Avinash Agarwal is an Indian Telecommunication Service (ITS) Officer of the 1992 batch with more than 32 years of experience in Telecommunications, Information Technology, and Broadcasting in the Government of India.

He recently served as Deputy Director General (International Relations) in the Department of Telecommunications, where he led India’s participation in ITU, APT, and other multilateral engagements. He also guided the telecom track of Free Trade Agreement discussions with the EU and New Zealand.

From 2021 to 2024, he served as Deputy Director General at the Telecommunication Engineering Centre, heading the Standardisation and Convergence & Broadcasting Divisions, contributing to national standards, testing frameworks, and work on Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence.

Previously, as Additional Director General (IT) at Prasar Bharati, he led major digital transformation initiatives for Doordarshan and All India Radio, including the Global Digital Platform and the News On Air mobile application. He also served as State Head (Haryana) for BharatNet roll-out under BBNL, providing Optical Fibre Cable connectivity to 6000+ Gram Panchayats in Haryana.

He contributes actively to international standardisation as Vice-Chair of ITU-R Study Group 5, Vice-Chair of ITU-T Study Group 21, Rapporteur for ITU-T Q1/21, and Associate Rapporteur for Q20/21.

He has published research on AI governance and trustworthy AI, and was an invitee member contributing to the development of the India AI Governance Guidelines released by the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser.

He is passionate about responsible AI, digital inclusion, standardisation, and building secure future-ready telecom ecosystems.

Girish Krishnamurthy is the Managing Director and CEO at TataMD. In addition,he steered several companies as Board of Director, Advisor and Mentor.Girish is a global thought leader in healthcare, driving the transformation of India’s healthcare landscape.

Girish has been with the Tata Group for the last 14 years in senior leadership roles, where he has led multiple businesses and driven growth. During this period, he has been at the forefront of transforming healthcare by pioneering innovative models and harnessing technology to improve accessibility, efficiency, and impact.

He has led transformative digital healthcare initiatives across multiple Indian states, creating scalable models in primary, secondary, tertiary care, and oncology — benefiting nearly 15 million patients.

Girish is recognized for applying AI solutions in business and healthcare, with a specialization from MIT. His AI-driven healthcare platform streamlines clinical workflows, improves patient outcomes, and enhances efficiency across the care continuum.

Christoph Lütge is Full Professor of Business Ethics at Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Director of the TUM Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (IEAI). He is Distinguished Visiting Professor of Tokyo University and has held further visiting positions at Harvard (Berkman Klein Center), Taipei, Kyoto, Stockholm and others. He has a background both in philosophy as well as information studies, having taken his PhD at the Technical University of Braunschweig in 1999 and his habilitation at the University of Munich (LMU) in 2005. In 2007, he was awarded a Heisenberg Fellowship by the German Research Foundation. His most recent books are: “An Introduction to Ethics in Robotics and AI” (Springer, 2021, with coauthors) and “Business Ethics: An Economically Informed Perspective” (Oxford University Press, 2021, with Matthias Uhl). He is a member of the European AI Ethics initiative AI4People and of the German Ethics Commission on Automated and Connected Driving (2016-17). Since 2020, he is Consortium Leader of the Global AI Ethics Consortium.

Vinay Chandran is a Partner at McKinsey & Co where he co-leads Quantum Black in the Middle East (McKinsey’s Artificial Intelligence Practice).

Vinay has 15+ years of experience supporting regional and global institutions apply latest technological innovations to improve their performance. Over the last 10+ years, Vinay has led several Data & AI programs for public and private sector clients – ranging from strategic development, technical implementation.