Conference On "ICT-IPR Trends and Challenges in Globalised World"

I was invited to speak in the above mentioned conference on April 21, 2011. The conference was organized by Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), C-DAC and Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India. I have reproduce the conference objective from their brochure at the end of this post.

The topic given to me was "Role of IPR in the digital economy : European perspective". The session was chaired by Dr. Anindya Sircar, Head IP Cell, Infosys. Other speakers included Ms. Archana Shankar, Senior Partner, Anand & Anand; and Mr. Nishant Ramani, Head IP Consulting and Strategy, Brain League.

It was a nice experience presenting to the audience and participating in a panel discussion with the distinguished speakers. More details to follow in later posts.

Conference Objective:
Electronics and Information technology has emerged as an enabler for innovations in virtually all fields of technology. Technology changes are taking place rapidly, creating more avenues for business. The commercial stakes are very high which can be gauged from the fact that between 10-15% of patenting activities in the world are related to this field. Being a specialized and rapidly evolving field, handling IPR issues requires specialized knowledge. The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), a premier institute under the patronage of the Department of Information Technology (DIT), Ministry of Communications & Information Technology (MC&IT), Government of India along with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is organizing a one day conference on “ICT-IPR Trends and Challenges in Globalised World” at New Delhi. The main objective of the conference is to discuss issues and methodologies so that the Indian ICT community especially SME’s and Researchers get updated, so as to meet the challenges of the present innovation based global economic ecosystem. The conference also aims to build greater awareness and develop insights into the complex mechanism of creation, ownership and protection of Intellectual Property (IP).