Instituted by Mr. Ram Mohan (BT/AE/1970) and Mrs. Shiela Mohan, P.D. Murti Memorial Distinguished Speaker Lecture Series aims to promote awareness of management in engineers and provide a forum for talks on current management issues and trends. Mr. Mohan is a seasoned veteran of enterprise electronic commerce and supply-chain management with over 25 years of executive management experience from KPMG Consulting and Amdahl Corp. At KPMG Consulting, Mr. Mohan was a senior partner with clients such as Hewlett-Packard and GE Capital. His entrepreneurial spirit and drive has led him to co-found iSpring Corp. and drive the company's initial business plan, financing, management team and product strategy.
Dr. Ram Sewak Sharma, (former Chairman at Telecom Regulatory Authority of India and who led the Aadhaar team as the first Director- General of Unique Identification Authority of India), gave his lecture on the context of Unique IDs in India, Goals, Design Principles,Technology Architecture and Features of Aadhaar and Challenges during project implementation. He also talked about the products and services built on top of Aadhaar and the potential of this digital Identity. Dr. Ram Sewak Sharma is credited with this singular achievement of what-is-today, the world's largest bio metric system, and without doubt, one of the robust architectural implementations of digital technology. He captured his experiences in this regard in his recently published book "The Making of Aadhaar: World's largest Identity Platform"
