Speaker Bio:  

Sanjay Purohit
SVP & Global Head – Products, Platforms and Solutions, Infosys
Sanjay’s current role include developing Infosys intellectual property led offerings that help global corporations drive their business objectives of revenue growth.He has more than two decades of diverse experience in strategic planning, corporate development, business operations & leadership development with leading businesses in India and other countries. Sanjay played a pivotal role in leading Infosys to be the first IT services company in India to win the CII-EXIM Bank Award for Business Excellence in 2002, to be the first IT services company to win the Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame Award in 2007. Sanjay has been a leading participant in global strategy forums on topics of international interest, such as “India and The World 2025”, “Global Risks” and “Scenarios for the World in 2025”.
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Vivek Subramanyam
CEO, iCreate Software
Vivek has global experience working for organizations like iGATE, Cognizant, Citibank and TCS. In his previous role, Vivek was the Head of the Presales and Solutions group at iGATE and a member of iGATE’s Leadership Council. At Cognizant, his last role was as the US Head of Operations - Manufacturing, Logistics & Consumer Goods Practice . He has also managed multiple client relationships and been responsible for significant P&L management. In addition, he has driven several corporate initiatives for executive leadership at iGATE and Cognizant. He has also had stints in sales management at Citibank and as a systems analyst in TCS. Vivek is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIML) and has a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Surathkal (formerly KREC).
Arnab Chakraborty
Managing Director, Accenture Consulting – Global Talent & Innovation Network (GTIN)
Arnab is the global lead for the analytics practice across Communication, Media & Hi-Tech(CMT) industry verticals at Accenture-GTIN. He has over 15 years of rich experience in Consulting & Business Analytics across diverse industry sectors. Arnab has significant leadership experience in strategy formulation, business Solutioning, client management, business development, service delivery & operations management. Arnab experience in analytics spans across marketing analytics, digital/ e-commerce analytics, sales analytics & supply chain analytics. Arnab has played a pivotal role in scaling up enterprise wide analytics capabilities globally for the past ten years across Hewlett Packard (HP) and GE Capital (Genpact). Arnab has also held leadership positions at KPMG Consulting, Wipro Technologies and L&T. Arnab has worked across high tech & electronics, financial services, consumer goods and manufacturing industries. Arnab is recognized as an Edelman Laureate by the prestigious Franz Edelman Committee/ INFORMS for his contributions in the field of e-commerce/ online analytics and has also been voted by SSON in 2012 as one of the top 6 Global Sourcing Think-tank (G6) in Asia.
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Pradeep Desai
Technology Leader - Software Sciences & Analytics, GE Global Research
Pradeep works for Global Research as the Technology Leader for Software Sciences and Analytics. He is also the Head of Software Center of Excellence-India. He manages the team working in analytics & platform development for the industrial internet. He has over two decades of experience comprising of Innovation and R&D Management in the space of- systems, software solutions and services. His expertise lies into Analytics, Industrial Internet, Big data & Platform development.
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Pankaj Sinha
Head Rational Lab, IBM India
Pankaj has 25 years of industry experience & has been with IBM for the last 20 years. He has been with the IBM Software Lab, India since its inception & has played key product development leadership roles across both Software Group (SWG) & Systems & Technology Group (STG). He currently leads the Rational India Lab that focuses on Development & Support of Rational Products. He also has worldwide development responsibilities for the Portfolio and Strategy Management suite of products that includes Focal Point, System Architect & Rational Method Composer. In the course of his career, Pankaj has chaired several industry events & presented papers at different forums.
Santhanakrishnan Raman
Managing Director, LSI India R & D
Raman spent 11 years (’93 to ’04) in LSI Milpitas, California and moved to LSI India, Bangalore in 2004. Raman has been working on development of multiple generations of design tools & methodologies in the Custom Solutions (ASIC) Division at LSI. He graduated with an M.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering (Microelectronics) from IITK & has also completed an Executive General Management Program (EGMP) from IIMB this year. Raman is a co-inventor of 6 US patents. At LSI, he has been very active in many cross functional initiatives within LSI India & across LSI world-wide. Raman’s professional interests include trends in computing and software development, and emerging business models in a globalized economy.
Virendra Gupta
SVP & Business Line Head, Huawei Technologies
Virendra has over two decades of experience in the telecom industry, of which more than 11 years have been with Huawei. As 2012 Lab Business Line Head, Virendra has overall responsibility for the Business Line to ensure high quality, on time delivery of deliverable’s to customers in line with R&D centers objectives. Under his leadership, 2012 Lab BL has delivered world class components and platforms in these domains for global markets with wide deployment across the world.
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Dorai Thodla
Founder, iMorph
Dorai is a Senior Entrepreneur with four decades of industry experience. He Mentors Innovation Centers at Engineering Colleges and Adviser to the product startups. Also Mentors members of TiE and Nasscom. Dorai has been a regular speaker at many reputed international conferences. He has been awarded as Nasscom Emerge Evangelizer Award 2011 - for helping product entrepreneurs.
K V Suryaprakash
VP and Head of Delivery - Retail, Infosys
Surya has played multiple roles across sales, delivery, program management and operations. He also heads the Technology Modernization and Agile initiatives for the unit. He has vast experience in large engagements and has played a key role in winning and executing programs for some of the top 10 Retailers and CPG companies. Prior to joining Infosys, he spent significant years of his career at IT Solutions (currently Keane, an NTT Data company). He was one of the initial core team members and played multiple roles across geographies.
Amol Mahamuni
Program Director, IBM India Software Lab
Amol has 25 years of industry experience and has been with IBM for last 16 years. He has been with India Software Lab (ISL) since its inception in 2001 and has played key leadership roles across products portfolio in growing the lab to its current level. In his current role, Amol is responsible for IBM Pure Application Systems product management and business development. IBM Pure Application System integrates all IT elements together in single system to address IT complexity, resiliency, deployment and IT manageability. Over the past decade, he managed various Software Group and Systems Group projects at India Software Lab including Linux Technology Centre, Tivoli products, WebSphere Business Components and ISL Solutions Lab.
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Dr. Vikram Vij
VP & Strategic Business Practice Head, Infosys R & D
Dr. Vij has two decades of experience in product development in areas such as databases, operating systems, storage and consumer electronics. Prior to joining Infosys, he worked at Samsung Electronics for 7 years as VP for the India Development Center. Vikram was instrumental in the evolution of the Samsung India Development Center from project delivery to strategic value creator, spearheading successful development & commercialization of several “world first“ and “world best“ market leading innovations in Consumer Electronics products such as Digital TVs, Monitors, Video Walls, Projectors, Camcorders, Home Theater Systems and Bluray Disc Players. Prior to Samsung, Vikram worked for 12 years at American Express, Legato (now EMC), Cadence Design Systems, Informix (now IBM) and Oracle, with a proven track record at bringing new products and services to market.
Vasanthi Ramesh
Director SET, Flipkart.com
Vasanthi has more than two decades of IT experience. Prior to Flipkart, Vasanthi was associated with the companies like Apigee and Oracle as a Principal Member Technical Staff.
Santosh Srikantaiah
Director Architecture & Application Development, NTT Data Inc
Santosh has 12+ years of experience in Solution Architecture and Product Engineering. He has reduced testing setup cycle time from 5 days to couple of Minutes by designing a Lab on Private cloud. Santosh compiled the biggest ever Generated Java project. His area of expertise lies into Product Engineering, Solution Architecture, J2EE, and Cloud Computing.
Manoj Karanth
Technical Director – Cloud Computing Solutions, MindTree
Manoj is the lead architect in the Cloud Computing group with focus on cloud application architectures and security. Hehelps enterprises achieve the promise of cloud. He has rich and diverse experience spanning enterprise SOA, application performance management, framework design, large scale product architectures and development with significant exposure in the airline domain. Manoj also takes personal interest in grooming upcoming software professionals into technical architects. He has been the force behind the creation of Mindtree’s signature program for grooming technical leads called MCTL.
Himanshu Verma
Engineering Director, Flipkart
Himanshu has over 16 yrs experience in software product development and management. He has worked for top companies like Yahoo, Oracle and Cadence. His area of interests include ecommerce, search distribution, web 2.0 applications, internet listings monetization and distribution models, internet & enterprise software infrastructure architecture & design.
Atul Kabra
Solutions Architect, McAfee India
Atul, career spanning over 15 years in a variety of software technologies ranging from developing programs for Mainframe to developing modules in Windows kernel for Data Storage and Information Security related technologies. Currently architecting the next gen security offering for Data center and Virtualization.
Narayanan Subramaniam
Principal Engineer, Voice, Video & Collaboration Technologies, Cisco Systems
Narayanan is having almost two decades of IT experience. Currently at Cisco, he is responsible for developing current & next generation on-premise and cloud based voice, video and collaboration technologies. He is a very strong software & firmware architect. He is very creative and has introduced and patented several solutions in the Systems Management space.
Thejus Yerigeri
Practice Leader, EMC
Thejus, a Practice Leader of Portals and Cloud application at EMC Consulting. 13+ years of consulting experience in designing and architecting solutions on Microsoft and VMware technologies. Off late involved in building the practice focusing on emerging technologies on Cloud, and support strategic sales globally. Innovations is something we strive at EMC and has resulted in 2 patent filed in last couple of years.
Balasubramanian Somasundaram
Enterprise Architect, Microsoft
Balasubramanian has 15+ years of experience in IT industry with a focus on Enterprise IT Architecture and Business Technology Solutions. As part of Enterprise Strategy Services Group at Microsoft, He helps customers achieve their business goals by optimizing the use of technologies. His interests include Enterprise Architecture & IT Governance and Emerging Technologies such as Mobility, Social Media and Cloud Computing.
Santosh Shindhe
Principal Architect, Cognizant
Santosh is having more than 15 years of experience in the IT Industry. At Cognizant, he leads a team of ALM strategists and specialists with responsibilities comprising of consulting, asset development, evangelization and adoption by project teams. Experienced on wide variety of large and complex project development. As Enterprise Architect contributed towards ALM strategy definition, implementation & technical consulting with substantial experience in strategy planning & execution. He also has experience on solution architecture, application architecture, project management, pre-sales, design & development.
Dr. Rajesh Mudaliyar
Senior Solution Architect, HCL Technologies
Dr. Rajesh is having more than 16 years of IT experience committed to professionalism. He has published iPhone/ iPad applications in App Store and has also Architected GUI Libraries used in On-Screen Display of menus in all Samsung DTV. He is an expert in leading Enterprise software solution projects. His specialties lies in C++, Cocoa, iPhone, iPad, QT, C#, STL, OOPS, UML & XML.
Karunakaran P
Architect Advanced, Mphasis
Karunakaran has 15+ years of overall IT experience & 6+ years as Technical Architect. He leads the Portal Practice @ MphasiS and his responsibilities include Technology leadership, Leading CoE & specialized delivery across multiple portal technologies and software. He has Architected and delivered several medium and large sized Web, Portal, Web2.0 & Ecommerce applications. His expertise includes Java, J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, Oracle, Microsoft, AJAX, HTML5, MobileWeb.
Abhishek Kant
Country Manager, Telerik India
Abhishek is passionate about solving real world problems with technology. With over 12 years of experience in IT software industry, he started his career in offshore services delivery with Satyam Computers. From 2004 - 2011, he served at Microsoft in various marketing and business positions. He is certified as a Scrum Master & Microsoft Certified Application Developer. He has worked with diverse technology communities in India including developers, IT Professionals, Information Workers and Consumers. He is on the managing committee of the Delhi Technology forum. Currently, he is helping Indian organisations benefit from Telerik technologies.
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Dr. Satnam Singh
Senior Chief Engineer, Samsung India Software Operations
Dr. Satnam Singh has a decade of work experience in machine learning and analytics area. Satnam has received his PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Connecticut (UConn) in 2007. He has filed 14 Patent Applications and received GM R&D - Invention Milestone Award in 2011. He has nearly 34 publications in IEEE journals and conferences.
Lohith Goudagere Nagaraj
Developer Evangelist, Telerik
Lohith has a decade of industry experience primarily in service based industry. Well versed with Windows and Web based application development using .NET platform. Currently Lohith works in the capacity of Developer Evangelist for Telerik in India and takes care of Evangelism in South India. He is also an active member and one of the leads for Bangalore DotNet User Group. He is an active speaker in local communities. Enjoys listening to Bryan Adams and watching Friends any time.
Vyshak Venugopal
Evangelist & Sr. Solutions Consultant, Adobe Systems
At Adobe, Vyshak is primarily responsible for building enterprise solutions for customers and evangelizing Adobe tools & technology stack across the country. He comes with an in-depth experience on web technologies while his core expertise lies in Web Content Management, Online Analytics & the Site optimization. He is a reputed flex consultant in the financial services industry and has played a critical role in building rich internet apps for one of the largest financial services company in the world. He has vast experience in architecting Rich Internet Applications (RIA) user experiences on both mobiles and desktops.He is an Adobe certified expert on DreamWeaver & Flash. Over the past few years he has addressed over half a million web designers across India & is well respected by the web community. Prior to joining Adobe he was a technical consultant for RIA&rsquot;s based on Adobe Flex.
Ganesh Vaitheeswaran
Development Architect, SAP India
Ganesh is a development architect working on SAP’s Business Intelligence products. He has more than 14 years of experience in the Business Intelligence and System Management domains. He is a co-inventor of 12 patent ideas. He has hands-on development experience in Java, Javascript, HTML5 and HANA.
Shyam Sundar
Architect, Wipro Technologies
Shyam is having good experience in the IT industry and also good in providing solution architecture. His expertise lies into Java, J2EE, Software Development, Solution Architecture and many more. Prior to Wipro he was associated with the top companies like Ebix, Infosys and many more.
Kameswaran Subramanian
Co-Founder & Director, ParaBlu Systems
Kamesh has over a decade of exprience working on enterprise and consumer products. He has taken multiple products from concept to launch in his career and is extremely passionate about technology and new products. He is an ardent preacher of agile methodologies. He also advises other product based startups on need basis. He has held various management roles in MNC’s like Nokia, Robert Bosch and IBM. In his previous stint at a startup, Diginoc, he successfully launched multiple products for Swiss banks. His education spans across engineering degree in computer science and MBA from IIM-Bangalore.
Nishad Kamat
Senior Director of Engineering, Yahoo!
Nishad with almost two decades of experience is currently heading the engineering for Yahoo! Answers and Yahoo! Groups. While leading the engineering team of Yahoo&rsquot;s Search Advertising Applications, Nishad got tremendously interested in long tail behavior and how to build them at internet scale, blending deep sciences, systems design and user-interface. He has worked through the ranks coding and building desktop, server and web building blocks and technologies in start-ups and large companies.
Sudhir Rao
CTO & Chief Technologist Enterprise Services, HP India
Sudhir is having more than two decades of IT industry experience in Delivering Optimal Results in High-growth Environments through Initiatives that exceed Operation Performance Targets and Measurable Outcomes. He is a technically sophisticated & business savvy management professional with continued career progression & documented history of bridging Technical and Managerial acumen in turning around of Information Technology coupled with insightful exposure to IT Consulting, IT Management, Business Delivery and Roll-out, Planning, & Vision for future projects, and Technology Management etc.
Saurabh Sharma
Associate Vice President, Nucleus Software
Saurabh has two decades of qualitative experience in the areas of Program Management, Product Development, Application Delivery & Change Management. Presently, associated with Nucleus Software as Associate Vice President (AVP) and playing a role of Head - Quality Assurance Group, driving Agile transformation in Nucleus i.e. recasting the complete Product Development, Product Delivery and Product Support function of the organization into Agile mould. Prior to this current assignment, Saurabh was functioning in the role Regional Delivery Head looking after all Client deliveries in CIS Countries, Middle East & Africa region.