Sweden India AI & Digitalization Summit 2021

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Venue Location

Chalmers Konferens & Restauranger, Main Entrance Chalmersplatsen 1, Hall: Palmstedtsalen

Gothenburg, Sweden

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Organizer

Organizer: Sweden-India Business Council

Phone: +46 761977443

Contact Person: Team SIBC

Email: info@sibc.se

Event Details

It is time to better understand the Swedish and Indian AI and Digitalization Ecosystems and how they benefit from each other!

AI and Digitalization are transforming the global landscape of innovation, showing excellent productivity potential across industries. Sweden and India are today world leaders in driving this process with complementary and synergistic strengths.

Sweden-India Business Council are organizing this event as a result of many years having worked closely with our partners, large corporates through the India Sweden Business Leaders' Roundtable (ISBLRT), members across industries and of course the startups in Sweden India Tech Community (SITEC). This in addition to the work being done through initiatives combining both but also including government agencies and academia, like the Sweden India Transport Innovation and Safety partnership (SITIS).

"We have a strong belief in inclusive collaborative models and this summit brings together leading actors in Sweden and India to chart a vision for the future. Large multinational corporations, innovative startups, investors, incubators, academia, media and governmental bodies will join forces. We hope you will join too!", says Robin Sukhia, SIBC's President and Secretary General.

"Together we're stronger and Gothenburg also holds a special place in my heart having both lived and studied in this city. Being on the west coast, warm and vibrant, I also find similarities with Mumbai where I live today. Here's to a the very first edition of ´Sweden India AI & Digitalization Summit´ - and to connecting Gothenburg!", adds Cecilia Oldne, SIBC's SVP, India representative, Investor and Sweden India Tech Community, SITEC's Tribe Leader.

"AI & Digitalization" cross cut all sectors. On this day we discuss use cases in transport, health, industry and logistics. It is a great way to understand how this can help us leapfrog our way of doing business. It is also perfect having the Summit in Gothenburg, where so many of our partners are located and the where so much cutting edge R&D is taking place", states Arati Davis, Sweden-India Business Council's Senior Vice President and Head of the Sweden India Transport Safety and Innovation platform, SITIS.

Looking forward to seeing you either in person or online at Sweden India AI & Digitalization Summit in Gothenburg!

Link for YouTube if you are joining online:

https://youtu.be/rau3_coD45A

#SIBCconnects

Agenda

08:30 - 08:45
Coffee
Coffee
08:45 - 09:45
Pioneer the Possible I - Vertical Integration
Pioneer the Possible I - Vertical Integration
Cecilia Oskarsson
Trade Commissioner of Sweden to India at Business Sweden
Ravikiran Annaswamy
Co-founder & CEO of Numocity Technologies
Kamal Bali
President & Managing Director of Volvo Group India
Dr Sudeendra Thirtha Koushik
Innovation Directly and Head at Volvo CampX Bangalore
Sriram Lakshminarayanan
President and Chief Technical Officer at Tata Technologies
Bhairavi Singh
Journalist- Ex-NDTV at Wion
Shri Sudhendu J. Sinha
Adviser (Infrastructure Connectivity & Electric Mobility ) at NITI Aayog
09:45 - 10:45
Pioneer the Possible II - Role of Test Beds in Supporting Digital Transformation
Pioneer the Possible II - Role of Test Beds in Supporting Digital Transformation
Per-Arne Wikström
Head of Office of Science & Innovation at Embassy of Sweden in India
Erik Borälv
Vinnova
Leena Arora Kukreja
Senior Adviser, Office of Science and Innovation, India
Susanna Mattsson
Deputy Director of Swedish Ministry of Infrastructure, Division for Digital Deployment
Subrata Mitra
Head, Govt & Industry Relations at Ericsson
Subhas Mondal
Head of Research & Development, 5G Products at HFCL Limited
Umakant Soni
Co-founder, ARTPARK + AI Foundry and Sweden-India Business Council's Senior AI Advisor
10:45 - 11:05
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:05 - 11:45
Welcome Address
Welcome Address
Gautam Bhattacharyya
Chargé d'Affaires a.i. at Embassy of Sweden in India
Leif Johansson
Chairman at AstraZeneca
Tanmaya Lal
Ambassador of India to Sweden at Embassy of India
Amitabh Kant
CEO of Niti Aayog, Govt. of India
11:45 - 12:45
Leadership and AI - India Sweden Business Leaders´ Roundtable (ISBLRT)
Leadership and AI - India Sweden Business Leaders´ Roundtable (ISBLRT)
Arati Davis
Senior Vice President at Sweden-India Business Council
CP Gurnani
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Tech Mahindra
Tom Johnstone
Chairman at Combient
Helene Niklasson
Head at CampX by Volvo Group
Umakant Soni
Co-founder, ARTPARK + AI Foundry and Sweden-India Business Council's Senior AI Advisor
Subha Tatavarti
CTO at Wipro
Staffan Truvé
Chair at AI Sweden
12:45 - 13:30
LUNCH
LUNCH
13:30 - 14:30
Data Science and Medicine
Data Science and Medicine
Charlotta Gummeson
President and CEO of Sahlgrenska Science Park
Iris Öhrn
Investment Advisor, Life Sciences at Business Region Göteborg
Vijay Chandru
Strand Life Sciences
Ola Engqvist
Head of Molecular AI in Discovery Sciences at AstraZeneca R&D
Sachin Gaur
Serial Entrepreneur and Technical Adviser
Dr Lars Lindsköld
Senior Adviser at AI Innovation of Sweden
14:30 - 15:30
Autonomous Drive and ADAS
Autonomous Drive and ADAS
Ola Boström
Senior Advisor at Venoneer
Vanessa Eriksson
Chief Digital Officer at Zenseact
Niklas Gustafsson
Chief Sustainability Officer at Volvo Group
Mats Nordlund
Head of Data Factory at AI Sweden
Hans Salomonsson
CEO of EmbeDL
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00
Digital Twins and Synthetic Data
Digital Twins and Synthetic Data
Anders Logg
Director of Chalmers Digital Twins Center
Ganesh Kumar Bukka
General Manager and Global Head at Wipro
Lei Chen
Senior Research at Mobile Edge, RISE
Eric Jeansson
Geo Data Strategist at City Planning Authority, City of Gothenburg
Stefan Svahn
CEO of Synthetic Data Solutions
Anand Chakravarty
Head Engineering Services, Europe at Tata Consultancy Services
17:00 - 17:45
Supporting Startups - Sweden India Tech Community (SITEC)
Supporting Startups - Sweden India Tech Community (SITEC)
Devdatt Dubhashi
Chief Scientist at EmbeDL
Helene Niklasson
Head at CampX by Volvo Group
Cecilia Oldne
Senior Vice President, India Representative and Advisor at Sweden-India Business Council
Umakant Soni
Co-founder, ARTPARK + AI Foundry and Sweden-India Business Council's Senior AI Advisor
Charlotte Emlind Vahul
Head of Business Coaching at Chalmers Ventures
17:45 - 18:30
India Sweden Health Innovation Centre
India Sweden Health Innovation Centre
Sanjeev Malhotra
CEO of NASSCOM
Cecilia Oskarsson
Trade Commissioner of Sweden to India at Business Sweden
Dr Puneet Pareek
Additional Professor at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur
Gagandeep Singh
Country President & Managing Director of AstraZeneca Pharma India Limited
Prashant Warier
Founder of Qure.ai
Mudit Dandwate
Founder and CEO of Dozee
18:30 - 21:00
MINGLE
MINGLE

Speakers

Leif Johansson

Chairman at AstraZeneca

Leif Johansson

Chairman at AstraZeneca

Leif Johansson holds board positions at Autoliv, Inc and Ecolean AB.He is a member of the European Round Table of Industrialists (Chairman 2009-2014), a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (Chairman 2012-2017). He
is also a member of the Council of Advisors, Board Forum for Asia and a delegate to the China Development Forum.
Skills and experience: Leif was the Chairman of the Board of LM Ericsson
2011-2018, a Member of the Board of Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget, SCA 2006-2016 and
the CEO of AB Volvo 1997-2011. He was a Non-Executive Director of Bristol Myers Squibb
1998-2011. Prior to that, Leif held different executive positions within the Electrolux group, latterly as the group CEO 1994-1997.
Leif holds an MSc in engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg.

Leif is also a member of India Sweden Business Leaders' Roundtable (ISBLRT).

Tanmaya Lal

Ambassador of India to Sweden at Embassy of India

Tanmaya Lal

Ambassador of India to Sweden at Embassy of India

https://www.indembassysweden.gov.in

Ambassador Tanmaya Lal, 55 years of age, has served as an Indian diplomat for nearly 3 decades. His previous two assignments were as High Commissioner to Mauritius (2019-2020) and as Ambassador / Deputy Permanent Representative of India to UN Permanent Mission of India, New York from 2016-2018.

During his tenure in Mauritius, three high profile India-assisted development projects - Metro Express, ENT Hospital and Supreme Court building - were jointly e-inaugurated at Prime Ministerial level. Work is ongoing on a range of other large infrastructure projects. Coordination of assistance during Covid19 pandemic, MV Wakashio oil spill and repatriation of stranded Indians was also organized. There were three visits by PM of Mauritius to India during this phase.

His work experience includes India’s engagement in its extended neighbourhood (Mauritius, Iran, Southeast Asia and East & Southern Africa) and west Europe as also regional groupings (EU, ASEAN, AU, BIMSTEC, IORA and IOC). As the Head of the East & Southern Africa (E&SA) Division, his portfolio included work relating to the AU and 20 African countries as also the 2015 Third India-Africa Forum Summit that saw an unprecedented scale of participation. In Mauritius he engaged with the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) and Indian Ocean Commission (IOC).

He has also worked extensively on multilateral aspects of India’s engagement as the Head of the UN Economic & Social (UNES) Division at headquarters and earlier at the Indian Missions in Vienna, Nairobi and Bangkok. His portfolio at the headquarters included the Climate Change negotiations at the UNFCCC, Agenda 2030, Human Rights Council, UN agencies, maritime issues, and the Arctic Council among others.

Prior to New York, Ambassador Lal has served in the Indian Missions in Bonn 1993-1996; Tehran 1999-2002; Vienna (also accredited to Slovenia) 2002-2005; Bangkok 2007-2010 and Nairobi (also accredited to Somalia and Eritrea) 2010-2013. He served as the Deputy High Commissioner and Deputy Permanent Representative (DPR) in Nairobi and Deputy Chief of Mission and DPR in Bangkok.

Besides heading the E&SA Division (2015-2016) and the UNES Division (2013-2015), he has served as Director (2005-2007) and Under Secretary (1997-99) for the West Europe Division (engagement with EU and 12 west European nations) and as the Regional Passport Officer for Delhi (1996-97).

He received the S. K. Singh Award in 2013 for Excellence in the Indian Foreign Service.

He did his schooling in New Delhi and holds a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering and a Master's degree in Biological Sciences from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani.

After graduating in 1987, he worked with two Indian Public Sector Undertakings : the Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC) from 1988-1991 and the Cement Corporation of India (CCI) from 1987-88 before joining the Indian Foreign Service in 1991.

He speaks English, Hindi and German and has some working knowledge of French.

He is married to Sumita Lal and the couple has one son.

Staffan Truvé

Chair at AI Sweden

Arati Davis

Senior Vice President at Sweden-India Business Council

Arati Davis

Senior Vice President at Sweden-India Business Council

https://sibc.se

Arati has been working on issues of sustainability and policy, for a green transition. Questions of mobility, clean energy solutions, capacity and storage have been central to the work she has been undertaking. Arati is the head of the Secretariat for the Sweden-India, Transport, Innovation and Safety Partnership (SITIS), a strong triple-helix collaboration of industry, academia and government agencies.

Arati started working with environment and natural resources in 2000, in the US, and she has had over 15 years experience of working with sustainable development in the Sweden – India context; working first with Sida’s energy portfolio, and subsequently with the Embassy of Sweden, New Delhi’s Environment Office.

She has worked intensely with e-mobility within the Sweden India corridor and is the author of the report "Electromobility and India, Opportunities for Engagement"

Arati is also the India Country Manager of Recap and sits on the board of URBS (Urban Systems) and Pratham Sweden.

Arati holds a MSc. in Natural Resource Management from SOAS, University of London and a B.A. in International Political Economy from Swarthmore College, PA, USA and the London School of Economics.

Helene Niklasson

Head at CampX by Volvo Group

Tom Johnstone

Chairman at Combient

Charlotte Emlind Vahul

Head of Business Coaching at Chalmers Ventures

Cecilia Oldne

Senior Vice President, India Representative and Advisor at Sweden-India Business Council

Cecilia Oldne

Senior Vice President, India Representative and Advisor at Sweden-India Business Council

http://sibc.se/

Cecilia is Sweden-India Business Council’s SVP and India representative. She is also an Investor and Advisor.

SIBC is one of the world’s most active country to country networks & the first choice network in the Sweden & India business corridor. SIBC is also the secretary for Sweden India Business Leaders’ Roundtable, co-chaired by Marcus Wallenberg & Baba Kalyani. Cecilia started Sweden-India Tech Community (SITEC) to connect the large corporates with the startups.

She is Swedish, based in Mumbai since 2007. Cecilia has played a significant role in sparking the Indian Wine Revolution, placing India on the world wine map. She has played an instrumental role in the Sula Vineyards success story - India’s largest wine producer with 65% market share, exporting to 30 countries. With 430,000 visitors in 2019 it is the most visited winery in the world. She is today a shareholder in Sula.

Cecilia is Amphora Portfolio Management’s Managing Partner South East Asia & The Nordics. Amphora is a leading fine wine investment firm & a team of fine wine experts with sparkling financial markets backgrounds. With her team, she builds & manages bespoke fine wine portfolios for collectors, investors and wine enthusiasts.

She is a Founding Advisory Board Member at Girls Club Capital, NYC. With GCC’s Israeli founder Ashmoret Mishal, she advices, mentors & connects female entrepreneurs with the right people.

Cecilia is an Angel Investor with focus on Tech, AI and Gaming. GetMega (social real money gaming platform) which she invested in and became an advisor for in 2019 then had 10,000 subscribers. The platform today has 5 million subscribers well on track to hit 50 million this year!

She is also a Fashion Revolution Ambassador - working towards a safer, fairer, cleaner & more transparent clothing industry with positive outcomes for both people & the planet.

Known for being a “culture architect”, she has been instrumental in the opening of Soho House Mumbai - Asia’s first SH. She today sits on the committee of the house and advices the team on strategy. She is also representing India and The Nordics in Soho House's Digital Global Committee.

Cecilia raises capital for people & companies she believes in - from Broadcast Media, Life Science to Cyber Security.

Cecilia co-founded Asian Wine Producers Association, to support Asian wineries in their set-up & growth.

Google ‘Cecilia Oldne’ for more.

Amitabh Kant

CEO of Niti Aayog, Govt. of India

Amitabh Kant

CEO of Niti Aayog, Govt. of India

https://www.niti.gov.in/

Amitabh Kant is presently CEO of National Institution for Transforming India (NITI). He is a member of the Indian Administrative Service, IAS (Kerala Cadre: 1980 batch). He is the author of Branding India - An Incredible Story. Mr. Kant has been a key driver of the “Make in India”, Startup India, “Incredible India” and God’s Own Country” initiatives that positioned India and Kerala State as leading manufacturing and tourism destinations. These campaigns have won several international awards and embraced a host of activities – infrastructure development, product enhancement, private-public partnership and positioning and branding based on extensive market research. Mr. Kant also
conceptualized the “Atithi Devo Bhavah” – “Guest is God” campaign to train Taxi Drivers, Guides, immigration officials and make them stake holders in the tourism development process. Mr. Amitabh Kant was also the National Project Director of the Rural Tourism
Project of UNDP which made a paradigm shift in spreading tourism to Indian villages which had core-competency in handicrafts, handloom and culture.

Devdatt Dubhashi

Chief Scientist at EmbeDL

Devdatt Dubhashi

Chief Scientist at EmbeDL

https://www.embedl.ai

Devdatt is a Professor in the Data Science and AI Division of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology and co-founder of EmbeDL. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University USA and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science in Saarbrueken Germany. He was with BRICS (Basic Research in Computer Science, a center of the Danish National Science Foundation) at the University of Aarhus and then on the faculty of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi before joining Chalmers in 2000. He has led several national projects in machine learning and has been associated with several EU projects. He has been an external expert for the OECD report on “Data Driven Innovation”. He has published regularly in the premier machine learning and AI venues such as NIPS, ICML and AAAI.

Charlotta Gummeson

President and CEO of Sahlgrenska Science Park

Per-Arne Wikström

Head of Office of Science & Innovation at Embassy of Sweden in India

Cecilia Oskarsson

Trade Commissioner of Sweden to India at Business Sweden

Karl Andersson

Professor at 5G Innovation Hub North

Anders Logg

Director of Chalmers Digital Twins Center

Ravikiran Annaswamy

Co-founder & CEO of Numocity Technologies

Ravikiran Annaswamy

Co-founder & CEO of Numocity Technologies

Ravikiran Annaswamy is the Co-founder and CEO of Numocity Technologies. He is very passionate about clean mobility and works towards accelerating Electric Mobility in India and world market. He champions new business models like Energy as a service, enabled with IOT, Analytics and Deep Learning.

He has over 26 years of experience; as an Entrepreneur and as a business leader at Nokia Siemens Networks and Siemens AG. He was instrumental in launching and scaling, frugal and innovative solutions like Mobile Prepaid, Data Charging, and various VAS solutions in India and global markets. He championed Intrapreneurship as the Innovation head for Bangalore site of Nokia Siemens Networks.

He is a serial entrepreneur and passionate to incubate new Start-ups. He was the Co-founder of Deccan Institute of Innovation and Design, Co-Director at Founder Institute (Fi.com) Bangalore, mentor at NUMA Bangalore and coach for many early stage start-ups. He is also a Charter member of TiE Bangalore

He is currently a global board member and Vice President of Membership and Marketing for IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society.

He has done his MBA from Indian institute of Management Bangalore and has graduated from UVCE Bangalore (University of Visveswaraya College of Engineering).

Vanessa Eriksson

Chief Digital Officer at Zenseact

Vanessa Eriksson

Chief Digital Officer at Zenseact

https://www.zenseact.com/

Vanessa Eriksson is a pioneer and a leading-edge data practitioner with several years of experience in
Data Strategies; including Data Security & Compliance and Innovation.
She served as the Chair of PwC’s CDO Advisory Board and on Gartner’s North America & EMEA Data
and CDO Advisory Boards. An active voice in the data and analytics community, Vanessa has spoken
at numerous conferences, has been featured in several publications, including invited as a Guest
Speaker at Gartner’s CDO Panel in London. She is currently nominated to the Top 100 in Data,
Analytics and AI in the Nordics.
Presently, the Chief Digital Officer and member of the Leadership Team at Zenseact, Vanessa leads
the organization in setting a foundation for managing petabytes of data as an asset, protecting its
critical systems and sensitive information from cyber-attacks, while simultaneously leading the IT
backbone, in pursuing Autonomous Driving. She is also currently a Member of the Board at Fidesmo.
A mother of 3 daughters, Vanessa very feels strongly about encouraging girls in tech and has since
2017 effectively launched GiT (Girls in Tech) events in Sweden in collaboration with 4 international
organizations to promote her cause. Women in Leadership and Gender Diversity are topics that are
close to her.

Pavan Asalapuram

Founder of EMPE Diagnostics AB

Pavan Asalapuram

Founder of EMPE Diagnostics AB

Pavan Asalapuram (Founder) is a pharmacist by education and trained biotechnologist, with a desire to develop novel molecular diagnostic methods. After the formal graduate education from India, Pavan moved to Sweden and worked as a researcher in top universities/research organisations like the Royal Institute of Technology-KTH, Stockholm University, Karolinska University and SciLifeLab (Swedish national hub for molecular biosciences).

From his graduation, Pavan is involved in several European Union research projects, where he has experienced the horizons of health care systems between industrialized and developing countries. Pavan has played a major role in developing diagnostic platforms, published about 20 scientific articles, and holds 2 international patents in biomedicine. Pavan has developed successful collaborations with researchers, clinicians, policy makers, and WHO national reference laboratories in the America, Asia (mainly India), and Europe.

Having gained experience in biomedical diagnostics and mental-health care, Pavan has established three companies in Sweden (EMPE Diagnostics AB, ApiRays AB, Flair Kids AB) and in India, he has established EMPE Diagnostics' Indian subsidiary, and co-founded Xact Diagnotek Pvt. Ltd., developing cost-effective and reliable biomedical and biotechnology solutions.

Kamal Bali

President & Managing Director of Volvo Group India

Kamal Bali

President & Managing Director of Volvo Group India

Kamal has been spearheading reputed Indian & multi-national organisations as President & CEO for two decades now. He is currently the President & Managing Director of Volvo Group, India, a role that he took on in April 2014.

Kamal is based in Bangalore, is an alumnus of IIT Roorkee, and has an illustrious career spanning 40 years, largely in automotive and engineering industryIn December 2019, Kamal was Knighted and awarded one of Sweden’s highest honours in the Royal Order of the “Polar Star: Commander” by Their Majesties, the King and Queen of Sweden for his untiring support to the Swedish commerce & industry in India. Respected for his values’ based leadership and strong ethos, he is also the recipient of the prestigious “2019 Machinist Lifetime Achievement Award” by the Times of India Group for his outstanding contribution in the field of Manufacturing.Featured in '2021 Star List' by The Machinist publication and felicitated as one of the Top Industry Leaders in India. Felicitated with Economic Times Inspiring CEO 2021 Award.

A thought leader, Kamal also wears governing council and board of director hats with distinguished institutions from industry, academia and public sector, including the following
Chairman of the Board, Swedish Chamber of Commerce India (SCCI)
Board Member of Volvo Financial Services India
On the Board of Invest Karnataka Forum (IKF)
Independent Director on the Board of the Commercial entity of Department of Space, Government of India
Member of the Board of Governors, Indian Institute of Technology - Gandhinagar
Board Member of Xavier Institute of Management (XIMB) as well as a few other premium management institutions.
Member of the National Council Member of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)
Past Chairman of CII Karnataka (2017-18)

Gautam Bhattacharyya (Chargé d'Affaires a.i. at Embassy of Sweden in India)

Gautam Bhattacharyya

Chargé d'Affaires a.i. at Embassy of Sweden in India

Erik Borälv

Vinnova

Ola Boström

Senior Advisor at Venoneer

Iris Öhrn

Investment Advisor, Life Sciences at Business Region Göteborg

Ganesh Kumar Bukka

General Manager and Global Head at Wipro

Anand Chakravarty

Head Engineering Services, Europe at Tata Consultancy Services

Vijay Chandru

Strand Life Sciences

Vijay Chandru

Strand Life Sciences

Professor Vijay Chandru has served on the faculty of engineering at Purdue University and is now with the Centre for Bio-Systems Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). He is an executive advisor for healthcare to ART Park (DST innovation Hub for AI and Robotics at IISc), and a Commissioner with the Lancet Citizens Commission on reimagining India’s health system. He was an inventor of the Simputer and founder of Strand Life Sciences, India's leading precision medicine solutions company. A fellow of the academies of science and engineering, a technology pioneer of the World Economic Forum and recipient of the Hari Om Trust Award of University Grants Commission in 2001 for serving science and society, Professor Chandru identifies with "Historians of the Now" - a cadre that begins with a study of what is today, asking not how to avoid the perils of the past but how to maximize the advantages of the future.

Lei Chen

Senior Research at Mobile Edge, RISE

Lei Chen

Senior Research at Mobile Edge, RISE

https://www.ri.se/en

Lei's research interests include vehicle communications e.g. DSRC, LTE, 5G V2X, connected vehicle applications, cooperative intelligent transport systems (C-ITS), flying vehicles, e.g., drones, mobility data mining through the vehicle and telecom data, as well as mathematical optimization methods for performance evaluation and improvement for C-ITS.

Lei has a broad education covering communications, signal and systems, computer networking, automatic control, operations research, etc. His master study involved design and demonstration of a novel unmanned airborne vehicle (UAV) based ad hoc network. His PhD study was dedicated to mobile broadband (MBB) performance engineering including capacity analysis for ad hoc networks, resource planning and optimization of cellular networks (GSM, UMTS, LTE…), and design of distributed antenna systems for in-building networking. Mathematical optimization methods, e.g. integer linear programming, meta-heuristics, are the common tools he has been using for engineering problems.

Lei believes that as one of the most important and integrated parts of the smart cities, future transport will be fully connected and cooperative. Despite the technology evolution, many challenges lie ahead including communications, real-time data analysis, clouds, use cases, and business innovation, among others. His research will contribute in those areas and help to accelerate the evolution of connected mobility.

Share the same passion and want to join the effort? Lei is always open to discussion and cooperation. Feel free to tweet him @LeiChenRD, visit his LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/leichenrd, or his Homepage http://leichenrd.wixsite.com/research.

Mudit Dandwate

Founder and CEO of Dozee

Mudit Dandwate

Founder and CEO of Dozee

Mudit Dandwate is the founder and CEO of Dozee (Turtle Shell Technologies Private Limited) which is on a mission to simplify and transform healthcare for millions in India and beyond. Dozee is India’s first contactless health monitoring solution that is steadily and systematically pioneering remote health monitoring in hospitals and at home. A mechanical engineer by education, Mudit graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai in 2013. Before starting Dozee, he has worked as a Vehicle Dynamics Expert at Altair Technologies, a global technology company and in a mission to impact millions of life co-founded Dozee with Gaurav Parchani, an IIT Indore alumnus.

Mudit is recognized as Forbes 30under30 and has won multiple awards like ET Innovation award, Gold Award in the @Medicall Made in India Healthcare Innovations Awards, Anjani Mashelkar Inclusive Innovation Award 2020, Tech Start-up of the Year 2019 Award at Assocham's Emerging Digital Technologies Summit, NASSCOM League of 10 I Emerge 50 Awards 2020, Gold award in the 5th edition of the IHW Council CSR Health Impact Awards 2021 in the CSR COVID Indigenous Response Project category, AEGIS Graham bell awards 2020.

Ola Engqvist

Head of Molecular AI in Discovery Sciences at AstraZeneca R&D

Ola Engqvist

Head of Molecular AI in Discovery Sciences at AstraZeneca R&D

Dr Ola Engkvist is head of Molecular AI in Discovery Sciences, AstraZeneca R&D. He did his PhD in computational chemistry at Lund University followed by a postdoc at Cambridge University. After working for two biotech companies he joined AstraZeneca in 2004. He currently lead the Molecular AI department, where the focus is to develop novel methods for ML/AI in drug design , productionalize the methods and apply the methods to AstraZeneca’s small molecules drug discovery portfolio. His main research interests are deep learning based molecular de novo design, synthetic route prediction and large scale molecular property predictions. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications. He is adjunct professor in machine learning and AI for drug design at Chalmers University of Technology and a trustee of Cambridge Crystallographic Data Center.

Sachin Gaur

Serial Entrepreneur and Technical Adviser

CP Gurnani

Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Tech Mahindra

CP Gurnani

Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Tech Mahindra

CP Gurnani (popularly known as ‘CP’ within his peer group), is the Managing Director and Chief Executive
Officer of Tech Mahindra - a USD 5.2 billion digital transformation, consulting and business reengineering
services and solutions provider with 124,250+ professionals across 90 countries, helping 988 global
customers including Fortune 500 companies.
An accomplished business leader with extensive experience in international business development, startups and turnarounds, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, CP played a pivotal role in Tech Mahindra's
transformation journey, and one of the biggest turnarounds of Indian Corporate History - the acquisition
and merger of Satyam.
Living by the credo, ‘don’t work hard, work smart’, CP brings an inimitable leadership style combined with
a laser-sharp focus on customer experience, which has helped Tech Mahindra emerge as one of the
leading global digital transformation providers.
He strongly believes that one just cannot ride the growth path with resources that are out of sync with
market dynamics. One of his many noticeable achievements in the past year has been an ambitious,
company-wide initiative aimed at retraining Tech Mahindra employees to ensure they have the skills and
knowledge to remain competitive and survive the age of digital transformation.
In a career spanning 40+ years, CP has held several leading positions with Hewlett Packard Ltd, Perot
Systems (India) Ltd. and HCL Corporation Ltd. CP has also served as a Chairman of NASSCOM for the year
2016-2017.
He is an ardent supporter of Individual Social Responsibility, and often prods people to invest their time
towards betterment of humanity and society, at large. He is on the Board of Tech Mahindra Foundation
that was launched in 2007 to help the underprivileged children. He also founded ‘Titliyan’, a NGO that
spearheads spreading quality education and developing life and social skills of more than 240 under
privileged children.
A chemical engineering graduate from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, he is a distinguished
and active alumnus of the Institute. CP has also been felicitated with an honorary Doctorate degree by
Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology and Sharda University.

He is on the Board of Mahindra &
Mahindra Limited, a promoter of Tech Mahindra Limited. His passion for education is resonated in the
various honorary positions he holds - He is on the board of Mahindra Educational Institutions (MEI) & a
member of the Board of Management of Mahindra University, a private university promoted by MEI
to educate future citizens for and of a better world. He is also the Chairman of IIM Nagpur and the
Founding Trustee of Plaksha University.

CP Gurnani has also been featured in a Harvard Case Study on ‘Tech Mahindra and the Acquisition of
Satyam Computers’.

CP is also a member of India Sweden Business Leaders' Roundtable (ISBRLT).

Umakant Soni

Co-founder, ARTPARK + AI Foundry and Sweden-India Business Council's Senior AI Advisor

Niklas Gustafsson

Chief Sustainability Officer at Volvo Group

Niklas Gustafsson

Chief Sustainability Officer at Volvo Group

Niklas is responsible for the Volvo Group's larger collaborative projects in sustainable transport solutions, community contacts and new innovation systems both internally Volvo and in the surrounding ecosystem of start-ups, universities, community actors and well-established companies within and outside the transport industry. Niklas is head of Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs.

Niklas has held the following positions within Volvo Group:
Senior Vice President Public and Environmental Affairs, Volvo Group, 2008-2013
Executive Vice President, Corporate Public & Environmental Affairs Volvo Group 2013-2014
Chief Sustainability Officer, Corporate Sustainability & Public Affairs Volvo Group 2015-2017
Chief Sustainability Officer, Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs 2018-

Eric Jeansson

Geo Data Strategist at City Planning Authority, City of Gothenburg

Dr Sudeendra Thirtha Koushik

Innovation Directly and Head at Volvo CampX Bangalore

Dr Sudeendra Thirtha Koushik

Innovation Directly and Head at Volvo CampX Bangalore

Dr Koushik has 28 years of experience is in Innovation and Technology Management in India, Singapore and The Netherlands in various roles including new product and services development, project management, hardware, software and systems, Intellectual property, people and customer management with more than 20 patents in various stages. He has worked at Philips Netherlands, Europe, Philips India, HCL and TTK and helped develop a culture of Innovation, build Innovation skills, and generate business relevant Innovations and intellectual property. Dr Koushik is very actively engaged in the start-up sphere, by mentoring and supporting multiple start-ups, innovation centres, accelerators, and incubators in multiple domains and has worked closely with academia and innovation, forging stronger industry academia collaboration.
Dr Koushik is a TEDx and International speaker, a cartoonist and actor.

Leena Arora Kukreja

Senior Adviser, Office of Science and Innovation, India

Leena Arora Kukreja

Senior Adviser, Office of Science and Innovation, India

Leena joined as the Senior Adviser Innovation and Science at the Embassy of Sweden, New
Delhi in February 2018. Her role is to support and facilitate the Sweden-India partnership in
Innovation, Research and Higher Education by providing in-depth policy reporting and
stakeholder management on the Indian side. In her current role, Leena is also responsible for
communications and impact strategy for the Office of Science and Innovation India. Leena
has over 15 years of experience in the field of science and innovation policy and delivery of
joint policy frameworks and collaborative research and innovation programs with the Indian
government.

Prior to joining the embassy, she was responsible for the Australia India Strategic Research
Fund. Before her stint with the Australian Government, Leena worked at the British Council
India as Head Newton Fund and with the British High Commission as Senior Advisor for
Science and Innovation.

Sriram Lakshminarayanan

President and Chief Technical Officer at Tata Technologies

Sriram Lakshminarayanan

President and Chief Technical Officer at Tata Technologies

Sriram brings over twenty-four years of Industry experience in handling various challenging transformational and Change management roles in consulting, sales, presales, and solutioning across Americas, Europe, and AP with a focus on Automotive & Aerospace clients since 2003.
He is currently the President and Chief Technical Officer at Tata Technologies , responsible for building a Global Practice Organization around Industry, Digital and Embedded areas.
Outside of his base in Bangalore, India- he has spent five years in the US and an equal amount of time in Germany, working and consulting with automotive clients.
Sri is passionate about the role of Digital and AI in Automotive and the disruptions around consumers, mobility and ecosystems.

Dr Lars Lindsköld

Senior Adviser at AI Innovation of Sweden

Dr Lars Lindsköld

Senior Adviser at AI Innovation of Sweden

https://www.vgregion.se

Dr Lars Lindsköld, Senior adviser AI Innovation of Sweden, VGR
Assistant Professor in Informatics, Department of Applied Information Technology, Gothenburg University, Regional developer, Department of Digitalization, Region Västra Götaland, Senior adviser AI Innovation of Sweden, Board member RAI Umeå University and Secretary Swedish Association of Medical Informatics and Institution member Officer, EFMI.

Dr. Lindsköld has a long digitalization experience of Radiology, Pathology, Healthdata and Teledermatology (e-Health). His research is based on Interoperability within big data and AI with a focus on Semantic Interoperability driven by profession. Today working together with the medical profession to create a Medical Machine-Readable Lexicon that will increase the automatic portability of data from various IT systems and AI Applications to support better the journey of the disease that will include actors as the individuals, clinician’s, researcher and industry. The need for data increases enormously as many factors, each with a marginal influence, builds the basis for personalization. (Systematic Healthdata). In chronic and cancer disorders, it is specifically vital that the data travel with the patient and continuously extract structured data to continuously feed relevant information to the decision space and faster scale-up solutions to benefit the society. This will be done with Institutions, organizations and companies involved in the transformation of healthcare.

Sanjeev Malhotra

CEO of NASSCOM

Susanna Mattsson

Deputy Director of Swedish Ministry of Infrastructure, Division for Digital Deployment

Dr Sanjeev Misra

Director of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur

Dr Sanjeev Misra

Director of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur

Dr. Sanjeev Misra is the Director and CEO of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur. He passed his MBBS from KGMC, Lucknow. He did his MS in General Surgery from KGMC. He has been a sectional Editor of the Oncology Section of Indian Journal of Surgery and Honorary Secretary (2007-2008), Vice President (2011), President Elect (2012) and President (2013) of the Indian Association of Surgical Oncology. He is a Post Graduate teacher recognized by the MCI and NBE and examiner for McH and DNB. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Medical Sciences, India, Fellow of American College of Surgeons, USA and Fellow of International College of Surgeons, USA. He has received several International and National awards like, Commonwealth fellowship and International Guest Scholar of American College of Surgeons.
He has been a visiting Professor to King's College, London, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA, John Hopkins Medical Center, USA, and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA.

Subrata Mitra

Head, Govt & Industry Relations at Ericsson

Subrata Mitra

Head, Govt & Industry Relations at Ericsson

Subrata Mitra is Vice President & Head of Government & Industry Relations for Ericsson India, a world leader in providing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to telecom service providers. He currently oversees government relations and public affairs for Ericsson India, leading a team with responsibility for the company’s public policy agenda and regulatory engagement on a range of priorities. He is an experienced government relations and business executive. He joined Ericsson in 2018 and have been working in the ICT industry since 2001.
Subrata has more than two decades of experience in the area of government relations, public policy, industry relations, government sales and business development. In his present role he partners with the ministries, departments, regulators, thinktanks, academia, industry & trade associations to help government formulate policies for increasing digital communications in India. He strongly believes that digital connectivity and digital communications is the key for India’s economic growth and for taking millions of Indians out of poverty. He advocates for communications playing a key role in the digital transformation of the Indian economy. Prior to Ericsson he has worked with Oracle, IBM, IFS and Huawei.
Subrata holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from Management Development Institute (MDI) Gurgaon and a Bachelor’s degree from Osmania University. He has passed Graduate Certificate Course in Public Policy with Distinction from Takshashila Institution.

Subhas Mondal

Head of Research & Development, 5G Products at HFCL Limited

Subhas Mondal

Head of Research & Development, 5G Products at HFCL Limited

Subhas leads the R&D efforts for 5G product development at HFCL as a vice president. In this role, Subhas works with Academia, Standards development organizations, Open-source community and Technology partners.
Prior to joining HFCL, Subhas served as the Chief Architect of Wipro’s organization-wide 5G initiative from 2018 to 2021. He was recognized as a Wipro Fellow for his technical contributions. He has over 30 years of engineering experience in Telecom Research & Development. He is a passionate technologist and has developed a variety of solutions & frameworks in emerging technology areas such as 5G, SDN/NFV, Li-Fi, Cyber Security and AI for Network Automation. Subhas holds an engineering degree from IIT Kharagpur in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering.

Mats Nordlund

Head of Data Factory at AI Sweden

Mats Nordlund

Head of Data Factory at AI Sweden

Dr. Nordlund has spent most of his career in the industry, first as director of technology strategy and technology acquisition at Saab AB Corporate Technology, and later 12 years as vice president of R&D for Emerson Process Management - Level and Marine. He has a background from MIT where he after his graduate studies started the SDM program. During 2012-15 he lived in Moscow, Russia and was the Vice President of research programs at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) - a new state-of-the-art university that was started in collaboration with MIT. Skoltech is a key component of the Russian federal economic modernization program. Back in Sweden, he joined Zenseact (formerly Zenuity) as head of research and special projects. In this position, he conceived and established AI Sweden (www.ai.se) which is the national Swedish AI center including the National Data factory. This was done in close collaboration with the Government and Industry partners. During 2021, Dr. Nordlund is on leave from Zenseact and holds the position of Head of the data factory at AI Sweden.

Dr Puneet Pareek

Additional Professor at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur

Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)

Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Subha Tatavarti

CTO at Wipro

Hans Salomonsson

CEO of EmbeDL

Prof. Huzur Saran

Institute of Technology-Delhi

Prof. Huzur Saran

Institute of Technology-Delhi

Prof Huzur Saran is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science IIT Delhi. Prior to joining IIT Delhi in 1990, he did his Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989 and, a B.Tech from IIT Delhi in 1983. His research is focused on Wireless Networks, Computer Systems & Security and Algorithms. He has served as the Head of the Computer Science Dept and the Amar Nath & Shashi Khosla School of IT, at IIT Delhi from 2007-2014 & the Head of the Computer Services Centre from 2015-18. He is currently co-ordinator of the Centre of Excellence in CyberSecurity at IIT Delhi.

Prof Saran has been actively working in 4G and 5G wireless technologies. He is currently a PI at IITD for the 5G Testbed Project funded by the Department of Telecom. During 2000-2002 he was a Visiting Professor at the Information Systems Lab, Stanford where he worked on the media access control layer of an early 4G wireless system. Dr Saran was a consultant in the past with AT&T Research and Lucent Bell Labs in the area of Network Performance Analysis.

Bhairavi Singh

Journalist- Ex-NDTV at Wion

Gagandeep Singh

Country President & Managing Director of AstraZeneca Pharma India Limited

Gagandeep Singh

Country President & Managing Director of AstraZeneca Pharma India Limited

https://www.astrazeneca.in/

"As the Country President & Managing Director, Gagan is responsible for driving AstraZeneca’s science-led strategy in India. Gagan started his journey in AstraZeneca in 2006 and held initial roles as a Business Director and later as Director Strategic Planning. Thereafter, he was promoted to the role of Vice President, Sales & Marketing - Cardiac and Diabetes. In 2012, Gagan was appointed as the Country President for AstraZeneca Philippines. Post a successful stint in this role, he moved to the United Kingdom as Global Head of Established Brands GI/CV.
Prior to AstraZeneca, Gagan has worked with Baxter India and Eli Lilly. Gagan holds a degree in Economics from the University of Delhi."

Shri Sudhendu J. Sinha

Adviser (Infrastructure Connectivity & Electric Mobility ) at NITI Aayog

Shri Sudhendu J. Sinha

Adviser (Infrastructure Connectivity & Electric Mobility ) at NITI Aayog

An alumnus of St. Stephen's College, Delhi did his Major in History. He has experience of over 27 years in operations, infrastructure planning, coordination and management at field and policy making levels in Indian Railways with considerable success and appreciation. His performance has been recognised and awarded twice at the National level (National Award for e-Governance- 2019-20, for ‘Excellence in providing Citizen - Centric Delivery’ by Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, Govt. of India, ‘National Award for Outstanding Service’ Ministry of Railways Govt. of India -2006) and thrice at the Ministry (of Railways) level. He also served as Dean of the Indian Railway Institute of Transport Management (IRITM), Lucknow, and General Manager Web Applications at the Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS). He has training and enrichment from Japan (Railway Management), Malaysia (ICLIF - Advance Management), Singapore (INSEAD - Advance Management), Germany (UIC) and the US (Oracle).

He is the Adviser at the NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transformation of India), the apex ‘Think Tank’ of the Govt. of India.

Stefan Svahn

CEO of Synthetic Data Solutions

Prashant Warier

Founder of Qure.ai

Sponsors and Partners

Community

Understanding the Swedish and Indian AI and Digitalization ecosystems and how they benefit from each other!

Coffee

Coffee

Pioneer the Possible I - Vertical Integration

Pioneer the Possible I - Vertical Integration

Pioneer the Possible II - Role of Test Beds in Supporting Digital Transformation

Pioneer the Possible II - Role of Test Beds in Supporting Digital Transformation

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

Welcome Address

Welcome Address

Leadership and AI - India Sweden Business Leaders´ Roundtable (ISBLRT)

Leadership and AI - India Sweden Business Leaders´ Roundtable (ISBLRT)

LUNCH

LUNCH

Data Science and Medicine

Data Science and Medicine

Autonomous Drive and ADAS

Autonomous Drive and ADAS

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

Digital Twins and Synthetic Data

Digital Twins and Synthetic Data

Supporting Startups - Sweden India Tech Community (SITEC)

Supporting Startups - Sweden India Tech Community (SITEC)

India Sweden Health Innovation Centre

India Sweden Health Innovation Centre

MINGLE

MINGLE

Leif Johansson

Chairman at AstraZeneca

Tanmaya Lal

Ambassador of India to Sweden at Embassy of India

Staffan Truvé

Chair at AI Sweden

Arati Davis

Senior Vice President at Sweden-India Business Council

Helene Niklasson

Head at CampX by Volvo Group

Tom Johnstone

Chairman at Combient

Charlotte Emlind Vahul

Head of Business Coaching at Chalmers Ventures

Cecilia Oldne

Senior Vice President, India Representative and Advisor at Sweden-India Business Council

Amitabh Kant

CEO of Niti Aayog, Govt. of India

Devdatt Dubhashi

Chief Scientist at EmbeDL

Charlotta Gummeson

President and CEO of Sahlgrenska Science Park

Per-Arne Wikström

Head of Office of Science & Innovation at Embassy of Sweden in India

Cecilia Oskarsson

Trade Commissioner of Sweden to India at Business Sweden

Karl Andersson

Professor at 5G Innovation Hub North

Anders Logg

Director of Chalmers Digital Twins Center

Ravikiran Annaswamy

Co-founder & CEO of Numocity Technologies

Vanessa Eriksson

Chief Digital Officer at Zenseact

Pavan Asalapuram

Founder of EMPE Diagnostics AB

Kamal Bali

President & Managing Director of Volvo Group India

Gautam Bhattacharyya

Chargé d'Affaires a.i. at Embassy of Sweden in India

Erik Borälv

Vinnova

Ola Boström

Senior Advisor at Venoneer

Iris Öhrn

Investment Advisor, Life Sciences at Business Region Göteborg

Ganesh Kumar Bukka

General Manager and Global Head at Wipro

Anand Chakravarty

Head Engineering Services, Europe at Tata Consultancy Services