AdvantageAP, annual IT Summit on 1st and 2nd March 2011

This conference will provide a forum for IT & ITES companies, academic institutions, governments, end-customers of various Industries, to collaborate and leverage the enabling environment that AP has to offer. The event will consist of 3 parallel tracks: Conference, Software Product Showcase and Exhibition.

The Product Showcase and Awards track will showcase a host of interesting products innovated and developed in AP. Products will be considered in five categories - MNC, Established Indian, Startup Products, Startup Portals and Startup Emerging Technologies.

A jury comprising leaders from the industry, academia and VC communities will screen nominations and select products to be presented at the Showcase and demonstrated at the Exhibition, enabling a networking of startups, partners, investors and customers (amongst the CIO invitees). The track will also have seminars that will deliberate on various aspects of the startup eco-system, with eminent leaders from the industry sharing their views and experiences. The track will conclude with an inspirational finale at which highly-accomplished, self-made entrepreneurs will share their experience of building their enterprises from scratch. Further, there will be other tracks focusing on new technologies, business models and innovations including Cloud Computing, Service Orientation, Asset Based Solutions, Risk/Reward Models and OPEX-based business models.The Exhibition track will have participation from IT and ITES Organizations, Infrastructure Developers, Software Product Companies, Government Departments, Facility Management & Service Providers, Banks and Financial Institutions, Telecom Companies and Engineering & Other Academic Institutions.

Some of the confirmed speakers at the event are -

Mr. N. Kiran KumarReddy, Hon'ble Chief Minister, AP.

Mr. Ponnala Lakshmaiah, Hon'ble IT Minister, AP

Mrs. K. Ratna Prabha, IAS, Principal Secretary to Govt. of AP, IT & C Dept

Mr. Lakshmi Narayanan, Vice Chairman, Cognizant Technology Solutions

Mr. A. Babu, CEO, Aarogyasri, Healthcare Trust

Mr. Kishore Padmanabham, Head of R & D, and Business Innovation, TCS

Mr. Moorthy Uppaluri, GM, Developer & Platform Evangelism, Microsoft Corporation

Mr. F.A. Khan, GM, IT, BHEL

Mr. Sateesh Andra, Hyderabad Angels

Mr. Amit Kishore Prasad, CEO, SATNAV Technologies

Mr. Milan Sheth, Partner, E & Y

Dr. Krishna Reddy, CEO, Care Hospitals

Mr. J. Ramchander, Head Health Care Division, HCL Technologies

Mr. Rajiv Prakash, CEO - Future ECommerce, Head - Group Business Development & Solutions at Future Group Mumbai Area, India

Mr. V Rajanna,Vice President & Regional Head, TCS, Hyderabad

Mr. Kiran Cherukuri, Global Practice Director & Center Head, Hyderabad, HCL Technologies Ltd

Mr. Suheim Sheikh, Global Practice Head – Financial Crime Detection, 3i Infotech Limited

Dr. Santanu Paul, CEO & Managing Director, Talentsprint Education Services Pvt Ltd

Dr. Ramesh Loganathan, Vice President (Products) & Center Head, Progress Software- India

Flt Lt Bipin Chandra Dutt Pendyala, Vice President & Site Manager, CA, Hyderabad

Mr. P. Venugopal, Director, STPI, Hyderabad

Mr. Ravi S Rao, Managing Director – Valuemomentum Software Services Private Limited

Mr. Ravi Kumar S, Vice President, Global Head-Oracle Practice & Head-Hyderabad Center, Infosys Technologies

Mr. Murali Bollu, CEO, ZenQA

Mr. M Narsimha Rao, Vice President, Infosys

To register, exhibit in the event log on to http://www.advantageap.in/