Program

• 15th February 2006
• 16th February 2006
• 17th February 2006

Wednesday, 15th February 2006
11:00 – 13:00 hrs	NASSCOM–WDA CEO Panel: "Europe - The Next Big Opportunity"
Session: S01	By Invitation Only Venue: The Grand Salon Opening Remarks Andrew Davis, Executive Vice President Asia Pacific, Welsh Development Agency (WDA) Kiran Karnik, President, NASSCOM Panelists Dominique Raviart, Senior Analyst, Ovum Arvind Thakur, Chief Executive Officer, NIIT Technologies Limited Vijay P. Khare, Executive Vice-President and Global Delivery Coordinator, Patni Computer Systems Ltd Brian Smith, Vice-Chancellor, Cardiff University David Leigh, Commercial & Strategy Director, Xansa Plc N. Chandrasekaran, Executive Vice President & Head Global Operations, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. Simon Fanning, Strategic Sourcing Programme Director, Deutsche Bank Chairperson Govindraj Ethiraj, Editor (New Media), Business Standard
11:00 – 12:45 hrs	Registration for NASSCOM 2006 Conference Venue: Lobby Level
12:45 – 13:45 hrs	Meet and Greet Lunch Hosted by Tata Indicom SBU Venue: The Atrium by the Waterfall
13:45 – 15:00 hrs Session: S02	Inaugural Session Venue: The Grand Ballroom Welcome Address by Kiran Karnik, President, NASSCOM Address by S Ramadorai, Chairman, NASSCOM and CEO & Managing Director, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. Inaugural Address by Chief Guest Shri Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Science & Technology, Government of India Address by Guest of Honour, Shri Vilas Rao Deshmukh, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Maharashtra Closing Remarks by B. Ramalinga Raju, Vice Chairman, NASSCOM and Founder & Chairman, Satyam Computer Services Ltd.
15:00 – 15:45 hrs Session: S03	Keynote Session Venue: The Grand Ballroom Reflections on the flat world and its challenges for India Keynote Speaker Thomas L. Friedman, Columnist, The New York Times and Author of Bestseller "The World is Flat" Chairperson Jerry Rao, Chairman & CEO, MphasiS
15:45 – 16:15 hrs	Tea / Coffee
16:15 – 17:15 hrs Session: S04	Keystone Session Venue: The Grand Ballroom US India Strategic Alliance-What next? Keynote Speaker Promod Haque, Managing Partner, Norwest Venture Partners The time for growth is now: leadership challenges in creating wealth Keynote Speaker Bill Alexander, Chairman, Xansa Plc. Chairperson Ashank Desai, Chairman, Mastek Ltd.
17:15 – 18:45 hrs Session: S05	CEO Panel: The Unknown and Unpredictable Challenge Venue: The Grand Ballroom Panelists B. Ramalinga Raju, Founder & Chairman, Satyam Computer Services Ltd. Kevin Campbell, Member-Executive Leadership, Accenture Vineet Nayar, President, HCL Technologies Ltd. Craig Mundie, Senior VP, Chief Technical Officer, Advanced Strategies and Policy, Microsoft Corporation Dennis McGuire, Founder and Chairman, TPI Pramod Bhasin, President & CEO, Genpact Chairperson Arun Maira, Chairman, Boston Consulting Group, India
18:45 - 18:50 hrs	Address by the Sir Michael Arthur, Hon'ble British High Commissioner to India
19:00 hrs onwards	Welcome Reception & Networking Dinner hosted by the UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) Venue: The Atrium by the Waterfall, Hotel Grand Hyatt, Mumbai
Thursday, 16th February 2006
08:30 – 09:30 hrs Session: S06	NASSCOMMcKinsey BPO CEO Breakfast- Process 360: Operational Excellence (By Invitation only) Venue: The Grand Salon Speaker Noshir F Kaka, Partner, McKinsey and Company India Chairperson Arun Seth, Chairman, BT India Pvt. Ltd.
08:30 - 09:30 hrs	Registration for NASSCOM 2006 Conference Venue: Lobby Level
09:30 – 11:00 hrs Session: S07	Plenary Session Venue: The Grand Ballroom The Business of Software: Challenges for Products versus Services Companies Keynote Speaker Michael A Cusumano, Sloan Management Review Distinguished Professor of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management Winning and Innovation Keynote Speaker Azim H. Premji, Chairman, Wipro Chairperson Rajendra S Pawar, Chairman and Co-founder, NIIT group
11:00 – 11:30 hrs	Tea / coffee
Track A : Global Leadership Conclave Track B : Global Offshoring Conclave Track C : IT Innovation in India Conclave Track D : Global Partnerships and Emerging Oportunties Venue: Grand Ballroom 2 Venue: Grand Ballroom 3 Venue: Grand Ballroom 1 Venue: The Grand Salon 11:30 - 12:15 hrs 11:30 - 13:00 hrs 11:30 - 11:40 hrs 11:30 – 1300 hrs Keynote Session 1A: Future Shifts: Co-Creating Value with Customers and Partners Keynote Speaker Mitchell J. Habib, Chief Information Officer Citigroup, North America Consumer Chairperson S. Ramadorai, CEO & Managing Director, Tata Consultancy Services Limited 12:15 – 13:15 hrs Keynote Session 2A Drivers of competitiveness-best practices from successful companies Keynote Speaker Erik Viens, Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Invista Web services and the global financial services business Keynote Speaker Shaun J. Coyne, Vice President - Chief Information Officer, Toyota financial services Chairperson Sanjay Verma, Managing Director, ITC Infotech India Ltd Session 1B: India, a Global Hub for Engineering Services: Making it Happen Brought to you by Nielsoft Ltd. Speakers Ketan Bakshi, Founder & Managing Director, Neilsoft Ltd V Sumantran, Consultant Advisor Kaushal Aggarwal, Executive Vice President, Avendus BVR Mohan Reddy, Chairman & Managing Director, Infotech Enterprises Ltd Wilfried Aulbur, Managing Director & CEO, DaimlerChrysler India Steven A. Torok, Partner, First Atlantic Capital Senior Advisor, Booz Allen Hamilton Ravi Gopinath, Vice President, Engineering and Industrial Services, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd Chairperson Christopher Disher, Partner, Offshoring Advisory Services, Booz Allen Hamilton Opening Address and Overview of NASSCOM Innovation Forum by Ganesh Natarajan, Chair, NASSCOM Innovation Forum 11:40-12:10 hrs Session 1C: IT Innovation in India: a reality check Keynote Speaker Vivek Paul, Managing Director, TPG Ventures Chairperson Ganesh Natarajan, Deputy Chairman and Managing Director, Zensar Technologies Limited 12:10-13:10 hrs Session 2C: The Role of Universities in the Innovation Process Keynote Speaker Brian Smith, Vice-Chancellor, Cardiff University Partnering for successful innovation Speaker Laura Merling, Executive Director, SDForum, USA Chairperson Sharad Sharma, GM India and VP-Product Operations, Symantec Corporation Session 1D: Emerging opportunities in ICT Technologies: the next steps for India-Taiwan partnership Welcome by Kiran Karnik, President, NASSCOM Opening remarks by J.S. Ke, President, Institute for Information Industries (III), Taiwan Panelists G. J. Huang, President, Institute for Information Industries (III), Taiwan Ajay Chamania, Vice President, Patni Computer Systems Kris Peng, Vice President, UMC Capital Corporation David Hsing, General Director, Quanta Research Institute. Shailesh Shah, Director & Sr. Vice President, Satyam Computer Services Ltd Chairperson Ashank Desai, Chairman, Mastek Ltd.
13:15 – 14:00 hrs Networking Lunch Hosted by Attachmate WRQ Venue: The Atrium by the Waterfall
Track A : Global Leadership Conclave Track B : Global Offshoring Conclave Track C : IT Innovation in India Conclave Track D : The India CIO Conclave Venue: Grand Ballroom 2 Venue: Grand Ballroom 3 Venue: Grand Ballroom 1 Venue: The Grand Salon 14:00 – 15:00 hrs 14:00 – 15:00 hrs 14:00 – 16:30 hrs (Including Tea / Coffee) 14:00 – 15:00 hrs Keynote Session 3A Modular Sourcing: what does it mean for Indian IT vendors? Keynote Speaker Louis F. Rosenthal, Corporate Executive Vice President Services – Information Technology, ABN AMRO BANK, N.V. Creating flexibility for effective business change Keynote Speaker Paul Coby, CIO, British Airways Chairperson Bharat Desai, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, & Co-founder, Syntel Session 2B: Establishing a 'Virtual Captive': A New Offshoring Future? Speakers Sanjay Gupta, Senior Vice President, Strategic Initiatives, Wachovia Peter Allen , Partner & Managing Director- Global Practices, TPI Chairperson Padma Ravichander, Senior Executive, India/Asia Region & Managing Director, Applications Solutions, Perot Systems Session 3C: Forum for Indian IT Innovators (presentations by 8 shortlisted Indian Innovative companies) Welcome & Overview by Anil Bakht, Chairman & Managing Director, Eastern Software Systems Santosh Choubey, Director General, AISECT Vinay L Deshpande, Chairman and CEO, Founder, Encore Software Anu Acharaya, CEO, Ocimum Biosolutions Sanjay Shah, CEO, Skelta Software. Shirish B Purohit, CEO, Midas Communications Subash Menon, President & CEO, Subex Systems Limited Dr. Rajgopal Srinivasan, Sr Consultant, Life Sciences R&D division, Tata Consultancy Services G K Prasanna, Senior Vice President, Wipro Technologies Panel Members Gurtej Sodhi, CIO, Senior Vice President,Information Technology, Crye Leike Groupof Companies Jai Saboo, Chairman, Harmonia Inc. Aashish Bhinde, Vice President, Avendus Deepak B. Phatak, IIT, Mumbai Laura Merling, Executive Director, SDForum Sanjay Anandaram, Founding Partner, JumpStartup Session 2D: The 2010 CIO Outlook Panelists Reginald Hutcherson, Head of Technology Evangelism Group, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Aaron McCormack, Vice President, Network Platforms and Propositions, BT Chairperson Rajdeep Sahrawat, Vice President, NASSCOM 15:30 – 16:15 hrs 15:30 - 16:45 hrs   15:30 – 17:30 hrs Session 4A: Disruptive Market Forces Impacting the Global Sourcing Market (and specifically India Services Sector) Speaker Frances Karamouzis, Research Director-Strategic Sourcing IT Services, Gartner Chairperson Jeff Lande, Senior Vice President, Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) Session 3B: Third Generation Outsourcing Keynote Speakers Scott J. McKay, CIO & Senior Vice President, Operations & Quality, Genworth Financial Tanuja Randery, Managing Director-Strategy & Business Transformation, COLT Carol Borghesi, Managing Director, 21st Century Network Service Delivery, BT Chairperson Brian Manning, Director, Global Infrastructure Services, Computer Sciences Corporation Pvt. Ltd.   Session 3D: The Rise of Outsourcing in the Indian IT Market Opening address S. Ramadorai, CEO & Managing Director, Tata Consultancy Services Limited NASSCOM-IDC Domestic Market Report Presentation Kapil Dev Singh, Country Manager, IDC (India) Limited Panelists K. K. Iyer Arvind Tawde, Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Mahindra & Mahindra Limited Satish Naralkar, MD & CEO, NSE.IT S. Ramadorai, CEO & Managing Director, Tata Consultancy Services Limited Bhaskar Pramanik, Managing Director, Sun Microsystems India Pvt. Ltd. Chairperson Prasanto Kumar Roy, President and Chief Editor- Business Magazines Group, CyberMedia (India)
Track A : Global Leadership Conclave Track B : Global Offshoring Conclave Track C : IT Innovation in India Conclave Venue: Grand Ballroom 2 Venue: Grand Ballroom 3 Venue: Grand Ballroom 1 16:15 – 17:45 hrs 16:45 – 17:45 hrs 16:30 – 17:15 hrs Session 5A: Special Panel: Mergers and Acquisitions- strategic imperatives for Indian and multinational companies Panelists Promod Haque, Managing Partner, Norwest Venture Partners Ranu Vohra, Chairman and Managing Director, Avendus Andres Pieczanski, Director, Jefferies Technology Investment Banking Group Phiroz Vandrevala, Executive Vice President, Tata Consultancy Services Neeraj Bhargava, Group CEO, WNS Global Services (P) Ltd Saurabh Srivastava, Executive Chairman, Xansa India Chairperson Shereen Bhan, Associate Editor Political Affairs and Anchor - CNBC TV18 Session 4B: Innovative deal structures in global sourcing Speakers David Tapper, Research Director, IT Outsourcing & Utility Services & Global Sourcing Strategies, IDC Chairperson Som Mittal, Worldwide head-Application Services Operations- Hewlett Packard Company and Managing Director, HP GlobalSoft Session 4C: Top 10 innovations by 2010 Keynote Speaker Leonard Brody, Co-CEO and Director, NowPublic & Venture Partner, Growthworks Capital Chairperson Deepak Ghaisas, Chief Executive Officer- India operations, and CFO, iflex Solutions
19:30 hrs Onwards 2006 Global Leadership Awards Presentation In association with ITC Infotech Ltd & iSoft   CEO Dinner hosted by Scottish Development Institute Venue: Sea Side Lawns, Hotel Taj Lands End, Mumbai Buses will leave for the venue at 6:00 pm, from the Hotel Grand Hyatt Lobby
Friday, 17th February 2006 Track C : ICT for Development 08:30 – 09:30 hrs Registration for NASSCOM 2006 Conference Venue: Lobby Level Venue: The Grand Salon 09:30 – 11:00 hrs Session: SO8 Plenary Session Venue: The Grand Ballroom Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Make the Competition Irrelevant Keynote Speaker W. Chan KIM, The Boston Consulting Group Bruce D. Henderson Chaired Professor of International Management, Professor of Strategy and International Management, INSEAD Innovation and Productivity During the Internets Golden Age Keynote Speaker Howard S. Charney, Senior Vice President, Office of the President, Cisco Systems, Inc. Chairperson Arun Kumar, President and Managing Director, Flextronics Software Systems (FSS) 08:30 - 09:30 hrs Registration for ICT for Development Track Venue: The Grand Salon 09:30 - 11:00 hrs Keynote Session 5C Welcome Address Saurabh Srivastava Chairman, NASSCOM Foundation ICT – Impacting the Millennium Development Goals Dr. Maxine Olson, United Nations Resident Coordinator and United Nations Development Programme Resident Representative Mission 2007: The Way Forward Prof. M.S. Swaminathan, Chairman, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation IT industry’s Commitment to Social Development Harish Mehta, Chairman & Managing Director, Onward Technologies Ltd. CSR in the IT industry Viraf Mehta, Chief Executive, Partners in Change Release of Publication Catalysing change – IT industry’s Commitment to Societal Development Kiran Karnik, President, NASSCOM 11:00 – 11:30 hrs Tea / Coffee 11:15 – 12:30 hrs Session: SO9 Special Address by The President of India Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam Venue: The Grand Ballroom National anthem Welcome remarks by Kiran Karnik, President, NASSCOM Address by S.Ramadorai, Chairman, NASSCOM Distribution of NASSCOM innovation awards by The President of India Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam Key note address by The President of India Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam Q&A session Closing remarks by B Ramalinga Raju, Vice Chairman, NASSCOM National Anthem 12:30 – 13:30 hrs Networking Lunch Sponsored by MPSIDC Venue: The Atrium by the Waterfall
Track A : Global Leadership Conclave Track B : Global Offshoring Conclave Track C : ICT for Development Track D : Emerging Companies Conclave Venue: Grand Ballroom 2 Venue: Grand Ballroom 3 Venue: The Grand Salon Venue: Grand Ballroom 1 13:30 – 15:00 hrs 13:30 – 15:00 hrs 13:30 – 15:00 hrs 13:30 – 13:00 hrs Keynote Session 6A Global sourcing: Outlook for UK public sector Keynote Speakers Richard Granger, Director General of IT, NHS Les Dawson, Chief Executive Officer, Southern Water The Role of Technology in Business Processes Improvement and Globalization Keynote Speaker Ian Hau, Senior Vice President, Global Services for Applications, GlaxoSmithKline Chairperson Chris Tackaberry, Group Clinical Director, iSOFT plc Session 5B: India or Elsewhere: Why still India? Panelists Paul Asel, IFC, The World Bank Pankaj Vaish, India BPO Lead, Accenture Joe Fernandes, Managing Principal India, Everest Group Francisco D’Souza, Chief Operating Officer, Cognizant Technology Solutions Atul Nishar, Founder & Chairman, Hexaware Technologies Ltd. Pascal Matzke, Principal Analyst, Forrester, Europe Chairperson Vivek Pandit, Partner, McKinsey & Company, India Session 6C Creating Sustainable Businesses in Rural India B. B. Ramalinga Raju, Chairman, Satyam Computer Services Ltd. ICT interventions in Insurance Shoumitro Roye, Director, Direct Sales Force Aviva Life Insurance India ICT interventions in Education Dilip Ranjekar, CEO, Azim Premji Foundation ICT 4 D - Next Generation Research Dr. Deepak B. Phatak, IIT, Mumbai Session Chair Jerry Rao, Chairman & CEO, MphasiS & Past Chairman, NASSCOM Session 5D: Effective HR Strategies for Emerging Companies Opening remarks Krishnakumar Natarajan, CEO, IT Services, Mindtree Consulting Speakers Sharad Sharma, GM India and VP Product Operations, Symantec Corporation Gowri Shankar, CEO, Aspire Systems Srinivas R Kandula, Director, HR, Sasken Technologies Anita Ramachandran, Founder & CEO, Cerebrus Consultants Chairperson Subroto Bagchi, COO, MindTree Consulting 15:00 – 15:30 hrs Tea/Coffee 15:30 – 16:30 hrs 15:30 - 16:00 hrs 15:30 – 16:15 hrs 15:30 - 17:00 hrs Keynote Session 7A Challenges in becoming a global employer of choice Keynote Speaker Nandan M Nilekani, President and Managing Director, Infosys Technologies Limited Value from Global Sourcing - Benefits Beyond Costs Keynote Speaker Ronan D. McGrath, President Rogers Shared Operations and CIO, Rogers Communications Inc. Chairperson Harish Mehta, Chairman & Managing Director, Onward Technologies Ltd Session 6B: Cost Model Variabalisation Speaker Kevin Taylor, Head Sales, BT Asia Pac Chairperson Raju Bhatnagar, President, ISMART Session 7C Public Private Partnerships for Sustainable Development Opening Words Ranganath Salgame, President, India & SAARC Region, Cisco Systems Keynote Speaker Richard Granger, Director General of IT, NHS Chairperson Ranganath Salgame, President, India & SAARC Region, Cisco Systems Session 6D: Effective Marketing Strategies for Emerging Companies Speakers Subash Menon, President & CEO, Subex Systems, Shanmugam Nagarajan, Co-founder, 24/7 Customer Vishwas Mahajan, CEO, Compulink S.B. Ravi Pandit, CEO, KPIT Cummins Chairperson Dr. Anand Deshpande Summing up by Ankur Lal, CEO, Infozech.
Track A : Global Leadership Conclave Track B : Global Offshoring Conclave Track C : ICT for Development Venue: Grand Ballroom 2 Venue: Grand Ballroom 3 Venue: The Grand Salon 16:30 - 17:15 hrs 16:00 - 17:30 hrs 16:15 – 17:30 hrs Session 8A: Organization DNA – Coping with Evolution Speakers Sanjay Singh, Country Manager, HP BPO N. Chandrasekaran, Executive Vice President & Head Global Operations, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. Chairperson Nilesh Hundekari, Director – Advisory Services, KPMG Advisory Services Private Limited Pradeep Udhas, Executive Director, KPMG Session 7B: BPO CEOs Panel Platform or Process: Challenges for Indian BPO vendors Panelists Dan Sandhu, CEO, Vertex (India) PV Kannan, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, 24/7 Customer Ranjit Narsimhan, President and CEO, BPO Division, HCL Technologies Ltd (HCL BPO) Ananda Mukerji, MD & CEO, ICICI OneSource Rahul Singh, CEO & Managing Director, e-Serve International Ltd Chairperson Sunil Mehta, Vice President, NASSCOM Session 8C ICT – Working towards Bharat Nirman Panelists Dr. Ajay Bhushan Pandey, Secretary Information Technology, Government of Maharashtra Sanjeev Chopra, Secretary IT, Government of Uttaranchal Dr. G. D. Gautama, Principal Secretary, Information Technology Department, Government of West Bengal Rakesh Bakshi, Senior Attorney-Corporate & Legal Affairs, Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd. Chairperson Umesh Anand, Publisher, Civil Society
19:30 hrs Onwards Gala Dinner and Entertainment Evening   at the INS VIKRANT, Mumbai Entertainment Evening in association with KPMG Gala Dinner Hosted by Flextronics Software Systems & NASDAQ Busses will leave for the Global Leadership Awards venue at 6:00 pm from the Hotel Lobby