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| Past Speaker Profiles - January 2012 |
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Anirban Pal
SME, Emerging Trends & Technologies, Mahindra Satyam |
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Anirban Pal is the Subject Matter Expert for “Emerging Trends & Technologies” in Mahindra Satyam. He spearheads the Software Architecture, Design, Agile & Business Analysis disciplines in MSat. He is a practicing Architect & Agile coach.
Anirban’s passion to learn and explore has seen him play with “Cloud computing”, “Agile Methods”, “Collaborative Technologies”, RIAs, Open Source, Mobile platform, etc. He has 11+ yrs. of experience in software architecting, development, design and testing of solutions.
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| Anirban is a Certified Cloud Architect, Certified Scrum Master, Agile Alliance Certified Agile Trainer, Microsoft Certified ASAP Architect, IBM Certified MQ Developer and a certified Education consultant. |
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Atul Shah
Founder, Consumyze |
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Atul has 15+ years of experience Networking and Telecom domain both for enterprises and telcos. Currently, he is the co-founder and CEO of Consumyze Software building an online consumer engagement platform for small businesses.
Prior to this, Atul had co-founded Mimas Technologies, building embedded TCP/IP stack for multi-core devices, and was acquired by Mocana Solutions, USA. Atul's responsibilities included bootstrapping, growing and delivery of products for Mimas/Mocana.
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Apart from this, Atul has been in senior management positions at GS Labs and Tech Mahindra and was involved in building next generation VoIP products both of Indian and US markets.
Atul completed his bachelor’s degree in Computers from PICT, Pune, in 1995 and joined Wipro R&D as a campus hire and worked on various networking products. He spent his early years in the US developing VoIP protocols for Vertical Networks before returning to India in 2003. |
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Kiruba Shankar
CEO, Business Blogging Pvt. Ltd. |
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Kiruba Shankar is the CEO of Business Blogging, a leading social media consulting firm. He is one of Asia’s foremost expert in Digital strategies, bringing in 16 years of work experience in the online space.
He is a serial entrepreneur having started new ventures in diverse fields. He co-founded F5ive Technologies that does open source development. He is a passionate agriculturist and farms at Vaksana, his 7 Acre farm. Being passionate about books, he started a publishing company called Verdure Books. |
He has authored 3 books: ‘Copy Right and Left: Understanding Creative Commons’ , ‘Wikipedia : A Beginner’s Guide’ and ‘Crowdsourcing Tweet’. His next book on Couchsurfing will soon be published.
He has been a technology columnist at The New Indian Express, Business Standard and Financial Express. He sat on the advisory board of RangDe, a peer-to-peer micro-lending initiative supported by ICICI Foundation.
He has lectured on Social Media at a few IIMs, IIT Madras and Asian College of Journalism. He is the Ambassador for TEDx program for India. He is the curator of Cerebrate.in, an international event for achievers.
He is a professional podcaster and hosts Kiruba.TV where he interviews global achievers. BusinessWorld magazine once ranked his blog Kiruba.com as one of India’s top blogs. |
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Rohit Pandarkar
Deputy CTO, CanvasM |
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Rohit Pandharkar holds a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Media Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was the member of the core team that invented “camera that can look around corners”. He holds several patents and international publications in Computer Vision, Imaging, Cryptography and Mobile analytics.
Rohit has represented India at multiple international research and innovation forums. He belongs to the CTO office at CanvasM, the mobile arm of Mahindra group. CanvasM runs a state-of-the-art Social Media Analytics platform in collaboration with a US based technology partner.
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Suresh Babu
Founder, Web Marketing Academy |
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Suresh Babu is the Founder of Web Marketing Academy and the Co- Founder of OME Community. He educates and mentors professionals, students, small businesses, corporate and organizations with SEO, Social Media, Web Marketing Strategies through Hands-On One on One training sessions, workshops, meetings, seminars and speaking.
Suresh has lectured at universities such as Manatee Community College, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, Christ University, Archarya Business School, Commits Institute of Journalism.
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| After returning to India in 2008, he saw a gap and a need for proper online marketing education in India, to fill in the gap, connect web marketing practitioners to professional & students, Suresh founded Web Marketing Academy, A premier Training Institute on Digital Marketing, SEO, Social media and web analytics. |
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Vihang Pathak
Product Manager, Oracle WebCenter |
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Vihang Pathak has been in the software development industry in domains like Portal, Mobility, Content Delivery,Payment Systems and Security for more than 12 years.
Currently, he is part of the WebCenter Product Management team around social components. He has been blogging around a variety of topics and has given presentations at various sponsored events.
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Vineet Jawa
CEO, Gaboli |
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Vineet is currently the CEO of Gaboli, a web technology company focused on the building online communities for Education and enterprise customers. He is also a co-founding Director at startup IDfy.com which is pioneering the use of technology in the area of background verifications.
He has worked for ten years in the IT field with roles ranging from account management to consulting. Prior to founding Gaboli, he worked from the President's office at Tech Mahindra, and was part of the BT sales team in London.
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Vineet holds an MBA from ISB, Hyderabad and bachelor’s in Economics from SRCC, Delhi.
In his free time, Vineet can be seen researching the web, writing his blog and pulling practical jokes on his friends. |
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