Smarter Villages 2015 - IT as a cottage industry KITA symposium in partnership with IBM, CUSAT

July 21st 2011, 9:00am to 5:00pm @ Dept. of Computer Science, CUSAT, Cochin-682022 The number of people living in Indian cities is expected to reach 70% of the population of India by 2050. As per the 2011 India government census, 27.8% of Indians live in 5,100 towns and over 380 urban agglomerations and the remaining 72.2% live in 641,000 villages. Technology convergence in mobility, cloud computing, server and desktop virtualization, social computing, advanced analytics, and open architectures is fueling the new wave of end user computing. Unlike Smarter Cities, Smarter Villages can tap into the culture, intellect, and passion of the villagers and pave a new way to captialize on their strengths. This symposium will focus on how to leverage this technology convergence to establish IT as a cottage industry that can fuel the growth of Smarter Villages in India. Each session will be 45 minutes that includes 15 minutes of Q&A and discussion. The final session with be a panel discussion on KITA.
09:00am - 9:30am 09:30am 10:00am Registration Inauguration of the Smarter Village initiative by KITA Hon Shri P. K. Kunhalikutty, Minister of Industry, State of Kerala Shri T. Balakrishnan, IT Secretary/Chairman of KSITM, State of Kerala Presided by Dr Ramachandran Thekkedath, Vice Chancellor, CUSAT Smarter Villages Symposium overview and relevance, - Antony Satyadas, Solution Strategist, IBM USA Policy making for IT and the role of KITA, - George Abraham, past CTO, United Nations Pension Fund and Chairman of KITA IT as the enabler - applying the business context, - Sunil Kumar, CEO Assyst, USA Next generation client computing - Desktop on Demand, - Shiv Kumar, Executive Vice President Zylog Systems Ltd (ZSL), USA Lunch Driving social entrepreneurship through IT - how NASSCOM Foundation can partner with KITA - Rita Soni, CEO NASSCOM Foundation, India Collaboration, Analytics, and Social computing in the cloud, - Thomas Chennikara, founder and director, CSS Corp USA, Ezhil Arasan Babaraj Director of CSS Labs, India The University as a Entrepreneurial Hub - Shilpa Mohan, COO IDSi International, USA and Vibin Priyesh CEO of IDSi International India Tea break Making Smarter Villages work, an innovation framework, - Antony Satyadas, Solution Strategist, IBM, USA Kerala Information Technology Alliance (KITA) 12 point program, Panel discussion: - Sunil Kumar, Shilpa Mohan, Vibin Priyesh, George Abraham, Thomas Chennikara, Ezhil Arasan Babaraj, Shiv Kumar, Antony Satyadas

10:00am - 10:15am 10:15am - 11:00am 11:00am - 11:45am 11:45am - 12:30pm 12:30pm - 01:30pm 01:30pm - 02:00pm 02:00pm - 02:45pm 02:45pm - 03:30pm 03:30pm - 03:45pm 03:45pm - 04:15pm 04:15pm - 05:00pm

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Collaboration, Analytics, and Social Computing in the Cloud

Thomas Chennikara, founder and director, CSS Corp USA Ezhil Arasan Babaraj Director of CSS Labs, India Understand the shift in IT driven productivity: from departmental applications in the mainframe era, to individual productivity tools with the PC, workgroup collaboration with the internet and the enormous potential of social computing that is currently evolving. Demystify the cloud, and appreciate the power of collaboration and social analytics enabled by the pervasive and commoditized IT infrastructure that the cloud promises. Discuss some of the emerging best practices for adopting this paradigm shift in business productivity.
Mr. Thomas Chennikara has over two decades of wide ranging experience in General & Executive Management, Consulting, Project Management, Software Product Development, Systems Integration, Training and Mentoring. He co-founded CSS Corp (http://www.csscorp.com) and was instrumental in building the technology base for its various Centers of Excellence. He created pioneering and award winning products in the areas of Lotus Notes Reporting, Instant Messaging, On-line Auctions and Knowledge based Systems. Prior to CSS, he worked at Digital Equipment Corporation and the Press Trust of India. Thomas holds a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from College of Engineering, Trivandrum and a Masters in Technology Management from George Mason University, Virginia. He serves on the boards of CSS and Synaptris (http://www.synaptris.com), and is also involved in other entrepreneurial ventures.

Mr. Ezhil Arasan Babaraj is primarily into research and development. One of his favorite platforms is Cloud and its related technologies. He has been involved in cloud computing for about four years and he has done quite a lot R&D in public & private Cloud. He is associated with CSS Corp for the last 6 years and currently managing the R&D (http://labs.csscorp.com) function at CSS Corp . Ezhil and his team actively into developing and maintaining various open source and commercial tools using Cloud Platforms such as AWS, Eucalyptusetc. CloudBuddy ( http://www.mycloudbuddy.com ) is our flagship product on the AWS cloud. He is currently focusing on building private cloud platform for enterprise using various open source tools like Eucalyptus, Xen, KVM...etc.

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IT as an enabler - applying in the business context

Sunil Kumar, CEO, Advanced Software Systems, USA

Like China which has focused on being a manufacturing hub to the world for its internal growth, India has always looked to IT as a key to generating export revenues. In the process we have become the IT backoffice to the world but with very less usage of it internally. This has lead to an excessive proliferation of science and technology graduates into the IT stream when in reality within organizations this requires a larger team of non IT people who are IT savvy. The goal of this presentation would be to focus on a key areas that could be addressed by the business users of these systems as well as IT professionally that would result in an improved ROI on their IT investments.
Sunil Kumar - Chief Executive Officer, Advanced Software Systems, Inc (Assyst). Mr. Kumar founded Assyst in 1993 and has a career spanning twenty (25) years in the Information Technology field. He is responsible for overseeing the key components of the company growth including strategic planning, business development, selection and evaluation of the board members, supporting the operations and administration of the board and interfacing between the board and the staff. He is also responsible for recommending the yearly budgets and prudently managing the organization's resources and growth within the budget guidelines. Mr. Kumar also oversaw the implementation of a company-wide Employee Stock Option Plan, Employee Stock Ownership Plan and other benefits plans to motivate employee participation. Mr. Kumar started his career as a Software Engineer with Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) supporting their custom development and MRP implementation on the VAX platform in India and Boston, Massachusetts. He was involved in presales, design, development and implementation of a number of clients using VAX/VMS including Federal Home Loan Bank Board, Westinghouse and Kelloggs. Mr. Kumar has since served in various capacities including Software Architect, Program Manager and Project Manager, leading enterprise wide initiatives for organizations such as IBM, Boeing (formerly McDonald Douglas), Nortel Networks, Comsearch and International Monetary Fund. His experience ranges from managing and designing custom software solutions to implementing COTS ERP solutions.

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Making Smarter Villages work, an innovation framework

Antony Satyadas, Solution Strategist, IBM, USA Around 74% of Indians live in around 640,000 villages. However, every minute during the next twenty years, 30 Indians will leave rural India for urban areas. The state of Kerala has around 1478 revenue villages, 1007 village panchayats. 3/4th of the 32M population lives in rural areas. Initiatives such as IBM's Smarter Cities focus on helping governments and businesses gear up to address this "city migration". KITA's Smarter Village initiative focus on strengthening Smarter Cities by providing infrastructure, education, and policies for people in these villages using IT as the enabler. An ecosystem for Smarter Villages require an innovation framework that can bring together entrepreneurs, buyers, open source leaders, and policy makers to create a cottage industry. IT products and services ranging from software development, testing, call centers, back office operations, and knowledge centers can become the deliverables of cooperative societies. This session will focus on the elements of the Smarter Village framework and explore how we can make use of this to establish IT as a cottage industry in Kerala, India, and other emerging markets worldwide.

Antony Satyadas is a global solution strategist driving leading IBM Virtual Desktop for Smart Business solution management. He has 26 years of worldwide consulting, business, and technology leadership experience with Fortune 500, governments, and startups. Antony is a change agent with proven track record in helping companies bridge the Business-IT gap using collaboration, intelligent systems modeling, participatory marketing, and situation awareness. His prior roles in IBM includes Marketing Strategist, Chief Competitive Marketing Officer, Program Director/WW tech leader for On Demand Workplace solutions driving WW IBM public sector workplace solutions business, WW business leader for knowledge discovery driving marketing management, Lotus Director driving strategic alliances in Knowledge Management, and providing technical leadership to 100+ consultants/architects for IBM Software Services in North America. Before IBM, Antony focused 10+ years on technology innovation and leadership for Perot systems (now Dell) Bellsouth Telecom (now AT&T), Department of Energy -Petroleum Reservoir Characterization, and startups in healthcare, pharmacy, and intelligent systems. He spent 5 years in India (with Hindustan Computers Ltd, OMC Ltd) before moving to USA. Antony has 50+ publications, conducts courses (IEEE, AIAA, NATO, KM World), keynotes, workshops worldwide and is active with IT Analysts and Press as an IBM Spokesperson. He serves in the editorial board of several reputed international journals and 50+ international scientific committees. He is a senior member of IEEE and was also a IBM Senior Certified Executive Architect and Open Group Master Architect.

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Next Generation Client Computing - Desktop On Demand

Shiv Kumar, Executive Vice President, Zylog Systems Ltd (ZSL), USA Desktop on Demand(DoD) or Desktop as a Service(DaaS) dream is becoming reality in 2011. With VDI and Open Source software stack, the IT industry is getting ready to take the Virtualization technology to the whole new level. The success that we all witnessed about Server Virtualization will be replicated at the Desktop level in the next 2~4 years. The Virtual Desktop for Smart Business(VDSB) from IBM offers tremendous amount of Value, Flexibility and Secured Computing environment for the environments which need cost effective yet powerful secured client computing infrastructure. Smarter Planet needs more Smarter Villages and Desktop Virtualization can drive the EcoFriendly Computing by leveraging the 'good enough' desktop configuration to run the applications and productivity tools. The Cloud based deployment model brings more agility and zero server maintenance features to the less Tech Savvy users to embrace the computing technologies at ease. Let us build Smarter Villages using the Smarter Computing powered by Virtual Desktops.
Shiv Kumar, is an Executive Vice President at Zylog Systems Limited (ZSL), Edison, NJ based Global Technology Integrator providing IT and Business solutions to the enterprises worldwide. ZSL has presence in 10 countries with more than 4000 technical and business associates specialized in various emerging technologies such as Cloud, SOA, Legacy Modernization, Business Analytics, Green IT, Enterprise Mobile and Social Media and applying them to drive the business aligned innovative solutions for various vertical markets. Kumar is managing ZSL's award winning 'Get IT Together' partner ecosystem and responsible to forge the strategic relationship with the technology partners to co-innovate products and solutions. With more than 17 years of Technology Industry experience, Kumar manages the R&D division of ZSL, called IDEA Lab which is focused in delivering Value Added Research and Product Development Services to the ISVs, Systems Integrators and VARs in the emerging technologies. Prior to ZSL, Kumar served at various capacities in managing the technology product development activities for NEC and NTT Communications in Japan. Kumar holds Masters in Engineering and active member in several technology advisory councils and associations including IEEE, CompTIA's SaaS and Cloud Computing Council, Euro Cloud Board and Microsoft's Voice for Innovation Forum. Kumar is a frequent speaker and panelist in various technology conferences and thought leadership events. He authored and coauthored several technical white apers and articles on topics like Innovation, Cloud, Web 2.0, Green IT and Enterprise Social Computing.

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Policy making for IT and the role of KITA

George Abraham, past CTO, United Nations Pension Fund and Chairman of KITA

Information Technology policy making has evolved over the past decade with specialization in areas such as eGovernance. Recent developments in Cloud computing, mobility, consumerization of IT, and virtualization introduced new challenges. KITA members have deep experience across various dimensions that span startups, large enterprises, and governments. This session will focus on how KITA can impact IT policy making in general and in the context of establishing IT as a cottage industry in Kerala.

Former Chief Technology Officer, United Nations Pension Fund, 40 Billion Dollar Pension Fund for the UN System Founding Chairman, Kerala Information Technology Alliance (KITA) Founding General Secretary, Indian National Overseas Congress, USA Founding Member and former Jt. Coordinator - Non-Resident Indians for Secualr and Harmonious India (NRI-SAHI) A Human Rights Activist who has championed the causes of the weak and oppressed An Information Technology Professional with great passion to promote IT as an enabler for the Development of Kerala, India

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Driving social entrepreneurship through IT - how NASSCOM Foundation can partner with KITA
Rita Soni, CEO NASSCOM Foundation, India

Rita was born and raised in the US and has come to India to work towards inclusive development. She has 17 years of diverse experience in the private and non-profit sectors. Her last position was as Country Head- Responsible Banking at YES BANK. In this important leadership position, Rita spearheaded a pioneering business approach to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainability and was part of the core team that offered innovative financial solutions to address a wide spectrum of issues regarding sustainable livelihoods, food security, public health, education & climate change. Prior to joining YES BANK, she was with the American India Foundation (AIF) heading Communications & Advocacy for the India operations. Earlier, Rita was a founding team member of the International Fellowships Program (IFP) at Ford Foundation and focused on worldwide affirmative action for communities excluded from higher education. She embarked upon her professional journey with General Electric, moving from an engineering management training program, to the Corporate Audit Staff followed by operations and finance at NBC. Rita is a Master of International Affairs (MIA) from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) in New York City and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering with Honours from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey.

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The University as an Entrepreneurial Hub

Shilpa Mohan, COO IDSi International, USA and Vibin Priyesh CEO of IDSi International India

The Clustering Project was a initiative taken on at Harvard's Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness to understand why specific industries develop in different geographical regions. That project demonstrated that industries need a network of capital, talent, guidance, professional services and resources to establish and grow, providing different geographical locations with a competitive advantage over others. This clustering effect has become well recognized. It is interesting therefore to look at a place like the Universities in Kerala, made up a variety of disciplines, expertise and sources of capital as a potential hub to support the development of new businesses and the entrepreneurial community, which is the basis for innovation and competitiveness. But which businesses fit the Kerala context and how might this model look? We will investigate questions of readiness, feasibility, and contributing factors to success. We look forward to an exciting exchange around the topic.

Shilpa Mohan is the Chief Operating Officer of IDSi International based in Fort Lee, NJ, which provides Enterprise eGovernment and GIS solutions for more than 15 US States and 2,600 Emergency Management Agencies. Enterprise Products provide emergency planning, response, and regulatory compliance services. She has spoken at conferences across the US, Middle East and India. She received a Bachelors of Science in Foreign Service from the Edmund A. Walsh School at Georgetown University, Washington DC and her MBA from Columbia University, New York. You can reach her at shilpamo@idsiinternational.com or on twitter at @idsiintl.

Vibin Priyesh is the Chief Executive Officer of IDSi India. IDSi India provides solutions for the Architecture, Construction and Engineering (ACE) community by partnering with builders and metro area development authorities to deliver smart solutions. Some innovations from IDSi India are: (a) CONTURA, an ERP solution for the Construction, Service, Manufacturing and other industries. The comprehensive solution is delivering significant benefits for builders, contractors, and mall enterprises among other industries. Follow us on twitter @conturaerp, facebook.com/conturaerp, or conturaerp.com. (b) AutoPlan, a solution that is gaining momentum across the country as technologies improve the way that building design is done. AutoPlan provides a user-friendly productivity tool for Architects to rapidly check building plans against the building code for compliance. It is used in Building Departments to automate the backlogs of manual verification of building plans and approve applications faster. Other productivity tools include WISP for paperless office, POS solutions, geo-based retail/couponing, location-based and GIS services, and outsourcing services. Mr. Priyesh is a subject matter expert in Civil Engineering and GIS services and has travelled in South Asia, Middle East, Africa, and Europe. You can contact him at vibinpr@idsitechnologies.com.

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Kerala Information Technology Alliance (KITA) 12 point program, Panel discussion

The Global Alliance of Kerala IT Professionals ( KITA) was formally established in September 2007(click here for the souvenir). KITA is a not for profit, non political and non partisan organization realized by the vision of Malayali immigrants and their generations who have been in the forefront of the IT revolution in USA. These entrepreneurs, business and technology leaders, and academia, with a collective experience of thousands of person years, have contributed to the economic growth, productivity, governance, and quality of life in this country. The leadership of KITA envisions a highly networked global organization where every member has an important and active role to play in accomplishing the organizational vision by working with work teams on different aspects of the 12 point program. In that regard, every member of KITA - be it a corporate CEO or a rookie IT Consultant - gets to choose a program and define a role of his choice matching their time, interest and experience. KITA will provide the network and connections for the Kerala community and IT professionals worldwide to tap into this "collective intelligence" and innovate. 1. Develop global professional social community network 2. Become an officially recognized advisory body for the Kerala Government in matters related to IT 3. Curriculum reform support to assure the success of Kerala technology graduates in a global workforce 4. Build incubators for new IT business development 5. Build a platform to broker knowledge management services of value for the development of Kerala 6. Establish frameworks to enable Kerala to become a leading global technology hub 7. Distinguished IT Professional lecture series 8. Foster a mentoring program 9. Become a trusted advisor on e-governance 10. Leverage IT to facilitate growth of emerging tourism markets such as Medical tourism 11. Assist to develop Kerala's agriculture and alternate energy strategies 12. IT enabled solutions to address environmental and healthcare issues

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