9TH – 11TH DECEMBER 2019
SEMINAR HALL – IIT DELHI, INDIA
Speakers and Panelists for common sessions
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Ben Vershbow
Director Community Programme ,Wikimedia Foundation
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David Bainbridge
Professor of Computer Science , University of Waikato
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Enno Meijers
IT Advisor , National Library of Netherlands
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Gregory Cram
Attorney, The New York Public Library
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Harry Willem Verwayen
Executive Director, Europeana Foundation
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Jawahar C. V.
Professor, Dean (RnD) & Amazon Chair Professor, IIIT Hyderabad
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Lisa Petrides
Founder and CEO of Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education(ISKME)
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Mary Anderson Ochs
Director, AR Mann Library, Cornell University
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Partha Pratim Das
Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Kharagpur and Joint Principal Investigator, NDLI project
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Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay
Professor Dept of Library and information Science at University of Kalyani
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Paul David Clough
Professor of Search and Analytics, University of Sheffield
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Prasenjit Mitra
Professor of Information Sciences and Technology, Associate Dean for Research, Pennsylvania State University
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Sambit Datta
Dean International Professor of Computational Urban Science Curtin University, Perth, Australia
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Santanu Chaudhury
Director, IIT Jodhpur
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Sarah Kenderdine
Professor Digital Museology, EPFL, Switzerland
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Sebastian Hellmann
Director, Institute for Applied Informatics, e.V.
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Prabuddha Ganguli
Visiting Prof., Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, IIT Kharagpur
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Liam Wyatt
Community Manager, Europeana Foundation
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Muhammad Mezbah-ul-Islam
Professor, Department of Information Science and Library Management, Faculty of Arts, University of Dhaka
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Parameswaran N
Advisor, MHRD
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John Van Oudenaren
Global Fellow, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, and former Director, World Digital Library, Library of Congress
Session Chair
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Anupam Basu
Director, NIT Durgapur
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Prasenjit Mitra
Professor of Information Sciences and Technology, Associate Dean for Research, Pennsylvania State University
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Ramesh Gaur
Director (Library & Information) & Head-Kalanidhi Division at IGNCA, Ministry of Culture
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ARD Prasad
Ex. Prof. DRTC, Bangalore
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Plaban Kumar Bhowmick
Co-PI, National Digital Library of India, IIT Kharagpur
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Ravinder Kumar Chadha
Professor, LIS and Research Ex-Additional Secretary, Parliament of India, LSS, New Delhi
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Partha Pratim Das
Jt.-PI, National Digital Library of India, India
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David Bainbridge
Professor of Computer Science , University of Waikato
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Paul David Clough
Professor of Search and Analytics, University of Sheffield
Speakers and Panelists for Break Away Session at IIT Delhi Auditorium
Invited Talk on Challenges and Approaches of Library professionals in the era of Digital Library
Session Chair
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R.K. Sharma
Librarian ,United Nations Information Centre, New Delhi
Session Coordinators
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Vanita Khanchandani
Assistant Librarian, IIT Delhi
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Gunjan Mishra
Sr. Library Information Assistant, IIT Delhi
Speakers
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Ramesh Gaur
Director (Library & Information) & Head-Kalanidhi Division at IGNCA, Ministry of Culture
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K. K. Bhattacharjee
Joint Registrar at IIT Delhi
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Sandeep Kumar Pathak
Deputy Librarian, IISER Bhopal
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Sangeeta Kaul
Network Manager at DELNET
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P.K. Jain
Librarian,Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi
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Parveen Babbar
Deputy Librarian, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
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Vijay Kumar Verma
Assistant Librarian, IIT Delhi
Panel Discussion
Towards a Digital Library: by the Communities and for the Communities Panellists
Moderator
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T. S. Kumbar
Librarian IIT Gandhinagar (Moderator)
Panelists
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B. Sutradhar
Librarian, IIT Kharagpur
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C. Jayakumar
Librarian, IIT Roorkee
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M. N. Jadhav
Librarian, IIT Madras
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Nabi Hasan
Librarian, IIT Delhi
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Bibhuti B. Sahoo
Deputy Librarian, IIT Bhubaneshwar
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Anjali Bandiwadekar
Deputy Librarian, IIT Indore
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Manju Naik
Chief Library Officer, IIT Bombay
Speakers and Panelists for Break Away Session at UNESCO, New Delhi
Strengthening SAARC through Digital Heritage
Keynote Speaker
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Partha Pratim Das
Professor of IIT Kharagpur, India, Jt.-PI of National Digital Library of India and General Co-Chair, KEDL 2019
Session Chair
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Ben Vershbow
Director, Community Programs, WikiMedia Foundation
Panel Discussion
The State-of-the-Art in Digital Heritage and its Role in Strengthening SAARC
Moderator
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Ramesh C. Gaur
Member of MOW IAC and Director(L&I), IGNCA, New Delhi, India
Panelists
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Md. Mizanur Rahman
Microfilm Officer, Directorate of Archives and Libraries, Bangladesh
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Aminath Shiuna
Director, Digitisation and Training Section, National Library of Maldives, Maldives
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Saubhagya Pradhananga
Chief, National Archives of Nepal, Nepal
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Udaya Cabral
Head Conservation & Preservation Division, National Library and Documentation Service Board of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka
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Partha Pratim Das
Jt.-PI, National Digital Library of India, India
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Dilara Begum
Associate Professor and Chairperson of Information Studies and Library Management Department and Librarian (Acting) at East West University , Dhaka, Bangladesh