BT Summit 2008 Advisory Panel

IT Secretary, Government of Karnataka

M N Vidyashankar is the Chairperson of the Business Technology Summit advisory board. Vidyashankar is the Chief Electoral Officer for the State of Karnataka since May 2007. Vidyashankar has been IT Secretary of Karnataka from October 2006 to April 2007. Besides IT, Vidyashankar also held the post of Secretary for Biotechnology, and Science and Technology. While at Bangalore Development Authority, he was instrumental in implanting the e-Pragathi project aimed at creating multi-utility kiosks across the city for the payment of utility bills.

Vice President & Head, SETLabs, Infosys Technologies

Subu Goparaju is Vice President and Head of Software Engineering and Technology Labs (SETLabs), the Center for Technology Research and Innovation at Infosys and Microsoft Technology Center (MTC), which is responsible for building new services and solutions on MS platform. He also heads the company's IP Cell (Intellectual Property Cell) which is responsible for protecting and exploiting company's intellectual property. Subu received a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree from Mangalore University (KREC, now NIT-Suratkal) in Electrical and Electronics in 1988.

Managing Director, Webex Communications India Pvt. Ltd

Kiran Datar has over 12 years of experience in various high technology and finance positions. He co-introduced the concept of Conferencing Services in India and has a wealth of experience in the emerging Indian telecom scenario. Kiran has also worked as a Strategist (International Economics and Foreign Exchange) at the Treasury Department of ABN AMRO, Chicago and at the Emerging Markets Department of Credit Suisse First Boston in fixed income & equity fields with focus on analyzing companies in the telecom space. Today, Kiran Datar, is at the helm of a business that leads the Indian web conferencing market with 65% share, and the audio conferencing one with 54% share (Frost & Sullivan).

President, EMC India & SAARC

Alok Ohrie is the President of EMC India & SAARC Region. In his role Alok is responsible for growing EMC's business in the region while providing strategic direction and operational focus. Besides helping customers across segments and size of business in leveraging their information infrastructure for competitive advantage, he also focuses on building EMC brand, driving local partnerships and strategic alliances and developing capabilities of EMC organization in India & SAARC. Alok has over two decades of experience in information technology industry in India and abroad including AMD India, IBM Global Services, Wipro Infotech & ESPL Ltd.

Vice-President & Managing Director, EMC India Centre of Excellence

With over 17 years experience in the IT industry, Sarv currently leads EMC's rapidly growing research and development, global services and business-support operations in India. India COE is central to EMC's globalization goals and Sarv is responsible to scale and mature the India COE. His mandate is to develop the COE as a world class R&D center, incubate global service offerings and bring the synergy between the two to maximize the benefits for EMC's customers worldwide out of the India Center. He is also responsible for EMC's outsourcing to India. Sarv joined EMC from Microsoft India where he was Managing Director of Microsoft Global Services Center India Pvt Ltd (MGSI, the global delivery organization of Microsoft Enterprise Services).

General Manager - Marketing, Strategy and ISV Alliances, AMD India

Deepanshu is responsible for marketing, the overall AMD India strategy and alliances with ISVs for India and the SAARC region. He joined AMD in 2005, as part of the expanding AMD India operations, and forms the core management team which is leading the charge for AMD in India. Deepanshu also serves on AMDs Worldwide Brand Council and the Corporate Marketing Council which defines the course of AMDs global brand evolution. Deepanshu's career spanning over a decade and a half, include assingments with Apple Computer India, Tektronix India and Kirloskar Multimedia.