Speaker Bio:  

Kalpak Shah
Founder & CEO, Clogeny Technologies
Kalpak Shah is the Founder & CEO of Clogeny Technologies Pvt. Ltd. and guides the overall strategic direction of the company. Clogeny is focused on niche software and product development in cloud computing, scalable applications and Big Data domains. He is passionate about the ground-breaking economics and technology afforded by the cloud computing platforms. He has been leading and architecting cutting-edge product development across the cloud stack including IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and private cloud platforms. He has previously worked at organizations like Sun Microsystems and Symantec, primarily in distributed and disk filesystems.
Satish Agrawal
Vice President, Cloud Computing Practice, e-Zest Solutions Ltd.
Satish Agrawal is Vice President of Cloud Computing at e-Zest Solutions Ltd. His role includes further strengthening of existing competencies in the domain of cloud computing for enterprises and ISVs to deliver best value solutions from design to deployment for cloud adaptation. Satish Agrawal has over 16 years of experience in IT and software product engineering space. He has built and implemented end-to-end cloud solutions for clients across geographies. He has got insightful knowledge of managing various technology projects. He has worked with many leading software services companies at senior technical positions.
Ashwin Waknis
Head - Cloud and Virtualization Professional Services Business, Persistent Systems
Ashwin Waknis is currently the Head of Cloud and Virtualization Professional Services Business at Persistent Systems where he is responsible for new business around various virtualization and cloud technologies. Before Persistent, Ashwin was a Sr. Product Manager at Cisco Systems where he lead major initiatives around Knowledge Management, Enterprise Portal, Web 2.0/Social Software and Enterprise Search. For the last 2 years, Ashwin has been involved in Cloud Computing initiatives first at Cisco and then at Persistent Systems. Ashwin has spoken at many Cloud event customer workshops and events organized for educational institutes. He recently spoke at IndicThreads.com conference on Cloud Computing on the topic of Cloud Lock-in and Interoperability. Ashwin Waknis is a graduate of IIT Bombay and has 16 years of industry experience.
Dimuthu Leelarathne
Technical Lead and Product Manager, WSO2 Stratos
Dimuthu joined WSO2 in December 2006 as a Senior Software Engineer and is now a Technical Lead working on the WSO2 Development Team. She develops implements and maintains user management components of the WSO2 Carbon platform. She is an expert in Java and Java related technologies. She was an initial team member of the Axis-Mora project which served as proof of concept for Apache Axis2, where she oversaw the de-serialization process. Dimuthu has a B.Sc. in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka and is currently reading for her M.Sc. in Computer Science from the same University.
Bhavin Raichura
Senior Technology Architect, Infosys Technologies
Bhavin Raichura is associated with Infosys Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:INFY) as Senior Technology Architect, has around 14+ years of experience. He leads collaboration-focused industry-solutions and cloud-computing CoE within Manufacturing vertical. He leads conceptualization-to-commercialization cycles for multiple solution initiatives being part of the Products, Platforms and Solutions team at Infosys. He has published multiple whitepapers, presented on Cloud Computing at multiple international-conferences.
Vikas Gupta
General Manager and Practice Head (Cloud Computing), MindTree
Vikas Gupta is a cloud computing strategy and management professional and an evangelist. He has worked with top software product companies like Microsoft Technologies on their Software + Services platform and Infosys Technologies on Enterprise Architecture and has delivered software around the globe. He has helped strategize multiple SaaS product startups in over 18 years of his experience in the software industry. He works as a General Manager and Global Practice Head (Cloud Computing) at MindTree Ltd. He also heads the Application-Platform as a Service (aPaaS) core team for building an anywhere-anytime Automotive-Cloud-Mobile platform.
Amit Pathak
Manager - Virtualization Practice, iGATE Patni
Amit Pathak is a senior IT professional having 13 years of experience in the industry working as a manager - virtualization practice within Product Engineering Services unit of iGATE Patni. Amit focuses on cloud computing and virtualization, providing solutions to adopt virtualization in enterprises. Amit has been actively involved in architecting solutions in cloud computing catering to business requirements and leading teams developing solutions and services.
Anand Bhate
CoE Lead - Cloud Computing , Zensar Technologies
Anand is an Enterprise Architect in the Application Management Services (AMS) Practice in Zensar Technologies. Having worked with diverse technologies, methodologies and platforms over last 16 years in Zensar, Anand has contributed in project deliveries, architecture and design consultation and practice initiatives. Anand is currently leading the Cloud Computing Center of Excellence (CoE) in the Applications space in Zensar. The Cloud CoE is focused in building strength in various Cloud platforms, through the development of solution accelerators and frameworks for Cloud and SaaS space. The CoE is also instrumental in building a few Zensar IPs on Cloud, which are targeted towards specific verticals.
Ravi Gururaj
VP Products, Cloud Platforms Group, Citrix Systems
Ravi Gururaj is Vice President Products in the Cloud Platforms Group at Citrix Systems Inc. and has over twenty years of technology product development, management and marketing experience. Ravi is a member of the Citrix CTO Office, is responsible for regional coordination of the Citrix Startup Accelerator Program in India and serves on the Citrix India R&D engineering leadership team. He is Charter Member of the Bangalore Chapter of TiE and is a frequent speaker on the topics of enterprise-grade virtualization, cloud computing, and entrepreneurship and industry, academic and community events. Ravi joined Citrix Inc. in 2010 through the acquisition of VMLogix Inc, a Bain Capital Ventures & Trilogy funded cloud computing start-up which Ravi founded here in Bangalore. Ravi received an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was elected a Baker Scholar, and graduated with honors from the University of Pennsylvania, as a Benjamin Franklin Scholar in the Management and Technology (M&T) program.