Speakers

	Naresh Gupta Senior Vice President, Print and Classic Publishing Solutions Business Unit, Managing Director, India Research and Development Adobe Systems Incorporated Topic: Rich Internet applications Back in the late nineties, "browsing the web" meant going online to read text and view static images. But that model was limiting. Today, people increasingly use the web for collaboration.As more people and businesses connect to the web, we witness a network effect resulting in data and services explosion opening up new possibilities. Cutting edge technologies that provide richer, responsive user experiences have emerged and become a critical success factor. In 2002, Macromedia (now Adobe Systems) coined the term Rich Internet Application (RIA) ushering in a new era of engaging digital experiences over the web. RIAs combine the flexibility, responsiveness, and ease of use of desktop applications with the broad reach of the web. There is also a greater demand to seamlessly integrate the user experience across the traditional desktop, personal devices and the internet. In this talk, we discuss the state of the art in RIA, introduce Adobe Flex as an enabling technology and also explore how the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) is transforming the web
	Kiruba Shankar blognation India
	Murugavel Janakiraman Founder & CEO BharatMatrimony.com
	Alok Mittal Managing Director Canaan Partners Topic:Early stage financing in context of technology based businesses
	Vivek Bharagava Founder & Managing Director - Communicate2
	Ganesh Mandalam Chief Portel Officer Consim India
	Dominic Powers SVP & MD, Asia Pacific - Epsilon International Topic: Business of Email: Maximizing your marketing ROI. 1. The Changing Marketing Landscape 2. The Fundamentals of Good Email Marketing 3. Email Marketing Terms and Performance Metrics 4. The Email Pro-Forma: Your First Step to an ROI 5. Email Marketing Case Study: ZUJI – The Power of Relevance 6. Key Takeaways
	Sangeeta Patni Co-Founder and President – Extensio Software, Inc. Topic: Infrastructure needed by CIOs to build a mash-ups with enterprise.
	Amit Somani Product Management Head, Search, Consumer and Infrastructure Google India Topic: Demystifying Web 2.0 and the road forward Email, IM, chat, blogs, social graphs, video and photo sharing, wisdom of the crowds – these are all the new realities of the web. Web 2.0 is an enabler for new services, business models and makes the web more social. It transforms your website users from individuals into communities and networks that grow usage and loyalty. It changes software products into web based services that are open, extensible, collaborative and interactive. With the plethora of Web 2.0 services in the market, users are torn on where they spend their time and which social graphs they invest in. The next year will add to user confusion and at the same time attempt to start making sense of it all.
	Hitesh Oberoi Director & Chief Operating Officer Info Edge (India) Ltd. Topic:"Scaling up a Web Business / Company in India".
	Michael Karasick, PhD Director of Lotus Software Development China Development Laboratory Topic: Web 2.0: Lets Think About Business Web 2.0 is a "Grab Bag" of good stuff, from open content authoring technologies, application aggregation models, social networking, and open community-based innovation. There is something in here for every technologist and business leader to leverage. At IBM we have embraced this, both in our internal and external facing systems, and in hybrids. The focus of this talk is an investigation of how businesses can reshape how they do what they do in order to make themselves more nimble, and more efficient.
	Natraj Akella Advanced Collaboration Business Manager - India/South Asia Lotus SWG, IBM India Topic: Web 2.0 & Innovation in the enterprise It’s fast becoming a Web 2.0 business world. Business trends come and go, but innovation never goes out of style. And in today’s fast-evolving business world, if you can’t get a jump on —or at least keep up. with—the competition, then you’re in trouble. Ideas and collaboration are the fuel for innovation. The focus of this talk is to discuss the application Web 2.0 philosophies and approaches to drive innovation within an enterprise
	Tarun Gulati GM, Developer and Platform Evangelism Microsoft India Pvt. Ltd Topic:Evolving with the Web for Survival and Success The rate of evolution of technology and business models on the web is only growing. Like in nature, companies that survive and thrive in this environment would be those which adapt themselves to the changing web landscape. In this session we discuss some foreseeable long-term trends that would help you anticipate these changes and use them to your advantage
	Pandurang Nayak UX Evangelist Microsoft Topic: Building the Mashable Web Social networking and mashup technologies as applicable not just on the public internet, but also behind the firewall, on your corporate network. In this session we discuss some do’s and don’ts on using Web 2.0 technologies in Enterprise scenarios
	Supreet Singh UX Evangelist Microsoft Topic:Light up the Web with better UX Join us in this fun session that will discuss User Experience and its various facets when related to web development. Learn why User Experience can be the most important factor in the success of web portals. Understand the investments Microsoft is making to bring developers and designers together in building rich, seamless experiences that work cross-browser and cross-platform. Experience some fabulous Silverlight applications being built around the world and in India. Learn how to build these experiences yourself with Expression and Visual Studio.
	Rajnish R Head, Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions
	Udayanathan P.V. VP - SALES Netmagic Solutions Private Limited Topic:Collaborative Content Delivery of Mission Critical Applications Applications drive today’s enterprise. The advent of Web 2.0 is marked by a growing number of mission critical applications. Increasingly the revenues are getting linked to the uptime of these applications and any downtime is business threatening. This brings in focus, the performance of the entire IT infrastructure and throws in a whole set of new challenges. The solution is simple - Collaborative Content Delivery of Mission Critical applications to ensure high quality application experience to end users. Because …it’s no more a technical decision but a business decision.
	Jayabalan S CTO and Co-founder Netmagic Solutions Private Limited Topic: Building NextGen Infrastructure for Web Applications What is supposed to go wrong will go wrong. However, building an Infrastructure that will reduce the risks is very important. An application is not just about development and functionality it is a lot more than that. A lot many factors decide the availability, usability and performance of the applications. As one understands the various technical factors it becomes clear why IT infrastructure architecture and Management are also important considerations while developing and hosting a Web based application. End user experience will drive all the future development effort and that needs to be given maximum focus.
	Pradeep Chopra Founders of OMLogic Consulting Topic:Is Online Marketing a Different World? As conventional marketing fades away, the new tools become irresistible. Over the last decade, the online media has provided marketers everywhere with a framework that allows them to capture attention with seemingly little effort and cash. However, the new marketing or online marketing isn’t magical as most of the people think. What’s magical is what happens when an organization aligns itself to adapt to this new medium. For any business, whether a new or an established one, online marketing only works when it is aligned with organization’s business objectives and is in sync with its fundamental marketing strategy. This session will educate the audience on the importance of looking at online marketing in a holistic way. The audience will get an understanding of the framework (via case study and practical examples) using which a business can realize the best potential of online marketing.
	Faridur Rahman Choudhury Assistant Project Manager - RMSI Private Limited Topic:Web 2.0 trends in Enterprise Geospatial Applications - a user-centric GIS The Web2.0 environment is the world of webservices. This opens up many new opportunities to use GIS which includes collaboration, integrating user-contributed content, mashups and shared distributed data management. The technologies enabling GIS are alsoevolving rapidly becoming more services oriented. The buzzwords today are integrated mobile technology, Web services standards,real time sensor networks and location based services. The Web is also providing the ability to easily integrate multiple services, creating new opportunities for collaboration. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has undertaken a multi phase OGC Web Services (OWS) initiativeto specify and standardize geospatial Web services and architecture that support the development of Web location based services(LBS) and geoprocessing applications. This open source group has already set standards for Open GIS Geography Markup Language(GML) for vectorgeographic data and numerous Web services: Web MapService (WMS), WebFeature Service (WFS), and WebCoverage Service (WCS). This presentation will cover various aspects on how the enterprise users can leverage on the Public GISAPIs,open-source spatial engines, ‘wikification’ of GIS to get high ROI and a rich user experience.
	Satya Prabhakar CEO Sulekha.com New Media Pvt. Ltd. Topic:The Value of User Generated Content User generated content vs Engineered Content Pros and cons of user generated content The future of user generated content Blogging and social networking worlds have become the new major media networks. Are these fads or the future of our collective lives? The power of online media platform Local commerce market scenario in India
	Divyesh Shah Country Director - Systems Engineering, Sun India. Topic:Architecture (R)evolution
	Ashok Lalla Director of Internet Marketing, Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces
	Aditya Mishra Director - Corporate Development TCS
	Rohit Agarwal Chief Executive Officer TechTribe
	Sriram Narayan Advisor to the CTO - ThoughtWorks Topic: The Magic of Microformats Abstract: The ability to understand content in various contexts is key to realizing basic Web2.0 memes of openness, collaboration and sharing. Microformats are a community driven effort towards a Semantic Web. In this session, we will see a demo of the power of microformats and see how they can be extended to achieve semantic interactions between different websites.
	Manik Arora MD - IDG Ventures TiE Charter Member
	Rahul Matthan Trilegal Topic:Web 2.0 - Whats Law Got to Do With It
	Ranjit Nambiar President, Worldwide Urja Communications Pvt Ltd.
	Kiran Datar Chief Execuitve Officer WebEx Communications Topic: On-Demand Business Collaboration
	Ramkumar Narayan VP - Product Management - Yahoo
	Dr. Jawahar Malhotra CTO Yahoo! India Research & Development
	Shiva K Swamy Executive Vice President ZSL,Inc Topic:Enterprise 2.0 – The Innovative and Integrated Enterprise for Generation Y Like it or not, businesses should be ready to embrace the next generation technologies and the work force as well in order to stay competitive. The business world has become increasingly knowledge driven and distributed. We are all moving at a blazing pace, doing multiple things at once, working with peers and colleagues in different divisions, businesses and countries. The ‘World is Flat’ phenomena would be applicable for every country and business at this point. So the enterprises’ technology environment should be agile enough to serve not only the internal work force but the next generation customers who are coming with different expectations. The session will cover the characteristics of Enterprise 2.0 – The Innovative and Integrated Enterprise for Generation Y and how Web 2.0/3.0, SOA and Business Process Management(BPM) would help to make our transition. Let us collaborate on Knowledge Management Collaborative Innovation Self Service