August 5^th, 2010

07:00 pm - 7:30 pmRegistration

07:30 pm - 8:15 pmNetworking, Cocktails and Snacks

08:15 pm - 09:30 pmProgram Discussion: Thunderstorm in the Cloud: The Great Integration Challenge of Cloud Computing

09:30 pm - 09:45 pmQ & A

09:45 pm - 10:15 pmNetworking

Cloud Computing in Detail
 

Integration is one of the ugly sides of cloud computing and one of the technology's biggest challenges. However, integration issues can be addressed with proper tools, planning and good technology. You have to consider the fundamentals of integration first, including the ability to connect with both source and target systems, such as Salesforce.com and SAP, or Amazon EC2 and Oracle, and then how to extract data from the source system, mediate the semantics and technical differences, and publish the data to the target.

Of course, although cloud-to-enterprise integration is the typical pattern, we're now seeing cloud-to-cloud integration as well, plus very complex integration paths that can span dozens of on-premise and/or cloud computing-based systems. These patterns of integration are going to become more complex as cloud computing becomes more pervasive. There are a few ways to address this integration need, including software-based on-premise integration tools, on-premise appliance-based integration tools, and the cloud-delivered integration tools. This event presents and discusses one of the key challenges of cloud computing, which is integration. One of the fundamental issues facing CIO and technology professionals today is meshing the public and private cloud infrastructures, including the application layer. The panel will be composed of luminaries from the technology industry, successful venture investors from the Indian venture capital world as well as IT professionals from companies in India that are facing the integration challenges head on and competing in this space to win customers.

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 Canaan's 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). 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&T (and later Lucent Technologies' 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 company's 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 world's 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.

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. He is a member of the National Council for Emerging Companies Forum and also a core committee member of Product Forum at NASSCOM also does mentoring for budding entrepreneurs at IIT Bombay and E-Cell. Suresh is a regular speaker at various industry forums & academic institutions.