Industry Insights Keynotes
Pramod Badjate
Arista NetworksVisit Homepage
7 January 2022, 6:00 PM
Evolution of Enterprise Wireless: Opportunities & ChallengesOver the last two decades, enterprise wireless LAN has evolved from a budding & nice to have technology to one that is pervasive and mission critical. The evolution in speeds of wireless LAN and the explosion of devices connecting to it has been dramatic. We will take a look at the path we have taken and the opportunities and challenges before us to continue to address the challenges we face today and expect in the future. This includes the evolution of enterprise wireless architectures that are seamless and need to be increasingly self diagnosing and self healing to address the ever increasing network complexity and shrinking IT resources. Wireless LAN will likely see the advent of 5G in the enterprise for specific use cases and we will explore the opportunities for the evolution of future enterprise deployments where co-existence will be important.
Pramod is Group Vice President and General Manager, Cognitive Campus, Arista Networks.
Pramod is responsible for the products, engineering and business of Arista's cognitive campus portfolio. He has a deep track record with over two decades in wireless and networking. Prior to Arista, Pramod was the Senior Vice President and General Manager for the RUCKUS business unit within CommScope. Pramod also held various leadership roles at Cisco over seven years. He joined Cisco through the acquisition of Airespace, a startup known for leading Wi-Fi in the enterprise.
Pramod has a BS in Computer Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Surathkal and an MS (Computer Science) and an MBA from Arizona State University.
Chris Galliano
CTO, Skymount Medical GroupVisit Homepage
7 January 2022, 5:00 PM
Chris is the CTO of Skymount Medical Group. He combines invention and social ethics with technical analytical thinking, communication, and teamwork. Chris is the former Executive Officer of Space and Naval Warfare Systems and has 20 years of experience in architecting complex enterprise systems including the NATO ITM enterprise cloud and the United States Navy’s first Enterprise Data Center within the Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI). He is a Veteran of the United States Navy and has served through Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation Unified Assistance where he was awarded the Humanitarian Medal for his works in Indonesia and Sri Lanka.
Arpan Pal
TCS Research, IndiaVisit Homepage
7 January 2022, 5:00 PM
In this talk, we will start with global and India-centric view of the telecom market trends and use case adaptions thereof. It will be followed by an outline of the technology landscape – both current and future. We will then try to provide some use case examples where business has started adopting these technologies, e.g. in Enterprise networks, Use of AI/ML in networks, Low latency Robotics and Device Edge computing. Finally we will conclude with a discussion on beyond 5G & towards 6G where we will explore futuristic technologies like Metamaterial based antenna beamforming, Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces and Fusion of Radar systems with Communication systems.
Arpan Pal has more than 29 years of experience in the area of Intelligent Sensing, Signal Processing &AI, Edge Computing and Affective Computing. Currently, as Chief Scientist and Research Area Head, Embedded Devices and Intelligent Systems, TCS Research, he is working in the areas of Connected Health, Smart Manufacturing and Remote Sensing.
He is on the editorial board of notable journals like ACM Transactions on Embedded Systems, Springer Nature Journal on Computer Science and is on the TPC of notable conferences like ICASSP and EUSIPCO. He has filed 165+ patents (out of which 85+ granted in different geographies) and has published 140+ papers and book chapters in reputed conferences and journals. He has also authored two books – one on IoT and another on Digital Twins in Manufacturing. He is on the governing/review/advisory board of some of the Indian Government organizations like CSIR, MeitY, Educational Institutions like IIT, IIIT and Technology Incubation centres like TIH.
Prior to joining Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Arpan had worked for DRDO, India as Scientist for Missile Seeker Systems and in Rebeca Technologies (erstwhile Macmet Interactive Technologies) from as their Head of Real-time Systems. He is a B.Tech and M. Tech from IIT, Kharagpur, India and PhD. from Aalborg University, Denmark.
