Keynote

Arguably one of India's best known technologists, Atul Chitnis has been at the forefront of India's technology evolution since the 1980s, predicting and driving new technology waves such as datacommunication, networking, the Internet, wireless and mobile computing, and Open Source, among others.  More >

His focus areas include mobile and hand-held computing, wireless data networks, Linux and Open Source Software, virtual communities, technology convergence (including Voice over IP and entertainment oriented technologies such as Internet Radio), and the identification and understanding of future technologies.

Panel Members

Sunil Rao is Head of Forum Nokia-India. At Nokia, Sunil is responsible for evangelizing new technology platforms, strategy and growth opportunities with Nokia's third party developers to create a vibrant Nokia ecosystem.Sunil was heading the Ecosystem development for Symbian Software which was acquired by Nokia in 2008.  More >

Sunil was instrumental in setting up the Symbian ecosystem from scratch in India and was also responsible for starting the University programs.Sunil's areas of expertise are Mobile, BFSI and Logistics verticals. Mobile Consumer experiences, Smartphone lifestyles are his special areas of interest.Prior to Nokia and Symbian, he has lead sales and marketing efforts at Talisma software, Wipro technologies, Mphasis BFL and HCL Perot. He has lived and worked in North America and has a distinction of working in North America, Europe and Asian Markets.He has a Engineering degree from Bangalore University and a PGDBA and MBA from ITM , Bangalore. In his spare time, Sunil teaches in couple of Business schools and loves to travel.

Sunil has diverse & quality experience in working with global and start-up companies in Mobile handset and distributed framework in Media Software domain.Sunil has seen the complete life cycle of a technology software products. More >

where he conceived the idea with Lekh Joshi (Co-Founder) and successfully sold it to world's number 1 mobile semiconductor company Qualcomm, Inc. This is the fourth time he is working in a start-up product creation environment now. He can clearly visualize & make value where others are not able to think.

Lalit Bhise is Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder at Mobisy technologies Private Limited.A self confessed Mobile technocrat, he has been learning the art of doing Business in Indian Telecom sector for past 3 years.Lalit has 11 years of industry experience working with various Mobile software technology companies.  More >

During that time he has touched all areas of Mobile software from an ultra low cost phone to the highest end Smart Phones.Lalit has been working towards reinventing Mobile Internet. His current passion is bringing Mobile applications and services to average Indian Mobile users.

Chandu Sohoni is Founder Director at Eterno Infotech. Eterno is a Bangalore based technology focused company pioneer in the area of Mobile Media Platforms with a special focus on enabling Indian Languages.  More >

Eterno is currently focused on its flagship product NewsHunt which is a Mobile Newspaper Platform. Eterno has partnered with more than 25 leading Indian Newspapers for NewsHunt. NewsHunt has won numerous awards and recognitions including Navteq LBS Challenge 2010 India Grand Prize, Nomination for Asia Mobile Awards 2009, Winners India Mobile expo 2009 etc.Eterno's mobile applications like IndiSMS and NewsHunt are used by millions of users across the globe. Eterno was proud partner in developing Nokia's Nokia Life Tools Pilot project in India, rediff.com's rediffmail on Mobile. Eterno's SMS platforms are used by leading Indian operators like Airtel, Idea, Docomo etc.Before Eterno Chandu was working with Nokia's Bangalore R&D centre.

Suresh is a first generation entrepreneur; who has been the brain behind TELiBrahma. He started TELiBrahma in 2004 with 12 years of experience behind him in companies like Wipro, Siemens, eVector amongst others.With the credit of creating more that 6 patents to his credit, Suresh Started TELiBrahma to build a product company driven by innovations from India.Suresh has created a trend where brands are seriously considering mobile for engagements and not just lead generation.  More >

As a CEO,& founder Suresh helped TELiBrahma to become a Successfully closed 2 rounds of funding from Kitven, Inventus Capital Partners & Ojas Ventures. Build award winning new media innovations for realizing new opportunities around stadiums, events amongst others.Win prestigious advertising, corporate awards & nominations that include Redherring Global 100, Deloitte fast 50, nasscom top innovator, MMA, BigBang, PMAA amongst many others.Own the largest location based rich media content delivery network away from the operator in the world.

Jury Members

Banibrata has been closely associated with the Telecom industry for close to 14 years, starting his career designing Telecom switches, Core network equipment, Voice/Messaging VAS infrastructure, SDPs, Billing & Charging systems, and architected FT/HA middleware from scratch.  More >

He has been an entrepreneur early in his career, running a freemium dial-in BBS in Delhi in 1998-99, during VSNL shell-account days, providing BBS/internet email gateway and walled-garden internet experience, in addition to Network & Linux server consultancy. His startup had also developed the live-scoreboard application (IRC-bot) for CricMania.com, the second website to offer such service, after Cricinfo.com in those days. Currently he works with Hewlett-Packard's Communications Media Solution business, developing & nurturing partner relations, as part of the World-Wide Alliance Partner programme, helping position HP telecom products & solution within a joint portfolio. He loves being closely associated with the entrepreneurial community, and keenly tracks the VAS & communications industry.

Sunil Abraham is the Director of Policy at the Centre for Internet and Society based in Bangalore. The Centre for Internet and Society aims to critically engage with concerns of digital pluralism, public accountability and pedagogic practices, in the field of Internet and Society, with particular emphasis on South-South dialogues and exchange. More >

Sunil is a social entrepreneur and Free Software advocate. He founded Mahiti in 1998 which aims to reduce the cost and complexity of Information and Communication Technology for the Voluntary Sector by using Free Software. He was elected an Ashoka fellow in 1999 to explore the democratic potential of the Internet. He was granted a Sarai FLOSS fellowship in 2003. Between June 2004 and June 2007, Sunil also managed the International Open Source Network a project of United Nations Development Programme's Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme serving 42 countries in the Asia-Pacific region.

Kiran Jonnalagadda is a technology enthusiast who's been there and done that. Kiran setup his first blog in 1999, when no one knew what that meant, and wrote his first SMS-based info lookup service in 2000. After a long detour through what was described to him as real life, but is better described as "management", Kiran is now working on an unnamed technology startup venture.