Know your speakers

Your speakers are going to be an eclectic mix of people from all walks of life including leading IT professionals, young achievers, ever resourceful HR professionals!!

Chief Guest & Key Note Speaker
Mr. Ramaraj

Mr.R Ramaraj is a serial entrepreneur who has been involved in ventures in IT cellular and Internet. His last venture was Sify, where he was the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, and was the first Indian Internet Company from India to list on NASDAQ National Market in the US (NASDAQ –SIFY).He was recognized as the ‘Evangelist of the Year’ at the India Internet World Convention in September2000 and was also voted the IT Person of the year 2000.
Know more about Mr.Ramraj

Power Panel - Speakers
Ms.Parvati Karthik,HR, TCS

Ms. Parvathi Karthik is the Head of Lateral On boarding for TCS and the Process Excellence Lead for the Talent Acquisition Group of HR in TCS. She is also a Six Sigma Black Belt. 

With 15 years experience in TCS she has essayed different roles in Project Delivery, Quality Assurance, Quality Audit and HR working with teams across locations in India and their onsite counterparts. She is a post graduate in Mathematics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.


Mr. Shivram – Director, Deloitte Human Capital services
Mr. S. Shivram has over 22 years of experience in Management consulting and has undertaken various engagements in India, Singapore and Africa. He is currently the Director, Human Capital  Consulting at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India Pvt Ltd .
His expertise ranges from Organization Design, Leadership development, HR Transformation, Change management to Executive training, Talent Management and HR system Design.  Mr. Shivram has led engagements on Organization restructuring, Competency mapping and assessment, Performance management systems design, Compensation strategies and restructuring for a vast number of organizations across industries.
Apart from this he has also been associated in facilitating Change Management  for organisations undergoing mergers, ERP implementation,   organization redesign etc. He has also been associated with the Global Team in developing the HR Point of View of Deloitte on People Dimension of Transformation (PDT).

Shivram holds a B. Tech degree  and PGDBM from IIM – Lucknow.



Ms. Srimathi Shivashankar– Associate VP - Diversity & Sustainability, HCL

Srimathi Shivashankar is Associate Vice President - Diversity & Sustainability at HCL Technologies. Srimathi has considerable experience in the areas of human capital strategy and diversity. Her core work areas in Human Capital include diversity and inclusion, employee engagement and retention, culture
institutionalization, training and assessments, leadership development and counselling.
To know more about Srimathi Shivashankar(click here)


Moderator

Latha Ramesh, VP, Classle Knowledge Pvt.Ltd.
Latha Ramesh is VP at Classle Knowledge Pvt. Ltd. and governing council member of eWIT.

She is a management graduate from University of Madras. She has around 30 years of experience in the Information Technology industry, in various capacities.
She has extensive experience handling different portfolios that include : managing software development, maintenance, education & training, infrastructure, pre-sales support, resource loading, quality and process improvement.  
She was associated with  Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), USA for over six years as an International Technology Consultant. She has also consulted AIDS Prevention And Control Project, a USAID project, Tamilnadu AIDS Initiative (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation). Former Chairperson of Computer Society of India, Chennai Chapter and former Chairperson of Chennai SPIN (Software Process Improvement Network) . Know more about Latha Ramesh(click here) 

Paper Presentation Jury

Mr. Ramakrishnan, Senior Director, Testing Solutions,CSS Corp Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. Ramakrishnan is a Certified PMP & Lead ISO Auditor with 24+ years’ experience in IT with a special focus on software testing, QA and process base-lining & implementation. He has several years experience in Due-Diligence and End-to-end consulting on test strategy, resource planning, and test environment management including delivery transition to offshore & handholding through steady-state,project and process assessments and implementing quality management systems

Mr.K Anantharaman,Vice President,Classle Knowledge Pvt. Ltd.
Mr. Anantharaman - Ananth has performed various roles across academic, corporate, business line staff and project management.
Ananth has 15+ years of experience and specializes in Project Management and Service Delivery, Training Operations and Management, Framing and customizing Training programs to meet the business requirements and Organization Objectives, Training Effectiveness Measurement, Project management and Service Delivery.
Know more about Anantharaman(click here)


Ms. Aparna Ramalingam, Editorial Team, Times of India
Aparna Ramalingam is a Special Correspondent with the Times of India, Chennai. She writes for Times Business covering the areas of banking, non banking finance, micro finance and insurance.
Aparna has over 14 years of experience in journalism and she worked across publications like India Today, New Delhi, Indian Express, New Delhi and the Times of India, New Delhi. Over the years she has written numerous articles that include news, news features and features stories on a variety of subjects, medicine, economy, lifestyle and business. In her spare time, she likes reading and listening to music
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Poster Presentation Jury

Mr. Cletus Pinto, Head of Product Engineering, Nokia India Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. Pinto has over 18 years’ of experience in Telecommunication & Power electronics industries in engineering stream. Currently associated with Nokia for the past 8 years leading the New Product Introduction & Product Engineering department at Chennai manufacturing facility which is the key interface between the R&D and Manufacturing.

Mr.G.Nandakumar, Senior Professional Leader - Mobile Communications 
Nandu - G Nandakumar is a Telecommunications IT professional who has worked with large European Telcos for over 12 years and within the IT industry for over 25 years. He directs Strategic IT Architecture and CRM programmes and is a keen advocate of Customer Value and Relationship Management. He is a graduate of IIT Bombay and of Henley Business School in the UK, where he resides currently.


'Your Qs Answered' Panel:

1.  Chair - Namagiri Ramesh - Delivery Manager - Tech Mahindra & Joint Secretary - eWIT 
Namagiri Ramesh is a Post Graduate Engineer with 23 years of experience in the field of IT, primarily in the areas of delivery, operations, management, process and technical consulting. Experienced in product and services areas.
She has varied domain expertise such as BFSI, Manufacturing, Pharma, Telecom, Retail and TTL.
She has been an integral part of Change Management initiatives across the organization, including aspects of Mergers & Acquisitions. Know more about Namagiri(click here)

2. Moderator - Smita Venkataraman - Associate Director, Branding and Communications – AGS Health
Smita has over 13 years of HR leadership experience across BPO, KPO, Retail, Finance and Consulting sectors spanning recruitment, business partnering, talent management, branding and leadership development. Know more about Smita(click here)

3. Panelist - Vanipriya Jayaraman - MD – Director, Proyojana
Vanipriya Jayaraman is the Managing Partner & Director of Proyojana Business Consulting Private Limited, a product and SaaS start-up co-founded by herself.  She has experience in product development, process re-engineering and developing web & mobile strategies for enterprises , and of building ground-up applications for multiple industries like Media, Publishing, Financial Services, Engineering, Education etc. across functional domains like HR, Finance, Operations, etc.
4. Panelist - Anusha Domnic - Manager, IT Security – Sundaram Clayton Limited


Anusha has over 14 years of IT experience in the areas of support, messaging platform, security, infrastructure management and networking.
She is a post graduate in Electronics and Electrical Communication engineering from TCE, Madurai and multiple IT certifications from the US and India. Know more about Anusha(click here)

5. Panelist - Suma Mathai - Sanpra Infotech Pvt Ltd. -  Sr. Manager – HR & Admin
Suma holds an MBA in Human Resource & Marketing from the Institute for Technology and Management, affiliated to New Hampshire University, USA and holds the distinction of being a Gold Medalist Winner for Best Outgoing Student of that batch.


6. Panelist - M. Swetha Durga - Sales and Training Executive - Phaeros IT India Pvt. Ltd.
Swetha holds a BE degree from Meenakshi Sundararajan Engineering College, Anna University and has also completed her B2 level in French from the Alliance Francaise.She works as a Sales and Training Executive at Phaeros IT India Pvt. Ltd. where she provides Software training to customers apart from a significant role in improving sales
Know more about Swetha Durga(click here)



Get Inspired - Speakers

Ms.Sridevi Raghavan, CEO, Amelio

Sridevi Raghavan is co-founder and CEO of Amelio Child Care Pvt. Ltd. Sridevi returned to India upon her graduation with an MBA from Harvard Business School in 2008 to start Amelio along with her husband Raghavan.
Sridevi has a diverse work experience which enriched her exposure and thinking along businesses in India. Sridevi started her career in advertising with Ogilvy and Mather, and was part of the brand building of several national brands such as Brooke Bond Red Label, Club Mahindra Holidays and Reynolds. Thereafter, Sridevi shifted trajectory, and worked in a few non-profits such as CRY and CARE in India before her MBA. 

Valedictory Function

Prizes would be given away by Mr.M Sivakumar,CEO, ICTACT

Chief Executive Officer 
ICTACT

M Sivakumar has rich experience in setting up, promoting and managing companies and his expertise spans Strategic Planning, Financial resource management, Product Development and Marketing channel management. Sivakumar has over 22 years of experience in business strategy, new business development, strategic relationship management and operations Also has an extensive experience in the Education and Training Industry with focus on technology enabled education, implementing large educational initiatives with focus on technology management, instructional design and content quality management. Prior to ICTACT, he was the President at one of India’s largest technology enabled Education Company and was responsible for the strategic development across India. Before joining the education sector, he has been in the middle east for 10 years as a profit center head and GM (Finance) in private sector organisations. M.Sivakumar is a chartered accountant by qualification with his degree from Madras University.

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