• Introductory & Welcome Address by Osama Manzar, Founder & Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation
• Address by Jon McNerney, Chief Operating Officer: The Internet Society: The Internet is for Everyone, USA
• Address by Chief Guest: Honorable Mr. Wajahat Habibullah, Chief Information Commissioner of India
• Address by Mr. P.W.D.C. Jayathilaka, Secretary, Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications, Sri Lanka
• Address by Mr. Manohar Kr. Bhattarai, Vice Chairman, Nepal High Level Commission for Information Technology

South Asia ‘Internet for Development’: Road towards Inclusion & Growth’

This plenary session will deliberate on the following thematic areas within the larger plenary theme and come out key concrete thoughts and actionable points.

• Internet for Public Service Delivery: Decentralization, Community Involvement & Participation
• Accessibility, Affordability and User Centric Internet Growth
• Status of Internet Infrastructure Growth
• Internet for Development & Policy Requirements
• Using the Internet Model as a framework for development consultation, dialogue and participation: The multi-stakeholder model

Chair: Mr. Ashis Sanyal, Senior Director, Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Govt. of India
Co-Chair:Mr. Mahfuzur Rehman, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Science & ICT, Bangladesh & Director, Bangladesh Computer Council

Moderator cum Referee: Mr Deepak Maheshwari, Director Corporate Affairs, Microsoft India

Panel

1. Mr. Manohar Kumar Bhattarai, Vice Chairman, Nepal High Level Commission for IT
2. Dr. Stephen J. McGurk, Regional Director, Office for South Asia and China, IDRC
3. Ms. Tulika Pandey, Additional Director, DIT, Govt. of India
4. Mr. German Valdez Aviles, Communications Area Manager, APNIC
5. Mr. T.I.M Nurul Kabir, Chairman, Digital Knowledge Foundation, Bangladesh
6. Dr. Mahesh Uppal, Director, Com First (India) Pvt. Ltd., India
7. Mr. A.S. Panneerselvan, Executive Director, Panos South Asia
8. Mr. Ahmed Shahid, First Secretary (Economic and Commercial), High Commission of Maldives, India
9. Mr. Frederic Donck, Director, Public Policy, Internet Society

Developing national Internet infrastructure for Inclusive Growth: Role of Digital Content & Services in Internet Enabled Growth
This plenary session will deliberate on the following thematic areas within the larger plenary theme and come out key concrete thoughts and actionable points.

• Ensuring Last Mile Connectivity beyond Stop Gap Arrangements
• Policy Compatibility towards robust National Internet Infrastructure
• Online Content in South Asia: Opportunities and Realities
• Local Language Content & Citizen Services Delivery

Chair-cum-Moderator: Ms Ashish Garg, Asia Regional Coordinator, GeSCI, Ireland

Panel

1. Mr. Mahfuzur Rehman, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Science & ICT, Bangladesh
2. Mr. Shailesh Gupta, Vice President, Tata Communications, India
3. Mr. Rajen Varada, Resource Person, UN Solution Exchange, ICTD Unit, India
4. Mr. Karma Wangdi, Head, Infrastructure Division, Department of Information Technology, Govt. of Bhutan 
5. Mr. Rajesh Charia, President, ISPAI, India
6. Mr. Prakash Kumar, Director, CISCO, India
7. Mr. Dikendra Kandel, Chairman, COPPADES, Nepal
8. Dr. Dhruv Nath, Professor, Information Management, MDI
9. Mr Sandeep Bhargava, Head Corporate Affairs, APAC Region, Nokia Siemens Network

Session Discussions & Q&A

Internet Governance & Digital Divide – Strategies from thought to action towards a policy Roadmap
This plenary session will deliberate on the following key thematic areas within the larger plenary theme and come out key concrete thoughts and actionable points.

• Formulating responses and solutions to Internet security, stability and soft issues: IPv6, DNSSEC, SPAM, Network Neutrality, Trust and Identity
• User-Centric Internet: Building Internet around the needs of the users
• Intellectual Property: Managing the intellectual property laws in a modern networked society
• Greater policy awareness and regional tailoring of policy programs towards greater Internet Resource Access for development

Chair-cum-Moderator: Mr. Basheerhamad Shadrachl, Telecentre.org

• Mr. P.W.D.C. Jayathilaka, Secretary, Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications, Sri Lanka
• Mr. Ananya Raihan, CEO, D.Net Bangladesh
• Mr. Anand Kumar, Coordinator, UN Solution Exchange, New Delhi, India
• Mr. Ananya Raihan, CEO, D.Net Bangladesh
• Mr. Anand Kumar, Coordinator, UN Solution Exchange, New Delhi, India
• Prof. V. Siva Rama Krishnaiah, Head of E-Gov, IIPA
• Mr. Qasim Khan, Head, Pakistan ISOC Chapter
• Mr. Vinnie Mehta, President, MAIT,India

• Mr. Ashis Sanyal, Senior Director, DIT, MC&IT, India
• Mr. Rajesh Charia, President, ISPAI, India

• Mr. Rajnesh Singh, ISOC