Technologies that Mean Business
As traditional views of IT get supplanted by an overarching business technology trend, companies are investing in gaining the benefits of the next generation of computing, where resources are maximized, integrated and used to deliver business results. The hottest technologies on India's business technology radar are the ones that are not only exhibiting attributes such as cost savings, flexibility, application re-use, and faster response times, but also the ones that are charting pronounced inflection points in their evolution.
The 2008 edition of Saltmarch Media's Business Technology (BT) Summit, centered around the theme of "Riding the Workhorse IT Hockey Stick", features a convergence of four co-located tracks that have been identified as the power team for Workhorse IT : SOA & Web Services, SaaS/PaaS, Virtualisation, Enterprise Content Management (ECM). These four tracks offer complimentary synergistic for a robust IT infrastructure that no IT decision-maker, manager, architect or professional can afford to ignore in their quest for business technology success.
Tracks @ Business Technology Summit 2008
SOA & WEB SERVICES
Success lies in business agility, and SOA can offer it in full measure. The SOA marketplace in India is witnessing a blistering growth, with large and SME organizations beginning to move beyond the planning stages to realising enterprise-wide SOA deployments. Springboard estimates the region's 2007 SOA market amounts to US$810 million, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40%, which will bring the market to US$2.2 billion by 2010.
The SOA track at BT Summit 2008 offers strategic, technical, and business insights into developing, managing and governing a service-oriented architecture within enterprises. You will hear from the best and brightest industry luminaries, independent analysts, experienced practitioners, and of course success stories from real customers, all delivered with a level of unmatched integrity and neutrality.
SaaS/PaaS
Software as a Service (SaaS) has established itself as a disruptive technology and a rage worldwide with its advantage of 'pay as you use'. Springboard forecasts the Indian SaaS market to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 77% from 2006 to 2010, to reach US$165 million by 2010. India offers immense potential for growth in the SaaS marketplace due to low penetration of software applications among Indian enterprises, especially the SMB segment.
Companies are now engaging with the IT buyer like never before, because their expertise is in understanding how to orchestrate all the applications in the enterprise to deliver business value for their clients. As SaaS permeates through the Indian enterprise, and as mission-critical applications move to the services model, users, ISV's, vendors and eco-system players are looking for answers to the new challenges and opportunities that SaaS has opened up.
At the SaaS/PaaS track at BT Summit 2008, you will find all the answers on how to leverage this disruptive technology to harness your business services, develop an in-depth understand of this model, address the customisation and integration hurdle, and much more.
VIRTUALISATION
The era of virtualisation is now fully upon the technology industry. For businesses to thrive, adapting to the changing needs of their customers is paramount. For businesses to win, they must deliver the right solutions at the right time, and offer propositions that are more attractive to their customers than a competing solution. One word describes the nature of this kind of business environment: dynamic.
The ability of business and the people that constitute it is not just to survive, but thrive in the face of these dynamic demands; and that is a direct function of the capability and fitness of the infrastructure of business systems that underpin and support their work. The Vitualisation track at BT Summit 2008 offers a program, replete with technical and business insights that guarantee you the keys to a flexible and dynamic IT.
ENTERPRISE CONTENT MANAGEMENT
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is no longer just about technology, or just about content. It is about content, community, and context. The deluge of data and information, coupled with the ever-increasing need for compliance is forcing enterprises to take a strategic look at ECM and its associated disciplines. To stack up to competition, enterprises are looking up to faster, flexible, and efficient business processes that can channelise copious, unstructured information into meaningfully optimised, governed, and digitally delivered data that is available to the right stakeholders at the right time.
C-level executives, senior IT process management personnel, marketing and content managers are looking to find the precise solution that will fit the needs of their organization. What are these available solutions, and how do they stack up to the needs of a specific enterprise? What roles do strategic topics such as Governance, Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0 play in the evaluation of these solutions? What is a promising approach, and how do I find the correct partners? The ECM track at BT Summit 2008 offers strategic, technical, and business insights into all aspects of ECM, including Business Process Management (BPM), Business Rules Management (BRM), Master Data Management (MDM), Data Warehousing & Knowledge Management, and Enterprise 2.0. You will hear from the best and brightest industry luminaries, independent analysts, experienced practitioners, and of course success stories from real customers, all delivered with a level of unmatched integrity and neutrality.
Technical & Executive Editions @ Business Technology Summit 2008
With a conference program put together by technology visionaries, creators, authorities and industry watchers from the media, Business Technology Summit features four paralell tracks -- SOA & Web Services, Virtualisation, SaaS/PaaS, and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) -- that will offer incisive insight through keynotes, power panels, focussed sessions, and hands-on workshops. The summit presents a unique opportunity to learn and assimilate technology know-how, augment executive decision-making, understand best practices and case studies, and absorb the innovation excellence of experts from India, Europe, US, and Asia Pacific, in focused settings.
The Big Tent Technology Edition will be held in India's tech capital Bangalore (Sep 23-24 2008) and the Executive Edition will be held in India's financial capital Mumbai (Sep 26 2008). The Technology Edition offers strategic and technical insights into developing, managing and governing an SOA within enterprises, deliver answers on how to leverage SaaS/PaaS to harness your business services and develop an in-depth understand of this disruptive technology, provides technical insights into Virtualisation that guarantee you the keys to a flexible and dynamic IT, and all aspects of ECM including Business Process Management (BPM), Business Rules Management (BRM), Master Data Management (MDM), Data Warehousing & Knowledge Management, and Enterprise 2.0.
The Executive Edition will be held in Mumbai, at the splendid Grand Hyatt Mumbai. Designed to squeeze out every bit of RoI – time for our attending high-profile CxO delegates and money for our partner vendors – the executive edition features a unique format comprised of informative workshops, interactive panel discussions (led by India's top CIO's), vendor agnostic voices, high profile keynotes, case studies, and ample opportunities designed to network with industry peers and potential clientele. Some of India's topmost CIO's will hold forth on the business technologies and solutions they are deploying and implementing to craft the success of their enterprises, besides elaborating on what they did right to keep their business on top consistently. >> more information on the executive edition page >>
Boss Help
Business Technology Summit is the single most inspirational, informative and valuable event of the year for those recognise that the overall business network benefits when business technologies are made integral to the overall value equation. Business Technology Summit is your chance to refresh, pick up new tips and techniques, and network with your peers to find solutions to the most pressing business technology issues today. But if you are having trouble convincing your boss (or your peers) that Business Technology Summmit is a good investment and a valuable tool, you need to explain the bottom-line benefits--and there are plenty. Here are some tips to help you out:
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We're serious about learning -- although all our conferences include generous heaps of after hours and downtime, we are serious about providing a well-balanced learning experience that virtually guarantees you will go back home with a richer understanding of the changes affecting business and the strategic IT tools for confronting this reality effectively.
Explore and exchange knowledge on aligning your business with IT -- you'll get four days of continuing education, indispensable knowledge and tactics on everything from utilising new technologies and enabling innovation and business agility while getting the most from your IT budget to improving client relations--this is the stuff you don't learn in school. Then you can take your new knowledge back to the office and hold a training session for your co-workers.
Expand your network of international experts and technology leaders -- breakfasts and lunches, time in the expo hallways, breaks between sessions, receptions -- every minute you're not in a session is an ideal opportunity to meet executives, investors and IT executives representing the entire value-chain and ecosystem of the business technology marketplace, not to mention meeting some of the creators, luminaries, community heroes, and best speakers and experts from around the world. The summit will give you opportunities to forge new business relationships with those who are driving this important industry forward. You will return to the office with information on the industry's most important subjects plus contact information for a variety of vendors who can help you solve future developmental problems. (These contacts could prove indispensable to your colleagues, too.)
New products and services -- you will see the latest, key products and services, from Indian and international vendors, that every technologist and every business person who works in a technology-intensive business should be aware of.
You won't disappear from the face of the earth -- we make sure you're connected at all times with by bringing in our own dedicated, FREE Internet connection and provide a setting that lets you connect back to your office in case you need to get some quick work done.
Be inspired -- you'll be inspired by some of the top experts in the business technology ecosystem -- and if you bring back just one valuable idea, the summit will be worth it.
Do you have clients / vendors in Bangalore? -- offer to call on clients or potential clients in the Bangalore area and present your firm's work. Or volunteer to meet with vendors while you're in town.
Great bargain -- if you consider that a four-day instructor-led course on business technologies can cost upwards of INR 30,000, Business Technology Summit offers great value by exposing you to new and diverse technologies and techniques that will help you in your daily work. With four tracks, 80 plus sessions, workshops and panel discussions and an exposition of leading companies in the business technology ecosystem, Business Technology Summit is a bargain. It's content you won't find anywhere else.
Conference Chair
The job of the conference chair is to put together a program that attracts and informs the attendees. Many submissions in a category indicates a lot of interest in presenting on a particular topic, not necessarily a lot of interest in hearing about a topic. In the end, therefore, the conference is for the attendees, not the presenters. Thus the program chair will, in an effort to create a balanced and exciting program, arrange for speakers to present on particular topics. That is their job.
Advisory Board
This is a committee of distinguished executives, seasoned industry professionals, and academia whose expertise spans the entire business technology gamut. They will assist the program chair to ensure the quality of the content provided to attendees is high-level, relevant, and timely. Their dedication is critical to the success of the summit. The summit committee would like to thank them for their service to this conference.
M N Vidyashankar State Chief Electoral Officer, Ex-Officio Former Principal Secretary, Information Technology, Government of Karnataka, India, DPAR (Elections)
M N Vidyashankar is the Chairperson of the Business Technology Summit advisory board. Vidyashankar is the Chief Electoral Officer for the State of Karnataka since May 2007. Vidyashankar has been IT Secretary of Karnataka from October 2006 to April 2007. Besides IT, Vidyashankar also held the post of Secretary for Biotechnology, and Science and Technology. While at Bangalore Development Authority, he was instrumental in implanting the e-Pragathi project aimed at creating multi-utility kiosks across the city for the payment of utility bills.
Subu Goparaju Vice President & Head, SETLabs, Infosys Technologies
Subu Goparaju is Vice President and Head of Software Engineering and Technology Labs (SETLabs), the Center for Technology Research and Innovation at Infosys and Microsoft Technology Center (MTC), which is responsible for building new services and solutions on MS platform. He also heads the company's IP Cell (Intellectual Property Cell) which is responsible for protecting and exploiting company's intellectual property. Subu received a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree from Mangalore University (KREC, now NIT-Suratkal) in Electrical and Electronics in 1988.
Kiran Datar Managing Director, Webex Communications India Pvt. Ltd
Kiran Datar has over 12 years of experience in various high technology and finance positions. He co-introduced the concept of Conferencing Services in India and has a wealth of experience in the emerging Indian telecom scenario. Kiran has also worked as a Strategist (International Economics and Foreign Exchange) at the Treasury Department of ABN AMRO, Chicago and at the Emerging Markets Department of Credit Suisse First Boston in fixed income & equity fields with focus on analyzing companies in the telecom space. Today, Kiran Datar, is at the helm of a business that leads the Indian web conferencing market with 65% share, and the audio conferencing one with 54% share (Frost & Sullivan).
Alok Ohrie President, EMC India & SAARC
Alok Ohrie is the President of EMC India & SAARC Region. In his role Alok is responsible for growing EMC's business in the region while providing strategic direction and operational focus. Besides helping customers across segments and size of business in leveraging their information infrastructure for competitive advantage, he also focuses on building EMC brand, driving local partnerships and strategic alliances and developing capabilities of EMC organization in India & SAARC. Alok has over two decades of experience in information technology industry in India and abroad including AMD India, IBM Global Services, Wipro Infotech & ESPL Ltd.
Sarv Saravanan Vice-President & Managing Director, EMC India Centre of Excellence
With over 17 years experience in the IT industry, Sarv currently leads EMC's rapidly growing research and development, global services and business-support operations in India. India COE is central to EMC's globalization goals and Sarv is responsible to scale and mature the India COE. His mandate is to develop the COE as a world class R&D center, incubate global service offerings and bring the synergy between the two to maximize the benefits for EMC's customers worldwide out of the India Center. He is also responsible for EMC's outsourcing to India. Sarv joined EMC from Microsoft India where he was Managing Director of Microsoft Global Services Center India Pvt Ltd (MGSI, the global delivery organization of Microsoft Enterprise Services).
Deepanshu Sharma General Manager - Marketing, Strategy and ISV Alliances, AMD India
Deepanshu is responsible for marketing, the overall AMD India strategy and alliances with ISVs for India and the SAARC region. He joined AMD in 2005, as part of the expanding AMD India operations, and forms the core management team which is leading the charge for AMD in India. Deepanshu also serves on AMDs Worldwide Brand Council and the Corporate Marketing Council which defines the course of AMDs global brand evolution. Deepanshu's career spanning over a decade and a half, include assingments with Apple Computer India, Tektronix India and Kirloskar Multimedia.