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Speakers At The Conference

Keynote:



Farhat Ali
President and Chief Executive Officer
Fujitsu America
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Ron Lang
Chief Executive Officer
SunGard(Higher Education)
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Panel Discussion:

Panel 1 - Leverage R&D centers for building products for growth markets

M.R. (Madhavan) Rangaswami
Moderator
Co-Founder
Sand Hill
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Christian Verstraete
CTO - MDI Business
Hewlett-Packard

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Jeff Reed
VP and GM of Clustered Storage Business
Symantec

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Randy Merry
Vice President of LIFENET SMART Services
Medtronics (Physio Control)
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Troy Trenchard
Group VP and GM
Security and Acceleration Group
Citrix
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Panel 2: Transforming shared services through globalization

Iris Hit-Shagir
Moderator
Head Analytics Business
SVB
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Bert Simpson
President and C.O.O. (Retired)
Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) Services
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Chrisopher Bedi
CIO
VeriSign

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Jay Kerley
VP GIS, Deputy CIO
Applied Materials
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Peter Kuipers
VP Finance - International Regions
Yahoo!
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Panel 3 -Linking goals of global R&D centers to overall business goals


Nilesh Thakkar
Moderator
Serial Entrepreneur & Veteran Software Executive
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Bob Doyle
SVP, Engineering
Flexera Software

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Michael D. Radice
President & CEO, Member of the Board of Directors
NWP Services

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Raja Nagarajan
SVP
Ness Managed Labs, USA

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Rick Bernheim
VP R&D
JDSU CommTest

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Toby Weiss
SVP & GM
EFI

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Panel 4 -Globalization Experience - Case Studies presentation from Visionary R&D Leaders


Mike Madden
V P Media Information Management Products
AVID
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Mitch Lowe
VP - R&D, Implementation Product Group
Cadence

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Rohit Ghai
VP Engineering Content Management & Archival Division of EMC
Surya Turaga
Sr. Director of Engineering Operations
Brocade

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Panel 5 - Can companies gain through risk reward models with vendor partners?


Watson Murthy
Cisco
Moderator
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Ashok Krishnamoorthy
President and CEO, Software Product Engineering
MindTree
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Emad Georgy
Director of Software Development, Next GenCCH
a Wolters Kluwer business
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Manoj Goyal
VP - Products & Engineering
Tiburon
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Prashant Nema
CTO & Head of IT
SVB
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Sandeep Kishore
Head–Sales and Practice, Engineering and RnD
HCL

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Panel 6 - Are needs of emerging markets different from that of developed markets?


Po Chi Wu
Moderator
Co-founding Executive Director
Global Innovation Research Center

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Ajit Nazre
Partner
KPCB

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Amit Zavery
VP-Product Management
Server Technologies Division

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Christian J. van den Branden
Director Strategic Planning and Business Analytics
EMC Corp’s Unified Storage Division
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David J. Cope
President & Chief Executive Officer
Purfresh, Inc.
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Sajai Krishnan
CEO
ParaScale
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Panel 7 - Is globalization a constraint on innovation capability?


Pat Conley
Moderator
Adjunct Professor
Saunders College of Business
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Dr. C. Mohan
IBM Fellow & Former IBM India Chief Scientist
IBM – Almaden

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Gowri Subramanian
Co-Founder & CEO
Aspire Systems
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Murugan Pal
Co-Founder & President, Serial Entrepreneur
CK-12 Foundation

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Prakash Iyer
SVP – Software & Technology
Trimble

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Raj Jaswa
CEO
Dyyno.com

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Panel 8 - Creating/ leveraging innovative Go-To-Market Strategies (Channels & Partners) in Growth Markets


Prashant Shah
Moderator
Managing Director
Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
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Anup Mehta
VP & Head NSIG business
MindTree
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Bharath Ram
VP - International Business Development
VeriSign

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Hari Murthy
Chief Sales Officer
iGate
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Sanjay Salunkhe
SVP Product Engineering Services
Patni
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Vish Mishra
Venture Director
Clearstone Venture Partners
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Panel 9 : Shared Services Center Optimization – Current realities and future ahead


Chaitanya Ramalingegowda
Moderator
Director - Advisory Services
Zinnov LLC

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Bill Ward
Director, Marketing Shared Services
Cisco Systems

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David Kruzner
Business Transformation Executive
iGate
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Gaurav Mehra
co-founder
Saba Software Inc.

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John Proverbs
Senior Director, Indirect Supply Chain Corporate Real Estate & Facilities
KLA-Tencor

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Panel 10 : Talent Virtualization: creating and managing global talent


Sramana Mitra
Moderator
Entrepreneur & Author
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Angeline Wong Tucker
Director-HR Acquisitions and Global Site Optimization (ASO)
DELL
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Peter Harrison
CEO
GlobalLogic

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Sreekanth K Arimanithaya
SVP – Human Resources
CA

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Vikram Shah
VP & GM
NetApp

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Panel 11 : Expanding the boundaries of diversity programs to suit globalization


Rolando R. Balli
Moderator
Global Diversity and Inclusion
Dell

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Leanne Bernhardt
Sr. Director of HR
Brocade

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Shari Slate
Sr. Director, Inclusion Strategy US, Enterprise, Commercial and Canada
Cisco
Sreekanth K Arimanithaya
SVP – Human Resources
CA

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Vijay Swaminathan
Co-Founder & Managing Principal
Zinnov
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Workshops :

Workshop 1 - Productivity & Value Metrics: How to measure globalization effectiveness

Vamsee Tirukkala
Co-Founder & Managing PrincipalZinnov
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Hiren Dalal
VP - Processes
CA
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Workshop 2 - Best practices to leverage China as a R&D locations globalization

Steffen Bartschat
Principal
Hill88

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Workshop 3- AGILE Best Practices for Distributed Product Development

Bipin Shah
Chairman & CEO
Kovair

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Shankar Krishnamoorthy
CTO
Aspiresys

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Venkat
SpikeSource

Workshop 4 - HRO Transformation in Product companies

Vijay Swaminathan
Co-Founder & Managing Principal
Zinnov
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Workshop 5 - Delivering professional services from remote locations

Kurt Kilgore
VP - Technology Solutions
CA

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Workshop 6 - Building capability and measuring maturity of the center

Amit Puri
Sr. Director - Supply Chain
Applied Materials

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