Speaker Bio:  

Altaf Rehmani
Projects Director, Redbytes Software
Altaf Rehmani, is a 17 year IT software veteran who spent a major part of his career in financial services IT and returned to India in 2009 to start his own venture in pune, India. His latest brand tinytapps is focussed on delivering educational apps for toddlers and younger kids. His company recently merged with Iniquus software pvt Ltd where Altaf manages the technology portfolio. Altaf has a passion for creating solutions using various technologies. His earlier ventures include ushops.com, atestapart.com and a BI tool called dash2.0 Altaf also has interests in teaching and mentoring young graduates with the goal of bridging the gap which exists between their knowledge and what the industry requires.
Kedar Bhise
Head- Mobility CoE, Zensar Technologies
Kedar Bhise heads the Mobility CoE as well as Java & Open Source CoE at Zensar Technologies Pune. Kedar has 17+ years of technology and leadership experience. Kedar has been working in the field of Mobility solutions for 7 years, with major focus on Mobile Enablement of Enterprise Applications.
Amit Kalekar
Technical Manager, Persistent Systems
Amit has extensively worked in mobile domain and has knowledge of all major mobile platforms including iPhone, Windows mobile symbian and more. His strength lies in Technology initiatives in mobile group which involves nurturing core focus area of the company for various enterprise mobile application components, customer presentations and discussions for business development, proposal preparations (Technical architecture, estimates, etc), staffing, identifying value added mobile solutions for existing customers and preparing pilot applications for various business use cases as well as setting and building high performance teams to deliver application. Amit has been involved in complete project life cycles for mobile applications, from initiation to project closure.
Samir Karande
Founder & CEO, MobiPrimo Technologies
Samir has more than 15 years of product development and outsourcing experience. Earlier at Persistent Systems, Samir managed operations for the Telecom Business unit with more than 1,000 people working across globe. Then, he incubated Mobile & Wireless Business unit which he grew to 300 people in couple of years as head of the business unit. Prior to Persistent Systems, Samir helped Comverse in defining award winning mobile messaging platform, deployed with multiple tier-1 carriers across the world. He has been active in multiple standards bodies and helped define multiple RFCs and standards at W3C and IETF committees. Prior to Comverse, Samir helped Lernout & Hauspie, a world leader in speech products, in defining and launching next-generation natural language processing (NLP) product suite. Samir holds Bachelor&rsquot;s degree in Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering from India and Masters Degree in Computer Science from Boston University.
Mukul Joshi
Founder & CEO, SpotOn Software
Mukul Joshi is a hard-core technocrat having 9+ years of industry experience in software product R&D and services. He turned into an entrepreneur since Jan. 2008. Prior to starting his own technology company Mukul worked at Great Software Labs. He worked on various critical projects in networking, search and data mining, IP telephony and mobile technology. Mukul was a member of Database research group at IBM India Research Labs, Delhi in 2002-03 and he worked with Persistent Systems in early days of his career. Mukul achieved M.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from I.I.T. Powai and B.E.(CS) from Pune University. He holds nine international conference and journal publications and two patents to his name. He is closely associated with academia and has taught at Pune University as a visiting faculty.
Vikas K Verma
VP- Emerging Technologies, Cybage Software
Vikas heads Cybages Emerging technologies portfolio and his current concentrations include Enterprise Mobility and Cloud Computing. Working with Cybage for over 10 years, Vikas has headed multiple emerging practices including eCommerce and Electronic Payments in the past. He is a keen learner, a technology evangelist and is passionate about emerging technologies and their value to business.
Shailendra R. Sinhasane
Managing Director, Mobisoft Infotech
Shailendra is a young entrepreneur and he has co-founded Mobisoft Infotech Pvt Ltd, a specialized smart phone/devices apps development company in early 2009. The company has quickly grown to 70+ people team and has established capable delivery model for &rsquot;Mobile + Web + Social&rsquot; apps. During his Masters in Computer Science at University of Houston, he gained valuable knowledge for Ubiquitous devices computing. Immediately after Masters, he started working as developer consultant for various small to medium scale apps development project across United states. He has been actively involved in developers as well as business Meetup groups.
Mohit Mathur
Senior Software engineer, Symantec
Mohit has a total professional experience of 6+ years and have been with Symantec for past 4+ years. During this tenure he gained hands-on experience of secure app development on various mobile platforms including iOS, Android, RIM, and Windows Phone 7. Mohit has been a key part in developing iOS and Android platforms based VIP Access app (https://m.verisign.com). Secure applications help protect your online accounts by requiring a security code - in addition to your user name and password - for safe and secure account access.
Karthik Krishnaraj
Co-Founder, Arkenea Technologies
Karthi is a marketing professional with over 16 years of experience in the area of customer acquisition, retention and growth programs. He joined Ogilvy advertising at the age of 18 years as a Trainee and worked for five years before moving on to the corporate world, where he has demonstrated strong skills in designing creative programmes that have produced high impact on the target audience .Karthik has led a team of consultants for developing analytics-based strategies for designing online and mobile based marketing campaigns for Customer Relationship Management (CRM) programmes for companies in the Financial Services, FMCG and Retail verticals.
Parag Y Arjunwadkar
Head Mobile Practice, Syntel
With an experience of more then 15 years Parag heads the mobility and wireless department at Syntel. Parag has hands on experience working on various platforms such as Symbian Qt, Android, iPhone,Blackberry and RIM. During his career he has gained experience in building and managing the mobile practice. Parag has experience in Agile method of working with a comprehensive knowledge of complete SDLC. Parag has Managed & Architectured one of the largest Programs CPOS comprising of sales, inventory and customer registration & activation systems in Patni (1500+ man month project) for IBM-Vodafone.
Ajit Gokhale
Founder & CEO, Mobien Technologies
Ajit is an Enterprise Mobility strategist with core expertise on business process reengineering. He has Core expertise on business mobility and its applications in diverse verticals such as Chemicals, FMCG, CPG, Pharma, Engineering, BFSI. Ajit has been instrumental in launching iNotify whose application platform enables organisations to extend their ERP/CRM platforms to the last mile by leveraging mobile devices being used by the field teams.
Avinash Jain
APM DTAG- Communications practise, Cognizant Technology Solutions
Avinash started his career as a researcher with the German company Fraunhofer Gesellschaft in Germany, and then moved on to mainstream IT covering functions across Software Research, Software Development, Project Management and Knowledge Transition. During his research a majority of his time was spent on java based software research and development in the fields of media and multimodal user interfaces. He is an alumnus of RWTH, Aachen, Germany where he did his MS in Media Informatics (Computer Science).Avinash presently works with Cognizant Technology Solutions as an APM and DTAG-Communications practise.
Bhuvan Khanna
Innovation Engineer , Webonise Lab
Bhuvan is a BTech in Information Technology and holds international certifications from SUN and IBM. Prior to joining Webonise Lab, he was the co-founder of O2 Soft Solutions and has also worked with companies like Hewlett Packard and UKTI. He has been a speaker at various summits and conferences varying from mobile development to applied human behavior. Currently Bhuvan works with Webonise as a Mobile Technology Innovation Engineer, creating leading edge technological solutions for the mobile platform.
Anand Gupta
Project Manager-Mobile Computing, Syntel
Anand is a mobile computing and iOS expert with more than 8 years of experience in Cocoa technology. He has worked on Jade, Cocoa framework and ISTCF framework. Anand has over 3 years of iPhone application development and more than 6 years of experience in development projects involving client-server application. To top it all Anand has excellent experience in working with Global Delivery Model. Anand presently leads the mobile computing initiative at Syntel.
Arun Kumar Pattabhiraman
Merchant Account Manager-APAC & Africa, InMobi
Arun joined InMobi as one of the early members of the SmartPay business team to drive sales and account management efforts . He currently heads account management for APAC and Africa. Prior to InMobi, Arun worked with Airtel as part of the Customer Lifecycle Management team. Working in a hyper competitive market, he conceived and launched several new products for the prepaid market in TN & Kerala circles. He also spearheaded and launched Airtel 3G services in Chennai. Arun started his career as a software engineer at Tata consultancy Services where he built custom enhancements for a global mobile billing product. Arun is extremely passionate about the mobile and the internet and loves to work on new and emerging technologies in this space
Sanjay Mamani
Director – Mobile Applications & Web Development, BRIDGETREE
Sanjay is an IT professional with around 16 years of career track and an outstanding record of accomplishment in developing several world class mission critical business applications. He has a long history of software development and business application construction experience. Sanjay’s skills are deep and broad and his specialty is in Enterprise Architecture and Product solutions. He is always driven to produce results and passionate about delivering quality to customers always. Sanjay’s key expertise is in developing world class Mobile Applications (on all platforms) and Web Apps to several industry verticals. Combining expertise in quality engineering, enterprise architecture, testing, business intelligence, and project management, Sanjay brings great value to all clients. Sanjay holds Masters Degree in Information Technology & Management from University of North Carolina at Greensboro and an Engineering degree from GIT, Karnataka University.
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