Day One Agenda
08:00 to 09:00: Day One conference registration & welcome refreshments
09:00 to 09:15: Opening Welcome from Conference Chair & Inauguration Ceremony . Finlay Colville, Conference Chair PV IndiaTech 2019; Head of Research PV-Tech
09:15 to 10:00: Inaugural Session Investment opportunities within the Indian solar sector Moderator: Finlay Colville, Conference Chair PV IndiaTech 2019; Head of Research PV-Tech Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India Solar Energy Corporation of India Ltd. (SECI), Ministry of New & Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India Shailesh Kumar Mishra, Director (Power Systems) Invest India, Department for Promotion of Industry & Internal Trade, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India Siddharth Bhatia, Vice President
10:00 to 11:20: Morning Session 1 Understanding India’s PV competitiveness through investment & foreign company participation Moderator: Finlay Colville, Conference Chair PV IndiaTech 2019; Head of Research PV-Tech Bridge-to-India Vinay Rustagi, Managing Director Ernst & Young LLP Mohammad Saif, Director - Government & Transaction Advisory Services Catalyst for Accelerating Sustainable Energy (CASE) for Bharat Probir Ghosh, Founder Ananyavijaya Consulting LLP V. S. Gangadhara Rao, Founder & Director 11:20 to 11:50: Morning break with networking
11:50 to 13:10: Morning Session 2 Benchmarking how India becomes a PV powerhouse: state-of-the-art practices by global leaders Moderator: Jenya Meydbray, CEO, PV Evolution Labs (PVEL) LONGi Solar (Keynote presentation) Kapil Rahul, Marketing Director Meyer Burger Yin Ming, Head of Technology Centre Asia Risen Energy Leon Zhuang, Marketing Director Jinneng Clean Energy Technology Co. Ltd. (Jinergy) Liyou Yang, CEO 13:10 to 14:00: Lunch break with networking Day One Agenda
14:00: Afternoon Welcome . Deepak Gupta, Hon. Director-General (NSEFI); former UPSC Chairman; former MNRE Secretary
14:10 to 15:50: Afternoon Session 1 Growing the domestic sector: Make-in-India as a global gold-standard in the PV industry Moderator: Finlay Colville, Conference Chair PV IndiaTech 2019; Head of Research PV-Tech Adani Solar (Mundra Solar PV Ltd.): part of Adani Group Ramesh Nair, CEO Vikram Solar Ivan Saha, CTO & BU Head (Manufacturing) Waaree Energies Ltd. Parth Bhatt, Senior Engineer R&D Indosolar Ltd. Paul Gupta, Managing Director RenewSys *pending* 15:50 to 16:10: Afternoon break with networking
16:10 to 17:30: Afternoon Session 2 in collaboration with Bridge-to-India Test & inspection, certification of bankability metrics for modules deployed within India Moderator: Ivan Saha, CTO & BU Head (Manufacturing), Vikram Solar National Solar Energy Federation of India (NSEFI) Subrahmanyam Pulipaka, CEO STS (Senergy Technical Services) Certified Alexandre Minuzzo, President L&T-Sargent & Lundy Rajneesh Kuma, Senior Deputy General Manager PV Evolution Labs Jenya Meydbray, CEO
17:30 to 18:00: Afternoon Session 3 Panel discussion: Identifying the barriers for Indian PV manufacturing competitiveness Moderator: Finlay Colville, Conference Chair PV IndiaTech 2019; Head of Research PV-Tech Srinivasamohan Narayanan, Adani Group Satyendra Kumar, Saurya EnerTech Sandesh Shetty, Waaree Energies Ltd. Ivan Saha, Vikram Solar 18:00: Close of Day One
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08:00 to 09:00: Day Two welcome refreshments
09:00 to 11:00: Morning Session 1 Technology-transfer: research labs driving high-efficiency & low-cost PV manufacturing Moderator: Finlay Colville, Conference Chair PV IndiaTech 2019; Head of Research PV-Tech University of New South Wales (UNSW) Brett Hallam, Scientia Fellow - Research Director CEA- INES (Institut National de l'Energie Solaire) Anis Jouini, CEO National Centre for Photovoltaic Research & Education (NCPRE), IIT Bombay Narendra Shiradkar, Assistant Professor & In-charge - PV Reliability Group ISC Konstanz Lejo Joseph, R&D Engineer Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS) Roland Utama, Business Development Manager 11:00 to 11:30: Morning break with networking
11:30 to 12:45: Morning Session 2 Maximizing PV return-on-investment through components, materials supply & BoS optimization Moderator: Finlay Colville, Conference Chair PV IndiaTech 2019; Head of Research PV-Tech JinkoSolar Sai Charan Kuppili, Technical Director – South Asia DuPont Photovoltaic Solutions Rahul Khatri, Technical Manager - South Asia Huawei Technologies Mayank Mishra, Regional Director - Huawei India Solar Business 12:45 to 13:45: Lunch break with networking
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13:45 to 14:45: Afternoon Session 1 Advanced technology offerings to increase investment returns for developers & asset owners Moderator: Finlay Colville, Conference Chair PV IndiaTech 2019; Head of Research PV-Tech 1366 Technologies Frank van Mierlo, Chief Executive Officer First Solar Sujoy Ghosh, Vice President- India & Middle East Alectris Constantinos Peonides, Director CLP India Debmalya Sen, Manager – New Energy, BD & Commercial (Renewables)
14:45 to 16:00: Afternoon Session 2 Project developers, EPCs & investors Moderator: Finlay Colville, Conference Chair PV IndiaTech 2019; Head of Research PV-Tech Adani Green Energy Limited (AGEL): part of Adani Group Jayant Parimal, CEO ReNew Power Varun Sivaram, CTO Mahindra Susten Sudeep Tiwari, Senior Manager – Module Technology & Supply Quality ACME Group Manoj Upadhyay, Founder & Chairman Fortum Manoj Gupta, VP - Solar Business 16:00 to 16:30 Afternoon break with networking
16:30 to 17:30: Closing Keynote Talk Moderator: Jenya Meydbray, CEO, PV Evolution Labs (PVEL) PV-Tech Market Research Finlay Colville, PV IndiaTech Chair & Head of Research 17:30: Conference close
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