The future of digital economy in the age of AI - Tech Talk with Pramod Varma

We are pleased to invite you to a special lecture

on Wednesday, September 16, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.

at the Jacques-Louis Lions Auditorium at the Inria Center in Paris

and via videoconference,

for the fourth edition of the Inria Foundation’s Tech Talks.

The Inria Foundation will take advantage of Pramod Varma’s visit to France. Varma is one of the key architects of the India Stack and the creator of India’s digital identity system (Aadhaar), the UPI payment system, and the open Beckn protocol, which has major applications in transportation as well as smart energy distribution networks.

His lecture, to be delivered in English, will be titled “The Future of the Digital Economy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” and will address decentralized agent networks, the tokenization of value transfers, and how to preserve open economies amid these developments.

Pramod Varma will share the stage with Siddarth Setty, the designer of the DEPA (Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture) protocol, with whom he recently founded the nonprofit organization Networks for Humanity.