Speaker Bio:  

Jeremy Brown
Project Manager, Canadian Division, Xerces Technologies
Jeremy is an enthusiastic gamer with more than ten years of experience covering many aspects of game design. He has knowledge of multiple areas in related processes, including concept development, graphics, and sound. Having come to Xerces Technologies Indian office, Jeremy is currently serving as Project Manager for the company’s Canadian partner on a number of ongoing productions.
Sujoy Ghosh
Marketing Manager, Blackberry App World & Content, Research in Motion - Asia Pacific
Having graduated from the International Management Institute, New Delhi with a Masters in Business Administration, Sujoy has wide experience in the Telecommunications and Software Development industry. Prior to joining RIM in 2011, Sujoy has been at the heart of the marketing team of the Value Added Services division at Bharti Airtel for 4 years. While with Airtel, he had the distinction of launching the first operator mobile application store in India as well as growing it into the worlds largest operator app storefront. Currently, Sujoy is responsible for leading the charge on App World and Content marketing across Asia Pacific for RIM. His responsibilities include marketing Apps on Blackberry App World and executing co-marketing campaigns with Brands and 3rd party developers across the region. Mobile Applications are not just a part of his work profile but also an keen area of interest for Sujoy. He is extremely passionate about the Mobile Application space and never passes an opportunity to meet with start-ups and developers to talk about App marketing.
Ranbijay Kumar
Blackberry Developer Evangelist, Research In Motion
Ranbijay has over seven years of work experience in the area of IT, R&D and software systems with significant exposure to the onsite-offshore delivery model. His experience includes Team Management, Mobile Application Development, Architecting and Consulting Engagements, Client Interfacing. Ranbijay is a PhD candidate and about to submit his thesis on Mobile Cloud Computing. As part of RIM’s Developer Relations organization, Ranbijay is responsible for managing relationships with RIM’s developer community. Ranbijay focuses specifically in the India and South Asia region to provide support and guidance to BlackBerry developers, as they work to integrate their applications onto the BlackBerry platform. Ranbijay maintains a personal blog on: http://ranbijay.blogspot.in/. With the support for a wide range of BlackBerry Platform services, Ranbijay is extremely excited to see how they can be leveraged to augment the BlackBerry experience, and to take BlackBerry apps to the next level!
Virat Singh Khutal
Director, Twist Mobile
Virat is Co-Founder and CEO of Twist Mobile. He has worked as game developer and game designer in Gameloft before starting Twist Mobile. He has been active participating in Twistfuture for Short Mobile Movie production in India. Entrepreneurship and Mass reach has been always focus for him. Virat graduated as an Architect from IPS Academy, India and did MCM from Pune University.
Prakash Sainani
Blackberry Developer Evangelist, Research In Motion
Prakash has nine years experience developing mobile apps. Prior to joining RIM, Prakash had single-handedly delivered multi-million dollar mobile app portfolios to customers like IBM, NSN and Ericsson. More recently he has been responsible for formulating the Go-To-Market Strategy for US and European 4G mobile markets. Prakash holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in IT from University of Mumbai and an MS in wireless systems from KTH. At RIM, Prakash focusses his energy on promoting the adoption of BlackBerry 10 operating system.
Gaurav Ghate
Managing Director, Apheleia Solutions
Gaurav has worked as a designer, technical architect as well as a programmer at times to develop over a hundred applications on the iPhone and the Android platforms. Apart from developing front end data pulling apps he is comfortable with back-end designing and know scripting languages such as PHP.
Ankush Tiwari
VP Engineering - Mobility, AgreeYa Mobility
Over 10+ years of experience in working with OEMs, Telecom operators and chipest vendors. Ankush has Worked on various opensource and proprietary mobile platforms. Chaired the Internet Framework working Group in LiMo consortium
Sourabh Shroff
Senior Software Engineer, Mobisoft Infotech
Sourabh Shroff is a Software Engineer from Mumbai University. He has worked in application domains like Entertainment, Business, Games, Education, Social Networking. Life Style, Medical, Retail etc. Currently he is working with Mobisoft-Infotech in Pune.
Mukul Joshi
Director & CEO, SpotOn Software
Mukul is a hard-core technocrat having a decade of IT experience in software product R&D and services. He turned into an entrepreneur since 2008. Prior to starting his own technology company Mukul worked at Great Software Labs. He worked on various critical projects in networking, search & data mining, IP telephony and mobile technology. Mukul was a member of DB 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.
Samir Karande
Co-Founder, mSauda.com
Samir has more than 15 years of product development & 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.
Rohit­ Gupta
Founder & CEO, Rolocule Games
Rohit is having almost a decade of IT experience. Currently, he is the Founder & CEO of Rolocule Games. Prior to this, he was associated with the companies like Cradle and Infosys Technologies. His specialties lies in Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Video game design and development, Computational geometry and Animation.
Prashant Rane
Sr. Software Engineer - iOS, Synerzip
Prashant has good hands on experience in iOS Apps (Strategy & Development), Product Enhancement and Maintenance, Legacy Application Modernization. Currently involved in migrating existing portfolio of apps to cross platform; SaaS model and also invovled in maintaining and developing new features for QuickOffice for iPad, research/POC for new Apple/Cocoa technologies and training of new joinees (who are new to iOS/Cocoa)
Bhuvan Khanna
Mobile Technology Innovation Engineer, Webonise Lab
Bhuvan is having more than a decade of IT experience. Currently, he is the Mobile Technology Innovation Engineer at Webinose Lab. He has played various roles at Webonise from being a Software engineer to Business Analyst, to Team Lead and Project manager.
Yash Bhatia
Android Developer, Cognizant
Yash has played various roles as Requirement Analysis, Application Development, Functional Studies, Quality Reviews and Testing. At Cognizant Yash is responsible for the development of mobile application using Android and cross platform technologies & frameworks so as to run it on all mobile devices irrespective of mobile platforms. Prior to Cognizant he was associated with Synerxip and QuickOffice.
Prajyot Mainkar
Founder & App Consultant, Androcid
Prajyot is leading Product based organization, SPM Softwares & Designers based in India. SPM primarily innovates products on Android and Content Management Systems. He has been mentor for various mobile app building strategy and initiatives across india. He also serves as Founder & Editor in Chief of Androcid, A dedicated portal of Apps, Development and Frameworks in Android. He is an agile evangelist and Head of GDG Goa Android User Group.
Ravi Vyas
Developer Advocate, Vserv.mobi
Ravi brings in varied experience in domains like Android application development, Web Services, UI/UX development, Web Development and Databases. Currently he works as a developer advocate in Verv.mobi. Prior to Vserv, he was associated with TechJini as an Android developer at where he on apps that have been downloaded from 750,00 to almost a million times. Ravi is also the co-organizer of the Bangalore Android User Group. With my Masters in Computer Science in Florida State University, He also had the opportunity to work as a Teaching Assistant.