Women In Engineering
Event Date: 8th January 2020 (01:45 PM - 4:00 PM)
PLENARY SESSION - Technologies For The Next Decade
Invited Speakers
Vinutha Narayanamurthy
Wipro Technologies, IndiaVisit Homepage
Vinutha Narayanamurthy has an overall experience of 28+ years in the software industry. She has been working with Wipro for over 20 years. She has worked extensively in embedded domain areas ranging from device drivers, networking, storage and printers, in various customer engagements. In CTO, from the part 3 + years her main focus has been the area for artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning. She is one of the key members that pioneered the HOLMES platform – Wipro’s AI platform.
Kranti Chalamalasetti
Samsung R&D, IndiaVisit Homepage
Kranti CH is a Sr.Chief Engineer at Samsung R&D India - Bangalore with about 13 years of experience and holds a master's degree in Software Systems. She was instrumental in commercializing solutions for Mobile TV and Mobile Payments. Known to be Kinetic Energy of the team. Her current focus area has been On-Device Intelligence - empowering people with fast, efficient and privacy solutions
Ranoo Malhotra
Tejas Networks, IndiaVisit Homepage
Ranoo Malhotra has 16 years’ experience in telecom field and is currently Senior Manager R&D – Ethernet Product Group, Tejas Networks India Limited. She obtained her BE in Electronics from Mumbai University, in 2000 and MTech from IIT Bombay, in 2003. Subsequently she joined Tejas Networks in 2007 and has led software development for multiple products in the company. Her present interests include IP/MPLS, 5G and SDN/NFV technologies.
Laxmi Mukund
CISCO, IndiaVisit Homepage
Laxmi Mukund is a Principal Engineer` at Cisco with about 19 years of experience and a master's degree in computer science and networking. She works on various routing and switching enterprise and data center platforms leading and developing features in the areas of core routing, switching, Netflow, LISP, Vxlan, Datacenter interconnects, and Programmability. In the past few years her focus has been on intuitive networking, security and controller based architectures. End point security, network admission control protocols and micro-segmentation of networks using security group tags are her current research areas.
Panel Topic: Role of Women in the NEXT ERA of Technology
Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Highlights on Panel discussion:
- The Next ERA of Technology is gearing up to create a "digital revolution" touching all aspects of life – how we live, how we work, how we travel, how we do business, how we go to war etc. etc,
- Hence, we are moving towards the Super SMART Society enabled by – Smart Cities & Villages, Smart Transport, Smart Finance, Smart Education - essentially SMART EVERYTHING.
- Driven by emerging technologies like Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, along with the thrust is on CONVERGENCE of technologies to solve complex and DIVERSE problems across various Verticals.
-
The “complex” problems of the NEXT ERA need unique skills like -
- Multi-disciplinary & multi-organizational collaboration
- Focus on the long-term, collective vision
- Rising above gamesmanship – Rallying around "Open Forums, Open Source, Open Innovation"
- Don’t these represent the NATURAL LEGACY of “womanhood” ?
- The businesses and organisations that do not leverage/enable the NATURAL Skills of women so well suited to the problems of the Next ERA will loose out in the NEXT ERA.
Panelists
Divya M G
C-DAC, India
Soma Pandey
Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited, India
Prasant Misra
TCS Research and Innovation, India
Event Schedule
| Time | Title | Talk Title & Speaker |
| PLENARY SESSION - Technologies For The Next Decade | ||
| 02:00 PM - 02:15 PM | Talk - 01 | AI- Emerging Technology Area Ms Vinutha Narayanamurthy, WIPRO |
| 02:15 PM - 02:30 PM | Talk - 02 | Next Generation Networks Ms Ranoo Malhotra, Tejas Networks |
| 02:30 PM - 02:45 PM | Talk - 03 | Cyber Security – Next Generation Challenges and its implications to privacy Ms Laxmi Mukund, CISCO |
| 02:45 PM - 03:00 PM | Talk - 04 | On-Device Intelligence - Leveraging Mobile Computing Powerg Ms Kranti Chalamalasetti, Samsung R&D India |
| Panel : Role of Women in the NEXT ERA of Technology | ||
| 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM | Panel Moderator: Ms Pamela Kumar, Director General, Telecom STDs Development Society of India (tsdsi) Panelists :
|
|
