Jan 9th - Live product demos

[9.45 am - 11:00 am] Demos of Consumer products and services

Jan 9th - Entrepreneur RoundTable

[11:15 am - 12:15 noon]

• Jay Pullur, CEO, Pramati : talking on 'The shift from Enterprise to Consumer markets : Opportunities, Challenges and Experiences'
• Giri Krishna, CEO and VP Engineering, Silvan Innovation Labs : talking on 'The Cross over from a corporate career to an entrepreneurial one'
• Sujai Karampuri, CEO, Sloka Telecom : talking on 'Fund raising : where are VCs failing in India ?'
• KA Srinivasan, Co-founder, Amagi : talking on 'Exits : When do you know it is the right time ?'

Jan 9th - Innovation in Consumer Services

[12:15 pm - 1:15 pm] Consumer Internet and Mobile - Lessons from the Past and Opportunities for the future.

• Harish Gandhi, Executive Director, Canaan Partners
• Rajesh Sawhney, CEO, Reliance Entertainment
• Amit Dayal, VP, Emerging Markets, Yahoo
• Kiran Anandampillai, Director Engineering, OnMobile
• Kiran Konduri, CEO, Four Interactive / AskLaila

Jan 9th - Afternoon Keynote

[2:30 pm - 3:00 pm] Green computing and clean technology, by Dr Chandrakant Patel, Fellow, HP Labs

Jan 9th - Innovation in action : Trends and Opportunities in industry verticals for startups and SMEs

[3.15 pm - 4.30 pm]

• Online services : Viraj Malik, CEO, Percept Knorigin
• Mobility : Dr Vishy Poosala, Head, Bell Labs India
• Healthcare : Naveen Kulkarni, Business Development Director, Philips
• Social enterprise : NK Ramakrishna, VP Technology, IFMR Trust
• Moderator : Balaji Pasumarthy, Business Gyan

Jan 9th - Investor panel : Interactions with startups and entrepreneurs

[5.00 pm - 6.00 pm]

• Moderator : K Ganapathy Subramanian, formerly with JumpStartup Fund and co-founder, MyDuniya
• Mohanjit Jolly, Executive Director, DFJ
• Varsha Tagare, Director, Intel Capital
• TC Meenakshisundaram, Managing Director and Partner, IDG Ventures
• Karthee Madasamy, Qualcomm Ventures
• Gagan Kumar, Partner, Accel Partners

Jan 9th - Tutorial : Symposium on Cloud Computing, with presentations by

• Dr Prasad Bharaat Ram, Head, Google R&D India
• Dr Jawahar Malhotra, CTO & VP, Yahoo India
• Venki Nishtala, CTO, Rediff.com
• Suresh Srinivasan, Member of Consulting staff, Oracle
• Dr Naresh Sehgal, Lead Software Architect, Enterprise Systems Group, Intel
• Dr Shailab Nagar, Service Delivery Process management, IBM Research
• Dr Badrinath Ramamurthy, Technologist, HP
• Shrikant Rao, CEO, Affordable Solutions
• Harshavardhan Jegadeeshan, SAP Labs
• Sumit Kumar Bose, Infosys Research
• Dr Srikumar Venugopal, University of Melbourne
• Sundara Nagarajan, HP

[10 am - 5 pm] [Auditorium B]

This tutorial covers many aspects of Cloud computing that include architectural challenges of migrating to a cloud, review of products that use the Cloud, technical issues faced in realizing software delivered from Clouds, the impact of Cloud computing on enterprises and how software is deployed in enterprises and a review of the technology platforms available to implement applications delivered from the Cloud. This tutorial also covers business aspects such as emerging business models, the opportunity for startups and others, and the total cost versus return from Clouds.

Jan 9th - Tutorial : Server virtualization, with presentations by Mohan Parthasarathy, HP

[10 am - 1 pm] [Auditorium C]

Server virtualization is the buzz word in technology today. This tutorial will give a brief overview of the partitioning and virtualization technologies, and then cover in-depth the criteria for a hardware to be virtualizable from the perspective of CPU, Memory and I/O, and how early software techniques accomplished this. The tutorial will then look at the hardware evolution in the CPU and Memory virtualization from Intel and AMD and cover advances in I/O virtualization from chip vendors and the PCI SIG. Finally, it will close with a brief look at future trends in this space.

Jan 9th - Posters presentation [3 - 6 pm]

[1 pm - 5 pm] [Auditorum C]

Jan 10th - Opening Keynote

[9:00 am - 9:30 am] Startup opportunities : Going global or local? by Ashish Gupta, Partner, Helion Ventures

Jan 10th - Live product demos

[9.45 am - 11:00 am] Demos of Enterprise products and services

Jan 10th - Software-as-a-Service delivered from Clouds

[11.15 am - 12.15 noon]

• Ramesh Loganathan, Managing Director, Progress Software India
• Kiran Datar, Managing Director, Cisco-Webex
• PN Anantharaman, Director, Adobe
• Kishen Manjunath, Principal Scientist, Honeywell
• Dr Sunil Sherlekar, Director, Computational Research Laboratory, TCS

Jan 10th - Startup Challenges

[12.15 pm - 1.15 pm]

• Product Innovation & Management : Girish Joshi, Microsoft
• Sales management : Suveer Kalra, Global sales head, Paladion Networks

Jan 10th - Afternoon Keynote

[2:30 pm - 3:00 pm] Industry and Entrepreurial partnership with Academia, interactions with Prof RK Shyamasundar, IBM Research and Dr Vijay Chandru, CEO, Strand Life Sciences

Jan 10th - Innovation in action : Trends and Opportunities in industry verticals for startups and SMEs

[3.15 pm - 4.30 pm]

• Aerospace and Automation : Harsha Ramesh Angeri, Head Strategy & New initiatives, Honeywell
• Retail and Logistics : Krishna Kumar , Associate Vice President, Retail Operations, Technopak
• Semiconductors : Sham Banerji, Head of Corporate Development, Texas Instruments
• Automotive and Transportation systems : S Ramesh, India Science Lab, General Motors

Jan 10th - Investor panel : Investment trends, opportunities and challenges for 2009

[5.00 pm - 6.00 pm]

• Moderator : Ganesh Rengaswamy, Angel investor, formerly with Greylock Ventures and co-founder TravelGuru
• RJ Sridhar, Associate Director, Jafco Asia
• Gautam Balijepalli, Partner, Ojas Ventures
• Parag Dhol, Director, Inventus Capital Partners
• MJ Aravind, Partner, Artiman Ventures
• Srini Vudayagiri, Partner, LightSpeed Ventures

Jan 10th - Research Paper Presentations [10 am - 1 pm, 3 - 4 pm]

Jan 10th - Doctoral symposium [4 - 6 pm]

[10 am - 5 pm][Auditorum B]

Jan 10th - Tutorial : Mobility, with presentations by

• KS Balagopal, Technology expert, Nokia
• Dr Vishwanath Ganapathy, Fellow, Honeywell Technologies
• Puneet Gupta, Principal Researcher, Infosys

[10 am - 1 pm] [Auditorium C]

This tutorial will explore application areas and technologies powering mobile devices that we use on our person such as mobile phones and PDAs, at home, at work and otherwise. The application areas include everything from mobile payment systems, transport and logistics, mobile handhelds, home networks and industrial and building automation. The tutorial will start with a talk on next generation mobile client platforms followed by a survey of application areas and use cases which will then be followed by a talk on technology infrastructure required to power mobility. The tutorial will then close after taking a look at enterprise mobility - application areas, and convergence gateways.

Jan 10th - Tutorial : Search and Social platforms, with presentations by

• Rajdeep Dua, Google
• Vijaya Machavolu, Google
• Dr Jai Ganesh, Infosys Research
• Yahoo

[3 pm - 6 pm] [Auditorium C]

This tutorial does a survey of the state-of-art in search and social network platforms and explores how social networks and search platforms in the future may have to do with a lot with each other. For example, in a search engine in the not too distant future, you may be able to put in a query that requires results to be ranked by references from people. Similarly, searching for people by not just interest areas but by how influential they are in a particular area of interest should become possible. All these use cases suggest that social graphs (exposed by social networks) and link graphs (exposed by search engines) may be put to use together to yield better search results and social features.