{"id":1687,"date":"2024-03-15T12:57:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T12:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/bow\/?post_type=team&#038;p=1687"},"modified":"2024-03-15T13:00:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T13:00:02","slug":"lt-gen-retd-pjs-pannu","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/bow\/2024\/speakers\/lt-gen-retd-pjs-pannu\/","title":{"rendered":"Lt Gen (retd) PJS Pannu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Lt Gen PJS Pannu, PVSM, AVSM, VSM, (Retd) former Deputy Chief of Indian Integrated Defence Staff a second generation officer.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">He is an alumni of the Defence Services Staff College and National Defence College. He is <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">PhD in Business Management<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> with thesis on Indigenisation of Defence Industry. An alumnus of prestigious Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, and Information Sharing and Analysis Centre \u2013 and a certified National Cyber Scholar.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">He is currently the FICCI (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry) Chairperson of task force on ICT modernisation for Defence.\u00a0 Chairperson for Satcom (Space) Industries Association (SIA). He is a distinguished fellow of USI, He has co-authored a book titled \u2019The Power of future Machines\u2019 and authored many publications on Defence Technology. He is head of the Military History and Strategy Vertical of the Valley of Words, an international Literature fest organisation. He has contributed to seminal work on MOSAIC Warfare: India&#8217;s Transformational Necessity.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">As Deputy Chief of Integrated Defence Staff (Operations) he was entrusted with a distinguished task of the raising of <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">three premiere defence agencies; Defence Space Agency (DSA)<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> Defence Cyber Agency (DCyA)<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and the<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> Armed Forces Special Operations Division (AFSOD)<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> special operations.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">He was an instructor at IMA, Dehradun. He has immense experience in <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Military Operations with three tenures <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in Military Operations Branch of Army Head Quarters. As the Director Perspective Planning, he dealt with the Budgets, future Plans and the Force Structuring.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">He commanded his Battalion and an Infantry Brigade in Uri Sector on the Line of Control. He has commanded an Infantry Division on the Line of Actual Control with China and commanded the Corps deployed in two fronts (Pakistan and China together) and the highest battle field of the world.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">He has also served in <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">two foreign missions <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in a multi-national force environment under the <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">United Nations<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> in Mozambique and Sudan as Chiefs of Operations in both Missions.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">For his distinguished services he was decorated with PARAM VISHISHT SEVA MEDAL, ATI VISHISHT SEVA MEDAL and VISHISHT SEVA MEDAL and the COAS Commendation Card.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1688,"menu_order":0,"template":"","team_designation":[],"team_department":[7],"class_list":["post-1687","team","type-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","team_department-speakers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/bow\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/1687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/bow\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/bow\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/bow\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/bow\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/bow\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"team_designation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/bow\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_designation?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"team_department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/bow\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_department?post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}