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Alok Mittal
Managing Director
Canaan Partners
Topic: Investment Themes On The Internet |
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Alok Mittal is Managing Director with Canaan Partners India. Alok focuses on building companies in the fast-growing wireless, technology and Internet domains.
A successful entrepreneur and founding member of Band of Angels India, Alok also seeks to foster the development of new global technologies in India. He led the technology practice at Baring Private Equity Partners, India, where he focused on IT products and services, BPO, Internet and Telecom. Prior to Baring, Alok was Co-founder of JobsAhead.com, a leading web-based recruitment business. Alok was instrumental in the acquisition of JobsAhead by Monster.com, the global leader in online recruitment. He also brings strong Telecom experience to Canaan having worked for Hughes Software Systems, the premium provider of telecom software services and systems in India. He serves on the Board of Directors of Bharat Matrimony, iYogi and Cellcast. He holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Anil Tirunagiri
Google india
Topic: Top 10 Best Practices of Successful Digital Advertising |
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As part of Google's Technology vertical in India, Anil Tirunagari partners global Technology and Telecom businesses in defining, structuring a rigorous and compelling digital strategy besides also managing their Google campaigns for India. Anil brings with him over a decade of experience with the Internet and technology startups besides an astute understanding of what drives good digital business sense.
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Ashok Lalla
Director of Internet Marketing
Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces
Topic: Building Brands the Marketing 2.0 way |
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A Marketing 2.0 evangelist, Ashok currently leads the global Ecommerce and Internet Marketing initiatives for Taj Hotels. His career spans 16 years of Branding and Communications, Digital Brand Management, Product Concept Development, Advocacy Marketing and Customer Research.
Ashok is an active global keynote speaker and marketing thought leader in the areas of Web 2.0 and Ecommerce, Luxury and Lifestyle Branding, Travel and Hospitality, Social Networking, CRM and Customer Intelligence. He was recently Keynote speaker and panelist at Luxury Interactive 2009 in London.
A fitness and wellness enthusiast, Ashok has a disarming sense of humour that helps him get through each day with a smile.
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Harish Bahl
CEO
Studio Smile
Topic: Consumer 2.0: How Web 2.0 is Changing Moods, Metrics, & Monetization |
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The tools and platforms Web 2.0 offers has totally revolutionized the consumers internet usage pattern, today the consumers are empowered to be creator of content than just be a mere spectator. This shift of power in the hands of consumers has given a totally new dimension to the way marketing used to look at consumers – today they have got a voice and are not just a listener. The talk will touch upon the changing consumer trends, success measurement metrics for marketers and ways to monetize through these platforms |
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Harish, an engineering graduate in computer sciences, is a serial entrepreneur. In 1999, he founded Smile, amongst India's first internet business solutions companies. Over the last nine years, he has laid the foundation of Smile Interactive Technologies Group (SITG). Under his leadership, SITG has developed leading businesses like StudioSmile, Quasar, Tyroo, Zoomtra and Zumtra.
StudioSmile, the incubation program of SITG provides a unique way of growing and increasing entrepreneurship for the digital industry in India. It invites entrepreneurs and professionals to chase their dream projects by incubating them with experience, technology infrastructure, seed fund and management expertise.
Harish had earlier also started ventures like Creons Advertising (amongst top three Indian retail infrastructure companies) and Dial-A-Meal (food delivery service company).
Harish is considered a thought leader on the subjects of digital technology, ecommerce, interactive advertising, online travel, and entrepreneurship and is a regular speaker at various forums for the same. He is an active member of NASSCOM. He is also the Chairman of Digital Agencies Committee of IAMAI.
Harish was recently awarded "Udyog Rattan" by Institute of Economic Studies for "outstanding performance and contribution towards the industrial development of the country" while an "Excellence Award" was presented to SITG for "excellence in productivity, quality, innovation and management"
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Ishwar Jha
CEO
Digital Media Convergence
Topic: Web 2.0 Fundamentals, Landscape & Strategy |
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The impact of Web 2.0 is being observed across the segments of industry verticals. The web 2.0 prosumers and consumers are affecting social communication, e-commerce, media consumption, fashion, and social relations. I would like to explain how the building blocks of Web 2.0 empowered by user-generated content, rich internet applications, collective intelligence, the wisdom of crowds, blog, open source application platforms, free culture, recommendation engines, social bookmarking, twitter and mashups—are changing the landscape of communication, entertainment, and the economy. I would integrate real life examples from both India as well as international platforms that has used Web 2.0 to discover new business opportunities, enter new markets, develop new products, and make real money while delving deep in the opportunities and understanding consumer requirements early.
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Ishwar Jha is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Founder Director of Digital Media Convergence Ltd. (an Essel Group Company). With over 16 years of experience in diversified industry verticals and has implemented many projects including infrastructure deployment, ERP, enterprise applications and initiatives that have made the organization achieve excellence in the respective business field.
During his over three-year stint with Essel Group, Ishwar has been instrumental for launching the mobile platform 7575, Play TV (India's first live and interactive gaming TV channel), Digital Asset Management System (Essel Group is the first organization in the Asia Pacific region to have successfully implemented the same) among other projects which have helped the organization earn significant revenue and reduce operating costs. In his current role, Ishwar is responsible for setting up business operations to capture the growing digital entertainment and convergence business market and sustain the group's leadership position. His efforts have helped in launching India's first commercially deployed mobile TV service (ISEE) in partnership with BSNL. DMCL has also ventured into launching Internet products in the spheres of entertainment, social networking and e-commerce.
Ishwar has been acknowledged and appreciated for his ideas and efforts. He has won 'Best IT Implementation' award from PCQuest, 'CIO 100' from CIO Magazine and 'Storage Giant' from EMC. He has authored over 100 articles for leading publications like MIS South Asia and MIS Asia, CIOL Enterprise Connect, and many other leading publications. He has also presented in many conferences and seminars as a Speaker and Panelist.
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Kiruba Shankar
CEO
Business Blogging
Topic: Successful Social Media Strategies for Corporates |
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Kiruba Shankar is co-founder of Five Technologies and founder CEO of Business Blogging Pvt Ltd. Prior to this, he was Associate Director at Sulekha.com. Kiruba is one of the founders of The Knowledge Foundation, the group behind successful events like BlogCamp, India's Biggest Unconference on Blogging, Proto.in, premiere event showcasing startups, WikiCamp, an unconference focusing on the power of wikis, PodWorks, India's only event on audio and video blogging. He also regularly organizes MobileMondays and BarCamps.
Kiruba is currently authoring a book titled 'UnConferences: Because The Audience is More Intelligent Than the Speaker', a global community authored book project that he has initiated.
Kiruba loves teaching and teaches at IIM Bangalore, Madras Ad Club, SRM University and Asian College of Journalism. He is a key member in Creative Commons India.
He is a professional podcaster and hosts a show called 'The Kiruba Show' where he interviews CEOs of Indian IT companies. BusinessWorld Magazine ranks his blog www.Kiruba.com as one of India's top blogs.
Kiruba is a rowing champion and has captained the Sify Rowing Team to four championship titles. He has participated in Chennai and Bangalore marathons. His recent passion is Ultimate Frisbee.
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Kunal Dureja
Technical Evangelist - developerWorks
IBM India
Topic: Leveraging the Power of Web 2.0 - My developerWorks |
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W E B 2.0 capabilities have spawned business models based on Participation, Collaboration & Conversation, the earlier Web technologies enabled only consumption of information. Web 2.0 is not just a B2C phenomenon; professionals participate in Social Media for work related purposes.
IBM My developerWorks is a professional network and knowledge base that connects the developer community worldwide to share and collaborate. I has a wide breadth of technical content and community offerings for many IT roles. The award winning developerWorks platform has always been a great source of product and platform independent information with a perfect blend of tools, code, tips, how to do articles, and tutorials.
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Kunal recently joined IBM India as Technical Evangelist - developerWorks. As an evangelist, his attempt is to help build a critical mass of support for various open technologies and influence industry to gain from the early adoption of upcoming technologies from IBM.
Previously, before leading the Sales and Solutions team at an IBM Premier ISV for 6 years in India, Kunal worked for 5 years as a Messaging, Collaboration and BPM expert. In these years, he has worked with various customers across the industries for most suitable IT Architecture for their business needs. Being a founder member of the ISV organization, he has experienced the entire cycle from Product Development, Selling, Implementations to product improvement. He also carries good Channel relationships with him and is known as a solution expert.
You can connect with him on IBM My developerWorks - www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/profiles/user/KDureja or
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Jayabalan S
CTO
Netmagic Solutions
Topic: True Cloud: Build your IT Infrastructure on the Cloud |
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Cloud computing has appealed to many, not only due to freedom of managing applications, platforms, and infrastructure, but often, due to price that is much lower than running or hosting it in house. Adopting a True cloud platform in terms of both utility pricing and outsourced power is that it allows for far greater dynamic environments inside organizations. With strong cloud-based IT infrastructures, organizations can get up and running in a fraction of time it takes to provision, develop and deploy these components in house. |
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Jayabalan is the CTO and Co-founder of Netmagic. In this capacity, he has played a pivotal role in designing and scaling the Carrier-Neutral Network, which supports mission critical applications hosted at Netmagic IDCs.
He is recognized in the Industry as an Expert on Internetworking and has been consultant to leading organizations including BAFL, BPL, Bharti, Worldtel, Hathway Internet among others.
He has been instrumental in setting up large Private and Public Voice/Data Networks during his association with Indchem and Calisys. Jayabalan is an expert on design and configuration of Frame-Relay, ATM and MPLS networks and Advanced Internet Routing.
Jayabalan has over 18 years of IT and Communication industry experience.
He holds an Engineering Degree in Electronics and Communication from Bharthidasan University, Tiruchirapalli.
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Krishnamurthy Hegde
GM - Web Solutions
Shoppers Stop
Topic: Participatory Democracy with New Age Interactive Media |
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India's Democracy is often referred as a 'Miracle Democracy' by the western press. No country has more heroically pursued the promise of democracy. Against the odds of staggering poverty, conflicting religious passions, linguistic pluralism, regional separatism, caste injustice and natural resource scarcity, corruption and social unrest. Indians have lifted themselves largely by their own sandal straps to become a stalwart democracy and emerging global power.
Inspite of all the achievements in the last 60 years, we the people in India grumble, criticize and blame the Government, the political & bureaucratic class, justice system, police and the sorts. This only indicates that, there is more to do and more refinements to bring into our democratic system. As a large democratic country, we do have problems. Most of our problems can be addressed by collaborative efforts between people to people, people to government, and people to corporate programs. The New Age interactive media; which is an amalgamation of web 2.0, social media, IPTV, Interactive Billboards, Mobile VAS, OOi Paper and Digital Signage has the potential to provide the necessary framework for interactions and make the collaboration productive, transparent and effective.
The lecture focuses on some of the initial thoughts, concepts of participatory democracy and how most of the current problems can be easily resolved with frameworks based on Interactive Media.
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Krishnamurthy is General Manager Web Solutions with Shoppers Stop Ltd. He is founder of Interactive Media Worldwide; a global community of brands, marketers, marketing, advertising and communication professionals. Krishnamurthy is an evangelist in the New Age Media space and is researching on new approaches to connect with people to build brand equity, customer loyalty and enrich customer experience through ROI driven marketing solutions.
Krishnamurthy brings with him more than 20 years of rich industry experience, which includes enterprise solutions architecture, product management, enterprise IT management, marketing and media innovations as well as driving SBU with P&L responsibilities. Currently business transactions in excess of US$ 6 Billion are conducted on the platform, Krishnamurthy has passionately worked with.
Leading organizations like Infosys, HCL, T-Mobile, Shoppers Stop, Dun & Bradstreet, Sony, MTNL, Manitoba Telecom Services, and Knology are leveraging on the solutions which are engineered by Krishnamurthy.
Krishnamurthy's current interests are: Driving IT like business. IT Management, Customer centric solutions, Solutions to enrich Customer Experience, build Brand Equity & Customer Loyalty, Media platforms, Monetization of Social media, Web 2.0, Cloud Computing, SaaS, Video Commerce, Video Production, Video Broadcasting, ROI driven marketing solutions, Online and Offline Media assets.
He is working on building a 3++ program on Interactive Media. The program is intended for brands, marketers, interactive agencies, creative and advertising professionals, marketing and communication professionals and offcourse business leaders.
His other interests are Networking, Social Service, Spirituality, Meditation and Conducting Trainings/workshops.
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Mahesh Murthy
Founder and CEO
Pinstorm
Topic: Using web innovation to beat the economic downturn |
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Founder and CEO of Pinstorm, Mahesh has 24 years of marketing and communications experience - of which over 14 years are in online marketing.
After dropping out of college, Mahesh sold vacuum cleaners from door to door, worked with Grey in India and Ogilvy in Hong Kong, where he won notoriety and awards as a creative director on HP, The Economist, Pepsi and MTV - for whom he wrote and directed a spot voted "Asia's best commercial of the decade".
He then moved to a Silicon Valley firm, CKS Partners (later, USWeb/CKS) as Creative Director, General Manager and Partner - where he helped launch the first commercial version of Yahoo in 1995 and the Earth's Biggest Bookstore campaign for Amazon.com in 1997. After a successful NASDAQ IPO, Mahesh moved to head marketing at iCat, an e-commerce firm in Seattle subsequently acquired by Intel.
Mahesh then returned to India to run Channel V, a rival to MTV, till its sale to Newscorp in 2000 and then founded Passionfund to invest in startups. Some of his investees include Geodesic (a 300-bagger), Compassbox - acquired by Careerlauncher, Cypherix, Indiaproperties, EBS and Webdunia. Mahesh penned a reasonably infamous column in Business Today and Businessworld, and played the Donald Trump-equivalent role in Business Baazigar, a game show similar to The Apprentice, involving entrepreneurs and business plans.
While running search marketing campaigns for his favourite charity in 2003, Mahesh believed there was a need for a pay-for-performance online marketing company - and set up Pinstorm in Bombay. With over 120 people across 7 offices in India, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Europe and the US, Pinstorm is today among the world's leading digital marketing firms.
Mahesh has a passion for early-stage investing and teamed up with Pravin Gandhi and Bharati Jacob (ex-Infinity) in 2006 to set up Seedfund, today a leading early-stage venture capital fund in India. Seedfund already has 10 investments, including Carwale.com, Printo, RedBus.in, AFAQs.com and Vaatsalya.
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Mohit Hira
President eLearning (Retail)
NIIT
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Mohit Hira played with words for most of his life as an advertising person in Contract Advertising where he was shuffling roles as he alternated between being a Creative Director and a Branch Manager for 16 years before moving to The Times of India Group in 2003.
First, as head of Times Foundation, then brand head of Navbharat Times and The Economic Times Delhi, and later a member of the Corporate Group in Bennett Coleman, Mohit worked closely with print media till he was seconded to Times Internet Ltd as Director, Marketing and Incubation, in 2005.
The relaunch of Indiatimes and its associated websites, as well as its email service, was followed by the launches of social media sites such as itimes, idiva, hotklix and qna within the Indiatimes network.
In November 2008, Mohit joined NIIT Ltd as President eLearning (Retail). A collector of masks, runner-up twice in the Microsoft Corporate Challenge tournaments, an occasional blogger and frequent contributor to Urban Dictionary, Mohit is now setting up an online education business at NIIT.
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Nikhil Sarup
Sr. Vice President – Digital Marketing
Solutions | Digitas
Topic: Web 2.0 Means Business |
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Building an interactive B2B presence online
Many companies have successfully implemented Web 2.0 social features for engaging consumers, pushing its message out through channels like blogs, social news aggregators, social networking portals and video sharing sites.
See how the same can be applied in the business-to-business world. Join us, as we walk though a comprehensive, interactive demo for a B2B company website. Find out how you can integrate videos, blogs, & other social media tools into your digital presence.
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Nikhil Sarup heads the digital marketing practice at Solutions|Digitas, a part of Publicis Groupe's interactive network. Solutions provides its clients with result-oriented ideas, helping brands acquire and retain customers, using a combination of marketing insights, technology tools & creativity.
With over 12 years of experience, Nikhil has helped rolled out many successful online initiatives including channel relationship & loyalty programs, PDA-based audit applications & other B2B initiatives in the online space. Having run his own Social Networking site in 1998, Nikhil now helps brands build & harness online communities for their benefit.
Prior to joining Solutions in 2000, Nikhil was a Senior Consultant with an ERP Services company, where he led the technology implementation and customization of enterprise applications.
He lives in Delhi, with two servers, a Linux desktop & a worn-out Wii.
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Nitin Mishra
Head - Product Management
Netmagic Solutions
Topic: Save Capex - Reduce Opex - the Cloud Computing way! |
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Cloud computing is reshaping the IT marketplace, creating new opportunities for suppliers and catalyzing changes in traditional IT offerings. These services will enable companies to save capital by subscribing to IT infrastructure-as-a-service. In addition, a strong cloud-based IT infrastructure will optimize resource utilization and save on power and space costs. In fact, the biggest advantage of such a service is that companies can avoid spending today and be ready for scaling on-demand when the economy starts growing by using the cloud platform.
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Nitin Mishra heads the Product management function at Netmagic. He has spent last 7 years at Netmagic in conceptualizing and productizing hosting and managed services. These services address the IT infrastructure requirements of Internet applications and Enterprise applications. Today, Netmagic is India's leading Managed IT Service Provider, serving over 650 enterprises from 4 Data Centers and 4 Network Operations Centers and offering entire gamut of services from Colocation to Application Management.
Prior to joining Netmagic, he has handled responsibilities, which range from hands on Internet operations, Product management and Project management, at VSNL and HCL COMNET.
He holds an Engineering degree in Computer science from VJTI (Mumbai, India) and PGDBM from XLRI (Jamshedpur).
Being part of the evolution of Data Center Industry in India, as a core team member of Netmagic since inception, he brings in wealth of knowledge on changing IT infrastructure requirements.
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Parminder Singh
Business Head
Google india
Topic: Digital Advertising concepts and best practices |
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Google's Parminder Singh will reveal powerful online branding insights using cutting-edge tools and game-changing digital advertising concepts and best practices from Google's global markets.
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Parminder Singh is Business Head at Google India and leads Google's monetization operations in Technology, Telecom, Financial Services, Media & Entertainment spaces in India.
Parminder brings with him over 15 years of cross -functional experience in strategy and brand marketing with excellent understanding of the latest technology trends and concepts With a track record of consistent and outstanding performance in companies such as IBM, Apple, HCL and Cyrix (National Semiconductor), he is also credited with launching and setting up successful distribution networks for high technology products.
An accomplished speaker on Web 2.0 and Marketing at various industry forums, his areas of experience & special interest include Marketing through New Media, Business Planning & Brand strategy, ROI measurement metrics, and Customer Relationship Management.
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Pavan Varma
Google India
Topic: Top 10 Best Practices of Successful Digital Advertising |
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Pavan will prescribe the 'Top 10 Best Practices of Successful Digital Advertising' with particular emphasis on the BFSI sector |
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Pavan Varma advises some of India's premier BFSI businesses on highly customised digital advertising strategies, besides consulting on their Google strategy, as part of Google's Finance vertical. With nearly a decade working with some of the biggest names in banking and financial services, Pavan is also keen commentator on business strategies and digital advertising innovations for this industry
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Probir Roy
Co-Founder & Promoter
PayMate & Coruscant Tec
Topic: Social Media and the Modern enterprise |
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Probir has over 15 years of experience in diverse fields like technology, operations, strategy in diverse environments. Prior to laying the foundation stone of PayMate, he was the CIO at News Corp's Star TV India, Member of the Executive Committee and Chief of Staff to the Executive Chairman
Subsequently, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Euro RSCG Interactive - the world's No-1 New Media company, and Chief Technology Officer of Euro RSCG Advertising, India & Middle East and on the Worldwide IT Board.
Before his transition to the private sector, and now as an entrepreneur, Probir worked at the International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, and then the Nuclear Power Corporation where he served for eleven years and was Head of Information Systems
In his entrepreneurial role, Probir has co-founded Coruscant Tec and PayMate. Both companies have been awarded with the prestigious RED HERRING TOP 100 Award for promising tech start up companies. He is also Founding Director at Ampelion Networks a Mobile Discovery Co being incubated in the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
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Pradeep Chopra
Co-founder & Chief Marketing Officer
OMLogic Consulting
Topic: SEO: Marketing or Technology? |
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Is SEO Marketing or Technology?
The answer can be either debated as an intellectual exercise or we can look for the answers from the perspective of the businesses who are trying to integrate online marketing into their traditional marketing budgets, and provide pragmatic recommendations.
When we talk about SEO, we frequently discuss about:
1. HTML & CSS
2. Meta & Other Tags
3. Crawlers & SE algorithms etc
We also talk about:
1. No of Visitors
2. Visitor Behavior (Page Views, Time/Visit etc)
3. Conversions (Leads, Sales etc)
While the 1st set of parameters comes under technology the 2nd set would characterize SEO as marketing. Most of the corporations recognize both the views, yet a large percentage of SEO projects tend to fail. The primary reason for the failures is the gap that exists between the two functions i.e. the failure lies in not recognizing that SEO is essentially a marketing function, which uses technology as an enabler. Marketing folks throw the SEO responsibility over to the "Technical" folks.
Through case studies and practical examples, the proposed session on 'SEO and Marketing' will educate & empower the audience in winning the SEO wars i.e. meeting the business objectives rather than just getting higher rankings and traffic. The speaker will address the needs of two distinct audiences: in-house organizations within corporations; and agencies that are looking to serve corporate clients.
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Pradeep Chopra is a serial entrepreneur & is currently a co-founder of OMLogic Consulting, one of India's leading online marketing companies. In addition to delivering customer delight for OMLogic's global customers using Search Engine Marketing, Pradeep is evangelizing OMLogic’s Social Media Marketing strategy for its customers.
Prior to OMLogic, Pradeep was a co-founder of Whizlabs Software, an IT education company, where he built a global brand (using online marketing) for which Whizlabs won the 'Most Innovative Indian IT Company' award from NASSCOM in 2004.
Online marketing is Pradeep's passion & he is among the pioneers of online marketing in India. He is an international speaker & an author on online marketing & entrepreneurship. His previous speaking assignments include speaking at SES (USA), Global Entrepolis @ Singapore, NASSCOM India Leadership Forum, TiE and Web Innovation conferences.
Pradeep graduated from IIT Delhi & is also an active member of the SEMPO's Global Committee.
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P N Anantharaman
Director of engineering of platform products
Adobe systems
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P N Anantharaman (Ananth) is the director of engineering of platform products at Adobe systems. For the past 2 years Ananth has been managing the Flex, AIR and ColdFusion product engineering and other business activities pertaining to RIA. Prior to Adobe, Ananth has extensive experience managing compiler products at senior management positions in HP. Ananth has rich engineering expertise in building real time embedded systems, operating systems and system software. Ananth holds a masters degree in electronics from IISc and has over 2 decades of experience in the software industry.
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Rakesh Antala
Co-Founder & CEO
Crederity Inc
Topic: Establishing Trust Online |
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The Internet has profoundly revolutionized all aspects of our lives, both personal and professional. It has literally opened up communication with a whole new world, a place in which many people spend almost as much time engaged in as in their physical one. While this new world is exciting for online business, laying the groundwork for establishing trust is imperative. Webster'Ts defines Trust as a Firm reliance on the integrity, ability, or character of a person or thing. Trust is an essential component to any good relationship, particularly in people-powered industries such as consulting, recruiting, education, childcare, healthcare, and professional services. |
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As CEO, Rakesh leads Crederity's global launch activities including building a strong team consisting of world-class experts. Having led global projects, he brings a decade of technology product development, operations and leadership experience.
Rakesh has worked with the Alcatel Lucent (formerly Lucent) Wireless R&D Division where he led strategic enterprise IT projects. For his work, Rakesh won the Bell Labs team awards for "Innovation and Technology" and "Tools and Best Practices".
Rakesh has broad experience working in the entrepreneurial environment, having previously developed products from concept to market. Most recently, he was Partner & COO of Intivia, a healthcare services company serving 250+ organizations across the United States. He has also played advisory roles in other technology startups, and is a partner at Aashirwad Care, a unique ethnic service provider to Nursing Homes.
Rakesh holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and a M.S. in Information Systems and has deferred a May 2007 conferment of an Executive Masters in Technology Management degree from the Wharton School of Business and the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania for the rollout of Crederity. At Penn he was a board member of the Executive Education Society, where he organized entrepreneurship-related activities and events.
Rakesh is an active member of the Wharton Club of New Jersey's Entrepreneurs Circle and Society of Human Resource Management. He is a Charter Member of TiE Tri-State.
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Ram Narayanan
Vice President of Product Management
Yahoo! India Research and Development
Topic: User Experience Design |
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Ram Narayanan is Vice President of Product Management at Yahoo! India Research and Development where he is responsible globally for building platforms and products aimed at enabling advertisers to have customized advertising options.
Prior to joining Yahoo!, Ram served in many capacities at Microsoft both in the U.S. and India including leading the Unlimited Potential Group in Microsoft India bringing affordable & relevant technology driven solutions to underserved communities in middle and bottom of the pyramid, Business Manager & Technical Advisor to Chairman Microsoft India, one of the principals behind formation of the High Performance Computing group; he led the product planning in Enterprise Storage Division and Product Management for Windows Embedded Developer Tools.
Ram Narayanan spent 12 years in the U.S. auto industry starting his career at Chrysler Corporation where he developed innovative software applications helping shorten the time to market for new vehicles. He subsequently turned entrepreneur, running a successful engineering software services company helping design, develop and implement software applications for chassis design and packaging at Ford Motor Company and DaimlerChrysler Corporation. He is the recipient of the prestigious Ford President's Customer Driven Quality Award in 1998.
Ram holds a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Anna University, Chennai, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering & MBA from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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Ramesh Srinivasaraghavan
Sr. Computer Scientist and Evangelist
Adobe India
Topic: Enterprise RIA |
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Traditionally enterprise applications have focused on optimizing business processes. However many business leaders acknowledge today that optimizing user experience is equally important. Users of enterprise applications work in scenarios that range from well-defined processes to adhoc workflows, and very often collaborative interactions are required from within the context of an application. With enterprises adopting service oriented architectures, it has become easier to develop enterprise applications that can focus on optimizing the experience. In this session, we will present various Adobe technologies that can be effectively used for the development of such Enterprise RIA |
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Ramesh leads the Platform Evangelism initiatives of Adobe India. He has a wealth of experience working on a broad range of technologies ranging from Databases, Search Technologies, Expert Systems, RIA and Web 2.0 technologies. In his 18+ years of industry experience, he has led R&D initiatives for leading software companies. Ramesh loves teaching school students and has a passion for computational linguistics and artificial intelligence. |
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Ritesh Banglani
Vice President
IDG Ventures India |
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Ritesh Banglani is a Vice President at IDG Ventures India, a US$150 Million early-stage technology venture capital fund backed by IDG, the world's largest IT-focused media company. He currently serves on the Board of Directors at Ozone Media, and is an observer on the board of Kreeda Games.
Prior to joining IDG Ventures India, Ritesh was a product manager with Adobe Systems in Bangalore, where he focused on creating new business models for Adobe's online media properties. Previously he managed the mobile games business at July Systems and introduced pioneering mobile games services in American and European wireless markets. Earlier in his career he worked in field operations roles at Synopsys Inc.
Ritesh holds a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi and an MBA from INSEAD. He serves as Guest Faculty at IIM Bangalore, where he teaches Innovation Strategy.
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Sanjay Aggarwal
GM Operations
Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation
Topic: E-Commerce in Web 2.0 Era |
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E-commerce in India is showing substantial growth rate inspite of slow down. It was around 10,000 crore in Financial Year 2008-09 and likely to be double in current Financial Year. Any E-commerce website invariably uses Web 2.0 in major way. |
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Sanjay Aggarwal, General Manager (Operations) has joined the E-ticketing project of Indian Railways in September 2005 and in 3 years has been able to increase the volume by more than 30 times. Apart from time during his tenure, E-Ticketing was extended to all trains and Tatkal bookings, Scheme for Frequent Travellers (SOFT) & Mumbai Suburban Season Ticketing (MSST) were launched.
His special contribution is towards containing the Chargebacks (Frauds) which is biggest issue in today's online world. The fraud in IRCTC is significantly lower than others online operators in India.
Before joining IRCTC, Sanjay Aggarwal has spent around 10 years in Indian Railways in Materials Management Department looking after Purchases, Warehousing, Logistics etc.
A career bureaucrat of Indian Railways with more than 20 years of experience in Construction, Logistics and General Administration.
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Sanjay Trehan
CEO
NDTV Convergence
Topic: Emerging landscape of Web 2.0. and Sneak Peek into Web 3.0.
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Sanjay Trehan is the CEO of NDTV Convergence Ltd. NDTV Convergence is the digital arm of the NDTV Group with NDTV Networks Plc as the majority stakeholder and NBC Universal recently acquiring 26% stake. NDTV Convergence is responsible for all web, mobile and ITV initiatives of the group, including the flagship, NDTV.com. Central to the plans of NDTV Convergence is building synergy between TV channels, the Internet and mobile space. Sanjay's mandate is to dramatically increase the scale of operations, and to seize the opportunity in this increasingly converging environment.
Under Sanjay's leadership, NDTV Convergence has incubated many new initiatives in the Web 2.0 and Mobile space. India's first full service Wap portal, NDTV Active at mobile.ndtv.com, has been launched with a slew of interactive features. Convergence has also launched a number of other web products, like, Nogyan.com, an attitudinal youth portal, NDTVkhabar.com, a first-of-its-kind rich media Hindi portal targeting the growing number of Hindi speaking surfers and channel websites for NDTV Imagine and NDTV Lifestyle. NDTV Convergence has recently ventured into the video aggregation space with the launch of Tubaah.com, which has been well received by the industry.
Prior to joining NDTV, Sanjay was Vice President Broadband and Web 2.0 at Indiatimes, where he rolled out a number of verticals and built Web 2.0 communities. He also took Indiatimes into the online gaming arena. Before that, he was the Chief of Internet Business at the Hindustan Times, where he turned around their website from losses to profitability. He also incubated global content BPO syndication called HT Syndication.
Sanjay has been a Speaker at new media conferences in Moscow, Shanghai, Tokyo, Washington DC and in India.
An alumnus of St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi, Sanjay is a founding member of Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and is currently a member of its Governing Council. He has also published a book of poems. Sanjay lives in Gurgaon, with his wife, daughter and German Shepherd, Simba.
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Sandeep Bansal
Director
eBusiness Interactive
Topic: How brands can influence consumer behavior in a 2.0 World
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Sandeep is an entrepreneur who has successfully donned multiple hats - that of Banker, Software Architect, Strategy Consultant (and a Foodie!) across varied industries and that too with flair, not to mention resounding success. The key - innate financial and commercial acumen with an ability to think big, all combined with a native intelligence to take calculated business risks at the right time.
Sandeep sits on the board of 4 companies with business interests in IT & ITeS, Interactive Media, Human Resources and Hospitality.
Sandeep is a first generation entrepreneur, who started his career with financial services, first with Citibank, and subsequently with retail division of Bank of America for a total of 5 years. At this point, he branched off on his own when the proverbial entrepreneurial bug bit him.
In 1998, he set up an outsourcing company with 2 people, specializing in Business Strategy Consulting, e-business Application and Web Enabled Solutions. This company eventually grew to 100+ people by the year 2006. By 2006, the company had established its lead management product portfolio in specific trade segments such as Education (Online Universities), Real Estate (Large Brokerage Houses) and Automobiles Dealerships in the United States. It was only natural to add a full service BPO arm to the existing set-up as a completely captive unit, acting as a backward-integration step to an already established 1-million leads a month business.
The BPO team is now gearing up for another phase of growth by adding domestic services offering to its portfolio.
The group's global clients already exceed the half century mark and are supported by a strong management team of professionals based out of his corporate office in Gurgaon.
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Satyajeet Singh
Product Manager
Naukri.com
Topic: User Driven Product Strategy |
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A web enthusiast, he is currently spearheading the online recruitment solutions of Naukri.com, India's leading job portal. During his tenure, he has introduced various innovative hiring tools which have been instrumental in making Naukri.com an unrivaled leader in the recruitment sphere.
This product management professional believes in designing simple solutions to ease the complex problems of the consumer.
His interests include harnessing Collective Intelligence, studying Consumer Behavior, Analytics, Search Algorithms and Web Usability.
Besides internet, he likes swimming, photography, and long drives.
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A.Senthil Nayagam
Co-Founder and CTO
RailsFactory
Topic: Influence of Ruby on Rails on web 2.0 |
Senthil Nayagam is the Co-Founder and CTO of RailsFactory, once of the largest and exclusive Ruby on Rails Consultancy firms. Has over 10 years experience in Open Source Web development.
An ardent technologist is passionate about the web, particularly with reference to how the web is changing: the paradigms created by globalisation, disintermediation and the web as a whole; the implications of virtualisation and service orientation. Which naturally makes him passionate about opensource as well
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Subramaniam Vutha
Advocate
Subramaniam Vutha & Associates
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Former Senior Vice President, Legal, of Tata Infotech Ltd. [earlier Tata Unisys Ltd.] and of Schoolnet India Limited.
Areas of Special Interest:
Information Technology Laws, Intellectual Property Rights, E-Commerce Laws
Committees/Affiliations:
- Member, Computer Law Association, U.S.A.[now International Technology Law Association] a worldwide body of computer lawyers
- Member of the Board, Licensing Executives Society, India,
- First member of LES India to attend a Train-the-Trainer Program [at Tokyo] on Intellectual Asset Management, conducted by LES International
- Advisory Board Member, BNA International Inc., London's earlier publication titled World Internet Law Report
- Lecturer on I T Laws at the University of Mumbai's Department of Law, for LLM students
- Former Member, Working Group on TRIPS, Confederation of Indian Industries
- Former Co-Chairman, WTO & Intellectual Property Rights Committee of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce & Industry
- Member of a Legal Advisory Group constituted by the Controller of Certifying Authorities, Ministry of Information Technology, Government of India
- Member of the in-house counsel panel constituted by the erstwhile World e Business Law Report, London.
- Founder member of the Technology Law Forum, a forum dedicated to Building Bridges between Technology and the Law
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Varun Singh
Founder & CEO
ScalArc Inc
Topic: Infinitely Scalable Open Source Architecture for Rich Internet Apps |
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With the ever increasing focus on costs, those delivering high performance internet applications are looking towards a 100% Open Source Software driven infrastructure that is easy to deploy, easy to develop for, and scales well with their traffic and needs. Here are a few tips on how to scale the open source LAMP stack to achieve low cost, high performance computing. |
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Varun is a Technology and Media expert, with over 12 years of experience. He's built products like IN.com, Tech2.com, Techtree.com, and worked with countless other IT Publications, ranging for PC Quest, to CHIP & Digit Magazines. An avid open source evangelist and implementer, and a Linux user for over 13 years, as CTO, he's been instrumental in converting the entire web infrastructure at Network18 to run on Open Source software. He's now Founder & CEO at ScalArc Inc, a high end open source scalability consulting company.
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Vijay Sankaran
Digital Strategy Director
URJA Communications
Topic: 1 to 1 Marketing in a P2P World |
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Vijay Sankaran has two decades of advertising, communications, and digital solutions experience, largely in the Creative function, and over the past year in the Digital Strategy function.
Vijay has lead and executed branding, advertising, digital and integrated communications for established clients in Automotive, Banking, Consumer Durables, Engineering, FMCG, Financial Services and IT sectors.
Brands include Bajaj Auto, Citibank, Frooti, GoodKnight, Godrej, ICICI Bank, Infosys, London Pilsner, Lucent, Oberoi Hotels, Patni and Tata Tea.
He most recently spoke at a Digital Marketing Conference in Mumbai on "10 Lessons for Marketers from Barack Obama", and also penned a guest article for Afaqs.com on the same subject.
His interests in the digital arena include Enterprise 2.0, Social CRM and the application of web 2.0 paradigms in education and social change.
He has initiated Digital Marketing India, a Linkedin Group to foster knowledge sharing and encourage debate among Indian advertising, digital marketing professionals and marketers.
Current favorite quote: "The most important word on the Internet is not Search. It's Share"-Hugh McLeod.
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Vishal Karki
AVP
Communicate2
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Vishal Karki has spent 5 years in digital marketing out of his total career spanning 9 years across Telecom, Media and BFSI verticals.
His love with the medium started sourcing NRE account at IDBI Bank as a marketer, he then moved to ICICI bank and conceptualised the roadmap for sourcing leads from the internet and a fulfilment mechanism for it, this then became an alternate channel in the subsequent years.
Vishal then moved on to set up the web sales business for Bajaj Allianz General Insurance and was successful in creating a viable business model which could compete in ROI with conventional channels of distribution and was scalable. Moreover it contributed upto 5% of the direct marketing business.
Most of his learning's in the online medium have happened working with partners like comunicate2 and to move up the curve he joined communicate2
Vishal now consults clients in the BFSI space on cost of sale based advertising using SEM and creating a scalable and a viable business model.
On innovations in the Web 2.0 space he believes that its growth is dependent on user assisting user applications.
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Alok Mittal
Managing Director
Canaan Partners |
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Anil Tirunagiri
Google India |
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Ashok Lalla
Director of Internet Marketing
Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces |
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Harish Bahl
CEO
Studio Smile |
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Ishwar Jha
CEO
Digital Media Convergence |
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Kiruba Shankar
CEO
Business Blogging |
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Kunal Dureja
Technical Evangelist - developerWorks
IBM India |
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Jayabalan S
CTO
Netmagic Solutions |
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Krishnamurthy Hegde
GM - Web Solutions
Shoppers Stop |
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Mahesh Murthy
Founder and CEO
Pinstorm |
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Mohit Hira
President eLearning (Retail)
NIIT |
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Nikhil Sarup
Sr. Vice President – Digital Marketing
Solutions | Digitas |
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Nitin Mishra
Head - Product Management
Netmagic Solutions |
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Parminder Singh
Business Head
Google India |
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Pavan Varma
Google India |
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Probir Roy
Co-Founder & Promoter
PayMate & Coruscant Tec |
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Pradeep Chopra
Co-founder & Chief Marketing Officer
OMLogic Consulting |
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P N Anantharaman
Director of engineering of platform products
Adobe systems |
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Rakesh Antala
Co-Founder & CEO
Crederity Inc |
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Ram Narayanan
Vice President of Product Management
Yahoo! India Research and Development |
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Ramesh Srinivasaraghavan
Sr. Computer Scientist and Evangelist
Adobe India |
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Ritesh Banglani
Senior Investment Advisor
IDG Ventures India |
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Sandeep Bansal
Director
eBusiness Interactive |
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Sanjay Agarwal
GM Operations
IRCTC |
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Sanjay Trehan
CEO
NDTV Convergence |
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Satyajeet Singh
Product Manager
Naukri.com |
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A. Senthil Nayagam
Co-Founder and CTO
RailsFactory |
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Subramaniam Vutha
Advocate
Subramaniam Vutha & Associates |
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Varun Singh
Founder & CEO
ScalArc Inc |
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Vijay Sankaran
Digital Strategy Director
URJA Communications |
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Vishal Karki
AVP
Communicate2 |
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