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Conference Program

  • Day 1
    Thu, Dec 15
  • Day 2
    Fri, Dec 16
09:00-09:30 Registrations and Welcome, Inaugural Address: Prof. Ashwin Gumaste, Chairman of the Steering Committee, India Telco Summit 2011
09:30-10:15

Keynote #1 and Inauguration: Government of India
Plenary Talk: N. Ravi Shankar, Jt Secretary DIT, Head, Universal Service Obligation Funds (USOF).
Invited Talks: Shri Dr. Govind, Sr. Director, MCIT, Ms. Tulika Pandey, Addl. Dir. MCIT.

10:15-11:00

Keynote #2
Peeyush Agrawal, Executive Director, MTNL

11:00-11:20 Tea Break
11:20-12:30

Session #1:
Session Chair: Saurabh Mehta, GNL, IIT Bombay

  1. Shamim Akhtar, Sr. Director, Net. Architecture and Tech., Comcast, USA
  2. Deepak Kakadia, Verizon Wireless, USA
  3. Y. S. Subbarao, GM, Telecom Division ECIL.
12:30-13:15

Session #2
Session Chair: Tamal Das, GNL, IIT Bombay

  1. Dirk Weiler, Head of Standard Management, NSN, Germany
  2. Sanjeev Keskar, Managing Director Sales, India & SEA, PMC-Sierra
  3. Tony Antony, Director, Cisco Systems, USA
13:15-14:15 Lunch Break
14:15-15:30

Session #3
Session Chair: Raviraj Vaishampayan, GNL, IIT Bombay

  1. Kumar Sivarajan, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Tejas Networks.
  2. Raman Santhanakrishnan, Managing Director (MD), LSI, India.
  3. Ramesh MC, Akamai India
  4. Steve Xu, Head of Strategy, Huawei.
  5. Mod Marathe, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco Systems, USA.
15:30-15:50
Tea Break
15:50-17:00

Session #4
Session Chair: Sarvesh Bidkar, GNL, IIT Bombay.

  1. Arvind Mathur, Office of CTO, Cisco Systems, USA
  2. Devaraj Srinivasan, General Manager & Head R'n'D, Wipro
  3. Sri Nathan, Vice President – Business Development, Menara Networks
  4. Nitin Bhandari, AVP, Vodafone India
  5. Anil Pande, Director - Telecom Marketing, Dura-Line India
  6. Sanjay Kawle, Director, ZTE, India
17:00-18:30

Panel #1: Service Providers and Vendors Panel
Moderator: Ashwin Gumaste, GNL, IIT Bombay
Panelists:

  1. A. R Patil, DGM Data Center, MTNL Mumbai
  2. Rakesh Pundir, VP, Idea Cellular
  3. Speaker from, Tata Teleservices
  4. Nitin Bhandari, AVP, Vodafone India
  5. Deepak Kakadia, Verizon Wireless.
  6. Dirk Weiler, Head of Standard Management, NSN, Germany
  7. Vikram Srinivasan, Director, Network Systems Group, Alcatel Lucent India Labs.
  8. Partho Mishra, VP & GM, Cisco Service Provider Business Unit PABU
  9. YS Subbarao, GM, Telecom Division, ECIL India
  10. Shamim Akhtar, Sr. Director, Net. Architecture and Tech., Comcast, USA
09:00-09:30 Registrations
09:30-10:15

Welcome Address: Prof. Imrich Chlamtac, President Create-net, Officer, European Alliance for Innovation.

  1. Ravi Chauhan, Managing Director, India & SAARC, Juniper Networks
  2. Ying-Dar Lin, Professor NCTU, Taiwan
  3. Shri. Prabhakar Dhekne, Office of the PSA, Govt. of India.
10:15-10:30

Tea Break

10:30-11:50

Session #5
Session Chair: Deval Bhamare, GNL, IIT Bombay

  1. Chandramouli Sargor, Head of Technology, Ericsson India.
  2. Krishnaiyan Thulasiraman, University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA
  3. Venkatesh Krishnaswamy, Director, IP Communications Research, Avaya Labs
  4. Gouri Gudla, Akamai India
  5. Mohamed Shajahan bin Mohd. Iqbal, Three-Opp (M) Sdn. Bhd., Malaysia
11:50-13:15

Session #6
Session Chair: Raviraj Vaishampayan, GNL, IIT Bombay

  1. Tony Antony, Sr. Director, Cisco Systems
  2. Shriprakash Pandey, CEO, Commtel Networks, India/USA
  3. Rajesh Rao, Head Asia Pac, JDSU
  4. Anjali Agarwal, Sr Scientist Telcordia, USA.
  5. Massimo Di Blasio, Director, Carrier Business Development, Finisar Corporation
13:15-14:15 Lunch Break
14:15-15:15

Session #7
Session Chair: Ashwin Gumaste, GNL, IIT Bombay

  1. Bart Freedman, Sr VP, JDSU
  2. Paparao Palacharla, Senior Researcher, Network System Innovation Group, Fujitsu Labs, USA.
  3. Sukant K. Mohapatra, Vice-President, Technology, VPIsystems, USA
  4. Sterling Perinn, Sr Analyst, Heavyreading.
  5. Vijay Jain, CTO, Sterlite Technologies, Network Infrastructure business
  6. Girish Saraph, Dept. of Elec. Engg., IIT Bombay
15:15-15:30 Tea Break
15:30-17:30

Panel #2: Carrier Network Health
Moderator: Vishal Sharma, Metanoia Inc.
Panelists:

  1. Madhawesh Kulkarni, VP of Carrier Services & Solutions, Aricent Inc.
  2. Pranesh Babu K, CTO, SIFY
  3. Ajay Ranjan Mishra, Global Head of Industry Environment, NSN
  4. Stephen Miles, VP, Service Assurance, Asia Pacific, CA Technologies
  5. Upendra Manyam, CTO, Commtel Networks.
17:30-17:45

Closing Ceremony
Chief Guest: Madhukar V. Pitke (IEEE Life Fellow), Prabhakar Dhekne (BARC and PSA office), Dr. Govind (MCIT)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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