Welcome To Open Source Summit 2020...

The Ministry of Electronics & IT has already said that open source adoption was necessary to support the government's goal to transform India into a "digitally empowered society and a knowledge economy". It has added that the country had always advocated the use of open standards and open source technologies in the public sector. The Indian government spends significant amount of money per year on software licences and maintenance. We see Government increasingly use ‘open source’ and it has already started to disseminate more information and offer more services online these days. The Government initiative of Digital India demands that open source be used more widely not just to save costs and time but also to ensure implementation of some of the ambitious plans effectively.

The Government of India has encouraged the adoption of this technology in the Digital India initiative and this has further encouraged the CIOs of enterprises and other government organizations to make a move towards Open Source technology. The rise of digital transformation in India has pushed the adoption of Open Source both by enterprises and government. According to a research, the Open Source Services market will be worth more than $30 billion by 2022. Open Source platform offers cost efficiency, scalability, innovation, rapid deployment, security and much more so it is the first choice for Government of India to leverage the digital transformation initiative which is presently going on in the country.

The primary goal of employing open source in government is also to facilitate the transfer of data as smoothly as possible. Open-standards proponents say that this approach would lead to more innovation within government and better citizen services. The forum analysed the success stories that have been achieved and what are the real challenges that might be slowing down the growth.

       

SPEAKERS

       

Shri Vivek Banzal
Director (CFA)
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.

Shri Golok Kumar Simli
Chief Technology Officer,
Passport Seva
Ministry of External Affairs

Shri Sunil Kumar
Deputy Director General
National Informatics Centre (NIC)

Shri Debabrata Nayak
Project Director (Open Source Collaboration) & Addl. Director, Digital Locker
National e-Governance Division (NeGD)

Shri Anand Pande
Senior Vice President & CISO
Goods & Services Tax Network (GSTN)

Mr. Harnath Babu
Chief Information Officer
KPMG India Private Limited

Mr. RahulKrishna Gupta
Senior Solutions Architect,
SUSE GSI Alliance
SUSE

Mr. Mandar Kulkarni
Director - Cloud Solution Architect Team (OCP), Microsoft

Mr. Saurabh Jain
Vice President
Paytm

Mr. Sanjeet Sen
Director - Product Marketing,
Open Source on Azure
Microsoft

Mr. Mohit Rampal
Cyber Security Evangelist & Consultant
RamoGnee Technologies

Col. Inderjit Singh
Chief Cyber Security Officer
Vara Technology Pvt Ltd

     

Mr. Sudhir Aggarwal
Chief Strategy Officer
Silver Touch Technologies