Speakers

Neal is Director, Software Architect, and Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWorks.

He has a degree in Computer Science from Georgia State University specializing in languages and compilers and a minor in mathematics specializing in statistical analysis. He is also the designer and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, and video presentations. He is also the author of 5 books, including the most recent Presentation Patterns.

Given his degree, Neal is a bit of a language geek, with affections including but not limited to Ruby, Clojure, Java, Groovy, JavaScript, Scala and C#/.NET. His primary consulting focus is the design and construction of large-scale enterprise applications. Neal is an internationally acclaimed speaker, having spoken at over 300 developer conferences worldwide, delivering more than 2000 presentations.

Scott Davis is author of the book Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java and two ongoing IBM developerWorks article series (Mastering Grails and in 2009, Practically Groovy). Scott writes extensively about how Groovy and Grails are the future of Java development. He teaches public and private classes on Groovy and Grails for start-ups and Fortune 100 companies.

Scott is the co-founder of the Groovy/Grails Experience conference and is a regular presenter on the international technical conference circuit (including GIDS, No Fluff Just Stuff, JavaOne, OSCON, TheServerSide and QCON). In 2008, Scott was voted the top Rock Star at JavaOne for his talk "Groovy, the Red Pill: How to blow the mind of a buttoned-down Java developer".

Marty is the president of coreservlets.com, a US-based consulting and training company focused on Ajax and Java EE. He is the author of six popular books on Java and Web technology; these books have been worldwide bestsellers and have been translated into 15 languages as well as being reprinted in English in India.

Marty has given lectures and training courses in seven countries and dozens of US venues, including speaking five times at JavaOne. He also directs the Java and Web technology concentration areas in the Johns Hopkins University part-time graduate program in Computer Science.

Marty is the author of Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages (first and second editions), More Servlets and JavaServer Pages, and Core Web Programming (first and second editions) from Prentice Hall and Sun Microsystems Press.

Arun Gupta is a Java evangelist working at Oracle. He has over 16 years of experience in the software industry working primarily in the Java platform. He works to create and foster the community around Java EE and GlassFish. He has been with the Java EE team since its inception and contributed to all releases.

Arun has extensive world wide speaking experience on myriad of topics and loves to engage with the community, customers, partners, and Java User Groups everywhere to spread the goodness of Java.

He is a prolific blogger at http://blogs.oracle.com/arungupta with over 1350 blog entries and frequent visitors from all around the world. He is a passionate runner and always up for running in any part of the world. You can catch him at @arungupta.

James Roper has always had a passion for making software development fun and simple. Having worked for Atlassian on their world class developer tool stack, James now is an open source developer working at Typesafe on Play Framework.

James seeks to make developers lives easier, by providing the tools they need to focus on solving their problems, without getting bogged down with the intricacies of the languages, protocols or technologies they are working with.

Dhananjay Kumar is industry speaker, prolific blogger and Microsoft MVP. He works for Telerik and as part of his work he helps developers and customers to deliver more than expected. He regularly blogs at http://debugmode.net/ and http://telerikhelper.net/. You can follow him on twitter @debug_mode for updates on his blogs and speaking engagements.

Amit Bansal is the CTO of eDominer Systems & Peopleware India. A veteran in technology, databases, SQL Server & business intelligence, he is a sought after consultant, trainer, writer and speaker. Over the last 10 years, Amit has consulted, trained & mentored more than 6000 IT professionals and conducted 450 workshops on SQL Server & business intelligence, working with top notch blue chip companies worldwide including Microsoft, Infosys, Wipro, RBS, HCL, HP, Siemens, IBM and Accenture. He is an MVP awardee on SQL Server, and one of the first Microsoft Certified Trainer in India holding the credential for more than a decade now. Amit frequently speaks at major Microsoft events worldwide including TechED, MSDN and TechNet.

Sandeep Chanda is a Director of Solutions at Neudesic, a Microsoft National Systems Integrator and Gold Certified Partner. He has been working on several Microsoft technologies (including but not limited to .NET, Azure, BizTalk, SharePoint and Dynamics CRM) for the past ten years, building large scale enterprise applications spanning multiple industries. He is a technology enthusiast and a speaker at various corporate events and public webinars. He has authored several articles on Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and is the author of books Windows Identity Foundation Cookbook by PacktPub and Begining ASP.NET 4.5 Databases by Apress. Most recently he has been involved in evangelizing aspects of ALM and developer collaboration using TFS 2012 and was the speaker on the subject at GIDS 2012. He spends quite a bit of time traveling and training different teams on the new features of .NET Framework 4.5 and Windows 8 Metro application development. Sandeep holds an MS in Software Systems from BITS, Pilani and his areas of interest include service oriented computing, pervasive computing and haptic devices.

Aniruddha Deswandikar heads the Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) at Bangalore. MTC helps customers and Microsoft Partners Architect and Design their next generation systems and products on the Microsoft Platform. Aniruddha has 20 years of Industry Experience. He started his career with developing Firmware for Production Automation Equipment and spent most of his career building software for various types of applications like CAD/CAM, Medical Data Monitoring, Financial Systems and Enterprise Data Integration platforms. He joined Microsoft in 2006 as a Technical Architect and helped Software Vendors build scalable and robust systems on the Microsoft Platform. Before joining Microsoft he worked at Netflix.com as a Senior Developer.

Harish is a Technical Evangelist with Microsoft India, currently focussing on building the Windows 8 ecosystem. He is a widely recognized expert in ASP.NET, Windows Azure and other Microsoft Technologies. Harish has more than 13 years of industry experience and has donned various roles in Microsoft as well as during his earlier stints with other companies.

Harish is the author of http://geekswithblogs.net/ranganh one of the leading blogs on Microsoft Technologies. He is an established speaker in various Microsoft and third party forums and his popularity with the technical community has led to people building a Facebook Fan Page for him.

When not at work, Harish tries his hands at cooking, cricket and chess. He is passionate about technology in general and making it solve real world challenges.

Ujjwal Kumar is a "Technical Evangelist" at Microsoft Corporation, India. He mainly works on for Windows Phone and Windows 8 platforms and focusses on apps and game development. Prior to this he worked as Partner Consultant and development platforms Worldwide Specialization Lead at Microsoft. He has over 9.5 years of industry experience and he has been with Microsoft for 6.5+ years. In the past he has extensively worked on C++, C#, Windows Azure, Windows Internals, Robotics Studio, game development and image processing. In the current role, he works with business startups, enterprises and partner organizations and assist them in adoption of latest platform and technologies.

Abhijit is a Solutions Consultant focusing on workflows that empowers designers & developers to create for the web and mobile devices. He is primarily responsible for building enterprise solution for customers and evangelizing Adobe tools and framework. Abhijit is an Adobe Certified Expert on Adobe Dreamweaver and Adobe LiveCycle.

Abhishek is a Principal Solution Specialist for SafeNet India, where he has supported the Software Monetization business for more than nine years. He has extensive experience working with various independent software vendors (ISVs) across the Asia Pacific region. He has designed and implemented successful software protection strategies in a variety of industries and understands the unique business challenges that ISVs face in selling on-premise software or SaaS solutions. He has helped numerous ISVs monetize products and increase revenue.

Wriju Ghosh works in Microsoft as Lead Partner Consultant with 12+ years of industry experience. He works with Microsoft Partners to help them develop cutting edge applications using Microsoft products. He mainly works on Visual Studio .NET, Team Foundation Server, Windows Azure, Windows Phone, Windows Store Apps. Wriju's Blog can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wriju and he is a Channel9 podcaster at http://channel9.msdn.com/niners/wriju. Contact Wriju via twitter @wriju_ghosh

Ranbijay has over eight years of work experience in the area of IT, R&D and software systems, with significant exposure to the onsite-offshore delivery model. His experience includes Team Management, Mobile Application Development, Architecting and Consulting Engagements and Client Interfacing. Ranbijay is a PhD candidate and about to submit his thesis on Mobile Cloud Computing. He has also published many articles in international journals. As part of BlackBerry's Developer Relations organization, Ranbijay is responsible for managing relationships with BlackBerry's developer community and strategic partners, focusing specifically in India and South Asia. He provides support and guidance to BlackBerry developers working to integrate their applications with the BlackBerry platform. With support for a wide range of BlackBerry platform services, Ranbijay is extremely excited to see how they can be leveraged to augment the BlackBerry experience, and to take BlackBerry apps to the next level! He also maintains a personal blog at http://ranbijay.blogspot.in and very active on developer community on RAN_BB10_Group.

Dhanya is a Technical Evangelist working with Infosys Limited, Bangalore. Dhanya's role involves evangelizing Web and Mobile technologies at Infosys Limited, where she also spends a lot of time consulting on web technologies. Her area of interest is in developing cross platform mobile applications using HTML5 for Mobile, Sencha Touch and jQueryMobile.

Raghavendra is responsible for evangelizing various Windows 8 aspects on Ultrabook platform. He is passionate about solving problems beyond technology boundaries. Hence he worked on multiple technologies during his 13+ years of industry experience. He is currently working as Technical Marketing Engineer (TME) for Developer Relationships Division @ Intel.

Linux and Multimedia Specialist, Having 11+ years of experience in development of Embedded S/w for Mobile and Multimedia System On Chip (SoC), at Intel I have started working on Mobile Application development and ISV Enabling.

Harish Sivaramakrishnan is a front end technologies geek, with over a decade of experience working with various front end technologies. Extremely passionate about client side programming languages and web animations, Harish is also a keen observer and commentator on modern UI and UX patterns. Harish is currently the front end architect at Myntra.com, helping Myntra build the next generation of user experiences across platforms. Prior to joining Myntra He spent 8 years at Adobe as an evangelist for Web & Open Standards as well as Flash. Harish blogs at hsivaram.com, tweets @hsivaram and contributes to open source at github.com/hsivaramx.

William leads Google's Outreach efforts across Emerging Markets where he and his team are responsible for building and supporting communities which deliver more intensive experiences of Google products for our most valuable and passionate future users and advocates. William champions open and equal access to information, the web as a learning platform and the ability for technology to help mankind reach its full potential. Prior to joining Google, William was Head of International Sales and Marketing for Blackboard Collaborate, a leader in education technologies. At Blackboard William and his team were intimately involved with the growth and widespread use of real-time collaboration solutions around the world with leading institutions such as The Open University in the UK, the National eLearning Centre in Saudi Arabia, and schools in Europe, Asia and Latin America. Throughout his career, William has had experience providing technology solutions for a broad range of industries. Home is currently outside London where he lives with his wife and two daughters.

Gary Illyes is a webmaster trends analyst dedicated to creating a better search experience for users by helping webmasters create amazing websites. When not crunching data to find ways to improve web search, Gary is contributing to the Webmaster Central Blog and helps users debug their websites in the Google Webmaster Forums.

Prior joining Google in 2011, Gary was teaching online journalism in Romania and abroad. He was a technical consultant for several high profile media outlets, and he spent his free time on online forums helping webmasters troubleshoot web- and news-search related issues. He has studied IT at the University of Phoenix and holds an associate's degree in journalism from the Ady Endre College of Journalism in Romania.

Guneet Singh is the Head of Consumer Marketing at Google India, responsible as he says for "Finding the user. Finding the Google magic. And connecting the two". Whether its Google Search, YouTube, Google+, Chrome or Android - his day revolves around enabling more users to use the internet more effectively. He joined Google in March 2011, after being a an entrepreneur & co-founder of an e-commerce company, and holding other key consumer marketing roles at Microsoft and Samsung.

Bruno Georges is currently heading Red Hat's Enterprise Application Platforms Engineering group. Prior to this he was the APAC/Japan Middleware Solutions Director at JBoss, a division of Red Hat. Bruno has over 20 years IT experience working in the Banking, Trading, Insurance and Telco industries, where he has been primarily involved with the architecture of eCommerce Solutions and managing Software Development Teams. Bruno previously headed the Application Development Group at Glencore International AG, one of the world largest private companies based in Switzerland. He was responsible for initiating and driving the adoption of an Open Source based SOA strategy, leading to a highly successful deployment. Prior to Glencore, Bruno was the Lead Architect at XBridge Ltd, the UK's leading SME Finance Portal, and also served in other major Investment banking and Insurance Companies.

Sunila is a Technology Architect at Broadridge Financial Software Solutions Ltd primarily involved in Architecting Products that have critical Scalability requirements. Sunila currently leads Big Data and SOA Special Interest Groups for Broadridge and drives R&D in these areas. In a Technology career that now spans for 12 years, Sunila led the design and implementation of several large IT solutions for Fortune 500 clients of the Financial Industry that included high level of Technology & Integration expectations.

Bruno Georges is currently heading Red Hat's Enterprise Application Platforms Engineering group. Prior to this he was the APAC/Japan Middleware Solutions Director at JBoss, a division of Red Hat. Bruno has over 20 years IT experience working in the Banking, Trading, Insurance and Telco industries, where he has been primarily involved with the architecture of eCommerce Solutions and managing Software Development Teams. Bruno previously headed the Application Development Group at Glencore International AG, one of the world largest private companies based in Switzerland. He was responsible for initiating and driving the adoption of an Open Source based SOA strategy, leading to a highly successful deployment. Prior to Glencore, Bruno was the Lead Architect at XBridge Ltd, the UK's leading SME Finance Portal, and also served in other major Investment banking and Insurance Companies.