RURAL BROADBAND INITIATIVES FOR DIGITAL DEMOCRACY :: WORKSHOP AGENDA ::
INAUGURAL SESSION
1830 – 1855 hrs	Registration
1855 – 1900 hrs	Opening Remarks by Cmde Shyam Kaushal (Retd), Regional Director, WiMAX Forum India
1900 – 1915 hrs	Economics of Rural Broadband Deployment Dr. C S Rao, Chairman, WiMAX Forum, India
1915 – 1920 hrs	Keynote Address by Shri P J Thomas, IAS, Secretary, DOT, Ministry of Communications & IT, Govt. of India
1920 – 1925 hrs	Policy Support for Rural Broadband Shri Ajay Bhattacharya, IAS, Administrator, USO Fund, DoT
1925 – 1935 hrs	BSNL Deployment in Rural WiMAX & Leveraging the same for “Bharat Nirman Scheme” Shri Kuldeep Goyal, Chairman & Managing Director, BSNL Shri R K Agarwal, Director Planning, BSNL
1935 – 1940 hrs	Vote of Thanks Shri Rajesh Wadhwa, Director (Consumer Fixed Access), BSNL
1940 – 1945 hrs	Q&A Round
TECHNICAL SESSION
1945 – 1955 hrs	WiMAX Progress of Ecosystem & Availability of Devices Mr. Sunil Kumar, Regional Director – Asia Pacific, Beceem Communications Pvt. Ltd.
1955 – 2005 hrs	Advances in WiMAX towards 16m Mr. Tarvinder Singh, Director - Marketing & Product Management, Home & Networks Mobility, Motorola India Private Limited
2005 – 2015 hrs	Technology Choices for Rural Broadband Mr. Santanam Gopalakrishnan, Country Head, India, Alvarion
2015 – 2030 hrs	- Understanding the India rural deployment economics for an operator in the context of a WiMax deployment - Challenges thereof to deliver at 2Mbps/5Mbps at a cost of $2-5 per month Mr. Sriram Bhamidipati, Savitar Research Group Inc
2030 – 2035 hrs	Closing Remarks by                                Dr. C S Rao, Chairman, WiMAX Forum, India
2035 hrs onwards	Q&A Round Followed by Dinner