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Shri
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
Honourable Chief Minister,
Government of West Bengal
Invited to inaugurate the CSI-2006 |
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Shri
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was born on March 1,
1944 in Kolkata. He has Passed B.A. Hons. Examination
in Bengali from Presidency College, Kolkata in 1964.
He became Deputy chief Minister in 1999. He took
over as the Chief Minister of Government of West
Bengal in November 1, 2000.
His vision is to rank West Bengal among top 3 IT
states in India by 2010. |
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Dr.
Debesh Das
Honourable Minister of
Information Technology,
Government of West Bengal
Invited to be the Guest in
Honour
of the CSI-2006 |
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Dr.
Debesh Das has set his vision to have more investment
in IT sector in West Bengal. The investment will
increase the manpower in IT industry in coming years.
He believes that new IT policy and planning of the
state would empower the people through e-governance
which would improve the quality of life of the people
of the state. |
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KEY SPEAKERS |
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Mr.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Chief Mentor
Infosys Technologies Limited |
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Mr.
N. R. Narayana Murthy is the Chief Mentor of
Infosys Technologies Limited. Mr. Murthy served
as the Chief Executive Officer of Infosys between
1981 and 2002. Under his leadership, Infosys was
listed on NASDAQ (INFY) in 1999.
Mr. Murthy was born on August 20, 1946. He holds
a B.E. from the University of Mysore and a M. Tech.
from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. |
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Mr.
S Ramadorai
Chief Executive Officer,
TATA Consultancy Services |
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Mr.
S Ramadorai has spent 32 years in Tata Consultancy
Services, becoming its CEO in 1996, taking it through
a successful listing last year and playing a key
role in turning it into a $2-billion Asian software
leader.
His alma maters include Delhi University, Indian
Institute of Science, Bangalore and University of
California in Los Angeles. |
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Dr.
Ajim Premji
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer,
Wipro Technologies Ltd. |
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Dr.
Azim Premji (born July 24, 1945) is the Chairman
& CEO of one of the largest software companies
in India, Wipro Technologies (headquarters located
at Bangalore). He was rated the richest person in
the country from 1999 to 2005 by Forbes.
In 2000, he was conferred an honorary doctorate
by the Manipal Academy of Higher Education in India.
He was also adjudged the Business Man of the Year
2000 by Business India. He is a member of the Prime
Minister's Advisory Committee for Information Technology
in India. |
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Mr.
Balu Doraisamy
Managing Director,
HP India |
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Mr.
Balu Doraisamy is the Managing Director of HP
India. He also holds additional responsibility for
the operations of the Technology Solutions Group
(TSG). |
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Mr.
Shanker Annaswamy
Managing Director,
IBM India |
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Mr.
Shanker Annaswamy, Managing Director, IBM India
is responsible for all IBM's sales and marketing,
services and Global Delivery operations in India.
He joined IBM in July 2004. He has a Bachelor of
Engineering (B.E) in Electronics and communication
from Madras University and a Diploma in Business
Management Education from the All India Management
Association, New Delhi. |
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Mr.
Subir Raha
Ex Chairman,
ONGC Ltd. |
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Mr.
Subir Raha is the Ex Chairman of Oil & Natural
Gas Corporation (ONGC), India's largest enterprise
with highest market capitalization. ONGC is a Fortune
500 company and the credit for its transformation
goes to Mr Subir Raha. ONGC has a market capitalisation
of over US$36 billion. Its net worth in 2004/5 was
US$10.57 billion and net profit US$2.96 billion,
the highest ever achieved by any Indian company.
Mr. Raha took over as Chairman and managing Director
of ONGC in May 2001. He was earlier a director ofIndian
Oil Corporation, another Fortune Global 500. |
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Dr.
Faqir Chand Kohli
Ex Chairman of Tata
Consultancy Services (TCS),
India |
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Dr.
Faqir Chand Kohli, is a visionary who has been
instrumental in two different engineering revolutions
in India - Power Engineering and Software Engineering.
He is referred to in India as the father of the
Indian software industry. (Proceedings of the 15th
Conference on Software Engineering and Training)
Dr. Kohli was born on February 28, 1924. After obtaining
a BA and BSc (Hons) at the Punjab University, Lahore,
he came to Queen's where he obtained a BSc (Hons)
in Electrical Engineering, and went on to complete
a MS Electrical Engineering Degree from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. In 1951 he joined the Tata
Electric Company. He became Director of Tata Consultancy
Services (TCS), India's premier information technology
organization in 1974. Dr. Kohli received an honorary
doctorate in Engineering from University of Waterloo
in 1990 and India's third-highest civilian honour,
the Padma Bhusan in 2002. |
