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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.

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

Debasish Datta received his BTech degree in 1973 from Institute of Radiophysics and Electronics, Calcutta University, and MTech and PhD degrees from IIT Kharagpur in 1976 and 1986, respectively. He has been serving in the faculty at IIT Kharagpur for the last twenty-eight years. In the early phase of career, he also worked in industry for about three years. At Kharagpur, he served as Head in the Department of E&ECE during 2007-2008 and, as Chairman in G.S. Sanyal School of Telecommunications during 1999-2002. From Kharagpur, he visited Stanford University during 1992-1993 to work on Coherent Optical Communications. Thereafter, he visited University of California, Davis, during 1997-1999 and Chonbuk National University, South Korea, during 2003-2004 to work on Optical Networking. Currently, he is visiting Meghnad Saha Institute of Technology, Calcutta, on one-year leave from IIT Khargpur since July 2008.
Prof. Datta received Sir J. C. Bose Award in 1985 from IERE, UK, for a paper on Optical Receiver in the Journal of IERE. He served as Guest Editor for IEEE JSAC for January-2002 Special Issue on WDM-based Network Architectures, and presently he serves as Editor for the Elsevier Journal of OSN. His current research interests include wavelength-routed optical backbones, WDM-PONs, link adaptation schemes and MAC protocols for wireless networks.

Debashis Saha received the B.E. (Hons) degree from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, and the M.Tech. and Ph. D. degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, all in electronics and telecommunication engineering.
He is currently a Full Professor with the MIS and Computer Science Group, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta. Previously, he was with CSE Dept, Jadavpur University. His research interests include pervasive communication and computing, wireless networking and mobile computing, WDM optical networking, ICT for development and network economics. He has supervised 9 doctoral theses and guiding 4 more now. He has published about 180 research papers in various conferences and journals, and directed four funded projects on networking. He has coauthored several book chapters, a monograph and five books including Networking Infrastructure for Pervasive Computing: Enabling Technologies and Systems (Norwell, MA: Kluwer, 2002) and Location Management and Routing in Mobile Wireless Networks (Boston, MA: Artech House, 2003). He is the incoming (2009) Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Business Data Communications & Networking (IJBDCN), serves on the editorial board of three international journals, member of the organizing/program committee of several international conferences, and is a regular reviewer of several international journals.
Dr. Saha was the recipient of the prestigious Career Award for Young Teachers from AICTE, Government of India, and is a SERC Visiting Fellow with the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India. He is a Fellow of West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology (WAST), Senior Life Member of Computer Society of India, Senior Member of IEEE, and a member of the International Federation of Information Processing Working Group's 6.8 and 6.10. He is the founder chair of Calcutta Chapter of IEEE Communications Society.

B.Tech. (Electronics) IIT-Madras; M.S. (Electrical Engg) Rice University, Houston; Ph.D. (Electrical Engg) Stanford University, California. Joined the Department of Computer Science & Engg, I.I.T., Madras as an Assistant Professor in 1989, currently Professor and Head of the Department. Cofounder of the TeNeT Group of IIT-Madras, founding Director of NMSWorks Software Ltd, n-Logue Communications Ltd and the IITM Rural Technology Business Incubator. In 1999, took leave from IIT to found Nilgiri Networks, Ooty for development of telecom/networking software.
Interests: design and performance of computer and telecom networks, NMS and telecom billing. With emphasis on innovative and low-cost product and technology development for Indian and international industry. Fostering software development in small towns and rural areas.
Has published over 50 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. Has 2 patents granted and 3 filed.
RECENT R&D PROJECTS:
NMS for Tactical Communication System (sponsored by CAIR, Bangalore)
Advanced Network Management System: architecture, design and implementation of an integrated NMS for convergent telecom networks (sponsored by NMSWorks Software Ltd, Chennai)
Access terminal: embedded software, real-time OS for low-cost access terminals based on Leon and other processors; local language software for Linux (sponsored by Novatium Solutions Ltd, Chennai)
corDECT Wireless Local Loop: design and implementation of the embedded switching software running on Linux OS; performance evaluation of the system (sponsored by Midas Communications Technologies, Chennai)
Direct Internet Access System: system architecture, soft-switching concept (sponsored by Banyan Networks, Chennai)
Consultant to the Indian financial sector, including the Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT), State Bank of India and 3i Infotech.

As Director of IP Communications at Avaya Labs, Venky Krishnaswamy leads the effort to create innovative new platforms and technologies that enable next generation enterprise communications capabilities on IP networks. He first joined Bell Laboratories as a summer intern in 1986 while pursuing his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Yale University. Subsequently, he joined Bell Labs as a Member of Technical Staff in 1991. Krishnaswamy has been an active contributor to the advancement of IP Telephony Research since the early 90s. An early champion of voice-over-IP, he built Bell Labs prototypes of an IP PBX, IP Telephone and a "Virtual Desktop" system of intelligent communications assistants in the mid-to-late 90's. Prior to his current assignment at Avaya Labs, he led a team that was responsible for developing Lucent's (and, subsequently, Avaya's) first IP Telephone product. More recently, he has led projects to explore the area of converged communications applications using technologies such as SIP and XML. He is the author of numerous papers and articles on a variety of telecommunications and Internet topics and has been an invited speaker at numerous conference and industry events. He holds 5 US and international patents

Dr. Vikram Srinivasan obtained his Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Chennai in 1994 and an M.E in Electrical Communications Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1998. He obtained his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California at San Diego in 2003. He was an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the National University of Singapore from 2003-2007. He is currently with Bell Labs Research India. His research interests are broadly in the area of wireless networks.

Anupam Joshi is a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at UMBC. He is presently on leave from UMBC and a Visiting Scientist at IBM India Research Lab. Earlier, he was an Assistant Professor in the CECS department at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He obtained a B. Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi in 1989, and a Masters and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University in 1991 and 1993 respectively. His research interests are in the broad area of networked computing and intelligent systems. His primary focus has been on data management and security for mobile, pervasive, and sensor systems. He is also interested in Semantic Web, Social Media, and Data/Web Mining, where he has worked on creating personalized and secure web spaces using a combination of agents, policies, and soft computing. He has published over 150 technical papers, and has obtained research support from NSF, NASA, DARPA, DoD, IBM, LMCO, AetherSystens, HP, AT&T and Intel. He has presented tutorials in conferences, served as guest editor for special issues for VLDB J., Comm. ACM etc., and served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions of Fuzzy Systems from 99-03. He currently serves on the editorial board of the Intl. J. Semantic Web and Information Systems. At UMBC, Joshi teaches courses in Operating Systems, Mobile Computing, Networking, Security, and Web Mining. He is a member of IEEE, IEEE-CS, and ACM.

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.

Dr. Ashit Talukder is a Senior Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a Federally Funded Research and Development Center under the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), USA. JPL is a part of the California Institute of Technology. He also holds a Research Adjunct Faculty position at the University of Southern California.
Dr. Talukder's leads and manages several projects on wireless sensor networks and wireless systems at JPL and USC funded by the Dept. of Defense, National Institute of Health (NIH), DARPA, National Science Foundation (NSF), and NASA. He led the effort to design and develop the first custom ultra-low-power, frequency-agile, flexible range wireless platform for long-term mobile applications. He is instrumental in designing, developing and demonstrating one of the first few totally autonomous and reactive large area wireless environmental monitoring systems that is now being used to monitor the entire New York / New Jersey coastal and harbor areas spanning several hundreds of square kilometers. Dr. Talukder received the NASA Space Act Award in 2003 and 2005, and the Premium Award for Academic Excellence at Iowa State University. He received the Honorary Special Mention Paper Award at the IEEE Intl. Conference on Intelligent Sensors and Information Processing. He has two awarded patents and one pending patent. He has more than 60 publications in journals and conferences. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a M.S in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Iowa State University.

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.

Mr. Balaji has more than 18 years of telecom industry experience. At Tech Mahindra, he heads some of the IP-related initiatives around VoIP, 3GPP IMS, and IPTV. Over the last eight years, he has led several projects and provided consultancy around VoIP, SS7, Network Planning and Applications/Services. Mr. Balaji's past experience includes product engineering work around C-DOT technology switching systems and, network planning and Switch Operations for one of the first set of GSM networks in India in 1995.

As Assistant Director, Business Development, Himanshu is responsible for identifying future business and technology trends, tying them to strategic telecommunication provider's customer strategies, and developing applicable solutions. He is with UTStarcom since 2005 and has recently relocated to India from the US. While in UTStarcom in US, he had led worldwide marketing for their professional services.
Himanshu has over 15 years in the telecommunication marketplace experience in technology development, product management, marketing and business development. Prior to UTStarcom, he was with 3Com, where he led the development of the first SIP based Softswitch/IP Telephony products for service providers and subsequently led the market entry of Converged Communication solutions - IP Telephony, IP Messaging, IP Conferencing and Presence Solutions - to enterprises.
Himanshu holds an MBA from the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, a Master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago and a Bachelor's in Electrical and Electronics from the National Institute of Technology, Surathkal.
Previous speaking engagements include the International Engineering Consortium (IEC), Voice On the Net (VON), and iLocus IP Telephony.

Hitesh Jain heads Telecom Business, APAC & MEA at Satyam Computer Services Ltd.
Hitesh has over 15 years of experience in Strategy, Sales and Operations in the Telecom infrastructure and Services space. Before joining Satyam, he was with IBM India's Communication Sector, where he headed strategic Business Development for Telecom, Media, Energy, Utilities & BPO businesses. At IBM, Hitesh has managed multimillion dollar, complex solution based businesses. He was instrumental in building robust presence in Energy & utilities and BPO / BTO segment for IBM India.
Earlier, Hitesh worked with Nortel and Ericsson in Telecom Infrastructure and Operator business environment.
Hitesh is a gold medalist in BE from Vikram University, MP. He has done Diploma in Project Management from Australian Institute of Project Management. He has attended several senior leadership programs from IVY School of Business, INSEAD, and China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) etc.

Mr. Cho is the CEO and founder of Actus Netwroks, Inc. which is a leading solution provider of the carrier Ethernet access technologies including PBT, EVC, OAM, PWE3, Timing over packet and Ethernet ring protection. Actus Networks is founded at 2005 and providing the carrier Ethernet access solutions to the Telecommunication Equipment Manufacturer. Recently Actus Networks is actively participating in G.8032 standard activities. Prior to Actus Networks, he has over 20 years experienced in telecommunication engineering and related jobs. He was previously the managing director of Comtec Systems Co. Ltd.(Korea) and had many positions in the product marketing and engineering in telecommunication and computer networks at Cisco Systems, Inc and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. He holds a bachelor degree in computer science from Sogang University and a MBA from Korea Advanced Institute of Technolgy.