Speakers and Exhibitors

Perraju Bendapudi
Partner Architect
Microsoft India Development Centre

Perraju Bendapudi has been with Microsoft India Development Centre for the past 12 years. He is currently the Partner Architect of the Analytics Team. Perraju started his career at Microsoft as a Senior Developer in Microsoft Operations Manager reporting. Subsequently, he became the Developer Lead to Service for Unix. He has also been the Development Manager for the Windows group at MSIDC. As the Principle Architect, he worked on the verification platform and binary based static driver verifier. As a partner Development director Perraju for the last four years worked on server and high scale services of Live mesh and azure caching and integration services.

Perraju has more than 30 patents and publications. He is a lead mentor in Microsoft Azure accelerator mentoring ~20 companies for azure.

His area of expertise is High Scale Services and runtimes, Cloud Computing, Big Data and Machine Learning and Compilers.

Before Joining Microsoft Perraju worked as staff engineer for Verilog compiled simulation in Synopsys. Perraju graduated from IIT Kanpur in 1993.

Dr. Fausto Bernardini
Vice President and Distinguished Engineer
Global Cloud Managed Services, IBM

Fausto leads the portfolio of SmartCloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Managed Application Services products, designed to host and manage production-grade enterprise applications in a dynamic, scalable, resilient, standardized environment. His responsibilities include setting the product strategy and managing its roadmap, interlocking with the execution of development and delivery activities, and overseeing the global deployment of the offering. Prior to this role Fausto led global sales enablement and support for Cloud Managed Services, working closely with clients to support them in their own transformation to leverage cloud computing. Fausto is a frequent speaker on cloud computing at client events and conferences.

Earlier in his career, Fausto led worldwide research projects to develop new technologies and methods to improve the efficiency and value of application development and infrastructure management services. Examples include Cloud Computing, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) design methodology, enterprise architecture modeling, project risk and quality management, software lifecycle process automation, business-driven infrastructure monitoring and optimization. Fausto holds a PhD in Computer Science from Purdue University, IN, USA and a Laurea degree in Electrical Engineering from Universita' La Sapienza of Rome, Italy. Fausto is an IBM Distinguished Engineer, a Master Inventor and a member of the IBM Academy of Technology.

Dr. Anand Deshpande
Founder, Chairman & MD
Persistent Systems Ltd.

Anand Deshpande is the Founder, Chairman and Managing Director of Persistent Systems (BSE & NSE: PERSISTENT), a Company that he founded in 1990. Anand has a B. Tech (1984) in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, a Masters (1986) and a Ph.D. (1989) in Computer Science from Indiana University, Bloomington (USA). Anand worked as MTS at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California from 1989 to 1990.

At Persistent, he is responsible for overall leadership and management of the company and drives the sales and technology efforts. As an active member of the database community Anand was responsible for hosting VLDB 1996 in Mumbai and ICDE 2003 in Bangalore. He has actively participated in program committees of international conferences like member of Industrial Program Committee: VLDB 2003 in Berlin, VLDB 2004 in Toronto, IEEE 2005, ICDE 2005 in Tokyo, VLDB 2007 in Vienna; Program Committee Chair for Annual Convention CSI 2009 in Pune; General Chair for COMAD 2008 in Mumbai; Industrial Program Committee Chair for DASFAA 2008 in New Delhi; Organizing Committee Chair for ISEC 2009 in Pune; launched the ACM India Council, 2009.

Anand is also a member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Institution of Engineers (India), Computer Society of India. He is currently a member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) India Council as a Past President, member of the Executive Committee of NASSCOM, serves on the Board of Trustees of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council of the School of Informatics of Indiana University, is on the Executive Committee of MCCIA and is Chairman of the IT Committee of MCCIA. In the past, Anand was the President of SEAP from 2005-07 and Chairman of the Pune Chapter of CSI from 2003-05 and was the Chairman of CII, Pune Zonal council in 2009-10.

In recognition of his contribution to the Information Technology sector he was awarded the Entrepreneur Award at the Brihan Maharashtra Mandal Convention held in Atlanta, USA, 2005. He is the recipient of the CSI Fellowship Award in 2007 for outstanding achievement in the field of Information Technology. He was awarded the career achievement award of the School of Informatics at Indiana University, Bloomington in 2009 and serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council of the School of Informatics of Indiana University. He was awarded the IIT Kharagpur Distinguished Alumni Award in 2012.

Chivukula Sree Rama Prabhu
Deputy Director General
National Informatics Centre (NIC),
Hyderabad (Ministry of Communications and Information Technology)

Chivukula Sree Rama Prabhu is the Deputy Director General (Scientist “G”), National Informatics Centre (NIC), Hyderabad (Ministry of Communications and Information Technology). As Deputy Director General (since 2004) in charge of new technology induction at the national level, he is steering the NIC Cloud Initiative of implementing Eucalyptus based IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) Cloud overlapping PaaS (Platform as a Service) and SaaS (Software as a Service) layers and has research publications in International Journals in this regard.

He is engaged in the implementation of SOA (Service Oriented Approach) based e-Governance grid of India including virtualization and cloud computing, covering all State and District Centres of NIC.

C.S.R. Prabhu obtained his Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering with specialization in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1978 after a Bachelors Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad in 1976. He has worked in various capacities at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), CMC, TES and TELCO (now Tata Motors) before joining NIC, and is well published and received numerous awards.

Prof. S. Sadagopan
IIIT, Bangalore

Professor Sadagopan, Director of IIIT-Bangalore, is a product of Madras University, India and Purdue University, USA. He taught for 25+ years at IIT Kanpur, IIM Bangalore, IIT Madras and IIIT-Bangalore in addition to short teaching assignments at RUTGERS, USA and AIT, Bangkok.

He has authored seven books, several book chapters and papers.

He is a Fellow of IEE (UK) and Computer Society of India. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, ACM and AIS.

He consults widely and lectures extensively on all aspects of IT.

He serves on the boards of Bharat Electronics, Neyveli Lignite Corporation and Indian Renewable Energy Agency as well as several Universities / Institutes - IBAB, ISIM, IIIT Bhubaneshwar and IIIT-Delhi.

He serves as a Member of Karnataka Knowledge Commission, Chief Minister's Vision Group on IT, NASSCOM Regional Council, Indian Semiconductor Association (ISA) Executive Council and ACM India Council. He is the Chair of IEEE Computer Society, Bangalore Chapter.