Schedule
Day 1: Sunday, August 6th
2:00 PM
Conference Registration Begins
4:00 PM
Conference Registration Ends
4:00 PM
Welcome Reception
5:00-5:15 PM
Welcome Remarks
5:15-6:45 PM
Panel 1: Digitization and LLMs
Panelists:
Rahul Sagar, NYU
Why Does India Forget to Remember (And What We Can Do About It)
Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, IISC
A Digital India Without Barriers
Rukmini S, Data for India
Building Public Understanding from Data: The Last Mile Problem
Tyler Cowen, GMU
What Will Artificial Intelligence Mean for Developing Countries?
7:00 PM
Buffet Dinner at the Hotel
9:00 PM
Post-Dinner Reception
Day 2: Monday, August 7th
8:00 AM
Breakfast
Lecture 1: Alex Tabarrok, GMU
The Largest Experiment in Private Schooling in the World
9:00 - 9:30 AM
Lecture 2: Karthik Muralidharan, UCSD
Reimagining Social Protection and Welfare
9:30 - 10:00 AM
10:00 - 10:30 AM
Lecture 3: Susan Thomas, XKDR
Making Courts Work. For the Litigant
10:30 – 10:45 AM
Break
10:45 - 11:00 AM
Building the Wall
11:00 - 11:45 AM
Break Out Session 1
12:00 - 12:45 PM
Break Out Session 2
1:00 PM
Lunch
2:00 - 5:00 PM
Free Time
5:00 - 6:30 PM
Panel 2: Digital Entrepreneurship and Governance
Panelists:
Montek Singh Ahluwalia, CSEP
Some Challenges in Realizing the Promise of Digital Transformation
Deepak VS, Tilt
Indian Incubators - A Founder's Perspective: Why India's Incubators are Broken, and How to Fix Them
Kshitij Batra, TEAL
Have You Seen My Title? Land Record Digitization in India - Progress and Prospects
Abishek Choutagunta, University of Hamburg
Constitutionally Destined Decay: Local Governance in India
7:00 PM
Buffet Dinner at the Hotel
9:00 PM
Post-Dinner Reception
Day 3: Tuesday, August 8th
8:00 AM
Breakfast
Lecture 4: C Rangarajan, MSE
Lessons from the Reforms Experience
9:00 - 9:30 AM
9:30 - 10:00 AM
Lecture 5: Rohit Lamba, PSU
Industrial Policy Redux
10:00 - 10:30 AM
Lecture 6: Shruti Rajagopalan, Mercatus
The 1991 Project
10:30 - 11:00 AM
Break/Check-Out of Hotel
11:00 - 11:45 AM
Break Out Session 3
12:00 - 12:45 PM
Break Out Session 4
12:45 PM - 1:00 pm
Closing Remarks
1:00 PM
Buffet Lunch