Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu

HON’BLE VICE PRESIDENT OF INDIA

He is the current Vice-President of India, in office since 11 August 2017. Previously, he served as the Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Urban Development and Information and Broadcasting. He also served as the national president of the Bharatiya Janata Party from 2002 to 2004.

Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu

MINISTER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY

He is an Indian politician and currently serving as the Minister of Commerce & Industry and Civil Aviation under the Modi government. He is a Chartered Accountant by profession and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

Shri Kailash Gahlot

TRANSPORT MINISTER OF DELHI

Kailash Gahlot is the current transport minister of Delhi and a member of the Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi in India. He represents the Najafgarh constituency of New Delhi and is a Cabinet Minister in Delhi Government.

28th March 2019

10.00am – 11.00am

Inaugural Session
  • Hon’ble Shri Venkaiah Naidu
  • Jennifer Layke
  • Madhav Pai
  • Dr. OP Agarwal
  • Jamshyd Godrej

11:15 AM - 01:30 PM

Vision Zero: Scaling Road Safety
  • Dhanpat Singh,
    Additional Chief Secretary to Haryana Transport Department
  • Ani Dasgupta,
    Global Director, WRI Ross Center For Sustainable Cities
  • Sarika Panda,
     Head – Integrated Transport & Road Safety
  • Harbahajan Singh,
    Honda Motors
  • Raghav Chandra,
    MoRTH

  • Dr. Sharad Chauhan,
    ADGP Punjab Police
  • Alok Mittal,
    ADGP National Investigation Agency
  • S.K Gupta,
    General Manager, R.O Chandigarh
  • Navdeep Asija,
    Road Safety Advisor to Government of Punjab
  • Prerana Arora,
    Muskaan

  • Deepak Ohlyan,
    Dell

  • Shashank Anand,
    SSP Chandigarh

11:15 AM - 01:30 PM

Air Quality Analytics: Motivating, Sustaining, and Scaling Air Quality Management – Session 1
  • Dr. Prashant Gargava,
    CPCB
  • Varsha Joshi,
    North Delhi Municipal Corporation
  • Dr. Beatriz Cardenas,
    WRI Mexico
  • Dr. B Sengupta,
    Independent Consultant, Ex CPCB Chairman
  • Kartik Desai,
    Asha Impact
  • Bharath Visweswariah,
    Omidyar Network
  • Joy Devgourev Sharma,
    GoMassive Incubator
  • Yogesh Ranganath,
    Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiatives (APPI)

03:15 PM - 06:00 PM

Electric Mobility Forum: Accelerating EV Adoption
  • Hemender Kumar Gupta
  • BJ Antony
  • Rushabh Shah
  • Adarsh Kumar G Nair
  • Kamlesh B. Naik
  • Mustafa K. Sonasath
  • Mayur Patil
  • Gautam Patel
  • Zehera Naseem
  • Pooja Bahri
  • N.V.Fofandi
  • Mukesh Patel
  • Prashanth Bachu
  • Deepak Trivedi
  • Suarabh Kumar,
    ESL
  • Anand Shah,
    OLA
  • Chetan Maini,
    Sun Mobility
  • Naveen Munjal,
    MD Hero Eco Ltd
  • Mahesh Babu,
    CEO, Mahindra Electric Mobility Limited
  • Amit Bhatt

03:15 PM - 06:00 PM

Session 1: Accelerating Innovation in Smart Cities
  • Kunal Kumar, Smart Cities Mission
  • Mudit Narain, Atal Innovation Mission
  • Clemence Vidal de la Blache, AFD
  • Ani Dasgupta, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable cities
  • Sameer Unhale - Thane
  • Raj Cherubal - Chennai
  • Sanjay Kumar Singh -Bhopal
  • Varun Pawar, Vilcap and Lakeer
  • Pawan Mulukutla, Bosch
  • Sanjay Soni, Bhopal
  • Sanju Sunny, Amravati
  • Nidhi Srivastava, NDMC (TBC)
  • Kamal Kishore Yadav, Chandigarh(TBC)
  • Ashutosh Padnekar, Jaipur (TBC)
  • Jaya Dhindaw

03:15 PM - 06:00 PM

Session 1: Furthering Public Private Partnerships in Affordable Housing
  • O. P. Agarwal, CEO WRI India (Session Moderator)

  • Amrit Abhijat, Joint Secretary, HFA, MoHUA

  • Dhaval Monani, CEO First Home Realty Solutions

  • Prof Sejal Patel, Chair-Housing, Faculty of Planning, CEPT University

  • Gaurav Wahi, Operations Head, Anarock Properties

  • Saurabh Mehrotra, National Director, Knight Frank

  • Raghav Garg, Garg Properties

  • Dr. Manika Negi, ( GM- Design and Development Wing, HUDCO)

7.00 pm – 9.00 pm

Engage: Connecting Big Ideas to Action WRI India Talk Series and Dinner
  • Vijay Dhasmana

  • Vinita Gill

  • Padma Shree Deepa Malik

11:15 AM - 01:30 PM

Electric Mobility Forum: Accelerating EV Adoption
  • Hemender Kumar Gupta
  • BJ Antony
  • Rushabh Shah
  • Adarsh Kumar G Nair
  • Kamlesh B. Naik
  • Mustafa K. Sonasath
  • Mayur Patil
  • Gautam Patel
  • Smt Zehera Naseem
  • Pooja Bahri
  • N.V.Fofandi
  • Mukesh Patel
  • Prashanth Bachu
  • Deepak Trivedi
  • Dr. OP Agarwal,
    CEO WRI India
  • Ravi Pandit,
    Chairman KPIT
  • Vikash Mishra,
    EMI
  • Dr Sajid Mubashir,
    DHI
  • Jasmine Shah,
    Vice Chairperson, Dialogue and Development Commission, Delhi Government
  • Vijay Jaiswal,
    Director-Automotive, Government of Telangana
  • Daizong Liu,
    Program Director, China Sustainable, WRI China
  • Dr. (Mrs) Prabhjot Kaur
  • Shri Jyothilal K.R.
  • Principal secretary Transport, Kerala

11:15 AM - 01:30 PM

Inspiring Innovation for Urban Transformation
  • Kunal Kumar,
    Smart Cities Mission
  • Saurabh Kumar,
    EESL
  • Rajiv Ranjan Mishra,
    NCMG
  • Yaduvendra Mathur,
    Niti Aayog
  • Rajnish Prasad,
    Revy Environmental Solutions
    (TBC)
  • Mridula Ramesh,
    Sundaram Climate Institute
  • Viveknanda Hallekere,
    Bounce
  • Prasanna Ganesh,
    Toyota Mobility 
    Foundation
  • Arjun Gupta,
    Smart Joules
  • Ravi Pandit,
    KPIT
    (TBC)
  • Madhav Pai

02:30 PM - 03:00 PM

Plenary: Shri Suresh Prabhu, Minister of Commerce & Industry
  • Shri Suresh Prabhu

03:15PM - 06:00PM

Safer Buses for Safer Transit
  • Prasanna Patwardhan, President, BOCI

  • B P Nigam, Deputy Chief General Manager, DTC

  • Lakshmi Nair, Program Manager, UL India Pvt. Ltd.

  • Ravishankar Rajaraman, Technical Director, J P Research

  • Binoy Mascarenhas, Head of Intergrated Transport

03:15PM - 06:00PM

Session 2: Unlocking Finance for Sustainable Infrastructure in Indian Cities
  • Bhaskar Deol, Mynergy

  • Ravinder Voomidisingh, Caspian

  • Aditi Gupta, Asha Impact

  • Dr. OP Agarwal, WRI

  • Kartik Desai

03:15PM - 06:00PM

Air Quality Analytics: Motivating, Sustaining, and Scaling Air Quality Management – Session 2
  • Dr. Arun S Sharma, Department of Community Medicine at University College of Medical Sciences, University of Delhi
  • Dr. Mina Chandra, Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital
  • Dr. Laveesh Bhandari, Indicus Foundation
  • HS Sudhira, Gubbi Labs
  • Ronak Sutaria, Respirer Living Sciences Pvt. Ltd.

03:15PM - 06:00PM

Session 2: Catalysing Innovation in Affordable Housing Solutions
  • Tanmay Tathagat,
    Director, Environmental Design Solutions (Moderator)
  • Amrit Abhijat,
    Joint Secretary, HFA, MoHUA
  • Dr. Shailesh Aggarwal,
    Executive Director, BMTPC
  • Dhaval Monani,
    CEO, First Home Realty Solutions
  • S. J. Vijay,
    Chairman, Salmon Leap & Director, hoMMission India
  • Prof Subrata Chattopadhyay, former
    Head, Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, IIT Kharagpur
  • Prof Koshy Varghese,
    IIT Madras
  • Mahesh Khalap,
    Senior Director Alternative Assets, JLL
  • Suneel Padale,
    Senior Director, Habitat for Humanity
  • Zeenat Niazi,
    Vice President, Development Alternatives
  • Dr. Prof. Smita Srinivas,
    Director – Technical Change Lab, Columbia University

29th March 2019

10.00am – 11.00am

Plenary: Urban Innovation Opportunity for Sustainable Development Goals
  • Brazilian Ambassador H.E. Andre Aranha Correa do Lago

  • Dutch Ambassador  H.E. Marten van den Berg

  • Ani Dasgupta, Global Director WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

  • Smita Srinivas, Honorary Professor Science, Engineering Technology and Pulic Policy, University College London

  • Shri Hardeep S Puri/Anil Baijal

11:15 AM - 01:30 PM

Managing Suburbanisation - The Future of India’s Urbanisation
  • Dr. Anirudh Dasgupta, Global Director of WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities (Moderator)
  • Dr. O. P. Aggarwal, CEO WRI India
  • Prof. Srinivas Chary, ASCI
  • Chetan Vaidya, Former Director, SPA, New Delhi, Senior Advisor,Kochi Smart City Project supported by GIZ
  • Prof. Amitabh Kundu, Distinguished Fellow, RIS- New Delhi
  • O. P. Mathur, Senior Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi
  • Smita Srinivas,  Ph.D., Technological Change Lab, Honorary Professor, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Public Policy, University College London
  • Visiting Professor, Economics Department, and IKD Centre, The Open University UK

  • Sanjay Sridhar, C40 Regional Director for South and West Asia

11:15 AM - 01:30 PM

Last Mile: Connected and Integrated Transport
  • Ajay Seth, IAS- Managing Director, BMRCL
  • R.Ramana, Executive Director, MMRC (TBC)
  • Aishwarya Raman, Ass. Director, Ola Mobility Institute
  • Samir Sharma- VP, DIMTS
  • Prasanna Ganesh- VP, TDEM and Director, TMF
  • Akash Gupta, Founder, Mobycy
  • Pawan Mulukutla, Head of City Development, Bosch India
  • Madhav Pai, Director, WRI India Ross Center
  • Ajay Seth, IAS- Managing Director, BMRCL
  • D K Sinha, Director systems, KMRL
  • Deepak Goel, Regional Director, Shell Foundation
  • Prasanna Ganesh, VP, TDEM and Director, TMF
  • Madhav Pai, Director, WRI India Ross Center

11:15 AM - 01:30 PM

The CityFix Labs: Leveraging Private Capital for Sustainable Development in Cities (by invitation)
  • Bharath Visweswariah, Omidyar Network

  • Shaliesh Vikram Singh, Massive Fund

  • Ravinder Voomidisingh, Caspian

  • Kartik Desai, Asha Impact

  • Mridula Ramesh, Sundaram Climate Institute (TBC)

  • Jaya Dhindaw

03:15 PM - 06:00 PM

Electric Mobility Forum: Accelerating EV Adoption
  • Hemender Kumar Gupta
  • BJ Antony
  • Rushabh Shah
  • Adarsh Kumar G Nair
  • Kamlesh B. Naik
  • Mustafa K. Sonasath
  • Mayur Patil
  • Gautam Patel
  • Zehera Naseem
  • Pooja Bahri
  • N.V.Fofandi
  • Mukesh Patel
  • Prashanth Bachu
  • Deepak Trivedi
  • Suarabh Kumar, ESL
  • Anand Shah, OLA
  • Chetan Maini, Sun Mobility
  • Naveen Munjal, MD Hero Eco Ltd
  • Mahesh Babu, CEO, Mahindra Electric Mobility Limited
  • Amit Bhatt

03:15 PM - 06:00 PM

Bus Karo 14: Innovations in Scaling Public Transport
  • Rushabh Shah, Co-founder, Cityflo
  • Mayur Patil, Founder, Small Spark Concepts
  • Sridhar Ramasubban, Chief Business Officer, Cell Propulsion
  • Dr. K Ramamurthy, Chief Mechanical Engineer, Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation
  • Pawan Mulukutla, Bosch India
  • Krithi Venkat, WRI India
  • Sreekumar Kumaraswamy, WRI India

  • Gautam Patel, Associate-CRDF, CEPT University
  • CK Goyal, Associate Vice President, Delhi Integrated Multi-Modal Transit System Limited
  • HK Gupta, Chief General Manager, Himachal Road Transport Corporation
  • Deepak Trivedi, General Manager, Janmarg Ahmedabad
  • Naga Satyam N, Executive Director, Olectra
  • GP Pradeep Kumar, ED (Technical), Kerala State Road Transport Corporation
  • Divya Prakash, C40 Cities

  • Parveen Kumar and Ms Aparna Vijaykumar, WRI India

  • Dr. OP Agarwal, WRI India

03:15 PM - 06:00 PM

Urban Agenda Roundtable (with Citizen Matters)
  • Journalists and Academic Scholars

03:15 PM - 06:00 PM

The CityFix Labs: Scaling Innovations in the Public Sector (by invitation)
  • R.K. Singh, IRSDC (TBC)
  • Kalpana Kaul, IRSDC (TBC)
  • Paromita Roy, IRSDC (TBC)
  • Srinivas R, TCPO
  • Shashi Shekhar, WRI
  • Dr. C.V. Dharma Rao, NWM, Ministry of Water Resources, RD & GR, GoI (TBC)
  • Dr. Rajan Chedambath, Centre for Heritage, Environment and Development (CHED), Kochi Corporation (TBC)
  • Dr. Ayesha Chaudhary, Niti Ayog
  • Ravi kant Joshi, Consultant with GoI
  • Palash Srivastava, South Pole
  • Mriganka Saxena, DJB/ IRSDC
  • Shri M. K. Parida (Pr. Secretary), PWD (TBC)
  • Dr. Avinash Kumar, Water Aid
  • Nidish Kumar, PWC
  • Dr. Namrata Kalsi, NDMC (TBC)
  • D.P. Singh, DDA (TBC)
  • J.K. Kapoor, TCPO and Jabalpur Smart Cities
  • Smita Chandiwala, Energe-se
  • Sanjay Kaul, Sanmarg Projects
  • Reshmi Vasudevan, UNIDO (TBC)
  • Dr. Shailesh Kumar Agrawal, BMTPC

11:15 AM - 01:30 PM

Bus Karo 14: Innovations in Scaling Public Transport
  • Tanushree Deb Barma, IAS, IT Director, Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation
  • Akshima T Ghate, Principal, Rocky Mountain Institute
  • Vivek Chandran, Program Manager, Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation

  • Amit Bhatt, WRI India
  • Zehera Naseem, IAS, Managing Director, North-East Karnataka Transport Corporation
  • Sunaina Tomar, IAS, Principal Secretary Port and Transport, Government of Gujarat
  • Pravesh Biyani, IIIT Delhi

  • Anuj Sinha, Dy Chief General Manager, Delhi Transport Corporation /Durgesh Nandini, RM West, Delhi Transport Corporation
  • Prashanth Bachu, Gear Change

11:15 AM - 01:30 PM

Inclusion and Equity in the Transition to Zero Carbon Buildings
  • Dr. Ronita Bardhan, Assistant Professor IIT Bombay
  • Simmi Shashi, Center for Heritage, Environment and Development, Kochi Muncipal Corporation
  • Arijit Sengupta, Director, Bureau of Energy Efficiency
  • Laxman Shankar, Managing Director Kaushal Bhaav Skill Solutions
  • Tanmay Tathagat, Executive Director, EDS Global
  • Karthik Ponappa, Co-founder and Principal, Smarter Dharma
  • Sumedha Malaviya, Manager, Energy program, WRI India

11:15 AM - 01:30PM

Advancing Climate Action in States and Cities
  • Pier Remitti, Global Covenant of Mayors on Climate and Energy (GCOM)
  • Shri Anil Kumar Jain, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Government of India
  • Dr. J R Bhatt, Advisor, MoEFCC
  • Smt. Ritu Kakkar, IFS Director General, EMPRI, Bengaluru, Karnataka
  • Jaideep Baruah, Assam
  • Shwetal Shah, Advisor, Climate Change Department, Gujarat
  • Lokendra Thakkar, EPCO, Madhya Pradesh
  • Dr. Anwar Ali Khan, Delhi
  • Shishir Shrivastava, Gwalior Municipal Corporation
  • Pier Roberto Remitti, International Urban Cooperation (IUC)
  • Raina Singh, National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA)
  • Shruti Sadhukhan, ICLEI-SA (TBC)
  • Shantanu Gotmare, Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) (TBC)
  • Daniel Robinson, C40 Cities
  • Dr. S. Satpathy, Adviser (Climate change and Environment), IPE Global
  • Nehmat Kaur, The Climate Group
  • Ashwini Hingne, WRI India
  • British High Commission (TBC)

11:15 AM - 01:30PM

Unlocking the Potential for Transformative Climate Adaptation in Cities (consultation event)
  • Dr. Shiraz Wajih

  • Kamlesh Yagnik

  • Vishnu Narendran

  • Sujatha Byravan

  • Sudhir Chella Rajan 

  • Lalit Kumar Dashora

  • Rajeswari (Raji) Gorana

  • Sheela Patel  

  • Darshini Mahadevia

  • Chandni Singh 

2.30PM – 3.00PM

Plenary: Shri Kailash Gahlot Minister of Transport, Delhi Government
  • Shri Kailash Gahlot

03:15PM - 06:00PM

Inspiring, Enabling, Mobilising a Movement on Cities4Forest
  • Dr. Monalisa Sen
  • Dr. Sanjeeva Pandey
  • Dr. Sudhira H.S
  • Dr. Rajan Chedambath
  • Samrat Basak, WRI India
  • Dr. Ruchika Singh, WRI India
  • USAID representative

03:15PM - 06:00PM

Creating Cities for Children
  • Atsani Ariobowo, (Global Road Safety Partnership)
  • Rushda Majeed, (Bernard van Leer Foundation)
  • Manish Thakre, (Save the Children)
  • Sudeshna Chatterjee, (Action for Children’s Environments)
  • Shailija Tetalia, (Indian Institute of Public Health)
  • Parul Agarwala, (UN-Habitat)
  • Himanshu Garg, IPS (DCP Traffic, Gurugram)
  • Lily Nagpal, (MDN School)
  • Veena Padmanabhan

03:15PM - 06:00PM

Advancing Climate Action in States and Cities
  • Dr. Akhilesh Gupta, Adviser and Head, SPLICE-CCP
  • Anu Jogesh, Acclimatise
  • Rajasree Ray, Ministry of Finance
  • Lokendra Thakkar, EPCO, Govt of Madhya Pradesh
  • R.N Jha, SCCC, Government of Uttarakhand
  • Dr Ashish Chaturvedi, GIZ
  • Vidya Soundarajan, Action on Climate Today (ACT)
  • B. Kalyan Chakravarty, Government of Telangana
  • Anu Jogesh, Acclimatise
  • Namrata Ginoya
  • Shri Ravi S Prasad, Joint Secretary, MoEFCC (TBC)
  • Jesse Worker, WRI
  • Prutha Vaze, ACT
  • Dr. S.K. Lohia, IRSDC

  • P.S. Uttarwar, IRSDC

3:15 PM - 6:00 PM

Unlocking the Potential for Transformative Climate Adaptation in Cities (consultation event)
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