in Education from the University of Zambia, Lusaka. He took various courses in the areas of Industrial Operation,

Innovation and Management Development. After his job as teacher on a secondary school in Zambia he joined Philips in 1976.  Before taking over CEO position at Philips Innovation Campus in Bangalore in 2006, he has worked in different divisions (Components, Appliances and Personal Care, TV, Audio, Optical Storage) and different countries (The Netherlands, Singapore and Belgium). Based in Singapore for 8 years, he worked across the Asia region. He enjoys squash, hiking and travelling in his free time.

Dr. Mark Maybury is Executive Director of MITRE's Information Technology Division. He is responsible for the direction of advanced research and development for intelligence and defence systems supporting a broad range of sponsors including theU.S. Air Force, Army, Navy, OSD, DISA, ARDA, DARPA, NSF, and national intelligence agencies. Dr. Maybury is founder and Executive Director of the ARDA Northeast Regional Research Center. He

serves on the Board of Directors of the Object Management Group and has advised the German Ministry for Education and Research. Mark has over sixty refereed publications. He is editor of Intelligent Multimedia Interfaces (AAAI/MIT Press 1993), Intelligent Multimedia Information Retrieval (AAAI/ MIT Press 1997), New Directions in Question Answering (AAAI/ MIT Press 2004), co-editor of Readings on Intelligent User Interfaces (Morgan Kaufmann Press 1998), Advances in Text Summarization (MIT Press 1999), Advances in Knowledge Management (MIT Press 2001) and Personalized Digital Television (Kluwer Academic, 2004), and co-author of Information Storage and Retrieval  (Kluwer Academic 2000).

Summit Chair

Dr. P. Anandan

Managing Director, Microsoft Research India, Bangalore

Dr. P. Anandan is the Managing Director of Microsoft Research India. Prior to this, Anandan was a senior researcher at Microsoft Research headquarters in Redmond, Wash., where he built one of the world’s strongest research teams in computer vision and video processing. He has also worked as Assistant Professor of Computer Science for four years at Yale University. Over two decades, his research work has resulted in numerous

Prof. Fellner is Director of Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (IGD), Germany.  He is founder of Institute of Computer Graphics and Knowledge Visualization, Germany in 2006. Earlier, he held academic positions at the Univeristy ofBonn, Germany, the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, the University

of Denver, Colorado, and at the Graz University of Technology. After his studies of Technical Mathematics in Graz (Diploma 1981, Doktorate 1984, Habilitation 1988) his career started in the MUPID development team (1982), where he was responsible for the graphics components of the videotex decoder. Dieter Fellner is author of the German standard work on computer graphics (1988, 2nd ed. 1992) and together with A. Endres he has written a book on digital libraries (2000). He is an advisor for the German Scientific Council, the German Research Foundation, and the European Commission (as a member of ISTAG).

Sandhya Prasad, Director, Information Management, BEA Systems, an Oracle company has 23 years of global experience in business communications: technical communications, training, facilitation and management in the IT industry. She has worked in the software, hardware, and networking/telecom spaces. She has managed teams in India, China, USA, and Canada. She teaches technical communication in Christ University; and has also

taught in different Universities in Europe, China, and USA. She has considerable experience in elearning and multimedia projects. She has contributed extensively to the technical communications industry in India through presentations, workshops, articles and contributing to conferences. She is the STC (Society for Technical Communication) India President for 2009.

Dr. Shailesh Kumar is a Senior Scientist leading the Multi-Media Sciences and Information Retrieval Sciences  groups at Y! Labs, Banglore.Prior to this, he was Principal Scientist in the Advanced Technology Solutions  group at Fair Isaac Corp. in San Diego, California, USA. Dr. Kumar has over 12 years of wide ranging experience

 in Machine Learning, Statistical Pattern Recognition, Text Mining, Computer Vision/Image Understanding,

Remote Sensing, and Retail Data Mining. He has published more than 20 conference and journal papers and holds several patents in these areas. Dr. Kumar received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Dec. 2000) and Masters in Computer Science, both from the University of Texas at Austin. He received his B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University in 1995.

For over 15 years, Srikanth has been an Information Technology Entrepreneur. Srikanth is also the COO of edurite technologies, a leading e-learning content company in India. He brings business, operations and strategic depth to edurite. He has been mainly responsible for edurite to achieve leadership position in India in the curriculum e-learning space. Edurite, which recently was acquired by Tutorvista, has a marquee list of clients

including Microsoft, Intel, Frank Brothers, HLL and some of the best schools in India using their patented product, ‘Digitally’. Srikanth holds a Post Graduate Diploma is Software Engineering from Harvard University (DCE) and an undergraduate degree in Computer Science Engineering from Bangalore University, India.

network elements research department, leading a group of researchers examining architecture, protocol and performance issues in next generation networks. He has also served as an adjunct faculty at the Electrical Engineering Department of Columbia University where he has taught two graduate courses in wireless networks. Dr. Ramjee currently serves as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Networking. He has published over 50 papers and holds 12 patents. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Navneet Singh heads mobile engineering at Google's Bangalore R&D center. He and his team work on solutions for the India mobile market as well as globally relevant Google mobile properties. Navneet has previously managed Ads engineering in Google India and has been with Google for almost 2 years. He has over 13 years of experience in enterprise and consumer computing, and has been with Trilogy Software and Oracle Corp before

Google. Navneet holds BS degrees in Computer Science and Operations Research from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as MS in Computer Science, also from MIT.

Hareesh Ramanna is working as an independent consultant on Wireless technologies and is currently working with few companies. Till recently he was heading Mobile Applications team as a Senior Director at Motorola, with responsibility of delivery of software platforms, Software applications across Motorola portfolio of devices. He led a sizeable group of Software engineers working in India, China, Australia, and Malaysia. As a leader of

and UI. Hareesh joined Motorola in 1992 and prior to Motorola he has worked in Indian defense industry for 8 years.

Sreenivasa Rao (‘NSR’) has 20 years of varied technical and management experience in the Software Industry, encompassing a wide variety of roles and responsibilities. NSR joined Celstream in 2004 and leads the Media & Entertainment Delivery Unit. His experience with hi-technology products provides our engineering teams with   the strategic direction required to meet our customers’ technology and business needs. As a member of the 

Senior Leadership Team, NSR plays a vital role in enabling structured growth of our M&E vertical.

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Telebrahma

Suresh is one of the young generation entrepreneurs in the country, he is the brain behind Telibrahma, the company started in the year 2004 with a vision to create a consumer focused product company out of India. Suresh manages the overall strategy and business development of the company. With over 12 years of association in the IT product industry, Suresh has an immense experience working in the areas of software development, marketing and sales of cutting edge technology solutions.

Cambridge University and Bachelor's and Master's degrees from IIT Chennai and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Rohini Srihar, PhD is an educator, scientist and entrepreneur. She founded Cymfony, a company specializing in market influence analytics.  She is currently CEO of Janya Inc., a language technology company.  She is a faculty member in the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo.  Her research areas include information retrieval and text mining, as well as computational linguistics and

information extraction. Dr. Srihari received a B. Math. from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University at Buffalo.

Dr. U.B. Pavanaja is currently General Manager – Academics, Manipal Education. He has been a Consultant to Microsoft India on software localization, PoC applications, Indic application, Office applications, Corporate training, etc (2001-2007) and Comat Technologies on e-Governance application development. He was also an  Advisor to Microsoft Research Labs India on Indian language corpus collection, Natural Language Processing of

Prof. Kavi Narayana Murthy is Professor at the Department of Computers and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad. Prior to this, he has rich experience of working in research capacities at TVS Group and Bharath Electronics. He has extensive research experience in the fields of speech technologies, theories of computation, natural language processing, automatic speech recognition, text processing and advanced computational linguistics. He is also on various Boards and Committees reviewing the implementation of speech and language

technologies of the Govt. of India. He has many papers to his credit in reputed journals and conferences.

Vasudeva Varma is a faculty member at International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad Since 2002. Prior to joining IIIT-H, he was the president of MediaCognition India Pvt. Ltd and Chief Architect at MediaCognition Inc. (Cupertino, CA). Earlier he was the director of Engineering and research at InfoDream  Corporation, Santa Clara, CA. He also worked for Citicorp and Muze Inc. in New York as senior consultant. He

obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad in 1996. He has five patent applications and several publications in journals and conferences. He obtained young scientist award and grant from Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, for his proposal on personalized search engines. His areas of interests include search and information extraction, knowledge management and software engineering.

Dr. A. G. Ramakrishnan is presently Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He obtained his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from I.I.T., Madras, India, in 1989. He recieved Young Scientist (1994) award by the Dept of Science and Technology, Government of India, Sir Andrew Watt Kay Young Researcher's Award (1992) from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow, Thangam Vasudevan award (1985) from the Indian Association of Biomedical Scientists.  

Bob Stembridge graduated from University of Sussex with a BSc in Chemistry. He joined Thomson Scientific in 1980 and has held various roles in editorial, marketing, sales and product development. Leaving in 1988 for interludes working as Information Analyst specialising in patent analytics at British Petroleum and European Sales Liaison with Dialog, he returned to Thomson Scientific in 1996. In his current role, he is responsible for liasion

with customer user groups for the organisation.

Parthasarathy N. S. (”Partha”) is a co-founder and the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of MindTree. In this role,  he focuses on acquiring the right talent, improving the capabilities of MindTree minds, increasing operating  efficiencies, effective usage of technologies to run MindTree and providing the best environment for Project  Delivery teams to service customers. Partha has a rich experience and understanding of offshore development,

 software processes, handling distributed development and customer expectations. He has been actively involved in setting up of large end-to-end ODCs for customers. Partha received a Masters (Honors) degree from BITS, Pilani and an M.Tech in Computer Science from IIT, Kharagpur in India.

Dr.  Upadhya is the right combination of a scientist, technologist and team builder, a rare person indeed. He is capable of synthesizing multiple disciples to solve a complex problem. He always retained interest in emerging technologies even while being deeply involved in day-to-day programme pressures. He has contributed heavily in developing techniques and methodology for aerospace vehicle design incorporating advanced concepts of  

structural dynamics & aero elasticity, aero-servo-elasticity, load estimation and optimisation with composite structures. The contributions cover both analysis and experiments including full-scale tests on aircraft such as structural coupling tests, and aeroelastic model studies of aircraft and launch vehicles in wind tunnel.

Ee-Peng Lim is currently a tenured professor at the School of Information Systems of the Singapore Management University (SMU).  He received Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis in 1994 and B.Sc. in Computer Science from National University of Singapore.  His research interests include information integration, data/text/web mining, and digital libraries.  He is currently Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), Journal of Web Engineering (JWE), International Journal of Digital Libraries

Publications Board.  He is the Steering Committee Chair of the International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL), and a member of the Steering Committee of the Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD).

John Blossom is the President and Senior Analyst of Shore Communication inc., a company committed to bring content, technology and people together. Mr. Blossom's career spans more than twenty years of  marketing, research, product management and development in advanced information and media venues. He

has rich working experience having worked as Vice President and Lead Analyst at Outsell, Inc. He speaks

Manjula Kandula is currently the Technical Publications Manager at VMware Bangalore. Out here she coaches (her preferred word) a team of 9 high-energy tech writers who truly (and 'virtually') create great documentation. Prior to this, she was publications manager at Sun Microsystems where she got to know some traits of documenting for an open source culture. She quickly realized that at Sun, wikis were there for all

reasons and seasons, while you simply logged 'n blogged! She also spent six fruitful years at HP  where she edited, did some hands-on writing, and occasionally led a team of eight writers. But editing was her forte, a skill she carried on from her previous role as a science editor at Deccan Herald, a leading Indian newspaper. In a previous avatar, Manjula investigated rodent proteins in a dusty biochemistry lab at IISc. She really owes her PhD to all those kind rats who laid down their lives in the name of science. Perhaps all this made her a tad spiritual, so now she spends all her leisure time as a core volunteer for the Art of Living Foundation, which is a reputed NGO spreading over 140 countries. She also likes music and reading books.

Vivek Karambil is currently Director of Engineering at Interwoven, Bangalore. His experience has been in the areas of management information systems, mobile technology and insurance product space, before my current assignment focused on enterprise content management, and specifically web solutions at Interwoven.  Interwoven works on scenarios driven by the web 2.0 age, that involve coupling of CCC with existing web content

management scenarios.  His assignments include setting up engineering teams to supplement engineering teams in the US to start with, and to drive engineering support for web solutions customers worldwide from Bangalore. He is also involved in key initiatives in the area of coupling run time repositories and managed web content.

Prof. Shalini R. Urs is Executive Director, International School of Information Management (ISiM). She has been an UNESCO consultant on several occasions and an invited speaker at many of the International  Conferences. She is currently the Chairperson, Asian Digital Library Steering Committee and Honorary Adjunct

Chairperson of Consortium of I-Schools of Asia Pacific (CISAP). She is on the Board of Directors, Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), a global consortium based at Virginia Tech, USA.

Dr. Prahlada Rao, currently working as Program Coordinator, System Software Development Group,  C-DAC Knowledge Park,  Bangalore.   Earlier  worked as   an  Advisory R&D Engineer/Deputy General Manager (Software Development) at IBM Global Services India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore (2000-04),   Group Leader at ST  Microelectronics (1998-2000)  Noida,   Technical Manager (2004-05) at Agere Systems India Pvt Ltd., Bglr,

Subramanya is Director STSD and Hewlett Packard. He is responsible for managing the evolution of IT infrastructure design of the new campus, drawing on a proven record of success in data center consolidation, championed vision and leadership to implement state-of-the-art dynamic smart cooling technologies, enabling business to foster a spirit of innovation and economy. He has been part of leadership in HP R&D India start-up

to accelerate growth in the Enterprise Servers & Storage Segment, serving in the position of Director since 2002-3. 

Dr. Prabhakar is Director at Strand Life Sciences, wherein he is involved in avadis data mining and visualization platform and ArrayAssist Gene Expression Analysis Product. He is also a Senior Fellow at Ashok Trust for Research in Environment and Ecology (ATREE). At ATREE he is involved in GIS and Ecology projects, research on mountain ecosystems and Lead India Biodiversity Portal.  His areas of interests include Data Mining,

Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing.

Bruno Goveas is responsible for Akamai’s marketing and product initiatives in India, including product management, product marketing, account development and marketing communications. Bruno manages all  aspects of two Akamai product lines globally - Performance Analytics and Origin Products - responsible for  product strategy, monetization strategy and product profitability. Bruno brings over 10 years of experience in

 the Internet and Storage space having held responsibilities in Product Management, Marketing, Engineering and General Management functions. Before joining Akamai, Bruno worked at Hewlett-Packard's Enterprise Storage group, where he was one of the key contributors in the team responsible for the Storage Array Software and Storage Management Appliance product lines. Bruno holds an MS in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University and an M.B.A from Babson College.

Mr. M.N. Vidyashankar, Chief Electoral Officer & Ex-officio Principal Secretary to Government of Karnataka, DPAR (Elections), joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1982 after his M.A., and M.Phil in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics and MBA from Harvard Business School, USA. His major areas of interest include Downsizing, Right Sizing, Re-engineering, E-Governance, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Customer

Relations Management (CRM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). He was Principal Secretary to the Government of Karnataka, Dept. of Information Technology, Biotechnology and Science & Technology from October 2006 to March 2008. Prior to this, he served in different Departments in the State Government, including Revenue, Rural Development & Panchayat Raj, and Energy & Medical Education.

John Girard, Ph.D. is associate professor of management at Minot State University. John is researching the relationships existing between information anxiety, organizational memory loss, and contemporary knowledge management theories. John is an awarding-winning researcher who speaks regularly on the subject of knowledge management and how enterprises may reap the benefits of creating and exchanging organizational knowledge.  He has spoken in the US, Canada, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and South 

America at such events as KM World, APQC’s Knowledge Management Conference, the World Congress on Intellecutal Capital,

Jagdish is the CoFounder and Managing Director of Injoos (www.injoos.com). Injoos Team-ware is an integrated collaboration platform that combines the simplicity and UGC features of social networks with the  power of enterprise document, project and knowledge management tools in a single, hosted web based  application. Jagdish brings in 15 years of experience in the Information Technology and Telecommunications

industries. In his last role as Associate Vice President and Divisional Manager at Infosys, Jagdish was responsible for delivery of Services and Solutions for Communication Service Provider business unit. In the last 10 years with Infosys Jagdish has been a member of the Management Council and Headed the Bangalore & Chandigarh Development centers. Jagdish holds a Bachelor of Electronics & Communications Engineering degree with highest honors from Mysore University, India.

Usha Mohan has about 22 years of total experience in the Bangalore IT industry. She started her career in Andhra Bank and later worked with the Financial Systems Group in Wipro Technologies before taking up Marketing and Business Development responsibility at Triumph India. As part of business development, she has nurtured key customer accounts for the communication and messaging products. At Triumph, she has

pioneered technical communication or tech-comm as a specialized and outsourced activity in India. She has also been instrumental in setting up the quality management system (QMS) for documentation projects, the first of its kind in the world. Through her tireless efforts she has grown this company into the largest tech-comm services company in India. Usha, a Gold Medalist from Osmania University, holds an MBA degree from IIM Bangalore. She is also a member of the Society for Technical Communication.

Vasudha has over 20 years of experience in technical communication, creative and academic writing. Having lived and worked in countries such as Australia, Canada, and United States has helped her understand the  nuances of communication from a near global perspective. She has been exposed to industry verticals such as  banking and finance, supply chain management, pharmaceutical, information infrastructure, and so on.

Currently, Vasudha is Manager - Technical Publications at EMC Corporation - the world leader in information infrastructure.

An active member of the technical communication fraternity in India, she has conceptualized and implemented the first ever mentorship program for technical writers across the country. Her professional interests include quality processes, writing for a global audience, and structured authoring. When she is not in the vicinity of books, music and writing, she works with not for profit organizations that help enrich lives by providing training in soft skills.

at the University of Bombay. Mr. Vyas has worked in CMIE in various capacities as an Economist, the Database Administrator and Chief Product Developer and is the chief architect of India’s largest integrated database on the economy and business.

Dr. C. Mohan joined IBM Almaden Research Center (San Jose, California) in 1981 where he worked until May 2006 on a number of topics in the areas of database, workflow and transaction management. From June 2006, he has been working as the IBM India Chief Scientist, based in Bangalore, with responsibilities that relate to serving as the executive technical leader of IBM India within and outside IBM. Mohan is the primary inventor

of the ARIES family of recovery and concurrency control methods, and the industry-standard Presumed Abort commit protocol. He was named an IBM Fellow, IBM's highest technical position, in 1997 for being recognized worldwide as a leading innovator in transaction management. He received the 1996 ACM SIGMOD Innovations Award in recognition of his innovative contributions to the development and use of database systems. In 2002, he was named an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. He is an inventor on 34 patents and was named an IBM Master Inventor in 1997.  Mohan received his PhD in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1981. In 2003, he was named a Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Madras from which he received a B.Tech. in chemical engineering in 1977. He is a frequent speaker in North America, Western Europe and India, and has given talks in 35 countries.