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Welcome Publisher’s Letter

Dear Speakers, delegates, and guests, TR35, the second edition list of India’s
young innovators under the age of 35. The
It is my honor and distinct privilege to India TR35 is based on Technology Review’s
welcome you to the 3rd Emerging Tech- globally acclaimed listing of TR35, and
nologies conference — EmTech India uses the same processes and method-
2011— brought to you by MIT’s Techology ologies. This year 18 young innovators will
Review and CyberMedia. This is the thrid be showcasing their products and tech-
EmTech conference being held outside nologies during the conference. Some of
the MIT Campus. India’s finest experts in various fields have
helped us to select these members of the
The conference focuses on techologies 2011 India TR35 programme.
and innovations as they ap-
ply to business and strategy. CyberMedia sees Technol-
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that will emerge as change analysis and news on emerg-
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Under 35
EmTech India conference vertical industries, it so far lacks
and show to the world the p35 a thought-leader publication
technology leadership that and conference that connects
you have. INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR
Ajit Narayanan p36
HUMANITARIAN OF THE YEAR
Alefia Merchant p44
the innovation economy and
SOCIAL INNOVATOR
Gautam Kumar p52

breakthrough technologies.
EmTech India will help you Technology Review India and
to discover critical innovation in comput- EmTech India will fulfill this need, as India
ing, communications, biotechnology, takes its place among the first rank of en-
energy, healthcare, nanotechnology, the trepreneurial nations driven by technologi-
Web, and more. These innovations will help cal innovations.
you with insights into coming trends and
chart out implications for your businesses. I extend a special welcome to all our
relationship partners, both domestic and in-
EmTech India 2011 has brought together ternational, and MIT’s memebers who have
not only the emerging technologies that contributed greatly to this conference.
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. E. Abraham Mathew
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Day 1, Tuesday, March 22, 2011 Mysore Hall B

08:00 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 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 BREAK
11:30 - 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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Day 1, Tuesday, March 22, 2011 Mysore Hall B

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 LUNCH
14:00 - 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.”

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

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 BREAK
16:00 - 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 BREAK
18:30-20:00 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

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

08:00 - 09:15 Registration
09:15 - 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 BREAK
11:30 - 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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Day 2, Wednesday, March 23, 2011 Mysore Hall B

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 LUNCH
14:00 - 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-B

Speakers: 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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Day 2, Wednesday, March 23, 2011 Mysore Hall B

15:30 - 16:00 TEA BREAK
16:00 - 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.
* Schedule subject to change

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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 LUNCH
14:00 – 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 LUNCH
14:00 – 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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Day 2, Wednesday, March 23, 2011 Mysore Hall A

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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KeyNote & Special Address

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 Address

Jason 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 SESSION
Aloknath 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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PLENARY SESSION
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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PLENARY SESSION
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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PLENARY SESSION
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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INNOVATION LIVE!
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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INNOVATION LIVE!
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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Sponsors

STRATEGIC AFFILIATE
Creating Productive Interactions With Industry
The 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 PARTNERS
The 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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 Sponsors

2011 INDIA TR35 SPONSOR

Wipro (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! SPONSOR

Established 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 SPONSOR
Many 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 SPONSORs
www.nstedb.com The 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.
Department of
The major activities supported by the Board are targeted at evolving an
Science & Technology 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 SPONSOR
Element14 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 ASSOCIATIONS
In 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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 Sponsors

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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