Speaker Bio:  

Dr. Madhusudan Atre
Country Head, AMD India
Dr. Atre has more than two decades of leadership and management experience in semiconductor and solar industries. He is also leading the engineering operations in the areas of Renewable Energy (Solar), Semiconductor, Glass Coating, Packaging; equipments engineering and software, etc. He is an Executive/Management Consultant to the Industries, Universities (Advisory Board, Governing Council, Strategic Guidance, and Faculty), Venture Capital and Private Equity firms, Entrepreneurs and Start-Ups, Government, Industry Associations & Bodies.
GH Rao
President - Engineering and R&D Services & Senior Corporate Vice President, HCL Technologies
GH Rao, An engineer by education, GH joined HCL as a R&D engineer in 1980. During this time, he was part of HCL’s R&D team that developed hardware subsystems for a range of micro/mini computers. He was also the chief architect of multi-processor systems that employed contemporary architectures for a range of high-end minicomputers launched by HCL during the late 1980s. In the early 90’s when HCL and Hewlett Packard formed a joint venture (HCL-HP), GH was responsible for leading technology adaptation and the engineering teams. He had several years of R&D experience and held positions like General Manager-R&D, at HCL. During the formation of HCL Technologies in 1996, GH took over the responsibility of building business lines around core engineering services like system and VLSI design services. Since then he has added several services including embedded systems and also repositioned the ERS group to align with industry verticals. GH is a strong believer in focusing on infrastructure and has been instrumental in building test/compliance labs at HCL, a unique in Indian private Industry.
Dr. Anurag Srivastava
Sr. Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Wipro
Dr. Anurag Srivastava is the Sr. Vice President & Chief Technology Officer. His responsibilities include technology strategy planning, technology incubation through Center of Excellence, business Innovation using futuristic technologies, technical stream & IP management, technology alliances in advanced areas with industry and academic forums. Prior to this role, he was head of the Wipro Energy and Sustainability Services business. This business includes sustainability advisory, connected infrastructure & energy managed services to deliver comprehensive GHG reduction and energy cost optimization for our customers. He was also responsible for starting the Consulting business for Wipro Infotech and supported its scale to the current level. He additionally led key strategic business transformational initiatives for Telecom, Telecom Equipment, Infrastructure, and Government industry verticals to build newer services/business models. Dr. Anurag brings with him rich industry and business experience and depth of technology to Wipro. His areas of work experience are process & technology integration, data modeling & analytics, pattern recognition, distributed computing, Internet security and machine to machine collaboration. He has strong expertise in architectural frameworks, product life cycle management, incubation management and large transnational project management.
Krishna Moorthy. K
Managing Director - India Design Center, Rambus Chip Technologies India
Krishna Moorthy a well-known industry veteran who brings in more than 3 decades of industry experience and currently heads India design center for Rambus Chip Technologies. Prior to Rambus, he was associated with National Semiconductor as its Managing Director for more than a decade.
Srinivas Gande
Senior Director - Engineering, Marvell Semiconductor
Srinivas has over 18 years experience in design and manage engineering teams in complex multi-processor SOC, system and embedded S/W development. Currently working as senior director, digital entertainment business unit of Marvell India design center responsible for media processor SOC design and S/W development for smart TV / set-top box products. Prior to relocation to India, worked for Marvell semiconductor USA 12 years responsible for architecutre, design and development for application and baseband processor of SOC - mobile products.
Dr. Walden C. Rhines
CEO & Chairman, Mentor Graphics
Dr. Rhines, a leader in worldwide electronic design automation. Prior to joining Mentor Graphics, Rhines was Executive Vice President of Texas Instruments’ Semiconductor Group, sharing responsibility for TI’s Components Sector, and having direct responsibility for the entire semiconductor business with more than $5 billion of revenue and over 30,000 people. Rhines is currently in his fourth term as Chairman of the Electronic Design Automation Consortium. He is also a board member of the Semiconductor Research Corporation, Lewis and Clark College and the Portland Classic Wines Auction. He has previously served as chairman of the Semiconductor Technical Advisory Committee of the Department of Commerce, as an executive committee member of the board of directors of the Corporation for Open Systems and as a board member of the Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association (CBEMA), SEMI-Sematech/SISA, Electronic Design Automation Consortium (EDAC), University of Michigan National Advisory Council and Sematech.