Dear Paul,

This is the latest agenda for "Owning the Future."

Knowledge Symposium and Workshop

OWNING THE FUTURE: IDEAS AND THEIR ROLE IN THE DIGITAL AGE”

PROGRAM (DAY 1): 24TH AUGUST 2006

9AM-9.10AM




Lighting the Ceremonial Lamp




9.10AM-9.20AM




Welcome by Prof. B.N.Jain, Dy. Director (Faculty), I.I.T. Delhi




9.20AM-9.50AM




Inaugural Address by Shri Prithviraj Chauhan, Minister of State, Prime Minister's Office




9.50AM-10.10AM




Symposium Remarks by Mr. Tom Rabon, Executive Vice President -- Corporate Affairs, Red Hat Inc.




10.10AM-10.40AM




Chairman’s Remarks by Dr.VS Ramamurthy, Chairman, Board of Governors, IIT Delhi




10.40AM-10.45AM




Vote of Thanks by Shri Nandu Pradhan, India Country Manager, Red Hat India Pvt. Ltd.




10.45-11AM




Tea Break




11.AM-11.20AM




India's Future in the Knowledge Economy, by Dr. Sam Pitroda, Chairman, National Knowledge Commission (video recording)




11.20AM-12.20PM




Panel Discussion: Is Intellectual “Property” an oxymoron?

Moderator: Venkatesh Hariharan, Red Hat

Panelists: Justice GC Bharuka, e-committee, Supreme Court

Lawrence Liang, Alternative Law Forum

Dr. Ajai Garg, IPR Cell, Department of IT

Danese Cooper, Intel




12.20-1.00PM




Open Source and Intellectual “Property”--A judge's viewpoint

Justice Yatindra Singh, Allahabad High Court




1.00PM-2.00PM




Lunch




2PM-3PM




Panel Discussion: IP, IT and India: Towards a shareable dream

Moderator: Prof. DB Phatak, IIT Bombay

Panelists: S Chandrashekar, Director General Patents

Nishith Desai, Nishith Desai Associates

Prabir Purkayastha, Delhi Science Forum

Jayanta Fernando, ICTA, Sri Lanka

Rajdeep Sahrawat, NASSCOM




3PM-3.45PM




Open Source and its relevance to India

Shri V Ponraj, Director (Technology Initiatives), Office of the President of India




3.45PM-4.00PM




Tea Break




4.00PM-5PM




Open Content: The Wikipedia Story, Jim Wales, Founder, Wikipedia




5PM-6PM




Panel Discussion: Open Source, Open Access.
Moderator: Ajay Shah

Panelists: Jim Wales, Wikipedia

Madhukar Sinha, Registrar of Copyrights, Ministry of HRD

Subbaiah Arunachalam, MS Swaminathan Research Foundation
Paul Jones, University of North Carolina





PROGRAM (DAY 2): 25TH AUGUST 2006












9AM-9.45AM




Keynote address: To be decided




9.45AM-10.45AM




Nurturing India's Traditional Knowledge: Vandana Shiva, Navadanya




10.45AM-11AM




Tea Break




11AM-12PM




Panel Discussion: Traditional Knowledge and the Global IP regime

Moderator: Alolita Sharma, Technetra

Panelists: Dr.Vandana Shiva, Navadanya

Dr. VK Gupta, Director of Traditional Knowledge Digital Library

Sudhir Krishnaswamy, Legal Consultant to the Committee on Infrastructure, Planning Commission




12AM-1PM




Open Knowledge Resources and their relevance to Indian Education: MS Vijay Kumar, Academic Director and Assistant Provost, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Principal Investigator, Open Knowledge Initiative and Advisor, National Knowledge Commission




1PM-2PM




Lunch




2PM-2.45PM




Software, Freedom and Law, Eben Moglen, Software Freedom Law Center




2.45PM-3.15PM




The Open Source Philosophy and Intellectual Inquiry: Michael Tiemann, President, Open Source Initiative and VP, Open Source Affairs, Red Hat




3.15PM-4.15PM




Panel Discussion: Free and Open Source Ideas—Defining the 21st Century

Moderator: Dr. BK Gairola, Deputy Director General, National Informatics Center

Panelists: Eben Moglen

Michael Tiemann

Vijay Kumar

Paul Jones

Tom Rabon




4.15PM-4.30PM




Tea Break




4.30PM-5.30PM




Valedictory Session




7 PM – 9 PM




Dinner Meeting organized by Software Freedom Law Center.

Chief Guest: Shri HR Bharadwaj, Hon. Minister for Law and Justice. Venue: Nilgiri Hall