IEEE CCEM 2022

PRE CONFERENCE WORKSHOP

A Prelude to the 11th IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLOUD COMPUTING IN EMERGING MARKETS

30th April 2022 Online Conference

CCEM Overview

Conference Scope

The Eleventh IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing in Emerging Markets (CCEM) continues the highly successful CCEM conference series which was originally launched in 2012.

Cloud computing has emerged as a dominant and transformational paradigm in information technology over the last few years and is beginning to effect a multitude of industries such as government, finance, telecommunications, education, retail, energy and utilities, and transportation. Research in this field has become very active and spans a number of areas including virtualization, networking, storage, security, management of cloud services, efficient cloud architectures, massive multi-tenancy, and design of cloud applications and services. Cloud computing continues to be the way of the future and many studies indicate that more than 50% of all information technology will be in this new paradigm within the next five to ten years. This transformation has great implications for emerging markets which have the potential to leap frog mature markets in their adoption of cloud computing, combine cloud computing and mobile technologies to introduce unique services that can transform the lives of billions, drive a much larger scale of adoption and challenge existing price points, while presenting unique challenges in areas such as security and user interfaces to cloud computing.

The goal

This research driven innovation conference has established itself as a unique conference that combines top notch peer-reviewed research papers (acceptance rate less than 10%), invited talks from renowned industry and government leaders, posters and demos showcasing latest innovations, a startup showcase highlighting the vibrant and fast growing business ecosystem around cloud, tutorials on cutting edge topics, and a doctoral symposium featuring some of the deep research topics being pursued by academic leaders.

Conference Format

The conference will be a two-day event that spans invited talks, peer reviewed paper presentations, tutorials,technology showcase followed by panel discussion.

 

Topics of Interest

We invite both paper and demo submissions on relevant topics, including but not limited to:

  • Design of Cloud Computing services, especially for emerging markets – infrastructure, platform, database, software, network, storage, e-governance, and business process
  • Utilizing/enhancing the Cloud for Big data & Predictive analytics
  • Social & Mobile computing advances leveraging the Cloud
  • Internet of Things enabled by Cloud, Big Data & AI
  • Big Data Analytics & AI driven predictive computing
  • Intersection of Cloud with Cognitive Computing and Artificial Intelligence
  • Deep Learning in Cloud Environments
  • Conversational AI & Multimodal Interactions
  • AI Infused Automation
  • Advances in virtualization of hardware & software services, Cloud Networking
  • Security, privacy, governance, and compliance management in cloud
  • DevOps, Monitoring, management, & maintenance in Cloud Computing environments
  • Performance optimization in Hybrid Cloud Environments
  • Cloud Computing Solutions for different Industries & verticals
  • Legal Aspects & Service Level Agreements in Cloud Computing & Data Privacy

Important Dates for Pre Conference Workshop - 2022

23rd April 2022

Proposals Submissions Deadline

30th April 2022

Pre Conference Workshop

11th July 2022

Research Paper Submission

12th - 15th October 2022

IEEE CCEM Main Conference

Invited Speakers



Muralikrishna Nidugala

Muralikrishna Nidugala

(Master Technologist)

Murali has overall 21 years of industry experience in software development. Murali holds M.S from BITS, Pilani in Software Systems. Murali is technologist to the core with 5 patents, white papers, publications, Hackathon, and internal conferences. Murali worked various domains & technologies in the areas of systems & technology, servers, compilers, firmware, operating system, Cloud related technologies, micro services. Murali architected test framework, test strategy, customer focus, mentored many engineers. Recently he contributed for Cloud enablement of HPE ProLiant servers on GreenLake, involvement in Cloud Security workgroup, Agile transformation initiatives.
Murali is one of the key champion for University Relation engagements and conducted various technical engagements at colleges: tech talks, Hackathon, mentoring, nurturing talent, in-semester projects, HPE project demo during conferences, Faculty development program.

Rishit

Rishit Dagli

Student

Rishit Dagli is a high school student from India and a TEDx, 2xTED-Ed Speaker. To share his knowledge with everyone, he is a mentor at TensorFlow UserGroup Mumbai and organizes the group Kotlin Mumbai; and an international speaker - He is also the recipient of the Linux Dan Kohn scholarship. He is also interested in research and most of the time you will find him working on a paper in the field of AI and Maths. Furthermore, he loves hackathons and contributing to or creating open-source projects. He has also represented his country in Hackathons and competitions and even won quite a few.
Talk Abstract: One of the best things about Machine Learning is that you have a lot of open-source models you can use right out of the box or fine-tune too (you don't have to train on ImageNet from scratch) This is actually a talk about TensorFlow Hub and how it makes this process a lot easier (using a large number of open-sourced models) and allows you to seamlessly use them. We will also see some demos doing off-the-shelf inference with a model trained on ImageNet, fine-tune BERT, and more without much domain expertise.

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Prasanna Anantharamaiah

Prasanna Anantharamaiah

Managing Director at Checkpoint Systems Software

Prasanna is the Managing Director at Checkpoint Systems Software, Bangalore India. He is responsible for RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) based Software products for the Retail Industry. He heads a team of Engineers working on a scalable Software As A Service platform on Microsoft Azure Cloud. He also leads the Customer-Success team and SaaS Operations. Prior to Checkpoint Systems, Prasanna worked as Chief Technology Officer at Hewlett Packard managing Cloud products portfolio. Before Hewlett Packard, Prasanna worked at Wipro on developing software for Indian defense. Prasanna has contributed to X-Open standards and has 4 US patents to his credit. He has over 30 years of Software industry experience and holds Computer Science engineering degree from Mysore University.

Dr. Rengarajan

Dr. Rengarajan

Evangelist & Researcher, AtiMotors

Dr. Rengarajan is the India head of the sales and operations of Sherpa AMR products. He has been part of Ati from the start and was initially with the autonomy team applying Computer Vision techniques to perception. He has more than 30 years of experience in the software industry and managed the entire life cycle of software products from concept to delivery. Prior to Ati Motors, he was the CTO at Routematic. He is a co-inventor of three US patents in the NLP domain. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from IISc, Bangalore.

His research interest includes "Programming Languages", "Discrete Math, Data Structures and Algorithms".

IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLOUD COMPUTING IN EMERGING MARKETS 2022

VIRTUAL PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP

(A Prelude to the 2022 IEEE CCEM Main Conference), 30th April 2022


Program Schedule 30th April 2022

Virtual Pre-Conference Workshop hosted on Airmeet.com

Link will be sent to all participants and speakers – Kindly register & use

Participants will be called for mentoring during the event – Please be available always

(Kindly use Google Chrome & a good Internet connection for better experience)



08.15 am - 08.30 am IST Conference Networking Time on Airmeet
08.30 am - 09.00 am IST Welcome, Virtual Lamp Lighting,
“Overview of 11th IEEE CCEM Conference & PCW”

Session Chair: Dr T S Mohan
09.00 am - 09.45 am IST Muralikrishna Nidugala,
Master Technologist, HP Enterprise
“Lessons from Cloud enablement of HPE ProLiant servers on GreenLake” & Q-n-A
09.46 am - 10.30 am IST Rishit Dagli,
Young TEDx Speaker & Hackathon Mentor
“Leveraging TensorflowHub” & Q-n-A

10.31 am - 11.15 am IST Prasanna Anantharamaiah,
Managing Director, Checkpoint Systems Software
“Top Ten Insights on SaaS Startup TechStacks” & Q-n-A
11.16 am - 12.00 pm IST Dr Rengarajan,
Evangelist & Researcher, AtiMotors
“Robotics Practice In Indian Industry Shopfloor” & Q-n-A

12.01 pm - 12.20 pm IST CCEM 2021 Best paper Presentation of IEEE CCEM 2021
“The Log Structured Merge Forest*”

by Tejvi, Aishwarya, Ishan Lagwankar
Session Chair: Dr KV Subrahmanian
12.21 pm - 01.00 pm IST Workshop Awards Function & Vote of Thanks
IEEE CCEM PCW - 2022 - Student Project Showcase Proposals
IEEE CCEM PCW - 2022 - Early Research Papers
IEEE CCEM PCW - 2022 - TechnoBiz Showcase Plan Proposals



Invited Speakers



Muralikrishna Nidugala

Muralikrishna Nidugala

(Master Technologist)

Murali has overall 21 years of industry experience in software development. Murali holds M.S from BITS, Pilani in Software Systems. Murali is technologist to the core with 5 patents, white papers, publications, Hackathon, and internal conferences. Murali worked various domains & technologies in the areas of systems & technology, servers, compilers, firmware, operating system, Cloud related technologies, micro services. Murali architected test framework, test strategy, customer focus, mentored many engineers. Recently he contributed for Cloud enablement of HPE ProLiant servers on GreenLake, involvement in Cloud Security workgroup, Agile transformation initiatives.
Murali is one of the key champion for University Relation engagements and conducted various technical engagements at colleges: tech talks, Hackathon, mentoring, nurturing talent, in-semester projects, HPE project demo during conferences, Faculty development program.

Rishit

Rishit Dagli

Student

Rishit Dagli is a high school student from India and a TEDx, 2xTED-Ed Speaker. To share his knowledge with everyone, he is a mentor at TensorFlow UserGroup Mumbai and organizes the group Kotlin Mumbai; and an international speaker - He is also the recipient of the Linux Dan Kohn scholarship. He is also interested in research and most of the time you will find him working on a paper in the field of AI and Maths. Furthermore, he loves hackathons and contributing to or creating open-source projects. He has also represented his country in Hackathons and competitions and even won quite a few.
Talk Abstract: One of the best things about Machine Learning is that you have a lot of open-source models you can use right out of the box or fine-tune too (you don't have to train on ImageNet from scratch) This is actually a talk about TensorFlow Hub and how it makes this process a lot easier (using a large number of open-sourced models) and allows you to seamlessly use them. We will also see some demos doing off-the-shelf inference with a model trained on ImageNet, fine-tune BERT, and more without much domain expertise.

More ...

Prasanna Anantharamaiah

Prasanna Anantharamaiah

Managing Director at Checkpoint Systems Software

Prasanna is the Managing Director at Checkpoint Systems Software, Bangalore India. He is responsible for RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) based Software products for the Retail Industry. He heads a team of Engineers working on a scalable Software As A Service platform on Microsoft Azure Cloud. He also leads the Customer-Success team and SaaS Operations. Prior to Checkpoint Systems, Prasanna worked as Chief Technology Officer at Hewlett Packard managing Cloud products portfolio. Before Hewlett Packard, Prasanna worked at Wipro on developing software for Indian defense. Prasanna has contributed to X-Open standards and has 4 US patents to his credit. He has over 30 years of Software industry experience and holds Computer Science engineering degree from Mysore University.

Dr. Rengarajan

Dr. Rengarajan

Evangelist & Researcher, AtiMotors

Dr. Rengarajan is the India head of the sales and operations of Sherpa AMR products. He has been part of Ati from the start and was initially with the autonomy team applying Computer Vision techniques to perception. He has more than 30 years of experience in the software industry and managed the entire life cycle of software products from concept to delivery. Prior to Ati Motors, he was the CTO at Routematic. He is a co-inventor of three US patents in the NLP domain. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from IISc, Bangalore.

His research interest includes "Programming Languages", "Discrete Math, Data Structures and Algorithms".

IEEE CCEM 2022 Pre Conference Workshop Award winners


1. CCEM 2022 - PCW Best Proposal - Early Stage Research Paper Submissions

Aiswarya Sriram, Advithi Nair, Alka Simon, Subramaniam Kalambur and Dinkar Sitaram

2. CCEM 2022 - PCW Best Proposal - TechnoBizPlan Showcase Submission

Roshan Wathore, Sijoy Joseph and A Vaidyanathan

3. CCEM 2022 - PCW Best Student Project Showcase

Thrivikraman V, Animesh N D and Taran Singhania





IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLOUD COMPUTING IN EMERGING MARKETS

IEEE CCEM Pre-Conference Workshop-2022

A Prelude to the IEEE CCEM 2022 Conference & a followup of IEEE CCEM 2021

Call for Technical Research Papers,Student Project Showcase & TechnoBizPlan Showcase Proposals

Overview

This highly focused virtual pre-conference workshop of the 2022 IEEE CCEM is targeted at mentoring authors planning to submit in any of the following three tracks of the prestigious IEEE CCEM main conference, which is now in its eleventh year.

  • Track 1: Technical Research Papers
  • Track 2: Student Proof-of-Concept projects
  • Track 3: TechnoBizPlan Showcase Ideas

By submitting early versions of their ideas/proposals for any of these three tracks, participants get an opportunity to present their early ideas and obtain professional feedback and mentoring individually, helping them make a successful submission to the main CCEM conference. Hence, we encourage submissions for innovative cloud-based solutions addressing emerging market problems focused on utilizing/enhancing Cloud, IoT, machine learning, analytics, and furthering progress towards the sustainable development goals of the United Nations. Certificates and cash prizes will be awarded to the most innovative proposals in each of the aforementioned three tracks.s

The workshop itself will have two concurrent sessions spanning the three tracks:

Session A: Invited talks by eminent technologists & academics from organisations such as IBM, Nutanix, AWS, Openstream, RedHat and academic institutions on the theme of the conference.

Session B: Presentations by the authors of 'Early Research Paper, Student- Project-Showcase, and TechnoBizPlan-Showcase.

The participants will have to attend Session A while awaiting their turn to present their ideas to the Professional Mentors in Session B. The proposal has to be three A4 size pages maximum, strictly adhering to the given template. Confidential aspects of any proposal are not encouraged, discussed or shared.

Call for Early Research Papers

The Early Research Papers submissions focus on building-up researchable ideas and innovations leading to breakthrough results that have not yet been professionally published. These submissions are discussed and mentored into either short research papers focused on a solitary idea in its entirety or into a full research paper.

Call for Student Project Showcase

The Student-Project-Showcase offers an opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to come up with an impactful solution to the emerging-markets' problem-statements, which are also part of their academic-degree-requirements. With further mentoring, these ideas can convert into a full research paper.

Call for Techno-Business Plans Showcase

The TechnoBiz-Showcase Plan enables Students, Professionals, Start-Ups, Established companies & Academia to demonstrate cutting-edge capabilities and ideas metamorphosing in the world of product and service offerings. The select proposals would get a chance to present it to the audience during the event.

IEEE CCEM PreConference Workshop Proposals Template – Early Stage Research Paper Submissions

IEEE CCEM PreConference Workshop Proposals for EarlyPaper or Student Project Showcase Template : 3 Pages IEEE CCEM PreConference Workshop Proposals for TechnoBizPlan Showcase Template : 3 Pages TOPICS: Emerging Market Challenges utilizing Cloud/ Big data/Deep Learning/IoT including, but not limited to:
Title (One Line only) & Author Names with, Email Ids, Mobile & Company/College Name Title (One Line only) & Author Names with, Email Ids, Mobile & Company/College Name Affordable Healthcare & Ayushman Bharath: Eco-systems, Devices Management, e-Health Data
Overview: 100 words – Two Paragraphs Executive Summary: 100 words – Two Paragraphs Swacch Bharat: Clean & Green Environments
Technical Innovations to be presented – 5 Bullet Points Tech Innovations to be used in BizPlan – 5 Bullet Points Leveraging IndiaStack & digital payment solutions
Early Stage Ideas with Proof of Concept Framework / Demo with Diagrams: 1 Page Offerings: Tech-Proof of Concept Framework / Demo with Diagrams: 1 Page Smart cities - Intelligent management of Resources, Transportation, Energy & Services
Theory Framework & Modeling & Experimentations: 250 Words Four Paragraphs with data on: 1) Core Value Proposition 2) Market Analysis & Sizing 3) Competitive Landscape 4) Financial Projections Affordable Security and Privacy of data in the cloud, sensor networks and IoT
Conclusions & Validation of Claims: 60 words + References used Conclusions & Validation of Claims: 60 words + References used Intelligent Automation of IT Systems & Processes

All proposals will have to be submitted using the following link

Click to Submit using EasyChair for Pre Conference Workshop

The following is the timeline schedule for this workshop:

  1. Proposals Submissions Deadline: 23rd April 2022
  2. Pre-Conference Workshop: 30th April 2022

Please register here to attend the pre-conference workshop.

Mentors of IEEE CCEM PCW 2022:

Dr. T. S. Mohan, Pragyan Datalabs Bengaluru
Dr. Gopal Pingali, Accenture
Prof. D. Janakiram, Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT)
Dr. Sreekrishnan Venkiteswaran, Kyndryl India
Raj Tumuluri, OpenStream, USA
Dr. Sanjay Chitnis, REVA University
Dr. K.V. Subramaniam, AMD
Rambabu Parvatina, IBM, Singapore
Dr. M Subramanya Sarma, Mindtree
Sridhar Chitaraju, Kyndryl
Dr.Mydhili K Nair, Professor, MSRIT
Dr Sekhar Babu, Amrita University
Balu Masti, Co-Founder HUM Consulting Services & Ex Intel
Dr. Sridhar Domnal, Cloud Consultant at Accenture
Gopalakrishnan Balasubramanian, Program Director, Kyndryl
Dr. Sougata Mukherjea, Kyndryl
Dr. Rajath Vasudevamurthy, B. M. S. College of Engineering
Dr. Peter, Program Director, Reliance Jio
Dr. Abhishek Kumar, Senior Member IEEE ,IEEE Brand Ambassador
Prof. P Radha Krishna, National Institute of Technology, Warangal
Dr.-Ing. habil. Josef Spillner, ZHAW School of Engineering, Switzerland
Prof. Takayuki Kushida, School of Computer Science, Tokyo University of Technology, Japan
Dr. Manish Gupta, Kyndryl

Registration

Register at the following google form for IEEE CCEM Pre Conference Workshop 2022.


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Pre-Conference Workshop Organizing Committee

CCEM 2022 Steering Committee

  • Dr. Gopal Pingali, MD & Global Hybrid Cloud Leader, Accenture
  • Dr. T.S. Mohan, Pragyan Datalabs
  • Prof. Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne
  • Prof. D. Janakiram, IIT Madras
  • Dr. Rong N. Chang, IBM

CCEM 2022 General Chairs

  • Sreekrishnan Venkateswaran, Kyndryl
  • Raj Tumuluri, Openstream, USA
  • Prof. Sanjay Chitnis, Dayananda Sagar University

Technical Program Committee Chairs

  • Prof. P Radha Krishna, National Institute of Technology, Warangal
  • Dr. K V Subramaniam, PES university

Industry Liaison Chair

  • Sri Chandra, IEEE

Academic Liaison Chairs

  • Dr. Pethuru Raj, RJIL
  • Sudhakar Nagaraja, Kyndryl

Big Data Analytics Liaison Chair

    TechnoBizplan showcase Chair

    • Prof. Shekar Babu, AMRITA Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Bengaluru
    • Dr.Mydhili Nair, Professor, MSRIT, Bengaluru.

    Tutorials Chairs

    • Rambabu Parvatina, IBM
    • Andrew Haschka, Google Cloud - APAC, Australia

    IEEE Liaison Chairs

    • Bindumadhava, CDAC

    Finance Chair

    • Vaijayanthi B. Desai, Kyndryl

    Student Project Showcase Chairs

    • Sridhar Chitraju, Kyndryl
    • Dr. Subrahmanya Sarma, Infosys.
    • Prof Sudarshan, PES South Campus
    • Dr.Mydhili Nair, Professor, MSRIT, Bengaluru.

    Media and Creative Design

    • Madhumita Phukan, Concentrix
    • Vitthal Kulkarni, Kyndryl

    Publications Chair

    • Dr. Rajath Vasudevamurthy, Assistant Professor, B. M. S. College of Engineering, Bengaluru.

    Program Management Committee

    • Vijayalakshmi Govindaraj, Kyndryl
    • Thamaraiselvan Mylsamy, ColorTokens

    Local Arrangements Chairs

    • Pramod, IEEE
    • Yathi Tarikere, IEEE

    Conference Digital Chair

    • Arunraj Gopalsamy, Kyndryl
    • Prabha Sasikanth, Kyndryl
    • Dr.Mydhili Nair, Professor, MSRIT, Bengaluru.
    • Raju Gorai, JPMC

    Technical Program Committee

    • Dr. Satish Narayana Srirama, PhD School of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad,India.
    • Dr. G. R. Gangadharan, M.S., Ph.D. Senior Member IEEE & ACM, Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Applications, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India
    • Dr. Ernesto DamianiDirector, Khalifa University Center for Cyber Physical Systems (C2PS), Professor, Director of Information Security Center, Electrical and Computer Engineering & EBTIC
    • Dr. Madhu Govindaraju, Professor, Department of Computer Science Vice Provost - International Education and Global Affairs (IEGA) Binghamton University, SUNY, NY
    • Dr. Matthew Forshaw, Senior Lecturer in Data Science and National Skills Lead to The Alan Turing Institute, School of Computing, Urban Sciences Building, Newcastle University, UK
    • Dr. Yogesh Simmhan, Associate Professor, Department of Computational and Data Sciences Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru.
    • Dr. Byungchul Tak, PhD Associate Dean, College of IT, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea
    • Dr. J. Lakshmi, Chief Research Scientist, Cloud Systems Lab, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru.
    • Dr. Josef Spillner, Zhaw School of Engineering, Switzerland
    • Dr. Tak Kushida, Director of Cloud and Distributed Systems Lab, Tokyo University of Technology, Japan
    • Dr. Deepak P Chandrashekar, Soroco India Pvt. Ltd, Bengaluru
    • Dr. Shridhar Domanal, Accenture
    • Dr. Pravati Swain, Faculty of Computer Science, NIT Goa, India
    • Dr. Anandha Gopalan, Principal Teaching Fellow, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK
    • Dr. Nandini Sidnal, Faculty of Computer Science, Melbourne Institute of Technology, Sydney, Australia 
    • Dr. G. Rammohan Reddy, Professor at NIT Surathkal
    • Mohan Parthasarathy, Distinguished Technologist, HPE
    • Dr Pankaj Saha, Senior Member of Technical Staff in Oracle, USA.
    • Dr Claudio Aragna, University of Milan
    • Dr. Rajath Vasudevamurthy, Assistant Professor, B. M. S. College of Engineering, Bengaluru.
    • Prakash Raghavendra, Fellow at AMD, Bengalurus
    • Dr. Dinkar Sitaram, Professor, Head Center for Cloud Computing and Big Data, PES University, Bengaluru.

    Mentors

    Dr. Gopal Pingali

    Dr. Gopal Pingali

    MD & Global Hybrid Cloud Leader, Accenture | IEEE Fellow

    Dr. Gopal Pingali is an internationally renowned technology, innovation, and transformation executive with extensive experience in driving digital transformation across multiple industries leveraging Cloud, AI, and Automation technologies. Gopal is currently CEO and Founder of cYAAG, a Cloud and AI startup whose vision is to make everyone a social entrepreneur to create a sustainable world

    Gopal worked extensively in the US and India and built several global technical organizations with an entrepreneurial spirit. He was previously Global Vice President at IBM for Cloud Transformation and Global Technology Services Labs (GTS Labs). Prior to that he was a Research Leader at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center and at AT&T Bell Labs. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan.

    Gopal pioneered innovations in many areas including Multicloud Management, Cognitive Automation, Continuous Security, Mobile Web, Electronic Chronicles, Real-time Video Tracking Systems, Smart Interactive Spaces, Visual Information Systems for Sports, Autonomous Vehicles, and Nanotechnology. His current passion is to build the world’s leading digital platform and the most vibrant global community for sustainable development

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    Dr. T S Mohan

    Dr. T.S. Mohan

    Director & Founder at Pragyan Datalabs

    Dr. Mohan holds a Masters and PhD in computer science from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore where he worked as a faculty-scientist for about a decade before moving into the industry. He was a young visiting scientist in the Lab for Computer Science, MIT in 1988 and a visiting scientist in NEC Research Institute, Princeton in the summer of 1994. After leaving IISc, he worked for a number of companies including HP. He pursued his entrepreneurial interests in Bangalore in advanced enterprise software systems for about 7 years before joining Infosys. After a five year stint at Infosys, Dr Mohan founded Pragyan Datalabs focused on BigData algorithms and Analytics in Bengaluru.

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    Prof. D.Janakiram,IIT Madras

    Prof. D.Janakiram

    Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT)

    Dharanipragada Janakiram did his Ph.D from IIT Delhi and is currently a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, India, where he heads and coordinates the research activities of the Distributed and Object Systems Lab.

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    Dr. Sreekrishnan Venkateswaran

    Dr. Sreekrishnan Venkateswaran, CTO - Kyndryl India

    He the CTO of Kyndryl India and a Kyndryl Distinguished Engineer. He also leads Kyndryl's Cloud Centre of Excellence, a world-wide team of client-facing cloud solution architects. Kyndryl is a $19B IBM spin-off. In his previous IBM roles, He was an engineering unit head and a Linux technologist, leading teams working on embedded systems, telecom, consumer electronics, health care, and networking. He authored a best selling book on Linux device drivers. He is currently the General Chair of IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing in Emerging Markets.

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    Raj Tumuluri

    Raj Tumuluri

    CEO, Openstream

    Raj Tumuluri is the principal of Openstream USA and is a coauthor of several multimodal interaction standards at the worldwide web consortium (w3c) and his articles & book chapters were published in ACM & other reputed publications. His current area of research focuses on improving user experience leveraging context in multimodal interaction using machine learning.

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    Dr. Sanjay Chitnis, DSU

    Dr. Sanjay Chitnis, Dean, Computer Science at REVA University

    Dr. Sanjay Chitnis's areas of interest are Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He is a passionate teacher, with 33 years of all-round leadership level experience in IT industry as well as academics and research. During his career in industry, he managed projects such as Messaging Subsystem of IRIDIUM, the satellite based communication system in Motorola. Later at LG Soft India, he was responsible for the development of a new generation web Based platform for LG Smart devices. After this, he worked as Principal at the CMR Institute of technology, Bangalore.

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    Dr. K.V.Subramaniam, PESU;

    Dr. K.V.Subramaniam, AMD

    Dr. K V Subramaniam has over 15 years of experience in both the software and semiconductor industries. He has worked in the Industry in a wide variety of technologies ranging from Performance Modeling of processors to providing architectural vision for scale out for an enterprise application. He has had the fortune of working with some very talented engineers and learning from them. He has worked across geographical boundaries working as an engineer and when managing teams.
    He is currently working at the server performance group at AMD and teaching at PES University.

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    Dr. P. Rambabu, IBM

    Dr. P. Rambabu, IBM, Singapore

    IBM Distinguished Engineer, Architecture Guild Leader, Cloud Hub (East) at IBM

    Rambabu Parvatina (Ram) is an IBM Distinguished Engineer - one of the highest company’s technical honors. Ram is a recognized technical leader for his deep technical expertise in cloud computing, leadership and innovation. Ram has played a lead role in solutioning and winning high-value hybrid cloud engagements that made a huge business impact. He built the Hybrid Cloud Orchestration and Automation practice in Cloud Center of Excellence, a global team that engages with hundreds of clients every year. Ram is currently the Chief Technologist for Cloud Content Factory that drives building and deploying of Cloud Automation solutions for IBM clients. He wears another hat as Cloud Solutioning leader in Service Integration Hub, IBM Singapore and is responsible for reviewing and guiding of hybrid cloud solutions in AP & MEA regions. Ram excels in creating first-of-a-kind solutions, generating reusable assets from them, and aligning them with reference architectures.

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    Manthripragada Subrahmanya Sarma

    Manthripragada Subrahmanya Sarma

    Principal Consultant, Mindtree

    Dr. Subrahmanya Sarma (Subbu)is a Principal Consultant and (Certified Project Management Professional) with 19 years of experience in Software development. Subbu is having expertise in various domains covering Machine Learning, Identity & Access Management, Identity Federation, PKI and Cryptography. Subbu has 10 years of project and people management experience and one year of presales experience of proposing IDAM, IGA and PAM solutions to various customers across the globe.

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    Sridhar Chitraju (CSri)

    Sridhar Chitraju (CSri)

    Program Director, Kyndryl

    Sridhar Chitraju is a Program Director at Kyndryl. Prior to his current position at Kyndryl, he has managed a global team of architects and developers for an IBM’s flagship cloud offering - IBM Cloud Managed Services. He has worked with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) for more than a decade, before joining IBM in 2007. At TCS, he has worked in diverse areas - Global Delivery Strategy, managing Large Client Engagements, leading Practice Areas/Competencies, Delivery Center Program Management Office, Strategic Planning for North America Sales Operations and handling of multi-million dollar full software life-cycle Application Development, Offering/Product development, Maintenance and Support projects

    Sridhar obtained his master’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay and he also did an Executive Management Program from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore. His passions include building high performance teams and enabling cloud based innovations that help in transforming the businesses worldwide and societies we live in.

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    Dr. Mydhili Nair

    Dr. Mydhili K Nair

    Professor, MSRIT

    Dr.Mydhili K Nair is currently working as a Professor in MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology. She has a mixed bag of 8 years Industrial Experience and 14 years of Academic Experience. In the IT Industry she has adorned various roles ranging from Technical Lead to Project Manager in different companies such as Wipro, Hexaware, Asset Corporate Education Partner to IBM and Mahendra Comviva. In Academia she has been working in MSRIT since 2004. Her research interest includes Distributed Computing and Data Science. She has won the prestigious IBM Faculty Award in the year 2011 for her collaborative research association with IBM. She is also in the editorial panel of referred journals & has been a member of the organizing committee, session chair for many annual symposiums, conferences, Women In Engineering (WiE) forums such as Grace Hopper Conference, IEEE ANTS WiE track etc. She is also the faculty mentor for Google Developer Student Club of MSRIT. She & her students have won many project competitions & best paper awards at State & National level, including Smart India Hackathon for two successive years (2018 and 2019). She is passionate about teaching and mentoring student projects, some of which have actual end-users. Noteworthy among them is a suite of three products that have been developed for the blind students under her mentorship, which is being successfully incorporated into the curriculum of a blind school in Yelahanka, Bangalore.

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    Dr. Sekhar Babu,

    Dr. Sekhar Babu,

    Founding Head at Amrita School of Business, Bangalore

    Dr. Shekar Babu is the Founding Head of AMRITA School of Business, Bangalore. He started AMRITA School of Business, Bangalore in 2007 in collaboration with SUNY, Buffalo, NY, USA. Mr. Shekar worked as Director, Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, CA, USA for 11 years and 5 years as a Management Consultant at Price Waterhouse, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Mr. Shekar Babu is also an advisor and on board for a few start-up companies in India. Mr. Shekar Babu is also the Principal Investigator (PI) in developing and implementing CSR Projects since 2006. The 5 CSR projects termed as “Village Resource Centers (VRCs)” were implemented in 5 remote locations of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, in collaboration with Microsoft, HP, CTS, CISCO and ISRO. The projects were focused on Education, Healthcare and Agriculture. The results of these projects were presented in a paper “Enabling Rural Transformation through VRCs” at the International Conference “LifeSkills 2010” which was specifically appreciated by then President of India Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and Dr. P.V. Indiresan.

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    Balu Masti

    Balu Masti

    Independant Advisor & Ex Intel

    IoT Evangelist, Entrepreneur, Startup Mentor, Startup Co-Founder. A Seasoned Software Professional with deep expertise in building scalable software solutions to solve a whole gamut of business problems ranging from software solutions for IOT / low level devices to enterprise platforms. In-depth experience building product and technology consulting business across multiple geographies including India and USA

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    Sougata Mukherjea

    Sougata Mukherjea

    Program Director, Kyndryl

    Sougata Mukherjea is the Leader, CTO Center of Excellence at Kyndryl. He has a PhD in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology and was an Adjunct Faculty – Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He has Over 15 years research and development experience in IBM, BEA, Inktomi and NEC Research. His area of expertise include Analytics, Visualization, AI, Mobile and Cloud. He has won several awards (within IBM and external) and has numerous projects with technical and business impact to IBM customers, products and services. He is an IBM Master Inventor with many US patents and has multiple research publications in reputed conferences and journals (Citation Count > 3000).

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    Gopalakrishnan Balasubramanian

    Gopalakrishnan Balasubramanian

    Program Director, Kyndryl

    Proven leadership credentials with 20 + years of experience, across SDLC phases. Highly experienced in instilling & sustaining a high-performance culture, across teams & individuals. First-class experience in product release aspects, agile development & large-sized team handling. Managed & delivered 40-odd releases overall

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    Dr. Sridhar Domnal

    Dr. Sridhar Domnal

    Cloud Consultant at Accenture

    Dr. Shridhar G. D., is an experienced Postdoctoral Researcher / Cloud Consultant with a demonstrated history of working in industry, academia and strong research professional with a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) focused on Cloud and Distributed Computing from National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, Karnataka. He did his Postdoc at University of Surrey, UK on the project entitled "Cloud Assisted Real-time Methods for Autonomy (CARMA)” and mainly involved in building micro-services using application layer protocols on different cloud platforms (Amazon, Azure, etc.) which offer mobile edge computing (using serverless computing) capabilities for connected autonomous cars. Currently, he works on diversified platforms who wish to start / migrate their journey to Cloud environment and also focusses on building new capabilities which can be hosted on different public cloud platforms. In parallel, he is active with his research on IoT, Blockchain and other emerging technologies and he has published many conference and journal papers in reputed forums like IEEE, Elsevier and Springer. As a passion, he collaborates with many reputed colleges to help and boost the student community by imparting his knowledge through Guest Lectures, Webinars, etc. He is passionate about travelling, cooking and cycling among other varied interests.

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    Dr. Rajath Vasudevamurthy

    Dr. Rajath Vasudevamurthy

    B. M. S. College of Engineering, Bengaluru

    Dr. Rajath Vasudevamurthy is serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at B. M. S. College of Engineering, Basavanagudi, Bengaluru since January 2019. Previously he served at the Bengaluru campus of Amrita University. Dr. Rajath obtained his B. E. from R. V. College of Engineering, Bengaluru and did his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru under the guidance of Prof. Bharadwaj Amrutur. He was a visiting researcher at KTH, Stockholm and a post-doctoral researcher at the Pennsylvania State University. His interests include VLSI Circuits and Systems and likes to pursue India studies in his leisure

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    Dr. Peter

    Dr. Peter

    Program Director, Reliance Jio

    Working as the chief architect and vice-president in the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) division of Reliance Jio Platforms Ltd. Bangalore. My previous stints are in IBM global Cloud center of Excellence (CoE), Wipro consulting services (WCS), and Robert Bosch Corporate Research (CR). In total, I have gained more than 20 years of IT industry experience and 8 years of research experience. Finished the CSIR-sponsored PhD degree at Anna University, Chennai and continued with the UGC-sponsored postdoctoral research in the Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. Thereafter, I was granted a couple of international research fellowships (JSPS and JST) to work as a research scientist for 3.5 years in two leading Japanese universities. Published more than 40 research papers in peer-reviewed journals such as IEEE, ACM, Springer-Verlag, Inderscience, etc. Have authored and edited 30 books thus far and contributed 35 book chapters thus far for various technology books edited by international professors

    Focusing on some of the emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Streaming Analytics, Blockchain, Digital Twins, Cloud-native computing, Edge AI, Serverless Computing, Microservices architecture (MSA), Event-driven Architecture (EDA), etc. More details can be found at https://sweetypeterdarren.wixsite.com/pethuru-raj-books. Maintain an IT Information Portal at http://peterindia.net/Digital.html and The GitHub Page

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    Dr. Abhishek Kumar

    Dr. Abhishek Kumar

    Senior Member IEEE ,IEEE Brand Ambassador

    Abhishek Kumar has a Doctorate in computer science from University of Madras and done M.tech in Computer Sci. & Engineering from Government engineering college Ajmer, Rajasthan Technical University, Kota India. He has total Academic teaching experience of more than 8 years with more than 80 publications in reputed, peer reviewed National and International Journals, books & Conferences. His research area includes- Artificial intelligence, Image processing, Computer Vision, Data Mining, Machine Learning. He has been Session chair and keynote Speaker of many International conferences, webinars in India and Abroad. He has been the reviewer for IEEE and Inderscience Journal. He has authored/Co-Authored 6 books published internationally and edited 16 books (Published & ongoing with Elsevier, Wiley, IGI GLOBAL Springer, Apple Academic Press, De-Grueter and CRC etc. He has been member of various National and International professional societies in the field of engineering & research like Senior Member of IEEE , IAENG (International Association of Engineers), Associate Member of IRED (Institute of Research Engineers and Doctors), He has got Sir CV Raman National award for 2018 in young researcher and faculty Category from IJRP Group.He is Editor of Special issue in the Journal Computer materials and continua [SCI and SCOPUS.IF- 4.98] and Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing [SCI, SCOPUS, IF-1.276] Cognitive Neurodynamics, Springer [SCI, SCOPUS, IF-3.925]

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    Prof. Takayuki Kushida

    Graduate School of Bionics, Computer Science and Media Science Tokyo University of Technology

    Takayuki Kushida is professor and leads Cloud and Distributed Systems Laboratory in Tokyo University of Technology. Before he joined the university, he was in IBM Research, Tokyo Research Laboratory as a senior research staff and pursued many research projects in distributed computing technology. He was also the technical staff of IBM Research HQ in NY, U.S.A. and worked on providing the research technical strategy for worldwide research laboratories. He was also a principal cloud solution architect in IBM Global Technology Services, Bangalore, India as an international assignment and supported to make many cloud technical solutions. In the academic community, he was a director for IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan) to execute the strategy and operation, and editor in chief for IPSJ Journal. He is IPSJ Fellow for his research contributions to distributed systems and cloud.

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