Welcome to the
Wikimedia Technology Summit 2023

3 - 4 March 2023, IIIT Hyderabad, Telangana

Objectives of The Event

The 2nd Wikimedia Technology Summit aspires to develop a reliable and rewarding internet, forge enduring alliances and engage in open discussions about our limitations and potential that may be applied for the greater good. The summit has two primary objectives
  • To share and discuss the state-of-the-art tools, technologies, knowledge, and ongoing research within Wikimedia and its sister projects - Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikisource, WikiMed etc,.
  • To provide a platform to discuss topics related to technology areas like the Indic language computing tools, text processing, text generation, document archival, rich media processing, and user interfaces

Event Schedule

Here is the schedule for our event

Friday, 03 March 2023

Session

Speakers

Facilitators

Registration

and morning tea

Welcome and Context

Vasudeva Varma
Tanveer Hasan
P. J. Narayanan

Keynote Panel 1

Engaging the digital, digitization of content and knowledge: Are we doing it right?

Selena Deckelmann
Raj Reddy
Balasubramaniam Iyer
Raji Baskaran
C.V. Jawahar

Soni Wadhwa

Lightning Talks for Posters

Bhavyajeet Singh

Tea Break

Panel 1

Knowledge Systems: Past and the future

Sarika Gulyani
Nagaraju Pappu
Sreenivas Paruchuri
Aniket Alam

Runa Bhattacharjee

Lunch

Panel 2

Educational resources, technological innovation and free knowledge

Nichole Saad
Sameera Wijerathna
Praveen Garimella

Padma Priya

Tea Break

Learning Session

Pau Giner
Santhosh Thottingal
Amir Aharoni

Krupal Kasyap

Bhavyajeet Singh

Panel 3

What does a global partnership for education look like?

Jatin Malhotra
Subodh Kulkarni
Praveen Das
Padma Priya

Rachit Sharma

Day 1 Closing Note

Rachit Sharma
Radhika Krishnan

Dinner and Networking

Saturday, 04 March 2023

Session

Speakers

Facilitators

Hackathon Showcase

Kasyap
Abhijeet Patro

Opening Note

Denny Vrandečić

Panel 1

How do we create sustainable knowledge systems?

SRS Iyengar
Bhanu Potta
Aakansha Natani
Venkatesh Hariharan

Vidhu Goyal

Tea Break

Research Roundtable

The role of research and technology development in shaping the future of Knowledge creation and consumption

Leila Zia
Ashutosh Modi
Amit Awekar
Ravikiran
Radhika Krishnan
Vikram

Radhika Mamidi

Lunch

Panel 2

Public archives and participation - Past, Present and Future

Christos Varvantakis
Omshivaprakash
Sneha PP
Isha Dubey

Satdeep Gill

Tea Break

Key Note 2

What is the future of open knowledge?

Sunil Abraham
Jahnavi Phalkey
Kamal Karlapalem

Madhan Muthu

Vision Panel

Vision panel discussing the keynote and identifying themes/questions for the 2024 conference

WTS Organising team

High Tea and Networking

Thursday, 2nd March, 2023

Session

Description

Organizers

Mini-Hackathon

The Hackathon's objective is to bring together and collaborate with the numerous programmers working on Indian Wikimedia project.
We intend to deliberate, create tools, and collaborate on MediaWiki, current initiatives, and technical fields.
The Hackathon brings together international Open-source developers, code writers, maintainers, translators, and designers who work on Mediawiki.

Krupal Kasyap
Bhuvana Meenakshi Koteeswaran
Jay Prakash
Abhijeet Patro

Event Speakers

Here are the speakers for the event

Selena

Selena Deckelmann

CPTO, Wikimedia Foundation

Raj Reddy

Raj Reddy

Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

Raj Reddy

Raji Baskaran

CEO, Manifolds Lab - IIT Madras

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R.V.Balasubramaniam Iyer

Vice President at Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (Group Company of Reliance Industries Limited)

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C.V. Jawahar

Dean R&D, IIIT Hyderabad

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Soni Wadhwa

Academician - Teaching and Research

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Sarika Gulyani

Director, and Head-ICT, Mobile Manufacturing, New Age Technologies & FICCI-ILIA Division, FICCI

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Nagaraju Pappu

Expert in Technology strategy

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Sreenivas Paruchuri

Senior Manager - Sustainability and Materials, Grammer AG

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Aniket Alam

Associate Professor, IIIT Hyderabad

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Runa Bhattacharjee

Director, Engineering for Language & New Readers at Wikimedia Foundation

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Sameera Wijerathna

Head of Digital Education at Dialog Axiata PLC

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Nichole Saad

Senior Manager, Education at Wikimedia Foundation

Speaker 6

Praveen Garimella

Director, Learning Platforms, Indian School of Business Hyderabad

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Padma Priya

Co-Founder and Editorial lead at Suno India

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Subodh Kulkarni

Senior Program Officer with CIS - A2K

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Praveen Das

Senior Regional Partnerships Manager, South Asia at Wikimedia Foundation

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Rachit Sharma

Senior Global Movement Communications Specialist (South Asia), The Wikimedia Foundation

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Jatin Malhotra

Program Manager - Developer Ecosystem & Strategic Partnerships, Jio Digital

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Denny Vrandečić

Head of Special Projects, Wikimedia Foundation

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Ravi Kiran S

Assistant Professor at IIIT Hyderabad and Lead at iHub-Data

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P.J. Narayanan

Professor and Director, IIIT Hyderabad

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Vasudeva Varma

Professor, IIIT - Hyderabad

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Tanveer Hasan

Senior Program Officer, Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation

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Venkatesh Hariharan

Open Invention Network, FOSS United, ex-Google, ex-Red Hat, journalist and writer

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Aakansha Natani

Assistant Professor, IIIT Hyderabad

Nagender Reddy

Vidhu Goyal

Wikimedia Foundation

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Ashutosh Modi

Assistant Professor CSE, IIT Kanpur

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Amit Awekar

Assistant Professor CSE, IIT Guwahati

Speaker 3

Radhika Mamidi

Associate Professor, IIIT Hyderabad

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Sunil Abraham

Public Policy Director - Data Economy and Emerging Tech at Facebook India

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Satdeep Gill

Program Officer, Culture and Heritage WMF

Bhanu Potta

Bhanu Potta

Chief Growth Officer - Global South, Worldreader

SRS Iyengar

SRS Iyengar

Head, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Ropar

Leila zia

Leila zia

Director, Head of research at Wikimedia Foundation

Vikram Pudi

Vikram Pudi

Professor, IIIT Hyderabad

Radhika

Radhika Krishnan

Assistant Professor, IIIT Hyderabad

Omshivaprakash

Omshivaprakash H L

President, Techfiz

PP Sneha

PP Sneha

The Centre for Internet and Society

Arul George

Madhan Muthu

Director of Library, Jindal Global University, Sonipat (Haryana)

Kamal Karlapalem

Kamal Karlapalem

Professor, Head - Data Science and Analytics Centre, IIIT

Jahnavi Phalke

Jahnavi Phalke

Founding Director, Science Gallery Bengaluru

Isha Dubey

Isha Dubey

Assistant Professor, IIIT Hyderabad

Isha Dubey

Krupal Kasyap

Consultant IndicWiki Project at IIIT

Isha Dubey

Abijeet Patro

Senior Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation

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Bhuvana Meenakshi Koteeswaran

Founder- Women In Tech collectives India; CoFounder- EmergeAbility; Women Tech Makers Ambassador

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Jay Prakash

Full Stack Engineer 2 at IDinsight and MediaWiki Developer

Event Venue

Location of the event venue and gallery

IIIT-H | The International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad

Professor CR Rao Rd, Gachibowli, Hyderabad, Telangana 500032

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Address

Information Retrieval and Extraction Lab, IIIT Hyderabad, Gachibowli

Phone Number

+91 9014120442