Special Invitess:
Anil Jampala (Satyam)
Dr. Anil K. JAMPALA, has rich global experience in varied fields.

He presently heads the Alliances & Partnerships division of Emergency Management and Research Institute (EMRI). He was also the organizing chair for Transforming Emergency Management conference 2007 conference and actively involved in IEEE TENcon 2008.As President of Brahma Solutions, he has provided Consulting and Training services to many MNC companies including ADP India Private Ltd., Analog Devices, Cell Exchange, Deloitte Consulting, PB Systems Inc., Polaris, SumTotal Systems, etc.

Prior to Brahma Solutions, he was President and CEO of Inspira Technologies (P) Ltd, an ISO 9001 certified off-shore development center of US company Inspira Inc. During his tenure, many projects and products were executed successfully in varied areas. For Govt. of Andhra Pradesh's core On-Line Transaction Processing (OLTP) project, we were able to beat best of MNCs. This project was launched when Bill Gates visited Hyderabad on 14th November 2002. What is billed as "In-line to On-line", can now be called “PDA to Portal”. Prior to Inspira, he was co-promoter and Executive Director of Resonance Technologies (P) Ltd, an ISO 9001 certified off-shore development center of US company Resonance Technologies Inc. During his tenure, many projects and products were executed successfully in varied areas.

Prior to Resonance, he worked 10 years for Alstom Esca in Bellevue, WA, USA, in Energy Management Systems (EMS) business, contributing to such large projects as Pennsylvania Power & Light, Madison Gas & Electric, Puget Power (USA) and Public Power Corporation of Greece, and Light Rio project of Brazil.

He was past-President of HYderabad Software Exporters Association (HYSEA ) and is an active member of Managing Committee of HYSEA for last 10 years.

He has been a member of IEEE for the last 25 years. He is also a Vice-Chairman (2001,2003,2004), past Treasurer (1999,2000) for IEEE Hyderabad Section. During his tenure, many successful initiatives have been taken, resulting in significant increase in membership.

He received his Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Washington, Seattle in 1986 and his MBA from Seattle University in 1992.

He is the recipient of IEEE Millennium Medal and Outstanding Social Service award and Service to HYSEA award by Hyderabad Software Exporters Association.

He has published nearly 20 papers in IEEE and international journals.

Surajit Duttachoudhury (TietoEnator)
Surajit has a background in general management & business development since 1990 in IT industry - spanning Tele-communication and CAD industry, beginning with a German joint venture, Computer-Kontor, for Siemens mainframe terminal emulation product development. Thereafter Surajit managed the operations for Intergraph, a US major in CAD related software, in India for over 8 years and helped Integraph develop leading edge products in Plant Design, Geographical Information System (GIS), Mechanical CAD, Image Processing through its offshore development center in Hyderabad. During this period Surajit also transformed the operation into a profit center. Since 2005, Surajit helped grow a local start up company, Fortuna Technologies, in value in mobile handset software product development. Further Surajit helped the owners exit the business successfully and steered the activities for Fortuna Technologies to be acquired by a Nordic IT major, Tieto, in September 2007. Surajit has been assisting Tieto in establishing and growing its business in India in mobile devices as well as network infrastructure related R & D services since then.

Prior to his foray in IT Industry, Surajit worked for automobile and turnkey mechanical construction industry - namely Tata Motors, Greaves Cotton and Larsen & Toubro - for 11 years since 1979. This adds to the overall exposure in his long career.

Surajit is a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from Javadpur University, Kolkata. Outside the worksphere, Surajit likes to spend time with his family and in sporting activies. He is keenly interested in golf.

Jacob Verghese (ByRraju Foundation)
An Electronics Engineer with MBA from XLRI, Verghese K Jacob excelled in the corporate world for 25 years heading key divisions of major corporate houses as CEO. Now, as the Chief Integrator of the Foundation, Mr Jacob coordinates all the initiatives and makes use of his rich corporate exposure to incorporate global best practices and management systems into its functioning. verghese@byrrajufoundation.org


Jayaram Valliyur (Amazon)
Jayaram (Jay) Valliyur has over twelve years of experience in building large scale distributed systems in the areas of retail banking and marketing automation, and more recently for e-marketplaces. He is currently Director of Engineering at Suppliermarket.com - a leading online marketplace for manufactured direct materials. He is responsible for building the XML based B2B gateway for the marketplace.


Subramonia Sharma (ISB)


Sanjay Khendry (Sierra Atlantic)
Sanjay Khendry is Vice President at Sierra Atlantic, an Outsourced Product Development and Enterprise Applications services company, head quartered in California with its development center at Hyderabad in India. He has over 21 years of experience in sales, business development, marketing, technology and general management roles in the software industry with a global exposure that includes US, UK, Japan, Asia-Pacific and parts of the Middle East. He has been with Sierra Atlantic since 1994.

Prior to Sierra Atlantic Sanjay handled sales and product management at Wings Infonet Limited; a financial accounting software package company. Earlier he was with National Information Technologies Limited - A joint venture of Press Trust of India and MP State Electronics Development Corporation in technology development and sales roles focusing on solutions for the newspaper industry.

An alumnus of Birla Institute Technology & Science, Pilani he has a Masters in Physics with a Bachelors in Electrical & Electronic Engineering. [Sanjay is an active Rotarian with a focus on children and education. An avid amateur photographer and a voracious reader he used to write a column on general management in The Deccan Chronicle.

Chair:

Satish Madhira (Founder, Yasu Tech.)

Vice Chairs:

Ramesh Loganathan (Progress Software)
Ramesh Loganathan, the Vice President (Products) and Managing Director of Progress Software in India, is responsible for leading the product development at the India Development center. The center is organized in a COE (Centre of Expertise) model, where groups are organized inline with technology horizontals that work on multiple products/components. Present COEs include Eclipse based Development tools, Web tooling and Adapters. He provides strategic guidance to all PSI’s product teams, scale product operations with a specific focus on cross –product considerations for the SOA and Data integration products. Prior to Progress, he was the Vice President of Middleware Technologies at Pramati responsible for driving the product development, product direction and later setup the Technology Consulting business.

Ramesh is an accomplished Technologist and evangelist regularly speaking at workshops and seminars in India. He has been active in Tech fora, JCP and SPEC organizations. He has also been a Member of several Standards Expert groups including J2EE 1.3. Co-founded ebXMLIndia.org and hyd-eclipse.org, and organizes BarCamps and Startup events. In addition he is an adjunct faculty at IIIT, Hyderabad

Suheim Sheikh (Founder SDG Software)
Suheim Sheikh , Founder CEO of SDG Software Technologies has built products  in the Capital Markets space for Trading Systems, Surveillance of Stock Exchanges and in the Banking space for Anti Money Laundering and Fraud Detection.SDG was acquired by 3I Infotech Limited and he now continues to serve on the Operating Board and drives global product development in the Capital Markets and Fraud space across many countries. He holds a B.Tech from IIT Madras, is a keen Yachtsmen and spends a considerable amount of time working in the development sector and  as a semi professional photographer.

Panel Chairs:

Startups- Raghu Batta (Ojas Ventures)
Raghu joined Ojas Ventures in June 2008, after a five year stint at Vantage Point Venture Partners (San Bruno, CA), with an investment focus on wireline/wireless infrastructure-applications and digital media infrastructure.  At VPVP, he was a key member of team that led investments in Spatial Wireless (sold for $275M to Alcatel), Widevine, (software based security platforms for IPTV and Open Internet), Entrisphere (sold to Ericsson for $290M), Live Scribe (revolutionary SmartPen computer), ProtoStar (Satellites over South Asia), Iand Innopath (over the air updates for cellphones). He also sold two companies (Kagoor Networks to Juniper and Alopa Networks to C-Cor), as a board member representing VantagePoint. 

Prior to VantagePoint, he worked for over 11 years at various Data Comm and Telecoms companies in the San Francisco Bay Area in  Prod Mgmt, Business Development and M&A at various companies that include Madge Networks, Bay Networks, Assured Access, Alcatel, and Copper COM.

Raghu has an MBA from Baruch College, New York and B.E from Manipal Institute of Technology.


Portals- Farhan Azhar (IIIT)


Portals- Dr.Vasudeva Varma (IIIT)
Vasudeva Varma is a faculty member at International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad Since 2002. Prior to joining IIIT Hyderabad, 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. In 2004, he obtained young scientist award and grant from Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, for his proposal on personalized search engines. In 2007, he was given Research Faculty Award by AOL Labs.

His research interests include search (information retrieval), information extraction, information access, knowledge management, cloud computing and software engineering. He is heading the Search and Information Extraction Lab and Software Engineering Research Lab at IIIT Hyderabad.


Established Indian co.s- Ramanathan (Cordys)
Mr. Ramanathan has been responsible for Mr. Jan Baan’s investments in India since 1987. As founder employee and Director he established the Product Development Centre of Baan Company in 1987.. The success of this operation under his leadership resulted in greater confidence in India’s capability and subsequently global support, consulting and marketing operations were established in Mumbai. In 1995 he played a key role in identifying and establishing Hyderabad as a growth centre for the Baan Company, Mr. Ramanathan moved from Baan in Feb 2000. He supervised and helped establish several initiatives like Baan Engineering, Vanenburg IT Park and the present day Cordys R&D for Mr. Jan Baan in India. He has over 25 years experience in setting up global distributed product development centres, global product support operations, venture incubators, high end technology parks and, marketing and sales operations. As Adviser of Cordys India he is responsible for guiding and mentoring the management teams of R&D and S&D (Sales & Delivery to) take the company to the next growth phase. He was the former Managing Director of Vanenburg IT Park which is rated as the top 5 IT parks in India.

Prior to 1987 Mr. Ramanathan worked with NELCO (a Tata Co) and Datamatics Ltd.Mr. Ramanathan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from Bombay University and is certified in Integrated Resource Management (CIRM) by the American Production and Inventory Management Institute (APICS). He has also been certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) by APICS.

He is also the recipient of the “3I” award from the Board of Directors, of the Baan Company, which signifies outstanding contribution to values of innovation, initiative and integrity.


Social Impact- Kavita Vemuri (IIIT)
In the US worked in companies like Rational (now IBM), Comverse Networks Systems, Galactic Industries (now ThermoGalactic) and at the Corporate Materials Research labs of 3M, Austin, Texas. In India was heading the Technology Development Center (TNTDPC) of CII at Chennai/Tamil Nadu and currently heading the Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship at IIIT-H.

Fiber optic devices, control systems, telecom voice messaging applications and new product development have been areas of work/experience.
Co-inventor of 2 US patents in ‘dispersion compensation’ in fiber optic communication networks.

Education: MSc/MPhil (HCU) – Physics, MS ECE from UMASS


MNC Products- Suheim Sheikh (Founder SDG Software)
Suheim Sheikh , Founder CEO of SDG Software Technologies has built products  in the Capital Markets space for Trading Systems, Surveillance of Stock Exchanges and in the Banking space for Anti Money Laundering and Fraud Detection.SDG was acquired by 3I Infotech Limited and he now continues to serve on the Operating Board and drives global product development in the Capital Markets and Fraud space across many countries. He holds a B.Tech from IIT Madras, is a keen Yachtsmen and spends a considerable amount of time working in the development sector and  as a semi professional photographer.

Student contest- Ramam Atmakuri (Invensys)
A V Ramam is currently the Vice President and Head of Invensys Development Centre India Pvt. Ltd based at Hyderabad.  Started his career as Computer Programmer in 1982 and has 26 years of experience in IT.  He worked in Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) for 12 years and was heading the Baan Development center in India before joining Invensys in 2006.  

Ramam is one of the founder members and past President of Hyderabad chapter of Project Management Institute (PMI), USA.  He is currently the PMI Component Mentor for Western Asia Region.

He is the Vice President of Hyderabad Software Exporters Association (HYSEA ) and serves on the Advisory Board of ICFAI School of IT.

He has been a speaker in several industry and student forums.