Wednesday, July 10
| 9:35 AM | Inauguration - Eco-friendly watering a plant along with Group Photo with all sponsors |
| Keynote Presentations | |
| 9:45 AM | Digital Transformation and the (Industrial) Big Bang Ganapathiraman, VP & GM, ARC Advisory Group |
| 10:00 AM | Productize, Certify, and Deploy Sharul Rashid, Head of Technical Excellence, Petronas |
| 10:20 AM | Towards a Sustainable Future: NTPC Approach R. Sarangapani, Executive Director (BD, IBD & CW) and Rohit Mukherjee, Deputy General Manager, NTPC Ltd. |
| 10:40 AM | Panel Discussion and Q&A Moderators with Speakers/Panelists |
| Digital Transformation and Sustainability Initiatives (Part 1) | |
| 11:30 AM | From Automated to Adaptive Production Vikas Manoria, Head Regional Product Management, Factory Automation, Digital Industries, Siemens Limited |
| 11:50 AM | Advancing Sustainability and Productivity with AI Rajesh Ramachandran, Global Chief Digital Officer and Managing Director, ABB Process Automation |
| 12:10 PM | OPC Hub India - Transforming Shop Floor Communication between Machines/Devices S. Manohar, General Manager, VDMA South India |
| 12:30 PM | Panel Discussion and Q&A Moderators with Speakers/Panelists |
| Industrial AI, Energy Transition, SDA and Analytics | |
| 2:00 PM | Unleashing Innovation with Software Defined Universal Automation Dheeraj Bareja, Director Partner Business Development, UniversalAutomation.org |
| 2:20 PM | Accelerating the Energy Transition with Digital Technologies Mangesh Nawarange, Sales Director, Digital for Energy Industries, Process Automation, ABB India Ltd. |
| 2:40 PM | GenAI implementation in Manufacturing: From Architecture to Use Cases Dr. Amit Gupta, Head of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, HMEL |
| 3:00 PM | Panel Discussion and Q&A Moderators with Speakers/Panelists |
| Digital Transformation and Sustainability Initiatives (Part 2) | |
| 4:00 PM | Art of Sustainability - Value Proposition Vikram Kalkat, Director, Strategic Services, ARC Advisory Group |
| 4:15 PM | Digital Transformation and Productivity Improvement Ramesh J, Product Head, Ace Micromatic Manufacturing Technologies (AmiT) |
| 4:35 PM | Digital Transformation and Sustainability Initiatives in Renewable Energy Industry Rajesh Bhat, Advisor Strategy and Growth, Renewable Insights |
| 4:55 PM | Digital Transformation in the Metal Industry Sanjeev Mishra, Head Electrical Commissioning, Vedanta Limited |
| 5:15 PM | Panel Discussion and Q&A Moderators with Speakers/Panelists |
Thursday, July 11
| Industrial AI and Analytics | |
| 9:30 AM | The Industrial AI (R)Evolution Colin Masson, Director of Research, ARC Advisory Group |
| 9:50 AM | Enhancing Plant Performance Using AI and Advanced Analytics Pawan Rallabandi, Head Digital & Advanced Technologies Business Unit, TCE |
| 10:10 AM | AI Driven Initiatives in Tata Steel Gaurav Saran, Senior Technologist, Process Technology Group, and Md Akram Raza, Analyst, Tata Steel |
| 10:30 AM | Panel Discussion and Q&A Moderators with Speakers/Panelists |
| Digital Transformation and Digital Twins Initiatives | |
| 11:30 AM | How Nova Industria Brasil Is Helping the Sugar-Energy and Biofuels Sector with Digital Transformation Libanio Carlos de Souza, CEO, Nova Smar |
| 11:50 AM | Optimizing the Future of Crude Oil Processing: The Power of Digital Twin and Smart Data Historian Akash Shukla, Senior Manager IS and Aishwariy Baheti, Manager Digital, BPCL |
| 12:10 PM | 2024 Digital Twin Adoption Trends – Global and India Namita Jain, Director of Research, NASSCOM Insights |
| 12:30 PM | Panel Discussion and Q&A Moderators with Speakers/Panelists |
| Open Process Automation (OPA) | |
| 2:00 PM | Signs of an Era of Open Industrial Automation Harry Forbes, Director of Research, ARC Advisory Group |
| 2:10 PM | Deploying APC (Advanced Process Control) Using IEC61499 at Function Block Level David DeBari, R&D Team Leader, ExxonMobil |
| 2:25 PM | Adoption of OPA Using Migration Strategies in Classified Areas Ravindra Jagasia, Director Global Business Development, Strategic Goals, R. Stahl |
| 2:35 PM | An Open Ecosystem for OPAS Vishal Kumar, Business Unit Automation Systems and Digital Factory, Phoenix Contact India |
| 2:45 PM | Accelerating Process Manufacturing Innovation While Lowering Costs with Open Standards / Modular Automation Krutika Kansara, IoT/AI-ML Lead, Rockwell Automation |
| 2:55 PM | Scale Industrial Control Systems Using Open Process Automation Anup Dasari, Product Marketing Manager, Network and Edge Group, Federal & Industrial Solutions Division, Intel |
| 3:05 PM | Panel Discussion and Q&A Moderators with Speakers/Panelists |