The second webinar of the Masterclass webinar series ‘Being Future Ready’, the session would be led by the Chief Architect of Aadhaar Dr. Pramod Varma
9 November, 2022, Bengaluru: The Centre for Software and Information Technology Management (CSITM) at IIM Bangalore, in association with the Wadhwani Institute of Technology and Policy (WITP), will conduct a webinar titled, ‘Architecting Population Scale Solutions’ on 17th November 2022 (Thursday), from 10:00 am to 11:00 am. The webinar would be led by Dr. Pramod Varma, who is the Chief Architect of Aadhaar. This would be the second webinar of the Masterclass webinar series titled: ‘Being Future Ready’.
Please click here to register
Those who register, will be sent a Zoom link for the webinar.
Over the last decade, India has been building a set of digital building blocks from identity to payment to credentialing to data, across domains. This loosely coupled, interoperable, federated set of digital building blocks, generally known as India Stack, has allowed India to leapfrog in the areas of social welfare and financial inclusion. Most of these are in the form of protocols and open APIs allowing the market, society and government actors to build diverse innovation in the form of apps and platforms on top. India is now extending these design principles to further build additional building blocks in education, health and other domains to make nonlinear transformation at a billion people scale. In this talk, Dr. Pramod Varma, who has been the Chief Architect for most of these digital building blocks, speaks about the big picture, learnings and the impact.
For any questions, please write to: csitm@iimb.ac.in
About the speaker:
Dr. Pramod Varma is the Chief Architect of Aadhaar, India's digital identity program that has successfully covered more than 1.3 billion people. He is also the chief architect for various India Stack layers such as eSign, Digital Locker and Unified Payments Interface (UPI), and Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture (DEPA), all of which are now working at population scale in India. He also played an integral role in architecting India’s digital health infrastructure (ABDM), vaccination and immunization infrastructure (CoWIN and DIVOC), and Unified Health Interface (UHI).
He is the CTO of EkStep Foundation, a not-for-profit creating learner-centric digital public goods under Project Sunbird (sunbird.org) that powers India’s largest digital learning platform called DIKSHA.
He is also the genesis author of the open source Beckn protocol (becknprotocol.io) that helps create decentralized open discovery, fulfilment and transaction networks. Beckn protocol is the base protocol for India’s new efforts such as Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), Kochi Open Mobility Network (KOMN) and Unified Health Interface (UHI).
He is an advisor to Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN), National Health Authority (NHA), Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), Turing Institute Identity Initiative in the UK, and helps with many digital public infrastructure (DPI/DPG) initiatives in India and across the globe.
Pramod holds a Master’s and PhD degree in Computer Science along with a second Master’s in Applied Mathematics. His interests include internet scale distributed architecture and intelligent systems.
The second webinar of the Masterclass webinar series ‘Being Future Ready’, the session would be led by the Chief Architect of Aadhaar Dr. Pramod Varma
9 November, 2022, Bengaluru: The Centre for Software and Information Technology Management (CSITM) at IIM Bangalore, in association with the Wadhwani Institute of Technology and Policy (WITP), will conduct a webinar titled, ‘Architecting Population Scale Solutions’ on 17th November 2022 (Thursday), from 10:00 am to 11:00 am. The webinar would be led by Dr. Pramod Varma, who is the Chief Architect of Aadhaar. This would be the second webinar of the Masterclass webinar series titled: ‘Being Future Ready’.
Please click here to register
Those who register, will be sent a Zoom link for the webinar.
Over the last decade, India has been building a set of digital building blocks from identity to payment to credentialing to data, across domains. This loosely coupled, interoperable, federated set of digital building blocks, generally known as India Stack, has allowed India to leapfrog in the areas of social welfare and financial inclusion. Most of these are in the form of protocols and open APIs allowing the market, society and government actors to build diverse innovation in the form of apps and platforms on top. India is now extending these design principles to further build additional building blocks in education, health and other domains to make nonlinear transformation at a billion people scale. In this talk, Dr. Pramod Varma, who has been the Chief Architect for most of these digital building blocks, speaks about the big picture, learnings and the impact.
For any questions, please write to: csitm@iimb.ac.in
About the speaker:
Dr. Pramod Varma is the Chief Architect of Aadhaar, India's digital identity program that has successfully covered more than 1.3 billion people. He is also the chief architect for various India Stack layers such as eSign, Digital Locker and Unified Payments Interface (UPI), and Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture (DEPA), all of which are now working at population scale in India. He also played an integral role in architecting India’s digital health infrastructure (ABDM), vaccination and immunization infrastructure (CoWIN and DIVOC), and Unified Health Interface (UHI).
He is the CTO of EkStep Foundation, a not-for-profit creating learner-centric digital public goods under Project Sunbird (sunbird.org) that powers India’s largest digital learning platform called DIKSHA.
He is also the genesis author of the open source Beckn protocol (becknprotocol.io) that helps create decentralized open discovery, fulfilment and transaction networks. Beckn protocol is the base protocol for India’s new efforts such as Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), Kochi Open Mobility Network (KOMN) and Unified Health Interface (UHI).
He is an advisor to Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN), National Health Authority (NHA), Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), Turing Institute Identity Initiative in the UK, and helps with many digital public infrastructure (DPI/DPG) initiatives in India and across the globe.
Pramod holds a Master’s and PhD degree in Computer Science along with a second Master’s in Applied Mathematics. His interests include internet scale distributed architecture and intelligent systems.