Speaker Bio:  

Ashutosh Kumar
Principal Interaction Designer , Yahoo!
A seasoned practitioner of “user experience” with 11 years of consulting experience for clients Fortune 500. He holds an M.Des. from IIT Mumbai, after being trained as an architect. He is an expert in managing end-to-end user experience for large enterprise applications in a wide spectrum which contains digital advertizing, corporate banking, finance, international trade, medical and education domains. His key strength lies in managing global & multi-disciplinary teams across business, design and UI technology to identify UX gaps, analyze UI challenges, and design cutting edge user experience for large enterprise applications. He evangelizes “user centered design” and employs it in agile software development with equal dexterity. He has a penchant for empirical research based UX patterns with equal sensitivity to visual design and front end technology to achieve futuristic yet practical user experience across various devices. He has a couple of cutting edge UX research papers and an interaction design patent to his credit as well.
Riaz Kapadia
Enterprise Architect, Syntel
Riaz has 14+ years of experience in the technical consulting services and IT sectors. His experience spans Enterprise Architecture Consulting for strategy definitions and process standardization. He has consulted clients varying from fortune 100 enterprises to product companies. Riaz holds a Bachelors degree in Instrumentation & Control from Gujarat University, India. At Syntel, Riaz heads the Architecture Solutions Group and is responsible for development and provide Architecture services for Syntel. His key assignments -Defined the application strategy for a big loyalty client and represented their architecture review board,Developed DR strategy for a banking giant in Netherlands,Definition of Architecture Process and guidelines for a large bank in America,Definition of future state architecture of the entire product suite of a hospital management systems provider company,Performance Engineering for the integration layer of HR application for a Retail giant,Defined Architecture for Billing application which involved in integrating all the existing billing applications and creating one single instance
Mohamed Rafi
Project Manager - User Interface Development , MphasiS
Mohamed Rafi has a unique skill set of building customized user interface framework for enterprise applications like Oracle portal, PEGA, SharePoint and Tridion. He has more than 11 years of experience in User Interface development and architecture. He brought a complete new dimension in UI for many corporate giants in US. Rafi is currently focusing on the revolution of mobile media and making it possible for the enterprise consumers.
Jaya Arvind Krishna
Chief Architect - Technology Center of Excellence, UST Global
Jaya Arvind Krishna is currently a Director and Head of Cloud Computing for UST Global, advising on UST’s Cloud Practices and Center of Excellence(COE) initiatives. He has delivered large scale B2C/B2B WebPortals and Highly Interactive corporate extranet applications for various industries. He is also the Chief Architect for building a next generation line of products for a key account in UST Global.He has over 18 Years of experience selling advising and building software products, solutions and services. He has worked with senior leadership for middle and large enterprises helping them align their IT Systems to achieve business goals
Narasing Rao Akula
Technology Head of ECM and Mobility, Virtusa
Narasing Rao Akula is the Technology Head for the Enterprise Content Management & Mobility Solutions at Virtusa. He manages the company’s Content Management & Mobility specialists based in Asia Pacific, as they develop advanced ECM & Mobility solutions for Virtusa’s clients. For more than a decade, Narasing has managed projects for Fortune 500 and Global 2000 organizations. At Virtusa, he is involved in ECM strategy and execution, IT governance, mobile delivery & applications, internationalization, SEO/Analytics, Portals, and various technology trends (ie SOA, REST, CMIS).
Ashok Krish
Head - Web 2.0, Tata Consultancy Services
Ashok heading the Web 2.0 Innovation lab at TCS, which is part of the TCS Corporate Technology Office. The lab’s aim is to bring Web 2.0 to TCS customers, both on the consumer internet front and internally in the form of several interesting Enterprise 2.0 experiments (in the area of Collective Intelligence, Social Innovation and Crowdsourcing) that have seen a good amount of success so far. He is a passionate open source enthusiast, an amateur Rubyist, a classical violinist and a guitarist, an amateur cellist,used to be a Radio Jockey with Chennai Live 104.8 .I also occasionally write for Cricinfo and his specialties are IT Architecture consulting, Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Knowledge Management, Innovation and Creativity, Hobbies.
Sudhir Kumar Singh
Senior Technical Architect, Hexaware Technologies
He has over 11 years of experience in the area of client server technology. As senior architect he has designed a number of web based solutions for mission critical applications for fortune 500 Travel and Transportation companies. He is involved in the area of building highly scalable web applications that are functionally rich, responsive, and secure and to achieve this he adopts the latest trends in web applications for their growing versatility and pervasiveness. Since 2003 he has been working in new technologies platform for the Travel and Transportation domain of Hexaware Technologies. He currently leads the technical team of Advanced Solution Group (ASG) of Global Travel and Transportation (GTT) business unit of Hexaware.He was facilitated by Unisys, a Hexaware Client, twice with Certificate of Excellence for his contribution to Unisys projects. He is also a recipient of Hexaware&rsquot;s Star Performer award for North America region.
Dr. Pethuru Raj
Enterprise Architect , Sify Software
Dr. Pethuru Raj has been working as an enterprise Architect in Sify Software Ltd. Before joining Sify, he was working in two leading IT companies: as a lead architect in Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions (RBEI), Bangalore and as a senior architect in Wipro Technologies, Bangalore, for five years. He was awarded JSPS and JST Research fellowships to focus on distributed and quantum computing paradigms in two leading Japanese universities for 3 years. Pethuru Raj has gained more than 11 years of industry experience in enterprise integration technologies and tools. The business integration frameworks and platforms are enterprise Java (JEE) and Microsoft .NET framework. Currently his focus areas include cloud computing, service orientated architecture (SOA), embedded SOA for service-based device-to-device (D2D) integration and mobile computing.