Program DetailsChair/Anchor/Keynote Speakers/Speakers/Panelists
Day 1 (September 15, 2005)
TimeSessionsChair/AnchorKeynote SpeakersSpeakers/Panelists
09:00-11:00Inaugural Session
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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
11:30-13:00IT & Information Management: Meeting and melding points
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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
13:00-14:00Lunch 
14:00-15:30KM: Solutions & Practices
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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
16:00-17:30E-Publishing: changing paradigms and shifting markets
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Judith Turner,
J. Elec. Publishing
Eric Vande Velde,
CALTECH
Rajiv Seth,
Cyber Media Services
Nancy Buckley,
Blackwell
Abi Sekimitsu
Reuters Bangalore
19:30-20:15Banquet Dinner LectureDerk 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)
TimeSessionsChair/AnchorKeynote SpeakersSpeakers/Panelists
09:00-10:30Search Engines & Data Mining
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S. Sadagopan,
IIIT-B
Prasad Ram
Yahoo Software Labs India
Future of Search Experience
Jayant Haritsa,
IISc
Gautham Thambidorai,
Google
11:00-12:30E-Learning and Digital Libraries
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Anand Parthasarathy,
The Hindu
Andrew Large,
McGill Univ
Ingeborg Solveberg,
Norwegian Univ Sc. & Technology
Sugata Mitra,
NIIT
Ron Larsen,
Univ. Pittsburgh
12:30-13:30Lunch 
13:30-15:00IPR: Ideologies, legalities and technologies
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 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
15:30-17:00Concluding Session : Policy Framework for Information Society
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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
17:00-17:30Wrap UpShalini Urs