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Programme

 
 

Day 1 (December 17, 2007)

 

Time

Session / Theme

Inaugural / Keynote Speaker / Chair / Panelists Anchor

0900 - 1030

Inaugural Session

Inaugural Speaker : Dr. F.C. Kohli
Former Vice Chairman
Tata Consultancy Services
 
Summit Chair : Mr. Ajit Balakrishnan
Founder Chairman & CEO
Rediff.com
 
Welcome Address : Dr. Shalini R. Urs
Executive Director, ISiM
 
Vote of Thanks : Dr. Rohini K. Srihari
CEO, Janya Inc & Faculty
Dept. of Computer Science & Eng.
State University at Buffalo
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1100 - 1230

Small World, Network Theories and Models

Keynote Speaker : Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan
Head, Yahoo! Research, USA
 
Keynote Title : New Sciences for a New Web
Panelists : Dr. Bino Paul G.D.
Associate Professor
Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Mumbai
: Prof. Kris Kumar
Dept. of Computer Science & Eng.
PESIT, Bangalore
Anchor : Dr. Rohini Srihari
CEO, Janya Inc. & Faculty Member
Dept. of Computer Science & Eng.
University at Buffalo 
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1400 - 1530

Web 2.0 and Mashups

Keynote Speaker : Dr. Jayanta Chatterjee
Professor, IME Department
IIT Kanpur
Keynote Title : The Digital Ecosystem Framework & 
the Web 2.0 as a Knowledge Creation
Process - What we learnt from the 
DEAL Project
Panelists : Mr. Arun Ramanujapuram
Director of Advanced Technology Group
Yahoo! Bangalore
 
: Mr. Kiruba Shankar
Associate Director & Head
Interactive Services Group
Blogstreet.com
: Mr Ashok Krish
TCS Innovation Labs - Web 2.0
Tata Consultancy Services
Anchor : Mr. Rohit Agarwal
Founder & CEO
techTribe Networks
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1600 - 1730

Social Networking and the Semantic Web

Keynote Speaker : Dr. Pandu Nayak
Google Inc., USA
 
Keynote Title : Web Search: Challenges, Directions  
Opportunities
Panelists : Mr. Chirag Jain
VP - Operations
Webaroo
: Dr. Runa Sarkar
Assistant Professor
Dept. of IME, IIT Kanpur
Anchor : Dr. Kavi Mahesh

Principal Consultant, KM, Infosys &

Professor, Dept. of Computer Science
Bangalore
 
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1900 Hrs

 

THOMSON INNOVATION AWARD CEREMONY & GALA DINNER

 
Keynote

Thomson Innovation

Giving away of Thomson

Speaker

Award - Briefing Innovation Award
     

Prof. Hsinchun Chen

Mr. Bob Stembridge

Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan

University of Arizona, USA

Thomson Scientific, UK

Head, Yahoo Research, USA

     

Keynote Title

:

Mapping Nanotechnology Innovations and Knowledge: Global,

     longitudinal, patent and literature analysis
 
  For Presentations and Photographs, Click Here
 
 

Day 2 (December 18, 2007)

 

Time

Session / Theme

Inaugural / Keynote Speaker / Chair / Panelists Anchor

0900 - 1030

Weblogs and Wisdom of the Crowds

 
Keynote Speaker : Prof. Rohini Srihari
CEO, Janya Inc & Faculty Member
Dept. of Computer Science & Eng.
University at Buffalo
 
Panelists : Dr. L.Venkata Subramaniam
IBM India Research Ltd., New Delhi
 
: Mr. John Blossom
President & Senior Analyst
Shore Communications Inc., USA
Anchor : Prof. Shalini R. Urs
Executive Director
International School of Information 
Management, University of Mysore
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1100 - 1230

Organizational Communication and Group Dynamics

Keynote Speaker : Prof. Noshir Contractor
Kellogg School of Management
Northwestern University, USA
 
Keynote Title : From Disasters to WoW: Understanding 
& Enabling Networks in 21st Century
Organizational Forms
Panelists : Ms. C.S. Shobha
Head - Quality
Perot Systems, Bangalore
: Mr. Arun Jethmalani
Managing Director
ValueNotes

Anchor

: Dr. Madanmohan Rao
Research Director
Asian Media Information and
Communication Centre
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1400 - 1530

Networks, Creativity and Innovation

Keynote Speaker : Prof. Vijay V. Raghavan
Distinguished Professor of Computer
Science, University of Louisiana
Lafayette, USA
 
Panelists : Mr. Satya Rao
CEO, Axiom Consulting
Bangalore
: Dr. Debashis Pattanaik
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
IIT Kanpur

Anchor

: Ms. Waltraut Ritter
Research Director
Knowledge Enterprises, Hong Kong
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1600 - 1730

Innovation and Knowledge Assets

Keynote Speaker : Mr. Bob Stembridge
Thomson Scientific, UK
 
Keynote Title : Mapping Global Nanotechnology
Innovations and Knoweldge
Panelists : Prof. Hsinchun Chen
University of Arizona, USA
: Dr. G. S. Singh
Principal Consultant & Res. Area
Manager, Innovation Lab - Mumbai
Tata Consultancy Services
: Dr. Ramesh Verma
Reliance Infocom, Mumbai
 
For Presentations and Photographs, Click Here
 

1900 Hrs

 

WRAP UP & CLOSING CEREMONY

 
 

Energy & Synergy Break: 1030 to 1100 Hrs & 1530 to 1600 Hrs

 Lunch Break: 1230 - 1400 Hrs