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(Abhinav)
Times news network
Kanpur: IIT-Kanpur on Monday announced the prestigious PD Murti Memorial Lecture, hosting alumnus, Dr Ram Sevak Sharma, as the keynote speaker. The lecture would be held on Wednesday. Dr. Sharma was the Former Chairman at Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and the man who led the Aadhaar team as the first Director-General of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI).
IITKanpur said that its IME Department is privileged and honoured to host Dr Sharma on this prestigious platform where he will be interacting with the audience and sharing his role, thoughts and experiences in realising our dream of digitally empowered nation.
The event will be addressed by Prof. Abhay Karandikar, Director, IIT Kanpur, and Prof. Suman Saurabh, of IIT Kanpur.
“Dr. Ram Sewak Sharma is credited with this singular achievement of what-is-today, the world’s largest biometric system, and without doubt, one of the robust architectural implementations of digital technology”, IIT said.
He captured his experiences in this regard in his recently published book “The Making of Aadhar: Worlds largest Identity Platform’.
P D Murti Memorial Lecture Series is an alumnus funded platform for IIT Kanpur students and global audience to engage with various distinguished personalities. The objective of this lecture series is to provide an insight of industry, government sectors and the corporate world to become successful in their life.
The program will be live telecast on MBA IIT Kanpur YouTube Channel