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Event Details
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"Simplification, Security and Scalability - Building a Smarter Infrastructure"
IDC's Asia/Pacific IT Infrastructure for Business Innovation Conference 2005
Conference
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Thursday, November 24
The Grand, New Delhi |
Friday, November 25
ITC Grand Central Sheraton, Mumbai |
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| IDC's
Asia/Pacific IT Infrastructure for Business Innovation
Conference 2005 |
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| Amar Babu,
Director, Sales and Marketing Group, South Asia, Intel
Technology Asia Pte Ltd. (New Delhi) |
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Amar joined Intel in August 1999 and in his current role, is responsible for
the sales and marketing for Intel in South Asia. Amar was previously,
General Manager, Sales, and was responsible for the sales and distribution
of Intel products through OEMs/Channels in South Asia. Prior to joining
Intel, he handled Marketing & Toshiba Business Line at Frontline
Division, HCL Infosystems Ltd as Vice-President (Operations) and was part of
the project management team at the Technology Department at Citibank. He
also handled channels/direct sales in the erstwhile HCL Hewlett Packard
Limited.
Amar Babu is a B.E. (Electrical & Electronics) from PSG College of
Technology, Coimbatore and has also completed his PGDBM from XLRI,
Jamshedpur.
Established in 1988, Intel Asia Electronics, Inc. (Intel India) is based
in Bangalore, and currently has offices in Mumbai, New Delhi, Calcutta and
Chennai. Intel's mission in India is to accelerate the growth of Internet
economy and develop world-class solutions in India through technology
leadership, quality engineering and strategic investments
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| R.
Ravichandran, Regional Marketing Manager, Server
Platforms Group, Intel Technology Asia Pte Ltd. (Mimbai) |
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Ravichandran (Ravi) is Regional Marketing Manager of Intel's Server
Platforms Group for the Asia Pacific region. He is responsible for leading
Intel's server platform initiatives and product lines in the digital
enterprise space. His team works closely with original equipment
manufacturers (OEMs) and Intel's channel customers to enable the adoption of
new enterprise platforms and technologies.
Prior to his present appointment, Ravi held several positions within
Intel in Singapore and India. Most recently, he was the Regional Marketing
Manager for Intel Desktop and Server Boards/Systems business.
Ravi holds a Distinction in Bachelor of Engineering and specialized in
the field of Electronics and Communication from Bharathiar University in
South India.
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| Shirish S
Joshi, Technical Solutions Architect, IBM Global
Services India |
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Shirish Joshi is a Technical solutions architect with over 16 years
experience. He is working for IBM Global Services India for last 10 years in
the areas of Infrastructure and systems management services. He has lead
engagements for Strategic Outsourcing, and has a rich experience in areas of
Infrastructure services and systems management tools. He has participated in
large and complex outsourcing engagements as a lead technical solutions
manager for IT services outsourcing deals. As a delivery and Transitions
Manager he has worked in the technology areas include network operations,
data centres with midrange servers, and Tivoli tools. Shirish Joshi is a
certified Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) professional.
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K.
Karunagaran, Asst. Vice President in Global
Infrastructure
Services (GIS), CSC India |
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K. Karunagaran is the Asst. Vice President in Global Infrastructure Services
(GIS) division of Computer Sciences Corporation, third largest IT
outsourcing company in the world. Besides setting up the state of the
art facility for CSC in India, he was instrumental in starting the remote
infrastructure services for global clients from India. He heads the
Architecture and Design Engineers (ADE) and Data Center Services teams that
are responsible for managing complex infrastructure of several global
clients with mainframe, AS/400, IBM/HP/Sun Unix clusters, IBM/Hitachi/EMC
SAN devices, etc.
Prior to joining CSC, Mr. Karunagaran held the positions of DGM
(Networking) in Unicorp Industries Ltd. and Vice President (Information
System) in DishnetDSL Ltd. He has over 18 years of experience in the IT
industry and has done Mechanical Engineering from Anna University
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| Guna
Ramireddy - CEO, CTO and Founder, Bluewave Networks |
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Guna Ramireddy, CEO, brings over 12 years of networking experience from
working at successful companies, including Redback Networks, Berkeley
Networks (acquired by Fore Systems) and Cisco Systems. Mr. Ramireddy has
conceived and defined Bluewave Networks product vision and is primarily
responsible for the company's product strategy. Prior to this role, Mr.
Ramireddy was the chief architect of Bluewave's Infrastructure Analytics
product and was involved in various roles including product management,
product design and development, and management of the engineering group.
Prior to founding Bluewave Networks, Mr. Ramireddy was a software engineer
at Redback Networks, working on IP protocol development.
Prior to Redback, Mr. Ramireddy worked as a software engineer at Berkeley
Networks and Cisco Systems. Mr. Ramireddy holds an M.S. in Computer Science
from the university of Southwestern Louisiana, and a B.S. in Computer
Science from Madras University, India
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| Avneesh
Saxena,
Vice President, Asia/Pacific Computing Systems, Software
and Storage Research |
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Avneesh Saxena heads IDC Asia/Pacific's Computing Systems Research group and
drives research and analysis that focuses on tracking emerging technology
trends, vendor strategies, market size, distribution channels and end-user
segmentation in the Asia/Pacific Server, Workstation, and Storage markets.
Based in Hong Kong, Mr. Saxena brings with him a total experience of 8
years in the IT industry. Prior to joining IDC Asia/Pacific, he was working
as an Assistant Manager at IDC India where he was responsible for tracking
and analyzing hardware & software supply-side research for the Indian
market. Before IDC India, he was in marketing for Canon photocopiers &
fax machines across India.
Fluent in Hindi and English, Mr. Saxena is a frequent speaker at industry
events and his views on the Asia/Pacific market have been quoted in most
leading publications such as the Business Times, Asia Computer Weekly,
Computer World, the South China Morning Post, the Hong Kong Economic
Journal, Computer Times, CNBC, and Bloomberg. Mr. Saxena received his
Bachelor in Commerce from Delhi University and Masters in Business
Administration from Jiwaji University, Gwalior, India.
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| Sanjit Sinha,
Sr. Manager - Hardware Research Group, IDC (India) Ltd. |
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Sanjit Sinha heads the Hardware Research Group at IDC India. Based in Delhi,
Sanjit manages the business and operations of two critical groups, Computing
Products Research and Peripherals Research Group which falls under the
Hardware Research Group.
Prior to joining IDC, he was heading the Industrial Market Research for
South India at AC Nielsen ORG MARG. Sanjit has also worked in sales during
the initial days of his career.
Sanjit is an engineer from Bengal Engineering College and holds a MBA
degree from IISWBM, Calcutta, with specialisation in Marketing.
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