Speaker Bio:  

Bharath Lingam
CEO, PurpleTalk
Bharat is focused on creating products and solutions with a mission to humanize technology experiences, there by reimagining enterprise possibilities. He is a quintessential start up person, and executed CTO roles at companies like Panterra Networks & Prime Technologies early on in his career. More recently, he was handling strategy, marketing and key account management for emerging verticals at Mahindra Satyam. He was also part of the shadow board there and a practice leader for BPM technologies. He graduated with a B.Tech from IIT Madras in 1998 and is passionate about scaling innovation and enabling the start-up ecosystem both within and outside enterprises.
Vaideeswaran Sethuraman
Founder & CEO, Divum
Vaidee, holds an MS from BITS Pilani & MBA from ICFAI. He wrote the first lines of code for an iphone app while he was at a mall in Bangalore. These days he’s usually out and about running Divum’s business affairs, quoting business proposals, evangelizing emerging mobile platforms and delivering keynote addresses across the globe in conferences on mobile ecosystem. He is also a EDA consultant for a chip designing Silicon Valley based Startup. Vaidee still contributes hands-on to the application development projects and UI at Divum. Before Divum, Vaidee held leadership and technical roles in Texas Instruments, Montalvo Systems and AMD.
TCM Sundaram
Founder & Managing Director, IDG Ventures India
TCM currently serves on the Board of Directors at Actoserba Technologies (Zivame.com), Apalya Technologies, Aujas Networks, ConnectM, eShakti.com, iCreate Software and Valyoo Technologies (Lenskart.com), and as a Board Observer at Agile Financial Technologies.  He has over 29 years of operations experience, including 10 years of venture investing experience.
Manish Garg
Co-Founder & COO, Endeavour Technologies
Manish is Endeavour’s Chief Operating Officer of the company he co-founded in 2002. Technology & Innovation continue to enthrall Manish, as he finds new ways to understand & predict mobility trends for the future. Manish has a few patents to his credit in the Mobile Digital Marketing space & he is largely responsible for defining processes for knowledge up-gradation of the technical team to meet new challenges presented in the mobility sector. Prior to co-founding Endeavour, Manish has worked with Infosys & Indian Oil Corporation gaining varied experience across verticals. Manish graduated from IIT Kanpur in 1999 and believes every individual has an inherent capability, and the key to success is finding innovative ways to get each person to perform their best.
Altaf Rehmani
Founder & Projects Director, Redbytes Software
Altaf, with over 15 years in IT services, brings in the technical passion combined with his enthusiasm to some of the hottest trends in IT specially into Mobile learning. He founded Redbytes Software in 2009 when he returned home to India from Hong Kong. Altaf is passionate and enthusiastic about technology solutions, its impact on the consumer life and is currently enjoying leading the technology team producing educational apps for mobile devices.
Srinidhi Rao
AVP - Engineering, Robosoft Technologies
Srinidhi works for Robosoft Technologies as Associate Vice President - Engineering. Has over 15 years of extensive experience in Desktop (Windows/Mac) & Smartphone application development across the domains delivering products to customers across the globe. In his current role, Srinidhi manages a group at Robosoft, which handles mobile product development activities for customers in both India & abroad. Started out as a Software engineer has worked at various level of Software development/Management & has gained solid Technical Project/Customer Management experience. He is passionate about Technology & related innovations, Project Management processes and customer relationship management. Srinidhi has BE in Computer Science & Engineering from Mangalore University.
Dr. Kumar Shiralagi
Managing Director, Kalaari Capital
Dr. Kumar has been managing high-performing investments and exits in technology companies for over a decade. He has been a part of the Indian venture capital ecosystem since 2003 and has been involved with more than 25 companies — investing, helping them grow, serving on Boards and managing exits. He currently serves on ten company Boards. In 2000, Kumar co-founded Lytek Corporation, a semiconductor laser manufacturer based in Arizona, and served as COO. From 2003-07, he was Country Director of Intel Capital India, driving Intel’s investments in India with a successful portfolio of technology startups. He joined IndoUS Capital Advisors Indo-US Venture Partners in 2007 and helped spearhead support its first round of investments. He has published more than 60 papers in international journals and conferences in the areas of semiconductors, optoelectronics, and nanotechnology, and holds 23 U.S. patents.
Bala Parthasarathy
Managing Partner, AngelPrime
Bala is an entrepreneur turned investor with a vast two decade experience under his belt. He has built 3 successful startups including Snapfish which he co-founded in 1999 and sold it off to Hewlett-Packard in 2005. His specialties includes COO responsibilities including P&L management, Operations, R&D in internet or ecommerce businesses, International business development.
Ravi Vyas
Product Manager, Vserv.mobi
Ravi drives Developer Products at Vserv.mobi and has over 7 years of experience in the IT / Mobile industry. A mobile evangelist at heart, he has worked in various fields including development, marketing, management and teaching. Ravi holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from Florida State University and is also the Co-Organizer of the Bangalore Android User Group, the largest Android group outside USA.
Dr. Viswanath Poosala
Head - Bell Labs India, Alcatel-Lucent
In his current role, Vishy leads a world-class team of researchers in delivering research breakthroughs and assisting Alcatel-Lucent Sales Teams in APAC. His current research areas include creating novel computing and networking technologies for emerging markets and beyond. Vishy is passionate about entrepreneurship and innovation. He mentors startups in Bangalore and advises Indian companies on creating a strong innovation culture. Vishy was the Founder & CTO of Geopepper, an Alcatel-Lucent venture delivering innovative location-based services. He has also started multiple websites, including alertpedia.com. Vishy is a recognized expert on the business & technical aspects of Mobile applications, Networks, Web 2.0, and Database systems. He has published over 20 technical papers, been granted over 40 patents, received the “Excellence in Innovation” award in India in 2010, and won the Bell Labs President’s Gold Award three times. Vishy received his B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Madras, India, in ’92, M.S and Ph.D from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in ’97.
Shailesh Albuquerque
Solution Architect, Amazon Seller Services
Shailesh is responsible for educating companies with the service offerings of the AWS platform, as well as helping them with architecture best practices to build highly scalable and resilient applications on the AWS Cloud. He is actively involved in evangelizing Cloud Computing at various industry conferences & forums. Prior to joining Amazon, he has worked with Indian and global system integrators and has experience in designing large scale Infrastructure Platforms, Network Systems, Information Security & Enterprise Applications.
Vijaya Kumar Ivaturi
Member, Indian Angel Network
I.Vijaya Kumar (known as IVK) is Chief Innovation Officer of INK which is an organization focused on innovation from young economies of the world. He drives INK’s innovation and technology strategy to inspire ideas and incubate projects of both business and social nature and showcase them on a global arena. Prior to joining INK, he was CTO of Wipro’s IT businesses covering Wipro Technologies, Wipro Infotech and Wipro BPO.He has been with ICT industry for the last 24 plus years and is one of the leading experts in innovation management and advanced technologies incubation in India.
Shyamal Mehta
CEO, TechJini Solutions
Being an avid thinker & innovator, Shyamal provides key strategic direction to the company & ensures, by example, that we never lose sight of our culture & values. He believes in motivating his team members by leading from the very front and is always ready to help them in challenging situations. He has that rare ability to remain calm & composed even under high pressure. He works towards perfection and ensures his teammates achieve heights of excellence in whatever they do.
Ramesh Narasimhan
Entrepreuner - CEO, Hibiscus Technology
Ramesh comes with 14 years of sound IT knowledge and experience. Before founding Hibiscus he has worked for IT giants like Cognizant and Oracle. Being an IIM graduate he understands the business well and is always updated with latest marketing and technological trends. He has an inclination towards the niche technologies which would ensures that all are services are quality driver and technically up to date.
Edvin Varghese
CEO, Appface Technologies
Edvin is a Visionary & Serial Entrepreneur with a close association with IT Industry for the past 20 Years. Currently, he is the CEO of Appface Technologies where he is responsible for developing & implementing IBM Work light Mobile Solutions for Enterprise Customers. Prior to co-founding Appface he was working on emerging technologies in IBM, Oracle and Sun Microsystems.
Ashish Ajmani
Founder & Director, Bitmantra
Ashish has been a self-starter since the age of 13, a fiery coder from mind and an emotional designer from heart, he believes in connecting to the lives of people with 'design'. He enjoys being a part of the technology community, sharing insights and gaining knowledge every passing day. The remarkable success which products developed and shipped by him speak its story. Few months after the App Store launch in 2007, Ashish set in motion StockGenie, a financial software which received worldwide success, and remained in the top 20 selling applications for 6 months, an application which connected to millions of lives. Immediately after StockGenie's success, Bitmantra was born as a mobile application development company bringing out gorgeous design and powerful engineering.
Ashwin Venkatraman
Director, InMobi
Ashwin at InMobi where he handles products & initiatives focussed on improving monetization opportunities for Publishers. Prior to this, He was Head of Developer Platforms at InMobi, focussed on InMobi's App Developer initiatives. Prior to InMobi, He launched the distribution business for Google in India, doing deals to expand Google’s market share for products such as Chrome, Google Toolbar & Search. He was also part of Google’s India sales team focussed on advertising solutions for Travel & e-Commerce companies.
Brij Bhushan
VP, Nexus Venture Partners
Brij has several years of operating and consulting experience. Prior to Nexus Venture Partners, he was associated with companies like Urbantouch.com, Infosys and Hughes Software. Brij has an MBA from IIM Bangalore and B.Tech in Computer Science from MDU, Haryana.
Vivek Rajanna
VP Engineering, Y Media Labs
Vivek currently handles Engineering side of building the complex mobile solutions for enterprise clients like Paypal, Salesforce, EMC, Creditkarma, Avero and consumer facing Mobile solution like Kewe, Lonely Planet, Nom Nom paleo, Sesame Street. He is also building partnership strategy for company. He is deeply passionate about the Eduction & health management possibilities with mobile as medium. As part of this he is closely working with founders to buildNiche strategy in these areas (montessorium partnership with YMedia is one such example). Prior to this he was associated with the top companies like Nokia, Samsung, Huawei and many more as an Architect and Product Area Manager. He has 14 years of Experience in industry and has filed two patents in areas of local connectivity.
Vinay Nayak K
Senior Manager – Mobility Practice, Collabera
Vinay plays a dual role - of managing mobility projects for some of the enterprise customers and is also responsible for developing capabilities in newer mobile technologies, vertical focused solutions and showcasing the capabilities of Collabera to newer prospects. He has close to 9 years of IT experience. Prior to Collabera, he has worked with Satyam Computer Services Ltd and iGATE Global Solutions.
Mahesh Kolar
Director &Global Head Mobility Application Services, Dell
Mahesh heads the Mobility theme globally across various verticals and service lines for the Apps & BPO Line of Business as part of Dell Services. In his current role, he is responsible for formulating Strategy, the Go-to-market motion and owning the Mobility Applications Practice end to end. Mahesh has had a career long exposure to Mobility from the times of device engineering to enterprise mobility the way we define it today, and has previously worked on Mobility at organizations such as Tata Consultancy Services, Sasken & QUALCOMM. Mahesh has an MBA from San Diego State University with specialization in Marketing in addition to a Master’s & a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics & Communication.
Ramjee Ganti
Head Technology, Justeat India
Ramjee has over a decade of experience spanning various technologies, in mobile, networking, analytics and application development. In his current role he is responsible for the technology and product development at Justeat India. He is very passionate about technology and its role in everyday life. After graduating from IIT Kharagpur, he worked with TCS, Intel before embarking on an unsuccessful entrepreneurial attempt, Since then he associated himself with startups in various capacities.He was co-founder of Open Coffee Club Bangalore.
Vasanthi Ramesh
Director SET, Flipkart.com
Vasanthi heads the quality team at Flipkart for the website and mobile teams. She is passionate about quality & has two decades of experience in working with diverse technologies. She was instrumental in setting up the quality teams at BEA, Oracle & Flipkart and mentoring them to deliver high quality products. Prior to Flipkart, she headed the engineering team at Apigee to deliver their PAAS offering on cloud. Vasanthi holds masters degree in computer science and statistics
Darshan Sonde
Software Architect, Y Media Labs
Darshan, currently working as Software Architect at YMediaLabs. He is involved in engineering & architecting solutions specifically for the mobile domain. He has worked with numerous clients with more than 2 dozen apps in the app stores. He has more than 7 years of experience & mostly in Mobile Domain. As he has worked with numerous clients, designers, engineers & products over the years and has good insights into what works & what doesn't, what is important & what is not in developing a mobile solution.
Arun Benty
Founder and Director, Trellisys
Arun, Founder & Director of Business Development at Trellisys has overall 12 years of experience & IT services firm focusing on Mobile, social media and e-Commerce product development, iPhone app, The SAS Survival Guide (www.sassurvivalguide.com) Co-Founder of ZoomIn, India’s #1 online photo printing and gifting company Co-Founder of iPlaySocial & co-creator of patent-pending multiplayer word game, Grabbler. His specialties are Business Development, Marketing, Product Design, UX/UI and he was honored Webby Award for best Lifestyle App – 2011.
Sonali Kamat
Head - Mobile & Website Engineering, Flipkart.com
Sonali seeded Mobile engineering at Flipkart & continues to spearhead the building of applications, and base platforms leading to the rapid growth in the mobile user base. She is deeply passionate about consumer experience & drives the speed, usability & availability advancements in its web & mobile systems. Prior to this, she led the engineering of SCM systems at GE and GXS and of mission-critical trade processing systems at Goldman Sachs. Sonali is the recipient of the Gold Medal from Mumbai University.
Suhas Desai
Practice Lead - Mobile Security, Aujas
Suhas leads mobile security services at Aujas with extensive experience in the mobile payments, enterprise and B2C mobile application security. He is a frequent speaker at prominent industry and customer forums. Desai has been on the technical advisory committees for many prestigious international conferences including RSA 2013 Singapore.
Nishant Verman
Associate, Canaan Partners India
Nishant has close to a decade years of operational, finance and entrepreneurial experience across Asia and the US. He was co-founder of Groovebug, a personalized music platform for the iPad. Nishant was part of team since inception and focused on multiple aspects including product development, venture funding and launch. Nishant started his career in Morgan Stanley’s Investment Banking group in Silicon Valley, where his clients included Google, eBay and Zappos. Nishant currently serves as a Mentor for Startup Village, India's first Public Private Partnership model Technology Business Incubator.
Saikat Maitra
Automation Architect, Flipkart.com
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Rajesh Krishnamurthy
Head - Mobile & Digital Channels, Wipro Technologies
Rajesh, Head of Digital & Mobile from Wipro is an Engineer & MBA with 14 years of experience in the areas of Internet & Mobile with focus on Banking & Telco domains. His recent assignment was with Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore where he was part of the Digital Banking group spearheading the product management of all emerging payment initiatives of the bank including mobile wallet, mobile commerce & mobile payments across markets.
Alex Anthony
Head – Alliance, PMO, Marketing , Wipro Mobility Solutions
Alex is responsible for driving the global partnership ecosystem, program management office and marketing for Wipro’s Mobility Solutions Group. He is also responsible to launch new mobile solutions & services offering across different geo & industry verticals.Alex is specialized in Enterprise Mobility business and solutions for nearly a decade now and has deep expertise in working with Enterprise customers, ISV’s, Handset OEM manufacturer and Telecom Service providers in India and Global markets. Alex has also been a Speaker in different forums and had presented on Enterprise Mobility Solutions for BlackBerry & IBM Mobility Impact.
Vinod Cherian Joseph
Principal Engineer, Samsung
Vinod, at Samsung leads the Enterprise Mobility, Tech Planning & Strategy & his work includes working with Industry Affiliates & Partners such as Nasscom, Zinnov, Gartner, IEEE, IMTC, Frost etc. He also works with Startups & Enterprise Partners in the APAC region - in software, hardware, applications & services. Prior to his current role, he led the Galaxy series products for LTE Modem and was a Product Leader for Samsung&rsquot;s Tablet Products. He brings 15 years of diverse & rich experience in Technology Management, Product Development and Global R&D Management.
Nishant Sameer
Principal - Corporate Technology Office, Samsung
Nishan, at Samsung, he leads Mobile Technology Sourcing that looks at companies & startups who are developing compelling technologies for the mobile industry in the APAC region - in software, hardware, applications and services. He brings 15 years of diverse & rich experience in digital media products, wireless, internet and mobile, marketing & entrepreneurship. He has been working closely with startups and within startup ecosystem since 2011 as entrepreneur, advisor & now Technology strategy partner at Samsung. Nishant holds a bachelors degree in Computer Science from IIT Roorkee & masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Devina Thamman
Managing Partner, Bitmantra
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Jonathan Dsouza
Regional Sales Manager - APAC, Smaato
Jonathan currently handles direct demand and monetization for Smaato in India. His role encompasses Business Development, sales strategy, Partnerships and marketing for India and adjoining countries in the region. Jonathan comes with a background of rich experience in advertising and sales for companies such as Times Business Solutions and India Today.
Prashant Gupta
Business Development Head - Global, Divum
Prashanth has experience in mobile applications. His expertise lies in the area of usage of agile in mobile game development with complete SDLC experience. He has complete hands on knowledge on application development fo mobility on all the mobility platforms and is also responsible and engaging the team in development of mobile apps and games on Android, I Phone, Windows Phone 7, Java ME, HTML 5.
Shailesh Wankhade
Practice Manager - Enterprise Mobility, Dell
Shailesh has a more than a decade of experience in mobile and embedded solutions. In his current engagement he is responsible for managing and strategizing mobility business globally for Banking and Finance vertical. He has experience of working with enterprise customer, ISV’s and OEM’s.
Sagar Babber
Founder & CEO, Snyxius
Sagar is a tech aficionado, creator & an entrepreneur. Founder & CEO of Snyxius & CollaborateCloud. He single-handedly founded Snyxius in 2008 and built it up to one of the leading web & mobile digital agencies in Bangalore. His most recent venture, CollaborateCloud is a social work management platform that helps organizations streamline their internal communication, collaboration & workflow.
Ujjwal Kumar
Technical Evangelist , Microsoft Corporation
Ujjwal is working as a technical evangelist at Microsoft India. He mainly works on Windows 8 and Windows Phone platforms, and focuses on apps and game development. Prior to this, he worked as Partner Consultant and Development Platforms Worldwide Specialization Lead at Microsoft. He has over 10.5 years of industry experience and has been with Microsoft for 7+ years. In the past, he has extensively worked on C++, C#, Windows Azure, Windows Internals, Robotics Studio, Game Development and Image Processing. In the current role, he works with business start-ups, enterprises, partner organizations and assists them in adoption of latest platforms and technologies.