Dr Jayaprakash Narayan is a physician by training, a public servant by choice, and a democrat by conviction. He joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1980 in the aftermath of Emergency and the failure of the Janata Experiment. During his nearly 17 years of distinguished public service in various capacities, he acquired a formidable reputation in the State of Andhra Pradesh. Rehabilitation of 8000 youth from displaced families of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant, designing the reconstruction of drainage and irrigation network in Krishna and Godavari deltas, strengthening the credit cooperatives and making them independent of government control, and several major policy initiatives including empowerment of parents in schools, speedy justice through rural courts, economic reform and restructuring of Andhra Pradesh, developing the Infocity in Hyderabad, and empowerment of local governments and stake holders are among his outstanding accomplishments in Andhra Pradesh. Among other things, he served as Secretary to both Governor and Chief Minister.

Dr. Narayan's experience in government fully convinced him that what India needs today is not merely periodic change of players, but a fundamental change in the rules of the game. In order to translate his vision into practical reality, he resigned from the Indian Administration Service (IAS) in 1996, and worked with like-minded colleagues for the formation of Lok Satta.

Lok Satta emerged as India's leading civil society initiative and people's movement for wide-ranging governance and political reforms. The movement is driving the electoral and governance reform agenda of the country with several notable successes to its credit. Recently, Lok Satta launched a national platform called VOTEINDIA in partnership with several organizations to spearhead the campaign for political reforms. Dr Narayan is the National Coordinator of LOK SATTA and VOTEINDIA movements.

Sudin has headed Forrester Research's India operations since its inception in 2001, and he is part of Forrester's Asia Pacific research team. His primary research areas include IT and BPO services.

Based in Pune, India, Sudin focuses on market trends and key players in the offshore market. He also focuses on specialized areas such as offshore R&D services, outsourced software product development, and BPO. Sudin researches and manages Forrester's best-practice initiatives for captive setups of large multinational firms. Working closely with Forrester's global IT services research teams and collaborating on various research projects and assignments, Sudin helps Forrester's clients develop offshore strategies and select offshore partners.

Sudin has spoken at various conferences arranged by NASSCOM, CSI, and the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce. He is a regular on CNBC, NDTV Profit, TimesNow and a frequent quote-contributor to publications such as The Economic Times, The Businessline, The Business Standard, and The Times of India. The Wall Street Journal, Business Week too have quoted him for their IT Services features.

Previous Work Experience

Before joining Forrester, Sudin worked at Gartner Group as vice president of business operations, India. Prior to that, he worked in several management positions in leading Indian and global firms. He has more than 15 years of related professional experience.

Sudin is actively involved as an advisor and faculty at some of the leading business schools in Pune/Mumbai. In addition to teaching subjects related to IT services and market research, he is involved in various academia/industry collaboration activities.

Education

Sudin is a graduate in mechanical engineering, postgraduate in management science, and is also a qualified cost accountant.

User Experience on Mobile Devices

Anuraag Agrawal is working as an architect/Engineering Manager at Motorola Software Group, India,. He has over 12 years of experience in the software industry, working on product development and most recent 8 years specializing in wireless data, applications and user experience on mobile devices. Anuraag is currently leading a development team focusing on next generation experience on Motorola products. Anuraag has submitted few patent disclosures that are pursued and are pending in the USPTO and is author of several white papers on wireless data and applications.

Topic: User Experience on Mobile devices

The topic presents how the trends in computing and growing usage of mobile devices introduces challenges to the user. And how the technology trends addresses the issues and renders a good user experience