| Day 1 (September 15, 2005) |
| Time | Sessions | Chair/Anchor | Keynote Speakers | Speakers/Panelists |
| 09:00-11:00 | Inaugural Session more... | Subas Pani, Chief Secretary, Govt. of Orissa (Chair) | Ronald Larsen, Univ Pittsburgh Centripetal or Centrifugal Forces to Play? Nick Moore, Acumen Consulting | Guest of Honor: M K Shankaralinge Gowda, IAS, Secretary to Government, Department of Information Technology, Biotechnology & Science and Technology, Government of Karnataka |
| 11:30-13:00 | IT & Information Management: Meeting and melding points more... | T.A.Balsubramanian, Consultant and Media Advisor | P.Anandan, Microsoft Research India Digital Neighborhoods in Everyday Lives | Eric Vande Velde, CALTECH Mohan Tambe, Innomedia Technologies Digital Articulation with CHOISer |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-15:30 | KM: Solutions & Practices more... | Madanmohan Rao Knowledge Management Chronicles | Richard McDermott, McDermott Consulting Information & Expertise: The Fad and the Future of KM | Suhayl Abidi, Nicholas Piramal Raj Datta, MindTree Consulting Kavi Mahesh, Easy Softech |
| 16:00-17:30 | E-Publishing: changing paradigms and shifting markets more... | Judith Turner, J. Elec. Publishing | Eric Vande Velde, CALTECH | Rajiv Seth, Cyber Media Services Nancy Buckley, Blackwell Abi Sekimitsu Reuters Bangalore |
| 19:30-20:15 | Banquet Dinner Lecture | Derk Haank, CEO, Springer Science + Business Media, Germany |
Launch of International School of Information Management (I-SIM) by Prof. J Shashidhara Prasad, Hon'ble Vice Chancellor, University of Mysore & Prof. Ronald Larsen, University of Pittsburgh, USA |
| Day 2 (September 16, 2005) |
| Time | Sessions | Chair/Anchor | Keynote Speakers | Speakers/Panelists |
| 09:00-10:30 | Search Engines & Data Mining more... | S. Sadagopan, IIIT-B | Prasad Ram Yahoo Software Labs India Future of Search Experience | Jayant Haritsa, IISc Gautham Thambidorai, Google |
| 11:00-12:30 | E-Learning and Digital Libraries more... | Anand Parthasarathy, The Hindu | Andrew Large, McGill Univ | Ingeborg Solveberg, Norwegian Univ Sc. & Technology Sugata Mitra, NIIT Ron Larsen, Univ. Pittsburgh |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30-15:00 | IPR: Ideologies, legalities and technologies more... | | Pravin Anand, Anand & Anand Associates Indian Intellectual Property - Proud Peacock and its clay feet | A. Damodaran, IIMB G. Venkatesh, Sasken Prabhuddha Ganguli, Vision - IPR Competing in the Knowledge Trade.....Today and beyond the Days After |
| 15:30-17:00 | Concluding Session : Policy Framework for Information Society more... | N Balakrishnan, Information Science Division, SERC, IISc Policy | A. Lahiri, DSIR Policy Framework for Information Society Vijayaditya, NIC Towards Knowledge based India - Framework for Indian Society Deepak Maheshwari, Sify Limited |
| 17:00-17:30 | Wrap Up | Shalini Urs |