AIYD 2018 

SUMMARY

Our selected 30 delegates from Australia and India will converge for the seventh AIYD dialogue in New Delhi and Mumbai from 21st to 24th January 2018.

The theme this year will be DIGITAL DISRUPTION where we explore, discuss and collaborate on following sub themes :

• The future of democracy – Governance and youth civic engagement in a digital age

• The future of information – Blockchain and cyber security in a digital age

• The future of work – the impact of exponential technologies & the advent of the sharing economy on labour markets

The program has an impressive line up of eminent speakers, interactive sessions and exercises for delegate to explore opportunities together and shape the dialogue as contributors of Australia – India relationship.

Speakers

• Harinder Sidhu, Australia High Commissioner to India

• Amit Dasgupta, Inaugural India Country Director at UNSW

• Professor Jane den Hollander, Vice Chancellor of Deakin University

• Belinda Howell, Chief Market Development Officer - UTS Insearch

• Dr Tom Verghese, Principal Consultant - Cultural Synergies

• Alphons Joseph Kannanthanam, Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, Culture ...

• Tim Watts MP, Federal Member for Gellibrand (AIYD 2017 Alumni)

• Jay Panda MP, Meenakshi Lekhi MP

• Richard Bolt, Secretary Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources (DEDJTR)

• Prerna Mukharya, Outline India (AIYD 2016 Alumni)

• Avani Parekh, Director of Empathy at SHEROES

• Krishna Kumar, Founder Cropin

• John Selby, Lecturer, Macquarie University (AIYD 2015 Alumni)

• Vadi Muthya, Director, Deloitte Digital

• Tony Huber, Consul General of Australia to Mumbai

• Sneh Vaswani, CEO, Emotix

• Manish Singhal, Partner, Pi Ventures

• K Ananth Krishnan, EVP and Global CTO, Tata Consultancy Services

• Jayakumar Jitendrasinh Rawal, Cabinet Minister for Tourism, Government of Maharashtra