Speaker Bio:  

Pranesh Babu
CTO, Sify Technologies
Pranesh took over as CTO in June 2010. He joined Sify Technologies in Oct 2000 and has worked in various capacities in the Technology division. Prior to this he was Senior VP – Network and Service Engineering, responsible for strategizing the Core Network and Access network and for developing Services. He has been a key contributor to the Sify’s Network expansion and in developing Services for both the Enterprise and Consumer divisions. Pranesh has over 21 years of experience in IT/ITES/ Telecom industry and has handled diverse responsibilities which include Projects, Service Delivery & Engineering. He started his Career with HCL, moving on to work with Hutchison Max Telecom as Chief Network Engineer and finally, Reliance Telecom as Project Manager. Pranesh holds an Engineering degree from university of Mysore in Electronics and Communications.
Anand Ijju
Executive VP, ProKarma
Anand has been associated with ProKarma since 2005 and has been instrumental in driving strategy and growth for ProKarma&rsquot;s India Sales and Delivery. He brings over 20 years of experience in the field of business consulting, ERP, finance and technology. Anand is an engineering graduate from NIT, India and has a MBA from XIM, India.
Prakash Dantuluri
CEO, Paradigm Creatives
Prakash is having almost two decades of IT experience. Prior to this company he was associated with the companies like Satyam, FedEx, Sprint and many more. Prakash is having good knowledge in iPhone OS, Android OS, Palm OS, Blackberry and Windows 7.
Naru Narayanan
Chennai Angels, .
Naru’s career reflects great interest in the domain of food and beverages. Currently he is recognized as an Angel Investor for being a part of the Chennai Angels. Prior to which he was with Coca Cola and Nestle. He has also served as the Director at the 20:20 MEDIA.
Ram Sathia
Associate VP - Delivery, ProKarma
Ram has been associated with ProKarma’s mobility practice since 2007. Ram is also the Founder and Head of Chennai Delivery Center. Under his leadership, ProKarma has developed many next generation mobile applications helping Enterprise customers to transform from pure web to multi channel presence.
Deepak Ramachandran
Co-Founder & CTO, SourceN
Deepak has worked extensively in Java, PHP, Flex,RoR, Objective C and, most recently, he is been getting his hands dirty with Android. With over two decades of engineering experience in the Web & Mobile arena. He provides deep technical guidance to SourceN’s young and passionate development team. At SourceN, Deepak guides and leads the Technical Architects and Technical Project Managers during the design and development phase of software development to ensure our clients get exactly what was envisioned during the conceptual phase. Prior to SourceN, Deepak worked at USWeb/CKS, Samsung, Nikon and a number of startups. He has consulted with companies like Apple, Palm, American Airlines, and Cummins. He also has worked closely with companies like ATG, Interwoven, Broadvision Pandesic, Netscape, Blue Martini, BEA, and Jive Software. Deepak likes to hang out with his wife and kids and, when he has free time, he likes to play guitar and keys, but mostly he likes to sing. He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in computer engineering.
Sundi Natarajan
Angel Investor, Indian Angel Network
Sundi is a technology entrepreneur and an angel investor with over 18 years of management experience and proven track record of delivering profitable growth in extremely competitive markets based on the ability to recruit, build and motivate high performance organizations. Sundi is an active Charter Member at TiE. Sundi is also an active member at IAN. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of several companies including Corp-Corp, PrazAs, Wellth, CometHR. Sundi is the Managing Partner at Sparksoft Ventures. Sundi is the Chairman of Sparksoft Corporation. Prior to that Sundi served as VP of Product Solutions at COE Inc based in Rockville. As Director of Product Management, he focused on building &delivering virtual enterprise applications for SME markets in the US.
Jude Ramayya
Founder & CEO, Impiger Technologies
Jude believes and helps businesses leverage the power of Mobility to increase Sales, Productivity, Faster Decision Making and ultimately Revenue and Profitability. He leads a team of around 150 experienced professionals at Impiger Technologies, providing Mobility Strategy, Design, Development and Testing of Mobile applications in addition to Telecom Solutions. He founded Impiger Technologies back in 2004, and has been instrumental in shaping this award-winning company from Telecom Solutions to Mobility Strategy and Services. He has more than 18 years of experience as IT Solution Developer and Architect working with Small and Large Organizations. Loves providing IT Solution that solves problems and adds value to SME. He travels extensively across the US, Asia and Middle East offering mobility strategy to help SMEs and Startups Go Mobile.
V. Thiyagarajan
Founder & CEO, Sybrant Technologies
Thiyagarajan started his career as a systems design engineer in the embedded systems space doing hardware and software design and was involved in large scale implementation of SCADA projects. He also had a consulting stint in technology and strategy for Fortune 500 companies in the insurance, telecom, financial services, logistics and industrial/building automation industries. In his last assignment, he was instrumental in creating a $32 Million outsourced product development company within a few years.
Seshu Karthick Tanveer
Founder & CEO, Dimensions Co.
Seshu has more than 5 years of industry experience in working with Java and related technologies. Expertise in building web-apps using Java, Spring MVC, JSP, Hibernate, MySQL & PHP. Strong front-end coding skills in C/C++, Java, JavaEE with 7+ yrs of intense programming. Experience in working with several Databases, DB-Connection-Pooling, ORM tools such as Hibernate & JDO, and Query optimization for increased performance. Comfortable with multiple Operating Systems. Prior to founding Dimensions Co. he has worked with American Airlines, Intervoice Inc., Viewlocity Inc. & TCS Labs. He holds a Masters (M.S) degree from University of Texas at Dallas (USA) & a B.Tech from ‘University of Madras’- India.
Pragati Ogal Rai
Mobile Technology Evangelist, PayPal
Pragati Ogal Rai is a technologist with over 12 years of experience in different aspects of mobile technology including mobile operating systems, mobile security, mobile payments, and m-commerce. From working as a platform security engineer with Motorola Mobility to designing and developing PayPal’s mobile offerings, she has extensive end-to-end experience in all aspects of mobile technology.She is a frequent and recognized speaker at international technology events.
Madan Kandula
Founder, Virtualmaze Softsys
Madan Kandula comes from a pure game development background. With years of experience working as a Graphics Engineer on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation VITA at Sony Computer Entertainment America, San Francisco, USA his skills range from game engine programming to tool development for video games. He specializes in graphics API&rsquot;s like openGL, DirectX and has rich experience in how graphics hardware functions underneath. He has worked with many developers like Electronic Arts, Rockstar etc in optimizing video game graphics performance. He currently develops cross platform game engine for PC, android and iOS smartphones/tablets at VirtualMaze and leads a team of developers to deliver games and applications for the next generation technology.
Karma Bhutia
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, SourceN
Karma is a Seasoned Entrepreneur, and a founding partner at SourceN Ventures. Former VP Technology of Chrysalis Limited. Author of several published articles in Times of India, Economic Times etc. Karma’s responsibilities include business development, marketing & communication, strategy, planning, new product initiatives; mentoring & building teams; building strategic relationships & partnerships with investors, clients, System Integrators, Agencies & consulting partners. An extensive (17+ years) experience in the IT industry primarily for Banking, Trade Finance, Secondary Markets, Telecom, Logistics, Maritime, Hospitality and Manufacturing. Also the owner of an ethnic-cuisine fine dining restaurant.
Anil Yanamandra
Technical Lead - Enterprise Mobility, ProKarma
Anil has been associated with ProKarma India’s Mobility Center of Excellence since its inception.An IIT Delhi alumnus and mobile enthusiast, Anil is a big fan of design patterns based modular application development. With rich experience in building responsive applications targeting native and hybrid multi-platform mobile, Anil is an early adaptor of upcoming trends in mobility.
Prajila
Technical Evangelist - Android, Infosys
Prajila is the Technical Evangelist and a member of the Education and Research at Infosys. She has overall 6 years of experience in various domains in Java technologies – Struts, Hibernate, EJB ,Spring etc. Her area of focus and interest has always been mobile technologies specifically Java ME and Android. She is an Oracle Certified Java Programmer, Oracle Certified Web component Developer and Oracle Certified Mobile Application Developer.
Boby Jose
Technical Lead - Test Automation, ProKarma
Boby has many years of extensive hands on automation experience in Open Source technologies. A Google qualified Developer and certified Java Professional, Boby’s passions include Continuous Integration, Design Patters in test automation and Enterprise Test Automation Framework.
M.V. Subramanian
Member, Indian Angel Network
An engineer by profession, Subramanian started his career at GEC ALSTHOM and eventually submitted to his entrepreneurial calling. With 24 years of experience in varied domains and functions, has helped in mentoring numerous start-up entrepreneurs in understanding of Business Model, Positioning, Process and Management. His foray into Human Resource Industry comes from his deep seated conviction in human potential. Subramanian is Co-Founder and MD of “Future Focus Infotech Pvt Ltd”. He is a Charter Member of TiE Chennai . He is also Member of Indian Angel Network (IAN) . Angel Investor- have interest in few start ups.
Kalai Selvi
Vice President - Mobile application development, Dot Com Infoway
Kalaiselvi brings in 14+ yrs of industry experience and currently, she is the VP – Mobile Development of Dot Com Infoway. She also heads the Software Development team at DCI. In DCI she started her career by heading the Software Development team and has managed to deliver several offshore IT/Software projects to clients worldwide. Through her able guidance, Kalai ensures that each project is on time, under budget and maintains the highest standards of quality. Her extensive field experience has given her a thorough understanding of project requirements and has enabled her to successfully manage projects of all kinds.
Meera Sridharan
Co-Founder, Knobay
Meera provides leadership for Knobay’s operations. Her experience includes management positions in Fortune 500 companies, such as Microsoft and Motorola, as well as start ups where she gained international experience in Product Marketing and Client Relationship Management. She holds a Master’s degree in Engineering from Michigan State University (MSU), USA and an MBA from the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad.
Akash Thambiran
Technical Lead - Enterprise Mobility, ProKarma
Akash has more than 6 years of exclusive experience in developing mobile solutions on various mobile platforms and devices. Akash has been associated with ProKarma India’s Mobility Center of Excellence since its inception. An early adaptor of mobile technology, Akash and his team has developed many high quality native applications spanning various platforms and technologies.
Premchander Rao
Technology Specialist, Intel
Prem has 11+ years of experience in development of Embedded S/w for Mobile and Multimedia System On Chip (SoC). At Intel he is responsible for working with ISVs in Mobile Application Development area and help them enable their Apps for Intel Architecture Devices.
Jegan Selvaraj
CEO, Bliss Logix Technology Solutions
Jegan started his company as a simple web development team. Having a thirst to try out new technologies and always loved to give a tough competition in the market, he extended his company skill set to develop all kinds of mobile related applications & games. Currently leading a team of 100 energetic team members who are willing to learn & share new ideas. As as key person in Blisslogix, he believes in the word "innovation is the engine that drives everything we do". A non-stop learner who loves to learn from his day to day experience and always have a thirst to find new ideas and giving shapes to those ideas. Currently he has built the company mainly into Mobile Applications for business both on Web and Cloud Services, customized Mobile Applications and Mobile Games on Native and Cross Platforms, also provides Mobile development experts as Contractors for Fortune 500 Companies.
Ravi Kiran
CTO & Co-Founder, GoDB Tech
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Aaron Chan
Regional Manager, Publisher Development & Aquisition- APAC, Smaato
Aaron brings over years of experience in the digital and online media in the mobile industry. Prior to Smaato, Aaron held a regional product development role for a leading regional telco, specialized in the enterprise mobile space. Being an experienced entrepreneur and innovative professional in mobile internet and advertising industry, he has previously worked in his own startup before moving on to establish a Singapore office for MoSync. He has experience in cross-platform mobile development, web architecture, project management and business development. He is active partner of a closely knitted group of regional mobile publisher, developer and startup community serving as 2nd VP for Mobile Alliance Singapore. Aaron currently takes on the responsibility in servicing and acquiring premium publishers in the Asia-Pacific region, further developing publishers’ outreach into the focused key markets such as India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Australia, Japan. Aaron obtained his Bachelors in Computing from National University of Singapore and joint Minor in Technopreneurship from Royal Institute of Technology from Sweden.
Sriram Rajagopalan
General Manager - Operations, Premedia Global
Sriram works as General Manager-Operations for K-12 and Media division in PreMedia Global, Chennai. Sriram’s experience involves high volume SGML/XML conversions, managing various aspects of composition in multiple typesetting platforms and developing rich media applications for web and various mobile devices. He holds a bachelor degree in Commerce from Guru Nanak College, a Software Technology Management diploma from NIIT and a Post Graduate Diploma in International Business from Symbiosis.
Karunanidhi Muthu
Director, DCH Capital
Karunanidhi is the founder and director of DCH Capital Partners. He is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and currently a Barrister of the High Court of New Zealand. He is a member of the International Bar Association, the Institute of Directors in New Zealand, New Zealand Venture Capital Association and New Zealand Angel Association. He founded DCH India which provides services in Beauty Care, Wine, Web services, Media & Communications and luxury Yachts and Aviation. Karunanidhi was a Parliamentary candidate for the current ruling coalition at the General Election in New Zealand.
Anant Wadhokar
Co-Founder, Mobiwhiz Technologies
Anant is a co-founder of Mobiwhiz Technologies & also a CEO of Veritech Infosystems. Anant has over two decades of experience in IT Industry working on embedded space in various domains such as Automotive, Aerospace and from last 10 years with Mobile Industry. At Mobiwhiz, Anant along with his colleague Baranikumar is actively developing Interesting Mobile Apps for Android, Blackberry, iOS and Windows Platforms.
Dipesh Khona
Marketing Manager, Intel
Dipesh has 14+ years of experience in various aspects of IT business ranging from Recruitment, Training Marketing, to Project Management. At Intel he is currently responsible for evangelizing Intel’s software efforts in the Developer Community for the portal Intel Developer Zone.
Sriram Ravindran
Co-founder, Ascenso Telecom Solutions
Sriram is a M.S (Information Technology & Management) graduate with 12 years of experience in the telecom domain in India and the Middle East. He has worked earlier for Onmobile, Servion and Airtel, where he was national head of Messaging & Data services in his last stint before founding Ascenso. Ascenso founded in 2009 by T.K. Varadarajan and Sriram Ravindran is a successful company counting Airtel, Aircel, Vodafone, BSNL, Idea, Tata DoCoMo, Nokia, Group M, McAfee etc. among its clients.
Sriram Subramanian
UX Lead consultant - Social Design, Bliss Logix
Sriram is a UX Lead consultant - Social Design and has been partnering with clients to create an engaging mobile experience for an engaging and unique end user experience. He has served some Banking gaints in Analytics.In general his interests are Economics and Analytics. He has conceptualized several interaction experiences for several consumer apps in iPhone as well as android.