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