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COME TO COMSBIZ-THE BUSINESS TRACK FOR COMSWARE
Your Access to Business Leaders and Experts in Communications Technology
Date: Jan 9/10th 2007 (Tuesday/Wednesday)
Venue: Le Méridien Bangalore, India

The  Business Track Workshop (COMSBIZ) will be on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 and Wednesday January 10, 2007, the third and fourth days of COMSWARE.

COMSBIZ will be an exciting two-day program that:

  • Focuses on business and market opportunitiesand challenges for hardware, software and service companies based in or operating in India in the world's telecom technology markets.
  • Presents the insights of senior executives of successful telecom technology enterprises based in India, North America, and Europe.
  • Features analysis and practical guidance from industry leaders and professional from India and abroad in the private sector, law, academia and government.
  • Presents a panel of India’s Leading Venture Capitalists to provide guidance for entrepreneurs and executives.
  • Provides a high-powered International Legal Panel – with discussion on Legal and IP Strategies and Best Practices which features top lawyers practicing in the US, India, and the European Union .

Who Should Attend:

  • Entrepreneurs
  • Senior executives of India-based and foreign-based enterprises.
  • Managers with communications technology business responsibilities, including engineering, technology, business unit and product line managers.
  • Marketing and strategy executives .
  • Professionals in venture capital, law, finance, accounting and HR.
  • Governmental telecom decision makers , regulatory officers and policy makers.
  • Analysts and researchers in communications technologies and markets.

Featured Speakers at the Business Track Workshop:

  • Dr. Kiran Karnik, President, NASSCOM (National Association of Software and Service Companies) New Delhi, India [Keynote]
  • Dr. Hamid Ahmadi , Chief Architect and Senior Vice President, Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, Illinois, USA [Keynote]
  • Rakesh Bavre , Head of India Operations, Veveo, Inc., Bangalore, India
  • Mouli Raman , CTO and Co-Founder, OnMobile, Mumbai, India
  • Rajiv Mody , Chairman and CEO, Sasken Communications Technologies, Bangalore, India
  • Subash Menon , Founder, Chairman, Managing Director, and CEO, Subex Azure Ltd., Bangalore, India
  • Mahesh Kumar Jain , Managing Director, Jataayu Software (P) Ltd., Bangalore, India
  • Sridhar T. Pai , Founder & CEO, Tonse Telecom, Bangalore, India
  • P. Subrahmanyam , Senior Vice President, Wipro Technologies, Inc., Bangalore, India
  • Sanjay Anandaram, Venture Capitalist & Partner, JumpStartUp Fund Advisors, Bangalore, India
  • Gene Landy , Chairman, Technology Group, Ruberto Israel & Weiner P.C. Law Firm, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  • Seebe Raj Arun , Partner, ALMT Legal Advocates & Solicitors, Bangalore, India
  • Bimal Sareen , Managing Director & CEO, AVAANA Software & Services Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, India
  • Krithi Ramamritham , Dean of Research & Development, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IITB, Mumbai, India
  • VV Rajasekhar , Chief Information Officer, ITC-IBD Group, ITC – eChoupal Initiative, Secunderabad, India
  • Akhil Awasthi , Venture Capitalist & Partner, Baring Private Equity Partners, Gurgaon, India
  • Bharati Jacobs , Venture Capitalist & Managing Partner, Seedfund, Bangalore, India
  • Sudhir Sethi , Managing Director & CEO, IDG Ventures India Advisors Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India
  • William Sloan Coats , Attorney, White Case LLP, Palo Alto, California, USA
  • Nathalie E. Moreno , Advocate, Associate, Head of French Practice Group, Technology and Commerce Group, Beachcroft LLP, London, United Kingdom
  • Naina Krishna Murthy , Managing Partner, Krishnamurthy and Co., Legal Consultants, Bangalore, India

Workshop Chairs:
Gene K. Landy , Ruberto Israel & Weiner P.C., Boston, Massachusetts, USA [Chair]
Rajeev Shorey , GM Research, India Science Laboratory, Bangalore, India [Co-Chair]

Location:
Le Meridien Hotel, Sankey Road, Bangalore, India
For further information and registration: http://www.comsware.org

Travel Arrangements:
VISA: Information regarding obtaining travel visas to India, discounted airfares, early hotel and conference registration discounts, from the conference website at http://www.comsware.org.