CCEM 2013 Speakers and Exhibitors

Perraju Bendapudi
Former Partner Architect
Microsoft India Development Centre

Perraju Bendapudi has been with Microsoft India Development Centre for the past 12 years. He is currently the Partner Architect of the Analytics Team. Perraju started his career at Microsoft as a Senior Developer in Microsoft Operations Manager reporting. Subsequently, he became the Developer Lead to Service for Unix. He has also been the Development Manager for the Windows group at MSIDC. As the Principle Architect, he worked on the verification platform and binary based static driver verifier. As a partner Development director Perraju for the last four years worked on server and high scale services of Live mesh and azure caching and integration services.

Perraju has more than 30 patents and publications. He is a lead mentor in Microsoft Azure accelerator mentoring ~20 companies for azure.

His area of expertise is High Scale Services and runtimes, Cloud Computing, Big Data and Machine Learning and Compilers.

Before Joining Microsoft Perraju worked as staff engineer for Verilog compiled simulation in Synopsys. Perraju graduated from IIT Kanpur in 1993.

    Read Q&A with Dr. Fausto Bernardini

Dr. Fausto Bernardini
Vice President and Distinguished Engineer
Global Cloud Managed Services, IBM

Fausto leads the portfolio of SmartCloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Managed Application Services products, designed to host and manage production-grade enterprise applications in a dynamic, scalable, resilient, standardized environment. His responsibilities include setting the product strategy and managing its roadmap, interlocking with the execution of development and delivery activities, and overseeing the global deployment of the offering. Prior to this role Fausto led global sales enablement and support for Cloud Managed Services, working closely with clients to support them in their own transformation to leverage cloud computing. Fausto is a frequent speaker on cloud computing at client events and conferences.

Earlier in his career, Fausto led worldwide research projects to develop new technologies and methods to improve the efficiency and value of application development and infrastructure management services. Examples include Cloud Computing, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) design methodology, enterprise architecture modeling, project risk and quality management, software lifecycle process automation, business-driven infrastructure monitoring and optimization. Fausto holds a PhD in Computer Science from Purdue University, IN, USA and a Laurea degree in Electrical Engineering from Universita' La Sapienza of Rome, Italy. Fausto is an IBM Distinguished Engineer, a Master Inventor and a member of the IBM Academy of Technology.

Renu Budhiraja
Sr. Director & HoD State Data Centers, e-Governance Division, DeitY

Mrs. Renu Budhiraja, Sr. Director & HoD State Data Centers, e-Governance Division, DeitY, has done her Engineering in Electronics and Communications from Delhi College of Engineering.

She started her career with Hindustan Computers Limited in their R&D division and contributed to the design and development of Networking Protocols & Data concentrator. Subsequently, shifted to Department of Electronics & Information Technology and worked in ERNET. With wide exposure on Networking Protocols, Services, Operations and development, she was responsible for introduction of Internet in Schools in India and first to setup and successfully run the OSI based messaging, directory and file transfer services across ERNET. Subsequently, shifted to E-Governance division in 1999 and since then has been actively involved in various e-Governance initiatives. Currently, she is looking at State Data Centers, National Cloud initiative, Citizen Contact Centers, Rapid replication of egovernance applications, National Appstore etc.

Dr. Rajkumar Buyya
Director, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Lab,
Department of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melborne

Dr. Rajkumar Buyya is Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Future Fellow of the Australian Research Council, and Director of the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is also serving as the founding CEO of Manjrasoft, a spin-off company of the University, commercializing its innovations in Cloud Computing. He has authored over 425 publications and four text books including "Mastering Cloud Computing" published by McGraw Hill and Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann, 2013 for Indian and international markets respectively. He also edited several books including "Cloud Computing: Principles and Paradigms" (Wiley Press, USA, Feb 2011). He is one of the highly cited authors in computer science and software engineering worldwide (h-index=76, g-index=146, 26000+ citations). Microsoft Academic Search Index ranked Dr. Buyya as the world's top author in distributed and parallel computing between 2007 and 2012. He is an "ISI Highly Cited Researcher".

Software technologies for Grid and Cloud computing developed under Dr. Buyya's leadership have gained rapid acceptance and are in use at several academic institutions and commercial enterprises in 40 countries around the world. Dr. Buyya has led the establishment and development of key community activities, including serving as foundation Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing and five IEEE/ACM conferences. These contributions and international research leadership of Dr. Buyya are recognized through the award of "2009 IEEE Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing" from the IEEE Computer Society, USA. Manjrasoft's Aneka Cloud technology developed under his leadership has received "2010 Asia Pacific Frost & Sullivan New Product Innovation Award" and "2011 Telstra Innovation Challenge, People's Choice Award". He is currently serving as the foundation Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. For further information on Dr. Buyya, please visit his cyberhome: www.buyya.com

Dr. Anand Deshpande
Founder, Chairman & MD
Persistent Systems Ltd.

Anand Deshpande is the Founder, Chairman and Managing Director of Persistent Systems (BSE & NSE: PERSISTENT), a Company that he founded in 1990. Anand has a B. Tech (1984) in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, a Masters (1986) and a Ph.D. (1989) in Computer Science from Indiana University, Bloomington (USA). Anand worked as MTS at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California from 1989 to 1990.

At Persistent, he is responsible for overall leadership and management of the company and drives the sales and technology efforts. As an active member of the database community Anand was responsible for hosting VLDB 1996 in Mumbai and ICDE 2003 in Bangalore. He has actively participated in program committees of international conferences like member of Industrial Program Committee: VLDB 2003 in Berlin, VLDB 2004 in Toronto, IEEE 2005, ICDE 2005 in Tokyo, VLDB 2007 in Vienna; Program Committee Chair for Annual Convention CSI 2009 in Pune; General Chair for COMAD 2008 in Mumbai; Industrial Program Committee Chair for DASFAA 2008 in New Delhi; Organizing Committee Chair for ISEC 2009 in Pune; launched the ACM India Council, 2009.

Anand is also a member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Institution of Engineers (India), Computer Society of India. He is currently a member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) India Council as a Past President, member of the Executive Committee of NASSCOM, serves on the Board of Trustees of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council of the School of Informatics of Indiana University, is on the Executive Committee of MCCIA and is Chairman of the IT Committee of MCCIA. In the past, Anand was the President of SEAP from 2005-07 and Chairman of the Pune Chapter of CSI from 2003-05 and was the Chairman of CII, Pune Zonal council in 2009-10.

In recognition of his contribution to the Information Technology sector he was awarded the Entrepreneur Award at the Brihan Maharashtra Mandal Convention held in Atlanta, USA, 2005. He is the recipient of the CSI Fellowship Award in 2007 for outstanding achievement in the field of Information Technology. He was awarded the career achievement award of the School of Informatics at Indiana University, Bloomington in 2009 and serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council of the School of Informatics of Indiana University. He was awarded the IIT Kharagpur Distinguished Alumni Award in 2012.

Steve Diamond, GM Industry Standards Office, EMC: Steve Diamond is a IEEE Senior Member and IEEE Computer Society past president. He is the general manager of the Industry Standards Office at EMC Corp., in San Francisco. Steve Diamond draws his expertise from 30 years of senior management, marketing, business development, and engineering in semiconductors, software, systems, and standards. Prior to his job at EMC, he was director of product management for intercloud computing at Cisco Systems,in San Jose, Calif., and vice president of marketing at Equator Technologies, a VLIW signal processor semiconductor company later sold to Pixelworks, also in San Jose. Before that, he did mergers and acquisitions at National Semiconductor and ran Sparc architecture marketing at Sun Microsystems, both in Santa Clara, Calif.

He currently is leading the IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative (CCI), which is an IEEE wide focus being applied to help accelerate the development of cloud computing. He was convinced that IEEE was uniquely positioned to play a major role in accelerating and shaping that future. So he brought together a team of experienced colleagues, and, with the support of the IEEE Future Directions Committee and seed funding from the IEEE New Initiatives Committee, developed the IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative. "Much as we saw with the development of the Internet, cloud computing will impact the entire information and communications ecosystem, from embedded controllers, smartphones, tablets, laptops, and personal computers, to enterprise data centers and supercomputers," he says. "The smartphone is the fastest growing consumer technology in history, having reached 50 percent penetration of U.S. households in just 7 years. It took the home computer nearly 20 years to do the same thing," he continues. "Cloud computing will give smartphone users infinite computing resources at their mobile beck and call. The implications of this transition are huge."

Dr. Horacio González-Vélez
Associated Professor and Head,
Cloud Competency Centre, National College of Ireland

As associate professor and head of Cloud Competency Centre at the National College of Ireland (NCI) in Dublin, Horacio González-Vélez directs the NCI's cloud infrastructure, postgraduate programmes, and research with a clear emphasis on innovation, education inclusion, and industrial partnerships.

With a PhD in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh, he spent over a decade working in engineering and product marketing for innovation-driven companies such as Silicon Graphics and Sun Microsystems. He is an accredited expert on cloud computing for the BCS, the UK Chartered Institute for IT, and the executive editor of Inderscience's International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing.

S. Gopalakrishnan
Executive Vice-Chairman of Infosys

S. Gopalakrishnan (Kris), along with N.R. Narayana Murthy and five others, founded Infosys in 1981. Kris served as Director (Technical) and his initial responsibilities included the management of design, development, implementation, and support of information systems for clients in the consumer products industry in the U.S.

Between 1987 and 1994, Kris served as the Vice President for Technical Operations of KSA/Infosys, a joint venture between Infosys and KSA located in Atlanta, U.S. In 1994, he returned to India and was appointed Deputy Managing Director of Infosys.

Before becoming the CEO and Managing Director in July 2007, Kris served as the company's Chief Operating Officer, President and Joint Managing Director, responsible for customer services, technology, investments, and acquisitions. He took over as the Executive Co-Chairman on August 21, 2011.

Recognized as a global business and technology thought leader, Kris was recently voted the top CEO (IT Services category) in Institutional Investor’s inaugural ranking of Asia’s Top Executives and selected as one of the winners of the 2nd Asian Corporate Director Recognition Awards by Corporate Governance Asia in 2011. He was also selected to Thinkers 50, an elite list of global business thinkers compiled by Des Dearlove and Stuart Crainer, in association with the IE Business School, Madrid and the London Business School's Management Innovation Lab in 2009.

In January 2011, the Government of India awarded Kris the Padma Bhushan, the country’s third highest civilian honor. He has also represented Infosys and the country in international forums such as: The Indo-US CEO Council; President’s Council of New York Academy of Sciences; and Member of UNESCO High-Level panel on Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equity. Kris was also the Chairman of The Business Action for Sustainable Development 2012 (BASD), a coalition of international business groups committed to sustainable development.

In April 2012, Kris was appointed as a member of the reconstituted United Nations Global Compact Board for three years. The Global Compact Board is the UN’s highest level advisory body, involving business, civil society, labor and employers organizations. He is also a member of the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) International Advisory Board and Fudan University School of Management International Advisory Board. Both CEIBS and Fudan University School of Management are prestigious business schools in China and the Asia region.

Kris is the President of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) National Council and on the Board of Governors at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore. He is also the Chairman of Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management (IIITM), Kerala and International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Bangalore. He is a member of ACM, IEEE and IEEE Computer Society.

Kris holds master's degrees in Physics and Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Manish Israni
Vice President - IT Infrastructure
Vodafone India

Manish has 23+ years of experience in Banking / Telecom /IT Service providers in Global and Indian Market. He started his career with IT Integrators and worked with Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), CSC, HCL, Infosys, JP Morgan and IBM in area of IT Infrastructure – Design, implementation and operations and Data Center Design build.

His areas of expertise include IT Management, Outsourcing, Large and complex Migration/Transformations and so on.

Manish Israni is working as Vice President - IT Infrastructure Vodafone India, where he is leading their cloud initiative, among his other responsibilities.

Pamela Kumar
Incubating "Cloud Computing Innovation Council of Innovation"

EMPLOYMENT
2007 to 2013 : IBM : India Systems and Technology Lab.
Director, Storage & Networking Lab
Director, Semiconductor & Technology Lab
Leader, Technical Vitality
1999 to 2007 : Texas Instruments , India
Director, Strategic Programs
Director, Cellular Systems SW R&D
General Manager, Broadband Communications
Program Manager, Cable Broadband Communications

1998 to 1999 : Design Manager, Networking Products, Alliance Semiconductor, India.

1996 to 1998: Executive Director, Network Programs India (NPI),

1989 to 1996 : C-DOT (Centre for Development of Telematics
Visiting Consultant (on leave from C-DOT), Network Programs, Piscataway NJ, USA.
Program Manager, Parallel Processing Group, C-DOT, Bangalore
Additional charge: Program Manager, CAD Group (for 6 months), C-DOT, Bangalore
Research Engineer, Switching Division, C-DOT, Bangalore,.
1985 to 1988: Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Information Systems, Holmdel, NJ, USA.

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Engineering (1983): Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, INDIA - Electronics & Electrical Communication
Master of Science (1985) : Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. USA Electrical Engg. (Computer Architecture, Computer Science & Communications )
EGMP- IIM Bangalore 2006

MISCELLANEOUS :
3 US patents in the area of Networking Accelerators
20+ publications and presentations in various Industry forums
Member – IEEE- Standards Association Board of Governors,
Chair – IEEE Computer Society – Bangalore Section,
Member - IEEE Bangalore Section Executive Committee
Member – India Semiconductor Association
CHAIR –Cloud Computing Innovation Council , RFID Consortium
Founding Member – Medical Electronics Consortium , FICCI
STG Rep – IBM Technical Leadership Team (50 execs, CHQ level)
Member – IBM Distinguished Engineer Review Board for 4 years
Member – IBM External Honors review board
Merit Scholarship – Punjab Engg College
Best Project Award – Punjab Engg College
3rd Rank – EGMP, IIM Bangalore

Gautam Mago
Principal,
Sequoia Capital India

Gautam is a Principal with Sequoia Capital India where he focuses on investments in healthcare and technology. Prior to joining Sequoia, Gautam worked with McKinsey & Company as well as Arthur Andersen. Gautam holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and a Masters in Commerce from the University of Mumbai. He is also a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

    Read Q&A with Chivukula Sree Rama Prabhu

Chivukula Sree Rama Prabhu
Deputy Director General
National Informatics Centre (NIC),
Hyderabad (Ministry of Communications and Information Technology)

Chivukula Sree Rama Prabhu is the Deputy Director General (Scientist “G”), National Informatics Centre (NIC), Hyderabad (Ministry of Communications and Information Technology). As Deputy Director General (since 2004) in charge of new technology induction at the national level, he is steering the NIC Cloud Initiative of implementing Eucalyptus based IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) Cloud overlapping PaaS (Platform as a Service) and SaaS (Software as a Service) layers and has research publications in International Journals in this regard.

He is engaged in the implementation of SOA (Service Oriented Approach) based e-Governance grid of India including virtualization and cloud computing, covering all State and District Centres of NIC.

C.S.R. Prabhu obtained his Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering with specialization in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1978 after a Bachelors Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad in 1976. He has worked in various capacities at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), CMC, TES and TELCO (now Tata Motors) before joining NIC, and is well published and received numerous awards.

Prof. S. Sadagopan
IIIT, Bangalore

Professor Sadagopan, Director of IIIT-Bangalore, is a product of Madras University, India and Purdue University, USA. He taught for 25+ years at IIT Kanpur, IIM Bangalore, IIT Madras and IIIT-Bangalore in addition to short teaching assignments at RUTGERS, USA and AIT, Bangkok.

He has authored seven books, several book chapters and papers.

He is a Fellow of IEE (UK) and Computer Society of India. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, ACM and AIS.

He consults widely and lectures extensively on all aspects of IT.

He serves on the boards of Bharat Electronics, Neyveli Lignite Corporation and Indian Renewable Energy Agency as well as several Universities / Institutes - IBAB, ISIM, IIIT Bhubaneshwar and IIIT-Delhi.

He serves as a Member of Karnataka Knowledge Commission, Chief Minister's Vision Group on IT, NASSCOM Regional Council, Indian Semiconductor Association (ISA) Executive Council and ACM India Council. He is the Chair of IEEE Computer Society, Bangalore Chapter.

Sethumadhavan Srinivasan
Director, Strategic & Corporate Marketing,
Huawei India

Sethu is leading the Strategic & Corporate Marketing function in Huawei India, and has over 23 years' experience in managing strategic telecom and ICT projects covering R&D, Networks Engineering, Services, Sales & Marketing.

Prior to joining Huawei in early 2008, he served Alcatel-Lucent for 12 years where he headed Sales and Marketing activities for Radio & Wire-line business divisions for South Asia, besides serving European 3G carriers and Enterprises during his stint at Alcatel HQ in Paris. He has been extensively involved in development of Codecs for Radio & Optical systems in his previous stint at Philips/PKI Germany.

In his present role, he focuses on strategic marketing and consulting activities. He is also a solution architect, anchoring promotion of new wireless technologies and collaborative new business models for telecom markets besides leading consulting activities for monetization of mobile data using cloud computing.

Dr. Anurag Srivastava
Chief Technology Officer & Senior Vice President
Wipro Global IT Business

Dr. Anurag Srivastava is the Chief Technology Officer & Senior Vice President for Wipro’s Global IT Business. His responsibilities include technology strategy planning, technology incubation through Center’s of Excellence, business Innovation using futuristic technologies, technical stream & IP management, technology alliances in advanced areas with industry and academic forums.

Prior to this role, he was head of the Wipro Energy and Sustainability Services business. This business includes sustainability advisory, connected infrastructure & energy managed services to deliver comprehensive GHG reduction and energy cost optimization for our customers.

He was also responsible for starting the Consulting business for Wipro Infotech and supported its scale to the current level. He additionally led key strategic business transformational initiatives for Telecom, Telecom Equipment, Infrastructure, and Government industry verticals to build newer services/business models.

Dr. Anurag brings with him rich industry and business experience and depth of technology to Wipro. His areas of work experience are process & technology integration, data modeling & analytics, pattern recognition, distributed computing, Internet security and machine to machine collaboration. He has strong expertise in architectural frameworks, product life cycle management, incubation management and large transnational project management.

Prior to Wipro he has worked in IBM, Novell, HP-Verifone, Indian Institute of Science & Ness Technologies (Apar) in various technology & business leadership positions. He completed his PhD in Computer Science in the area of artificial intelligence and pattern recognition. He has several publications in international conferences and journals (IEEE SMC, Pattern Recognition and CC-AI). He holds a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering and Master’s in Computer Science & Engineering.

Dr. Anurag has been an invited speaker for various conferences by NASSCOM, Analysts fraternity, FICCI, CII, ASSOCHAM, Telematics, etc. and has several journal publications and articles.