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policy makers to plan better eGovernance initiatives. Shri Sameer Garde, President, Cisco (India and from IBM, Dell-EMC, HPE, Intel, EY, Nucleus Technology
Shri Ajay Sawhney, Secretary, MeitY said that this Tech- SAARC) emphasized on the importance of Artificial and Snapdeal. They were Shri Santhanu Roy Chowd-
Conclave sets up an opportunity to bring NIC and industry Intelligence and Machine Learning in building a soft- hury, Mr. Charles Sevior, Shri Sudheep K Das, Shri Di-
experts on common platform to explore the solutions for ware-driven Government to ensure effective gover- nakar Guniguntala, Shri RP Singh, Shri Rajesh Goel,
the problems of the society. He advised to go for integrated nance. Dr. Savita Dawar presenting the Vote of Thanks Shri Prashant Parashar, Shri Kartik Krishnan and Shri
solutions and to also partner with the startup ecosystem hoped that the Conclave would provide the partici- Sandeep Saxena.
for innovative solutions. pants a great platform to understand the impact and The two-day event concluded on a successful
Hon’ble Minister Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad energized rightful application of emerging technologies. note, with the expectation that the key take-away and
the event with his inspiring and visionary words. He stated Dr. Lalitesh Katragadda, founder, Indihood deliv- shared experience would help NIC to provide and pro-
that technology should be designed to make peoples’ life ered the keynote address on “Dismantling Feudal mote better eGovernance services through adoption of
easier and simpler. He advised technocrats to start dream- Chains Digitally” eulogized India’s huge entrepreneur- improved and advanced technologies.
ing big and try hard to concretize the dreams into a reality ial strength and urged NIC to take up the challenge
by using technology as the biggest facilitator. Talking on of transforming the citizen centric services to enable
the power and impact of data as a technology driver and them at low cost.
future governance, he narrated five corners for Data – Data In the course of the two days, there was an array
Availability, Data Utility, Data Innovation, Data Anonymity of enlightening talks by Dr. Pramod Varma, Shri Kiran
and Data Privacy. Anandampillai, Shri Arun Jain and industry experts

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