Speaker Bio:  

Rajiv Kapur
Managing Director , Broadcom India
Rajiv Kapur has been with Broadcom for over four and a half years now where he is responsible for all operations and business development in India. Prior to joining Broadcom, he was with LSI for almost 14 years. Rajiv was based in LSI’s internal ASIC Technology R&D organization at Milpitas, California before he moved to Bangalore as its country head in 2004. He grew the company India to a diverse setup across 3 cities and led his team on providing IP, Software CAD, Methodology, Libraries and Product integration. Rajiv holds a degree in B.E. (Hons.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering and an M.Sc. in Physics from BITS, Pilani. He also holds an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, California. Rajiv has been issued 5 Patents by the US Patent Office mostly in Physical Design CAD algorithms.
Thomas Curtis
Marketing Manager & Developer Advocate, BlueVia
Thomas Curtis is Marketing Manager, Developer Advocate for BlueVia and Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts. After graduating from the University of Kent he spent five years as a web developer and technology advocate in the education sector. He joined BlueVia last year and loves to talk about technology regardless of platform , you can find him on twitter at @seektom.
Antonio Lopez
Product Manager, BlueVia
Antonio Lopez is a Java and Android developer, has spent most of his career as a Telefónica R&D development engineer working on social media projects and content distribuition for mobile devices. He currently works as a product manager for BlueVia initiative, the developer platform from Telefónica.
Guenter Zwickl
Head of Global R&D & Head of Technology Center, Nokia Siemens Networks
Guenter graduated in Telecom’s & Electronics, HTBLuVA St. Poelten, Austria, and joined Siemens AG in 1978 in the traffic engineering division. Until 1994 he served in several project management and service head positions in road area traffic and telecom’s projects in Austria, Hong Kong, Egypt and former Eastern Germany Starting 1995 he moved into sales, with VP-positions in Indonesia and Thailand, subsequently heading Siemens telecommunication country activities in Israel, Russia (fixed line) and Bulgaria. After the telecom merger Nokia Siemens Networks in 2007 he moved to R&D management. In addition to his global assignment as coordinator for NSN’s 27 Technology Centers worldwide, he was running the Technology Center in Wroclaw, Poland and as of Jan 1st, 2011 the global Technology Center in Bangalore.
Sudeendra Koushik
Practice Director, HCL Technologies
Sudeendra Koushik is an Engineering Graduate from University of Mysore, with Post Graduation in Strategy Management and General Management from IIM-K. After working for BPL Ltd in India he joined the Global Development center of TV at Philips in Singapore. Since 2010 he is in HCL as Practice Director, focusing on Innovation in the areas of Consumer Electronics and Connected Digital Consumer Life style.Sudeendra is the founder-member and secretary of IEEE CE Chapter in Bangalore and Singapore. Sudeendra was speaker at SMART Products event at Philips High Campus, The Netherlands and was an invited speaker at Silicon India Embedded Conference, Bangalore.
Madhwesh Kulkarni
VP of Engineering, Aricent
Madhwesh has more than 20 years of experience in IT/Telecom industry. He has worked closely with more than 40 telecom service providers globally. In his current role, he is responsible for engineering operations across the globe and creating integrated solutions/service offerings for communications services business. He has worked with operators across the globe in defining strategic directions for IT, Networks, Operations management, technology and products. As one of the founder members of Telecom Service Provider Business Unit of Wipro, he provided strategic inputs to leading Telecom Operators across USA, Europe, Middle East, APAC, India and Japan. He has been also associated with all major OSS-BSS ISVs and telecom equipment vendors in various roles and capacities
Vikas Banga
Co-Founder, LetsGoMo Labs
Vikas is the Co-Founder and CTO of LetsGoMo Labs, where he is responsible for identifying the new technologies shaping the mobile arena, and identifying their usefulness. Having dabbled in various roles in Appulse Technologies which he co-founded, and HCL Technologies, he employs his broad experience as developer, hacker, and product manager to find innovative solutions to the challenges being faced by LetsGoMo Labs customers in creating and implementing their mobile strategy.
Vaideeswaran Sethuraman
Founder & CEO, Divum
Vaideeswaran is the Founder & CEO at Divum Corporate Services Pvt Ltd. He is a VLSI Electronic Design Automation (EDA) veteran, with more than 14 years of vast experience in the areas of microprocessor / SoC chip design, flow automation and in-house tools development. The areas include synthesis, lint, logical equivalence checking, design verification (DV), CDC, datapath placer, backend P&R and timing flows. Defined and developed tools from scratch like netlist checkers, RTL power estimation tools, flow-automation tools and Spec-to-RTL tools. Currently developing an Datapath placement and Standard cell library qualification tools for a design house. Founded Divum in the middle of deep 2008 recession and grown upto a team size in double digit. Divum has a track record of developing 40+ iPhone applications in first 6 months. Divum is an idea execution center, where ideas are converted into reality, especially in the areas of iPhone/BlackBerry/Android applications.
Rohith Bhat
Managing Director & CEO, Robosoft Technologies
Rohith founded Robosoft in 1996 with the focus on providing product Development services around the Apple Mac platform when the rest of the world had given up on the Mac. Over the years, Robosoft has built on this niche and has several ongoing multi-year service engagements with some well known brands. In 2008, Robosoft spun off two subsidiaries with focus on building own IP products for the global markets: ŒGlobal Delight which focuses on building great utility and productivity software for Mac and iOS and Œ99Games Online focused on building games for the iOS platforms. Rohith completed his B.Tech in Computer Engineering in 1992 from Mangalore University and worked at Recosoft Corportation, Japan and L&T Infotech, Mumbai before starting Robosoft.
Girish Joshi
Emerging Business & Mobile Lead, Microsoft
Girish Joshi is leading Mobile Ecosystem Imperatives for Microsoft India. He works with various core enablers including App Ecosystem, Operators, OEMs, Ad networks and platform vendors. Also Girish is hugely passionate about Startup ecosystem in India and Works with Policy makers, Industry leaders, Global Angel & and VC financier, Media and various startup communities to accelerate innovation and success of IT entrepreneurs in India.
Sharad Shankar
Head - Mobile Application Development, Times Internet
Sharad is leading the Mobile App Development for Times Internet Limited on different platforms such as iPhone, Android & Windows 7 and also looking into HTML5 web app development for various Times Properties. He has been graduated from IIT Kanpur. Previously, he was associated with the companies like Talisma and was a consultant for few startup companies in Mumbai. He is the founder of Logic Bricks Company, where the company is involved in the App development, Imaging, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Tracking.
Krishna Balaraman
Technical Manager, Alcatel-Lucent
Krishna is currently involved in developing network management solutions for optical networks which is used by major telcos around the world. He has Nineteen years of experience in key leadership roles of product development and management in the domains of Wireless, Telecom, Datacom, Mobile Handset, Optical Networks, and Data Center IT Infrastructure. He has extensive cross-functional experience with P&L responsibilities for independent business unit and new product introduction. He has experience in the complete product development value chain from the program inception to customer delivery. He has played leadership roles as a senior member of management and country leadership councils for organisational development, scaling and transformation. Krishna holds a Engineering degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Madras , a Post Graduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Rights from National Law School of India University, Bangalore, and an MBA (PGSEM 2012) from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.
Roopesh Singh
Director Engineering and Head of Technical Pre-Sales & Solution Design, Huawei India R&D
Roopesh Singh is Director Engineer with Huawei Technologies (India) Pvt Ltd and heads the Technical Pre-sales & Solution Design of Huawei Software at India R&D Center, Bangalore. He has around 16 Yrs of experience, out of which past 10 years has been with Huawei. In the past he has spearheaded the Architecture & System Engineering Department of Huawei Software. His domain expertise includes the BSS, VAS & Carrier Enterprise Solutions.
Rama Krishna
Chief Engineer, [x]cube LABS
Rama Krishna is the Chief Engineer at [x]cube LABS. He has formidable expertise in a wide range of technologies, including VoIP, iOS development, mobile advertising and analytics, and much more. At [x]cube, he is responsible for project management as well as engineering standards and training implementation. He has been part of organizations such as PanTerra Networks and Competent Solutions as a Software Architect before joining [x]cube LABS.
Sachin Sharma
Co-Founder, XStudio Technologies
After graduating from IIT Kanpur in 2006, Sachin spent 5 years in roles of software developer & team leader with Synygy India. In mid 2010, Sachin and his colleague founded a startup i.e. XStudio Technologies, a company that is developing mobile applications and location based services. In his free time, he also blogs at the tech blog, Trak.in.
Vanraj Vala
Technical Lead-Android Application Middleware, Samsung India Software Operations
Currently, Vanraj is responsible for developing & leading teams for Android Apps & Android Framework. He has more than 6 years of association with Samsung India Software Operations, out of which the last 3 years has been on Android Application & Application Middleware differentiation on Samsung Galaxy Android devices (such as i7500, Galaxy Spica, Galaxy Tab, Tab 10.1, Galaxy S, Galaxy S2, Galaxy Note. He has extensive experience in design and implementation of Samsung&rsquot;s pre-built Apps the most recent being Video Maker. He has extensive experience in Core Java technologies as well.
Arun Benty
Founder and Director, Trellisys
Arun Benty Founder and Director of Business Development at Trellisys has overall 11 years of experience and IT services firm focusing on Mobile, social media and ecommerce 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 and 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.
Surlak Patel
Head of Android & Java Enterprise, IndiaNIC
Surlak is currently working as a Business & Technical Consultant(BTC) at IndiaNIC. He has close to 11 years of IT experience and is an expert in the Java Enterprise & Android Mobile World. He founded the Android & Java Enterprise team which grew up to a double digit team size in just a year. Under his dynamic leadership a strong R&D Team of large size has been established at IndiaNIC and it has a track record of developing 40+ Android applications in first 6 months. He has been an eminent speaker for Java Enterprise and Android Mobile related tools and technologies. As a consultant he is passionate about analyzing and applying latest market trends to achieve results that favor business growth and sustenance.
Vikas Kumar
Lead Developer, Fugenx
Vikas is the Lead Developer at FuGenX Technologies. He has over 6 Years of IT experience. He has excellent experience in iOS development. He holds degree in Electronics and Communication from CCS University, Meerut. He has been awarded as the best performer in Software Development at FuGenX.
Shilpa Mahna Bhatnagar
Director Engineering, Hughes Systique India
Shilpa has an Industry experience of more than 13 years and has spend close to 3 years in the area of Mobile Terminal Software Development. Mobile Terminal Division at HSC has shown a tremendous growth curve and has now established as Android and iOS as a core competency in the Software Services Market as well under her guidance. Under her guidance, her team have delivered high quality results and the products developed for the customers have got accolades worldwide. She has issued 2 patents in the field of High Availability System to her credit.
Suresh Katakam
Director, Innominds
Suresh has 18+ years of Experience in development and delivery of technology projects for major global customers who are OEMs/ODMs, Telcos, infrastructure companies, start‐ups. Successfully setup mobility solutions as a practice at Satyam from ground‐up and setup a R&D lab with COE initiatives. His areas of excellence ‐ Services Delivery, Domain Experience, Platform Experience, Program/Project management, Competency development, setup R&D labs, Customer/Stakeholders relationship, Expectation Management.
Narayan Subramaniam
Product Manager, Nokia
Narayan has total 10 years of experience. Currently he is working for Nokia India as product manager. He was working in Philips Electronics in engineering role. He is Post Graduation in Strategic Management from IIM-K and Engineering in Telecommunication. He is certified Pragmatic Marketing professional and also a certified product manager from Association of international product marketing and management. He has presented paper in open linux forums including one in Australia and also has a technology patent.