Short-Bio: Dr. Bhuvan Unhelkar (BE, MDBA, MSc, PhD; FACS) has 26+ years of strategic as well as hands-on professional experience in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and their application to business and management. He has notable international consulting and training expertise in software engineering (modelling, processes and quality), information architecture, service-oriented architecture, enterprise globalisation, web services and mobile business. His domain expertise includes Telecommunications, Governance, Finance and Banking. He earned his Doctorate in the area of "object orientation" from the University of Technology, Sydney. He leads the mobile research group at the University of Western Sydney, where he is also an adjunct Associate Professor. He has practiced and trained business executives and ICT professionals around the world, taught in universities and authored 12 books (+currently completing 2) in the areas of Global Information Systems, Mobile Business, Software Excellence and Business Process Re-engineering. He is Fellow of the Australian Computer Society, Life member of the Computer Society of India and a Rotarian at St. Ives in Sydney.

Short-Bio: Dr. Swapna S. Gokhale is Associate Professor in the Dept. of Comp. Science and Engineering at the University of Connecticut. Prior to joining UConn, she was a Research Scientist at Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bell Communications Research). She received her B.E. (Hons.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, and Computer Science from the BITS, Pilani, India. She received M.S. and Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Duke University in 1996 and 1998 respectively. Her research interests include software testing and reliability, Quality of Service issues in wireless and wireline networks and Voice-over-IP. She received the Best Paper awards at Intl. Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) in 1998 and at Intl. Conference on Reliability and Safety Engineering (INCRESE) in 2005. She is a Senior Member of the IEEE. She received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to conduct research in the area of architecture-based software reliability assessment in January 2007.

Short-Bio: Shivani Arora is a Distinguished member of Technical Staff at Alcatel-Lucent where she has worked since 2005. Currently she leads a team of Subject Matter Experts in India Product Realization Centre. Earlier she has worked as the Solution Architect for CDMA OAM network and provided technical guidance to EVDO RNC development on retrofit, security, reliability and system integrity. She has also worked as System Engineer for 3G1x RNC. Before this job, she has worked in CDOT, the technology development wing of Government of India, for 16 years, on ISDN, V5.2 and GSM products. Her areas of interest are communication protocols, software architecture and software design. She received her B.E. in Computer Science and Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India, in 1987 and her M.Tech. in Computer Technology from IIT New Delhi. She is a member of IEEE and has published a paper in Bell Labs Technical Journal.

Short-Bio: Dr. Veena B. Mendiratta is a Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Alcatel-Lucent where she has worked since 1984 (formerly AT&T, then Lucent) and is currently a member of the Chief Technology Office. Her work is focused on the reliability and performance analysis for telecommunications systems products, networks, services to guide system architecture and architecting reliable IMS solutions. Veena has a B.Tech in Engineering from IIT-Delhi, India and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA. Veena has presented tutorials and papers at several IEEE conferences including RAMS, DSN, ISAS, DRCN and ISSRE over the last 20 years.

Short-Bio: Graduate in Electrical engg from Bangalore university and post-graduate certificate in software engg and telecom from Illinois Institute of technology, Chicago. Jayanta previously worked for 9-yrs at Infosys in telecom domain and presently is working for the HP Open call business as a project manager. He has been leading development and deployment activities on Opencall IN and media platforms.

Short-Bio: Post Graduation in Software Systems Management (GNIIT) from NIIT Ltd along with Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) from Haryana University. Neelesh has extensive experience on Product integration, support and management of media platforms in legacy and next gen telecom networks. Currently works for the HP Opencall business as a Solution Architect for Media platform.

Short-Bio: Banibrata has spent a little over 11 years in the Telecom industry in the areas of MAX-XL switch's ISDN Call-processing & switch-admin groups, HA/FT framework for SS7 stack, HA'fied the MTP3 layer, SCTP user-land implementation, while participating in SCTP standardization and worked on a Wireless Gateway for AT&T, Call-control/ISDN logic for a multi-service ATM-core switch, AIN0.1 implementation, Push-To-Talk, SIP-Plugin, Next-Gen SCP, CAMEL/INAP/WIN layers and Real-time charging gateway.

Short-Bio: He has spent last 10 years of his career in various technology and business domains in multiple organizations. He has experience of Charging, Mediation and VAS (Value Added Services) and played various roles in maintaining, evolving and customizing multiple HP products in related domain and Convergent Charging and VAS platform bundled together and is a prime HP OpenCall offering in charging space.

Short-Bio: Dr. Naik is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada. His research interests include computer network protocols, wireless communication, mobile computing, sensor networks, peer-to-peer networks, energy cost modeling of wireless applications, intelligent transportation systems, and testing of communication protocol and software systems. He was a guest editor of the June 2005 and January 2007 issues of the IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications. Now he is serving as an associate editor of the International Journal of Peer-to-Peer Networks and Architecture (PPNA) and the International Journal of Parallel, Emergent, and Distributed Systems (IJPEDS). He has co-authored (with Dr. Piyu Tripathy at NEC Laboratories) the book entitled Software Testing and Quality Assurance: Theory and Practice, published by John Wiley, Hoboken, USA, August 2008.

Short-Bio: Pascal Lorenz (lorenz@ieee.org) received a PhD degree from the University of Nancy, France. Between 1990 and 1995 he was a research engineer at WorldFIP Europe and at Alcatel-Alsthom. He is a professor at the University of Haute-Alsace and responsible of the Network and Telecommunication Research Group. His research interests include QoS, wireless networks and high-speed networks. He was the Program and Organizing Chair of the IEEE ICATM'98, ICATM'99, ECUMN'00, ICN'01, ECUMN'02 and ICT'03, ICN'04, PWC'05 conferences, symposium co-chair of ICC'06, Globecom'07, ICC'08, Globecom'08, ICC'09, Globecom'09 and co-program chair of ICC'04. Between 2000 and 2006, he was Technical Editor of the IEEE Communications Magazine Editorial Board. He is the vice-chair of the IEEE ComSoc Communications Software Technical Committee and chair of the IEEE ComSoc Communications Systems Integration and Modelling Technical Committee. He is senior member of the IEEE, member of many international program committees and he has served as a guest editor for a number of journals including Telecommunications Systems, IEEE Communications Magazine and LNCS. He has organized and chaired several technical sessions and gave tutorials at major international conferences. He is the author of 3 books, 2 patents and 190 international publications in journals and conferences.

Short-Bio: Sachin Agarwal is a senior research scientist at Deutsche Telekom A.G.'s research laboratory (T-Labs) in Berlin, Germany. This laboratory is a joint collaboration between Deutsche Telekom (the largest integrated service provider of Europe) and the Technical University of Berlin, where Sachin Agarwal is part of the Intelligent Networks group. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Boston University's Networking and Information Systems Laboratory in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has interned at Microsoft Research in Redmond, USA, in the Communications and Collaboration Systems group and worked for a technology start-up in Boston, USA, in the past. He was a visiting scholar in Stanford University's Electrical Engineering department in summer 2008.
Sachin has authored dozens of peer-reviewed international publications in the fields of Information Theory and Coding, Overlay Networks, Peer-to-peer paradigms, Trust management, Sensor Networks, and Game Theory. He holds multiple patents in the fields of video streaming, coding theory, and trust management systems. He is deeply involved in new multimedia/video technologies, standards, and efficient communication protocols for the mobile computing context.