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| Sunil
Dutt Jha |
| Chief Architect
and C E O - iCMG |
Sunil is practicing architect &
CEO of iCMG. He is an architecture
strategist who is influencing enterprise decisions for realizing
systems worth $10 mn to $50
mn. As an architecture coach/mentor, have taught
enterprise & softwarearchitecture classes to over 5,000
professionals (cumulative) throughout South America to South
Asia.
He had chance to interact & work on some real complext
IT systems including
Air Traffic Control System, Water Leakage Management System
(City/country), Shipping & Surveillence systems etc.
He is instrumental in adoption of Component Architecture,
Assembly and Reuse among Fortune 500 companies based on
enterprise frameworks (such as Zachman etc .)
and OMG standards such as UML 2.0, CCM
& MDA. His system designs kills include understanding
of RM- ODP for distributed, multi-language based
component systems. He is expert in Integrated Product Development
(IPD) process based on SEI-CMM practices.
At iCMG, his technical leadership and guidance
has resulted in the development of K2
Component Server which is the world's first industrial
strength Application Server based on CORBA3.0 Component
Model (CCM is superset of EJB) which supports component/container
model for C++ and supports interworking with leading middleware
including .NET & J2EE.
In addition, he has also conducted architecture
assessment for large scale enterprise systems (e.g. Multi-channel
Trading Platform, e-Banking Architecture) and tools development
(Workflow, Business Process Automation, Assembly).
He is a technology strategist helping organization to adopt
architecture-centric, component based IT asset as the key
to cost savings and productivity enhancement.
An international speaker and has done architecture
work across the
globe from South America to South East
Asia including Panama, UK, Singapore, France, Switzerland,
Italy, Japan, Srilanka, Thailand.
He is an Aerospace Engineer from IIT Kharagpur.
Note:
Here is the schedule for the public
workshop in Australia, Germany, UK & India.
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| Royden
Akerley |
Head of Architecture
and Consulting, Professional Services,DHL - IT Services Europe
Chief Architect - Asia/Pacific,DHL Exel Supply Chain |
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1. Head of Architecture - DHL Europe and Emerging Markets
2.
Head of Business Consulting - DHL Europe and Emerging Markets
3. Member DHL IT Global Design Authority.
4. Chief Architect for Logistics Domains.
5. Principal reviewer of system architecture artifacts
for European & EMA region.
6. Principal Consultant for DPWN IT Commercialization
and Business Readiness
Began working in 1974 as Data Centre Operator and Systems
Programmer. This evolved to programming solutions across
multiple platforms by the early 1980's. He began designing
applications by 1986 as a Systems Architect working worldwide
on bleeding edge systems. In 1988 he became an early adopter
of the CMM and ISO quality engineering approach to systems
development. Since 1989 his work concentrated on the design
or re-engineering of large complex applications. He has
been TCD on numerous projects over US$10 million and there
over US$100 million the architecture and integration for
financial institutions, telecommunications firms and governments.
In 2005 He joined DHL ITSC-Prague as a Principal Architect.
All of his projects as TCD were successfully delivered.
He is a:
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IT expertise and
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A track record of surpassing expectations.
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High-performance strategist, who:
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challenges,
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efficiency and
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competitive advantage.
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Respected professional, repeatedly
recruited to:
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start-up IT infrastructures that bolster profitable
growth,
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Quality Development/Delivery Activities
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poorly performing programs, and
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solutions to maximize ROI.
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Exceptional communicator, who:
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solid business and technical acumen.
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building consensus and
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synergy among diverse groups.
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He has:
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He is an ardent adherent to the ISO and
CMM standards for process standardization and improvement.
He his fully conversant with the quality management precepts
that make for success in today's complex enterprise systems
projects. It is this dedication to precision and quality
that he attribute to never having been a part of any failed
projects. He is no stranger to working hands-on with the
technical staff on critical assignments, but prefer to encourage
the staff to achieve the best they can, and provide the
technical leadership to meet objectives and milestones.
He believes firmly in iterative development as a way to
build on proof of concept engineering, validating design
and elaborating by expanding on core functionality.
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| Rajesh
Ramachandran |
| Director,
Oracle Fusion Middleware Server Technologies |
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Rajesh
Ramachandran, Director; Fusion Middleware R&D is part
of Server Technologies division of Oracle Corporation. He
is responsible for innovating and building key
products of Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise products
family. He carries 16+ years of rich software research and
development experience in the areas of enterprise computing,
middleware, development tools, networking, industrial automation
and real time systems. Prior to Oracle, Rajesh has worked
in Siemens AG, Future Software and Lakshmi-Barmag AG.
Rajesh holds a Bachleor of engineering degree in Electronics,
Master of Computer science degree from Illinois Institute
of Technology, Chicago and a management degree from ICFAI.
Rajesh is a regular speaker in technology conferences globally.

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| Manoj
Shrivastava |
| Vice
President - Group IT, Reliance ADA Group |
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Manoj
Shrivastava is Vice President - Group IT & Technology
at Reliance ADA Group. He heads the Architecture Review
Board which works for the strategic a nd
tactical adaptability of IT Architecture to the business
goals and vision of the ADA Group - the fastest growing
conglomerate of businesses in Telecom, Financial Services,
Utilities, Infrastructure, Entertainment and Healthcare.
Prior to his current role, Manoj was the Chief of IT &
Solutions Engagement at Bharti Airtel's Enterprise, Broadband
and Telephone Services businesses where he conceptualized,
designed and implemented several business impacting systems
including Customer Self Care Portal, Enterprise portal,
Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management platform.
In a career spanning more than 18 years, Manoj has handled
responsibilities in the areas of IT Strategy, Outsourcing
Engagement, IT and ISP Services, business process automation
and program management. Manoj has also been in academics
and research and has worked extensively in the areas of
Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks. He is a recipient
of the Young Scientist Award, 1991.
Manoj has a Masters in Computer Science and Engineering
from Indian Institute of Science and PG Diploma in Management
from Welingkar Institute of Management and Research.

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| Jothi
Padmanabhan
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Sr. Engineer,
Grid Computing, Yahoo |
Jothi Padmanabhan is one of the senior
engineers working in the Grid Computing team at Yahoo!.
One of his focus areas is Hadoop ( http://hadoop.apache.org/),
the
open source software for reliable, scalable distributed
computing. He has more than 11 years of professional experience,
the majority of it in Parallel and Distributed Computing.
He has a B.Tech from IIT Madras and a M.S from Mississippi
State University.

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| Prashant
K Lalchandani |
| Manager/ Solution
Architect, Capgemini |
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Prashant
Lalchandani is currently working as a Solution Architect
in Capgemini and is responsible for the architecture of
all internet applications in a key account. 
Prashant has13 years of experience in architecting, designing,
and implementing software solutions using OOAD, J2EE, SOA,
Java/CORBA based distributed computing architecture, and
CRM implementations using Siebel and Clarify. Besides Capgemini,
Prashant has worked for organizations like AT&T Wireless
in Seattle; Philip Morris in Richmond, VA; Tata Consultancy
Services in Chennai, India; Deutsche Bank in Bangalore,
India and Singapore; Reliance Infocom in Mumbai, India.

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| Aarti
Anawalikar |
| Manager/ Solution
Architect, Capgemini |
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Aarti
Anawalikar is currently working as a Solution Architect
at Capgemini and is responsible for the architecting front
end and middle ware servicing components within the credit
card domain.

Aarti has extensive experience in managing a global product
line development, governance and deployment processes for
credit card servicing products. Aarti has overall 12 years
of industry experience with over 9 years in architecting,
designing, and implementing solutions using OOAD, SOA on
the Java/J2EE/ platform.
Aarti has been with Capgemini from the past 6 years based
out of Pune. Prior to this she worked with Indicus Software
Solutions again based out of Pune and also has non-IT Consulting
Experience (Electrical Design Engineering) with Jacobs Engineering
based out of Mumbai.

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| Dinesh
Pai |
| Vice-President
- Reliance Industries Limited |
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Dinesh
Pai is Asst. Vice-President, in the Integrated Business
Services (IBS) Group within Reliance Industries Limited.
He is a Senior Solutions Architect specializing in Decision
Support Systems for the Petroleum Business.
He is backed by 29 years of rich experience, of which the
last 12 years were in Consulting & IT. He has multiple
project life-cycle experiences of large projects backed
with certifications in IBM's worldwide project management
methodology & SAP-ASAP methodology. Further, he has
specialized cross-functional strengths with a unique combination
across horizontals of e-marketplace, CRM, SCM & ERP,
built on a firm background of experience & consulting
in sales & marketing management.
He has implemented enterprise wide systems in the area
of Supply Chain Management; Network Optimization, Strategic
Network Planning, Supply Distribution Planning, Collaborative
Sales Planning & Monitoring, Transport scheduling &
Inventory Management, Customer Relationship Management,
Customer value Management, Retail Distribution Management
and other specialized decision support areas like developing
a Pricing Decision Support System using a Complex Event
Processing engine, Audit management System, Competitive
Intelligence and some areas of Corporate Performance Management.
His earlier experience includes; a global internet exchange
for commodities.
He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering & Certifications
in ERP, CRM & Project Management.

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| Sachin
Kulkarni |
| VP-CapGemini |
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Sachin
is Vice President at CapGemini USA, with 15 years experience
in IT consulting and outsourcing across Banking, Insurance,
and Telecom domains.
He has Global experience working out of UK, France, India,
Singapore, Australia and USA.
Sachin has managed large outsourcing engagements in various
roles such as Client Partner, Senior Delivery Manager, New
Business Development Manager, and regional SEPG, SQA head.
Sachin's
BFSI experience revolves around retail and commercial Banking,
regulatory compliance, fixed income investment banking,
consumer finance and insurance. Within Telecom, he has extensively
worked within network planning, traffic trending, inventory
forecasting and decision support systems.
Throughout
his career, Sachin has worked with fortune 100 clients such
as British Telecom, E&Y Australia, HP Singapore, AIG,
HFC Bank UK, Safeways, HSBC Bank USA, Household International,
21st Century Insurance, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Govt. of
New Mexico, State Govt. of Victoria Australia etc.

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Hiren Shah |
| Director-Technology
- CRISIL Limited |
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Hiren
has close to 16+ years of experience. His experience is
a blend of Business and Technology. He started his career
in Merchant Banking, Back-office of Broking support moved
onto the role of doing Business Development & Research
in a Stock
Exchange and in CRISIL.
During this period he played the role of a Business Analyst,
Project Manager for the systems being developed. 10 years
ago he took over as Head of product development in CRISIL
and and move on to the role of a CTO in 2003.
He has been credited with implementation of real-time systems
to a full-fledged ERP. In recent years he has spent a lot
of time in setting up IT Governance in CRISIL and also heading
it's Architecture Review Board .
Key role : Providing leadership in delivering
IT solutions to the various business of CRISIL Group.

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Srihari B |
| Chief Architect-Re
Use, ICMG |
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Srihari
Boregowda - Chief Architect-Re Use, ICMG, has experience
spanning over sixteen years in the industry. Srihari is
associated with
iCMG since 2003 & has been
involved in Component reuse & architecture initiatives
& he has produced several white papers.
He has had various positions as a consultant
with Hewlett Packard and Motorola, managing for critical
and key IT programs. He has toured extensively, participated
in many Exhibitions and seminars of National and International
repute. As an entrepreneur he has continually motivated,
entored people into challenging roles. Srihari holds a Bachelor's
Degree in Electronics Engineering from B.M.S. College of
Engineering, and a Master's degree in Electronics Engineering,
University Vishveshwaraiah College of Engineering, from
Bangalore University. His hobbies are Photography and Instrumental
Music.

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Shirish |
| CTO,
KPIT Cummins |
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Shirish
Patwardhan leads CREST (Center for Research in Engineering
Sciences andTechnology) activities for manufacturing, BI,
DFS, and GBS. And is the CTO Business IT.
His
first job was with Tata Consultancy Services. He later co-founded
KPIT in the year 1991. He worked with Oracle and Sun in
the Silicon Valley. He then worked with SAP America to develop
and port SAP R3 kernel on Sun/Solaris platform. He came
back to India and was the product manager for KPIT's own
SCADA product, continued to lead KPIT's strategic projects
like Lombard, Natwest Greece, and Capital One etc.
Shirish is an executive director and a
member of board at KPIT Cummins. He is a B.Tech Electrical
Engineering, from IIT Mumbai, continued to receive M.Tech
from the same in Control Engineering. His personal interests
include technology, architecture, music, origami and trekking.

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| Sanjay
Marathe |
| Sr.VP,
CTO and Head Delivery, Zensar Technologies Limited, Pune |
Sanjay has career spanning 29 years in Information Technology.
Currently he holds multiple portfolios in Zensar Technologies
Limited, Pune including Head of Delivery for Global Transformation
Services, Chief
Technology Officer (CTO). He also heads Enterprise Architecture
practice.
He joined Zensar Technologies Ltd. (erstwhile
ICIL and ICIM) in April 1985 and over last 23 years has
handled multiple responsibilities starting with R&D
engineer, 'Product Operations' management, on-site consulting
assignment, account management for a utility major in Europe,
Software services delivery management to current responsibility
as CTO. Sanjay also manages software services delivery of
one of the largest SBU overseeing dedicated offshore centres
for Zensar's global customers.
Sanjay started his career as Scientific
Officer in Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai,
one of the India's premier research institutes, where he
was part of team that worked on a project of national importance
for Indian Air Forces.
Sanjay has widely lectured in a number
of management schools and technical forums.
Sanjay is a university rank holder and
IIT and IIM alumni with "Bachelor of Engineering"
degree in Electronics & Telecommunication from Pune
University (1977) and "Masters of Technology"
degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (1979).
Sanjay has successfully completed management development
program (MDP) at IIM Ahmedabad (1998).

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| Michel
Susai |
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Founder, Chairman and CEO, NeoAccel |
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Michel
is an innovator of pioneering technologies that optimize
the performance of Internetapplications. He has a passionfor
science and innovation and transformshisideas into
industry changing business applications.
Michel has a proven track record of leading
technology start-ups to success. In 1997, he founded NetScaler,
Inc whose unique technology significantly improved web-content
delivery for large-scale corporations. Today, over 75% of
global web-traffic is processed through a NetScaler appliance
including content from Google, MSN, Amazon.com, and MLB.com.
NetScaler was acquired by Citrix Systems in 2005 in a $300
million transaction.
With over 15 years of technology-based
business development, engineering, and leadership, Michel
is an acknowledged expert in the field of TCP/IP networking.
He has held positions at Sun Microsystems and Unisys. He
has a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the
Pune Institute of Computer Technology and Research (PICT).

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| Meghadri
Ghosh |
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Director of Engineering, GemStone Systems |
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With
over a decade of work in designing & developing core
software systems in domains as diverse as custom embedded
systems, shrink wrap desktop software, and diverse heterogeneous
network infra structure
environments. Mr.Meghadri Ghosh is experienced in setting
up development teams and facilities from scratch, and mentoring
the teams whose primary development was in web services
using Java, as well as some recent fresh development activities
using Java 1.5
.Formerly Mr.Meghadri Ghosh served as an Independent Consultant
for Various Clients nationally wherein his role was to identify
feasible solutions to strategic development and product
release processes as identified by senior technical management
of client's .He also Designed and Developed new features
of existing enterprise software using Java along with financial
system with high performance and soft real time characteristics.
Mr.Ghosh was also a Senior Engineer and Architect at Ask
me Software Pvt.Ltd, Pune where he headed a team of 18 developers
and also successfully established a new development centre
for the Company.
Mr.Meghadri was also a Principal System Software Developer
at the Distributed Computing Group, Stanford University,
and Stanford, CA where he designed and implemented a solution
to administer unmanaged systems whose primary purpose was
to help mitigate the risks and impact of fast moving internet
based attacks. He was also a Member of the team that designed
v3 of the Kerberos based web authentication protocol in
use at Stanford.
Mr.Ghosh has gained a Bachelors Degree in Arts along with
Computer Science and is a Wein Scholar from the Brandeis
University Waltham, MA..

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| Manoj
Deshmukh |
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General Manager, Technology Center of Excellence, Fiserv Global
Services |
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Manoj
brings over 17 years of IT experience in building enterprise
solutions for the financial industry. For more than a decade,
Manoj has worked in creatinginnovativesolutions for the
financial industry in Business
ProcessManagement, Customer Relationship and Sales management.
These innovations have led his organization to create new
product lines and allow multi-channel integration for customers
in the Banking industry. He has led many integration initiatives
which involved internet banking, branch automation, core
system integration, check processing automation and computer
telephony integration to name a few.
He currently oversees the Technology Center
of Excellence for Fiserv India, engaged in various practices
such as Enterprise Architecture & Technology, Usability
and Process engineering.

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| Randhir
Sinha |
| Head
of Strategy, Insurance BU, L&T Infotech |
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Randhir
Sinha has been with L&T Infotech for about 3 yrs now
and currently Head the Strategy group at Insurance SBU.
His previous experiences include roles of Account Manager
at Orange (UK) and Head of Enterprise Asset Maintenance
Management Practice at Tata Infotech Ltd (Bombay, India).
He has also served the Indian Navy as a
Commissioned Officer where he initially worked on management
of crucial warship technologies across power generation
and weapons. Thereafter moved into IT and the last role
was that of managing the MIS department at Naval Dockyard
(Bombay, India).
His expertise include managing a Practice
line, Account Management, Outsourcing, Organisational development,
Strategic thinking and Building High Performance teams.
He is always been passionate about working
on unchartered areas and thinking original, and strongly
value integrity and credibility.

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| Ram
Ramdas |
| CEO
and Co-Founder, Herald Logic |
Dr.
Ram Ramdas - CEO and Co-Founder, Herald Logic. Ram's experience
of 20 years ranges from academics, management consulting,
technology consulting, product management, venture
capital to business development. At Herald Logic, Ram
drives the strategic product roadmap, apart from being
involved in Key Customer engagements as well as strategic
alliances. He is passionate about India as a hotbed for
the next wave of disruptive SW product innovation emerging
out of India. Prior to joining Herald Logic, Ram was Head
of Vanenburg ( now Cordys ) labs. He was responsible for
new product initiatives of Vanenburg / Cordys in the collaborative
commerce space. He was also responsible for strategic
investment, analyst interactions and business development.
Ram's previous experience has also been with large commercial
and academic organizations like Tata Consultancy Services
and Indian Institute of Science. Ram holds a PhD in Fuzzy
Logic.

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| Omkar
S. Panse |
| Sr.
Solutions Architect, KPIT Cummins |
Omkar
has a career span of over 11 years. He has rich experience
in Industrial Automation and Automotive Electronics domains.
At KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd, he is a key member of
CREST (Center for Research in Engineering Sciences
and Technology).
Omkar is spearheading
AUTOSAR Application migration initiative as a part of
Automotive CREST activities. He is also a key driving
force behind Automotive Infotainment and Graphics initiatives
running within CREST.
Omkar is a
practicing architect with the main focus on Product Line
Architecture and Model Based Development. He has pioneered
OOAD and UML based system design both for desktop application
as well as embedded systems. He has conducted number of
training programs and workshop within KPIT and for customers
in the areas of OOAD, UML, and design patterns, especially
as applicable to embedded systems.
Omkar has Bachelors
Degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Pune.
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