Speaker Bio:  

T Ashok
Founder and CEO, STAG Software Pvt Ltd
MS in Computer Science (IIT Chicago), BE(Electronics and Communication) Anna University, CSQE(ASQC). Spearheads the operations of STAG, has 18+ years of working experience. Setup and managed global test group at VeriFone. Active in test engineering community, have given 10+ lectures in test forums, and presented about 10 tutorials/papers in International / National conferences. He is highly passionate about software test engineering and devotes time in his lab pursuing his interests in software patterns, test design, test automation, object technology, process engineering and measurement.
Dr Ramamoorthy Shankar
Vice President ,Software Testing, Rave Technologies
Dr. Shankar is a dedicated TQM professional, who has spent much of his 20-year career managing change and improving software engineering efficiency through business driven quality management systems. With 20 years of Process Quality, Testing and cross-functional experience in Software Industry,he has managed change and improved software engineering efficiency through business and objective driven Quality Control and Quality Assurance systems for companies he has worked for. He is credited for setting up 4 Test COE s, 3 CMM/CMMi Rollouts, 4 ISO 9K rollouts, 1 TL9K Rollout, and 3 ISO 27K rollouts in his entire career spanning domains like Telecom, BFSI, Enterprise Application, IT Services. He started his career with C.DOT as Software Research Engineer and moved on to Product validation group and Quality functions in his career. He has worked Ness, Adeptia, at Senior Management Positions and has managed large Test Labs (COE s) during his career. His last assignment was Vice President of Customer Advocacy group at Bharti Telesoft handling the Product Testing, Process Group, KM Group and CSAT group. He was Director of TQM for Genband Technologies , a product company in VOIP space. He has being consulting for Fortune 500 companies in the Testing, ITIL, CMM, space in US prior to joining Genband. He has pioneered the Objective Question Metrics (OQM) Model which was his thesis topic at IIT-Delhi. This model provides guidance to Software Companies to install business driven metricate systems. Dr. Shankar is a computer science engineer from NIT Tiruchirapalli and is armed with a Phd in Software Quality from IIT Delhi, an M.Tech from IIT-Delhi in Management Systems, and an MBA from AIMA-Delhi .
Minal Deshpande
Vice President, Deloitte Consulting
As the Vice President – Technology, Deloitte Consulting Limited, Minal Deshpande’s key responsibilities include leading & supporting sales pursuits, pitcing in onsite-offshore model to clients, client relationship development, specialized competency development and delivery in Global Delivery Model. She is responsible for driving growth of the Practice with revenue generation and utilization levels. Her expertise lies in client leadership/stakeholders interaction, building relationship, competitor analysis and intelligence and sales focus.
Anshul Abhang
Founder Director, FLUXONIX
Anshul is the founder of FLUXONIX Group which focuses on high end technology. He is the driving force of FLUXONIX for its remarkable growth in the field of technology. He is one of the youngest entrepreneurs in the IT Industry today with several key international certifications and accolades. He holds an engineering bachelor degree in Information Technology from University of Pune. Besides that he has several certifications in law specializing in cyber laws. His area of expertise is software architecture designing, application security, VOIP as well as virtualization security and anything that falls under security umbrella. He is one of the leading consultants in the field of Information Security. Anshul has consulted for Fortune 500 companies in key areas of information security including secure architecture designing and application security. He has helped several government organizations in India and abroad in securing their mission critical systems. He is an invited speaker at Reserve Bank of India (CAB) as well in the top IT conferences on cyber security and has consulted IT heads of leading Indian banks on computer fraud investigation and application security hardening.
Sagar Patankar
Practice Manager, KPIT Cummins Infosystems
Sagar Patankar is a Practice Manager at KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd. Pune. He has over 16 years of experience in Information Technology. He has extensive experience in the Finance, Banking and Manufacturing domain and has broad understanding of multitude of technologies. He has to his credit extensive delivery and Practice building experience. As a Six Sigma certified green belt he has focused on delivering value additions to customer in the areas of Productivity, Quality. Sagar is leading Testing as a Service (TaaS) practice along with other practice areas within eBiz. TaaS Practice core team focuses on building Test Accelerators and developing solutions for “Right First Time” approach.
Hemant Satam
Associate Vice President , Datamatics Global Service
In his current role as a Delivery Head, Hemant is responsible for managing operations for Application Management Services. He has two decades of rich experience in the IT industry and has spent over 16 years at Datamatics, in application management services with focus on development, architecture, solutions, outsourcing and off-shoring. As an IT professional, over the years, he has successfully managed complex off-shore engagements and project management, managing outsourcing & off-shoring for premier Global firms. Academically, he holds Bachelors degree in Computer Applications and continues to enhance his knowledgebase. He has earned certificates in UNIX, Ingres, Enterprise Development using Java and Advanced Java applications, ITIL V3 and Project Management.
Ankur Damle
Senior Manager, Accenture
Ankur Damle is a Senior Manager with Accenture. He leads the Functional Test Capabilities group in the Delivery Centres for Technology in India. Ankur has over 13 years of IT/Telecom and program management experience of which 3 years have been spent in direct client facing roles with leading global Telcos. Prior to his current role, his experience had mostly aligned to large scale business transformation in Telcos,OSS landscape,BSS and CRM journeys in managed deliveries for Telecom Platforms,He was a part of large product development and licensing initiative of SIEMENS AG for Medical Communications, claiming most of the worlds largest Clinical and Cancer research institutes in US,UK and Europe, Prior experience also is backed up with Amdocs CES Portfolio knowhow and implementation in System Integration space for Large Canadian Telco Cable TV Transformation initiative, Ankur has a keen interest in the Content Management and Cloud initiative.
Michel Guez
Managing Director, Smartesting
Michel Guez is Managing Director, Smartesting India. Before joining Smartesting, Michel was the head of the development of a solution specifically designed for the end-to-end testing of critical e-payment software solutions. Michel had been working with European high tech industrial companies with the e-transaction business sector. He held responsibilities like building solutions together with specialised IT partners for such markets as banking card payments, mobile communications, e-government digital security schemes. Michel Guez holds a MBA from Reims Management School.
Amarendra Godbole
Software Security Analyst, Symantec
As a Software Security Analyst with the Product Security Group in Symantec, Amarendra is actively involved in the various aspects of secure development lifecycle for Symantec products. He also provides security training to Symantec engineers. Amarendra has about eleven years of experience in the field of sofware, mostly with product companies. He has held various engineering positions with GE, Digital, and Mahindra British Telecom. Amarendra holds a B.E. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Mumbai.