Theme
Securing India's Power, Defence, Manufacturing & Industrial Ecosystems
THEME
Securing India's Power, Defence, Manufacturing & Industrial Ecosystems
8:30 AM
Registration
Registration
9:20 AM - 9:30 AM
Host Welcome & Opening Remarks
Host Welcome & Opening Remarks
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Opening Address
By GRAMAX
Bithal Bhardwaj
CEO — Gramax Cybertech
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Keynote Address
India's Critical Infrastructure at the Crossroads of AI, Geopolitics & Hybrid Warfare
Lt. General Dr Rajesh Pant
Chairman — Cybersecurity Association of India
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Panel Discussion
The Resilience Question — How Secure Are India's Essential Services Against Emerging Threats?
Lt Colonel Nishant Singh (Retd)
Chief Operating Officer — Gramax, GMR Group
Abhijit S Anand
Founder & CEO — Zindagi Technologies Private Limited
Major General Manjeet Singh (Retd.)
Senior Cybersecurity Strategist
Col. Pankaj Verma
National Cyber Security Advisor — Cisco, India and SAARC
Aishwarya Tiwari
CISO and Head of IT — CRIS; A Autonomous Society under the Ministry of Indian Railways
Air Commodore Niranjan Kumar Parhi (Retd.)
Managing Director — Arisvara (OPC) Pvt. Ltd.
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Coffee and Networking
Coffee and Networking
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Live Scenario (Incident Post-mortem, live Q&A) By GRAMAX
Ransomware Under the Microscope: Anatomy of an Attack on Critical Infrastructure
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Fireside Chat
The CISO's DPDP Dilemma: Balancing Data Protection with Operational Continuity
Sukrit Ghosh
Director — DSCI
Saakshar Duggal
Cyber Law Expert
Sarita Padmini
Senior Director and Board Member - WiCyS India — Protiviti India Member Firm
12:30 PM - 1:15 PM
Panel Discussion
From Substations to Control Rooms — Securing India's Power Grid Against Cyber Threats
Srikanta Bhunia
Head IT & CISO — Nabha Power Limited
Jigar Gogri
Deputy General Manager — Schneider Electric
Prem Prakash Rai
Senior Manager — APCPL - A Joint Venture of NTPC Limited, HPGCL, and IPGCL
Kulbhushan Upadhyay
Assistant General Manager(DC & CS) — Telecommunications Consultants India Ltd.
Shrinjoy Bagchi
Head of Department -Automation , Protection & Testing, OT Security, Battery Technology — TATA Power Delhi Distribution Limited
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
LUNCH
LUNCH
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Panel Discussion
The Stakes Are Higher: Securing India's Defence, PSUs & Strategic Infrastructure Against Emerging Cyber Threats
S Dipin Nair
CISO and Head of IT — Anadrone Systems Limited
Col Kapil Jaiswal (Retd)
Chief Technology Officer — Quantum AI Global and QuLabs
Harkamal Sidhu
Vice President and Head - Digital ISR & Cyber Assurance — C2C Advanced Systems Ltd
Pranav Sahai
Analyst, Global Security and AI — Frost & Sullivan
N Ramesh
Deputy Director General (Technology) — Department of Telecommunications
Alok Shankar Pandey
Group General Manager (Information Technology) & Chief Information Security Officer — Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Expert Talk
The Next Cyber Battlefield: AI-Powered Attacks on Critical Infrastructure
Commander Aditya Varma (Retd)
Leader - Public Security (India & South Asia) — Cisco
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Fireside Chat
From Conversation to Coordination: What Would a Real 'Cyber Shield' for India Actually Take?
Upendra Upadhyay
Director-Analytics — MyGov
Vishwameet Chawla
Director Consulting Services — Microsoft
Rear Admiral Mohit Gupta
Advisor — CENJOWS
4:00 PM - 4:10 PM
Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks
4:10 PM - 5:00 PM
Coffee and Networking
Coffee and Networking
*The agenda is tentative and subject to change
Host Welcome & Opening Remarks
- 9:20 AM - 9:30 AM
By GRAMAX
Opening Address
- 9:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Keynote Address
India's Critical Infrastructure at the Crossroads of AI, Geopolitics & Hybrid Warfare
- 9:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Panel Discussion
The Resilience Question — How Secure Are India's Essential Services Against Emerging Threats?
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Break
Coffee and Networking
- 11:00 AM - 11-15 AM
Live Scenario (Incident Post-mortem, live Q&A)
Ransomware Under the Microscope: Anatomy of an Attack on Critical Infrastructure
- 11:15 AM - 12:00 AM
Fireside Chat
The CISO's DPDP Dilemma: Balancing Data Protection with Operational Continuity
- 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Panel Discussion
From Substations to Control Rooms — Securing India's Power Grid Against Cyber Threats
- 12:30 PM - 1:15 PM
Break
Lunch
- 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Panel Discussion
The Stakes Are Higher: Securing India's Defence, PSUs & Strategic Infrastructure Against Emerging Cyber Threats
- 2:15 PM - 3:00 PM
Expert Talk
The Next Cyber Battlefield: AI-Powered Attacks on Critical Infrastructure
- 3:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Presentation
Industry Presentation
- 3:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Fireside Chat
From Conversation to Coordination: What Would a Real 'Cyber Shield' for India Actually Take?
- 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
End of Conference
Closing Remarks
- 4:00 PM - 4:10 PM
End of Conference
Coffee and Networking
- 4:10 PM - 5:00 PM
*The agenda is tentative and subject to change
