IDC’s India Security and Business Continuity Vision 2007 Secure to the Core Infrastructure for Business Resilience
Conference
Pune - Sun N Sand - 7th February 2007
Hyderabad - ITC Hotel Kakatiya Sheraton & Towers - 13th February 2007
Bangalore - The Leela
- 15th February 2007
Chennai - Chola Sheraton
- 16th February 2007
Kolkata - Hyatt Regency - 27th February 2007
Praveen Sengar Assistant Manager, Software and Services Research, IDC India
Praveen Sengar heads the Software and Services market research at IDC India and manages the business and operations of the software and services research group. He is responsible for market analysis research and identifying opportunities across the Packaged Software market. He handles the Packaged Software market tracker and customized research for IDC in India.
Praveen has worked with organizations such as Lowe Lintas in brand management and Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals in marketing.
Praveen graduated from the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University with a Master’s Degree in International Business (specializing in International Marketing).
Arun Rao
Business Manager, Client Virtualization, PSG, HP India
Business Manager, Client Virtualization, PSG, HP India Arun Rao is the Business Manager, Client Virtualization, Personal Systems Group, Hewlett-Packard India. He has worked in HP and Pre-Merger Compaq for six and half years.
Previous to this he was based with HP Compaq where he held the Product Management position for Commercial Desktop Category. He has also held charge as the Product Manager for the Commercial Notebooks category for hp.
Prior to his association with HP, Arun has worked with HCL, where he was associated with sales and marketing in the Mumbai market for a span of three years.
Arun is a Civil Engineer from the Regional Engineering College, Durgapur and a MBA from Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar.
Chandrahas Panigrahi Product Manager, Commercial Desktop Category, PSG, HP India
Chandrahas Panigrahi is the Product Manager, Commercial Desktop Category, Personal Systems Group, Hewlett-Packard India. He has worked in HP and Pre-Merger Compaq for almost 7 years
Currently he manages Transactional Line of desktops and Commercial Desktop Future Product strategy.
Prior to his association with HP Commercial Desktops, Chandrahas has worked with L&T ECC Group, where he was associated with Project Management in Mumbai and Chennai for a span of one and a half years.
Chandrahas is a Civil Engineer from the University College Engineering, and a MBA from Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar.
Yatin Purohit
Manager, Technical Sales, Microsoft India
Yatin Purohit is National Manager for Security, Management and Storage Solution Sales at Microsoft. Yatin and his team work with enterprise customers and public sector to foster secure well-managed infrastructure solutions that deliver operational efficiency. Yatin has over 14 years of experience in IT industry having worked in USA, Europe and Asia as a consultant for various enterprise and government projects. Prior to joining Microsoft, Yatin was the head of SV Novel worldwide business, a Microsoft partner in Enterprise Project Management and Office Collaboration. He is a certified HIPAA consultant and a member of PMI.
Avinash Pandey, Lead Consultant, IBM India
Avinash is a key member of Security and Privacy services team at IBM. He has over 8 years of IT consulting experience globally, primarily in the area of IT Security and Risk Management. As a lead consultant for IBM Security Services offerings, Avinash works with IBM customers across India for development and implementation of their IT Governance and Security initiatives. He has led several IT security engagements for very large corporate clients (both in India and US) from Oil, Banking & Finance, Telecom, Cargo and Airlines, Software services & BPOs, and Dotcom sectors. Avinash is an electronics engineer and holds a post graduate diploma in Telecom Management. He is also a Certified Information System Auditor (‘CISA’), Certified Information System Security Professional ('CISSP') and holds ITIL’s Foundation Certificate in IT-Service Management.
Shankarnarayan Dharmarajan, Lead Consultant, IBM India
Shankarnarayan, Certified Information System Manager (‘CISM’), GIAC-GSec, ABCP, CWNA, CCNP, is a key member of Security and Privacy services team at IBM. He has over 8 years of IT consulting experience, primarily in the area of IT Security and Risk Management. As a lead consultant for IBM Security Services offerings, Shankarnarayan works with IBM customers across India for development and implementation of their IT Governance and Security initiatives. He has led several IT security engagements for very large corporate clients from Banking & Finance, ITES, Software services & BPOs, and Dotcom sectors.
Dhruv Khanna, Consultant, IBM India
Dhruv is a key member of Security and Privacy services team at IBM. He has over 6 years of IT consulting experience, primarily in the area of IT Security, Risk Management and security architecture. As a lead consultant for IBM Security Services offerings, Dhruv works with IBM customers across India for development and implementation of their IT Governance and Security initiatives. He has led several IT security engagements for very large corporate clients from Banking & Finance, ITES, Software services & BPOs, and Dotcom sectors.
Vikram Gidwani
Vikram Gidwani is the National Lead for Tivoli Security, working with IBM Software Group, IBM India.
Vikram has around 9 years of experience in the IT and Telecommunications industry, out of which more than 6 years have b around various Security Technologies.
Vikram has in the past worked with large organizations like RSA Security (recently acquired by EMC), Wipro Limited & SIFY.
In his current role Vikram drives the Security Management portfolio across the country and provides sales and consulting support across India for the Tivoli family of security management products.
