About the Digii100 2025 Delhi Summit
The Digii100 Summit 2025 brought together 300+ visionaries, policymakers, and institutional leaders at Le Meridien, New Delhi, for a day of unfiltered dialogue. This wasn’t just another tech conference; it was a community-led movement to solve the digital inertia in Indian academia. From the unveiling of the Digii100 Benchmark to high-impact fireside chats, the summit served as a catalyst for collaborations that will shape the next decade of digital learning.
Session Insights & Recordings
Missed a session? Access the full recordings of our keynote addresses, panel discussions, and Roundtable Insights and expert bytes on the future of HEIs below.
Classrooms in the AI Era:
Redesigning Learning, Empowering Educators & Redefining Assessment
Re-Architecting the Technology Function:
The People, Power, and Processes Needed to Lead Transformation
Agenda for Digii100 2025
Our full agenda, featuring keynotes, panels, and workshops from India’s leading HEI and industry leaders.
Starts - Ends
Session
Sovereign II Hall
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Registration & Networking Tea/Coffee
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Registration & Networking Tea/Coffee
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Inaugural Ceremony & Welcome Address
Video Launch – Stories Advancing Technology & Higher-ed Institutions (SATHI)
Sovereign II Hall
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Keynote Address
When the World Comes to India: Why
the Top Global Universities Are Betting
on India and What It Means for Our
Institutions
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Keynote Address
When the World Comes to India: Why the Top Global Universities Are Betting on India and What It Means for Our Institutions
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Fireside Chat
Who Builds India Next:
Architecting India’s Own Ivy League
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Panel Discussion
The Legacy Trap: Can Being the Best
Become the Barrier?
Desire Hall
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Roundtable
Re-Architecting the Technology
Function: The People, Power, and
Processes Needed to Lead
Transformation
11:30 AM - 01:00 PM
Roundtable
Policy as the Catalyst: Shaping
Digital Excellence in Higher
Education
Inspire Hall
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Unconference
One Campus One Data:
Architecting System of Intelligence
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Roundtable
Classrooms in the AI Era:
Reimagining Pedagogy
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Roundtable
Futurescaping: The Digital Learning
Blueprint for India’s Path to Viksit
Bharat
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch
Sovereign II Hall
02:00 PM - 02:50 PM
Panel Discussion
The New Student Genome: Decoding
the Future Learners
02:00 PM - 02:50 PM
Panel Discussion
The New Student Genome: Decoding the Future Learners
02:50 PM - 03:40 PM
Panel Discussion
Unbundling the Deadlock: What Will Finally Break Digital Inertia in Higher Education?
03:40 PM - 04:00 PM
Fireside Chat
Purpose, Patience & Principles: Lessons from Building InfoEdge, Backing Unicorns & Co-founding Plaksha
Desire Hall
02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Roundtable
The Experience Mandate:
Bringing Industry-Level Excellence into Campus Operations
Inspire Hall
01:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Roundtable
The Research Playbook: Guiding
India’s HEIs from Teaching-Only to
Research-Driven
02:30 PM - 03:45 PM
Roundtable
The Convergence Effect: Industry &
Academia as One Ecosystem
Sovereign II Hall
04:00 PM - 05:15 PM
Valedictory & Digii100 Benchmark Recognition
Handbook Launch – Chronicles of Indian HEI Digital Transformation
05:15 PM - 05:45 PM
Networking Tea/Coffee
Voices of Authority
Meet the leaders who shared their foresight and strategies for institutional growth.
Prof. Anil D Sahasrabudhe
Chairman,
NETF, NAAC & NBA
Abhay Shankar Meganathan
Vice Chairman,
Rajalakshmi Group
Aditya Malik
Group COO,
Veranda Learning
K Adithya
Trustee,
Sri Krishna Institutions
Akshay Munjal
Pro Chancellor,
BML Munjal University
Ambrish Sinha
CEO,
UNext Learning
Amit Sharma
Head of IT,
BML Munjal
Dr. Amit Gupta
Chairman,
Jagannath International Management School (JIMS)
Anirudh Phadke
Chief Technology Officer,
Employabilitylife
Ankur Gill
Director Operations,
Swami Vivekanand Institute of Engineering & Technology, Rajpura
Dr. Aravind Chinchure
Founder & CEO,
QLeap Academy
Prof. Atul Khosla
Founder & Vice Chancellor,
Shoolini University
Avnee Khosla
Trustee & Vice President,
Shoolini University
Dr. Ashok G Verghese
Vice President,
Hindustan Group of Institutions
Dr. Ashwin Fernandes
Executive Director – AMESA,
QS Quacquarelli Symonds
Bhushan Lawande
Founder & MD,
E4 development and coaching Ltd
Brijesh Nair
Professor (HAG) & Director,
VIT Bangalore
Prof. B S Satyanarayana
Vice Chancellor,
Dayananda Sagar University
DP Singh
Head Skills to Jobs & Tech Alliance, Amazon Web Services India
Dheeraj Sanghi
Dean of Student Affairs,
Ashoka University
Gopala Krishna Gokeda
Group CTO,
Laila Group
Hitendra Singh Rathore
Head – IT,
IIHMR University, Jaipur
Hrishikesh M Deshmukh
Head – IT Services & Operations,
JSPM University Pune
Jaya Deshmukh
Director and CEO,
MICA Ahmedabad
Jitu Mishra
Chief Administrative Officer,
Indian School of Business
Joutishman Dutta
Vice President,
Assam Down Town University
Karan Kumar
Director of Technology,
Indian School of Business
Kunwar Shekhar Vijendra
Co-founder & Chancellor,
Shobhit University
Dr. Kunjal Sinha
Pro Vice Chancellor,
Parul University
Lavish Dudeja
Director – IT Governance & Digital Infrastructure,
O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU)
Dr. Madhu Chitkara
Pro Chancellor,
Chitkara University
Maheshwer Peri
Founder & Chairman,
Careers360
Dr. Mahesh Verma
Vice Chancellor,
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
Dr. Manish Bhalla
Vice-Chancellor,
D. Y. Patil International University
Manjunath Bhandary
Chairman,
Sahyadri College of Engineering & Management, Mangaluru
Malvika Dudi Bagaria
Director,
Vivekananda Global University, Jaipur
Meghdut RoyChowdhury
Chief Innovation Officer,
Techno India Group
Dr. Mukesh Narula
Director – IT Infra & Services,
LNCT Group
Dr. Nagesh Bhandari
Presidential Secretariat,
Indus University
Dr. Neeraj Saxena
Pro Chancellor,
JIS University
Prof. (Dr) Niti Nipun Sharma
President,
Manipal University Jaipur
Dr. Nikhil Kumar Nigam
Chief Technology Officer,
Vivekananda Global University
Prof. Padmakumar Nair
Vice Chancellor,
Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology
Dr. Pankaj Mittal
Secretary General,
Association of Indian Universities
Prof. Partha Chatterjee
Dean – Academics
Professor – Department of Economics,
Shiv Nadar University, Delhi
Dr. Partha Sharathi Mallick
Pro-Vice Chancellor,
VIT University Vellore
Dr. Prashant Bhalla
President,
Manav Rachna Educational Institutions
Prashant Gupta
Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Sharda Group,
President, Sharda University, Uzbekistan
Prof. Prathap Haridoss
Professor,
IIT Madras
Radhika Shrivastava
President,
Fortune Institute of International Business
Dr. Raghuveer VR
Pro Vice Chancellor – Academic Affairs,
Chandigarh University
Dr. Rahul Choudaha
Chief Operating Officer & Senior Professor,
University of Aberdeen, Mumbai
Prof. V Ramgopal Rao
Vice-Chancellor,
Birla Institute of Technology & Science (Pilani, Hyderabad, Goa, Dubai & Mumbai)
Col. Ranjan Prabhu
Director – Administration & IT,
Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai
Prof. C Raj Kumar
Founding Vice Chancellor,
OP Jindal Global University
Prof. Rajita Kulkarni
President,
Sri Sri University
Dr. Raj Singh
Vice Chancellor,
Bennett University
Rajiv Tandon
CEO – Strategic Initiatives and Industry Research Partnerships, BITS Pilani
Rajesh Kanna
Head of ICT,
IIM Ahmedabad
Rajesh Kumar
Co-Founder & CEO,
Kalvium
Rajendra Belgaumkar
Chairman – Governing Council,
KLS Gogte Institute of Technology
Rajiv Kapoor
Managing Director,
Manav Rachna Educational Institutions
Dr. Rashima Vaid Varma
Dean, Department of Education and Humanities,
Manav Rachna University
Rishi Nayar
SVP R&D and India Country Head,
Ellucian
Rishabh Cecil Antony
Director,
NSHM Knowledge Campus
Sahil Aggarwal
Co-Founder & CEO,
Rishihood University
Dr. Samir Karkhanis
Chief Strategy Officer, Yangpoo University Partners
Prof (Dr.) Sandeep Sancheti
Vice President of Research Relations & Academic Affairs, Elsevier (India)
Dr. Sanjay Gupta
Vice Chancellor,
World University of Design
Satya Narayanan R
Chairman & Executive Director,
CL Educate
Senthil Kumar
Chief Operating Officer,
Bennett University
Dr. Sekar Viswanathan
Vice President,
VIT University
Shailesh Agarwal
Chief Technology Officer,
National Law School of India University
Shankar Vanavarayar
President,
Kumaraguru Institutions
Siddharth Banerjee
Director and Board Member,
UNIVO Education
Sitaraman Shankar
Chief Executive Officer,
IIMBx Digital Learning Foundation
Sumit Barad
Sr. Manager – Information Technology,
MICA
Dr. Sunil Kumar Pandey
Director (IT),
ITS – The Education Group, Ghaziabad
Vansh Sekhar
Director – New Initiatives & Innovations,
Shobhit University
Vishal Anand
Founder & Pro-Chancellor,
Shoolini University
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The conversations at Digii100 Summit 2025 generated a wealth of framework-level insights for institutional growth. While the event is invite-only, we share curated executive summaries and whitepapers with select leaders in the ecosystem. Join our mailing list to receive these insights.