Speaker Bio:  

Shankar Kalyana
Distinguished Engineer & CTO | Global Business Services, IBM India
Shankar Kalyana is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO for Global Business Services in India. In his current role, Shankar leads the strategic and new solutions domains like Smarter Cities for India/South Asia. He advises and guides IBM’s clients on the effective use of Technology to address complex business challenges, and driving the internal organizational technology capability to enable IBM deliver to the Client needs effectively. Shankar drives the Solutioning capabilities as the Solution Design leader for India. He is equally responsible for driving the Technical Eminence programs in IBM India and enabling IBM’s professionals to pursue a fruitful technical career path.Shankar’s 27-year experience in IT, the last 11 in IBM, spans all phases of the software lifecycle and multiple customers in various roles. He has architected, designed, developed, and implemented both custom and packaged software solutions, across various environments and platforms. In his role as a technical advisor, he has counseled and assisted Senior Client Executives with IT strategy and Enterprise Architecture.Shankar holds a Master degree in Information Science from The Pennsylvania State University.
Rajesh Ramachandran
General Manager & India Head, eBay
Rajesh currently heads the eBay India R&D Center - Strategic Innovation arm of eBay Inc. He has 20+ years of experience in building world-class global product organizations, delivering innovative and successful products. He has vast expertise in building large scale eCommerce/MCommerce platforms, Enterprise Applications, Middleware platforms, SCADA and robotics systems. In the past, he has played senior leadership roles in Oracle, Siemens AG, Future Software and Barmag AG. He is a well-known speaker in the areas of eCommerce, Big Data, Enterprise 2.0, Grid, enterprise architecture, innovation and leadership. He holds a Masters in computer science from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, an MBA from IIMB and ICFAI, and Bachelors in Electronics Engg from A.C.Tech, Karaikudi
Dr. Viswanath Poosala
HEAD OF BELL LABS - INDIA, ALCATEL-LUCENT
Dr. Viswanath Poosala (Vishy) is the Head of Bell Labs India. In his current role, he leads a world-class R&D team in delivering research breakthroughs and internal technology ventures, and helping to grow Alcatel-Lucent’s business. Vishy is passionate about entrepreneurship and innovation in small and big companies. His current focus areas include creating novel applications and networking technologies, especially for the emerging markets. Vishy was the Founder and CTO of Geopepper, an Alcatel-Lucent venture delivering innovative location-based services. He has also started multiple websites, including alertpedia.com. Dr. Poosala is a recognized expert on the business and technical aspects of Mobile applications, Networks, Web 2.0, and Database systems. He has published over 20 technical papers, been granted over 40 patents, received the “Excellence in Innovation” award in India in 2010, and won the Bell Labs President’s Gold Award three times. Dr.Poosala received his B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Madras, India, in ’92, M.S and Ph.D from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in ’97. He has been with Bell Labs and Alcatel Lucent Ventures in different roles - researcher, technical manager, CTO, and now the Head of Bell Labs – India. He was also an Adjunct Professor at New York University.
Narendra Bhandari
Director, Intel
Narendra Bhandari is the Director for Asia Pacific of the Intel Software and Services Group - Developer Relations Division at Intel. In this role he focuses on developing the software solutions market across Asia Pacific. Narendra drives engineering, marketing and business relationships with Software Organizations, Academia and software developers in the region across consumer and enterprise segments. Narendra joined Intel in 1993 and has worked in the areas of systems software, CAD tools and 3D graphics. After returning to India from the United States in 1998, he was the general manager of the Internet Solutions Group, working with e-business solution providers. Narendra also awarded the highest honor for groups, the “Intel Achievement Award (IAA)” for delivering high-performance graphics software.
Ravi Gururaj
VP Products- Cloud Platforms Group, Citrix Systems
Ravi 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.
Mahesh Somani
Distinguished Engineer , eBay
Mahesh is Somani, a Sr. MTS with over 15 years of experience in architecting and building performance, scalable and distributed systems. He has been with eBay for 5 years and his area of interest includes systems and performance engineering, concurrent programming, cloud computing and monitoring. Prior to joining eBay, Mahesh has worked at few startup and established companies in bay area. He has presented in various conferences including JavaOne and Impact. Mahesh holds a B. Tech. from IIT Bombay and Ph.D. from Univ. of Houston.
Varghese Cherian
Director – Technology Services & Solutions, UST  Global
Varghese Cherian heads Technology Services in UST, primarily focusing on providing architecture solutions to Fortune 500 clients. He has over 19 years of experience spanning multiple verticals like Retail, Manufacturing, Healthcare Imaging and Aeronautics. His role includes interfacing with customers to define problems domains and use technology to create solutions, working with pre-sales teams and also mentoring and training. His current interest areas include domain specific system architecture, process models and enterprise architecture, social analytics and big data and mobile solutions. In his free time he spends time with his family and is also an avid musician and conducts an acapella choir.
Ramesh Parthasarathy
Technical Architect , eBay
Ramesh is a Technical Architect working at eBay India Product Center focusing on building a scalable and reliable platform for eBay applications. His current focus areas are SOA services monitoring and governance. He has worked in diverse areas including IP Multimedia subsytems (IMS), SOA/ESB, Java EE and e-commerce applications during his earlier stint at Sun Microsystems Inc. He has been a speaker at various conferences including Java One , and his research interests include load balancing and high availability.
Aditya Bansod
Sr. Director, Sencha
Aditya is a senior director of product management at Sencha and is responsible for the product planning and strategy for product lines. Prior to Sencha, Aditya held various senior product management roles at Adobe and Microsoft, focusing on developers and media in the mobile and consumer electronics space.
Suriya Mohan
Senior Technical Architect, Aricent Technologies
Suriya is the Senior Technical Architect at Aricent for the Mobile Device Solutions segment. Suriya has 10+ years of experience in the communications multimedia domain and has extensive experience on Linux, Windows, Windows Mobile and Android platform and application development.At Aricent Suriya has been involved in mobile application development, DirectShow (Filter/DMO), OpenMax plug-in development, DLNA framework & MTP stack development. In addition he also works on the integration of 3rd party hardware codecs & OpenCore, Stagefright & 3rd party multimedia frameworks on Android platform, DLNA MHD device classes for both Android and Windows Mobile, GStreamer plug-ins for Linux as well as the integration of multimedia CODECs and components on different chipsets and had worked with customers including HTC, Samsung, Pantech, Asus, Motorola, SEMC, SIS & Interdigital. He has played a key role in helping leading manufacturers like Samsung and Sony Ericsson attain multimedia certification including DIVX certification for the Samsung OMNIA and XVID Certification for the Sony Ericsson X2.
Rana Gupta
Vice President – APAC, SafeNet Inc
Rana Gupta is the Vice President, APAC, SafeNet Inc. In his present role he is responsible for entire Software Rights Management business throughout APAC while managing the business from all Products (including Software Rights Management as well as Enterprise Data Protection products) in SAARC region. He holds 17+ years in the IT industry. Prior to taking on the current role he held several engineering positions within SafeNet – the last one being as the Vice President of Engineering.
Pranab Dash
Systems Engineer, VMware
Pranab Dash is a firm believer and a strong advocate of Open Source Software. He specializes in Java/J2EE and related technologies. During his 9 years of software design and development career, he has written several reusable frameworks and has built highly scalable and transnationally performing BFSI applications. He works as a Systems Engineer at Vmware for the vFabric product line.
Shiv Sivaguru
Head, Engineering Excellence Group, HCL Technologies
Sivaguru is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and has been in the international IT services industry for close to 32 years. He has played various roles across various geographies over the last 3 decades ranging from programming to program management, customer management to cost management as well as team management. In his current role, as a member of the Initiative for Delivery Assurance and Transformation at HCL, he has been driving initiatives for maturing governance practices in large engagements and the adoption of right levels of automation in various delivery teams. His professional interests include: software productivity, business excellence and knowledge management.
Sivakumar Thyagarajan
Lead Engineer - Java EE Platform, Oracle
Sivakumar Thyagarajan works in the Java EE Platform group at Oracle India Private Limited and leads the Service Orchestration and Provisioning effort in the Java EE 7 reference implementation, Project GlassFish (http://GlassFish.org). He participates in the Contexts and Dependency Injection 1.1 expert group (JSR 346) in Java EE 7, and was the specification lead for the Java EE Connector 1.6 Architecture specification (JSR 322) in Java EE 6. He has led the development of Contexts and Dependency Injection(CDI), Connectors and JMS-integration modules in Project GlassFish, Sun Java System Application Server, and the J2EE SDK. He has been involved with Project GlassFish since inception, and has worked on OO, Java EE based distributed enterprise application design and development for the past 13 years. Siva holds a M.S in Software Systems from BITS, Pilani, India. He blogs at http://blogs.oracle.com/sivakumart
Prasanna Ram
Enterprise Mobile Architect , Capgemini
Prasanna Ram has been in the IT industry for over 14 years. He is currently with Capgemini in the role of an Enterprise Mobility Architect. Ram has been in mobile/wireless solutions space for over 6 years now. During this tenure, he has had the opportunity to deliver product solutions, and mobile strategies for top US network carriers, Content Search companies, Media companies, and top three US Cable networks. In his words, Enterprise mobility is all about conveniently enabling the resources of an organization to be connected (intra organization & inter organization) at all times, everywhere and thus enable the business to function as normal.
Anand Hatwalne
Principal Architect, TIBCO Software
Anand is a Principal Architect with TIBCO Software India. He has been actively architecting and building software products for over 13 years. He is a key contributor to TIBCOs ActiveMatrix Enterprise Platform, from its inception. The platform enables building simple-to-complex, service oriented composite applications that can make use of various languages and binding protocols; for integrating heterogeneous software systems. The platform also serves as an infrastructure for building other TIBCO products. His interests include anything that involves Java, Eclipse and Linux, and writing infrastructure software stacks. Anand holds a MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Arizona.
Gaurav Makkar
Technical Director, NetApp
Gaurav Makkar is a Technical Director at NetApp, currently driving the technical strategy around Big Data storage solutions, specifically in the areas around Hadoop, No-SQL databases, and wide columnar databases. Previously he has worked on creating platforms for StorageApps, for storage centric applications. Prior to that, he contributed to the efforts around creating a storage platform for large content repositories, more specifically, in the space of storage of metadata and information retrieval. His interests are in metadata management, information retrieval, scalability, high availability, and performance engineering. Prior to joining NetApp he was responsible for designing products and middleware for carrier-grade telco environments, building software reference designs using system-on-chip architectures, and building systems in the high-performance computing space.
Sreerupa Sen
Senior Software Engineer, IBM India Software Lab
Sreerupa is an architect with IBM working on Rational UML modeling tools. In the course of her career in software, she has worked on different domains, including banking applications, middleware, utility data centers, and modeling tools. In IBM, she has been working with IBM Rational Software Architect/Rational Systems Developer offerings, specifically using C++.
Shankar Balasubramaniam
Architect- Backup and Recovery Systems, EMC
Shankar Balasubramaniam has about 20 years of experience in Storage industry and has a vast, diversified experience of working with the leading global players such as VERITAS, Brocade, Netapp and EMC. He has architected and delivered storage related products at the operating system level, storage appliances and worked on Storage Area Network (SAN) management and security products relating to SAN. Currently he works with the EMC Backup and Recovery Division as an architect. He has been granted 9 patents for his works and there are about 20+ patents in the pipeline. He holds two Master Degrees from the U.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Renganathan Kasthurirengan
Associate Director - Global Applications, CSC
Renganathan Kasthurirengan, Associate Director, CSC India is the Global Product Manager for Application Cloud Enablement (ACE) Service in CSC. He is instrumental in setting up the ACE Factory in CSC that modernizes and moves existing applications to cloud as well as develops new applications on cloud using a "Factory Approach" to application development. He has over 24 years of experience in the IT and Management Consulting areas. He holds a Bachelor&rsquot;s degree in Engineering, Post Graduate Diploma in Industrial Engineering and a Post Graduate Diploma in Software Technology.
Vishal Singh
Data Architect, Intuit
Vishal is Data Architect in Intuit. He has over 14 years of experience in architecting and engineering large scale data analytics ecosystems encompassing enterprise data warehouses solutions for enterprise data or usage behavior analysis, real time customer behavior prediction/contextual personalization service platforms. His current focus area is designing scalable and sustainable technology platform. His current focus area is designing scalable and sustainable technology platform for solving big data problem in an enterprise.
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.
Vijay Anand V R
Global CTO – M2M Technology & Innovation Evangelist, Logica
V R Vijay Anand is the Global Chief Technology Officer for Machine to Machine/Internet of Things in Logica, a business and technology services MNC. He is a Distinguished Technologist in his organization and also plays a role in evangelizing Logica’s Innovation story internally and externally. He has played a number of technology roles in his 15 years of professional experience. Though he has predominantly been in the Telecom domain, he has comparable interests and insights in other verticals like Utilities, Finance, Health Care, Public Sector etc and successfully pollinates business and technology thoughts across these different domains.
Deepak Kumar
Co-founder & CTO, Srishti Software
Deepak is having 16 years of experience and is passionate about technology. He holds a B.Tech. (Computer Science & Engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur. He has an excellent academic record with multiple Gold Medals. He brings a rich experience in software architecture, engineering, and technical team leadership.
Rajesh Venkatesan
Senior Architect, HCL Technologies
Rajesh is a Senior Architect with HCL and has been extensively working on Java/J2EE technologies for over a decade. He has been involved in building highly scalable,distributed architectures for leading ISV customers of HCL around the Globe and has been involved extensively in technology development for Cloud computing / SaaS space for the past many years. His passion is Software Architecture of Enterprise-class applications and his special interests include Multi-tenant architecture, architecture for scalability and UI frameworks. He has rich experience in Product Development and has architected HCLs Multi-tenant SaaS Delivery Platform.
Jethin Chandran
Assistant Vice President - Infrastructure Management Services, Hexaware Technologies
Jethin has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. He has completed his graduation in Computer Science & Engineering from Kerala University. Currently working as Assistant Vice President – IMS and is responsible for key IT initiatives within the company as well. Prior to Hexaware , he worked as General Manager - IT for Wipro Technologies and has led many innovative Enterprise IT Initiatives. In the recent past , Mr. Chandran has been honored with Power CIO of the year, IT Leader to watch out, Network World All Stars Award , etc.
Anurag Sharma
Principal Engineer, Yahoo!
Vast experience in developing large and highly complex Real-time, HMI, engineering, scientific and internet software products. Made many products starting from idea to revenue stream. Currently with Yahoo, working on Sponsored Search technologies.
Amiteshwar Seth
Head of Data Management Services, Infosys Technologies
Amit has around 16 years of experience of designing and implementing business intelligence solutions. He has been involved with multiple BI transformation engagements and has actively worked on solution offerings and alliances around DW, ETL, Data Quality and Analytics. He is currently leading a 600 employee group at Infosys. He brings in rich domain and technical knowledge and a practitioners perspective to any BI/DW engagements. He is an accomplished speaker and has presented in multiple prestigious forums. Amit is also involved with creating and running BI solution at Infosys.
Yogesh Devi
Principal Architect, Dell
Yogesh is Principal Architect in Dell Application Services, technology innovation center. He leads the Enterprise Architecture Center of Excellence. His career spans over 21 years. Before Dell he worked for Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, VeriFone and Hewlett Packard. Yogesh is an industry acclaimed expert in area of Migrations and Legacy Modernizations. His particular interest is on leveraging SOA and Cloud computing as a vehicle for modernization of enterprise IT. He has lead consulting engagements in area of migrations, Service Oriented Architecture and Enterprise Architecture and brings a strong passion and rare pragmatism to table.
Shivakumar R Goniwada
Architect Advanced, Mphasis
Shiva has over 15 years of experience in IT Industry, presently working as an Enterprise Architect and he has been involved in the rollout of multimillion projects for small, medium and Fortune 500 organizations and worked extensively with customer’s Senior Management, IT team and Business Team to define Enterprise Vision, Architecture and helped that to realize in phase by phase.He has involved in lot of innovation ideas and also realized these ideas and used in multiple projects like C-DAO (Composite Data Access Object) & 2) MACFEDS (Mphasis Asynchronous Component For Event Driven Solution)
Praveen Rangaswamy
Chief Mobile Architect – Enterprise Mobility, Symphony Teleca
Praveen is the Chief Mobile Architect for Enterprise Mobility at Symphony Teleca. He has over 8 years of experience of solutioning and deployments for numerous ISVs and enterprises and is a member of the Business Technology Consulting group at Symphony Teleca, providing Enterprise Mobility Consulting services to Large Enterprises and ISVs. Praveen holds a certification in MCTS and has strong multi-domain mobility rollout expertise in Asset Performance Management, Service Management Systems (Field Data Collection), Healthcare, Hospitality, Event Management and Time Sheet management.
Saikumar Jagannathan
Principal Architect, Cognizant
Saikumar has about 22 years of progressive IT experience with enterprise technology consulting, information architecting, portfolio rationalization and large scale software implementation in multi-vendor technologies on Java, Microsoft and mobility platforms. For the past six years, Saikumar heads the Technology Office for LifeSciences practice and Mobility Services leading a team of Solution architects and Technology specialists providing architectural and technology delivery services and has defined Diverse Mobility Architecture Frameworks to adapt to Enterprise Mobility Needs from Native, Web to Integrated Apps.
Prakash Nagaswamy
Sr. Technical Architect, Aspire Systems
Prakash is a Principal Architect overseeing the Advanced Technical Group (ATG) and offers consulting services to the product groups in Java & Emerging areas in Aspires Systems. He is an engineering post graduate from College of Engineering (CEG), Anna University, Chennai. He has over 15 Yrs of software industry experience, worked in leading organizations in both India and US on various technical leadership roles. He specializes in SAAS, Cloud Environments and Enterprise Architecture Consulting.
Keerthidhara Dongre
Architect, Ness Technologies
Keerthidhara is a technical architect with Ness Technologies. At Ness, he is involved with design and development of SOA solutions. Before Ness, he was with Oracle, where he worked on many products – from tools to SOA solutions. He likes to find unique solutions to software problems, and has even received a patent for one such initiative. Keerthi has a M.S. in Software Systems from BITS Pilani, and a B.E. from SJCE Mysore.
Chander Damodaran
Principal Architect, Collabera
Chander heads the .NET practice at Collabera Labs – the Innovation arm of the company. He brings over 13 years of diversified technical experience in architecting, solutioning, presales and product development. He has been at the helm of innovation within Collabera and has a stronghold on the domain of Cloud computing. He has worked on various large scale engagements – ranging from architecture assessment, technology migration & solutioning across Financial Services, Government and Real Estate domains. Prior to Collabera, Chander was a Technical architect with iGate. He is a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from AIT, Bangalore University.
Mahesh Gidwani
Sr. Technical Architect, Dell
Mahesh Gidwani has over thirteen years of experience in the IT industry including six years as an Enterprise Integration specialist. Currently, he is working as a Senior Technical Architect in center of excellences (EAI and Cloud Computing), Dell Services. He is well versed in Service Oriented Architecture and various integration design patterns integrating heterogeneous applications, both on premise and on cloud. In the past he spent more than four years in US, working in cutting edge technologies for several product companies in Silicon Valley and been part of the team which rolled out packaged software solutions, which addressed large customer base with high transactional volumes (for one of the world’s largest bank headquartered in New York).
Vinod Kumaar Ramakrishnan
Application Developer, ThoughtWorks
Vinod is working currently at ThoughtWorks in Chennai. His interests are centered around improving efficiency and increasing effectiveness in every task he do. He was fortunate enough to spend good amounts of time as a Business Analyst, Quality Analyst, CMS administrator and a Developer in a span of eight years. This has provided him good insights into each of the roles and has enabled me to understand and help improve the process in each discipline.
Ratheesh Pisharody
Architect - Product Development, MetricStream
Ratheesh Pisharody plays the role of an Applications Architect at MetricStream and is responsible for defining the methodologies and technologies for building configurable and scalable GRC solutions. Ratheesh has played a key role in the development of a GRC Application Framework that has enabled faster application development and high customer satisfaction. Ratheesh believes in technology that solves the user’s functional problems and is constantly on the lookout for solutions/patterns that can be boxed into reusable models for consumption by the developer community. Ratheesh has about 10 years of experience in the Software Industry. Prior to MetricStream, Ratheesh has worked with Oracle Consulting delivering solutions to large multinational customers.
Balamurugan Subramanian
Senior Architect , Unisys
Balamurugan Subramanian (Bala) leads the Unisys Secure Mobility – App Services portfolio offering. He is focused on the end to end technology, choice of tools, architecture, etc for our customers and offers them state of the art solutions also he has evaluated a number of third party products and MEAP platforms for Unisys to partner with them for a long term strategy to go with a combined offering to the customers.He has led several successful deliveries and made significant impact in growing the mobile competency across Unisys. Bala has contributed to several solution artifacts like solution blueprints, architecture description, cost models, etc.
Sundararajan S
Senior Solution Architect, Aditi Technologies
Sundararajan is avid techie with strong views on emerging technologies. Currently works on delivering solutions based on Microsoft Azure and has worked with AWS and Google App Engine. He has been a speaker in Microsoft Virtual techdays, GISV meets, MSDN webcasts.
Shekhar Gulati
Senior Java Consultant, Xebia India
Shekhar Gulati is a Senior Java Consultant working with Xebia India. Shekhar is an active writer and has written many technical articles for IBM DeveloperWorks, Developer.com and JavaLobby. He is also a regular speaker at various Java and Cloud conferences in India like JUDCon India, IndicThreads ,SiliconIndia. His current interests are NoSQL databases and Cloud Computing mainly PaaS.
Lalithakishore Narayanabhatla
Principal Software Engineer, CA Technologies
Lalith brings in around 12 years of experience of designing and implementing Business Intelligence (BI) solutions for IT Management Solutions. Currently working as Principal Software Engineer in Business Intelligence Center of Excellences (BI CoE), CA Technologies. He was involved in architecting BI solutions that supports Multi-tenancy & SAAS. He has been working on product development projects with experience in both Agile and Waterfall based methodologies. He owns an extensive experience in using tools & technologies such as SAP BO (Xcelisus, Universe Designer, BO Explorer, Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports, BO SDK&rsquot;s), SAP BODI, LogiXML, Informatica, Datastage and XML technologies. He also has a strong hold on Enterprise IT Management domains like Service Management, Service Assurance, Project & Portfolio Management as well.
Soumik Biswas
Technical Architect , GlobalLogic
Soumik Biswas is Technical Architect at GlobalLogic. He has been working on development of cloud-ready solutions & cloud deployment projects across domains. He has over 8 years of experience.Joined GlobalLogic in 2011. His previous experience includes working for companies like Sylantro, Motorola and Infosys. His interests are in the field of Cloud Computing, NoSQL technologies and functional programming.
Biju Varghese
Senior Manager, Engineering, Global Logic
Biju Varghese is Sr. Manager, Engineering in the telecom group at GlobalLogic. He leads the team responsible for the development of the conferencing software which is integrated into Broadworks Unified Communication Services. He has around fourteen years of product development and delivery experience. He joined GlobalLogic in 2009 through the acquisition of Sylantro, a VoIP solution provider start-up. Before joining Sylantro, he spent over 7 years at Wipro Technologies in Engineering and Management positions. Most recently his team was responsible for developing a conferencing solution for Broadsoft&rsquot;s Broadworks Suite of products. Prior to that he lead Engineering team developing telecom software solutions for Motorola and Nortel. He has a patent in the VoIP lawful Interception to his credit and has a Masters in Computer Science from Goa University. He spends his time playing football and reading books in spare time.
N S Sekar
Vice President, Engineering, SuccessFactors
Sekar is a VP-Engineering at SuccessFactors. He is having more than 19 years of experience. His expertise lies in diverse areas -- Data Integration, Data Quality, Web Analytics, internet platforms & SaaS. In addition to this he has issued three patents in taxonomy, Image Search & Internet activity.
Kamal Govindraj
Founder / Architect, TenXperts
Kamal is an experienced Java / J2EE architect. He has been involved in building several large / complex business applications using open source tools & frameworks. He is a Spring source certified trainer and has been delivering all Spring Source training in India for the last couple of years. He currently works as an architect at TenXperts Technologies and as a senior technical trainer at SpringPeople
Udayakumar Mathivanan
SharePoint Architect, Symphony Teleca
Udayakumar is a Microsoft Technology Specialist on .NET and SharePoint at Symphony Teleca. He brings an experience of over 14 years in areas of software development, architecture, and quality and project management with strong domain understanding in Finance, Healthcare, and Banking. He has trained over 500 professionals on Microsoft technologies like .NET, XML, SQL Server, CRM, BizTalk and SharePoint. He holds certifications in MS SharePoint technologies like MOSS 2007 and 2010, Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 and C#, Brain Bench and is also a certified Internal Software Auditor (ISO 9001:2008).
Shantanu Paknikar
General Manager, Happiest Minds Technologies
Shantanu Paknikar is General Manager, Solution Initiatives in the IT Services division of Happiest Minds Technologies Private Limited. His expertise areas include middleware systems, Service Oriented Architecture, Business Process and Rules Management, Enterprise Integration, Complex Event Processing, Cloud Computing, Social Computing, Enterprise Mobility, and Distributed computing systems. He is also passionate about innovation, research, people development, leadership, value creation and learning. His current focus area is that of business technology solutions – the applications of the intersection of multiple technologies to specific business problems.
Narasimhan (Kishore) Mandyam
CEO, ImpelCRM
Kishore is CEO of PK4 Software, delivering SaaS CRM for non-Western geographies. Starting as a developer in Infosys, Kishore has co-founded software companies inIndiaand theUSincluding Ampersand Software, Aprisa Inc., zeroCode Inc. and, most recently, PK4. Impel CRM, PK4s flagship product, combines Cloud andMobiletechnology with an accessible business model to deliver the most effective and efficient Sales, Support and Operations solution for SMEs.
Dr. Bharatheesh Jaysimha
CTO, Abiba Systems
Dr. Jay B. Simha is Chief Technology Officer, ABIBA Systems, a telcom BI & Analytics company based out of Bangalore. He has about 15 years of experience in R&D, Business Intelligence and Analytics consulting. He has implemented large scale systems for telecom, BFSI and manufacturing industries in Business Intelligence and analytics. Prior to this he worked on medical data analysis with Siemens, working on algorithm design and data analysis. He holds a post graduate in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science. He holds a Doctoral degree in Data Mining and Decision Support and Post Doctoral from Louisiana State University, USA. Dr. Simha is active in research and has interests in business visualization, predictive analytics and decision support. He has so far published about 40 papers in international journals and conferences in the areas of business intelligence and analytics. He has won numerous best paper awards in prestigious conferences, confirming the quality of work.
Vijay Anand
Vice President, India Development Center, Intuit
Vijay Anand is responsible for leading the Intuit India Development Center (IDC). In this role Anand is responsible for formulating the vision and strategy for IDC to become one of Intuit’s premier development centers worldwide and support Intuit’s quest to be a premier innovative growth company. The strategy that Anand has articulated has three key elements — First, build a center of renown by hiring and developing world class technical talent that is skilled in the unique Intuit approach of customer driven innovation and design for delight. Second, perform world class engineering and deliver global products reliably and with high quality that delights millions of customers. Finally, leverage the proximity to the biggest emerging markets in the world by innovating new products that address unmet need and grow the business. Prior to Intuit, Vijay Anand was a leader in the enterprise software industry having led successful product teams and engineering centers for Oracle and Sun Microsystems in India and the US. Anand brought together a strong development team across three locations in India to deliver major innovations into Oracle’s Fusion strategy that has positioned Oracle as the market leader in enterprise middleware and applications. Earlier, Anand led the growth and development of Sun Microsystems&rsquot; R&D center that developed deep competencies across Sun’s product lines including Java Software, Storage and Server. The R&D center grew into the largest for Sun outside the US and the only one to integrate the three key competencies into one location. At Sun and Oracle, Anand pioneered a partnership approach that positioned the development center to leverage product and technology expertise and work closely with the local field organizations and industry partners to grow the business in the region. He is a member of several industry and technical organizations including TiE and NASSCOM here in India and the Association of Computing Machinery in the US. Anand is a regular featured speaker at conferences here in India including developer events such as Oracle Open World and the Sun Microsystems Tech Days events in India.