Industry Forum
The purpose of Industry forum is to provide platform to invited speakers from the industry to present & share their latest technological developments to wider audience comprising of industry and academia. The forum will provide a common platform for researchers and technologist to socialize on futuristic industry roadmap, leading to improved cross-pollination of knowledge.
This year, we have setup 3 parallel tracks for discussion on 3 key trends of today’s industry. Each track is chaired by seasoned industry veterans and will feature talks by folks from various disciplines.
| Session 1: 6th Jan, 11:30am-1:00pm | Session 2: 7th Jan, 4:30pm – 6:00pm | Session 3: 8th Jan, 3:30pm-5:00pm |
| Session Theme: 5G/Communication | Session Theme: AI/ML/Computing | Session Theme: IOT/Automation |
| Session Chair: Ravi Boonapalli | Session Chair: Sudipto Das | Session Chair: Roopashree H M |
This year’s highlight of industry forum is presentation by start-ups in the domains of AI/ML, 5G and IOT/Automation.
Session 1: 6th Jan
Dr Rohit Kapoor
Himamshu Khasnis
Dr Radhakrishna Ganti
| Session 1: 6th Jan, 11:30am – 1:00pm |
| Session Theme: 5G/Communication |
| Session Chair: Ravi Boonapalli |
| S.No | Speaker Name | Company/Institute Name | Title of Presentation | Slot Time |
| 1 | Dr Rohit Kapoor | Qualcomm | Leading the World to 5G | 11:30 AM |
| 2 | Himamshu Khasnis | Signalchip | Chipstarting 5G : Breaking barriers by design | 12:00 PM |
| 3 | Dr Radhakrishna Ganti | IIT Madras | Overview of 5G research and Testbed in India | 12:30 PM |
Session 2: 7th Jan
Chowdhary Musunuri
Ganesh Gopalan
Dr Partha Pratim Chakrabarti
| Session 2: 7th Jan, 4:30pm-6:00pm |
| Session Theme: AI/ML/Computing |
| Session Chair: Sudipto Das |
| S.No | Speaker Name | Company/Institute Name | Title of Presentation | Slot Time |
| 1 | Ganesh Gopalan | Gnani.ai | Speech Recognition & NLP : Challenges & Opportunities | 4:30 PM |
| 2 | Chowdhary Musunuri | Microchip | AI in the Edge: Inference with Mid-Range FPGAs | 5:00 PM |
| 3 | Dr Partha Pratim Chakrabarti | IIT Kharagpur | AI Driven VLSI Design | 5:30 PM |
Session 3: 8th Jan
Dr Amrutur Bharadwaj
Arjun Valluri
Atul Lele
| Session 3: 8th Jan, 3:30pm-5:00pm |
| Session Theme: IOT/Automation |
| Session Chair: Roopashree H M |
| S.No | Speaker Name | Company/Institute Name | Title of Presentation | Slot Time |
| 1 | Dr Amrutur Bharadwaj | IISc Bangalore | IOT and Automation for Smart Cities | 3:30 PM |
| 2 | Arjun Valluri | Blaze Automation | IOT and Return on Investments (ROI) for Homes and Businesses- A Perspective | 4:00 PM |
| 3 | Atul Lele | Texas Instruments | Challenges in pragmatic IoT landscape | 4:30 PM |