Conference Schedule

Session I

Town/City Planning and Transport Infrastructure 

Challenges in implementation

• S.V.R.Srinivas, Metropolitan Commissioner, MMRDA
• Jagan Shah, Resident Senior Fellow - Artha Global, Former Director - National Institute of Urban Affairs & Senior Advisor (Capacity Building) World Bank
• K. V. Abdul Malik, Secretary, Greater Cochin Development Authority
•  S. C. Deshpande, Chief Town and Country Planning, MMRDA
• Kshama Puntambekar, Assistant Professor-Department of Planning, School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal

Session II

Utilisation of Steel Slag in Road Infrastructure – Technical Session

• - Circular economy prospects in steel making slag as road construction material
• - Ministry of Steel initiative to facilitate steel Slag utilization in road infrastructure
• - Steel Slag Road: A sustainable utilization of Steel slag in road infrastructure
• - Steel Slag Aggregates: challenges and Way Forward (Industry perspective)
• - Use of Steel Slag in the Construction of National Highways

• Gajraj Singh Rathore,Chief Operating Officer, JSW Steel Ltd
• Satish Pandey,Principal Scientist - Flexible Pavement Division, CSIR-Central Road Research Institute
• Tomomitsu Inada, Director & Vice President – Technology, AM/NS
• Parmjeet Singh, Additional Industrial Adviser (Technical Division), Ministry of Steel
• Anshumali Srivastava, Chief General Manager (Tech) / Regional Officer Mumbai, National Highways Authority of India

Session III

Road Construction: Implementation of new Technology- Performance and Challenges (An Indian Road Congress initiative)

• S K Nirmal, Director General (RD) and Special Secretary (Retd). Ministry of Road Transport & Highways
• Himanshu Agarwal,Senior Vice President-International Markets, Zydex Industries Pvt Ltd
• S P Rajan, Head P&M-Roads Runway & Elevator Corridor Business, L&T Construction
• V P Ramgude, Chief Engineer, Public Works Department, Govt. of Maharashtra
• Nitin Nakhat, CEO, Shri Balaji Road Marking Machines (Presentation)

Session IV

Innovations in technologies for Pavement and noise control technology (A CRRI Initiative)

• - Overview of an indigenous road construction and maintenance Equipments

• Dr. Siksha Swaroopa Kar,Principal Scientist - Flexible Pavements, CSIR-Central Road Research Institute - CRRI

Smart Transportation, Smarter Solutions

• Vinay Mishra, Senior Vice - President Projects, Prama India

Technical Presentations

ITS Solutions for Smart Tunnels and Motorways

• Wesley Hess, General Manager, Traffic Tech PTY Ltd

Assessment of Road Network & Standardization of Data using sophisticated Equipments

• Abhishek Tiwari, Associate Director, IRSM- Indian Road Survey & Management Pvt.Ltd.

Session V

ITS with 5G and beyond

• - Complete ITS communication stack — Current availability and way forward
• - Cellular C-V2X — Challenges and opportunities
• - OEMs- Available and Futuristic use cases
• - OEM & 5G perspective
• - Connected vehicles: Applications and Sharing of data

• Sushil Kumar, Dy. Director General (IoT), Telecommunication Engineering Center, Dept of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communication
• Dr. Punit Rathod, Lead-Technical Standards, Qualcomm Standards & Industry Organizations
• Aurindam Bhattacharya, Group Leader and Registrar, C-DOT
• Mohan Raju, Vice President & Business Head – Smart Mobility, Jio Platforms Limited

Technical Presentations

Session VI

Next Generation Road Safety (Safety Commercial Fleet management & Passenger Vehicles, Dash Cam Solutions, AI in safety…)

• Akhilesh Srivastava, World Economic Forum - Leading Road Safety 2.0 in India
• Dr. H. M. Naqvi, Chief General Manager (Technical), National Highways Authority of India
• Anupam Kulshreshtha, ADG Traffic & Road Safety, Uttar Pradesh Police
• Prashant Oberoi, Head, Government Sales (India), Norden Communication Private Limited
• Tony Mathew, Head Delivery and Operations, TRL
• Teja Gudena, Senior Vice President - Devices, Netradyne

Technical Presentations

Session VII

Integrated Public Transport: Infrastructure, Policies, Inter-operable transport card, Mobility as a Service and Micro Mobility

• Nalin Bansal, Chief of Corporate Business and Key Initiatives, National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)
• Bhushan Vartak, Vice president - Delivery Head Engineering Solutions, Datamatics Global Services Limited
• Shamik Joshi, Head-Mobility, Amnex Infotechnologies Pvt. Ltd
• Vivek Ogra, Partner - Transport Consulting, Ernst & Young LLP
• Narendra Verma, Technical Advisor, Sustainable Urban Mobility – Air Quality, Climate Action and Accessibility, GIZ India
• Shreyansh Shah, Associate Director - Strategic Alliances, MYBYK

Technical Presentations

Session VIII

Future of Parking in India

The need for evolution and adoption of Parking technologies & design has never been as pressing as today.

• P Velrasu, Additional Municipal Commissioner (Projects), Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation
• Nyalakonda Prakash Reddy, Deputy Commissioner of Police - Traffic 1, Hyderabad City
• Venkata Subbarao Chunduru, Director - India, IBI Group
• Reashma P. S., Technical Director, VTRAC Worldwide
• N V Ramana, Director, Marine Car Parx

Registration

Session IX - Round Table session

GPS based Tolling: Interaction on the technology and action plan

• Amit Kumar Ghosh, Additional Secretary Highway, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
• Mahabir Singh, Member – Technical, National Highways Authority of India
• Shruti Gupta, Senior Project Manager, Egis-India Consulting
• Sandeep Pawar, MD & CEO, Kent Intelligent Transportation Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd.
• Yogesh Dhongade, Founder Director, LogicMo Systems Private Limited
• Dhaval Desai, MD & CEO, Trafitek Solutions Pvt Ltd

Presentation

Provision for overload checking for Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) based Tolling System

• Ashish Bhutani, Managing Director, Ashbee Systems Ltd.

Future of Traffic surveillance &AI through IP cameras

• Sumit Agarwal, Manager pre-sales - India, Norden Communication

Session X

Taking India’s EV based sustainable transport System to the next level (A Niti Aayog Initiative)

• - New National EV policy and the salient features
• - E- vehicle transition in Shared Mobility
• - Circular Economy financing Sustainable Technologies for greener tomorrow
• - Advanced Chemistry Cells for EV
• - Battery Swapping
• - OEM- Innovations In the EV space
• - charging infrastructure: Bangalore: A case study

• Anil Srivastava, Director, Epsilon Advanced Materials, Visiting Professor of Practice at Centre for Energy Policy and Environment Solutions at IIT, Kanpur
• Dr. Rahul Walawalkar, President, and MD, CES, India
• Abhijeet Sinha, National Program Director EODB & National Highways for EV
• Karthik Anantha, Head, Research and Development Division, Omega Seiki Mobility
• Preetesh Singh, Specialist CASE and Alternate Powertrains, Nomura Research Institute Consulting and Solutions India Pvt. Ltd
• Prof. (Dr.) Ashish Verma, Professor & Convenor, IISc Sustainable Transportation Lab (IST Lab), Bangalore (presentation)