Mumbai - September 25 | Chennai - September 28 | Bangalore - October 4
Since its inception in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been providing cost-effective, flexible, secure and scalable technology infrastructure in-the-cloud to hundreds of thousands of companies of all sizes. These customers have been using the AWS Cloud to power their business - from high performance computing, SaaS and enterprise applications to social networking sites.
The AWS Cloud is evolving quickly with new services, features, and tools. To help you stay informed on the latest innovations, join us at an AWS Summit in a city near you. The AWS Summits are a global series of one-day events designed to bring AWS customers and those interested in Cloud Computing together to meet and share ideas. Attend this event and you will learn about the latest technology trends and some of the most interesting AWS Cloud use cases and workloads. You can choose between sessions to help you get started or dive deeper into specific solutions. You will also have an opportunity to meet with AWS experts and get your technical and business questions answered.
10 Reasons to Attend
Hear the opening keynote by Amazon.com CTO, Dr. Werner Vogels, on the future of the AWS Cloud and learn about the 7 major transformations of cloud computing.
Ask questions directly to our customer panel about how they leverage AWS in their own line of business applications.
Learn about The Total Cost of (Non) Ownership in the Cloud and cost savings using AWS.
Discover the latest services and features in the AWS Cloud and learn how to put them to use in your business applications.
Deep dive into common solutions and workloads in the AWS Cloud: Enterprise Applications, Content Delivery, Disaster Recovery, Big Data, and more.
Gain understanding of AWS best practices for developing, architecting, and securing applications in the Cloud.
Hear how AWS customers have successfully built and migrated their applications to the AWS Cloud.
Learn from first-hand experiences about AWS empowering Agile development for both startups and greenfield projects.
Explore best practices for running Microsoft applications on AWS securely and effectively.
Meet AWS partners who offer consulting and technology solutions to help get you started in the Cloud.
Who Should Attend
Business and Technical Decision Makers
Technical Users: Developers and Engineers, System Administrators, and Architects
Startups who follow the Lean Startup mantra and want to get to a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) fast
Enterprises who are keen to learn more about Cloud Computing and how the AWS Cloud can help them build sophisticated, scalable applications to grow their business.
Agenda
8:30am
Registration and Partners & Solutions Expo
9:30am
Welcome Remarks Shane Owenby, Managing Director, Asia Pacific, AWS
9:35am
Opening Keynote: Your Future with the AWS Cloud and The 7 Transformations of Cloud Computing Dr. Werner Vogels, Chief Technology Officer, Amazon.com
and AWS Customers:
The Total Cost of (Non) Ownership in the Cloud Miles Ward, Solutions Architect, AWS
Explore the financial considerations of owning and operating a traditional data center versus utilising cloud infrastructure. The session will consider many cost factors which can be overlooked when comparing models, such as training, support contracts and software licensing. Learn how to further reduce your current costs on AWS and improve your spend predicability.
Planning the Migration to the Cloud Santanu Dutt, Solutions Architect, AWS
Gain insight on how Enterprise customers migrated existing IT infrastructure and mission critical applications to AWS. Learn approached for creating a migration plan, identifying low hanging fruit, applications which may not suit migration, and long term planning for core business systems. Topics covered will also include the extension of the data center into the cloud via Amazon VPC and AWS Direct Connect.
1:25pm
CloudFront & Serving Media from the Edge Kingsley Wood, Business Development Manager, AWS
The explosion of media content makes the Internet richer and more dynamic, but it also poses challenges for IT. What happens if your website becomes instantly popular? What if your mobile application goes viral? AWS has powerful products to help deliver your service quicker, with an optimal user experience, and at minimal cost, and at massive scale. AWS provides the flexibility and agility needed in today's fast-paced web environment. In this session, we will review products, architectures, and best practices for media storage, processing, and the delivery of static and dynamic content around the world.
2:05pm
Security and Privacy in the AWS Cloud Miles Ward, Solutions Architect, AWS Bhavin Gandhi, Technical Consultant, Trend Micro Shraddha Tickoo, Subject Matter Expert, Trend Micro
Attend this joint presentation between AWS & Trend Micro to learn about AWS best security practices along with Trend Micro's Secure Cloud offering. With the rapid provisioning, agility, and mobility of cloud computing, you may not always know where your data is or who can access it. Secure Cloud gives you peace of mind, knowing your sensitive information is encrypted. And with patent-pending policy-based key management, you can validate the identity and integrity of servers requesting encryption keys and specify where and when your encrypted data can be accessed.
2:40pm
Amazon Database Services: DynamoDB: A seamlessly scalable NoSQL datastore & Relational Database Services Deep Dive Sundar Raghavan, General Manager, Amazon RDS, AWS
Do you want to deliver a massively scalable web application that also performs well? Your first crucial decision is to choose the right database architecture. Your architecture should not only scale to operate seamlessly across thousands of servers but also need to deal with various failure modes such as server failures, datacenter failures and network partitions. While there is a lot of discussion on the internet on SQL vs. NoSQL, we see that successful AWS customers choose the right database architecture based on application requirements. In this session, we will show how Gumi, Intuit and Samsung use Amazon RDS to scale their internet apps to millions of users. We will show how Weatherbug and Shazam use Amazon DynamoDB to make millions of users happy. Join this session to learn the specifics on how to design for scale, performance, reliability and ease of programming to build your next web application. AWS enables you to use SQL and NoSQL data stores at the right place for the right reasons, and deliver your high scale applications to market quickly.
3:40pm
Benchmarking and Performance on AWS Robert Barnes, Director of Benchmarking, AWS
In software and services, benchmarks are often used as a way to compare the performance of competing offerings. In this session, the best practices for consuming cloud benchmark results and for designing and executing cloud benchmarks are explored.
12:45pm
AWS Enabling the Startup Ecosystem Pieter Kemps, Business Development Manager, AWS
Find out how we help startups to develop faster as they progress from the ideation stage to their Minimum Viable Product (MVP). We will also discuss how this allows startups to scale on AWS, as well as how the ecosystem and funding has changed because of cloud computing and AWS.
1:20pm
Agile Development on the Cloud Joe Ziegler, Technology Evangelist, AWS Shishir Das, Continuous Delivery Practice Lead - India, ThoughtWorks
A core tenet of the Agile Manifesto is to build working software quickly, gain feedback and respond to change. With AWS, applications can be developed rapidly and deployed instantly. We will discuss in detail and provide working examples to support four standard Agile technical practices: Automated Testing, Continuous Integration, Infrastructure as Code and Continuous Delivery.
1:55pm
Partner Presentation by Intel: The Disruption of Big Data Ravi A. Giri, Solutions Architect - Engineering Computing, Intel Mukesh Gangadhar, Senior Performance Architect, Intel Mrittika Ganguli, Platform Software Architect, Intel
The increasingly connected world we live in is producing data exponentially faster than ever before. With access to new computing tools these seemingly random data stores can be analyzed to find the signal in all the noise and drive value for companies and customers. See how Intel and AWS make this analysis of Big Data possible and easy to do.
2:30pm
Architecting your Killer App on AWS Joe Ziegler, Technology Evangelist, AWS
How do you develop an application from scratch to take advantage of the benefits AWS services offer? Learn how to design to fully utilize the principles of Elasticity, Designing for Failure, Loose Coupling, and Security & Performance. Take a deeper look at some of the unique services available from AWS such as Amazon Cloud Search, Amazon DynamoDB and Auto Scaling.
3:05pm
Developing for your Target Market: Social, Games & Mobile Apps Kingsley Wood, Business Development Manager, AWS
Looking to build a social networking startup on the Cloud? Hoping to create the next wildly popular online game? Learn how AWS enables highly successful application developers to take advantage of the tremendous innovations in cloud computing to handle unprecedented volumes of traffic, enormous user numbers and vast amounts of data, all at a fraction of the cost compared to traditional approaches. Combined with new found agility and amazingly low time to market, these are must-know best practices and techniques in the rapidly evolving and highly competitive online landscape.
3:40pm
Best Practices: Microsoft on AWS Miles Ward, Solutions Architect, AWS
Learn the best practices for deploying Microsoft operating systems and servers on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances. This session will additionally cover MS SQL Server on AWS as well as deploying, administering and maintaining SharePoint in a scalable, highly available configuration.
4:15pm
Break
4:30pm
Closing Keynote: Data without Limits Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO, Amazon.com
The new data centricity drives that we have to rethink how we collect, store, manage, analyze and share our data, as all these processes now require limitless resources. Enterprises and startups alike are investing in large scale data analysis to serve their customers better and create a competitive edge for their companies. From Cloud to Crowds, many new techniques are required to ensure that questions can be answered with high quality in a timely and cost efficient manner. This closing keynote will focus on the unique challenges of big-data, the changes in infrastructure required to support the new world and how innovations in crowd sourcing and cloud computing are removing barriers for companies to be successful.
5:10pm
Closing Remarks & Lucky Draw
5:20pm
Event Concludes
* Please note this agenda is subject to change.
Customer Panel
Event Partners
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AWS Summit | Mumbai
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
8:30am - 5:20pm
Grand Hyatt
Off Western Express Highway
Santacruz (East), Mumbai
India 400055
Intel is a world leader in computing innovation. The company designs and builds the essential technologies that serve as the foundation for the world’s computing devices and datacenters. In addition, Intel works with industry partners to make it easier to build, enhance, and operate cloud infrastructure.
CloudMunch helps organizations develop and run applications faster, more easily, with higher quality and at a lower cost. CloudMunch does this by providing organizations with the CloudMunch platform - a better and easier way to Build,Test, Run and Manage applications. The CloudMunch platform is an application delivery Platform-as-a-Service (adPaaS) that addresses the entire application lifecycle.
CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) provides IT management solutions that help customers manage and secure complex IT environments to support agile business services. Organizations leverage CA Technologies software and SaaS solutions to accelerate innovation, transform infrastructure and secure data and identities, from the data center to the cloud.
Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global cloud security leader, creates a world safe for exchanging digital information with its Internet content security and threat management solutions for businesses and consumers. A pioneer in server security with over 20 years’ experience, we deliver top-ranked client, server and cloud-based security that fits our customers’ and partners’ needs, stops new threats faster, and protects data in physical, virtualized and cloud environments. Powered by the industry-leading Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™ cloud computing security infrastructure, our products and services stop threats where they emerge— from the Internet. They are supported by 1,000+ threat intelligence experts around the globe.
CSS Corp is a global Information and Communications Technology company with strong focus on Cloud, Mobility, Technology Support, RIMS, Application and Network services. Leading multinational corporations have relied and continued deploying CSS Corp services in driving their revenue growth, scaling down costs and enhancing their customersÒ experience for the past 14 years. Headquartered at San Jose, California, CSS Corp engages more than 6000 professionals through its world-wide delivery centers.
Lantana enables organizations to easily monitor, manage and optimize the performance and spend of critical applications deployed on Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform. Lantana is best suited for AWS users for whom performance and spend matters. Lantana was awarded as finalist in the top business solutions award at Australia CeBIT 2012.
SafeNet is a leading global provider of data protection. For over 25 years, Fortune 500 global corporations and government agencies have turned to SafeNet to secure and protect their most valuable data assets and intellectual property. With the migration of sensitive data to mobile, virtual, and cloud environments, it has become increasingly difficult for government and corporate organizations to ensure the complete protection and control of their data. SafeNetÓ³ comprehensive, flexible, integrated, and cost-effective solutions help organizations address the most complex data protection environments and compliance requirements.
SafeNetÓ³ data-centric security solutions have enabled our customers to adapt to the escalating internal and external threats to their high-value data, and rapidly evolve to address new business requirements and compliance mandates. Our products deliver persistent protection of sensitive data throughout the information lifecycle by:
Protecting Identities of users and applications
Securing Transactions of critical, high-performance digital processes
Encrypting Data as it is created accessed, shared, stored, and moved
Enabling Cloud-based Infrastructures through protection and control of data in virtual environments
Dr. Vogels is Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com where he is responsible for driving the company's technology vision, which is to continuously enhance the innovation on behalf of Amazon's customers at a global scale.
Prior to joining Amazon, he worked as a researcher at Cornell University where he was a principal investigator in several research projects that target the scalability and robustness of mission-critical enterprise computing systems. He has held positions of VP of Technology and CTO in companies that handled the transition of academic technology into industry.
Vogels holds a Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and has authored many articles for journals and conferences, most of them on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing. He was named the 2008 CTO of the Year by Information Week for his contributions to making Cloud Computing a reality. For his unique style in engaging customers, media and the general public, Dr. Vogels received the 2009 Media Momentum Personality of Year Award.
Simone Brunozzi
Technology Evangelist
AWS
Simone Brunozzi is a truly passionate technologist. After being an entrepreneur, a professor, a CTO, and after writing two technical books and two novels, he joined Amazon.com in March 2008 in the role of Amazon Web Services Technology Evangelist for Europe (EMEA), to raise awareness about Cloud Computing and help developers build applications. In January 2010 he relocated to Singapore, becoming the first AWS Technology Evangelist for the APAC region. In 2010 he received the Ó²010 Cloud Evangelist of the YearÔ award. In July 2012, Simone relocated to San Francisco, where he maintains the same role, Technology Evangelist, focusing on events, companies and startups in California, mainly in San Francisco and the Bay Area.
Robert Barnes
Director of Benchmarking
AWS
Robert Barnes is responsible for benchmarking across Amazon Web Services. Robert began his career at Lockheed Missiles and Space where he worked on a variety of database and enterprise applications. He moved to Digital Equipment Corporation for ten years working on database and Transaction Processing applications and software before moving to the NorthWest to work for Microsoft in 1994. At Microsoft, Barnes helped develop transaction processing features and enterprise capabilties for Windows. In 2010, Barnes joined Amazon Web Services to define and establish a benchmarking focus with an emphasis on measuring AWS with a customer's perspective.
Kingsley Wood
Business Development Manager
AWS
Kingsley Wood lives in Singapore managing Business Development across APAC for Amazon Web Services. He joined AWS at their Head Quarters in Seattle over four years ago, where he managed Business Development for AWS Structured Data Services, including SimpleDB and RDS (Relational Database Service). Based for the past 12 years in the USA, he managed strategic relationships for a variety of software companies. He has evolved a strong understanding of the IT world, web software architecture, virtualization, cloud computing and related technologies.
Jeff Putt
Business Development Manager
AWS
Jeff is responsible for Amazon Web Services Storage business across the Asia-Pacific region. He is a 24 year veteran of the IT Industry with extensive Telco, Software and Services experience on both sides of the fence.
Joe Ziegler
Technology Evangelist
AWS
Joe started his life in Texas but began his career in Silicon Valley. Previously, Joe worked at Netscape developing some of the first e-commerce applications during the early days of the Internet. His next venture took him to NetGravity and his second classic Internet IPO. After that, he enjoyed building several startups from the ground up in the role of the technical executive responsible for building the company IP and managing the engineering groups. His most recent thriving venture is Iris Data Services, which landed on the Ô†orbes 500 Fastest Growing Companies in the USÔ list. Joe started using cloud services in 2006 to create the infrastructure for Iris Data Services as the Director of Technical Services. Additionally, he worked with several enterprises developed on the cloud, including building his own company, IndexMedia, on Amazon Web Services. Now he has enthusiastically become an evangelist for Amazon, speaking about the services and features available to customers.
Ravi A. Giri
Solutions Architect - Engineering Computing
Intel
Ravi A. Giri is a Solutions Architect in Intel IT's Engineering Computing division. He has 12+ years of experience in the industry and is responsible for the architecture and design of cloud computing solutions for Intel's product design teams and is a senior technologist based in Intel India, with numerous whitepapers and publications. He led Intel's Global Datacenter Monitoring and Automation effort as part of Intel's IT Datacenter Strategy where he has conceptualized & developed several global computing metrics platforms, one of which won the InfoWorld 'Green 15' award in 2010 for enabling energy efficiency gains. He is currently the technical lead for the build out of Intel’s next generation cloud computing environment for Intel's globally distributed Silicon design computing.
Mukesh Gangadhar works in Intel’s Software and Services Group, where his role as a senior performance architect, is focused in improving software applications in the areas of performance and optimization on Intel based platforms. His other interests include algorithm optimization for performance and power, cloud computing and big data.
Mrittika Ganguli is employed as a Platform Software Architect in IntelÓ³ Datacenter and Connected Systems Group. She has 16 years of experience in Software Systems design, development and Architecture. Her expertise at Intel lies in building the server system management architecture for cloud and server hardware deployed for cloud in datacenters. She has 4 approved patents and published material in external journals.
Mrittika Ganguli is employed as a Platform Software Architect in IntelÓ³ Datacenter and Connected Systems Group. She has 16 years of experience in Software Systems design, development and Architecture. Her expertise at Intel lies in building the server system management architecture for cloud and server hardware deployed for cloud in datacenters. She has 4 approved patents and published material in external journals.
Pieter Kemps
Business Development Manager
AWS
Pieter Kemps is responsible for establishing and managing relations with the venture capital (VC) community for Amazon Web Services in Asia Pacific. He engages frequently with the leading Incubators and VC's across the region to help them create value in their portfolio companies by leveraging the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud platform. In doing so, he supports startups that use AWS to better develop, market, and monetize their offerings, and connects them with VCÓ³ where appropriate.
Shane Owenby
Managing Director, Asia Pacific
AWS
Shane Owenby is Managing Director of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Asia Pacific. Shane leads the team that helps businesses of all sizes across Asia Pacific learn about AWS and implement the cloud computing platform, allowing them to save money, accelerate their time to market, and focus on their core business. Shane has over 14 years of experience in sales, channel development, software engineering, international technical operations and general management in the United States and Asia Pacific. Prior to joining Amazon Web Services, Shane held senior management positions in Sydney and Singapore over the last six years.
Miles Ward
Solutions Architect
AWS
Miles Ward is a three-time technology startup entrepreneur with a decade of experience building global-scale analysis infrastructures. Miles has been with Amazon Web Services since 2010 and is responsible for designing and developing AWS Solution Architectures relating to big data and social analytics, multi-tiered storage, live video streaming, and HA and DR approaches for RDBMS and NoSQL systems. Miles supports emerging partners in our growing ISV and SI ecosystem, has developed patent-pending innovations at AWS, and published the SQL Server on EC2 and MongoDB on EC2 white papers.
Swami Sivasubramanian
General Manager, Amazon DynamoDB
AWS
Swami Sivasubramanian works as a General Manager and Architect for NoSQL Database services in Amazon Web Services where he builds large scale cloud computing platforms and also manages different groups within AWS Database services. He manages the Amazon DynamoDB, Elasticache, SQS, SNS and SimpleDB services. Swami has built several large scale systems in the past. Some of the well known ones (that is externally visible) include Amazon Dynamo, Amazon CloudFront and Amazon RDS. He has also built other large scale systems that is used for building Amazon service infrastructure.
Sundar Raghavan
General Manager, Amazon RDS
AWS
Sundar Raghavan is the GM for Amazon Relational Database Service which provides MySQL, Oracle and SQL Server databases as a fully managed service. He and his team are responsible for delivering optimal customer experience by focusing on rapid innovation and operational excellence. Prior to this role, he was the chief product and marketing officer at Skytap. He is an industry veteran with a successful 18 year career in product management and software engineering roles at Google, Ariba, Arbor Software (Oracle), and MicroStrategy. Sundar holds a BS degree in Electrical Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Science and a MS degree in Computer Systems Engineering from Northeastern University, Boston.
Santanu Dutt
Solutions Architect
AWS
Santanu Dutt is a Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services (AWS) where he is responsible in educating companies with the service offerings of the AWS platform, as well as helping them in their architecture with the best practices to build highly scalable and resilient applications on the AWS Cloud.
Shishir Das
Continuous Delivery Practice Lead - India
ThoughtWorks
Shishir Das works at ThoughtWorks as a Continuous Delivery Practice Lead for the India region, having previously been a Technical Lead for several Agile software delivery projects. Shishir has significant experience leading distributed teams which involved solutioning, coaching and mentoring. He is currently working on developing SaaS solutions on AWS for ThoughtWorks Studios.
Bhavin Gandhi
Technical Consultant
Trend Micro
Bhavin Gandhi is a technical consultant with Trend Micro in Mumbai. He works with the Sales teams to provide consultancy for different Trend Micro solutions.
Bhavin has 12 years of experience in Network & Security domain. Before joining Trend Micro, he has worked with Wipro & Ramco Systems with exposure in implementation and support of various network security projects.
Bhavin has completed Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering.
Shraddha Tickoo
Subject Matter Expert
Trend Micro
Shraddha Tickoo is a Subject Matter Expert for Virtualization and Cloud Security products offered by Trend Micro. She works closely with the Sales, Marketing, and Technical Specialist Teams to provide Consultancy and best practices for implementing Virtualization and Cloud Security. She also works with Enterprise customers and helps them in deploying Cloud security solutions in the best possible manner.
Prior to her current assignment, Shraddha has worked for Reliance Communications and been a part of various security implementation projects.
Shraddha holds Bachelor's in Computer Science degree and carries with her extensive knowledge of IT Security challenges and solutions.
Varoun P
Lead Systems Architect
Talk.to
Varoun architects, deploys and runs large scale internet facing infrastructure. He has had root on sites with greater than 50k hosts, and has administered infrastructure thats served more than four billion pageviews a month. Varoun is currently the lead systems architect for Talk.to where he is working on building reliable and scalable infrastructure to support a fast growing real-time communications product.
Balaji Sethuraman
Head - Cloud Computing Center of Excellence
Cognizant
In his current role, Balaji is involved in definition of Cognizant Cloud offerings, definition of cloud-enabled solutions and incubation of partner based transformation offerings such as AWS. In prior avatars, he has been involved in development of software products and led many first of its kind technology-consulting assignments.
Ravi Garikipati
CTO and President - Innovation Labs
[24]7
Ravi joined [24]7 in 2009 and has been spearheading the development of industry leading innovative cloud based Px technologies to automate all customer interactions across channels, devices, self-service and assisted service. The PX platform - the world’s largest self-service platform - leverages big data, mobile, web and speech technologies to analyze, predict and complete over 2.5B annual customer interactions.
Ravi has over 20 years of technology and management experience in building platforms and solutions that deliver high quality web scale software and services in databases, predictive analytics, business intelligence, ecommerce and enterprise application areas.
Before joining [24]7, Ravi was Senior Vice President & Managing Director @ Vendio, a large third party e-commerce service provider for small businesses, and grew the business to have more than 2 million online sellers. Prior to that, Ravi held various senior engineering leadership positions at IBM and Oracle where he led technology initiatives in building scalable enterprise software architectures and services.
Ravi holds a double Masters in software engineering and management from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India.
Satya Kaliki
Co-Founder and VP of Engineering and Architecture
Indix
Satya is passionate about Data Science, Cloud Computing, Semantic Web, High Performance Computing and Social Media. He is a Co-founder and VP of Engineering & Architecture at Indix, a stealth mode startup, where they are building the world's largest price database using some of the coolest technologies like Hadoop, MapReduce, MongoDB, Java, Ruby, Scala, Groovy, Node.js and Objective-C.
Satya has a Masters Degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Royal Melbourne University of Technology (RMIT), Melbourne, Australia.
Kalpesh Balar
Vice President - Technology
Inkfruit.com
Kalpesh is the Vice President - Technology at Inkfruit.com, India's largest online co-creation brand of lifestyle apparels & accessories. As vice president, Kalpesh is responsible for all of the operational and technology initiatives.
Having over 10 years of experience, Kalpesh has worked with various internet related technologies. He is very passionate about technology and its possibilities. He has completed his undergraduate studies from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He loves nature and is also an avid trekker.
Shiva Bayyapunedi
Co-Founder and CTO
Apalya Technologies
Shiva is Co-Founder and CTO for Apalya Technologies, which was started in year 2005. Before starting Apalya, he has worked in US and Europe in various real-time & mobile OS products. As the CTO he leads all innovation and product development initiatives in Apalya.
Milind Borate
Co-Founder and CTO
Druva Software
Dabbling in technology for more than 17 years. Milind is a strong believer in bringing technology to solutions and am passionate about building engineering teams that deliver end-to-end solutions. Favorite pass-time is philosophizing on software development.
Pawan Gupta
CTO
Eros Digital Group
Pawan is SVP & CTO at Eros Digital, largest Bollywood Entertainment company. Eros Digital is a high energy startup division of Eros International, building products that plan to chance the way south asian content is consumed.
Earlier, Pawan was heading Video Engineering at Yahoo R&D, Bangalore, with specific focus on video Ô¤iscoveryÔ® Prior to joining Yahoo!, Pawan has been Senior Vice President & CTO at Tecoma Technologies and Lead Architect, Media & Entertainment at Hewlett-Packard. Pawan has over 20 years of industry and international experience working with Media/eCommerce companies and clients like Hewlett-Packard, BBC, TWI, British Telecom and Ascent Media.
Pawan has published several research articles in conference publications and has recent patents filings on Video Fingerprinting and Mobile Encoders.
Arun Goyal
Sr. Vice President and Head IT Infra
MPS
Over a decade of extensive technical and business setup experience with profit accountability in organizations like TCS, Birlasoft and Visual soft. IITD Alumnus with 25 years of experience in successfully leading different IT Infrastructure and software projects.
Virender Aggarwal
Chief Executive Officer
Ramco Systems
With a strong track record in building business and a keen interest in the latest technologies, Virender has been focusing on evaluating new market opportunities, attracting strategic partnerships, realigning the company's portfolio of offerings and driving profitable growth. He has a reputation for spotting disruptive technology trends well in advance and leveraging transformational services (Cloud, Mobility, Analytics etc) to create value for customers, while growing business operations multi-fold. This quality, coupled with Virender's rich international experience, has been steering Ramco towards becoming a strong Cloud ERP player.
Roy de Souza
Co-Founder and CEO
Zedo
Roy de Souza. a thought leader in advertising technology, founded ZEDO in Silicon Valley in the early Internet growth period of 1999. it is now the 3rd largest global Internet advertising technology firm and a pioneer in Internet advertising technologies and platforms. Roy believes that Internet advertising, as it offers better formats and simpler ways to buy, will inevitably outstrip TV advertising. Widely regarded as an expert on online advertising, Roy is a well-known figure in the online advertising industry on the West Coast (USA) and a frequent speaker at ad:tech and other industry conferences in the US, India and around the world.
Mohit Saxena
Vice President - Technology and Founder
InMobi
Mohit is the Technology Founder and is responsible for InMobi's technology development, including infrastructure, application management and IT.
Prior to joining InMobi, Mohit was based out of San Francisco and managed the technology operations at Virgin Mobile, world's largest mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). At Virgin Mobile, he was instrumental in designing and deploying post-paid billing system and revenue recognition system on a pre-paid platform. This helped significantly to make Virgin Mobile the largest and the most successful MVNO in the US. Mohit has also worked at AT&T and is a part of several patents filed in the telecommunication area.
Mohit completed his undergraduate studies from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (IIT). He has an eye towards innovation and simplicity and is passionate about technology and its possibilities. Mohit was always fascinated by tales of people with small ideas turning them into global powerhouses and always dreamed of being the part of such an endeavor himself. So when opportunity knocked at his door to be the Technology Founder of InMobi, he jumped at it. It is Mohit's belief that strong discipline and desire to be at the top of the world will one day make InMobi one of the biggest and the smartest companies.
