National Telecommunications

Institute for Policy Research,

Innovation and Training (NTIPRIT)

WEBINAR on “Artificial Intelligence - Applications in Telecom Sector”

Agenda
Inaugural Session
11:00-11:05: Welcome Address Sh. U.K. Srivastava, DG & Head NTIPRIT
11:05-11:10: Inaugural Address Sh. K. Rajaraman, Secretary (T), DoT
11:10-11:15: Vote of Thanks Sh. Chaganti Srinivas, DDG (ICT), NTIPRIT

Technical Sessions
11:15-11:40: Transforming Telecom through AI
Speaker: Sh. Jayaram Beladakere, Ericsson
11:40-12:05: Applications of AI in Telecom Sector
Speaker: Ms. Meena Arunachalam Ph.D., Director and Principle
Engineer, AI and Analytics (AIA) Group, Intel
12:05-12:30: AI/ML: Telecom Service Provider’s Perspective
Speaker: Sh. Anish Mishra, Vice President
Systems and Automation, Reliance Jio
12:30-12:55: AI for Telecom Security & Disaster Management
Speaker: Sh. Saurabh Basu, Group-in-Charge, CDoT
12:55-13:20: Use of AI by Startups
Speaker: Sh. Srinath Reddy, Director, COIGN Consultants Pvt Ltd
Q & A Session
13:20-13:30: Questions & Answers

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Sh. K Rajaraman Sh. U. K. Srivastava Sh. Chaganti Srinivas

Secretary (T), DoT DG, NTIPRIT DDG(ICT), NTIPRIT

An Indian Administrative Services (IAS) Shri U. K. Srivastava, is an officer of Indian Shri Chaganti Srinivas is an officer of Indian
officer from 1989 batch. He was previously Telecom Service (ITS) and presently Telecom Service (ITS). He is presently
working as Additional Secretary in serving as DG & Head of NTIPRIT, DoT posted as DDG (ICT) at NTIPRIT. He has
Department of Economic Affairs (DEA). He Government of India. He has over 36 years vast experience of over 33 years in the field
has worked towards fostering economic of rich experience in the field of of Telecommunications in various capacities.
relations worldwide particularly G 20 and Telecommunications and has led various
BRICS countries. He holds bachelor’s units of DoT, Govt of India and Telecom
degree in Engineering and master’s degree Regulator in India, TRAI. He had also
in financial management. worked in ITU at Iraq and its HQ at Geneva.
 Jayaram Beladakere Meena Arunachalam Saurabh Basu
ERICSSON INTEL CDOT

Sh. Jayaram Beladakere has 25+ years of Ms. Meena Arunachalam Ph.D., Director and Sh. Saurabh Basu is the Group In-Charge of
global experience in business strategy, Principal Engineer is an End-to-End AI Centre For Development of Telematics (C-
product planning, and full life cycle Performance Architect in AIA (Artificial DOT), Delhi, premier telecom research
management, with specialization in Intelligence and Analytics Group at Intel centre of Government of India. His Team is
telecommunications. He has deep expertise in Corp) and works on AI/ML software presently handling the implementation of
service providers, enterprise and cloud architecture for compelling End-to-End CAP Project for Disaster Management at
networking and is well-versed in IOT AI/Data pipelines in vision, video, Pan India level, Trusted Telecom Platform,
technologies & solutions – including go-to- recommendation, ML, NLP and other AI use MTCTE Platform.
market aspects, co-development models, and cases with Intel Xeon CPUs and
emerging market needs. accelerators. He is having around 12 years hand on
experience as Solution architect and Cyber
Currently, Sh. Jayaram leads technical She heads a team that focuses on end-to- Security specialist in various Geo-
product management function in Ericsson end AI performance optimizations, HW/SW Intelligence Software Solutions, Security
Global AI Accelerator in India. In this role, he Co-design and workload performance Solution, M2M systems. He is one of key
is responsible for building AI/ML solutions for modeling. Her research interests include person of ITU Focus Group on AI for Natural
the different business groups and efficient AI, AI at scale and heterogeneous Disaster Management and Telecom
marketing/selling units of Ericsson. His work computing. She has authored more than 20 Standardization in India for both OneM2M
covers all parts of mobile operators’ life cycle: peer-reviewed publications in IEEE and ACM and Common Alerting Protocol.
design, rollout, optimization and service conferences and journals including two book
assurance. He is leading the global and chapters in the High Performance Computing He has published 20+ international research
strategic ‘industrialization’ initiative – to drive Pearls – Vol II and has four issued patents. papers and journals along with three
company-wide maturity for supporting at-scale She has given several technical talks at International and Indian Patents. His present
deployments and life-cycle operations of AI- various events – Databricks AI Summit DAIS area of Interest is AI/ML, Telecom Security
based solutions 2021, SAP Tech Ed 2021 etc. and Disaster Management.

Anish Mishra Srinath Reddy

Reliance Jio COIGN

Sh Anish Mishra is an experienced and Sh Srinath Reddy is working as Director &

passionate Engineering Leader working with Head Technical in COIGN Consultants Pvt
Software and Telecom Industry for more than Ltd. He is in charge of Product Development,
20 years. Client Acquisition, Customer Relations, Team
Mostly focused in building, architecting and Building and Exploring Overseas Education
designing new product ideas for large scale opportunities. He is a working member of
and high performance systems. Indian AI Stack, developed by DoT.

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