Invited Speakers


IT1: Sushil Prakash, Country Head-Emerging Technology, Business Innovation Group, TataTeleservices

Bio: Mr Sushil Prakash has technical qualifications from IIT Mumbai and IIT Roorkee, and an MBA from the University of Durham, UK. Mr Prakash has over 30 years of professional experience in the administration and management of telecommunication systems. He currently works with Tata TeleServices Limited as Country Head, Emerging Technology, Business Innovation Group.

Abstract: Networks and Telecommunication Systems - A Tool for Competitive Advantage
A demonstration through 2 case-studies why networks and telecommunication systems are critical in to-day's business environment.


IT2: Neeraj Gulati, Managing Director, Ciena

Bio: Neeraj Gulati is currently Vice President and Managing Director, Ciena India. Before assuming this role in 2005, Mr. Gulati has held various management positions at Ciena. He joined Ciena through its acquisition of Lightera Networks, where he was involved in the design of the Intelligent Mesh and Control Plane capability on the Core Director platform. He was also actively involved in technical sales and network planning activities with various customers worldwide.

With more than 15 years of experience in the technology industry, Mr. Gulati started his career at Bell Northern Research as a Network Architect. He also participated in the development of Nortel's Passport product line.

Mr. Gulati holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from University of Saskatchewan, Canada and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from NIT Trichy, India. He is currently on sabbatical from his MBA program at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. Mr. Gulati has published 3 papers and has been granted 9 United States patents.


IT3: Rajiv Dighe, Managing Director, Teknovus, USA

Bio: Rajiv Dighe got his B. Tech from IIT Kharagpur and his Ph.D from University of Notre Dame in Electrical Engineering. He has worked at AT&T Bell Labs and NEC’s C&C Research Labs. He was the CTO of Eulix Networks before joining Globespan as a director of product definition. He was responsible for starting the PON program at GlobespanVirata and introducing the first EPON/GPON Gateway chip at Conexant. He is now with Teknovus working on next generation EPON chips.

Abstract: 10 G PON- Technology and Market Update
In this talk, we provide an overview of the state of the PON market, the applications that are driving the 10 G market and a cost/benefit/complexity analysis of the 802.1av 10G EPON standard versus some of the other WDM-based PON solutions.


IT4: Executive Director, MTNL, India


IT5: Shriprakash Pandey, CEO, Commtel India


IT6: Prasad Babu Annapareddi, Director of Marketing - Service Provider, Juniper Networks, USA

Bio: Prasad Babu Annapareddi is the Director of Marketing, Service Provider at Juniper Networks. He has been with Juniper for nine years, previously as the Director of Systems Engineering and Operations in India. Mr. Annapareddi has more than 17 years of data communication and networking industry experience. He has wide ranging experience in TDM, ATM, IP and MPLS technologies.
In his role he works with service providers across world understanding their challenges and requirements. He works closely with the development teams as well as engineering and sales organization to ensure the delivery of best-in-class solutions suitable for service provider deployments.

Abstract: Cloud Network for successful Cloud Service
Cloud services are being explored by enterprises around the world, but for cloud services to be accepted by enterprises they need the services to be delivered within strict SLAs. The network is a critical component for cloud services to be successful. We will look at the key tenets of cloud services and how a cloud ready network will enable cloud services to meet stringent enterprise requirements and at the same time enable creation of an eco system to deliver value to enterprises/network service providers and cloud service providers.


IT7: Lena Wosinska, KTH, Sweden


IT8: Mario Pickavet, Ghent University, Belgium


IT9: A. K. Seth, India


IT10: Praveen Hebbagodi, Akamai


IT11: Sergi Figuerola, I2CAT


IT12: Anjali Agarwal, Telcordia, USA


IT13: Lech Wosinski, KTH, Sweden


IT14: Vijay Yadav, MD, UT-Starcom


IT15: Tulika Pandey, DIT, India


IT16: Ritu Chadha, Telcordia USA


IT17: Chandan Mehndiratta, VP, Cisco Systems, USA