Agenda Speakers

6:00pm- Registration. Mr. SharadEntrepreneur In Residence,

6:30pm Sharma Canaan Partners.
6:00pm- Networking, Cocktails and Mr. SureshFounder & CEO,
7:00pm Snacks. Sambandam OrangeScape Platform as a
7:00pm- Program Discussion:Latest Service.
9:00pm Trends in Cloud Computing Mr. Alok General Partner, Canaan
- Mittal Partners.
The Perspective from Dr. P. Vice President, IBM India
Operators and Investors. Gopalakrishnan Software Labs.
9:00pm- Networking & Dinner. Dr. Ashish Co-Founder, Helion
10:30pm Gupta Venture Partners.

The Latest Trends in Cloud Computing: An Operators and

Investors Perspective
This event showcases some of the latest trends in cloud computing and looks at some of the
successful business models and companies in this emerging technology area. The panel will be
composed of successful venture investors from the Indian venture capital industry as well as
technology executives from companies in India that are succeeding in this space. There has been
strong investment activity in this sector from leading venture capital firms, both in India as well
as brand name firms in the US and Europe. A significant part of the panel will address
opportunities in the software and applications layer and how successful delivery models are being
built using the cloud. Another area of interest that has recently emerged to the forefront is
security in the cloud and the panelists will discuss how leading edge companies are building
security solutions for the cloud.

Cloud computing has had a meteoric rise in the past 12 - 24 months in the technology world. It is
a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet. These
services are broadly divided into three categories: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-
as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). The name cloud computing was inspired
by the cloud symbol that's often used to represent the Internet in flow charts and diagrams. The
panelists in this discussion will provide insights into all three categories, but the most compelling
opportunities in the cloud arena now are for companies that are leveraging the cloud delivery
model and creating new software and applications that utilize these technologies.

A cloud service has three distinct characteristics that differentiate it from traditional hosting. It is
sold on demand, typically by the minute or the hour; it is elastic -- a user can have as much or as
little of a service as they want at any given time; and the service is fully managed by the
provider (the consumer needs nothing but a personal computer and Internet access). Significant
innovations in virtualization and distributed computing, as well as improved access to high-speed
Internet and a weak economy, have accelerated interest in cloud computing.

List of Confirmed Speakers

Mr. Sharad Sharma
Entrepreneur In Residence, Canaan Partners

Sharad Sharma joined Canaan Partners as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence in 2009, bringing over

two decades of experience as a successful entrepreneur, technology industry executive, and a
software engineer to his role as Canaans fire starter. Sharad works closely with Canaan Partners
investment professionals to identify and advance promising infrastructure technologies on a
global basis. Sharad has a keen sense of which software innovations have the clear potential to
become widely used, business-critical applications.

Before joining Canaan, Sharad served as CEO of Yahoo! India R&D, where he was responsibile for
product engineering for emerging markets and led the development of several global products
and platforms (including image search, search monetization, HotJobs, participation platforms and
feed platforms). tups. Earlier in his career, Sharad was co-founder and CEO of Teltier
Technologies, a New Jersey-based wireless infrastructure startup that became the leader in the
presence and availability management industry and is now part of Cisco. Prior to co-founding
Teltier, Sharad managed product development teams at Lucent Technologies, both in US and
India. He also set up AT&Ts (and later Lucents) R&D organizations in India in the mid-90s, at a
time when offshore product development was just getting underway.

Sharad started his career with DCM Data Products in the companys software R&D group in New
Delhi, where he worked on developing UNIX server platforms based on the i86 architecture.
Later, he had a stint as an early-stage employee with an Apple-supported startup, where he
learned the hard way how the absence of marketing skills can derail even the best product
business.

Sharad holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering. He is currently
Chairman of video software startup Movico Technologies. He previously served as a Board
Director at Australian media venture Yahoo! and at BharatMatrimony, the worlds number-one
online matrimony site. Passionate about cloud computing, Sharad chairs the NASSCOM Product
Forum, actively mentors emerging enterprise startups, and speaks frequently on software
industry issues.

Mr. Suresh Sambandam

Founder & CEO, OrangeScape Platform as a Service

Suresh is the Founder & CEO of OrangeScape. OrangeScape is a pioneer in platform as a service
(PaaS) and is the only Indian company listed in research reports of Gartner and Forrester on
PaaS. OrangeScape's patent pending rule engine based PaaS platform enables entrepreneurs to
build scalable SaaS based business applications easily. OrangeScape was showcased as one of
the 3 emerging product companies in India by Nasscom and was also awarded 'Top IT
Innovations' for 2 consecutive years. OrangeScape's technology is being used by Global brands
like Citigroup, Pfizer, Unilever, AstraZeneca, Fullerton and 40 others.

After an initial entrepreneurial stint of 3 Yrs at the age of 19, he went on to work at Hewlett-
Packard. Later, Suresh joined Selectica and rose to senior position, as Director of e-Insurance
product division in a short-span. The e-Insurance division and its products were later acquired by
Accenture. Suresh is a technocrat specializing in product engineering with expertise in software
architecture for complex enterprise applications, inference engines, configuration engines, rule-
based computing and enterprise middleware. He has applied for multiple patents. Suresh is
passionate about entrepreneurship, technology startups and spends a significant amount of
personal time in the start-up ecosystem in Chennai. Suresh is a member of the National Council
for Emerging Companies Forum and also a core committee member of Product Forum at
NASSCOM. He also does mentoring for budding entrepreneurs at IIT Bombay, E-Cell. Suresh is a
regular speaker at various industry forums & academic institutions.

Mr. Alok Mittal

General Partner, Canaan Partners
With a broad range of hands-on experience founding, funding and supporting early-stage
technology companies, Alok Mittal joined Canaan in March 2006 to lead the firms India
operations. In India, Alok focuses on investments in digital media and mobile companies, as well
as innovators in managed software services.

Prior to Canaan, Alok was an entrepreneur and private investor, and was a founding member of
Indian Angel Network (formerly, Band of Angels India). Committed to working hand-in-hand with
entrepreneurs to build the next generation of successful Indian technology companies, Alok was
instrumental in Canaans investments in BharatMatrimony, the worlds largest consumer Internet
site for matrimonial services, and iYogi, which leverages the power of the Internet to offer high-
quality, low-cost tech support to global consumers, and Cellcast, Asias leading participation
content company.

Previously, Alok led the technology practice at Baring Private Equity Partners India, where he
focused on investments in software services, BPO, the Internet and telecom. He was also co-
founder of JobsAhead.com, a web-based recruitment business that was later acquired by
Monster.com. Previously, he worked for Hughes Software Systems, the leading provider of
telecom software and systems in India. He currently serves on the boards of Bharat Matrimony,
Cellcast, iYogi and UnitedLex. Alok earned a BE in computer science and engineering from the
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and a MS in computer science from UC Berkeley.

Dr. P. Gopalakrishnan
Vice President, IBM India Software Labs

Dr. P (Gopal) Gopalakrishnan has extensive global experience in the management of technology
development and innovation. He is currently the Vice President, IBM India Software Labs (ISL).
In this capacity he oversees product development and technology innovation efforts of a team of
several thousand engineers spread across five cities in India. The ISL is one of the largest such
development centers for IBM, with projects in all major software brands and systems products.

Prior to this role Dr. Gopalakrishnan was Director, Discovery Solutions in the Information
Management division of the IBMs Software Group, in which role he brought together key
capabilities in text analytics and data mining in the software product portfolio. Between 2003 and
2006 Dr. Gopalakrishnan was the Director of the IBM India Research Laboratory. In the role of
Director of the lab he managed a team of researchers in developing innovative technologies for
IBM products and services and addressing the unique issues faced by customers in the region.
During this time he was instrumental in setting up the efforts in services research at India
Research Lab which focuses on research and development of technologies to increase the
competitiveness of IBMs services organizations.

Dr. Gopalakrishnan received his Bachelors degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Maryland,
College Park, in 1986. Following this he joined IBM at the Thomas J. Watson Research Lab in
Yorktown Heights, NY and was part of the world-leading speech recognition effort at that lab for
many years. During this time he did seminal work in the area of search algorithms for speech
recognition and acoustic modeling for continuous speech recognition. Subsequently he was also
responsible for mobile and ubiquitous computing efforts in IBM Research.

Dr. Gopalakrishnan has received numerous awards from IBM during his tenure, including an
Outstanding Innovation Award and several Invention Achievement awards. He has over twenty
patents to his credit and has published extensively in peer reviewed technical conferences and
journals.
 Mr. Ashish Gupta
Co-Founder, Helion Venture Partners

Ashish Gupta is a co-founder of Helion Venture Partners and serves on the boards of Gridstone
Research, Jivox, Kirusa, MuSigma, Naukri.com, and SMS Gupshup. He has co-founded two
successful companies - Tavant Technologies and Junglee that pioneered comparison shopping on
the internet. He has also worked at Woodside Fund, Oracle Corporation and IBM research. His
investments include Daksh (IBM), Odesk, Obongo (AOL), Speedera (Akamai), MakeMyTrip,
Merittrac (Manipal Group), and Kaboodle (Hearst).

Ashish also serves on the Board of the Kauffman Fellows Program, the leading educational
fellowship in venture capital; and the Foundation for Excellence that promotes education in India.

Ashish is a Kauffman Fellow, holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University, and a
bachelor's degree from IIT Kanpur where he was awarded the President's Gold medal. He has
authored several patents, publications, and a book by MIT press.

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