It was a spectacular display of entrepreneurial fervour when these influential men stood posing for a group photograph with their awards in their hands. Thank you sirs for the exceptional work that you have done for the ICT sector and for the country. So, here goes the list : Mr Devendra Saharia, the founder and [...]

Mr Martin Booth of NComputing Inc spoke on the power of the emerging virtualization technology. People in the past haven’t been so keen on power consumption. But it is high time we took a closer look at this intimidating situation which, if left unaddressed would make us devoid of all the power resources and would [...]

There’s a perception that lots of money to be made in e-waste, while it is not so. Of the 3.36 lakh ton e waste generated in India last year (most of which came from China and other countries) only 19k ton recycled- that’s just 5%. Recycling process typically involves dismantling the unit, Recover plastics and [...]

Mr Pranshu Singhal is the head of environmental affairs of Nokia India. His talk was very comprehensive with a lot of inputs on the lifecycle of a product. In this era, where people have begun to concentrate more on producing ecologically responsible gadgets, the critical issues that are to be addressed are the quantity i.e., the amount [...]

Notes from Dr Lakshmi Raghupathi (Retried director, Ministry of Environment & Forests)’s talk on “E-Waste:A legal perspective” “Only 10% of electronic goods are recycled. What happens to rest of it? Unless there is a regulatory framework it is difficult to contain waste. In order to frame regulations to contain e waste, a meeting of all [...]

Mr Dave Gorshkov, Sector Champion – Digital Technology Mr.Dave is a part of UKTI – UK trade and investment, London.  His presentation focussed on how UK  helps the world through their innovations in e-governence. The concept of Digital Infrastructure has opened up lots of innovation oppurtunities and avenues to explore. Whydoes the UK need a [...]

Quick notes from the talk given by PWC Davidar: We’d two options to take off e-governance initiatives: Option A: Develop e governance applications Option B: develop an eco system that generates citizen centric services We opted for Option B- he said 3 factors in implementing E-Governance: Technology, process, people Technology: One data centre in place [...]

Dr Anil Menon, President, -Globalisation, Smart Connected Communities, CISCO Systems spoke on Digital Convergence to enhance growth Dr Menon started off with an interesting video clip on digital convergence. India is second headquarters for Cisco and there is a reason for that- He says. Talking about globalization, he gave an example wherein he took an [...]

Some of the questions audience asked through SMS during the conference.. 1 Mr Gopalan how can the ICT help the SME’s in rural? 2 Do you feel our education system encouraging entrepreneurship? 3 Why we always look into American European market when domestic market potential not fully exploited?- kumar 4 Indian Youth get to work [...]

Moving from Cost Arbitrage to Capacity Arbitrage- Akshaya Gaur, Scope International. What is Capacity Arbitrage? It’s about focusing on value: Using talent to create value. Let us see how to do that and what is a paradigm from corporate perspective. Changing Roles of a CIO Use technology as a platform to grow business, Change the [...]