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D.S. Mishra (IAS)

D.S. Mishra (IAS)

Currently working as Secretary in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India, Mr. D.S. Mishra belongs to 1984 batch of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) from Uttar Pradesh cadre....More

Shiv Das Meena (IAS)

Shiv Das Meena (IAS)

Shri Shiv Das Meena is an Indian Administrative Service Officer of Tamil Nadu cadre (1989 batch) having nearly three decades of experience in public service.He has acquired Bachelor’s Degree in Civi...More

K Sanjay Murthy (IAS)

K Sanjay Murthy (IAS)

Mr. K Sanjay Murthy belongs to the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), an all-India Service of the Government of India, borne on the Himachal Pradesh Cadre. He holds a Degree of Bachelor of Engineer...More

Kunal Kumar (IAS)

Kunal Kumar (IAS)

Kunal Kumar, IAS presently holds the position of Joint Secretary & Mission Director (Smart Cities Mission), Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India since May 2018. Earlier, he was M...More

Kunal Kumar (IAS)

Kunal Kumar (IAS)

Moderator

Kunal Kumar, IAS presently holds the position of Joint Secretary & Mission Director (Smart Cities Mission), Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India since May 2018. Earlier, he was M...More

Jagan Shah

Jagan Shah

Sector Speaker

Jagan Shah is Director of India’s apex urban think-tank, the National Institute of Urban Affairs, which supports the Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs with policy formulation, implementation and m...More

Raj Cherubal

Raj Cherubal

Speaker (Chennai)

Raj Cherubal is the CEO of Chennai Smart City Limited (CSCL). Earlier he was Director-Projects for Chennai City Connect (CCC). CCC, a platform for industry associations and civic organisations, envis...More

Shan Mohan (IAS)

Shan Mohan (IAS)

Speaker (Amravati)

Shan Mohan is a 2013 batch IAS officer, AP cadre. He started his civil service tenure on the prestigious Polavaram project as Project Officer and streamlined several processes after which he took up t...More

Nidhi Srivastava (IAS)

Nidhi Srivastava (IAS)

Speaker (NDMC)

Nidhi Srivastava IAS, officer AGMUT 2010 batch, is presently the Deputy Commissioner, South DMC, Government of Delhi and is also handling the charge of the CEO of NDMC Smart City Limited, Government o...More

Xabier Arruza

Xabier Arruza

Industry Speaker

Xabier is a Partner at Bilbao Urban Cities and Design - a hub of Urban Strategy Thinkers who during the Bilbao Metropolitan Urban Transformation. We firmly believe that the enriching experience gained...More

Anjum Parwez (IAS)

Anjum Parwez (IAS)

Moderator

Anjum Parwez is an IAS officer belonging to 1994 Batch. At present he is posted as Secretary, Urban Development Department (M&UDAs). His previous assignment was Chairman, BWSSB and Commissioner of Hea...More

Samarth Verma (IAS)

Samarth Verma (IAS)

Speaker (Bhubaneshwar)

Samarth Verma is an IAS officer of 2011 batch. He is currently posted as Municipal Commissioner of Bhubaneshwar. He was previously posted as Collector Sambalpur for around 3 years.He is B.Tech in Mech...More

Dr. Rajendra C. Jagtap

Dr. Rajendra C. Jagtap

Speaker (Pune)

Dr. Rajendra C. Jagtap is currently the CEO of Pune Smart City Development Corporation Limited. He has worked as Additional Municipal Commissioner, Pune Municipal Corporation and as Chief Executive O...More

Chaitanya Y. Bhatt

Chaitanya Y. Bhatt

Speaker (Surat)

Chaitanya Y. Bhatt is the CEO of Surat Smart City Development Limited. He is also the Deputy Municipal Commissioner of Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC). He is been pivotal in the progress of Surat Sm...More

Rajesh C. Mathur

Rajesh C. Mathur

Industry Speaker

Rajesh C. Mathur is Advisor, Esri India Technologies Ltd., a Joint venture between NIIT Technologies Ltd. and Esri, Inc., the World’s largest provider of GIS software. Prior to that, he has held the...More

Gurmeet S. Rai

Gurmeet S. Rai

Sector Speaker

Gurmeet S Rai is a conservation architect based in New Delhi with over two decades of work in the area of cultural heritage. She has led multi-disciplinary teams to prepare conservation management pla...More

Archana Mittal

Archana Mittal

Moderator

Archana Mittal has been instrumental in taking urban resilience and sustainability agenda in the ministry forward. She has been instrumental in launching programmes on urban sustainability such as CIT...More

Rakesh Shankar (IAS)

Rakesh Shankar (IAS)

Speaker (Ahmedabad)

Rakesh Shankar is an IAS officer of 2004 batch and is Deputy Municipal Commissioner and CEO of Smart City Ahmedabad Development Limited(SCADL). He is tech savvy IAS officer having innovative and uniqu...More

Rohan Saxena

Rohan Saxena

Speaker (Indore)

Rohan Saxena is currently Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Indore Smart City Development Limited and Additional Commissioner in Indore Municipal Corporation. He is young and a competent officer of Sta...More

Hari Narayanan Murugan (IAS)

Hari Narayanan Murugan (IAS)

Speaker (Visakhapatnam)

Qualified the civil services examination in the year 2011, Bachelor in Architecture , From ANNA University, Chennai, completed training as Asst. Collector in Khammam district in the year 2013. Served ...More

N.Srinivas

N.Srinivas

Speaker

N.Srinivas is a graduate in Engineering with Masters in Business Administration from University of Mysore.He was appointed to the Karnataka Public Works Engineering Service (KES) through the Public ...More

Dr. Elke Pahl-Weber

Dr. Elke Pahl-Weber

Expert Speaker

Head of the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) within the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR) and Part-time Professor for Urba...More

Rahul Kapoor

Rahul Kapoor

Moderator

Rahul Kapoor is an officer of Indian Railway Accounts Service and is currently working as a Director in the Smart Cities Mission in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. He has acquired his Bache...More

Dr. Gulshan Rai

Dr. Gulshan Rai

Speaker

Dr. Gulshan Rai holds a doctoral degree and M.Tech and has over 30 years of experience in different areas of Information Technology which include different aspects of e-Governance, cyber security, cyb...More

Sanjay Kumar

Sanjay Kumar

Speaker (Bhopal)

Sanjay Kumar is from Madhya Pradesh cadre of Indian Administrative service batch 2011. He has over 23 years of experience in administrative services and currently working as Chief Executive Officer fo...More

Sameer Unhale

Sameer Unhale

Speaker (Thane)

Sameer Unhale, an Indian National, Born in 1969 is a practitioner in Urban affairs dealing with Urban Infrastructure, Urban water and Sanitation , Urban Transport, Urban Livelihood and Smart urban Gov...More

Som Satsangi

Som Satsangi

Sector Expert

Som Satsangi is the Managing Director for Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) in India. In this role, he has the countrywide responsibility for revenues and profitability and ensuring the greatest levera...More

Amitabh Nag

Amitabh Nag

Sector Expert

A Though Leader & Executioner who has been involved in almost all IT led transformation programmes in the country where Information Technology has impacted the Governance and Service Delivery to Commo...More