Conference Programme

4th Smart Card Tech India 2004
International Conference

Theme: "National ID Card & eGovernment: The Road Ahead"

09:00 - 10:00 hrs	Registration
10:00 - 11.30 hrs	Inaugural Session "National ID Card - Vision, Status & Implementation Plan"
Chief Guest	Shri S. Regupathy, Hon'ble Minister of State for Home Affairs, Government of India
Guest of Honour & keynote address	Shri Kanwar Pratap Singh, IAS, Additional Secretary - BM, Ministry of Home Affairs
Distinguished Guest	Shri Jayant Kumar Banthia, IAS, Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India
Vote of Thanks	Mr. Prem Behl, Managing Director, Exhibitions India Pvt. Ltd.
11:30 - 12:00 hrs	Tea/Coffee break
12:00 - 13:30 hrs	Session I (Panel Discussion): "National ID card as eGovernment enabler"
Chairperson	Shri R. Chandrashekhar, IAS, Joint Secretary (E-Governance), Ministry of Communications & IT
Panelists	Dr. Ajay Dua, IAS, Director General, Employees' State Insurance Corp. Ltd. Shri Rajeev Talwar, IAS, Commissioner cum Secretary - Transport, Govt. of Delhi Mr. Wim Tappij Gielen, Vice President - Europe, Middle East, India & Africa, Datacard Ltd. Mr. Sanjeev Shriya, Managing Director, Smart Chip Ltd. Mr. V. V. Rajasekhar, Chief Information Officer, ITC Limited Mr. M.S. Vijayraghvan, CEO, SITAR
13:30 - 14:30 hrs	Lunch
14:30 - 16:00 hrs	Session II "Smart card as eID Card: legal, business, standardization and deployment issues"
Chairperson	Mr. Sanjay Dharwadker, Managing Director, AKS Smart Card Systems Ltd.
Speakers	Mr. Heinz Lanner, Senior Manager, Infineon Technologies "Secure Chip Cards ICs - the basis of National eID" Mr. Anurag Gupta, Chief Executive Officer, A Little World Pvt. Ltd. & Mr. Amit Rao, Head - ST Incard, STMicroelectronics India. "Zero-Mass Project" Mr. Mohit Gopal Rampal, Assistant General Manager-India Sales Operations, Rainbow Information Technologies Pvt. Ltd. "Effectively Using PKI for National ID"
16:00 - 16:30 hrs	Tea/Coffee break
16:30 - 18:00 hrs	Session III "Emerging technologies: Smart cards, Biometrics and PKI"
Chairperson	Dr. K. Subramanian, Dy. Director General, NIC & IT Advisor to CAG of India
Speakers	Mr. Alok Shende, Director - Technology Practice, Frost & Sullivan India "Smart Card Value Chain Analysis" Mr. Y. D. Wadaskar, Managing Director, WYSE Biometrics Systems Pvt. Ltd. "Biometrics - The Need & Challenges in Implementation of National ID Card" Mr. Ashok Sunder Rajan, Chip Architect, Gemplus Technologies Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. "ID Network Architecture for Emerging Economies"
18: 00 - 20:00 hrs	Networking Reception