List of Speakers @ INFOCOM 2011 (Dec 8-10, 2011, Calcutta)

Chief Guest

• Smt. Mamata Banerjee, Hon'ble Chief Minister of West Bengal

Guests of Honour

• Partha Chatterjee, Hon'ble Minister-in-charge, Dept. of IT, Commerce & Industries, Public Enterprises and others, Govt. of West Bengal
• Amit Mitra, Hon'ble Minister of Finance, Government of West Bengal
• Julian Evans, Deputy High Commissioner, British High Commission, Delhi
• Sachin Pilot, Hon'ble Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology, Govt. of India (Invited)
• Milind Murli Deora, Hon'ble Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology, Govt. of India (Invited)
• Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia, Hon'ble Minister of State for Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Govt. of India (Invited)
• R Chandrashekhar IAS, Chairman, Telecom Commission & Secretary, Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications & IT, Government of India (Invited)
• Arjun Munda, Hon'ble Chief Minister  of Jharkhand (Invited)
• Firhad (Bobby) Hakim,  Minister for Municipal Affairs and Urban Development, Govt of West Bengal (Invited)
• C M Jatua, Hon’ble Minister of State for Information & Broadcasting

Special Guests

• Dr. Govind, Sr. Director, Dept. of IT, Govt. of India
• Shankar Aggarwal, Additional Secretary, Dept. of Information Technology , Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Govt. of India
• Dr. N I Khan, First Secretary to PM & Director Digital Bangladesh, People’s Republic of Bangladesh
• Basudeb Banerjee, IAS,  Principal Secretary – IT, Govt. of West Bengal
• Uday Kumar Verma, Principal Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India
• Dr. Kaushik Basu, Chief Economic Advisor, Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India
• Kiran Karnik, Former President of NASSCOM
• Sudhir Vasudeva, Chairman and Managing Director, ONGC (Invited)

Speakers

• Roopen Roy, Managing Director, Deloitte & Touche Consulting India
• Avinash Vashistha, Chairman and Managing Director, Accenture India
• A Krishna Kumar, Managing Director, State Bank of India
• Bhaskar Pramanik, Chairman, Microsoft India
• Saurabh Srivastava, Chairman, CA India (Invited)
• Glenn Weckerlin, Global Director – Brand and Product Line Management, Chevron Corporation
• Alok Bharadwaj, Sr. Vice President, Canon India
• Arup Roy Choudhury, Chairman & Managing Director, NTPC (Invited)
• Purnendu Chatterjee, Founder and Chairman, The Chatterjee Group (Invited)
• D N Mukerjea, Editor, Fortune India
• M V Nair, Chairman and Managing Director, Union Bank of India
• K C Chakrabarty, Deputy Governor, RBI (Invited)
• P J Nath, CEO, NELCO Ltd.
• Sean Randolph, CEO, San Francisco Bay Area Economic Council
• R S Sharma, DG and Mission Director, UIAI
• Ranjivjit Singh, Chief Marketing Officer – PSG, HP India Sales Pvt Ltd
• Ambarish Dasgupta, Executive Director/Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Ajoyendra Mukherjee, Vice President & Head – Global Human Resources, TCS
• C P Gurnani, CEO, Mahindra Satyam (Invited)
• Arun Shetty, Head – Avaya Aura Sales and Consulting, Avaya, India
• Prof. Ramjee Prasad , Aalborg University, Co-Director of Center for Person Kommunikation, Denmark
• Amitabh Ray,Senior Vice President, Ericsson India Global Services
• Mohammad Choudhury, Executive Director and Telecoms Industry Leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers Ltd.
• Anirban Chattopadhyay, Editor-Editorial Pages, Anandabazar Patrika
• Jeffrey Heller, FAIA, President, Heller Manus Architects, San Francisco, CA, USA
• Rajarshi Sengupta, Executive Director, Deloitte & Touche Consulting India
• Michael Schroeck, Vice President-Business Analytics & Optimization Service, IBM
• Sandeep Mathur, Managing Director, Oracle India
• Amit Sinha Roy, VP – Strategy & Marketing, Global Enterprise Solutions Business, Tata Communications Ltd. Microsoft
• Purnendu ‘Pat’ Sarkar, Executive IT Director, T-Mobile, USA
• Sneha Hiranandani, Vice President – Asia IT Leader, Cadbury India Ltd. (Invited)
• V V R Babu, Group CIO, ITC Ltd (Invited)
• Ajay Goel, Managing Director – India & SAARC, Symantec Corporation (Invited)
• Dr. Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Editor – Editorial Pages, The Telegraph
• Dr. Pratap Mehta, President, Centre for Policy Research (Invited)
• Dr. Kanti Prasad Bajpai, Visiting Professor, National University of Singapore (Invited)
• Prof. Suranjan Das, Vice Chancellor, Calcutta University (Invited)
• Dr. Sugata Bose, Professor, Harvard University (Invited)
• Prosenjit Datta, Editor, Businessworld
• Susan Atherton, Board Chair, American Red Cross - Bay Area Chapter, USA
• Dr. Preetha Reddy, Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals (Invited)
• Dr. Arup K Roy, Second Sight Products, The Johns Hopkins University
• Dr. Sujoy Sanyal, Sr. Consultant Neurosurgeon, Rabindranath Tagore Hospital Calcutta (Invited)

List of Speakers @ INFOCOM – ASSOCHAM Media & Entertainment Forum (Dec 10th, 2011)

• D S Rawat, Secretary General, ASSOCHAM
• Michael “Mike” Young, CEO Moonscoop LLC
• T R Anand, CEO, T R Anand Consultants (Invited)
• Max Howard, Global Consultant – Animation Industry and Founder, Max Howard Consulting Group
• Tim Mostert, Creator, Speedy
• Merzin Tavaria, Co-Founder & Chief Creative Director, Prime Focus
• Ashish Kulkarni, CEO, Reliance Animation
• Nishith Takia, Co-Founder & Director, Krayon Pictures
• Derek O'Brien, Rajyasabha MP & Columnist
• Sabeer Bhatia, Co-Founder of Hotmail.com
• Rajan Anandan, MD, Google India (Invited)
• Andrew Hughes, Vice President- Press Database and Licensing Network
• Mohammed Hayath C, Director – Contact Center Sales (India and SAARC), Avaya India
• Mickael Marin, Head of Economic Development & MIFA at CITIA
• Liuyi Wang, Founder - Chairman, APACA (Asia Pacific Association of Comics & Animation), Organiser and General Secretary, AYACC (Asian Youth Animation and Comics Convention)
• Keisuke Sasaki, Special Assistant to Director General; Director, Design Policy Office, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, Creative Industries Division, Tokyo, Japan
• Hasnul Nadzrin Shah, Head - Industry Strategy and Policy, Creative Multimedia Division, Multimedia Development Corporation Sdn. Bhd
• Sujata Dev, Co-Chairperson, ASSOCHAM – Entertainment & Media Committee
• Dr. Sumit D Chowdhury, Vice President & Partner, IBM Global Business Service
• Nishith M Desai, Founder, Nishith Desai Associates
• Sekhar Kapur, Film Director & Producer
• Umesh Shukla, Founder and Chief Creative Officer, Auryn Inc.

• Alok Bharadwaj, Sr. Vice President, Canon India
• Amar Babu, Managing Director, Lenovo India
• Amit Chatterjee, Managing Director, India & SAARC, CA (India) Technologies
• Aparup Sengupta, Managing Director & Global CEO, Aegis Limited
• Arnab Ray, PhD, Research Scientist, Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering, Maryland, USA
• Balu Doraisamy, Managing Director, Hewlett-Packard India
• Bhaskar Pramanik, Managing Director, Oracle India
• Bobby Varanasi, Vice Chairman, Outsourcing Malaysia
• D Shivakumar, Managing Director & Vice President, Nokia India
• Dinuka Perera, Program Head – Reengineering Govt. Program, Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA)
• Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, Hon'ble President of India
• Dr. Ashok S Ganguly, Chairman, ABP Pvt Ltd
• Dr. David Steier, Head of Centre for Advanced Research, PwC, USA
• Dr. Eui Koh, President - ProtoStar Asia, Singapore
• Dr. G J Huang, Executive Vice President, Institute for Information Industry, Taiwan
• Dr. Godfrey Gaston, Operations Director, The Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT)
• Dr. Naveed Hussain, Vice President – Engineering & Technology, Boeing India
• Dr. T K Udairam, CEO, Changi General Hospital
• Dr. Wilfried Prewo, Chief Executive, Hannover Chamber of Industry and Commerce
• Firdose Vandrevala, Chairman, Motorola India & Corporate Vice President, Motorola Inc.
• Harris Miller, President, IT Association of America
• Hubert Yoshida, VP & CTO, Hitachi Data Systems
• James Duckworth, Head - IT, Unilever Plc
• Jody R Westby, Chairperson, American Bar Association's Privacy and Computer Crime Committee
• John J. Lee, Jr. Dean, Whistling Woods International
• Kiran Karnik, President, NASSCOM
• K V Kamath, Managing Director & CEO, ICICI Bank
• K. Ananth Krishnan, Chief Technology Officer, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
• Krishna Prasad, General Manager – India, US Technology International Pvt Ltd
• Lakshmi Narayanan, President and CEO, Cognizant
• M S Banga, Chairman, Hindustan Lever Limited
• Mangesh Wange, National Head, S&D, Reuters Market Light
• Manoj Singh, Global Managing Director – Operations, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
• Mikito Kiname, CEO, Fujitsu India
• Mukesh Ambani, Chairman, Reliance India Ltd
• N R Narayana Murthy, Founder-Chairman, Infosys Technologies
• Nandan M Nilekani, CEO, President & Managing Director, Infosys Technologies
• Naushad Contractor, Head - Mobile Commerce Marketing, Vodafone India
• Partha Iyengar, Vice President and Research Director, Gartner Research, India
• Pelle Mattisson, CEO, Stampen Media Partner, Stampen Group, Sweden
• Prof. U.R. Rao, Chairman - Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, and former Chairman - Indian Space Research Organization
• Rajat Gupta, Senior Partner Worldwide, McKinsey & Company
• Roopen Roy, Managing Director, Deloitte and Touche Consulting India
• Sanket Akerkar, Managing Director, Microsoft Corporation India
• Selvaggia Velo, Director, River to River Florence Indian Film Festivals and Jury Member in International Film Festivals
• Shekhar Dasgupta, President and COO, Solix Technologies Inc., Santa Clara, California
• Simone Brunozzi, Technology Evangelist – APAC, Amazon Web Services
• Stephan K Thieringer, President & CEO, AcrossWorld Education
• Stephen J Felice, President - Asia Pacific & Japan, Dell USA
• Stephen W. Braim, Vice President– Government Programs, IBM Asia Pacific
• Y C Deveshwar, Chairman & Managing Director, ITC Ltd