Thursday, July 10
| 9:30 AM | Welcome Note by ARC Advisory Group | |
| 9:35 AM | Inauguration - Eco-friendly Watering a Plant along with Group Photo with all sponsors | |
| Inaugural/Keynote Presentations | ||
| 9:45 AM | “Introduction to the Agenda” Ganapathiraman VP&GM, ARC Advisory Group, India | |
| 10:00 AM | “Advanced Technologies Used in Renault Nissan with a Special Emphasis on Industrial AI” Eva James, VP Global Service Delivery & Global HUBs, Renault Nissan Technology & Business Centre India | |
| 10:20 AM | “Role of Cutting-edge in Enabling Sustainable Automation for Energy Transition” Praveen Kumar Gupta, AGM NTPC/ Sumit Kumar Haldar, DGM, NTPC. | |
| 10:40 AM | Panel Discussion and Q&A Moderators with Speakers/Panelists | |
| Industrial AI, Data Fabric, and Metaverse - Part 1 | Energy Transition and Industrial Sustainability | |
| 11:30 AM | “Industrial Copilot - Generative AI-powered Manufacturing Value Chain Optimization” Vikas Manoria, Head Regional Product Management, Factory Automation, Digital Industries, Siemens Limited & Sabarinathan Saravanan, Regional Product Manager, Siemens Limited | “Advanced Automation and AI Readiness: A Case Study“ Vikram Kalkat, Director, Strategic Services, ARC Advisory Group Dubai |
| 11:50 AM | “Breaking Down the Barriers of OT and IT: The ABB and Red Hat Story” Dr. Arnaud Buisine, Director Enterprise Sales for Manufacturing, Retail and Transport, Red Hat Asia Pacific and Vikas Maurya, Global Product Line Manager, ABB Ability Edgenius | “AI Helping Overcome Traditional Challenges in Process Measurement & Control - An Engineer's & Researcher's Perspective” Dr. M Suresh, Director (In Charge), Fluid Control Research Institute |
| 12:10 PM | “Building Industrial Interoperability Standard in Cloud, AI, Data Spaces and More” Samrat Bhattacharjee, Head of Research – Sustainable Automation Research, Siemens India, OPC | “Strengthening Oil & Gas Security: IT-OT Convergence and OT SOC Ventures” Akash Shukla, Chief Manager (Information Systems), BPCL |
| 12:30 PM | Panel Discussion and Q&A Moderators with Speakers/Panelists To invite as panelist Andreas Spanner | Panel Discussion and Q&A Moderators with Speakers/Panelists |
| Transforming to 21st Century Operations | Industrial AI, End User Experiences | |
| 2:00 PM | “Accelerating Automotive 4.0: Path to Operational Excellence” Dinesh Thukaram, Chief Solutions Officer, Utthunga & Jagadeesh Aratoli, AGM Enterprise Solutions, Suprajit Automotive | "Artificial Intelligence Solutions for Complex Use Cases in Cement Manufacturing" Deepak Sharma, Head of Department of IT, Udaipur Cement Works Ltd. (a subsidiary of JK Lakshmi Cement Ltd.) |
| 2:20 PM | “Technologies Transforming Payment Management” M Harreish, Manager – Offshore Delivery Center, Yokogawa India Limited | “Computer Vision-based AI Aided Plasma Melting Furnace” Jeetendra Bhavrani, Deputy General Manager, EEM, Nuclear Fuel Complex, Onkar Prasad Jana, Assistant General Manager, Maintenance Melting, Nuclear Fuel Complex (DAE), Hyderabad |
| 2:40 PM | “Bridging Integrity and Reliability: Unifying RBI and RCM for Smarter Asset Strategies” Raunak Agarwal, Enterprise Projects and Delivery Lead, AsInt | “Industrial AI” Ms. DS Latha Discipline Head, Power Business Unit - Instrumentation and Controls, Tata Consulting Engineers Limited |
| 3:00 PM | Panel Discussion and Q&A Moderators with Speakers/Panelists | Panel Discussion and Q&A Moderators with Speakers/Panelists |
| Industrial AI, Lifecycle Management | AI in Data Centers and End User Experiences | |
| 4:00 PM | “Strategic Lifecycle Management of Industrial Control Systems" Amit Singh, Senior Engineer, OQ Oman | “Industrial AI Specifically Focusing on Manufacturing industry” Sunil David, Digital Technology Consultant, Ex-Regional Director – IOT, AT&T India |
| 4:20 PM | “Advanced Technologies Used in KBR India with a Special Emphasis on Industrial AI” Dr. Santhosh Kumar, Senior Director – Digital, KBR | "Fine-tuned Small Language Models (SLMs) with Knowledge Graphs for Enhanced Industrial Insights” Anup Dubey, Senior Analytics Practice Lead, Group Data & Analytics, Aditya Birla Management Corporation Ltd and Santh Raul, Assistant General Manager, Aditya Birla Management Corporation Ltd. |
| “AI Adoption in India - A Perspective” Ranganath Sadasiva, Chief Technology Officer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise India | ||
| 4:40 PM | “AI Adoption in Machinery Industry, Experience of Ace Micromatic“ Chandrashekar Bharathi, Managing Director Ace Micromatic | “Data Centers: Powering the Digital Age” Hemanth Nirujogi, Analyst, ARC Advisory Group |
| 5:00 PM | Panel Discussion and Q&A Moderators with Speakers/Panelists | Panel Discussion and Q&A Moderators with Speakers/Panelists |
Friday, July 11
| Industrial AI, Use Cases in Manufacturing | |
| 9:30 AM | “AI & Sustainability” Colin Masson, Director of Research, ARC Advisory Group, USA |
| 9:50 AM | “Industrial AI: Trends and Use Cases in Manufacturing” Namita Jain, Director of Research, NASSCOM Insights |
| 10:10 AM | “Advanced Technologies Used in Pharma with a Special Emphasis on Industrial AI” Rajesh Thempadiyil, Head – Digital & Business Process Excellence – Manufacturing & Quality, Dr Reddy’s |
| 10:30 AM | Panel Discussion and Q&A Moderators with Speakers/Panelists |
| Industrial AI, Digital Transformation, Asset Performance Management | |
| 11:30 AM | “AI-tomation: How to Improve Your Control System Capabilities in O-PAS Context” Octávio Paschoal, Electronic Intelligence Agent, Nova Smar |
| 11:50 AM | “Out-of-the-box Integration: Digital Reality Ecosystem, from Asset to Process Data” Phanit Suvanmani, Kuala Lumpur Technology Center Digital Operations Lead, and Zulfahmi Amran, Monitoring Visualization Product Manager, Innovation & Business Transformation, Specialty Products, Product Solutions, ExxonMobil |
| 12:10 PM | Panel Discussion and Q&A Moderators with Speakers/Panelists |
| Open Process Automation (OPA) | |
| 2:00 PM | “ExxonMobil’s OPA Lighthouse Project and Commercialization Plan Update” Whit McConnell, Chief Automation & Process Control Engineer, ExxonMobil |
| 2:20 PM | “RIL OPA Test Bed Updates and Future Road Map” Sunita Devi, Group Lead for Open Process Automation, Reliance Industries Limited |
| 2:40 PM | “OPAF Update” Ravindra Jagasia, OPAF Forum Co-chair |
| 2:55 PM | “Yokogawa’s Approach to OPA” Mark Hammer, Lead for Open Readiness Center, Yokogawa |
| 3:03 PM | “Implement O-PAS in the Hazardous Areas” Ravindra Jagasia, R STAHL Group |
| 3:10 PM | “Engineering for the Open Era: Building Multidisciplinary Readiness for OPAS” Praveen Kumar Singh, Chief OPC Solutions Architect & OPC-Foundation Accredited Expert, Utthunga |
| 3:15 PM | Panel Discussion and Q&A Moderators with Speakers/Panelists |
| 3:35 PM | Vote of Thanks ARC Advisory Group |