Title of the Talk Technology Systems in the Enterprises of the Future

Abstract Rapidly evolving technology is an important factor for enterprise strategy in a competitive and sustainable business environment. We need to consider technologies which lead to efficiency, agility and productivity - at the same time, work towards making the technology simple, user friendly and easily accessible. The social web is becoming the most used 'consumer' platform - how do we adapt it to the enterprise workplace. Cloud technologies are attractive not just from a cost and agility perspective, but could also enable enterprise value chains to integrate better. Digital Marketing and consumer analytics are coming together to enable enterprises to listen to the customer, as well as deliver a deliver customized experience to them. Such a wide variety of options will continue in the foreseeable future. A structured approach to innovation, coupled with an open innovation framework, is a useful approach to enable enterprises to create and exploit innovation opportunities.

Short Bio Venkat Padmanabhan is a Principal Researcher and Research Manager at Microsoft Research India in Bangalore, where he founded and now leads the Mobility, Networks, and Systems group. Venkat was previously with Microsoft Research Redmond for 8.5 years. His research interests are broadly in networked systems. He has served as general co-chair for ACM SIGCOMM 2010, as program (co-)chair for ACM NOSSDAV 2004, ACM IMC 2005 and IEEE HotWeb 2008, and as an affiliate faculty member at the University of Washington, where he has taught and served on student thesis committees. Venkat holds a B.Tech. from IIT Delhi and an M.S. and a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, all in Computer Science. He is a Distinguished Scientist of the ACM and a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Short Bio Abhay Savargaonkar is Sr. Vice President in Bharti Airtel. He is CTO for mobile services in and is responsible 3G network roll out in Bharti . Mr. Abhay has 20 -years of experience in the field of Telecom in India, having worked with DoT, Bharti, Lucent Technologies and then again with Bharti. He started his professional carrier as an ITS officer and worked in key areas like, operations, projects and planning for wire line, wireless and IP networks in DoT. He has done Telecom project works for UNESCO for promoting Rural Telecommunications. He then moved on to work with Bharti and was involved in evaluating technologies / vendor products and their business potential for deployment in the areas of DWDM , MPLS, Wireless broadband , Integrated NOC etc. During his association with Lucent Technologies he was spearheading the business development and marketing activities of Lucent India as the Chief Marketing Officer and successfully positioned Lucent technologies strongly in the areas of NGN switching and 3G both in the WCDMA and CDMA domains. Currently he is responsible for 2G & 3G Networks in Bharti Airtel. Mr. Abhay holds a Bachelors degree in Electronics and Telecommunication.

Title of the Talk Role of Mobile Handhelds in Redefining How We Work, Live and Experience the World Around Us: Some Challenges and Opportunities

Abstract Mobile handheld devices have been changing form and functionality over the last decade. It has changed from a limited-function device, with the primary function being making phone calls, to a multi-function device that morphs into a media device for watching movies, or into a remote control for home appliances, or into a wallet for making payments. In my presentation, I will argue that the range and diversity of mobile devices will continue to increase, and in addition, mobile handhelds will become extensions of other devices, such as, TV and PC, thereby enabling users to have an immersive experience while consuming services. As a result, techniques that enable cross-channel/device continuity of services will be essential to provide the right user experience leading to the importance of models, techniques and middleware infrastructures that abstract this complexity from application development and delivery perspectives. Developing intelligent mobile applications, such as, augmented reality, that optimize use of context information, such as, location, time, network connectivity, device capability, user behavior, etc. will also become important. I’ll also argue that smart experience and not processing power will be the key to success for any mobile device/application. This will require new perspective on how to approach designing mobile solutions. Another viewpoint that will be covered in the presentation is that of using mobile devices as the “gateway” between the physical world and the inter-networked world. This is starting to happen with the explosion of sensors embedded in the physical world, advances in ultra low power short range RF technology and the ubiquity of mobile devices bridging the physical world with the Internet. In that context, I’ll discuss how mobile devices, in conjunction with sensors, are now providing context based services to the user, managing their health, providing advisory services, and enabling the “Internet of Things”. Finally, I’ll talk about three categories of applications: (1) consumer, (2) enterprise and (3) industry-specific. Differences between the requirements of each category of mobile applications will be discussed and examples will be given with real working demos. Challenges in scaling and deploying mobile applications in real-world environment will be highlighted. In addition, privacy and security issues with integrating both personal (consumer) and enterprise applications on the same mobile handheld will be discussed as real business challenges. In that context, the value of end-to-end testing of mobile applications will be highlighted and potential approaches to testing will be discussed. Finally, the talk will end with a discussion around the potential of using a network of mobile handhelds as a platform for conducting geographically distributed complex applications and in future, for deploying such applications in a scalable manner.

Short Bio Sanjoy Paul (sanjoy_paul@infosys.com) is Associate Vice President, General Manager-Research and Head of Convergence Lab at Infosys Technologies Limited where he heads research and innovation in the field of Communications, Media and Entertainment. Prior to that, he was a Research Professor at WINLAB, Rutgers University, and Founder of RelevantAd Technologies Inc. Before that Sanjoy spent five years as the Director of Wireless Networking Research at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, and as the CTO of two start-up companies (Edgix and WhenU) based in New York. In a previous tenure at Bell Labs as a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Sanjoy was the chief architect of Lucent's Caching and Content Distribution product line.
    Sanjoy has over twenty years of technology expertise, specifically in the areas of End-to-End Protocol Design and Analysis, Mobile Wireless Networking, Wireless Sensor Networks, Energy Management and Sustainability, Future Internet Architecture and Design, Multicasting, Content Distribution, Media Streaming, Intelligent Caching, and Security. He served as an editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Guest Editor of IEEE Network Special Issue on Multicasting, Steering Committee member of IEEE COMSNETS, General Chair of ICDCN 2011, IMSAA 2010 and COMSWARE 2007, Technical Program Chair of COMSWARE 2006, and as a Technical Program Committee Member of several IEEE and ACM International conferences. Sanjoy has authored two books, the first one on Multicasting and the most recent one (October, 2010) on Digital Video Distribution (published by John Wiley and Sons), published over 100 papers in International Journals and refereed Conference Proceedings, authored over 100 US patents (28 granted, 70+ pending), and is the co-recipient of 1997 William R. Bennett award from IEEE Communications Society for the best original paper in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. Sanjoy holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from IIT Kharagpur, an M.S and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Maryland, College Park, and an MBA from the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of the IET.