Speaker Bio:  

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 deliverables 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.
Dr. Ishwar Parulkar
CTO - Service Provider Access Business Unit, Cisco
In this role Ishwar is responsible for technology & architecture of products spanning small cells, service provider Wi-Fi access points and cell-site, access, pre-aggregation & aggregation routers. After spending several years in Silicon Valley in USA, Dr. Parulkar relocated to India in 2010 to lead system architecture & development of ASR 901 routers - first product of Cisco family conceived & developed end-to-end from the Bangalore site. ASR 901 won the 2012 NASSCOM Innovation Award for New Technology Advancement & the 2012 Economic Times Award for the Most Innovative Telecom Infrastructure Product. He has published over 30 technical papers and has 19 patents. He serves on the Technical Advisory Board of the University of Southern California and Program Committees of various IEEE conferences.
Sanjay Mishra
Global Head- Embedded Software & Electronics, Infotech Enterprises
Sanjay is having more than 2 decades of rich experience in embedded software & electronics and he is a true technologist with business vision. He is a post graduate in Electronics (M.Tech) & also pursuing his doctorate in the area of Face Recognition and Detection. His career spectrum is very attractive & he brings expertise in Product development, Services and solutions, strategy & business development in embedded software & electronics for Hitech, Consumer, automotive & Industrial market space. In his current role he is responsible for identifying the niche services and solutions in embedded systems, business planning & analysis for assessment of revenue potential, identifying target prospectus, audiences in the prospective markets & implementing execution strategies to achieve targeted business volumes.
Avnish Kumar
AVP - Integrated Engineering Solutions, Mahindra Satyam
Avnish is a senior engineering leader with almost 2 decades of experience in product engineering solutions for Mobile Devices, Consumer Electronics, Embedded and Media & Telecom domains. In his career, he has built & managed global practice/delivery units, managed multiple geographies & created market focused solutions in Mobile & Consumer Devices domain. He has led productization of some of the emerging consumer devices like Android Smartphones/Tablets with 3D display support, Android Touch Displays for consumer appliances, IP-Set-Top Boxes, Android Set-Top Boxes, GoogleTV, Connected TV, Media Adapters, Media Gateways, Home Gateways, Cloud Services Integration on Smart Devices etc. for global markets. Avnish has been experienced in end to end software product life cycle for consumer devices eco-system supporting key Semi vendors, ODMs & OEMs. Avnish has been also involved with product development for Wireless Networks Elements across different technologies - GSM/GPRS, UMTS, CDMA 1x, 2000, iDEN, WiMAX & 4G-LTE.
Srinivasan K
Director & CEO, AllGo Embedded Systems Pvt Ltd
Krishnan leads AllGo to be the pioneer among multimedia embedded system solution providers world-wide. With his exceptional technical knowledge in areas of Digital Signal Processing and Embedded Systems (audio, video, telematics, wireless baseband) and commendable managerial and business skills, he drives the AllGo team to scale new heights. He began his career with a start-up company in California and then moved to Motorola Global Software Group, where his association lasted for nearly a decade.
Narasimha Prabhu
Product Engineering - Embedded Systems, Tech Mahindra
Narasimha started his career as R&D engineer in Center for Development of Telecommunication (CDOT). He headed the development of large Switching Systems ( MAX-XL) which has revolutionized telecommunication scenario in India. He was recognized by Government of India for his contribution. In career spanning over 24 years, he has made significant professional contribution in the area of Telecom Embedded Systems design both in hardware and software domains. He has worked in various organizations in India and abroad. Currently he is heading Embedded Systems group in Tech Mahindra. His professional interests include – Optical Networking, Embedded Systems, M2M, Carrier Ethernet, Mobile Communication. He is an accomplished Public Speaker. He was the past President of Daffodils Toast Masters club – public speakers forum. He was the finalist in the prestigious Economic Times contest – “Power of Ideas – 2009”
Rajesh Kumar Sundararajan
AVP-Wireline Communications Practice, Aricent
At Aricent Group, Rajesh is focusing on routing and switching solutions for broadband networks and service delivery platforms. He has over 16 years of industry experience in strategizing, managing and developing products and business models for communications and network applications across multiple technologies which include ATM, LAN switching, MPLS, Carrier and Metro Ethernet.
Shekar.L
VP & Global Head – Infrastructure Management Services, Syntel
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Viswanath Vajepeyazula
Engineering Manager, Intel Mobile Communications
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Sathyanarayana N
Business Unit Head - Engineering Services & Product Development , Robert Bosch
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