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Dear Speakers, delegates, and guests,

It is my honor and distinct privilege to welcome you to the 3rd Emerging Tech-nologies conference — EmTech India 2011— brought to you by MIT’s Techology Review and CyberMedia. This is the thrid EmTech conference being held outside the MIT Campus.

The conference focuses on techologies and innovations as they ap-ply to business and strategy. We believe companies that innovate and focus on technology will be the one that will emerge as change agents and leaders, espe-cially in the current eco-nomic scenario. I therefore invite your association with EmTech India conference and show to the world the technology leadership that you have.

EmTech India will help you to discover critical innovation in comput-ing, communications, biotechnology, energy, healthcare, nanotechnology, the Web, and more. These innovations will help you with insights into coming trends and chart out implications for your businesses.

EmTech India 2011 has brought together not only the emerging technologies that could dramatically impact businesses, but also the key players behind these innova-tions. At the conference you will meet busi-ness visionaries, researchers and innovators across a variety of fields.

I am also excited to introduce you to India

TR35, the second edition list of India’s young innovators under the age of 35. The India TR35 is based on Technology Review’s globally acclaimed listing of TR35, and uses the same processes and method-ologies. This year 18 young innovators will be showcasing their products and tech-nologies during the conference. Some of India’s finest experts in various fields have helped us to select these members of the 2011 India TR35 programme.

CyberMedia sees Technol-ogy Review India and EmTech India becoming the most-re-spected source for features, analysis and news on emerg-ing technologies and their impact in India. While India has many polished technol-ogy magazines in specific vertical industries, it so far lacks a thought-leader publication and conference that connects the innovation economy and breakthrough technologies. Technology Review India and

EmTech India will fulfill this need, as India takes its place among the first rank of en-trepreneurial nations driven by technologi-cal innovations.

I extend a special welcome to all our relationship partners, both domestic and in-ternational, and MIT’s memebers who have contributed greatly to this conference.

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Publisher’s Letter


Day 1, Tuesday, March 22, 2011 Mysore Hall B08:00 - 09:00 Registration09:00 - 09:40 India Innovates: Invocation and Welcome Address by Technology Review

Publishers and opening remark by Sanjay Correa, Vice President and Managing Director, GE India Technology Centre, Bangalore

09:45 - 11:00 Keynote Address: The Future of Energy Daniel Nocera, Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy and Professor of Chemistry, MIT Department of Chemistry Keynote address by the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy and Professor of Chemistry. The Nocera group studies the energy conversion in biology and chemistry. Efforts have focused on understanding the reactions of multielectron, proton-coupled transformations of energy poor substrates. From this platform, the group has successfully used solar light to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. Recently, they have realized artificial photosynthesis by the solar splitting of water under benign conditions. In doing so, the Nocera group can now provide solar energy/storage and clean water to the poor and those of the non-legacy world.

11:00 - 11:25 TEA BREAK11:30 - 12:15 Special Address: Learning from Experience: Successful Innovation at MIT

Jeffrey M. Karp, HST Affiliate Faculty and Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School and Co-Director of the Regenerative Therapeutics Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. This talk will explore ideas that were generated at MIT where laboratory-based proof of concepts quickly lead to the formation of successful startup companies. It will discuss key aspects of a conducive environment that maximizes the translation of laboratory work to the clinic.

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12:15 - 13:00 Plenary Session: Activating the Innovation Gene Panel Discussion On one hand researchers are pursuing work on novel vaccines such as universal flu vaccine, cardiovascular vaccines, cancer vaccines and more, while on the other hand there is exciting stuff happening in the area of stem cells. The panel explores the new imperatives in these areas. Moderator: D. Balasubramanian, Director of Research, LV Prasad Eye Institute Speakers: Chetan Chitnis, Principal Leader, Malaria Group, ICGEB; Udaykumar Ranga, Professor, JNCASR, Bangalore; Sanjay Kakkar, Trustee, Thrombosis Research Institute, Bangalore; Jeffrey M. Karp, HST Affiliate Faculty, Assistant Professor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Co-Director, Regenerative Therapeutics Center, Brigham & Women’s Hospital.

13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH14:00 - 14:55 Special Address: Location-Aware Wireless Networks

14:00 - 14:10: Innovating For and From India in Large MNCs: A talk by Viswanath Poosala, Head of Bell Labs India at Alcatel-Lucent 14:10 - 14:55: Moe Win, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Professor Win’s research encompasses developing fundamental theories, designing algorithms, and conducting experimentation for a broad range of real-world problems. His current research topics include location-aware networks, intrinsically secure wireless networks, aggregate interference in heterogeneous networks, ultra-wide bandwidth systems, multiple antenna systems, time-varying channels, optical transmission systems, and space communications systems. Professor Win is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer and elected Fellow of the IEEE, cited for “contributions to wideband wireless transmission.” He was honored with the IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award (2006), an IEEE Technical Field Award for “pioneering contributions to ultra-wide band communications science and technology.”

Day 1, Tuesday, March 22, 2011 Mysore Hall B

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14:55 - 15:30 Plenary Session: Global Communications & Collaborations Panel Discussion The discussion on Future of Mobile Technology (LTE/4G) will focus on both the benefits and the challenges that the rapid growth of wireless presents for our planet. This session will discuss how advances in wireless technology, such as 4G, will transform and shape our future. Faster networks and more powerful, connected devices and applications like mobile video are changing everything from entertainment to the way we communicate. Moderator: Prasanto K. Roy, President and Chief Editor, ICT Group, CyberMedia Speakers: Aloknath De, Director and Country Manager, ST-Ericsson India; Moe Win, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Viswanath Poosala, Head of Bell Labs India, Alcatel-Lucent.

15:30 - 16:00 TEA BREAK16:00 - 18:00 INDIA TR35: Meet the 2011 INDIA TR35 Young Innovators

Each year, the editors of Technology Review honor the TR35, a set of young innovators whose inventions and research we find most exciting. Listen to the eighteen 2011 India TR35 honorees describe their inspiring work – in 6 minutes or less!

18:00 – 18:30 BREAK18:30-20:00 India TR35 Celebration Presented by Wipro

• Yakshagana performance by Krishna Murthy Tunga and troupe. • Honoring Technology Review India’s award-winning young innovators, all under age 35, who exemplify innovation in business and technology. Their work—spanning medicine, computing, communications, electronics, nanotechnology, and more—is changing our world.

20:00 - 22:00 Networking and India TR35 Reception

Day 1, Tuesday, March 22, 2011 Mysore Hall B

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Day 2, Wednesday, March 23, 2011 Mysore Hall B08:00 - 09:15 Registration09:15 - 09:40 India Innovates: EmTech 2011 Round Up and Opening Remarks by Gregory K.

Ornatowski, Senior Associate Director, MIT Office of Corporate Relations, ILP.09:45 - 11:00 Keynote Address: Ubiquitous Technologies

Kent Larson, Principal Research Scientist and Director, Changing Places, MIT Department of Architecture Kent Larson directs the Changing Places research group at the MIT Media Lab. He is also director of the MIT House and Research Consortium and the MIT Living Labs initiative in the School of Architecture and Planning. His current research is focused on: • Responsive Urban Housing – Strategies to disentangle places of living into three independently configured layers: high performance chassis, integrated infill, and responsive façade modules to create zero-energy, mass customized, scalable housing. • Ubiquitous Technologies – Wireless sensing, algorithms, and interfaces to understand and respond to human activity. Projects range from fine-grain activity recognition using wearable accelerometers, a persuasive thermostat using GPS location of occupants, to a context-aware tunable LED lighting for office environments. • Living Lab Experiments – Deploying and testing design and technology solutions in actual environments.

11:00 - 11:25 TEA BREAK11:30 - 12:00 Special Address

Dean Deborah Fitzgerald, Kenan Sahin Dean, MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences; Professor of the History of Technology, Program in Science, Technology, and Society

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12:00 - 13:00 Plenary Session: Energy Mix of the Future Panel Discussion Energy alternatives and improving energy efficiency will be part of every solution to address the energy concerns. But there’s no doubt that “transformative technologies”, equivalent to the discovery of the transistor, are needed to make energy alternatives effective. The panel will look at some of the emerging trends. Moderator: Alok Nanda, GE India Engineering Leader for Gas Turbine and Power Plant Engineering, GE Speakers: Dilip Ahuja, Dean, Academic Affairs, NIAS, Bangalore; Anshu Bharadwaj, Executive Director, Center for Study of Science, Technology, and Policy, Bangalore; GS Deshpande, GM Engineering, Thermax India, Pune; Ranjan Patnaik, Head, Biofuels Research Group, DuPont Knowledge Center (DKC), Hyderabad.

13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH14:00 - 14:30 Special Address: 3-D: The Holy Grail of Immersive Experience

Sudhir Dixit, Director, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories India There is a growing interest in developing immersive and engaging experiences for the end-user through fusing some of the coolest technologies, such as speech, touch, gestures, and even gaze. In addition, the rapidly arriving era of 3-D and multimedia is likely to significantly impact our daily computing and communications experiences. We believe human computer interface will drive the continued growth, acceptance, and applicability of technology. Sudhir’s talk will examine the confluence of cool interaction technologies, role of paper, mobile devices, video and the cloud to further drive the penetration of ICT.

14:30 - 15:30 Plenary Session: Future of Computing and Search Panel Discussion Computing has become a foundation for all scientific activities, spreading across physical, biological, and the social sciences, and has gone beyond the mathematical science where computing had its roots. Similarly, search has become an intrinsic activity for all human beings, going beyond the scientists. Naturally, computing and search have far-reaching impact on the society and this session will provide a glimpse into the future of such exciting activity. Moderator: S. Sadagopan, Director, IIIT-BSpeakers: HS Jamadagni, Professor, Centre for Electronics Design and Technology (CEDT), IISc; Manish Gupta, Director, IBM Research India; Subrahmanyam Goparaju, Senior Vice President, SET Labs, Infosys; Ashwin Gumaste, James R. Isaac Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT, Bombay; I. Vijaya Kumar, CTO, Wipro.

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15:30 - 16:00 TEA BREAK16:00 - 16:55 Keynote Panel: Lab to Market: Success is Not Final, Failure is Not Fatal

Innovation in business and technology no longer means a lone scientist screaming “Eureka!” in a dusty lab. Corporations are turning to centers of research and launching their own labs in hopes that diverse groups of interdisciplinary experts will collaborate on ideas that transform our world. Our panelists will share stories drawn from their decades of real-world wisdom in leading teams to cutting-edge breakthroughs and frustrating dead ends. Moderator: Jason Pontin, Editor in Chief and Publisher, Technology Review Speakers: Wido Menhardt, CEO, Philips Innovation Center, Bangalore; Kent Larson, Principal Research Scientist and Director, Changing Places, MIT Department of Architecture; Moe Win, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Mano Manoharan, General Manager, GE Global Research India.

17:00 - 18:00 Closing Keynote: The Triumphs and Tensions of Technology Andrew McAfee, Principal Research Scientist, MIT Sloan School of Management In recent years, the advances made and benefits brought by digital technologies have been nothing short of astonishing. Around the world science fiction is becoming reality, businesses are delighting their customers, and people’s lives are improving thanks to computers in all their forms. We are living in fascinating times. However, some tensions are becoming apparent as the world digitizes. We now face difficult choices between algorithms and intuition, focus and distraction, employment and displacement. In his talk, Dr. McAfee will highlight both recent progress and coming problems in the Age of the Smart Machine.

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Day 1, Tuesday, March 22, 2011 Mysore Hall A

Innovation Live!11:30 – 12:30 Special Address

Ramkumar (Ram) Narayanan, Vice President, Global Product Management (Search & Marketplaces and Emerging Markets) Yahoo! Inc. Ram Narayanan is responsible for leading product strategy and management for Search & Marketplaces and Emerging Markets at Yahoo! Inc.

12:30 – 13:00 Intelligent Power Management Speaker: Puneet Gupta, Principal, Mobile Computing Research and Senior Product Line Manager, Infosys Mobile Platforms Puneet Gupta, who specializes in mobile computing, wireless and convergence technologies, is currently spearheading mobile computing research at the R&D establishment of Infosys Technologies and manages the Infosys mobility product line. He will showcase how to smartly manage power through Infosys iSmart intelligent power strip.

13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH14:00 – 14:30 Infosys iProwe Web Accessibility Solutions

Speaker: Ajay Kolhatkar, Research Analyst, Future Web Research Lab - SETLabs, Infosys Ajay co-leads the Usability and Accessibility research at the Future Web Research Lab of the R&D establishment of Infosys Technologies. He will be talking about the iProwe web accessibility solutions from Infosys.

14:35 – 15:05 SWAN: Non-contrast MR Angiography Speaker: Ramesh Venkatesan, Principal Engineer, MRI Software and Applications Engineering, GE Healthcare SWAN stands for T2Star Weighted MR Angiography. SWAN is a novel non-contrast technique that can be used for diagnosing venous malformations such as moya-moya disease that afflicts young children. This technique also highlights micro-hemorrhages, and has proven especially useful in asymptomatic aged patients.

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Day 2, Wednesday, March 23, 2011 Mysore Hall A

Innovation Live!11:30 – 12:00 Multimodal Interfaces for Human Computer Interaction

Speaker: Sriganesh Madhvanath, Senior Research Scientist and Research Manager, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories India Humans are capable of high bandwidth communication with other humans through the use of multiple modalities such as speech, gaze, hand gestures, facial expressions and many other aspects of what is commonly called “non-verbal communication” or “body language”. In the same vein, Multimodal Interfaces attempt to combine multiple input modalities such as speech and gestures for human computer interaction and are potentially more efficient, robust and convenient to use compared to unimodal ones. In this talk, Madhvanath will present an overview of the research at HP Labs India on multimodal interfaces and touch upon topics of interaction design, authoring and multimodal fusion.

12:00 – 12:30 SiteOnMobile - Delivering Internet Over Low-End Phones Speaker: Geetha Manjunath, Senior Research Scientist and Research Manager, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories India More than 50 percent of the handsets sold in emerging markets like India are low-end phones with just voice and text messaging capabilities. HP Labs India will propose a solution to deliver Internet experiences over such phones. The approach enables rapid creation of new Web applications that can be accessed over SMS and voice. These applications (called Tasklets) can be created without any programming knowledge.

13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH14:00 – 14:30 Live Demo of FonoDoc

Speaker: Arvind Thiagarajan, Founder Chairman and Chief Inventor, HD Medical Group, Chennai Arvind Thiagarajan specializes in signal processing and algorithm development. He has developed a technology to detect heart murmurs. He will showcase the handheld device and give a live demo of how it functions.

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Innovation Live!14:30 – 15:00 Live Demo of Avaz

Speaker: Ajit Narayanan, Founder and Chairman, Invention Labs Engineering Products The 2011 India TR35 Innovator of the Year, Ajit Narayanan has developed AVAZ, a portable, battery-operated device which constructs messages from coarse muscle movements. These messages are then converted into speech. AVAZ is thus an artificial voice for non-verbal people. The session will comprise of a live demo of the product.

15:00 – 15:30 Live Demo of the Paper-Pen-Digital Slate record management solution Speaker: Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan, Associate Researcher, Technology for Emerging Markets group, Microsoft Research Labs India 2011 India TR35 winner Aishwarya Ratan has developed a low-cost digital record management system that allows users the full range of benefits of both paper and digital approaches. The session will showcase the technology solution.

15:30 - 16:00 TEA BREAK

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Andrew McAfee, Author Enterprise 2.0 and Principal Research Scientist, Center for Digital Business, MIT Sloan School of Management

Author of Enterprise 2.0, Andrew McAfee studies the ways that information technology (IT) affects businesses and business as a whole. A Guru in Enterprise business models, his research investigates how IT changes the way companies perform, organize themselves, and compete. At a higher level, his work also investigates how computerization affects competition. He coined the phrase “Enterprise 2.0” in a spring 2006 Sloan Management Review article to describe the use of Web 2.0 tools and approaches by businesses.

Daniel Nocera, Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy and Professor of Chemistry, MIT Department of Chemistry

Daniel G. Nocera is the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Director of the Solar Revolutions Project and Director of the Eni Solar Frontiers Center at MIT. His group pioneered studies of the basic mechanisms of energy conversion in biology and chemistry. His most recent paper to Science describes for the first time artificial photosynthesis by duplicating the solar fuels process of photosynthesis outside of the leaf - the splitting of water to hydrogen and oxygen using light from neutral water, at atmospheric pressure and room temperature. This discovery sets a course for the large scale deployment of solar energy by providing a mechanism for its storage as a fuel. He has been awarded the Eni-Italgas Prize (2005), IAPS Award (2006), Burghausen Prize (2007), Harrison Howe Award (2008) and ACS Harrison Howe Award (2008) and ACS Inorganic Chemistry Award (2008) for his contributions to the development of renewable energy.

Dean Deborah Fitzgerald, Kenan Sahin Dean, MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences; Professor of the History of Technology, Program in Science, Technology, and Society

Deborah Fitzgerald is Kenan Sahin Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, and Professor of the History of Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society. Dean Fitzgerald’s research focuses on the industrialization of agriculture, particularly in 20th century America. Along with Harriet Ritvo, she is the co-organizer of the MIT Seminar in Environmental and Agricultural History. The Dean is also active in the Society for the History of Technology, and is the immediate past president of the Agricultural History Society.

Gregory K. Ornatowski, Senior Associate Director, Corporate Relations / Director, MIT Japan Office

Ornatowski is a Senior Associate Director in the Office of Corporate Relations at MIT and the Director of the MIT Tokyo Office. He works with various companies in the automotive, electronics and materials industries. Prior to joining MIT, he worked as a consultant in the Boston area with Standard and Poor’s DRI and Harbor Research. In addition to his corporate experience, Dr. Ornatowski has taught at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Boston University, and Trinity College.

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KeyNOTe & SpeciAl ADDreSSJason pontin, Editor in Chief and Publisher, Technology Review

As editor in chief, Jason Pontin is responsible for the editorial direction of the award-winning magazine Technology Review and TechnologyReview.com. Pontin took on the role of publisher in September 2005, overseeing all aspects of the company’s growth strategy, which includes a rapidly expanding website, specialty e-newsletters, an aggressive international expansion, and signature events, such as the annual Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT.

Jeffrey M. Karp, HST Affiliate Faculty and Assistant Professor of Medicine and Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard Medical School Brigham & Women’s Hospital

Jeff Karp is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and is Co-Director of the Regenerative Therapeutics Center at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His research focuses on Stem Cell Engineering, Biomaterials and Drug Delivery, and Medical devices such as needles that sense travel through tissues, or Gecko-inspired medical adhesives that was recently selected as one of Popular Mechanic’s “Top 20 New Biotech Breakthroughs that Will Change Medicine”.

Kent larson, Principal Research Scientist and Director, Changing Places Research Group, MIT Deparment of Architecture

Kent Larson is director of the MIT House_n Research Consortium in the MIT Department of Architecture. He also runs the MIT Open Source Building Alliance and the Changing Places research group at the MIT Media Lab. His current research focuses on strategies for creating responsive places of living via new design/fabrication strategies, defining system level standards for an open source approach to building design and construction, and developing ubiquitous sensing/computation technologies that do useful things for people related to proactive health, energy conservation, communication, and learning. Larson is Founder and Director of the MIT Digital Design Lab, which focuses on architectural research and design using digital tools and the development of new techniques for the visualization of space.

Moe Win, Associate Professor of Aeronautics, MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Moe Win is an Associate Professor at the Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems (LIDS) and the Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His current research topics include location-aware networks, intrinsically secure wireless networks, aggregate interference in heterogeneous networks, ultra-wide bandwidth systems, multiple antenna systems, time-varying channels, optical transmission systems, and space communications systems. Professor Win is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer and elected Fellow of the IEEE, cited for “contributions to wideband wireless transmission.” He was honored with the IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award (2006), an IEEE Technical Field Award for “pioneering contributions to ultra-wide band communications science and technology.”

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pleNAry SeSSiONAloknath De, Director and Country Manager, ST-Ericsson India

Aloknath De has over twenty years of industrial and research experience. He has worked with BEL, Nortel (Montreal), Hughes, and ST Microelectronics prior to leading ST-Ericsson India, Bangalore. He is a snior member of IEEE and a Fellow of IE, IETE and Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE). His current thrust is on Innovation, R&D Efficiency, and Technology Management.

Anshu Bharadwaj, Executive Director, Center for Study of Science, Technology, and Policy (CSTEP)

Anshu Bharadwaj is interested in technology and fuel options in India’s electric power, energy, and transportation sectors. His current research includes biofuels such as ethanol from cellulose, biomass and coal gasification for producing electricity and synthetic fuels, utility scale solar thermal power, and hydrogen and fuel cells. He specializes in computational modeling of energy systems and also in using mathematical tools such as linear/non linear programming, uncertainty analysis and stochastic programming for his research. He also has extensive administrative experience, having been a part of the Indian Administrative Services (IAS) for 15 years before joining CSTEP.

Ashwin Gumaste, James R. Isaac Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Professor Gumaste is currently also a consultant to Nokia Siemens Networks, Munich, where he works on optical access standardization efforts. He was a visiting scientist with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA in the Research Laboratory for Electronics from 2008 to 2010. He was previously with Fujitsu Laboratories (USA) in the Photonics Networking Laboratory (2001-05). He has been with IIT Bombay since 2005 where he convenes the Gigabit Networking Laboratory (GNL).

chetan chitnis, Principal Leader, Malaria Group, ICGEB

Chetan Chitnis completed postdoctoral training in the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease. Currently he is a senior research scientist in the Malaria group at International Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi. He has cracked the puzzle on understanding the interactions of malarial parasite with its host, leading to the development of the first viable malaria vaccine.

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D. Balasubramanian, Director of Research, LV Prasad Eye Institute

Professor D. Balasubramanian’s research focuses on the biology of eye diseases. He joined LV Prasad Eye Institute’s (LVPEI) Professor Brien Holden Eye Research Centre after an illustrious scientific career. He was honored by the Government of India with the Padma Shri in 2002. He has also received several other awards from professional and institutional bodies. Currently, he is President of the Indian Academy of Sciences, and Secretary General of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), Trieste, Italy.

Dilip Ahuja, Dean, Academic Affairs, NIAS

Dilip Ahuja is the ISRO Professor of Science and Technology Policy. Prior to joining National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), he was a Senior Environmental Specialist at the Global Environment Facility Secretariat. His most recent significant research contribution has been to propose advancing the Indian Standard Time by half hour. A recent publication estimates the energy savings and other benefits to be obtained from such a shift.

GS Deshpande, General Manager - Engineering, Thermax India

GS Deshpande is presently working on development of a solar thermal and biomass hybrid power plant for rural electrification, funded jointly by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India and Thermax. He is a mechanical engineering graduate and post graduate from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, specializing in heat, power and refrigeration faculty. He has more than 25 years of experience in the design of package boilers, thermal oil heaters and other process heating equipment.

HS Jamadagni, Professor, Centre for Electronics Design and Technology, Indian Institute of Science

HS Jamadagni is Professor and Chairman of the Centre for Electronics Design and Technology (CEDT), IISc, Bangalore. His current research work is in the areas of application of hybrid wireless networks, embedded systems, and energy management on devices. He has participated in several projects from the industry and the government. He is a cofounder of a communication solutions startup ESQUBE.

i. Vijaya Kumar, CTO, Wipro

I. Vijaya Kumar is Chief Technology Officer of Wipro’s IT businesses covering Wipro Technologies, Wipro Infotech, and Wipro BPO. His responsibilities include technology strategy planning, governance of Centers of Excellence, innovation process, technical stream management, and technology alliances with industry and academic forums. In his earlier role as vice president of Telecom Applications & Solutions business unit at Wipro, he handled the telecom applications business for both product vendors and telecom service providers. He was also the member of the first innovation council at Wipro and participated in many activities related to the charter, scope and operating model of innovation.

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Manish Gupta, Director, IBM Research India

Manish Gupta is the Director of IBM Research India and Chief Technologist for IBM India/South Asia. His research interests include service science, mobile web, parallel systems software, Java virtual machines, and high performance compilers. He leads research efforts to develop breakthrough technologies for IT services, systems, and solutions for growth markets. He also leads the worldwide activities of IBM Research in the mobile web area. Previously, he has led research on system software for the IBM Blue Gene supercomputer (for which IBM received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2009 from the US President) and other Deep Computing platforms.

Mano Manoharan, General Manager, GE Global Research India

Mano Manoharan is the General Manager of GE Global Research at the John F. Welch Technology Centre (JFWTC), Bangalore. JFWTC is GE’s largest integrated, multidisciplinary research and development center. Prior to this role, Mano was the manager of the Coatings and Surface Technologies Laboratory at GE Global Research, Niskayuna, New York, USA. Mano has been deeply involved in transitioning research from the laboratory to the marketplace. In particular, he has focused on strategies that enable high risk, high payoff research activities, such as nanotechnology, to make this transition.

prasanto K. roy, President and Chief Editor, ICT Group, CyberMedia Prasanto joined the CyberMedia group in 1990 in the editorial department of Dataquest. He successfully launched several new activities for the group, including the PCQuest CD-ROM, Computers@Home magazine (now Living Digital), the DQWeeks, and DQChannels. Prasanto is known as one of the finest technology writers, combining a rare blend of business acumen and understanding of technology. He is at equal ease in forecasting ‘business of technology’ trends for CIOs as he is in communicating the impact of new technologies and trends in simple terms for readers.

ranjan patnaik, Head, Biofuels Research Group, DuPont Knowledge Center (DKC)

Ranjan Patnaik has the responsibility for developing and growing the state-of-the art infrastructure for industrial biotechnology at DKC, Hyderabad. He joined DuPont in 2003 as the Fermentation Technology Leader at the DuPont Experimental Station in Wilmington, Delaware. In February 2011 he transferred to India with responsibility to manage and develop resources to accelerate growth of the industrial biotechnology platform with emphasis on biofuels at the DuPont Knowledge Center. His research in the areas of metabolic engineering, bioprocess development for commodity chemical production, and renewable feedstock utilization has led to numerous publications, citations, and seminars in international conferences.

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S. Sadagopan, Director, IIIT, Bangalore

Professor Sadagopan is founder director of IIIT-Bangalore and is a product of Madras University, India and Purdue University, USA. He has wide research interests that include Operations Research, Multi-criteria optimization Decision Theory, Simulation, Enterprise Computing, Programming Languages, Databases, Multimedia, and e-Governance. He serves on the boards of Bharat Electronics, Neyveli Lignite Corporation, and Indian Renewable Energy Agency, IIIT-Bhubaneswar, IIIT-Delhi, and IBAB.

Sanjay correa, Vice President and Managing Director, GE India Technology Centre, Bangalore

Sanjay Correa leads GE technology development in India. The center is GE’s first and largest integrated, multidisciplinary research and development center outside the U.S. In addition to teams from GE Global Research that work in the area of fundamental research, there are product-focused teams that develop innovative technologies for various GE businesses – Energy, Aviation, Healthcare, Transportation, Oil & Gas, and Water. Over the last decade, the Center has filed almost 1,000 patents. Sanjay has been with GE for over 28 years.

Sanjay Kakkar, Trustee, Thrombosis Research Institute, Bangalore

Sanjay Kakkar works with the Thrombosis Research Institute (TRI) in Bangalore and is the founder and Chairman of Jai Medica, a personalized healthcare company providing genomics and molecular diagnostics for cardiovascular disease. TRI Bangalore’s joint research objective with TRI London is to develop a simple and inexpensive test to identify (at an early age) those individuals most at risk of cardiovascular disease and to develop an affordable vaccine for the prevention of cardiovascular disease and stroke. Sanjay Kakkar is a medical graduate from King’s College, University of London. He holds a masters degree in healthcare management from Harvard University.

Subrahmanyam Goparaju, Senior Vice President, SETLabs, Infosys

Subrahmanyam Goparaju is Senior Vice President and Head, Software Engineering and Technology Labs (SETLabs), the Technology Research and Innovation arm of Infosys. He also heads Infosys’s Intellectual Property Cell (IP Cell) and the Product Incubation Engineering unit (PIE). SETLabs currently has six main labs in the areas of Software Engineering, Digital Convergence, Knowledge Driven Information Systems, Distributed Computing, and IT Security and an Innovation Lab that looks at innovation opportunities and models for tomorrow’s enterprise.

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Sudhir Dixit, Director, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories India

Sudhir Dixit’s research interests include telecommunications and computer communications research and development encompassing wireless and wireline (including optical) technologies. He joined HP Labs in June 2009 . Prior to joining HP Labs he also held the distinguished role as Nokia Research Fellow and Senior Research Manager working on various networking technologies.

Udaykumar ranga, Professor, JNCASR

Udaykumar Ranga is professor at the Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore. His current research includes study of the molecular epidemiology of HIV-1 in India, analysis of the pathogenic properties of subtype-C strains of India, optimization of DNA vaccines by engineering molecular adjuvants, development of immune and molecular diagnostic techniques for HIV, and evaluation of an Indian traditional therapy as an AIDS intervention strategy. Udaykumar Ranga is a PhD in Life Sciences (1990) from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.

Viswanath poosala, Head of Bell Labs India, Alcatel-Lucent

Viswanath Poosala’s specialities include leading teams, software development, product management, wireless applications, location-based services, Internet technologies, databases and network management. He is also CTO, Mobile Applications, at Alcatel-Lucent Ventures where his team has developed www.geopepper.com, a location based mobile social networking service, Geopepper proximity marketing service, and GMS scalable geofencing engine.

Wido Menhardt, CEO, Philips Innovation Center, Philips Electronics India

Wido Menhardt is CEO of the Philips Innovation Center in Bangalore. The center is Philips’ largest product development site in Asia, with engineers working on programs for all sectors (healthcare, lighting, and consumer lifestyle) and corporate technologies (research, IP). His ambition is to re-focus the activities at Philips Innovation Center on India and the emerging markets.

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Arvind Thiagarajan, Founder Chairman and Chief Inventor, HD Medical Group, Chennai

Arvind Thiagarajan is the founder of HD Medical Group, Chennai that develops cardiac diagnostic devices. He is also the inventor of the core technology for acquiring and analyzing heart sounds to detect cardiac defects. Thiagarajan graduated from the College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University in India with an engineering degree in Electronics and Communications. He specializes in signal processing and algorithm development with more than 40 patents.

Aishwarya lakshmi ratan, Associate Researcher, Technology for Emerging Markets group, Microsoft Research Labs India

Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan is an Associate Researcher for Technology for Emerging Markets group at Microsoft research Labs, Bangalore. The group leads research projects on poverty alleviation and the role of technology in enabling social and economic development. Ratan is responsible for managing all aspects of the research process, from research question formulation, study design, choice of methods, intervention design, management of relationship with partners, to data collection, data analysis, publication of results, and extended field implementation. Her primary areas of research include: enabling financial service delivery to the poor (microfinance and mobile phone-enabled banking), enabling basic digital literacy for low-income workers and studying its welfare implications, assessing patterns in and drivers of intergenerational social and economic mobility.

Ajit Narayanan, Founder and Chairman, Invention Labs Engineering Products

Ajit Narayanan founded Invention Labs Engineering Products in Chennai in 2007 to create a multidisciplinary engineering team to do product development in India and offer product development services to clients around the world. He is the inventor of AVAZ, India’s first communication device for spastic children, for which he was awarded the National Award for Empowerment of People with Disabilities in December 2010, by the President of India. Narayanan leads the Embedded Systems team, and works on a variety of products, including mechatronics devices, handheld computers, mobile-enabled devices, and machine vision systems. His startup, Invention Labs is incubated at the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai.

Ajay Kolhatkar, Research Analyst, Future Web Research Lab - SETLabs, Infosys

Ajay co-leads the Usability and Accessibility research at the Future Web Re-search Lab of the R&D establishment of Infosys Technologies. Ajay has a PhD in technology management from IIT Bombay. His present research deals with usability and accessibility challenges, particularly in Web 2.0 perspectives. Other areas of interests are usability of self-service channels, consumer-technology interfaces, web accessibility, Web 2.0/social media adoption in business, social networks analysis, and cloud computing.

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ramkumar (ram) Narayanan, Vice President, Global Product Management (Search & Marketplaces and Emerging Markets) Yahoo! Inc.

Ram Narayanan is Vice President of Global Product Management in Yahoo! where he is responsible for leading product strategy and management for Search & Marketplaces and Emerging Markets. He was previously leading some of Yahoo!’s efforts in developing global advertising platforms.

puneet Gupta, Principal, Mobile Computing Research and Senior Product Line Manager, Infosys Mobile Platforms

Puneet Gupta, who specializes in mobile computing, wireless and convergence technologies, is currently spearheading mobile computing research at the R&D establishment of Infosys Technologies and manages the Infosys mobility product line. He focuses on innovation in mobile computing, wireless technologies, perva-sive and ubiquitous computing and sensor networking areas. He has been a lead inventor in over twenty patent filings in these areas.

ramesh Venkatesan, Principal Engineer, MRI Software and Applications Engineering, GE Healthcare

Ramesh is currently a Principal Engineer for MRI Software and Applications Engineering group, with focus on developing clinical software applications and systems of local relevance. He earned his doctorate in Biomedical and Biological Engineering from Washington University in 1997. He joined the then GE Medical Systems’ Indian affiliate Wipro GE Medical Systems in late 1998 as an MRI Ad-vanced Applications scientist, which required developing advanced MRI clinical applications in collaboration with local hospitals.

Sriganesh Madhvanath, Senior Research Scientist and Research Manager, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories India

Sriganesh Madhvanath (SriG) is a Senior Research Scientist at HP Labs India where he leads research in Intuitive Multimodal and Gestural Interaction. His research interests are in the general areas of pattern recognition and machine learning as applied to the field of human computer interfaces and interaction.

Geetha Manjunath, Senior Research Scientist and Research Manager, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories India

Geetha Manjunath is a Senior Research Scientist at HP Labs India where she leads the research on simplifying Web interactions. Her current research focus is end-user-programing of personal Web widgets and semantic text mining using ontologies. Before joining HP Labs, Geetha was a lab architect at HP Systems Technology and Software Division (HP STSD) and a member of a research team working with HP Labs, Palo Alto.

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STRATEGIC AFFILIATEcreating productive interactions With industryThe MiT industrial liaison program (ilp)Established in 1948, the MIT Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) is dedicated to creating and strengthening mutually beneficial relationship between MIT and corporations worldwide.-- Over 180 of the world’s leading companies partner with ILP to advance research agendas at MIT.

With continued acceleration of advances in technology and knowledge discovery, and a more demanding corporate funding environment, the ILP is committed to creating productive interactions with industry. The ILP continually evolves to meet the interest, needs, and aspirations of MIT faculty and corporate partners.

INNOVATION PARTNERSThe GE John F. Welch Technology Centre (JFWTC) in Bangalore is GE’s largest integrated multidisciplinary Research and Development Center, and the first to be located outside the US. Over 4,000 scientists, researchers and engineers are helping redefine what is possible in the energy, transportation, aviation, healthcare, and

consumer and industrial, financial, and entertainment business. In addition to Bangalore in India, GE has Research Centers in New York (US), Shanghai (China), Munich (Germany), and Rio De Janeiro (Brazil) that are helping create game-changing technologies and innovations to ensure GE’s growth and leadership.

Yahoo! India R&D was established to deliver product and technology that create a significant business impact for Yahoo! globally. It is engaged in end-to-end product development from concept

through launch. The research arm, called Yahoo! Labs, focuses on basic and applied research in the areas of next-generation search, advertising and large-scale computing systems. The center contributes one-third of the IP produced by Yahoo! globally. It has undertaken end-to-end development of more than 20 products such as Yahoo! Cricket, OMG, Helium, Vertex, NGD Marketplace, etc.

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2011 INDIA TR35 SPONSORWipro (NYSE:WIT) is a $5.2 bn global provider of IT Services, Outsourced R&D, Infrastructure Outsourcing, Business Process Services, and Business Consulting. With over 25 years experience in the global delivery of technology services, Wipro is the world’s largest third-party provider of R&D services and the world’s first PCMM and CMMi level 5 company. Wipro is the first to perfect a unique quality methodology, the Wipro Way—a combination of Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen and CMM— to provide unmatched business value and predictability to our clients. Wipro’s formal structure for innovation has resulted in reusable frameworks, components, and IP that speeds time to market and reduces the cost of innovation for our clients.

INNOVATION LIVE! SPONSOREstablished in 1988, HP India is one of the largest and most diverse sites for HP outside of the US. HP India provides invaluable business leadership — focused both on supporting HP customers around the world and growing the market in India. As one of the country’s largest technology provider, HP India is helping consumers, businesses, and governments in India deliver amazing outcomes. From people who use HP technology to power their everyday lives to the country’s most critical infrastructure — such as the telecom networks, stock exchanges, ATM networks, steel plants, power, oil and gas installations, and healthcare — HP powers India’s most critical installations.

IMPACT SPONSORMany of the world’s most successful organizations rely on the 127,000 people of Infosys to deliver measurable business value. Infosys provides business consulting, technology, engineering and outsourcing services to help clients in over 30 countries build tomorrow’s enterprise. For more information about Infosys (NASDAQ: INFY) visit www.infosys.com

ASSOCIATE SPONSORSThe National Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB), established in 1982 by the Government of India under the aegis of Department of Science & Technology, is an institutional mechanism to help promote knowledge driven and technology intensive enterprises. The Board acts as a policy advisory body with regard to entrepreneurship. It aims to convert “job-seekers” into “job-generators” through Science & Technology (S&T) interventions which are implemented through a network of organisations across the country. The major activities supported by the Board are targeted at evolving an appropriate ecosystem for nurturing knowledge based entrepreneurship for S&T manpower as well as self-employment by utilising S&T infrastructure, networks and resources for awareness, capacity building and skill enhancement, etc.


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Alcatel-Lucent has been present in India since 1982, and became the first company to manufacture digital switching equipment in the country. Since then, Alcatel-Lucent has been deploying GSM and

CDMA infrastructure, 3G, broadband, IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), optical and radio transmission, IN platform and applications. Alcatel-Lucent has also been working in enterprise systems and telecom infrastructure projects for railways, defence and aviation. Today half of India’s fixed and CDMA wireless lines are powered by Alcatel-Lucent technology. With more than 20 offices and 10,000 employees, Alcatel-Lucent is a major partner in the development of the Indian telecom industry.

LUNCH SPONSORElement14 is a high service, multi-channel electronics distributor that offers the widest range of electronic design centric inventory in Asia Pacific, and provides access to information, offering

inspiration and collaboration from around the globe via its innovative community and leading transactional website element14.com. Specifically built to support electronic design engineers, maintenance and repair engineers, and purchasing professionals, the website incorporates an information portal, Web 2.0 eCommunity and online store.

PARTNER ASSOCIATIONSIn the context of exciting growth in the country, leading Indian biotechnology companies recognize the need for a forum that would represent India’s unique Biotech environment. A forum that would generate a symbiotic interface between the industry, the government, academic and research bodies, and domestic and international investors, ABLE, the Association of Biotechnology Led Enterprises was the natural result of this need and is envisaged as the collective face of the Indian Biotech industry.

AUSIB is a leading non-profit trade association that offers a pathway to help your business succeed in the United States and India. Founded in 2004, AUSIB has been instrumental in building the bridges of business cooperation between the two countries. AUSIB has played a pivotal role in expanding bilateral trade in key sectors such as information technology, pharmaceuticals & life sciences, media & entertainment, and renewable energy.

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IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. IEEE and its 400,000 members in more than 160 countries inspire a global community. Through its highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities, IEEE is the trusted voice on a wide variety of areas ranging from aerospace systems, computers and telecommunications to biomedical engineering, electric power and consumer electronics.

Founded in 1992 in Silicon Valley, The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) currently has more than 11,000 members and over 2,500 charter members in 53 chapters across 12 countries. TiE’s mission is to foster entrepreneurship globally through mentoring, networking, and education. Besides its flagship event, TiECon — the largest professional conference for entrepreneurs, TiE now has a wide range of programs including Special Interest Groups (SIGs), TiE Institute, Deal Flow Meetings, TiE Young Entrepreneurs, and, most recently, TiE Women’s Forum and CEO Forum.

STPI’s role began in the government’s shadow and it was more of an entrepreneurial role of working directly with software companies and working like a corporate. However, this did not mean that STPI functioned like a typical government department. The role of STPI was more of a service provider that could be leveraged by software companies.

CMAI Association of India is a professional registered association for promotion of Indian IT and Telecom sector. CMAI is the only integrated association in India for IT and Telecom sector having all stakeholders as its members. It is an apex premier body with MOU partners and representatives all over the world.

The PanIIT movement took root in 2002, when some like-minded alumni formed a PanIIT Board. The board organized two events in San Jose (January 2003) and Bangalore (February 2003), which were highly successful. The PanIIT organization was formed as an umbrella organization, covering alumni of all Indian Institutes of Technology, to evolve a brand that would provide strong fraternity among IIT alumni with the key objectives of nation building, enhance the IIT brand, networking and alumni services, and provide a forum for advocacy. Its vision is to help IITs and IIT Alumni achieve their full potential and be counted among the best in the world. PanIIT Alumni mission is to provide networking opportunities for members of the IIT system, contribute proactively to nation building, enhance the IIT brand, engage with the IIT governance and vision, and provide a forum for advocacy.

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