Schedule
5th -“Hi Tech Pune-Maharashtra 2008” IT & Biotech, Animation and Gaming Conference
5th -“Hi Tech Pune-Maharashtra 2008” IT   & Biotech, Animation and Gaming Conference
Spectacular opening: Wednesday June 18 2008 at Le Meridien, Pune India
Time: - 04.30pm to 7.00pm                                                                                                         Venue: The Majestic at Le Meridien Pune
3.30pm: Registration followed by High Tea
Time Particulars
  Welcome & Overview Shri. Suresh Kalmadi, Member of Parliament and
Chairman Pune Vyaspeeth
  Setting the Agenda- Hi Tech Pune
  Mr. Deepak Shikarpur
Chairman (IT) Committee MCCIA, Chairman IT Committee Pune Vyaspeeth, Chairman (Computer Management) Pune University, Chairman (IT Applications) Computer Society of India & Director Pure it & Autoline Dimensions Software Ltd.
  Dr. Ashok Kolaskar Former Vice Chancellor, University Of Pune, Advisor, National Knowledge Commission, Managing Director, DSK Global Education & Research Pvt.Ltd.
  Commodore Anand Khandekar, Director Pune Development Center & Chief Mentor NVIDIA
Introduction of
Shri. Jyotiraditya M. Scindia, Honourable Minister of State for Communications & IT Government of India.		 Dr.Ganesh Natarajan Chairman NASSCOM
Global CEO Zensar Technologies Limited
Inauguration of Hi Tech Pune Maharashtra 2008 and Award Ceremony. Ceremonial Inauguration & Lighting of the Lamp at the Hands of Inauguration by: Shri. Jyotiraditya M. Scindia, Honourable Minister of State for Communications & IT Government of India. Presided by: Shri. Ashok Chavan, Honourable Minister for Industries Government of Maharashtra.
  Life Time Achievement Awards Ceremony ,Felicitation and Acceptance address
  Padma Vibhushan Shri. N. R. Narayana Murthy, Chairman and Chief Mentor, Infosys Technologies Ltd.
  Padma Bhushan Dr. K. I. Varaprasad Reddy, Managing Director, Shantha Biotechnics Pvt. Ltd.
  Dignitaries at Inauguration
  Ms. Rajlaxmi M. Bhosale, Honourable Mayor Of Pune
  Dr. Narendra Jadhav ,Vice Chancellor University Of Pune
Patron Hi Tech Pune
  Mr. William A. Haseltine, PhD, Global Health. President, Haseltine Foundation For Medical Sciences And The Arts. USA
  Dr. Fabio Rugge, Consul General of Italy in Mumbai.
Ms. Vicki Treadell-British Deputy High Commissioner in Mumbai.
Vote of Thanks Mr. Sunil Patil, President, UBICS, Inc.-THE UB GROUP
 
5th -“Hi Tech Pune-Maharashtra 2008” I T  & Biotech, Gaming and Animation Conference
Thursday June 19 2008 At Le Meridien, Pune India
8.00am–9.30am Registration
9.30am-11.00am In Chair: Mr. S. D. Pradhan, Chief Executive Officer, Argentum Engineering Design, Pune.
  Key Note: Mr. William A. Haseltine, PhD, Global Health President, Haseltine Foundation
“Biotech Industry Growth & Pitfall”
  Keynote: Prof. Samir K. Brahmachari, Director General, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India.
“Genetic Landscape of India and Future of Medicine”
  Key Note: Mr. Suman Bose, Country Director, Dassault Systemes
 “Innovation In Product Development”
11.00am-11.30am TEA BREAK
11.30am-1.00pm Majestic 1 Majestic 2
Concurrent Sessions in IT & BT Session Chair:
Mr. N. Diwakar, COO,
Sigma Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd.		 Session Chair:
Dr. Madhav Deo, VP,
Moving Academy of Medicine & Bio medicine.
  Eng. Services Session: Biotech Initiatives
  Mr. Sanjay Daga, VP Operations, DesignTech Systems Ltd (a Dassault Systemes Business Partner). Dassault Systemes Asia
Topic: “Innovation In Product Development”		   Dr. Sudershan K. Arora
President-Clinical Research & Drug Development,
Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited.
Topic:  “Drug Development & Newer Designs for Clinical Trials”,
  Mr. Mark D’Souza,
Senior Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation (India) Pvt Ltd.
Topic: “Green Computing- Imagine a world where technology enables a sustainable environment”		 Dr. Prabuddha Ganguli
CEO, Vision- IPR
Topic: “IPR in Biotechnology".... New Realisms, issues and opportunities.
  Mr. Ravi Teja, Associate Vice President & Practice Head - Enterprise Transformation,
Nihilent
Topic: ‘Managing change through Learning and Innovation’		   Dr. C. N. Potkar MD, MBA, MSHS,
Director, Clinical Research and Regulatory Affairs,
Pfizer Ltd.
Topic: Clinical Research Landscape in India-
1.00pm-2.00pm LUNCH NETWORK
2.00pm-3.30pm Session Chair: Mr. Sunil Patil, President, UBICS, Inc. -THE UB GROUP Session Chair: Dr. Ashok Kolaskar Former Vice Chancellor, University Of Pune, Advisor, National Knowledge Commission, Managing Director, DSK Global Education & Research Pvt.Ltd.
Session: Animation and Visual effects an integral part of film making
  Ms. Rekha Garapathi, Director, India Software labs, IBM India Limited
Topic: IT and Innovation		 An Industry Over View by: Mr. Ashish Kulkarni, CEO,
BIG Animation (I) Pvt.Ltd.
  Mr. Gerard Rego Wharton Fellow 05, DV Fellow 06, Stanford University & GM India Product Development MSC Software India Pvt. Ltd.
Topic: Business Model Innovation is the key to competitiveness in India.		 Case study and Presentation of “Making of Little Krishna"
Mr. Bala Subramaniam, Art & Animation Director
Mr. Prabhuda, Art Director
Mr. R. B. Anto Ramesh Paul, Technical Director, BIG Animation (I) Pvt.Ltd.
  Dr. Sai Kumar, CTO, Mphasis & EDS Company (New York) Topic: IT Open Source Making of "Tare Zami Par "-
Mr. Vaibhav Kumaresh, Director, Vaibhav Studios
3.30pm-4.00pm TEA BREAK
4.00pm-5.30pm Session on IT:  
  Session Chair: Mr. Anant Sardeshmukh Additional Director General Mahratta Chamber Of Commerce, Industries And Agriculture Animation and Visual effects an integral part of film making
  Mr. P.S.Narayan, Head Sustainability Practice, Wipro Ltd.
Topic: Does Green make business sense?'		 Making of "Golden Compus"- Ms. Saraswathi Balgam-Vani from Rhythm & Hues Studios India
  Dr. S. Ramakrishnan, Director General, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
Topic: "From Innovation to Deployment: Case Studies from C-DAC"		 Mr. Jerzy Kular, Head of Animation-DSK Global Education & Research Pvt.Ltd Topic: “Indian Animation at the Crossroads”
  Dr. Anupam Saraph, Chief Information Officer, at City of Pune  
5.30pm- 6.00pm Visit to Exhibition
  Plenary Session:
6.00pm -6.45pm IT In Sports: Mr. Vijay Kumar Gautam, I.A.S, COO, Commonwealth Games Delhi 2010
 Mr. Rohit Srivastwa is a well-known security evangelist, “Need of information security".
  Keynote by:Ms. Malini V Shankar, I.A.S., Development Commissioner (Industries), Govt Of Maharashtra
  Networking Dinner
 
5th -“Hi Tech Pune-Maharashtra 2008” I T  & Biotech Conference
Friday June 20 2008 At Le Meridien, Pune India

8.30am – 9.30 am

Registration

9.30am-11.15am

Plenary Session:

Session Chair: Mr. Deepak Shikarpur
Chairman IT Committee Pune Vyaspeeth, Pure it & Autoline Dimensions Software Ltd.

” Leading Innovation In A System Driven Environment”
Keynote: Mr. Gary Lear, World Wide CEO, DBL Australia.

Krishna Prasad, CTO, DUX SOFT,
Mr. Keitan Yadav, COO, Redchillies VFX (Tentative, to be confirmed)
Role of Technology in Visual effects and Animation

The Evolution of Mobile Games in Asia
Keynote: Mr. Mike McCabe, Regional General Manager, EA Mobile Asia

11.15 am-11.45am

Tea Break 

Time

MAJESTIC 1

MAJESTIC 2

Session Chair:
Mr. Salil Bhargava, CEO, Jump Games

Session Chair: Dr. V.S. Rao, Director,
Agharkar Research Institute

Session: Growing up with a game culture in India.
Panel Discussion

Session: Biotech Initiatives

11.45am-1.15 pm

Panel session:
Mr. Anumukonda Ramesh
Chief Gaming Officer And Co-Founder, Kreeda Games
Mr. Alok Kejriwal, Founder & CEO, Games 2 win
Mr. Phani Tetali, VP, FX Labs
Mr. K. Rajesh Rao, CEO, Dhruva Interactive.
Mr. Gireendra Kasmalkar, Founder Director and CEO, Verisoft Infoservices Pvt. Ltd.

Dr. Anand Ranganathan, Scientist International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB)
Topic: ‘Conscious evolution of proteins’

Dr. Shankar Venugopal, Head Advanced Material, Tata Chemicals Innovation
Topic: "Nanotechnology and India".

Dr. S. V. Ramakrishna, Group Advisor & Head
R & D Center. Praj Industries Limited
Topic: Industrial biotechnology

1.15pm-2.00pm

LUNCH BREAK

2.00pm-3.30pm

Session: Education & Technology

Panel Discussion:

N Chair: Dr. S. B. Mazumdar (Indicated)

In Chair: Mr. Jerzy Kular, Head of Animation-DSK Global Education & Research Pvt.Ltd

Dr. Ashok Kolaskar, Former Vice Chancellor, University Of Pune, Advisor, National Knowledge Commission, Managing Director, DSK Global Education & Research Pvt.Ltd,

Ms. Laura Dohrmann, WW Marketing Manager, Digital Film, India, NVIDIA,

Address by

Dr. Arun Nigavekar, Raja Ramanna Fellow, Former Chairman, UGC, Former VC, Pune University, Founder Director NAAC, Senior Advisor, Science & Technology Park, University of Pune.

Mr. Atul Vohra-President, MAAC.

Address by

Dr. D. C. Kothari, Department of Physics, University of Mumbai,

Mr. Rajesh Turakhia, Founder Director, Frameboxx

Address by

Mr. Vivek Sawant, Managing Director Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation Ltd Pune-India

Mr. Jesh Krishnamurthy, Anibrain Digital Technologies Pvt Ltd.

Address by

Mr. Vishwajeet Kadam, Member, AICTE, secretary Bharti Vidya Peeth.

Ms. Sunanda Rathi, Director, Arena Animation.

Address by

Symbiosis (Indicated)

3.30pm -4.00pm

Tea Network

4.00pm-5.30pm

Theme Address and Valedictory: Session Chair: Mr. Sunil Patil, President, UBICS, Inc.
THE UB GROUP

 

Theme Address: Innovation Led Inclusive Growth Keynote: by
R.A. Mashelkar, F.R.S, CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow, President of Global Research Alliance.

  

Shri Suresh Kalmadi, Member of Parliament and Chairman Pune Vyaspeeth

  

Dr. Kshatrapati Shivaji, I.A.S, Secretary IT, Govt. Of Maharashtra-E-Governance

  

R.A. Mashelkar, F.R.S, CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow, President of Global Research Alliance.

  

Felicitation Of Sponsors & Supporters