Shri Anil Kaushal
Member - Technology, Telecom Commission, DoT
Ministry of Communications & IT, Govt. of India

As Member of the Telecom Commission responsible for taking key decisions for an inclusive growth inclusive growth of all segments of the Telecom Industry and steering the same for proper implementation in a time bound manner. Responsible for providing overall direction to Policy Making, Licensing Framework, Introduction of New Technologies and Services & Formulation of Telecom Standards. Some key areas are:

• Wireless Planning & Coordination Wing - Periodic up-gradation of NFAP to facilitate introduction of
  new technologies & Services, Reframing for optimal utilization etc.
• Telecom Engineering Centre - Formulation of Specifications, Type Approvals, Mandatory Testing of
  Telecom Equipment, Laying down Standards etc.
• Telecom Enforcements Resource Management (TERM) - Enforcement of Radiation Standards for meeting
  the international laid down EHS standards by the Operators. Formulation of National Guidelines & procedures
  for implementing them pertaining to installation of new towers as well as the existing ones.
• Security of National Telecom Network - Formulation & implementation of security related requirements
  for Mobile, Broadband IT services in the country.
• Telecom Licensing - Framing of Guidelines, Procedures & Agreement conditions for Unified Licensing,
  Merger & Acquisitions & Spectrum Trading etc.

As Vice Chairman, Governing Council - Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DoT), a Govt. of India initiative to outline and steer the way forward for identifications & Development of New Telecom Technologies & Equipment for Domestic production and implementation.

Mr. Adrian Scrase
CTO
ETSI

Adrian Scrase played a central role in the creation of the "3rd Generation Partnership Project" (3GPP) and is responsible for the operations of the 3GPP Project Co-ordination Group. He heads 3GPPs' Mobile Competence Centre (MCC) which is an International team of 20 experts who provide comprehensive support to the Project.

He was also principally involved in the formation of the recently created "oneM2M" Partnership Project and oversees ETSI's support to that initiative.

He is CTO within ETSI with operational responsibility for all of ETSI's standards production activities. He has more than 30 years experience in the telecommunications field, which includes 25 years of experience in standardization.

Mr. Shyam P. Mardikar
Chief - Strategy, Architecture & Engineering
Bharti Airtel

Shyam Mardikar is Chief of Strategy, Architecture and Engineering for Bharti Airtel. In his current role, he is responsible for transforming the network architecture to a next generation, mobile broad band enabled, data services centric network. He is also instrumental in driving the overall strategy on the technology standards across different domains to ensure sustaining Airtel's leadership position on the technology front and set the benchmark standards for the industry.

Prior to joining Airtel, Shyam was Chief Technology Officer for Lebara group, based out of London where he was responsible for implementation & execution of the Company's technology strategy and aligning the Technology Vision with the Business Strategy across its 7 countries.

Shyam started his career with C-DOT as a software research engineer and held various operational and management positions in DoT and Airtel in his earlier stints. He was also a member of GSMA's executive management committee and currently sits on the technology committee of COAI.

Dr. Sumit D. Chowdhury
President - Enterprise Business
Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd.

Dr. Sumit D. Chowdhury is a multifaceted business and technical leader, having worked in leadership roles in Reliance Industries, IBM, Reliance ADAG, BearingPoint and KPMG in US, Australia and India. An M.S. and Ph.D. in Management from Carnegie Mellon and B.Tech from IIT Kanpur, he brings a wealth of practical experience from his personal life and career. Sumit was on the Board of Directors of TeleManagement Forum (TMF) and also the founder of Digital Bridge Foundation.

Apart from his professional career, he is also a marathon runner, cyclist, musician and an exhibited abstract artist. He is an angel investor and mentor for several technology and services startup companies in India. He also supports various philanthropic causes involving education and children. He is the author of a career management book titled 'Rules of the Game' that brings several insights for young professionals to fast-track their life meaningfully.

Mr. Arvind Bali
CEO
Videocon

A technically accomplished and competent luminary of the Indian corporate world, with nearly 30 years of rich cross functional experience, Mr. Arvind Bali is instrumental in taking Videocon - one of the most-loved consumer brands in India, to stratospheric heights.

One of the few astute industry professionals whose reputation precedes him, Mr. Arvind Bali is presently the Director and CEO of Videocon Telecom along with holding the additional office of being the CEO of Global CPT - Videocon Industries Limited.

While Videocon Telecom was in its nascent stages, Mr. Bali was assigned the responsibility of executing Videocon's plans to venture in the emerging telecom business in India. Mr. Bali's sharp business acumen was demonstrated through his well calculated business move which enabled Videocon to garner critical space in the Indian telecom market by being one amongst the top five players to get the telecom licenses.

Shri Vipin Tyagi
Director & Member of Board
Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT)

Vipin Tyagi is Innovation and Business Leader from Information Technology and Telecommunication Industry for over 3 decades. He had founded and led a Company in private sector working in area of broadband & telecom for 12 year as Board Member and Global CEO. He has developed global business through companies in India, Japan, Australia, USA and Europe. He has actively worked towards Research and Development of large systems, Organizational Development and creation of high erformance teams. In October, 2009, Vipin decided to promote National level R&D and joined C-DOT as Director.

He has worked on World's first VoD System, India's first indigenous G-PON Development, C-DOT Exchanges and Indigenous Message Switching System. He has been involved in Development of over 35 Products in area of Enterprise and Telecommunications Industry. He has worked in C-DOT, ECIL, Siemens Information Systems Ltd. and Network Programs Group of Companies. Presently he is involved in projects like NOFN, Network Security which are of strategic importance to the Country.

He completed his education in Master of Technology (Computer Science and Engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT, Delhi) and Bachelor of Electronics & Communication Engineering and Post Graduate Diploma in Management.

Mr. Vikram Tiwathia
Associate Director General
Cellular Operators Association of India

Vikram, is an Associate Director General, at the COAI. This is India's leading industry association on Telecom and Broadband. In his current assignment, he works extensively on telecom and Broadband Policy and regulatory aspects. He has close interactions with Senior Government staff and private sector executives to further augment mobile and broadband service business. He interacts extensively with the ICT industry leadership and senior officials at DoT, DeitY & TRAI and other government offices for regulatory and policy matters. Is an active member of CII, FICCI, Assocham, ITU APT Telecom & Broadband Committees.

He was the Chief Regulatory Relations, with TATA Teleservices Limited from 2008-10. Earlier he was with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) as their Chief Information Officer (CIO) for three years (2005-2008). Prior to that, he served in the communications arm (Signals) of the Indian Army (for a tenure of 24 years), from where he took voluntary retirement in 2005 in the rank of Colonel.

Vikram did his Masters in Technology from the IIT Kharagpur in Electronics and Communication Engineering with a specialization in Microwave Engineering.

Mr. Dinesh Chand Sharma
SESEI - Seconded European Standardization Expert in India
Director - Standardization, Policy and Regulation

Mr. Dinesh Chand Sharma is presently working in the capacity of Director - Standardization, Policy and Regulation for an European Project on Standards known as SESEI, which stands for "Seconded European Standardization Expert in India" and acting as the focal point in India for European standards organization (European Telecommunications Standards Institute" - ETSI, European Committee for Standardization - CEN and European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization - CENELEC).

Prior to this, Mr. Sharma has worked with Ericsson for 15 years with last profile of "Director - Regulatory Affairs & Industry Relation". Mr. Sharma began his career in Customer Support way-back in 1992 and has 22 years of total industry experience.

Mr. Sharma has an academic base of "Bachelor's degree in Electronics", Diploma with highest honour in Business Management from Stratford Institute, Washington DC/ USA and a SUN certification.

Mr. Puneet Garg
Vice President - Networks
Bharti Airtel Limited

Mr. Puneet Garg is a B.E. in Electronics from Allahabad University and has over 20 years of rich experience in Network Operations, Pre-Sales, Sales and Marketing in Telecom Industry. Puneet has worked extensively in India and in Asia Pacific region with companies such as Lucent Technologies, Measat Broadcast and HCL Technologies.

He worked extensively in providing consultancy to operators such as PT Telkom in Indonesia, StarHub and Singtel in Singapore, Astro in Malaysia and Telstra in Australia on Broadband and IP related services.

Currently he is Vice President Networks in Bharti Airtel Ltd.

Mr. Derek Long
Principle Consultant - LTE
Ericsson India

Derek Long is Principle Consultant - LTE in Ericsson India. Derek's stint with Ericsson began in 1996 in Germany, where he worked on introducing mobile data services. He then shifted to Ericsson's headquarters in Sweden.

Derek has over 20 years of experience of working across various telecom markets. Whilst at Ericsson, Derek has worked on projects with several major global operators, spanning across geographies and technologies. Prior to joining Ericsson, he has worked in Mannesmann D2 in Germany (now known as Vodafone D2) in the Operations department. Before that, he was a researcher at ENST de Bretagne in France and the University of Bristol in the UK.

Derek holds a Ph D in Power Efficient Personal Communications which concentrates on modulation schemes for Mobile Telephony. During the span of his career, he has worked on several technologies, including LTE, multi-standard radio, IP multimedia systems (IMS) and the transport technologies microwave and fibre. Today, as Principle Consultant his responsibilities include promoting Ericsson 4G and small cell products and solutions.

Mr. Sandeep Kapoor
Country Director (India & SAARC Region)
JDSU

Sandeep has been part of IT and Telecom industry for over 2 decades. At JDSU, he is responsible for driving business operations and customer relationships for India & SAARC region. Before heading India region, Sandeep was Director of Sales for Service Assurance business for Asia Pac. In his 3 years with JDSU, he has been responsible for defining & executing Growth Strategy, continually looking at improving brand image & enabling operational excellence.

Prior to JDSU, Sandeep worked with Agilent Technologies, as Head of Business Development & Strategic Marketing for South Asia Pac region. He played key role in positioning of solutions for un-tapped & new market segments, creating multi-million dollar business opportunities.

He has also worked with Reliance Communications, successfully establishing & managing Enterprise Business. At RCOM, his contribution has been significant for growing Wireless Data VPN business.

During his stint with WIPRO Technologies, Sandeep headed Offshore business for customers like Lucent & Motorola.

Sandeep holds Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM Calcutta and B. Tech. in Electronics & Telecommunications.

Mr. Ramarao Anil
Head - Product Support, Development and Applications
Rohde & Schwarz - India

Ramarao Anil is the Head - Product Support, Development and Applications at Rohde & Schwarz - India. Working at Rohde & Schwarz Bangalore office for the past 10 Years. He is Responsible for Product Support and Application support for the entire Rohde & Schwarz, Test & Measurement Product range throught India. He is also responsible for the India R&D Centre.India R&D Centre is undertaking customer projects for Customised test case development. These Test Cases are focused on Protocol Stack verification on all Mobile technologies.

Anil has a Masters Degree in Telecom Management and has overall work experience of 25 Years in the Test & Measurement Industry. He has Expertise in RF& Microware testing, Mobile Technologies - Physical Layer. He is one of the Rohde & Schwarz Certified Trainer, offering trainings in the Telecom Domain, to Internal Teams and Customers.

Mr. Sanjay Sharma
Regional Vice President & Head - South West Asia
Amdocs

Mr. Sanjay Sharma serves as Head of Applications and Software Division at Huawei Telecommunications (India) Co. Pvt. Ltd. Mr. Sharma has been Regional Vice President and Head of South West Asia Region at Amdocs Limited since October 2012. Mr. Sharma assumes overall responsibility over Amdocs business with all operators in this region. He has over 21 years of experience in the Telecom and IT industry in Global companies like IBM Global Services, Huawei, Samsung and Multitech. He spent almost three years with Huawei Telecommunications leading their carries software and core network business and 3 years with Samsung. He served at IBM Global Services working across the Asia Pacific region.

He has worked on various assignments in the Solutions sales and marketing field, for the Indian and Asia-Pacific market with various Telecom customers. He served at Multi Tech Computers, handling the channel sales function there. He is an active member of various telecom forums and computer societies globally. He has undergone professional training in Harvard Business School on strategy, sales and marketing methodologies. Mr. Sharma holds a bachelor degree in telecommunications and an MBA.

Dr. S. Hariharan
Vice President - Network
Uninor, Design & Development Group, Gurgaon

Dr. S Hariharan is the Vice President, Network at Uninor. With over 33 years experience, Dr Hariharan has in-depth experience in various facets of Telecom sector. Dr. Hariharan has served in R&D (Telecom Research Centre, DoT, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Technology, Loughborough, Lucent Bell Labs, Bangalore); in planning & Development (MTNL-Delhi, Qatar Public Telecommunications Services-Doha, Qatar; Madurai Telecommunications-DoT; Tata Teleservices Limited-Hyderabad & Kolkata) and in Operations (Madurai Telecommunications-DoT; Tata Teleservices Limited-Hyderabad & Kolkata); Tata Communications Limited-Delhi. Circle Technical Head, Uninor, UP(W) and Mumbai Circles.

Dr. Hariharan has completed his Ph.D in Digital Mobile Communications from University of Technology, Loughborough, UK. He is a Masters in Microwave Communications, University of Delhi and Graduation in Electrical & Electronics Engineering, University of Delhi. He holds Advance Diploma in French from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.

Dr. Hariharan is a Commonwealth Scholarship awardee by the UK Government to pursue advance Research in Digital Communication at the Loughborough University of Technology, UK.

Mr. Mombasawala Mohmedsaeed
General Manager (Applications), Electronics Measurement Group
Agilent India

Mr. Mohmedsaeed Mombasawala is General Manager (Application) for Electronics Measurement Group at Agilent Technologies, India. He is based out of Delhi.

In his current role, Mr. Mombasawala heads country wide support operations for Agilent India with his team of experts located in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad. His business focus areas are measurement solutions for customers in Aerospace, Defense, Design & Validation and Wireless Network segments.

Mr. Mombasawala has over 24 years of experience in the telecommunications and data communications industry with positions previously held at GCEL, NIT Surat and CDOT. Together with his technical application and business skills, hehas a very strong consultancy, Hardware design, project management and system engineering back ground.

Mr. Mombasawala graduated from the NIT Surat in 1990 with a Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics) Degree. He has done his PGDBM from IGNOU (Delhi) in 2000.

Mr. Deepak Halan
Associate Professor at the School Of Management Sciences
Apeejay Stya University

Deepak Halan is currently working as Associate Professor at the School Of Management Sciences, Apeejay Stya University. He has served as visiting faculty at various reputed institutes such as: NIFT, IIM Indore, IIFT, Pearl Academy, amongst others.

He has more than 18 years of experience spanning across academics, sales, market strategy, consumer and business research, below-the-line activities and online brand consultancy. Has provided strategic marketing consultancy to clients across diverse sectors such as IT, Telecom, FMCG, Govt., Automotive, Healthcare, Media etc. and managed quantitative and qualitative studies. Deepak has researched and published more than 80 articles and papers on diverse subjects such as market research, retailing, advertising, promotions, entertainment, telecom, sports marketing, green marketing, marketing to kids etc. These papers have been published in various reputed journals & magazines such as Indian Management, Journal of Education Technology, Businessworld, Effective Executive, Advertising Express, Quality World, Business Standard etc. Some of his articles have been published as case studies in reference/text books.

Deepak's views and opinion have been quoted in several leading newspapers, magazines and TV channels - such as Economic Times, Mint, NDTV Profit etc. He has also presented papers at several eminent industry conferences (apart from academic conferences) such as Mobile VAS Growth Markets (Dubai, 09), VAS Asia (New Delhi, 2011) and chaired the LTE Asia Summit (New Delhi 2011) amongst others.