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IEEE Bangalore Section is pleased to announce a new Industry Focused Mega event, namely Bangalore Technology Conclave. It has following 4 main components:

1. Thematic Bangalore Technology Conclave(BTC) (This year Theme is "AI For All") on Nov 3-4, 2020. Two Sessions each day[ Morning: 8AM-11.30 AM IST, Evening: 6PM-9PM IST]. 2020 IEEE President and CEO Prof. Toshio Fukuda will Inaugurate the Conclave. 
2. Women in Engineering Global Summit (WiEGS) on Nov 5, 2020 [ Morning: 8AM-11.00 AM IST, Evening: 5.30PM-9PM IST followed by Cultural Dance using AI]. 2021 IEEE President and CEO Ms. Susan Kathy Land will Inaugurate the Summit. 
3. Workshop on Space and Defense Technology on Nov 6 [ Morning: 8AM-1.00 PM IST]. 2020-2021 IEEE AESS President, Dr. Downing will Inaugurate the Workshop. 
4. Young Professionals Global Summit(YPGS) on Nov 6-7, 2020 [ Nov 6, Evening: 5.30PM-9PM IST, Nov 7, 2020 [8.30 AM to 8.30 PM IST]. 

BTC objective is to bring together technology leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs & thought provokers who are passionate about addressing impactful problems by turning ideas into solutions. Industry stalwarts and technology practitioners, together, will share their vision on future technologies and how they will impact our way of working and living. The conclave is exclusively focused on Artificial Intelligence Technologies.

It is designed with 4 tracks AI in Industry, Advances in AI,  AI in Health Care/AI for Social Good and  Ethical AI. The conclave includes keynote addresses, Plenary talk and Panel discussions from eminently personalities.  Targeted audiences are from Corporate, Academia,  and Industry. We have lined up Who's who from the Industry to deliver Keynote and share their perspective as Panel speaker. Confirmed Keynote Speakers for BTC is as following:

1. Prof. Toshio Fukuda, 2020 IEEE President and CEO
2. Rajeev Rastogi, VP, Amazon India
3. Ravi Vijayraghavan, VP & Head-Analytics and Decision Science, Flipkart
4. Shailesh Kumar, Sr. VP, Reliance Jio
5. Vishal Chahal, AP Leader, IBM Data Warehouse & AI
6. Hans Hofstraat, VP, Philips Research, Royal Philips, Netherlands
7. Mallik Tatipamula, CTO, Silicon Valley, Ericsson R&D
8. Vinay Jammu, VP, GE Digital
9. Suparna Bhattacharya, Distinguished Technologist, HPE
10. Ajay Sharma, Sr. Director, Walmart LABS
11. Nishant Chandra, Sr. Director, VISA
12. Manish Gupta, Director, Google Research
13. Narayanan Subramanian, Technology Leader, Nutanix
14. Katina Michael, ASU, USA
15. Rajkumar Buyya, UoM, Australia
16. Amardeep Lakhtakia, MD, Delloit
17. Prof. U Dinesh Kumar, IIM Bangalore
18. Neil Sahota, 2021 IEEE TEMS President

WiEGS has focused session on Women in AI and Women in Leadership Roles. Following Keynote Speakers have confirmed their participation:

1. Ms. Susan Kathy Land, 2021 IEEE President and CEO
2. Karen Bartleson, 2017 IEEE President and CEO, IEEE Fellow
3. Cecelia Metra, 2021 IEEE Division 1 Director-Elect, IEEE Fellow
4. Leila De Floriani, 2020 IEEE CS President, IEEE Fellow
5. Manuela Veloso, Head of JP Morgan AI Research
6. Pankajam Sreedevi, Managing Director, Commonwealth Bank of Australia
7. Geetha Manjunath, Founder CEO & CTO, NIRMAI
8. Sushmita Mitra, IEEE Fellow, ISI Kolkata
9. Paulina Yenbic Chan, Chair, IEEE Hong Kong Section
10. Rama Akkiraju, IBM Fellow, IBM
11. Regional WiE Chairs of all the 10 Regions of IEEE

Workshop on Space and Defense will have 3 sessions: 1. Deep Learning Based RF Target Classification: Recent Results and Technical Challenges by Dr. Uttam K. Majumder, AFRL ,USA , 2. CubeSat for Solar Particles (CuSP) by Walter Downing, President, IEEE AESS and 3. Measurement Facilities for Target Detection, AoA and other defence and space applications by Richard Liu, WavePro.

YPGS has focused sessions on 5G, V2X, IoT, computing, semiconductors, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and space and satellite technologies. Following Keynote Speakers have confirmed their participation:

1. Nacer Chahet, JPL, NASA
2. Quenton Bond, JPL, NASA
3. Lorenzo Lo Monte, Chief Scientist, Telephonics
4. Nicole McFarlane, The  University  of  Tennessee, Knoxville TN
5. Taimoor Abbas, CEO, ICV-TECH AB, and Principal researcher at Huawei Technologies
6. Simay Akar, Chief Commercial Officer, Innoses -Ruiyi (Shanghai).
7. Nikhil Mathur, Amazon Internet Services Pvt. Ltd
8. Siddhesh Talokar, RJio
9. Regional YP Chairs of all the 10 Regions of IEEE
10. YP Chairs of all the Indian Sections

Kindly Register at: https://btc.ieeebangalore.org/registration/

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With Regards

Puneet Kumar Mishra

General Chair, BTC 2020 (btc.ieeebangalore.org)