SPEAKER PROFILES

Sanjit Sinha, Associate V.P., Research, 
IDC (India) Ltd.

Sanjit Sinha heads the research operations at IDC India. In his 12+ years of experience, Sanjit has spent 10+ years in market research, advisory and consulting practices across various business lines. In his 4-year stint at IDC India, he has spearheaded many new forays like establishing the IT channels research practice. Having spent a considerable amount of time in understanding the technology trends in enterprise computing, his views are well known amongst the IT community. He is quoted frequently in IT journals like Dataquest, Express Computer and Network Magazine to name a few.

Prior to joining IDC, Sanjit headed Industrial Market Research for South India at AC Nielsen-ORG MARG based out of Bangalore. Sanjit has also worked in Sales during the initial days of his career.

Sanjit is an engineer from Bengal Engineering College and holds an MBA degree from IISWBM, Kolkata, with specialisation in Marketing. 

Pallab Talukdar, Director - Enterprise Business
Dell India

Pallab is the Director for Enterprise Business in Dell India where is has the overall responsibility to manage and grow the entire portfolio of Dell’s Enterprise Products & Solutions. 

Pallab has close to 20 years of experience in the IT Industry and has served in various sales & marketing positions both in India as well as in Asia Pacific region.

Prior to joining Dell, Pallab was Director – Marketing & Alliances in the Technology Solutions Group in HP India. Earlier he had managed HP’s Business Critical Servers and Compaq’s portfolio of Servers & Storage. In his regional role he had helped develop the Storage business for Compaq. Overall Pallab had been with Compaq-HP for the past 12 years in various sales, marketing and business development roles both within India and at Asia Pacific. 

Pallab had started his career in the IT industry with Wipro Infotech, where in a career spanning over 7 years, he held various positions in sales and marketing.

Pallab holds a Bachelors Degree in Electronics & Communications Engineering from IIT Kharagpur and Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM Calcutta.

Pallab is based out of Bangalore. His hobbies include reading & traveling.