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)
3:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Unlocking the Potential for Transformative Climate Adaptation in Cities (consultation event)
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