SPEAKER PROFILES - 2nd Lecture Series:
| Dr. Whitfield Diffie Dr. Whitfield Diffie is considered the father of public key encryption cryptography which underlies the security of internet commerce and all modern secure communication systems. For this he was awarded a Doctorate in Technical Sciences (Honoris Causa) by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1992 and was recently inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame (USA) in Washington D.C. Dr. Diffie received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also holds two doctorates, one of which is from University of London, where he’s also a visiting professor. He published the well-known Diffie-Hellman paper on Cryptography in 1976 which introduced a radically new method solved one of the fundamental problems of distributing cryptographic keys. Public Key Cryptography, the most revolutionary concept invented in encryption, is a method for securing electronic communication that is now considered vital to security on the Internet, especially for ecommerce transactions. The solution is now known as Diffie–Hellman key exchange. After leaving Stanford University in the late 1970s, Dr. Diffie became Manager of Secure Systems Research for Bell-Northern Research. In 1991, he moved to Sun Microsystems, where he was Vice-President, Sun Fellow, and Chief Security Officer until 2009. Dr. Diffie is currently serving as the Vice President for Information Security and Cryptography at ICANN and is a Scientific Advisor to Uniken Inc. In addition, he is a Visiting Scholar at Stanford, a Visiting Professor at Royal Holloway, University of London, a fellow of the Marconi Foundation and visiting fellow of the Isaac Newton Institute. Since 1993, Dr. Whitfield Diffie has also worked to a large degree in public policy, in the areas of cryptography, security and privacy. He has testified several times before both the U.S. House Senate. His position – in opposition to limitations on the business and personal use of cryptography, has been the subject of articles in the New York Times Magazine, Wired, Omni and Discover. This subject has also been covered on the Discovery Channel, Equinox TV in Britain, and the Japanese TV network NHK. He has been the recipient of multiple awards from Electronic Frontiers Foundation, IEEE, Franklin Institute, NIST and NSA, in for inventing the Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol and his contribution to theory and practice in computer science, and quality of life in cyberspace. Dr. Diffie and Susan Landau's book “Privacy on the Line: The politics of wiretapping and encryption” was published in 1998 has won the Donald McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communications Policy Research. Dr. Whitfield Diffie is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Uniken and this is his second visit to India. |
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Mr. SANJAY DESHPANDE After obtaining a Masters degree in Computer Science, from University of New Brunswick, Canada, Sanjay worked as a Scientist with Center for Development of Advance Computing (the R&D Center that developed India's first super computer PARAM), and Tata Research Center (an R&D division of Tata Consultancy Services) in their Imaging and Pattern Recognition Group. Subsequently, Sanjay joined Infosys Technologies (a leading technology consulting firm), where he was first heading their Mobile Computing initiative for the Europe Division and later headed the business development effort for their Life Sciences Division in the US. Wanting to solve problems that impact lives, Sanjay started UNIKEN in 2003 with four other like-minded professionals who wanted to build a world class innovation driven ecosystem with the freedom to dream. Sanjay has several scientific publications and patents to his credit, and has been working on symbolic representation schemes, its theory and applications to various technology problems. He takes active interest in teaching and leads the UNIKEN New Business Group apart from various other executive management responsibilities.Besides authoring whitepapers and articles, Sanjay is also a regular speaker on the circuit and has addressed select audiences (business and industry leaders, policy and decision makers, academics, researchers and more) at INTEROP Mumbai, Cyber Security Seminar by PHD Chamber of Commerce and Ministry of IT, Govt. of India and IBA’s Banking Security Summit among others. |
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SPEAKER PROFILES - 1st Lecture Series:
| Dr. Yogesh Ramesh Kulkarni is the Executive Director of Vigyan Ashram, in Pabal Dist. Pune. He has developed a unique program - 'Rural Development through Education System (RDES), which integrates 'Education' and 'Rural Development'. The program is implemented in formal schools as well as in non-formal centers - across 72 schools in 17 districts of Maharashtra and Karnataka to be precise, involving more than 6000 students. Dr. Kulkarni has been heading this unique initiative since 2003, and has contributed to turning many dropout students into entrepreneurs and inventors. Recipient of multiple awards, he has been felicitated by the World Bank for establishing this 'Rural entrepreneurs network'. In fact, the first FABLAB set up by Massachusetts Institute of Technology outside the United States, was in Vigyan Ashram, which Dr. Kulkarni has been heading ever since. He has done Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering, Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration, MA and Ph.D in Educational communication. He has also done a Certificate course in German language from Max Muller Bhavan. After completing his education, Dr. Kulkarni has worked as a project leader in the use of ICT for educating nomadic tribes - a project that won the UNESCO award in the 'non-formal education' category in 2008. |
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| Mr. Pranay Gupta is the Joint CEO at the Center for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE, IIM-Ahmedabad), leading this incubator to become one of the foremost organisations in early stage incubation in India. Mr. Gupta has been instrumental in setting up and scaling various programs at CIIE, including iAccelerator and MentorEdge. During his tenure, CIIE has incubated more than 35 startups. He is a board member on many of these Initiatives, and is a board observer to more than 15 startups, where he helps them with setting up internal processes, deciding their business startegy, networking, and reaching out to the right kind of people. Mr. Gupta has worked with Lehman Brothers and Nomura, leading Investment Banks and helped them set up their India equity practice. He has also worked with promoters in a variety of fields including data analysis, luxury adventure tourism and educational magazine. Mr. Gupta enjoys creating opportunities for students to get involved in entrepreneurship through courses, projects, and internships, and is passionate about building organisations from ground up. |
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| Mr.Sujay Nair is the Editor-in-Chief and CEO of Enigma Interactive - a 'new' media company with interests in the CIO, CFO, SME, HR and Creative designs areas. He has served as the Editorial Director at 9.9 Media and Jasubhai Digital Media, managing their CIO, Channel Community and other B2B portfolios. In a career spanning over 20 years, Mr. Nair has worked as a CIO at Bell Canada and Protech Solutions in Canada and Middle East, and with large IT conglomerates such as Caldera Technologies, IBM and Protech Solutions across Middle East, US and Europe. His interest in journalism helped in a career shift from technology to technology media and he has been key in introducing the first ever media property for the CIO community in India. He is a Computer Science engineer from Bangalore University and holds an MBA degree from University of Portsmouth, UK. Mr. Nair is doing his PHD in Artificial Intelligence and is attached to University of Waterloo. |
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| Samir Karande has more than 15 years of product development and outsourcing experience. Earlier at Persistent Systems, he managed operations for the Telecom Business unit with more than 1,000 people working across globe. Then, he incubated Mobile & Wireless Business unit which he grew to 300 people in couple of years as head of the business unit. Prior to Persistent Systems, he helped Comverse in defining award winning mobile messaging platform, deployed with multiple tier-1 carriers across the world. Mr. Karande has been active in multiple standards bodies and helped define multiple RFCs and standards at W3C and IETF committees. Prior to Comverse, he helped Lernout & Hauspie, a world leader in speech products, in defining and launching next-generation natural language processing (NLP) product suite. Mr. Karande holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering from India and Masters Degree in Computer Science from Boston University. |
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| Dr. D. K. Abhyankar is the Chair Professor - S.L. Kirloskar Chair & Member BCUD, and Senior Advisor to Science and Technology Park, University of Pune. He was earlier the Director General with Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture (MCCIA), Chairman of Pune Stock Exchange Ltd. and a Director General with CREDAI - PUNE Promoter and Builders Association. Dr. Abhyankar did his Graduation in Law from ILS Law College, Diploma in Business Management from Poona University with Distinction, post graduation in Commerce from BMCC Pune University, post graduation in Management Science, Poona University with Distinction, and holds a Ph.D. Degree from University of Pune. He is also an associate member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, and the Inst. of Internal Auditors of India. Dr. Abhyankar has a varied experience of 28 years in both private and public sector and has presented papers on a wide spectrum of subjects - from Legal, Foreign Trade, Taxation and Audit, to Marketing, General Management, HRM and Business Development. |
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| Dr. Nikhil Agarwal is an international expert on ICT & Development, Internet Governance and eGovernance. He is currently serving as Director of Europe Asia Business School in Pune. Other than his full time responsibilities, he serves on various international & national committees on ICT & IG. He is a High-Level-Adviser to United Nation's Global Alliance on ICT & Development and was nominated at council of experts of International Commission on Workforce Development. He is a sitting board member of World Entrepreneurship Forum (WEF) and served as Co-Chair of Internet Society (ISOC) advisory council. Dr. Agarwal has published more than 35 papers in international journals such as IEEE & many articles, research notes in various business magazines. He has more than 14 years of teaching experience at institutes such as University of Cambridge (UK), University of Bradford (UK) and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (US). Dr. Agarwal has an M.Phil in Technology Policy from the Cambridge-MIT Institute, University of Cambridge, UK, and a Doctorate in Management from Institute of Management Technology (IMT), India. He is also the recipient of several awards including Sir Dorabji Tata Trust Award, Cambridge Trust Award. |
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| Dr. Arvind Shaligram is the Professor and Head, Department of Electronic Science at University of Pune. He has a professional experience of more than 25 years and his main fields of research interest are Embedded systems and VLSI design, Optolectronic sensors and systems, Wireless Sensor Networks, Simulation software development, Biomedical Instrumentation and sensors, PC/ Microcontroller based instrumentation, e-learning resource development. Dr. Shaligram has published more than 200 research papers in National/ International Journals and conference proceedings. He has completed 22 research projects funded by various funding agencies in India as Principal or co-investigator. Dr. Shaligram also works as Industrial Consultant to several companies in the fields of electronics, embedded systems, instrumentation and automation, optics and Information Technology. |
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