkinson’s patients in Bangladesh.
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 Dr. Vasantha Muthuswamy
Forum for Ethical Review Committees in India (FERCI)
Dr. Vasantha Muthuswamy retired as Senior Deputy Director General(Scientist G) and Chief of Division of Basic Medical Sciences, Traditional medicine & Bioethics and Division of Reproductive Health & Nutrition from Indian Council of Medical Research(ICMR) in 2008 after three decades of service in different capacities. A medical graduate from R.G. Kar Medical college, Kolkata and MD in Obstet./Gynae. from Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Madras , she joined the ICMR as a Talent Search scholar in 1975 . After a stint at Toxaemia Research Unit, Vani Vilas hospital, Bangalore she moved to Division of Contraceptive Research at the Institute for Research in Reproduction, Mumbai and then to ICMR Headquarters office, New Delhi in 1982. She was also Director, Institute of Immunohaematology, Mumbai for two years. She has played a major role in the area of Drug development including Traditional medicine, Genetics and genomics, Haematological disorders, Ethics of animal and human experimentation, promotion of research by medical students etc .
A WHO Fellow at the Kennedy Institute for Ethics ,Georgetown University, Washington DC, she is well recognised for bringing out the ICMR’s “Ethical guidelines for biomedical research on human subjects “ in 2000 and the revised version “Ethical guidelines for research on human participants” in 2006 . The other ICMR guidelines she prepared are Guidance document for Animal experimentation, Guidelines for Stem cell research and therapy , Guidelines for Safety evaluation of food derived from GE plants and Guidelines for Good Clinical laboratory practices etc. She has been member of ethics related committees at WHO TDR, UNAIDS, UNESCO etc. As the Founder Secretary of Forum for Ethics Review Committees in Asia Pacific(FERCAP)for ten years since 2000, she was a faculty in Bioethics and GCP workshops in more than 30 countries. Dr. Muthuswamy received Lifetime achievement Award from Indian Society for Clinical Research(ISCR), Indian Journal of Medical ethics (IJME) , FERCAP and Yenopoya University. In 2013 she served as member of the Ranjit Roychoudhury Committee of the GOI for Policy guidelines for Clinical trials approved by Drug regulatory authorities in India. The National ethical guidelines of ICMR released in 2017 was prepared under her chairmanship. She is also associated with the new ICMR guidelines for paediatric research and the revised National guidelines for Stemcell research released in 2017.
She is currently President of FERCI (Forum for Ethics Review Committees in India), Chairperson of Ethics Advisory committee at NCDIR, (ICMR), Bengaluru and Advisor at Centre for Clinical research and Ethics at PSGIMS&R, Coimbatore and member of many Institutional Ethics committees and Stemcell research committees. She continues to be Steering committee member of FERCAP and participates in accreditation of ECs in member countries for SIDCER recognition.
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 Mr. Aazam Parvez
Hewlett Packard Enterprise, India
As National Manager for HPC & AI , Aazam Parvez manage HPE HPC and AI business for the country. With more than 16 years of experience in IT Sector, including last 8 years at various leadership roles at IBM, AKAMAI, and HPE. Aazam is passionate about real life application of HPC and AI solutions in the various sectors like Life Science, Manufacturing and Financial Industries.
About HPE: HPE is a $30 billion technology company, having approximately 60,000 employees worldwide and serving more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies, with the vision to advance the way we live and work. With the industry's most comprehensive portfolio – spanning from cloud to datacenters to workplace applications – HPE assists customers in North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa use ICT efficiently and securely.
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Dr. Shantanu PathakCareMother App, India
Shantanu is Co-Founder of CareMother, a pregnancy care start-up from IIT Bombay. He also plays a role for R&D at NanoBios Lab on Maternal and Child Health at IIT Bombay. CareMother solution has reached more than 35,000 pregnancies in the remotest part of India. CareMother is recognised by Her Majesty 'The Queen of England', UN-Habitat, UNWomen, Commonwealth Secretariat etc. Shantanu is awarded by “The President of India's Innovation Scholar Award in 2015", Google SMB Hero Award in 2017 and Emerging Young Leader Award by Skoll Foundation, 2019. Recently, OECD published his article in “Development Cooperation Report 2018" titled -Bringing affordable and accessible maternal healthcare to the poorest districts of India. He is passionate about developing technology innovation and building an enterprise for social change in a sustainable and scalable manner.
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Mr. Sameer Pujari
FG-AI4H Vice-Chair, WHO
Currently with WHO, he is helping manage the mHEALTH for NCDs as part of the secretariat for the flagship WHO and ITU joint program on mHealth for Non-Communicable Diseases; Be He@lthy Be Mobile which was awarded the WHO DGs Excellence Award this year. With WHO since 2008, he has also provided technical advise and support to over 50 countries in the development of surveillance and management information systems. He is also a core member of the Health Data Forum at WHO and the co-chair of the WHO mHEALTH working group. Before coming to WHO, he worked with the US Governments health agency helping various countries build informatics systems for immunization and vaccination programs in Asia Europe and Africa. He started his career working with WHO's National Polio Surveillance Project in India for 7 years, where he led the development and implementation of various information management systems for surveillance across the country. He holds bachelor degrees in business and software engineering and a master's degree with a gold medal in management, he also has an earned fellowship in public health informatics from the US government health and human services.
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Mr. Narayana RaoSalcit Technologies, India
Narayana Rao Sripada has 23 years of IT Industry experience. Had worked with MNC’s (TI, Motorola, & HP) in India. He has technical and Management expertise in Software Product Development, Testing & Knowledge Management in enterprise and embedded domains. He is an accomplished leader in creating the culture of innovation while leading various teams/organizations at TI, Motorola and HP. Inventor for 3 US published and 1 Indian granted patents.
From Sep 2017 working as CEO, Salcit Technologies a startup focusing on building Digital Health Solutions for Respiratory Diseases.
Experienced in an entrepreneurial stint in developing iStudymate- a mobile learning platform that enables content creation and hosting for Academic Institutes and Students.
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 Dr. Pooja Rao
Qure.ai, India
A physician turned data scientist, Pooja Rao is co-founder and Head of Research and Development at Qure.ai. a healthcare-AI company based in Mumbai, India. Qure.ai creates deep learning technology that interprets medical images like X-rays, CT scans and MRIs. The company has developed and deployed algorithms that can interpret chest X-rays, screen for tuberculosis and detect critical abnormalities on head CT scans.
Pooja has previously worked as bioinformatician at Genomescan, Leiden; and data scientist at GoDataDriven, Amsterdam. Pooja graduated from medical school in Pune, India where she briefly practiced medicine and then went on to earn a PhD in Neuroscience, Max Planck institute in Germany where she worked to predict the onset of Alzheimer’s techniques.
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Mr. Vivekananda Reddy
Algoriom, India
Vivek, an engineering Graduate From Bangalore University has more than 15 year's experience in complex visual analytics and decision-support systems architecture & development. Before co-founding Algoriom, he led the design and development efforts on data-rich enterprise applications for various Fortune 500 companies, especially in the Pharmaceutical and Fintech domains.
Vivek leads Algoriom's technology and asset development strategy division. He also plays a leading role in assembling and mentoring our talented engineering team that includes a mix of highly skilled and experienced professionals with skill-sets varying between software development, analytics & data engineering, creative web developing, and data visualization design.
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 Dr. Tavpritesh Sethi
Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIIT-D), India
Dr. Tavpritesh Sethi is an Assistant Professor at Department of Computational Biology at IIIT-Delhi. His lab focuses on innovations and deployment of machine learning solutions for public health, especially in maternal and child health and infectious diseases. He is a clinician by background and received his Ph.D. in Bioinformatics. Prior to joining IIIT-Delhi, he was a visiting faculty member at Stanford Biomedical Informatics where he developed Artificial Intelligence methods for predictive modeling in ICU and population health.
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Dr. R. S. SharmaScientist-G, Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR), India
Dr. R.S. Sharma is Head, Scientist-G & Senior Deputy Director General in the Division of Reproductive Biology, Maternal and Child Health at the Indian Council of Medical Research. He is also a fellow of National Academy of Medical Science, India, the World Health Organization (WHO), and a Rockfeller Biotechnology Career Fellow.
Dr. Sharma is co-ordinating and conducting a hospital based multi-disciplinary cohort study in Delhi & NCR to find out the adverse effects of radiation emitted from cell phone on adult Indian population. This is a largest epidemiological study going on in the Country. Under this study efforts are going on to examine whether use of cell phone is associated with neurological disorders (cognitive behavior, sleep related disorders, depression etc.), reproductive dysfunctions, cardiovascular disorders, Otorhinolaryngology (ENT) disorders and promote cancer if any, in human volunteers.
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Dr. Manjula Singh
Scientist-E, Indian Council of Medical Research
Dr. Manjula Singh, is Deputy Director General, Division of Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases, at Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi, India. She is a Medical Doctor (MBBS) with post graduate DNB training in Dermatology, Venereology and Leprosy and Ph.D in ‘Immunology’.
She has a vast experience of more than 18 years in the area of Tuberculosis, leprosy & HIV research and has been involved in conducting many clinical trials. She is the Programme Officer for research in Mycobacterial diseases at ICMR including Indo-US collaboration on tuberculosis research and is the co-ordinator of several clinical and implementation research studies on TB, leprosy.
She is a member of National Technical Resource Group of RNTCP, Central TB Division, under Ministry of Health & family Welfare, Government of India. She is also a member of WHO’s Global TB Research Task Force. She is the coordinator of TB research activities of the ‘BRICS TB Research Network’ and is involved in planning and coordinating multicountry research activities among BRICS countries.
She is the nodal person involved in the establishment and co-ordination of ‘India TB Research consortium’, a flagship programme of ICMR focussing on development of new tools to tackle TB in a mission mode which has won the prestigious International ‘KOCHON Prize’ 2017 for accelerating TB T&D in the country. She was also the coordinator of the multicentric research of mobile TB diagnostics van intervention in tribal areas in 5 states of India which won the ‘BMJ infectious disease initiative of the year in 2018’. She is also the recipient of National e-Governance award, 2019 by Ministry of Public Reforms & Public Grievances, Government of India for Outstanding research on citizen centric services by research Institutions for the project on tribal TB in the country.
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Ms.  Chaitali Sinha
Wysa, India
Chaitali is a psychologist with Wysa - a mental health app that integrates the power of artificial intelligence with a scalable model that can provide human and digital support to areas with minimal resources. She has worked in the ambit of trauma, community mental health and is a graduate of Clinical Psychology from TISS, Mumbai.
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Mr. Deepak Talwar National Security Officer, Microsoft India
Deepak Talwar is the National Security Officer with Microsoft India. He has close to 20 years of experience as a business leader and core technologist from heart working in the field of cyber security and specifically focused on cloud security. Deepak has been instrumental in transforming multiple clients & the partner community to migrate to safer cloud and worked across sectors like enterprise clients , industry bodies , defense , government entities , telco- media and others covering Indian and global markets.
Before Microsoft, Deepak led EY, for their business development initiatives on cyber, data privacy, security operations, incident management services. He was also instrumental in setting up and ran Symantec cloud business for 7 years with adoption across southeast asia. Domain expertise in data security, privacy, identity management, risk mitigation and build security strategies with industry thought leaders, government and CXO’s. His earlier stints have been into Trend Micro, Mcafee and Cisco academies into multiple technologies and business roles to support organization and their teams to build mindshare and adopt security with confidence and trust.
He actively participates and contribute his time with education forums, cyber readiness and support regulatory and policy making bodies to share views and build enhanced security framework.
Deepak is also a distinguished trainer who had trained 100’s of engineers in his career to be cyber experts and even today he firmly believe and actively participate in building next generation to attain best of cyber knowledge and “be cyber ready”
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Ms. Deepa TyagiTelecommunication Engineering Center, India
With over 35 years of experience in the Indian Telecom sector , Electronics and Communications engineer from IIT Roorkee ( erstwhile University of Roorkee ) and a member of the Indian Telecom Service (ITS ) of the Government of India – Deepa Tyagi has served in various capacities in the Department of Telecommunications (DOT ),under the Ministry of Communications as well as in the Public Sector Units (PSUs) namely Bharat Broadband Network Limited (BBNL) ,Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL ).
In her present capacity as Deputy Director General in charge of Future Networks (DDG (FN)) in Telecom Engineering Center (TEC ) – the technology arm of the Department of Telecom - her primary focus is on cross sector standardization in the field of 5G ,IoT and AI/ML . She chairs 2 National Working groups (NWGs) corresponding to ITU-T Study Group 12 ( pertaining to QoS /QoE ) and Study Group 16 ( pertaining to Multimedia ).
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Dr. Banusri Velpandian
Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR), India
She started her advocacy practice in 2001 at Delhi after her Law graduation from University of Delhi after her graduation from AIIMS. She Post graduated in law specializing in ‘Contracts including mercantile law’ and ‘Consumer justice’. She was conferred Doctorate in Law in 2012 for her studies on "Comparative Analysis of the Legal Framework Governing clinical trials in India and UK”.Her academic specialization has enabled her to acquire territorial competence in Health law, Contracts, technology management, policy making and Comparative Jurisprudence.
At present, she is a practicing advocate in the Courts of Delhi and a Legal advisor for Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance council (BIRAC), a government of India Enterprise setup by the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology and Legal Consultant at Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and Technology Development Board (TDB) of Department of Science and Technology
she is - • One of the panellist in the International centre for alternate dispute resolution under the Min. of Law as a Mediator. • A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, United Kingdom (FCIArb) • Member of Association of University Technology Managers, USA (AUTM) • Life member of the Indian Council of Arbitration
She has completed the Directed Studies in Private International Law of the Hague Academy at the Peace Palace (International Court of Justice) She is also the legal expert member in the Ethics Committees of AIIMS, Sir Gangaram Hospital, National Institute of Immunology and National Brain Research Centre. She has delivered various lectures and published articles in health and techno-law arenas.
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Prof.(Dr.) Thomas Wiegand FG-AI4H Chair, Fraunhofer HHI, Germany
Thomas Wiegand is a professor in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Technical University of Berlin and is jointly heading the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Berlin, Germany. He was a visiting professor at Stanford University and co-founded several startup companies. For his research and publications, he received numerous awards. Thomson Reuters named him in their list of “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds” as one of the most cited researchers in his field. He has been elected to the German National Acdemy of Engineering (Acatech) and the National Academy of Science (Leopoldina). He is a recipient of the ITU150 Award. Since 1995, he has been an active participant in standardization for multimedia with many successful submissions to ITU-T and ISO/IEC. In 2000, he was appointed as the Associated Rapporteur of ITU-T VCEG.
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