The Conclave starts with a Keynote Address by Dr. Athithan, followed by panel discussions. Three panel discussion sessions have been scheduled, as detailed below:

Panel 1: Cyber Threats: An Emerging Global Challenge

Panel Members:  

1. Mr. Ishwar Prasad Bhat, CEO, Necurity Solutions
2. Natarajan Elangovan, Head – Security Engineering at Wipro Limited, Chennai
3. T. T. Aditya, Product Owner – Security and Privacy, Continental Corporation Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru
4. S. Venkat Sairam, Chief Manager, Computer Systems Dept. CUB

Panel Chair: Dr. Prabaharan Poornachandran, Director, Centre for Internet Studies and Artificial Intelligence, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, Kerala

Panel 2: Technological Solutions and Directions to Secure Cyber Space

Panel Members: 

1. Mr Yesudian Rajkumar J.K, Founder Amud Solutions, Zero Trust Consultant, Quick Heal Technologies, Chennai
2. Dittin Andrews, Joint Director Cyber Security, CDAC, Thiruvanthapuram
3. Melvin John, Security Specialist at NEC Corporation India Pvt. Ltd, Bengaluru
4. (R) Mr. Devender Singh Rawat, Former Deputy Director, Electronic Warfare Communication Spectrum

Panel Chair: Dr Shankar Raman, CEO, Pravarthak Ecosystems, IIT Madras Research Park, Chennai

Panel 3: Role of Academia in Strengthening Cybersecurity  

Panel Members: 

1. Dr S.A.V.Satyamurty, Distinguished Scientist and Former Director, IGCAR, Presently Director, Research, Vinayaga Missions Research Foundation
2. Prof Dr Sethumadhavan, Head, TIFAC Core in Cybersecurity, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore
3. Siraj Rahim DGM – Operation Technology, MRF Limited, Chennai
4. Mr Pradeep, Sr Director, FICE/INTEL Bengaluru

Panel Chair: Mr.Sitaram Chamarty, Principal Consultant at TCS, Hyderabad

Program Schedule:

This event provides a platform for eminent people from the corporate world to share their knowledge and experience with other industries, academia as well as students. The agenda of conducting the event is to have a fruitful discussion on the challenges the industry is facing in the security domain and the role of academia in providing solutions and support to them. The event consists of representations from Industries like NEC, Zoho, and Tata Consultancy Services and Ashok Leyland.

The program will include Inauguration and invited Talk from international speaker followed by company/industry presentations and open discussions.
This event will open opportunities for budding scientists to start new research areas with industry collaboration.

The event has 2 levels of technical events. Each event has exciting prize money.

High-Level Technical Events:

The events are meant for B.Tech student enthusiasts who are having a good idea about cybersecurity.

• CTF (Capture The Flag) (6Hrs) is a competition containing challenges in different domains of cybersecurity such as Forensics, Web Exploitation, Reverse Engineering, OSINT, etc…
• Ideathon with Cybersecurity – The theme will be given on the day of the event.

Basic Level Technical Events:

The events help beginner-level B.Tech students to enrich their skills in cybersecurity and lead their way to becoming Cybersecurity professionals.

• Scavenger Hunt: Quiz-like competition with clues given in the description. And this will be an individually participating competition. Questions will be based on web exploitation.
• Cybertrivia: An oral quiz competition that requires a team to participate in the event.
• Debug the Code: An individual event where each participant will be given a code with errors and they should find the errors and correct them.
• Identify a Language: An individual event where each participant will be given some program and the participant must identify the language.
• Code in an Unknown Language: An individual competition where participants need to learn a new language in less amount of time and write the code for the given problem.

Most people are at least semi-aware that identity theft and network hacks are possible, and are reasonably good at not intentionally downloading malicious code or clicking dubious links. This event will focus on rural schools and villages to spread cyber awareness and basic training. The objective of this event is to initiate a social cyber consciousness drive to ensure that the rural population do not fall prey to malicious cyber attacks. This drive will also sensitise people on the corrective actions and support systems available in case of facing cyber related issues.