Suman BK
Team Lead- iPhone, Tritonetech
A hard core gamer and coding whizz, Suman has been a core member of the team at Tritone Tech, a Mobile Tech company with Products, Services, Research, Consulting and Training wings. Suman is a key member of the Services and Training wings; heads a 10 member iPhone team and trains new recruits on iPhone/iPad platforms. His knowledge imparting and innovative teaching methods have been a hit among students and the team.
SR Raja
GM-Strategy, Sasken
Raja is an emerging markets specialist, a visionary creator, an Eco-system influencer. He is the General Manager,Strategy at Sasken Communication Technologies and Co-Founder Trustee & President at Mobile Monday Bangalore Trust. A visionary creator of emerging markets solutions through meaningful and sticky income generating livelihood service offerings delivered through mobile phone. Has strong experiences in developing large and sustainable economy systems with deep contacts to enable and influence across stakeholders including government, non-government, research parks, acedemia, micro-finance, technology enablers, service providers, telco, handset oems, retail, e-commerce portals, etc.. A mobile and telecom industry observer, author of several articles, research & concept papers, investigator and contributor to notable IITCoE-IIMA benchmark research report on provisioning mobile services for rural group forming networks. Specialties.
Balagopal K S
Technology Expert, Forum Nokia
A former Forum Nokia Champion and an enthusiastic developer, Mr.Balagopal K S is a Technology expert at Nokia, Bangalore. Mobile application development is his work, passion and hobby. He cools off by listening to music and enjoys long drives. Mr.Balagopal, having his own community and network of developer friends, is a store house of solutions and a sure bet to extend your network.
Nitin Srivastava
Technology Expert, Forum Nokia
Nitin Srivastava, a former Forum Nokia Champion, is currently a Technology Expert in Forum Nokia India. Nitin has a very strong knowledge in S60 Symbian C++. His expertise lies in Telephony, Messaging and GUI . His expertise was recognized by Nokia in the year 2008 and was selected as Forum Nokia Champion. Nitin is a gadget lover, passionate about music and sports.
Gururaj Krishnarao Parvati
Technical Director and Product Manager, Mindtree
Gururaj is working as a Product Manager and Technical director in MindTree. He has over 15 years of Industry experience. His earlier experience has been on Embedded systems including but not limited to Windows CE/Windows Mobile, Android and Linux. Before taking up the product management and technical architecture roles Gururaj used to handle a team of Windows Embedded and Embedded Linux developers for various flavors. He loves spending time reading technology updates and likes to keep himself hands on. He is passionate about mobile application space that drives him to learn Android as well. The talk will focus on overview of Android SDK, different components, development tools.
Vaideeshwaran
Founder and CEO, Divum
Vaideeshwaran is the Founder and CEO of Divum Corporate Services, he has 14+ years of experience, a techie turned into an entrepreneur.His professional experience includes vast experience in the areas of microprocessor / SoC chip design, flow automation and in-house tools development. Currently developing an Datapath placement and Standard cell library qualification tools for a design house and he is the Chief Executive of Divum,a Mobile application development company, specialized in iPhone, BlackBerry and Android platforms.He founded Divum in the middle of deep 2008 recession and grown upto a team size in double digit. Divum has a track record of developing 40+ iPhone applications in first 6 months.
Abhik Biswas
Co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer, Prakat Solutions
Abhik is a technologist with over 20 years of experience in Payment Systems, Systems and Network Management. He has worked on development, project management, business development and product management at NIIT, TCS, VeriFone/HP, Computer Associates and Cisco. He has been actively engaged with CommGate - an IT Infrastructure provider for SMB’s. CommGate is the IT infrastructure partner for Prakat.
Gururaj Narayanan
Project Manager, Teleca India
Gururaj is Project Manager at Teleca India, At Teleca, he is leading the Mobile Applications Group which develops cool applications on iOS, Android, Blackberry, WebOS, HTML5 for large customers in the area of entertainment, news, travel, data analytics. He has about 12+ years of experience in Mobile SW development and specializes in Multimedia Frameworks. He holds Post graduate degree from IIT Kharagpur and is very passionate about programming.
Valluri Kumar
Lead Architect, Huawei
Valluri started his career in year 1998 with an ambition to Enrich user experience in Communication domain. Along with current focus on the Android Business development, he also takes the responsibilities as lead System and Solution architect at Huawei Technologies, for Terminal business line where the focus was on delivering all segments of smart-phones, feature phone, Setup-Box along world’s leading data-cards.Valluri has been a Key player for the success of first Android Smart-Phone from Huawei. Under his dynamic leadership a strong R&D Team of large size has been established at Huawei India R&D center with focus to deliver world leading smart-phones to Tire-1 operators across the Globe. His astuteness and strategy has been the pillar for starting the Terminal Business line at Huawei India R&D center. Prior to Huawei, Valluri enjoyed a flourishing career at Oracle Corporation and Cisco Systems, Valluri has M.Tech from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, with specialization in Compiler Design and Computer Graphics.
Kavitha Velchal
Governance Lead - TCOE, 3i Infotech
Kavitha Velchal is a Software Process Consultant with close to 10 years of IT experience. Being a CSQA, CSM and Six Sigma Green Belt, she is an ardent follower of quality practices and has a flair for continually learning and applying best practices in quality. As a Business Administrator, she is passionate about analyzing and applying latest market trends to achieve results that favor business growth and sustenance. During her many processing consulting engagements. She has performed in depth study of process gaps and defined new processes compliant with CMMistandards for a governmental organization, deployed Quality Management System and also performed SWOT analysis to contribute towards creation of a delivery model for Agile Consulting (both process and tool focused). She has also created IP for Agile and various process related trainings. Extensively worked for creating study manuals for certification courses like CSBA based on a CBOK, has conducted process related trainings including Agile across various organizations.
Sunil Rao
Head, , Forum Nokia India
Sunil Rao is the Head of Forum Nokia-India. At Nokia, Sunil is responsible for evangelizing new technology platforms, strategy and growth opportunities with Nokia&rsquot;s third party developers to create a vibrant Nokia ecosystem.Sunil was heading the Ecosystem development for Symbian Software which was acquired by Nokia in 2008. Prior to Nokia and Symbian, he has lead sales and marketing efforts at Talisma software, Wipro technologies, Mphasis BFL and HCL Perot. He has a distinction of working in North America, Europe and Asian Markets.
Mohit Saxena
Founder & Vice President, Technology, , InMobi
Mohit is the Technology Founder and has been serving as the Head of Technology at InMobi since the beginning. He is responsible for InMobi’s technology development, including infrastructure, application management and IT. Prior to joining InMobi, Mohit was based out of San Francisco and managed the technology operations at Virgin Mobile, world’s largest mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). At Virgin Mobile, he was instrumental in designing and deploying post-paid billing system and revenue recognition system on a pre-paid platform. This helped significantly to make Virgin Mobile the largest and the most successful MVNO in the US. Mohit has also worked at AT&T and is a part of several patents filed in the telecommunication area. Mohit completed his undergraduate studies from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (IIT). He has an eye towards innovation and simplicity and is passionate about technology and its possibilities. Mohit was always fascinated by tales of people with small ideas turning them into global powerhouses and always dreamed of being the part of such an endeavor himself. So when opportunity knocked at his door to be the Technology Founder of InMobi, he jumped at it. It is Mohit’s belief that strong discipline and desire to be at the top of the world will one day make InMobi one of the biggest and the smartest companies. "
Harshad Kulkarni
Sr. Visual Designer,, Yahoo
Harshad Kulkarni is working as a Sr. Visual Designer at Yahoo! for last 3 years. He has over seven years of industry experience in graphic design, gaming and web design. Before joining Yahoo! Harshad was in mobile gaming industry for around three years. He likes typography, specially indian scripts and currently working in the same as well. Information-graphics is one more area he is exploring. He loves spending time watching movies. "