The Quint Hindi BOL

Venue

The Leela Palace

Africa Avenue, Chanakyapuri,
New Delhi - 110023

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Agenda

  • 10:55 AM
    Greet & Welcome
  • 11:05 AM
    Welcome Note
    Mr. Sanjay Pugalia
  • 11:15 AM
    Key Note address
    By Guest of Honour
  • 11:25 AM
    Panel
    Democratizing India’s Internet Through Tech Policy
  • 12:15 PM
    Reverie Report
    Key Insights by Mr. Arvind Pani
  • 12:30 PM
    Fireside Chat
    Mr. Rajan Anandan & Mr. Raghav Bahl
  • 12:55 PM
    Speech
    Chief Guest Mr. Nitin Gadkari
  • 01:05 PM
    Break for Lunch
  • 02:10 PM
    Panel
    Win-Win: Making Indian Languages Profitable for Businesses
  • 03:05 PM
    Beauty of Indian Languages
    Ms. Sonam Kalra
  • 03:25 PM
    Vote of Thanks
  • 03:30 PM
    Tea & Networking

Speakers

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  • Nitin Gadkari Nitin Gadkari

    Senior BJP leader Nitin Gadkari is the Union minister for Road Transport, Highways and Shipping. In September 2017, he was given additional charge of the ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation.

    Union Minister of Road Transport, Highways & Shipping and Water Resources

    Senior BJP leader Nitin Gadkari is the Union minister for Road...

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  • Rajan Anandan Rajan Anandan

    Rajan Anandan is the Vice President of Google South East Asia and India, responsible for Sales and Operations in the region. Rajan has focused on expanding the Internet ecosystem, increasing adoption among consumers and businesses and accelerating innovation in the region with the fastest growing Internet user base in the world.

    Vice President, Google

    Rajan Anandan is the Vice President of Google South East Asia and India, responsible for Sales and Operations in the region...

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  • Raghav Bahl Raghav Bahl

    Raghav Bahl is a serial entrepreneur and investor, with several successful exits to his credit. Besides founding and scaling Network 18, India’s leading media group, he has also seeded moneycontrol.com, bookmyshow.com, firstpost.com, yatra.com, among others. Raghav is now focused on scaling a cutting-edge digital media business, straddling content, technology and distribution.

    Founder, Quintillion Media Pvt Ltd

    Raghav Bahl is a serial entrepreneur and investor, with several successful exits to his credit. Besides founding..

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  • Anant Goenka Anant Goenka

    Since Anant Goenka joined The Indian Express group as Executive Director, the legacy brand has made long strides in the digital space. Keeping the rapid growth of its Hindi-news portal Jansatta.com in mind, the Express has ventured to other Indian languages like Malayalam and Tamil too.

    Executive Director, The Indian Express Group

    Since Anant Goenka joined The Indian Express group as Executive Director, the legacy brand has made long strides...

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  • Virendra Gupta Virendra Gupta

    In 2007, Virendra founded the mobile value-added services (VAS) company Verse Innovation Pvt Ltd but he soon maneuvered a pivot from a classified ads company to a news aggregator, and Dailyhunt was born in 2015. Now Dailyhunt curates content from more than 650 publishers in 14 Indian languages.

    Founder & CEO, Dailyhunt (Verse Innovation Pvt Ltd)

    In 2007, Virendra founded the mobile value-added services (VAS) company Verse Innovation Pvt Ltd but he soon...

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  • Ritu Kapur Ritu Kapur

    Ritu Kapur is the co-founder and CEO of The Quint. She’s also a Board Member at Oxford University’s prestigious Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, as well as World Editor’s Forum. The Quint and Hindi Quint are mobile-first digital news platforms, which are taking the digital world by storm through their unique blend of video, audio and text.

    Co-Founder & CEO, Quintillion Media Pvt Ltd

    Ritu Kapur is the co-founder and CEO of The Quint. She’s also a Board Member at Oxford University’s prestigious...

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  • Jaivir Nagi Jaivir Nagi

    Jaivir Nagi heads the Online Partnerships Business for Google India. Under his leadership, Google India has launched language support for AdSense and AdWords for various Indian languages. Thus, opening up opportunities for publishers in small towns across the country.

    Director, Online Partnerships, Google

    Jaivir Nagi heads the Online Partnerships Business for Google India. Under his leadership, Google India has launched...

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  • Arvind Pani Arvind Pani

    With the aim of bridging the digital divide between local languages and promoting linguistic equality, Arvind Pani co-founded Reverie Language Technologies Pvt Ltd. The Bangalore-based software company makes textual communication possible in any language on all digital platforms.

    Co-Founder & CEO, Reverie Language Technologies Pvt Ltd

    With the aim of bridging the digital divide between local languages and promoting linguistic equality...

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  • Chetan Krishnaswamy Chetan Krishnaswamy

    As the Director of Public Policy at Google, Chetan Krishnaswamy has engaged with policy makers, industry associations and members of civil society to create a conducive environment for an inclusive internet. Keeping this goal in mind, the company launched Google Pay, its standalone digital payments app which is available in English and seven other Indian languages.

    Director, Public Policy, Google

    As the Director of Public Policy at Google, Chetan Krishnaswamy has engaged with policy makers, industry associations...

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  • Ankush Sachdeva Ankush Sachdeva

    Ankush Sachdeva co-founded ShareChat with two of his IIT-Kanpur friends in 2014. The platform is a social networking app targeting non-English language users where users can create content in their own regional languages. The Bengaluru-based start-up is betting big on India’s expanding internet user base.

    Ankush Sachdeva, Co-Founder & CEO, ShareChat

    Ankush Sachdeva co-founded ShareChat with two of his IIT-Kanpur friends in 2014. The platform is a social networking...

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  • Sourabh Gupta Sourabh Gupta

    Sourabh Gupta co-founded Vernacular.ai, a multi-lingual intelligence platform in 2016. This revolutionary platform enables institutions to interact with their customers in their preferred language using artificial intelligence (AI) and is helping the next 500 million Indians get online.

    Co-Founder & CEO, Vernacular.ai

    Sourabh Gupta co-founded Vernacular.ai, a multi-lingual intelligence platform in 2016. This revolutionary platform...

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  • Sonam Kalra Sonam Kalra

    Sonam Kalra is an award-winning singer and composer who has formal training in Indian music and western music. Since 2011, Sonam has been working on the Sufi Gospel Project, which beautifully blends prayer, poetry and music together to transcend the barriers of faith and language through music.

    Founder, The Sufi Gospel Project

    Sonam Kalra is an award-winning singer and composer who has formal training in Indian music and western music...

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About BOL

Indian language internet users in India (234 million) have already overtaken the number of English users (175 million). Indian language users, spurred on by drops in smartphone and data prices, are expected to account for nearly 75% of India’s internet user base by 2021.

This means 9 out of every 10 new internet users in India over the next 5 years are likely to be Indian language users.

In a country with the second-largest number of internet users in the world, these figures imply a tectonic shift for businesses. As the economy wakes up to this reality, the conversation has shifted from why businesses must enter the non-English user market to how.

BOL is a full-day event being hosted by Quint Hindi and Google India with the goal of bringing together the brightest minds in business, media and publishing to talk about the explosion of Indian languages online. From panel discussions to fireside chats, it’s going to be a day filled with insightful conversations about forces shaping India’s internet and economy by the people helping bring about this change.