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A Symposium On "The Future of Indian IT Industry 2013-2020- Visakhapatnam is a port city on the southeast coast of India. Visakhapatnam is also popularly known as ' The City of Destiny' , it is also referred as ' Goa of the East Coast.' It has an enchanting tale of beauty, enthusiasm, enterprise and workforce. The Meeting The Industry Demand by Academia" city's journey from small fishing villages to a bustling port and now a booming industrial city is simply legendary. In fact, it has been recognized as one of the fastest developing cities in Asia. It has not only been the anchor for some of the public Under TEQIP – II, S.C – 1.2 on 14th December 2012 sector giants like Visakhapatnam Port Trust, NTPC, Hindustan Shipyard Ltd., Visakhapatnam Steel Plant etc., but also witnessing the growth in the private sector in the areas of banking, insurance, IT & ITES.

Honorary Patrons Organizing Committee Prof. P. Somaraju Prof. N.S.V.V.S.J. Gandhi Mr. RVV Murali Krishna Secretary Principal Mr. A. Prakash Rao GVP College of Engineering (A) GVP College of Engineering (A) Mr. S. Kanthi Kiran Mr. IVS Venugopal Mr. S.M.K. Chaitanya Convener Co - Convener Organised Jointly by Mr. Y. Ramanjaneyulu Prof. P. Venkat Rao Sri. A. S. R. Sekhar Mr. P. Gurumurthy Patrudu Dean – IR, FR, T&P & Alumni Asst. Professor – Dept. of EEE Ms. K. Santhosh Kumari GVP College of Engineering (A) GVP College of Engineering (A) Mr. S. Srinivas

GAYATRI VIDYA PARISHAD COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING (Autonomous) MADHURAWADA, VISAKHAPATNAM – 530048 COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING (Autonomous) PH: 0891-2736622, MOBILE: 9248089033 / 9246926651 Email: [email protected] Website: www.gvpce.ac.in COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING (Autonomous) About the College Theme of the Symposium Eminent Speakers Gayatri Vidya Parishad (GVP) has been established Senior leaders and CXOs of global IT companies are visiting to Government of India is all set to execute the 12th five Year plan (2012-17) and targeting a growth share their perspective on this important theme. in 1988 as an educational trust by a group of rate around 9 %. In this context, IT Industry and Higher Educational Institutes in India are at a critical eminent educationists, academicians, industrialists juncture in terms of exploring available opportunities, facing global economic challenges, Dr. A.L. Rao and those with a touch of human values to President - Sri Sri University, Board Member - Trianz Consulting, improving student's employability index, meeting student's aspirations and building sustainable empower the young generation with a high quality Former COO - Wipro Ltd. institutions. technical education. The Engineering education by the GVP Society was first initiated by establishing an Shri. Subrahmanyam (Subbu) Vempati Engineering College in the year 1996 with the divine In response to this national cause, GVP College of Engineering(Autonomous) in collaboration with Founder CEO, Indiverein, Former Corporate and World Wide VP, Hewlett-Packard. blessings of Sadguru Sri K. Sivananda Murthy garu. IBM is conducting a symposium with well-respected information technology industry veterans & Prof. P.S. Rao, former Professor& Dean of Industrial influencers on “The future of Indian IT Industry 2013-2020 - Meeting the demand of Industry by Consultancy and Sponsored Research, IIT Madras, a Academia”. Major focus of this event is to discuss latest IT trends, expectations of the industry from Shri. Kalyan Banerjee renowned Structural Engineering in the young graduates, shaping the career of budding engineers to cater the future IT needs and Co - founder& Senior Vice President, Mind Tree Pro - Vice Chancellor, Centurion University. country, was the founder Principal and it is initially technology vision for the institutions. started with four different branches in B.Tech program with an initial intake of 200. Now the We wish to project a direction to Higher Education Institutes from IT leaders through this event. Shri. Debasis Bandyopadhyay Global Head - Co-Innovation Network college is functioning with 7 different branches in Tata Consultancy Services. B.Tech program and 12 PG (11 M.Tech + MCA) Agenda of the Day programs with a total intake of 1098 students and Shri. Vijayanand Vadrevu has been accredited by NBA of AICTE, NAAC with 'A' 12.30PM – 1.30PM : Reporting and Registrations 2.15PM – 4.30PM : Speakers Presentation & Head – IT Global Services Delivery, Novartis. with a CGPA of 3.47/4.00 Autonomous Status Panel Discussion recommended by UGC and conferred by JNTU-K in 1.30PM – 1.45PM : Welcome and Opening Remarks 4.30PM – 5.00PM : Question & Answer the year 2009 and also ranked 14 by NPIU among Shri. Winston S.K. Adams Asst. Vice President - Corporate Affairs the colleges applied all over India for 1.45PM – 2.15PM : Introduction of Speakers 5.00PM – 5.10PM : Closing Remarks Phoenix IT Solutions Ltd. implementation of sub component 1.2 of TEQIP - II. An MOU signed with Govt. of Andhra Pradesh in this Shri. Lawrence Mohan Raj regard. 30 faculty are recognized by JNTUK as Venue: Central Auditorium of GVP College of Engineering (Autonomous) Regional Manager – South & West Research Supervisors. Madhurawada, Visakhapatnam. IBM Academic Initiative, IBM India. Live Streaming: www.eliveevents.com/TheFutureofITIndustry A Symposium On "The Future of Indian IT Industry 2013-2020- Meeting The Industry Demand by Academia"

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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING (AUTONOMOUS) GAYATRI VIDYA PARISHAD COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING (AUTONOMOUS) MADHURAWAD, VISAKHAPATNAM – 530048 PH: 0891-2736622, MOBILE: 9248089033 / 9246926651 Email: [email protected] Website: www.gvpce.ac.in Shri. Winston S.K. Adams Shri. Lawrence Mohan Raj Shri. Vijayanand Vadrevu Asst. Vice President - Corporate Affairs Regional Manager – South & West Head – IT Global Services Delivery, Novartis. Phoenix IT Solutions Ltd. IBM Academic Initiative SPEAKERS PROFILES

Vijayanand Vadrevu is Global Head for IT Services of Novarits. Mr. Winston Adams is AVP – Corporate Affairs at Phoenix IT Solutions Limited, Mr. Lawrence Mohanraj is Regional Manager - South & West, IBM Academic Initiative Visakhapatnam. He holds a Bachelor degree in Commerce, a Diploma in Computer at IBM India. In this role, his mandate is to create various industry-institution bridging Prior to this, Vijayanand was Chief Strategy Officer, Mahindra Satyam, a global Management and has done his MBA from RCM, Bhubaneswar. He has 20 years of initiatives across various engineering colleges in South and West regions. consulting and IT services provider. As a CSO & Senior Vice President , Strategic experience in Sales and Marketing, Human Resource Management, General Initiatives, he was assisting the CEO, in providing leadership on 'strategic initiatives' to Administration, Process Management and Operations. Prior to this, He was DGM, Consulting Services, IBM India. In last 29 years of his IT the company and would play a key role in scripting the growth plans of the experience, Lawrence worked on various areas like product management, solutions organization. Prior to taking charge of Corporate Affairs Mr.Winston was heading Operations at and services in IT, software training, building a pool of IBM Skills & Capabilities from Phoenix IT Solutions and has been instrumental in fostering technological the students of Engineering Colleges & Universities to make them that much more Vijanand has a vast experience in IT services industry with over 17 years with Wipro partnerships with various MNC's across the globe. He has initiated for getting the Industry-ready and employable. Technologies. He was working as Vice President and Head for Life Sciences Vertical prestigious IBM Beacon Award 2012 for Smarter Industry: Best Industry Solutions for solutions, responsible for Strategy, Sales and Delivery and was instrumental in Energy and Utilities and the ITsAP Best IT Product Award 2012. He feels sky is the limit A Symposium On shaping it as one of the fastest growing Verticals. if we apply things right.

He holds a Masters degree in Computer Engineering from IIT Kharagpur and has spent He is a managing committee member of VITA, an avid Cricket lover, he loves to spend "The Future of Indian IT Industry 2013-2020- more than six years in the U.S. in a number of client facing and practice building roles. time with his family and reading books. Meeting The Industry Demand by Academia"

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Dr. A.L. Rao President - Sri Sri University Shri. Subrahmanyam (Subbu) Vempati Shri. Kalyan Banerjee Shri. Debasis Bandyopadhyay Board Member - Trianz Consulting Founder CEO, Indiverein Co - founder & Senior Vice President, Mind Tree Global Head – Co-Innovation Network Former COO - Wipro Ltd. Former Corporate & World Wide VP, Hewlett-Packard. Pro - Vice Chancellor, Centurion University. Tata Consultancy Services.

Dr. A.L.Rao is President of Sri Sri University Bhubaneswar, Orissa and board member Subbu Vempati is the Founder and CEO of Indiverein. Indiverein focuses on helping Kalyan Banerjee is co-founder and head of Learning at . Kalyan's Debasis Bandyopadhyay joined TCS in the late eighties and since then has taken Trianz consulting. Prior to this, he was working as Chief Operating Officer of Wipro Ltd. promising companies cross the proverbial growth chasm. responsibilities include Leadership coaching and teaching Systematic Innovation at initiative in building many business around new technologies for TCS. He took charge MindTree. He is also Pro Vice Chancellor, Centurion University, Bhubaneswar. As a Pro of the TCS infrastructure and gave it the current shape to accommodate a fast growing Dr. A. L. Rao joined Wipro's Information Technology business as a founder member in Prior to founding Indiverein, Subbu was a Corporate and worldwide VP in Hewlett- Vice Chancellor, he oversees strategic initiatives at Centurion University and organization. Debasis has always been a forerunner in nurturing emerging 1980 and contributed significantly towards building a R&D team. As Head of R&D, he Packard managing a global Alliances business of about $8B. Prior to that, at HP, responsible for making teaching more effective. Currently he is on sabbatical leave at technologies and creating new market space for TCS business. spearheaded the development and launch of Wipro range of computers in the Indian Subbu had managed their largest product team, and addressed emerging markets Mindtree. He is actively involved in corporate education from 1994. market. From 1993 to 1996, he worked as Vice President (Technical) at Wipro Systems enabling a billion dollar business. Subbu had championed and led establishing of He started his career in Indian Explosive Limited (IEL), Kanpur, India a sister concern of he was instrumental in seeding and growing a number of business practices from HP Labs in India, and co-led the establishment of HP Software Centre in China. As part of MindTree, Kalyan's first responsibilities included setting up its Knowledge Imperial Chemical Industry, Bellingham, UK as an Instrumentation Engineer and then scratch. Testing Services, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and e-Enabling are Management function, and later the Culture and Competence Initiative. Kalyan was joined M.N. Dastur & Co. (P) Ltd. an engineering consulting organization in Kolkata, some of them. As Group Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Wipro from Subbu is a Harvard alumnus. He is an engineering graduate of the Regional instrumental in defining a learning culture, introducing communities to foster a learn 1996-1999, he implemented ISO 9000 compliant quality processes across the Engineering College, University of Madras. His interest areas are growth, and share ecosystem, and building programs for holistic learning. The next five years, He is instrumental in tracking emerging technologies for TCS business. He initiated Software Divisions of Infotech Group. He has also driven the SEI CMM initiative entrepreneurship and innovation-oriented work, and innovative business models. Kalyan worked for MindTree's R&D Services business. many new practices in TCS around emerging technologies. Currently as a Vice enabling Wipro to become the first SEI CMM Level 5 Software Services Company in the President of the organization he leads Co-Innovation Network (COIN), a collaborative world. As part of MindTree's R&D Services Business, Kalyan has headed its Technology research initiative in TCS CTO organization Practices, the Communications Group and the Consumer Appliances group at In Oct 2000, Dr. Rao took over the leadership of Telecom and Internetworking different times. A Bachelor of Technology in Instrumentation and Electronics Engineering from Solutions Division and steered the business through multifold growth to its present Jadavpur University in 1977 and Bachelor of Science in Physics, Debasis has been an Kalyan is interested in teaching, and in academic interactions. His current interests lie preeminent position. From June 2005 to September 2008 he worked as the Chief active member of the TCS family since last 25 years and is still driving to a greater in systematic innovation and problem solving, mentoring, and leadership coaching. Operating Officer, with the responsibility for Product Engineering business(about one thresholds of achievements. He likes to explore new ways of teaching that make it fun and attractive for the learner. Billion Dollar revenues), CIO & CTO functions,Admin & Facilities and Japan & China “Effective Thinking”, and “Appreciating Conflicts” are two of his favorite topics for Geographies sales & Operations. coaching. Conceiving practical courses of industry relevance, and bridging the gap Prior to Wipro, he worked in Electronic Corporation of India Ltd. from 1973 - 1980 and between industry and academics are his passion. He mentors teachers & students and was associated with the development of Operating Systems and Compilers for ECIL loves to teach “core programming” to the enthusiastic students. Kalyan believes in computers. Dr. Rao has delivered the keynote speech at the 2nd World Congress on multi-dimensional and holistic growth of the individual as a responsible part of Software Quality in Japan in 2000. He has been elected a Fellow of the Indian National society. Academy of Engineering for distinguished contribution to Computer Science & Prior to MindTree, Kalyan worked in Wipro's R&D for thirteen years. Kalyan's technical Engineering. Dr. Rao did his MSc. and PhD from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, career was in operating systems spanning different flavours of UNIX kernel. He worked India. in Wipro's best-selling UNIX systems in the '80s and early '90s, and later as a UNIX expert for clients like Intel, Univel, and Tandem. Kalyan has received awards for best faculty, for his papers on conflicts and in innovation.

He graduated in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi and has a Masters in computer science from IIT Kanpur.