ScheduleSchedule

Day 1 - 28th Feb

9:00 AM - NXT Opening

9:05 AM - NXT in India-Japan

Conversation with:

Mr. Tomohiko Taniguchi

Former Foreign Policy Advisor to Late PM Shinzo Abe

9:20 AM - NXT in Mobility

Address by:

Mr. Sebastien Gendron

Founder & CEO, Transpod

9:40 AM - NXT in Cyber Security

Speakers:

Mr. Rizwan Sheikh

Ethical Hacker

Mr. Anil Kaushik

Founder Vice Chairman, CyberCorp Limited

10:00 AM - NXT in Democracy

Guest of Honour's Address:

Rt. Hon. Stephen J. Harper

Former Prime Minister of Canada

10:30 AM - Q&A Session

10:50 AM - NXT in Trade

Session Message:

Shri Piyush Goyal

Hon'ble Union Minister of Commerce of Bharat

10:55 AM - Panel Discussion on IMEC:

Mr. Jason Isaacson

Chief Policy & Political Affairs Officer, AJC

Ambassador Ron Malka

Chairman, Haifa Port Company

Ambassador Marc Seivers

Director, AJC Abu Dhabi

Dr. Manjari Singh

Author, India and the Gulf: A Security Perspective

11:20 AM- NXT in AI

Keynote Session:

Mr. Ashwani Vaishnav

Minister of Railways, Electronics, IT & I&B of India

11:45 AM - Presentation by:

Mr. Dinkar Jain

Vice President of AI & Marketplace, Uber

12:00 PM - Conversation with:

Mr. Mukesh Parekh

MD, MKP Group

Dr. Jonathan Penn

Associate Professor of AI Ethics, University of Cambridge

12:20 PM - Bharat & Germany

Address by:

Ambassador Philipp Ackermann

German Ambassador to India

12:40 PM - NXT in Space

In Conversation with:

Oleg Artemyev

Russian Cosmonaut

1:00 PM - In Conversation with:

Mr. Tanveer Ahmed

Co-Founder & CTO, Digantara

Mr. Srinath Ravichandran

Co-Founder & CEO, Agnikul Cosmos

Mr. Rohan M Ganapathy

CEO & CTO of Bellatrix Aerospace Pvt. Ltd

Dr. Mike Massimino

NASA Astronaut

1:35 PM - In Conversation with:

Lt Gen AK Bhat

DG, Indian Space Association

Dr. Jitendra Singh

Union Minister for Personnel, Department of Space & Atomic Energy

Dr. Mike Massimino

NASA Astronaut

2:05 PM - Lunch

2:35 PM - NXT in Global Affairs

Conversation with:

Keith Vaz

Former MP, House of Commons, UK

2:45 PM - NXT in Google

Presentation By:

Aparna Taneja

Software Engineer at Google Deepmind

3:05 PM -NXT in Medicine

Address by:

Prof. Jonathan Fleming

Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management

3:20 PM - Discussion with:

Prof. Jonathan Fleming

Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management

Dr. Ann Liebert

Professor of Research And Development At Shepherd University

Dr. Jitendra Kumar

Managing Director of Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council [BIRAC]

3:50 PM - NXT in Health

Keynote By:

Mr. Luke Coutinho

Co-Founder, Luke Coutinho Holistic Healing Systems

4:10 PM - NXT in Living

Discussion with:

Mr. Sanjay Kulshrestha

Chairman & MD, HUDCO

Mrs. Payal Kanodia

Chairperson & Trustee, M3M Foundation

Mr. Shyamrup Roy Choudhury

Founder of Aura and Foresight group

4:30 PM - NXT in Innovation

Presentation By:

Mr. Carlos Montes

Lead Innovation Hub, Fellow, Cambridge University Judge Business School

4:50 PM - Conversation with:

Mr. Janos Csak

Former Hungarian Minister

5:10 PM - Keynote by

Alec Ross

Author

5:40 PM - NXT in Technology for Humanity

Conversation with:

⁠Smriti Irani

Former Union Minister of Bharat

6:00 PM - NXT in Media

Conversation with:

Ms. Olga Lisogor

Deputy Editor Of Rossiya Segodya Media Group, Head Of Sputnik News

Mr. Pranjal Sharma

Digital Policy Analyst & Author

6:20 PM - NXT in Nuclear

Mr. Suhaan Mukerji

Founding Partner, PLR Chambers

Mr. Ashwin Nandapurkar

CEO, India Ex-Fusion

Mr. Ted Jones

Senior Director for National Security, Nuclear Energy Institute

6:50 PM - NXT in Sports

Conversation with:

Mr. Leander Paes

Tennis Champion

7:10 PM - NXT in Next Gen

Discussion with Schwarzman Scholars:

Namit Choksi

MD, MBA, MPH Executive Director, The Asclepian Group

Arielle Lawrence

CEO of Asclepian Group (Former Director M&A at CVS)

Chandler Pope Compton

Schwarzman Scholar

Aron Balazs Rimanyi

Schwarzman Scholar

Lipika Kapoor

MIT

Sumati Joshi

Schwarzman Scholar

Manthan Shah

Schwarzman Scholar

7:40 PM - NXT in the Indo-Pacific

Guest of Honour's Address:

Hon. Anthony J. Abbott

Former Prime Minister of Australia

8:10 PM - Q&A Session

Hosted by:

Mr. Amitabh Kant

G20 Sherpa & Former CEO, NITI Aayog

8:40 PM - NXT in Mobility

Presentation by:

Dr. Christian Gasparic

Partner, Kearney

Anshuman Sinha

Partner & India Head Automotive, Transportation & Infra, Kearney

8:40 PM - NXT in the UK

Conversation With:

Valerie Vaz

MP, House of Commons, UK

9:00 PM - Vote of Thanks

Day 2 - 1st March

8:45 AM - Day 2 Opening

8:50 AM - NXT in Blockchain

Presentation by:

Gaurav Somwanshi

Co-Founder, EmerTech Innovations

9:05 AM - Discussion with:

Dr. Jane Thomason

Editor of Web3 & Metaverse

Gaurav Somwanshi

Co-Founder, EmerTech Innovations

Ravi Joshi

Deputy CFO, BKT Tyres

Mithilesh Desai

The Jackfruit King

Anupam Kashiv

CEO, Augmenter

9:30 AM NXT in Green Energy

Conversation with:

Dr. Erik Solheim

Former Norwegian Minister

09:50 AM - Conversation with:

Ms. Pratibha Jain

Group General Counsel, Everstone Group

10:30 AM - NXT in Governance

Discussion with:

Honorable Scot Faulkner

Former Chief Administrative Officer U.S. House of Representatives

NXT in Bharat 2047

10:30 AM - Welcome of Chief Guest

10:32 AM - Meet & Greet

10:53 AM - Welcome Address by

Shri Kartikeya Sharma

Founder, NXT & MP, Rajya Sabha

10:58 PM - Inauguration of NewsX World

With

Shri Narendra Modi

Prime Minister of India

11:00 AM - Chief Guest's Speech by

Shri Narendra Modi

Prime Minister of India

11:55 AM - Vote of Thanks by

Dr. Aishwarya Pandit Sharma

CHAIRPERSON

12:00 PM - NXT in Media

Conversation with:

Nuseir Yassin

CEO, Nas Daily

12:30 PM - NXT in Physics

Keynote Address by:

Dr. Brian Greene

American Physcist

1:00 PM - Lunch

2:00 PM - NXT in Defence

Lt Gen AK Bhat

DG, Indian Space Association

in Discussion with:

Mr. Ankit Mehta

Co-Founder, ideaForge

Mr. JD Patil

Advisor, Defence to CMD, Larsen & Toubro

Ms. Nishtha Kapoor

Regional Director, India, SAARC, Africa, OneWeb

2:30 PM - NXT in Law

Prof. C Raj Kumar

Dean, Jindal Global Law School

in Discussion with:

Justice Michael Wilson

Former Judge, Supreme Court of Hawaii

Prof. Dr. Vesselin Popovski

Vice Dean, Centre for the Study of the United Nations, Jindal Global Law

Natasha Chiswa

Lecturer, Jindal Global Law School

3:00 PM - NXT in Money

Keynote Presentation:

Mr. Shiv Sharma

President & COO, Stocktwits

3:15 PM - Keynote Presentation:

Mr. Yoshi Yokokawa

Co-Founder & CEO, Alpaca

3:30 PM - Keynote Presentation:

Namit Choksi

MD, MBA, MPH Executive Director, The Asclepian Group

Arielle Lawrence

CEO of Asclepian Group (Former Director M&A at CVS)

4:00 PM - NXT in Entrepreneurship

Mr. Avinash Punekar

CEO, iCreate

Mr. Abhit Kumar

Social Hardware International Private Limited

Mr. Shivashankar PC

DAIJO Private Limited

Mr. Abdul Azeez Khan

Fasmho Energy Systems Private Limited

Dr. Prafulla Agarwal

Tokere Energy Solutions Private Limited

4:30 PM - NXT in Quantum Computing

Dr. JBV Reddy

Scientist - F & Head Quantum Technology Cell DST

in Conversation with:

Mr. Ajai Chowdhry

Chairman, MGB, National Quantum Mission

Dr. Bodhaditya Santra

Co-Founder & CTO, PrenishQ.

Mr. Vidur Raj

Founder, Quanastr

5:00 PM - NXT in Water

Keynote Presentation:

Mr. Pete Ceglinsky

CEO, Seabin

5:20 PM - Discussion with:

Dr. Subramanya Kusnur

Founder Chairman & CEO, AquaKraft Group

Mr. Shraman Jha

CEO, Hindustan Unilever Foundation

Mr. Noam Komy

Executive Chariman, Miya

Dr. Luisa Cortesi

Assistant Professor, Erasmus University, The Hague

Dr. Prasanna Jogdeo

Co-Founder of Lemnion Green Solutions

5:50 PM - NXT in Business

Conversation With:

Mr. Ramesh Bafna

CFO, Zepto

Mr. Sabbas Joseph

Convenor

6:15 PM - NXT in Money

Discussion with:

Dr. Shamika Ravi

Member, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of Bharat

Mr. Shankar Sharma

Founder, GQuant Investech

Mr. Sergei Millian

CEO, Regal Assets Group Holding Limited

Ashish Kumar Chauhan

MD & CEO, National Stock Exchange of India

Dr. Shamika Ravi

Member, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of Bharat

6:45 PM - NXT in Health

Mr. Dileep Cherian

Co-Founder, Perfect Relations

in Conversation with:

Dr. B Bhaskar Rao

Founder, KIMS Hospitals

7:05 PM - NXT in Power

Keynote Address by:

Shri Manohar Lal Khattar

Union Minister for Housing & Urban Affairs of India

7:25 PM - NXT in Uttarakhand

Address by:

Shri Pushkar Singh Dhami

Uttarakhand CM

7:45 PM - NXT in Mobility

Discussion with:

Anshuman Sinha

Partner & India Head Automotive, Transportation & Infra, Kearney

Mr. Aditya Goyal

Founder, Bhago Mobility

Mr. V Umashankar, IAS

Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, GoI

8:05 PM - NXT in South Asia

Discussion with:

Honorable Scot Faulkner

Former Chief Administrative Officer U.S. House of Representatives

8:30 PM - NXT in South Asia

Guest of Honour's Address:

Hon Ranil Wickremesinghe

Former President of Sri Lanka

9:00 PM - Q&A Session

9:15 PM - NXT in Physics

Conversation with:

Prof. Brian Cox

Physicist

9:45 PM - Vote of Thanks

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