INVITED TALKS (MORE COMING SOON)

Jayshree Ullal, Senior Vice President,
Data Center, Switching and Security Technology Group, Cisco Systems, Inc

Jayshree Ullal, Senior Vice President of Cisco’s Data Center, Switching and Security Technology Group, is a twenty three-year networking executive veteran with experience in engineering, marketing, and business positions. Ms. Ullal has spent the last thirteen years with Cisco and is responsible for driving the direction and strategy of Cisco’s Security products and technologies as well as leading the company’s expansion into the data center.

Ullal previously held the positions of Senior Vice President of the Optical Networking Group and co-leader of the Service Provider Business Council. She streamlined and doubled the metro optical business and forged key alliances with major service provider customers during the past three years. Prior to that she was Vice President and General Manager of the LAN Switching in the Enterprise Line of Business where she grew the Catalyst LAN switching business from $0 in 1993 to a $7 billion run rate in 2000 to reach the #1 market position. Ullal also initiated several strategic initiatives for the AVVID program, including IP telephony, content networking and policy networking, directing Cisco's enterprise switching market share from 0% to over 60%.

Prior to joining Cisco, Ullal was the Vice President of Marketing at Crescendo Communications for two years, which was Cisco’s first acquisition. At Crescendo, Ullal helped pioneer CDDI 100-Mbps over copper and drove the first standards-based CDDI products and first generation Ethernet switching. Ullal was Director of Internetworking Products at Ungermann-Bass for four years and also held several engineering and strategy positions in Advanced Micro Devices and Fairchild Semiconductor. Strategic and results-oriented, Ullal’s expertise lies in building strong, talented, and competitive teams focused on achieving goals.

Ullal was named as one of the 50 Most Powerful People in the 2005 Network World, and was also nominated one of the twenty powerful Women to Watch in 2001 by Newsweek and was also awarded 2001 Innovator and Influencer Award by Information Week. Ullal was the first woman to be awarded the Entrepreneurial and Leadership award sponsored by Silicon India in 1999. She is a prominent spokesperson in many business and networking conferences. Ms. Ullal was mentoring several high-tech networking start-ups where she has been a board-member or advisor to companies funded by leading venture capitalists and is currently serving as the executive sponsor for newly formed Women in Technology Action Network at Cisco as well as a board member of the Anita Borg Institute.

Ms. Ullal holds a B.S.E.E. from San Francisco State University and M.S in Engineering Management from Santa Clara University.

Dr. Aravind Sitaraman
Vice President and Managing Director, Cisco Systems, India

Aravind Sitaraman is Vice President and Managing Director of CDO, India. He is also the executive sponsor for the India WAN FY08 and Chairman of India Civic Council.

Aravind has 22 years of work experience. After pioneering work in several start-up companies and experience with US high-tech companies such as Novell Inc and Oracle Corporation, he became one of Cisco Systems leading inventors with 54 US patents-- 34 issued, 3 allowed, and 17 pending. His inventions were in networking access, security, policy, and traffic shaping areas. Specifically, he was the Chief Architect of User Control Point and Service Selection Gateway. He assisted sales and marketing teams worldwide by presenting Cisco technologies to engineering teams of several service provider, telecommunication companies, and enterprises. Over the years, he owned several platforms such as Cisco 85xx, LS1010, and ONS 155xx and also software components such as ATM Signaling. He was the co-Chairman of the Voice on DSL standard and Chairman of Auto-Configuration Forum in the global DSL Forum. He has presented several research papers in the DSL Forum, ATM Forum, and IETF. He was also the Chairman of the Networking track of the first Network-Centric Warfare Conference in India.

Since his relocation to India in 2000, other than raising a new organization and assuming project responsibilities, he helped the budding Cisco organization in India to define processes, goals, and grow to 1500 employees. This includes creating presentations on Cisco including its technologies, culture, platforms, and work prospects in India; Creating process of interaction with functional groups such as human resources, finance, and work place resources; Evangelization in Universities, trade bodies, and recruits; Organization of several recruitment drives in Universities and cities including the creation of question papers, correction and selection criteria, creating and placing advertisements, and infrastructure arrangements; Lobbying government agencies and functionaries for change in several policies that affect business; Creating a University relations group that interacted closely with some colleges; Creating a Social Responsibility organization that facilitated employee participation in non-government organizations-- this later became the India Civic Council; Serve on the Core Group to make Cisco India wide decisions; Organized Cisco Technology Day that brings Cisco India employees up to speed on technologies and also showcasing to customers, work done in India in-house and with partners.

Since his relocation to India in 2000, Aravind has reestablished whatisindia.com in Bangalore as a non-profit organization seeking to influence policy in India and India policy world-wide. He has published several papers on strategic and social issues in The Hindu, BusinessLine, Deccan Herald, Rediff , India Abroad, India Currents, etc. He visited Kashmir, Punjab , and other Indian states on fact finding missions and submitted reports to US policy makers. As part of this effort, he has digitized several thousand millenniums old inscriptions in South India and sponsored historical research on India that has now spawned over 200 Web pages on Wikipedia, Encarta, and other Internet-based encyclopedias. He also created subject-based portals of over 300 issues facing India and created detailed analysis on over 200 subjects. He created a catalogue of academic institutions in India and India missions abroad. He is currently documenting Indian classical music.

whatisindia.com has its roots in 'Prakash,' not-for-profit policy advocacy group founded by Aravind Sitaraman in the United States in 1995. This group brought together thousands of Indian American scientists, professors, doctors, engineers, and professionals into a single voice. 'Prakash' has communicated with the US Congress, Senate, and Administration on many issues. Its publications have been acknowledged by many US leaders and some parts even placed as part of official records in the House of Representatives of the United States . In 1996, he was invited to visit the National Human Rights Commission of India in New Delhi . In 2006, he was invited to join the Asia Center in Bangalore.

He was on the Board of Studies of Anna University and PSG College in Coimbatore and helped shape syllabi for engineering schools in Tamil Nadu. He also taught a part-time course in PSG College on Data Structures using 'C'. Aravind serves on the Board of Trustees of CLT India, an educational trust bringing technology to rural India . Apart from ongoing activities, this trust has built a state-of-the-art school with contribution from Intel Foundation for tsunami victims in Nagappatinam District in Tamil Nadu.

Sameer Padhye, Vice President,
Worldwide Service Provider Line of Business, Cisco Systems India

Sameer Padhye, Vice President, Worldwide Service Provider Line of Business, is responsible for driving services and support business and strategy across worldwide Service Provider market for Cisco Systems Inc.

In his previous role, Sameer worked as Vice President of Service Provider Marketing, and was responsible for marketing Cisco Systems® products, services, and solutions to a worldwide base of service provider customers. In addition, he was the company’s primary spokesperson for the service provider market when addressing Cisco’s customers, members of the press, industry analysts, and investors.

Sameer joined Cisco in 1993 and has developed a broad base of cross-functional, cross-geography experience during his tenure. He has held many key positions as customer engineer, critical account manager, business development manager for Japan, director of field operations for the greater Asia region, Director of Solutions Engineering for Asia Pac region, Vice President of Service Provider Line of Business and Optical Sales in the Cisco Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region. As a recipient of the expert-level Cisco CCIE® certification, he brings in-depth knowledge of networking technology to his role.

Sameer completed higher studies in chemical engineering from the University Of Bombay, India, and moved to Japan for further studies. He worked in the automobile and telecommunications industries in Japan before moving to the United States to begin his career in networking.

Sameer is fluent in Hindi, English, and Japanese, and holds a Commercial pilot’s license with certification to fly commercial High Performance Jet and Turbine engine aircraft. He lives in Cupertino, California with his wife and two children.

Dr. Jin-Yi Pan
CTO, Nokia Siemens Networks Transport Systems, Ltd. Shanghai

Dr. Jin-Yi Pan, currently hold the position of the CTO, Nokia Siemens Networks Transport Systems, Ltd, and head of System Product Line Management Next Generation Metro, IPT. Nokia Networks and Siemens Networks have merged in April 1st, 2007. Before that, Dr. Pan became the CTO and executive vice president of Siemens Optra Communication Technologies, Shanghai (Siemens OCTS) in Oct. 2006, thru Siemens acquisition of Photonic Bridges. From 2003 to the Siemens acquisition of Photonic Bridges, Dr. Pan is the CTO and Executive vice president of Photonic Bridges where he was responsible for the overall technology strategy, marketing, communications. He was instrumental in rapidly moving advanced optical and networking technologies into products developed by Photonic Bridges, led the company’s global marketing effort.

Prior to joining Photonic Bridges, Dr. Pan was the Vice President of System Architecture at Sorrento Networks, Inc. a NASDAQ listed company. There he led a team working on next generation products in optical networking systems and supported the global product marketing. He has also held positions of senior scientist at the Nokia Research Center and MTS at Bellcore (now Telecordia Technologies) where he worked on advanced optical networking projects.

Dr. Pan holds 12 patents and has published numerous technical papers on optical systems. Dr. Pan is frequently invited to speech major international conferences and forums. He received his Ph. D. and Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from City University of New York and a Bachelor degree in Optics and Optical Engineering from Zhejiang University of China.

Dr. Kamran Sistanizadeh
Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, Yipes Enterprise Services, Inc.

Kamran Sistanizadeh is a recognized leader in network architecture with over 20 years of progressive executive and thought leadership experience within the telecom industry. Inventor/co-inventor of 18 U.S. patents with more than 30 technical publications, he has led product design and development in emerging technologies and network deployment and operations in companies such as Bell Atlantic, Bell Communications Research (Telcordia) and IBM. He co-founded Yipes in 1999, pioneering introduction of managed metro Ethernet services for the enterprise. He was CTO of Bell Atlantic Global Networks, responsible for the development of integrated voice and data networks for long distance services over an integrated packet-based platform. He developed Bellcore's generic requirements for HDSL and ADSL, and holds the patent on rate-adaptive ADSL service architecture. Sistanizadeh holds an M.B.A. from Georgetown University and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech.

Dr. Kee Chaing (KC) Chua
Professor, NRF, Singapore

Kee Chaing (KC) Chua received a Bachelor of Engineering degree with 1st Class Honours from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in 1985 and a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the same university in 1990. He also earned a Master of Engineering degree from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 1987 and attended the 1st Program for Global Leadership at the Harvard Business School in 1998. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at NUS as a Lecturer in 1990. He is now a Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at NUS. He served as the Faculty of Engineering’s Vice Dean for Research from July 2003 to March2006. From October 1995 to June 2000, he was seconded to the Center for Wireless Communications (now merged into the Institute for Infocomm Research), a national telecommunication R&D centre funded by the Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research as its Deputy Director.

From June 2001 to June 2003, he was on leave of absence from NUS to work at Siemens Singapore where he was the founding head of the Mobile Core R&D Department funded by Siemens’ ICM Group. Since March 2006, he has been seconded to the National Research Foundation as a Director. Dr Chua has carried out research in various areas of communication networks and has published more than 180 papers in these areas in international refereed journals and conferences. His current research interests are in wireless (primarily in wireless sensor networks now) and optical burst switched networks. He has recently co-authored a book on Quality of Service in Optical Burst Switched Networks which will be published by Springer in Q4 2006.

Dr Chua has served or is serving on several advisory committees, research/technical review panels and conference organization committees. He has also been an active member of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Inc., and is a recipient of an IEEE 3rd Millennium medal.

Dr. Tushar Saxena
Director of Home Networking Technologies, Verizon Communications.

Tushar Saxena is the Director of Home Networking Technologies at Verizon Communications, where he is responsible for developing and executing the next generation digital home strategy for broadband services including FiOS and DSL. His group also represents Verizon on industry and standards forums such as the MoCA Alliance, DSL Forum and DLNA. Tushar was also the chief architect of VoiceWing, Verizon's consumer VoIP service launched in 2004. Prior to Verizon, Tushar held key positions at GE Global Research and BBN Technologies where he was responsible for the development of a number of key innovative government and military solutions using emerging IP networking technologies.

Tushar holds a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the State University of New York, Albany and an MBA from the Wharton School.

Dr. Deepak Kataria
Director, Advanced System Prototyping, Network and Storage Products Group, LSI

Deepak Kataria is the Director of the Advanced System Prototyping organization for the Network and Storage Products Group of LSI Corporation. His current responsibilities include the prototype development of advanced networking systems.

LSI is a leading provider of innovative silicon, systems and software technologies that enable products which seamlessly bring people, information and digital content together.

He has been with AT&T Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Agere Systems, and now LSI since 1991, serving in various capacities as a network consultant, systems engineer, systems architect, systems applications manager, and systems integration manager. The scope of technologies covered during this tenure include ATM/IP/MPLS networks, high-speed switching, metro Ethernet, wireless access (node B network interface, RNC), wireline access (DSLAM, MSAN), network security (IDS, DoS), P2P (peer-to-peer), home networking, residential gateways, small/medium business (office-in-a-box), fixed-mobile convergence and storage area networking.

Kataria holds a B.S. in Electronics and Communications Engineering, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University.

Sanjeev Jorapur, Vice President of Technology,
NetXen, USA

Sanjeev is an industry veteran with 20 years of management and technical experience in the areas of enterprise and network computing. Since joining Netxen, he has led the architectural and technological efforts behind NetXen's products. Prior to NetXen, he co-founded CoWave Networks, which pioneered the wireless mesh architecture.

At CoWave, he was responsible for the architecture and software development of its initial products. He has held senior technical positions at HP, where he was one of the key architects of a distributed, multi-node system. Earlier in his career, he worked at Unisys as one of the architects of "Opus", a distributed, Single System Image, UNIX implementation.

Sanjeev holds a B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT, Bombay.

Dr. Dominic A. Schupke
Multi-Layer Networks and Resilience, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany.

Dominic A. Schupke studied electrical engineering at RWTH Aachen University, Germany and at Imperial College London, UK. He received his Dipl.-Ing. degree from RWTH Aachen in 1998. From 1998 to 2004 he was research and teaching staff member of the Institute of Communication Networks at Munich University of Technology (TUM), Germany. He received the Dr.-Ing. degree (with distinction) from TUM in 2004. At the institute, he was involved in research projects with both industrial and academic partners. In summer 2003, he was visiting researcher at TRLabs, Edmonton, Canada. In 2004, he joined the research and development department of Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, Munich, where he became Senior Research Scientist. In October 2006, the department was transferred to Siemens Networks, which then has become part of the joint-venture Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) in April 2007.

His research interests are in the area of transport networks. This includes network architectures and protocols (optical networks, multilayer networks, IP/MPLS networks, Ethernet networks), routing and wavelength assignment, recovery methods, availability analysis, network optimization, and network planning. Dominic is member of IEEE, VDE, and VDI.

Jonathan Casey
International Marketing Director, TFS Division, JDSU Comm Test, JDSU

Jonathan Casey is the International Marketing Director for the Telecom Field Services Division of JDSU. Mr. Casey has been with the organization for over 20 years and has served in senior level corporate and technical management positions in the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States. These roles include director of strategic marketing in the company's US headquarters and global marketing director for the Data/IP group. Mr. Casey is recognized as an expert in data networking and deployment of Triple Play services. He holds a BSC Hons degree in Engineering.

Dr. Maurice Gagnaire
Professor, ENST, France

Maurice GAGNAIRE is Professor at the Computer Science and Networks Dept. of E.N.S.T. (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications) in Paris-France where he leads a research team working in the field of WDM optical networks design, hybrid optical-wireless access systems and Grid networking. He is the French representative within the COST 291 European action on Optical Digital Networks. He has authored or co-authored about 120 technical papers in IEEE or IFIP conferences or journals. He is the author of a book in English on broadband access systems (Artech House, 2003). A new book written with two of his former PhD students titled “From network planning to traffic engineering in translucent optical WDM networks” will be edited during the first quarter of 2008 by Springer-USA. He has contributed to three collective books in English on ATM networks (Kluwer, 2000), IP over WDM (Addison-Wesley, 2002) and optical traffic grooming (Springer, 2007).

He has co-chaired the IEEE Globecom 2006 Symposium on optical Networks. He is in the steering committee of the IEEE-IFIP ONDM (Optical Network Design and Modelling) conference and in the Technical Program Committee of several IEEE or IFIP conferences. He has been appointed as an expert by the Flemish Government of Belgium (1998) and by the National Science Foundation of the USA (2001, 2004). He is a member of the Optical Network Technical Committee (ONTC) of the IEEE and of the IFIP WG-6.10 working group on photonic networking. He is graduated from INT Evry-France. He received the DEA (now MSc) degree from University Paris 6, the Ph. D. degree from ENST and the Habilitation from University of Versailles (1999).

Dr. Admela Jukan
Professor, Technical University Carolo-Wilhelmina at Brunswick (Braunschweig), Germany

Admela Jukan is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Technical University Carolo-Wilhelmina at Brunswick (Braunschweig) in Germany. Prior to coming to TU Braunschweig, she was with University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), Georgia Tech (GaTech), University of Quebec (EMT-INRS), and Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien).? From 2002-2004, she served as Program Director in Computer and Networks System Research at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Arlington, VA. While at NSF, she was responsible for funding and coordinating US-wide university research and education activities in the area of network technologies and systems.

She received the M.Sc. degree in Information Technologies and Computer Science from the Polytechnic of Milan, Italy, and the Ph.D. degree (cum laude) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) in Austria. Dr. Jukan is the author of numerous papers in the field of networking, and she has authored and edited several books. Dr. Jukan has chaired and co-chaired several international conferences, including IFIP ONDM, IEEE ICC and IEEE GLOBECOM.

Abdul Kasim
Vice President, Ethernet Business Development,
ADVA Optical Networking, USA

Abdul Kasim is Vice President for Ethernet Business Development at ADVA Optical Networking, a global provider of Ethernet and Optical networking solutions for metropolitan networks. Earlier, he worked at Sorrento Networks and also at Sprint, where, notably he led the multi-billion dollar engineering effort deploying some of the earliest SONET and DWDM infrastructure.

Abdul has recently authored a book, 'Delivering Carrier Ethernet' published by McGraw Hill (2007), and has contributed numerous publications and talks in industry fora.

Abdul holds a Masters degree in Technology Management from M.I.T., a Masters degree in Computer Science from Kansas State University, and B.Eng degree in Computer Science from the University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore. He has also undertaken graduate study at the University of Kansas and Harvard University. He has been a member of the Corporate Advisory Board of the HOPI - the Hybrid Optical Packet Infrastructure, effort of the Internet2 consortium.

Dr. George Rouskas
Professor, North Carolina State University (NCSU), USA

George N. Rouskas is a Professor of Computer Science at North Carolina State University. He received the Ph.D. and M. S. degrees in Computer Science from the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, in 1994 and 1991, respectively, and his degree in Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Athens, Greece, in 1989. He spent a sabbatical term at Vitesse Semiconductor, Morrisville, NC, in 2000-2001, and he has been an Invited Professor at the Laboratoire de Methodes Informatiques, University of Evry, France.

Dr. Rouskas received a 2007 IBM Faculty Award, the 2004 ALCOA Foundation Engineering Research Achievement Award, the 2003 NCSU Alumni Outstanding Research Award, a 1997 NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award and the 1994 Graduate Research Assistant Award from the College of Computing, Georgia Tech. He was inducted in the NCSU Academy of Outstanding Teachers in 2004, and received the 1995 Outstanding New Teacher Award from the Department of Computer Science.

Dr. Rouskas founded and serves as co-editor-in-chief of Optical Switching and Networking (OSN), an Elsevier journal. He has served on the editorial boards of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Computer Networks, and Optical Networks, and he was a co-guest editor for the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. He was technical program co-chair of the Networking 2004 conference, general co-chair of the IEEE LANMAN 2005 workshop, program chair of the IEEE LANMAN 2004 workshop, and program co-chair of the Traffic Grooming workshop 2004. He is serving as general co-chair for BROADNETS 2007.

Dr. Suresh Subramaniam
Professor, George Washington University

Suresh Subramaniam is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the George Washington University, which he joined in Sep. 1997. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1997, where Prof. Arun Somani was his advisor. His dissertation was titled "All-optical networks with sparse wavelength conversion". Prior to that, he obtained the M.S.E.E. degree from Tulane University, New Orleans, 1993, where he did a Master's thesis titled "Sea-floor characterization using texture". He obtained the B.E. degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Anna University, Chennai, India, in 1988. Between 1988 and 1990, he was an R&D Hardware Engineer at HCL Ltd., then India's No. 1 computer company. During 1990-91, he was a research student in the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Dr. Subramaniam was also a summer staff member in the optical networking group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Summer 1996.

Dr. Subramaniam's research interests are in communication networks, with particular emphasis on optical and wireless networks. He is interested in network architectures, algorithms, and performance modeling issues. His research has been supported by several government agencies including NSF, DARPA, NSA, and NIST. He is a co-editor of two books on optical networking, and the author of several peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. He is a co-recipient of Best Paper awards at the 2006 ICC Symposium on Optical Systems and Networks, and the 1997 SPIE Conference on All-Optical Communication Systems. He is an editor for IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials and KICS Journal of Communications and Networks. He has served on the program committees of several conferences including Infocom, Globecom, ICC, and Broadnets. He is currently serving as a General Chair of Broadnets '06 and as a TPC chair of the Optical Networks and Systems Symposium of ICC '07. Dr. Subramaniam is a member of the IEEE Communications Society.

Subhash Dhar, Head of Communications Service Provider (CSP) Business Unit
Infosys, India

Subhash Dhar heads the Communications Service Provider (CSP) Business Unit at Infosys Technologies Ltd. CSP at works with service providers globally, as a trusted partner, to help them overcome their business challenges and align themselves with the changing market trends. We help our clients change the rules of the game by adopting a globally-managed model that can harness innovation, fuel business growth and increase profitability through flawless execution and management of key technology initiatives.

Subhash was a founding member of the Infosys E-Business Practice back in 1997. He has spent most of his seven years at Infosys in the IT services in the US and European markets. For the past six years, he was based in the San Francisco bay area and has recently relocated to Bangalore. Before Infosys, Subhash was involved in a Web-based startup IndiaWorld for four years. IndiaWorld was later sold to Satyam Infoway. Subhash has worked with HCL Ltd., IDM Ltd., Tata Infotech and NIIT Ltd. in early part of his career.

Subhash Dhar has over 15 years of Information and Communication Technology experience. Subhash holds a Bachelor of Computer Science from BIT, MESRA and a post graduate in management from IIM, Bangalore.

Jay Teborek, Managing Director of Carrier Markets in Asia
Teknovus, Asia

Jay Teborek is Managing Director of Carrier Markets in Asia for Teknovus, a leading supplier of chipsets and embedded software for the FTTx market. Mr. Teborek has sixteen years experience working with telecommunications carriers and infrastructure suppliers. Through his career, he has participated in the development and launch of fifteen new mobile and fixed networks in Asia and the US.

Most recently, Mr. Teborek was Sales Director for SOMA Networks, a WiMAX broadband wireless infrastructure provider. For over eight years prior to SOMA, Mr. Teborek was the Director of Business Development at Comverse Network Systems in Asia, responsible for introducing new infrastructure services and applications to global carriers. Prior to Comverse, Mr. Teborek held positions with BellSouth International and Director of Engineering for Potomac Systems.

Mr. Teborek graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and through his career has received education certification from Bellcore, Northeastern University, and the Beijing Language Institute.

Raghuveer B K, Head of Solutions Group, Product Engineering Business Unit
Infosys, India

Raghuveer B K is the head of Solutions group in the Product engineering business unit of Infosys, focusing on Telecom, Convergence and Internet technologies. Raghuveer B K is also the head of Infosys Open Source council, driving the use of Open Source technologies internally in Infosys and for customers of Infosys.

Infosys is a leading provider of consulting, software and technology services to global customers with over 4Billion USD in sales.

Raghuveer B K has been heading various groups in the Product R&D space since joining Infosys in 1992. His current focus is on creation of IP and solutions in the Broadband, convergence and unified communications space. As member of Infosys Technology council, Raghuveer also contributes to the technology direction of Infosys.

Mohamed Shahul Hameed, Head of OSS / BSS Group, Telecom Industry Practice
TCS, India

Mohamed Shahul Hameed heads the OSS / BSS group of TCS’ Telecom Industry Practice. With around 12 years of industry experience, Shahul in his current role is responsible for developing and ensuring TCS’ offerings and competencies in the areas of consulting, integration and outsourcing are in step with the emerging telecom industry requirements.

Prior to this role, Shahul was one of the lead members of TCS’ NGOSS Center of Excellence, focusing on developing new offerings for the telecom clients, creation of telecom assets and implementation accelerators as well as doing consulting engagements. He has also been mentor to large account delivery teams.

Arvind Mathur, Chief Architect
Global Services for Sify Technologies, India.

Arvind Mathur is Chief Architect, Global Services for Sify Technologies, a leader in consumer Internet and Enterprise Services in India with global delivery capabilities. He is responsible for architecting services, solutions and the product portfolio across the company's business lines, including strategy and evolution of the core network infrastructure to support next generation, managed IP services and applications for global customers. Arvind is a key driver for Sify’s “Smart Expansion” initiatives which promises a highly scalable, application-aware core network supporting a range of hosted applications that will deliver clear business value to a range of enterprise segments and bring application-rich, internet-connectivity solutions to the consumer segment.

Arvind has over 18 years of international experience in the telecommunications and networking arena and holds dual Masters Degrees in Electrical Communication Engineering and Physics from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi respectively specializing in Optical Communication and Optoelectronics.

Neeraj Sonker, Vice President, Wireless Engineering and Implementation,
Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd.(Tata-VSNL), India

Mr. Neeraj Sonker is a Vice President of Wireless Engineering and Implementation with Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd., India (Tata-VSNL). He is also responsible for managing Global NOC and Customer Support for VSNL International wholesale, voice and mobile services customers. He has been with Tata Group/VSNL for last 13 years and has over 19 years of Telecom and IT industry experience. Neeraj is an Engineering Graduate from IIT, Roorkee and has done MBA from SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai.

He is currently leading WIMAX roll out at VSNL. He was responsible for leading operational integration of VSNL and Teleglobe/ Tyco Global Network as well as design, architecture and deployment of largest and state of the art Triple-play Metro Area Ethernet Network (MAN) in India. He was also responsible design and architecture of CDMA 3G1X mobile network design, MPLS Backbone for offering different flavors of L2 and L3 VPN services and Data Centers for enterprise customers in India.

Dr. Mohammed Atiquzzaman, Professor,
School of Computer Science, University of Oklahoma, USA

MOHAMMED ATIQUZZAMAN received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Manchester, England. Currently he is a professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Oklahoma. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Computer Communications Journal, and serves on the editorial boards of IEEE Communications Magazine, International Journal of Sensor Networks, Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, Wireless and Optical Networks Journal, and Real Time Imaging Journal. He was technical co-chair of the 2003 Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing, and the SPIE Quality of Service over Next-Generation Data Networks Conference (2001, 2002, 2003) and IEEE Globecom and IEEE International Conference on Communications.

His current research interests are in wireless, satellite, and mobile networks, quality of service for next-generation Internet, broadband networks, and multimedia over high-speed networks. His research is supported by federal funding agencies such as the National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the United States Air Force. He is co-author of the book TCP/IP over ATM Networks.

G S Ravishankar, Vice President
Wipro Technologies, India.

G S Ravishankar, Vice President, Wipro Technologies, hails from Bangalore. He holds Masters and Bachelors degrees in engineering from the Indian Institute of science, Bangalore.

Ravishankar comes with a rich and highly varied experience of over 25 years. He presently heads a technology vertical in the telecom space at Wipro. He was heading a design unit at Ericsson India Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore, which was responsible for development of Ericsson's Network Element Management and OSS products, before Wipro acquired all of Ericsson's India R & D operations in 2003. Prior to this, he was Head – Operations, at AmSoft Information Services India) Pvt. Ltd., an American JV in India.

He also had a long stint as an entrepreneur and served varied industry segments such as Aerospace, Tyre/Rubber, Offshore Oil rigs, agro-dairy, Foundries, Horticulture, Clinical Laboratories, etc. in the earlier part of his work life. He was also an excellent teacher and served the field of education as professor of computer science at an engineering school in Bangalore.

His hobbies include reading, listening to Indian classical music and trekking. Ravishankar is married, with two children.

T. V. Sriram , Vice President,
Technology , Bharti Airtel Limited, India.

Mr. T. V. Sriram is responsible for induction of new technology & solutions at Bharti Airtel Limited. Currently he is working as Vice President – Technology and plays a key role in strategizing & architecting the future technology roadmap for Airtel at an organizational level across all Lines of Businesses. Major projects include Broadband, Carrier Ethernet, MPLS Core, Broadband Wireless and Next Generation technologies including Fixed Mobile Convergence & IMS roadmap for Airtel.

Sriram holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics & Communication and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management and has 17 years of experience in telecom networks. Prior to joining Airtel he has worked in leading telecom companies like Alcatel and Comverse Network Systems - both in domestic & international assignments. He is an active contributor at various telecom industry forums and conferences, both at national and international levels

Dr. Weiqiang Sun
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.

Weiqiang Sun is a lecturer in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in People’s Republic of China. He received his B. Tech. degree from the Special Class for the Gifted Young (SCGY) in the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 1999 and Ph.D degree from the same university in 2004. His research interests include dynamically configured optical networks and QoS in packet switched networks