Speaker Bio:  

Rupak Rathore
Principal Consultant , HCL Technologies
Rupak Rathore is a Principal Consultant with HCL Technologies and focuses on helping customers adopt disruptive changes in a systematic manner. In his role as head of cloud consulting services and collaborative solutions, he is incubating new consulting services and driving key innovative frameworks that help HCL customers use technology to deliver superior value to business. He has 15 years of globally diverse experience in IT industry in both consultative and delivery roles to define and implement IT strategies and transformation initiatives. He has helped multiple Fortune 500 and Global 1000 organizations adopt technology to drive business transformation across Asia, Australia, Europe, UK and USA and across diverse industries such as Banking, Insurance, Telecom, Airlines, Healthcare, Automotive, Media and Government.
Vishal Bharat
Country Manager, Mellanox Technologies
Vishal Bharat has served as a Mellanoxs Country Sales Manager since April 2008. Prior to joining Mellanox, he served as a Sales Representative of Mellanox from 2004 to 2008. Mr. Bharat has 15 years of experience in the Semiconductor industry in India. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics & Communication from Karnatak University.
Kantanu Kundu
Founder and CEO, A2Zapps.com
Kantanu is founder and CEO of A2Zapps.com which he founded in February, 2007 with a vision to create an on-demand business platform as a service that will replace all large packaged traditional business software deployments to eliminate the upfront cost, hardware/software installation, all types of IT hassles including future software upgrades and the last but not the least the big investment and risk associated with it. Prior to founding this company, he worked at Salesforce.com for four years and was the first member of their Global Integration Services team. He has over 13 years of Internet industry experience. Very recently, he was a member of national committee on IT, ITeS & e-Commerce at CII (The Confederation of Indian Industry), India. Kantanu holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra.
Pratik Singh
Technical Consultant, CA Technologies
Pratik Singh is the Technical Consultant for CA India Pratik has over 6 years of experience in the industry. Prior to joining CA Technologies, Pratik has been a part of large Indian and global MSPs like HCL and Orange Business Services. Pratik holds a Masters in Management with specialization in IT from Symbiosis Centre for Information Technology.
Rahul Chitale
Director – Cloud Services, Microsoft India
Rahul has a strong Practitioner Mindset having spent around 12 years in various Consulting roles. Rahul was the co-founding member of Microsoft Global Delivery based out of Hyderabad. As part of his Microsoft Consulting Tenure, Rahul has had a pivotal role in key marquee G2C implementations such as Karnataka Bhoomi & Bangalore One, Punjab Sukhmani and AP eSeva projects – the frontrunners to NeGP. Rahul is emphatic about the impact which the Cloud can have in India. He is working with various members of the Industry and Public Sector to make real many Cloud based transformational scenarios
Jayabalan Subramanian
CTO & Co-founder, Netmagic
Jayabalan is the CTO and Co-founder of Netmagic. In this capacity, he has played a pivotal role in designing and scaling the Carrier -Neutral Network, which supports mission critical applications hosted at Netmagic IDCs. He is recognized in the Industry as an Expert on Internetworking and has been consultant to leading organizations including BAFL, BPL, Bharti, Worldtel, Hathway Internet among others. He has been instrumental in setting up large Private and Public Voice/ data networks during his association with Indchem and Calisys. Jayabalan is an expert on design and configuration of Frame-Relay, ATM and MPLS networks and Advanced Internet Routing. Jayabalan has over 18 years of IT and Communication industry experience.He holds an Engineering Degree in Electronics and Communication from Bharthidasan University, Tiruchirapalli.
Naveen Chhabra
Cloud Architect, Hewlett-Packard
Naveen is responsible to support the Cloud Solutions business for HP. Having spent around 9 years @ Hewlett Packard, he has successfully executed on various roles including R&D, Technical Consultant to a Cloud Solutions Architect today. He loves evangelizing Cloud Solutions to customers and help them strategize; formulate plans for their journey towards Cloud. As a technology consultant he has worked with enterprise customers and has helped them drive large IT Automation projects. He has also built solutions for IT Management for large government projects including various SDC and APDRP projects. Before joining HP, at Infosys, Naveen worked for development of Cisco Call Manager for Cisco & VitalSuite for Lucent Technologies. Naveen holds an engineering degree from NIT Jalandhar.
Ashish Bhagwat
Vice President, OrangeScape
Ashish heads the marketing efforts at OrangeScape. He has more than 14 years of qualified experience in IT & enterprise consulting. Prior to OrangeScape, Ashish served at Wipro Technologies for nearly 10 years. Ashish was the head of BPM Practice and had been an instrumental driver behind Wipro’s journey in BPM from inception to one of the most mature practices globally. He is one of the leading IT practitioners with first hand experience in creating IT strategies, methodologies, frameworks & solutions for global clients. A graduate in Engineering and Business Management, Ashish has interests in Leadership, Management, Consulting, and IT Strategies. He is an avid reader and among the prominent technology bloggers.
Shekhar Gulati
Senior Consultant, Xebia India
Shekhar Gulati has 6 years of Java experience and is currently working with Xebia India as Senior Consultant. He is an active writer and has written many technical articles at JavaLobby, Developer.com, and IBM Developerworks. He has spoken about Spring Roo and CloudFoundry at conferences like IndicThreads and SiliconIndia. His current interests are new things happening in Spring community, NoSQL databases, RAD frameworks like Spring Roo, PaaS.