Registration / Welcome Remarks by Mr Sunjoy Joshi, Director, ORF
Ravindra Gupta, Former Secretary, Defence Production and Chairman Task Force on Defence Modernisation and Self-Reliance
A.K. Chopra, Financial Advisor (Defence Services), Ministry of Defence
Session I
Vinod Dhall, Former Secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs and Former Chairman, Competition Commission, chairing the session and
Ravinder Pal Singh , Defence Analyst and former Project Leader
speaking on "Broader Context of Arms Procurement Reforms"
Jayant Patil, Executive Vice President and Member of the Board of
Heavy Engineering, L&T and Dr Vivek Lal President and CEO,
Reliance New Ventures, giving out the private sector
perspective on DPP
Amit Cowshish, Financial Advisor (Acquisition) and Additional Secretary,
Department of Defence Finance, Ministry of Defence
speaking on reforms in DPP, followed by a Q&A session
A special address by Manish Tewari, MP and Member, Parliamentary
Standing Committee on Defence
Session II
Vinod K. Mishra, Former Secretary, Department of Defence Finance and
Distinguished Fellow, IDSA, chairing the session and Major
General
Mrinal Suman, former
Technical Manager (Land Systems)
and Consultant, CII speaking on offsets
G. Balachandran, Visiting Fellow, Institute for Defence Studies
and
Analyses, speaking on ToT and S N Mishra, Additional
Secretary
and Senior CDA, Southern Command, MoD paper
on
Defence Procurement being read out for the delegates.
Question and Answer session
Naveen Jindal, Member, Consultative Committee, MoD delivering
valedictory address and SP's Editor-in-Chief, Jayant Baranwal
giving vote of thanks
