Dr. Siavash M. Alamouti, Intel Fellow, CTO Mobile Wireless Group, Intel Corporation, USA

Title of the talk: Mobile WiMAX: Leading the Mobile Internet Revolution in India

Dr. Rajeev Rastogi, VP and Head of Yahoo! Labs Bangalore

Title of the talk: Building Knowledge Bases from the Web

Research Area of Interest is aimed at communications technologies, protocols and infrastructure elements that enable the transformation from telephony to rich communications applications for the enterprise. Protocols such as SIP and XML along with relatively new communications primitives such as multi-modality, presence and distributed infrastructure frameworks represent the 'toolkit' for these applications. Much of my research consists of experiments with this toolkit that straddle the applications and infrastructure layers, driven by ideas rooted both in individual or group creativity as well as a continuous feedback loop with customers and other industry players. A key principle that guides my research is that such experiments should be designed or shaped at the very outset to illuminate a well-defined customer or marketplace value proposition. This way, insights or technologies from these experiments are more likely to drive compelling product or offer innovations.

Short-Bio: Dr. Supratim Deb has been working as a Researcher with Bell Labs India since 2005. Previously, he was a Post-Doctoral researcher at MIT, Cambridge, USA. He obtained his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA in the area of Telecommunication. His research current research interests are in the area of whitespace communication, OFDMA based networks, and sensor networks. Dr. Deb has more than 30 research papers in leading conferences and journals, and holds several patents in the area of networking. http://www.bell-labs.com/user/supratim

Short-Bio: Ottavio Carparelli manages the Service Delivery Infrastructure & Applications Solution Domain inside HP?s Communication and Media Solutions business. SDI&A is focused on helping Service Providers to provide to their customers a rich and personalized communication experience, in a cost effective way; in doing that, we allow Service Providers to achieve quantifiable and quantified ROI in terms of Revenue Generation, Savings from operations, Technology Update and Customer retention. Ottavio directly manages the Product and Solutions part of the SDI&A solution domain (i.e, the R&D, Solution and Product Management teams), but he has overall responsibility on the P&L of the SDI&A solution domain. He is currently based in Richardson, Texas. After obtaining a degree in Information Technology from University of Bari, Italy, and a brief experience as a telecommunications software developer in Olivetti Systems and Networks, Ottavio joined HP in France in 1988 as a technical consultant for the Telecommunication Industry. Ottavio represented HP in several standardization bodies such as ISO, CCITT, ECMA, AFNOR, X/Open, where he held various editor and chairman positions, working on subjects such as ISDN, Frame Relaying, OSI, TMN, Remote Procedure Calls and Open Distributed Processing. At the beginning of the 90's, Ottavio was one of the key technical figures involved in the creation of the HP Telecom Business Unit, in Grenoble, France. Over time he held several project and program management positions in areas such as: Intelligent Networks, GSM, HLR, Business Intelligence and Mobile E-Services. Between April 2000 and April 2004, Ottavio was based in Singapore, where he was tasked with growing the APJ regional business for HP OpenCall products, with responsibilities such as business development, pre-sales, marketing and delivery. Since April 2004, Ottavio has been based in the US, where he has held R&D and business management responsibilities for various products and solutions in what is today the SDI&A solution domain, with a particular focus on the personalization segment and on the OpenCall HLR solution.