Welcome and Opening Address:
Shailender Kumar Shailender Kumar
Managing Director, Oracle India

As Managing Director for Oracle India, Shailender is responsible for the growth of Oracle's business in India, increase Oracle's market share across all product lines and solutions, ensure customer satisfaction and drive Oracle's citizenship initiatives in the country. He also oversees new businesses such as the public sector unit, geo-expansion business unit (expansion into tier 2, tier 3 markets), key accounts programs and the cloud business. Prior to his current role, Shailender served as Group Vice President, Key Accounts Program and led this business into one of Oracle India's most successful programs. Under his leadership, the Key Accounts team became a significant contributor to Oracle India's overall revenue and a critical asset to Oracle India's growth strategy. He also successfully orchestrated a tightly integrated working model between the Line of Business leaders and Key Account Directors which resulted in high-profile transformational business for Oracle India. Previously, Mr. Kumar served as Vice President for Oracle India's Middleware business.

Before joining Oracle, Mr. Kumar was Managing Director at Quest Software and BEA Systems India Private Limited. In previous assignments, he has held senior positions at Microsoft India and IBM India. Mr. Kumar started his career with CMC Limited.

Oracle Keynote Speakers
Chris Chelliah Chris Chelliah
Group Vice President & Chief Architect, Core Technology & Cloud, Oracle APAC

Chris is Group Vice President and Chief Architect, Core Technology & Cloud for Oracle Asia Pacific. He has more than 22 years experience in the information systems industry, of which 20 years is with Oracle Corporation across Asia Pacific, Europe and North America.

Chris is accountable for two business areas for Oracle in Asia Pacific:
  • The Core Technology (Database) license business for Oracle. Oracle is #1 marketshare leader in this space, and he is responsible for growing the business through the adoption of Oracle's emerging innovations - in-memory, multi-tenancy, software-in-silicon, database security, data-lake integration, unstructured data (noSQL, hadoop) amongst other.
  • The hypegrowth adoption of Oracle's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Cloud offering.
Chris has held other roles within the company, where he focused on technology consulting and implementation services in large, global projects for Oracle across the telecommunications, financial services, and government sectors. In these roles, he has been instrumental in meeting the business needs of customers through innovative software solutions.

Chris holds a degree in Computer & Mathematical Sciences, with First Class Honours from the University of Western Australia. He has been published in a number of trade and industry journals and is the co-author of "Professional Oracle Programming", a Wiley publication. He is a featured speaker on Oracle's vision, strategy and architecture and consults on all critical and key customer projects throughout Oracle Asia Pacific.

Corporate Profile:
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Mitesh Agarwal Mitesh Agarwal
Vice President & CTO -Sales Consulting, Oracle India

Mitesh Agarwal is the Vice President & CTO -Sales Consulting for Oracle India. In this role Mitesh provides technical leadership to customers, partners and Oracle India's sales consulting and sales teams. His role includes technical consulting across Applications, Cloud, Middleware, Database, EPM/BI and Systems. He is the conduit between Oracle's corporate product engineering, product management and field teams. He expands Oracle's influence by helping develop, articulate and refine our overall strategy, technology vision, and case examples of customer impact.

Mitesh joined Oracle in 2002, and in his ~13 years tenure in Oracle he has held various leadership roles. Most recently, he was responsible for the Engineered Systems business for India. Previously, Mitesh was the Director, Sales Consulting for the Systems business at Oracle India, where he was responsible for leading technology solutions & presales for Oracle's hardware line of business. He has also held pre-sales positions at Ramco Systems & Wipro Infotech prior to Oracle.

Mitesh holds a Masters (Hons) Physics from BITS, Pilani and a BE (Hons) Mechanical Engineering from BITS, Pilani.

Oracle ACE Directors & User Group Leads
Sten Vesterli Sten Vesterli

Sten Vesterli is one of Europe's leading experts on Oracle development and a highly regarded conference speaker and author. He has written about 50 articles and conference papers on Oracle development and the book "Oracle Web Applications 101" (Oracle Press). Sten has many years of experience with Oracle products and has used almost every Oracle development tool and server released in the last decade. He started with the Oracle Web/Application Server when version 1.0 was released in 1997 and has used every version since. He is senior principal consultant and partner in the Danish Oracle consultancy called Scott/Tiger.

Satyendra Pasalapudi Satyendra Pasalapudi

Satyendra Pasalapudi is an Oracle ACE Director & MBA graduate with 16+ years of diversified international experience in the IT industry that spans across multiple continents. He is an accomplished database professional, author, and speaker with right blend of business and technology skills. Pasalapudi has bootstrapped various Strategic Business Units in his career and is currently working as a Assoc Practice Director at Apps Associates Pvt Ltd heading their Infrastructure Managed Services and Cloud practice at GDC and has worked with APTS, Pointsoft, Kenexa, DELL and Megasoft in his earlier assignments.

Pasalapudi is the Co-Founder and President of the All India Oracle Users Group (AIOUG) and is a frequent speaker at the Oracle Open World(2011,2012,2013,2014,1015), AIOUG Sangam, IOUG Collaborate and other national and international conferences. Pasalapudi supported customer databases across INDIA, US, UK and Middle East from 7.X to 11g on various operating systems. His areas of strength include, Performance Tuning, Capacity Planning, Architecting Enterprise Systems, Infrastructure Design & Solutioning, Exadata, RAC, Data Guard and Datacenter Operations. He has strong domain skills in Telecom, Finance and Banking. He created exclusive search engine www.ora-search.com for DBA's. He frequently blogs at http://orakhoj.blogspot.com

Sai Janakiram Penumuru Sai Janakiram Penumuru

Sai is stands at the forefront of the fastest moving technology industry trend: cloud services. He brings more than 13 years of experience in driving technology innovations. He's spent past five years evangelizing an industry-wide shift to the cloud. In his current role as Lead Cloud Architect at HPE responsible for bringing innovations in cloud.

He is an accredited Oracle ACE Director, an honour bestowed on him by Oracle because of his community contributions. Sai is a well-known and respected technologist within the Oracle community. He is one of the founding members of All India Oracle Users Group (www.aioug.org) and currently serves as Vice President. He has held the several voluntary positions such as Founder of Oracle VM SIG, Editor & Technical writer to the "Apps GITA". He is a 4-time AIOUG Best Volunteer Award winner. He is a regular speaker at industry conferences across the globe including Oracle Open World (2015,2014,2013), Tech UKOUG (2014), Sangam AIOUG and OTNYathra. His blogs include www.oadba.com, www.oracle12c.info. He finds his greatest motivation in coaching others to perform above and beyond expectations.

Sai holds a Master's degree in computer science from the University of Madras and member of toastmasters international.

Sai currently lives in Bangalore and blessed with the world's best family, his better half Jayanthi, his two children (Daughter - Jaganmayee & Son - Vivaan) and a loving mother (Lakshmi). He loves "health-ifying" recipes, yoga, meeting new people and currently learning photography.

He tweets via @sai_penumuru and you can contact him at ps.janakiram@gmail.com

Harshad Oak Harshad Oak

Harshad Oak is the founder of Rightrix Solutions and IndicThreads.com. He is the author of the books 1) Java EE on Oracle Java Cloud 2) Oracle JDeveloper 10g 3) Pro Jakarta Commons 4) coauthor J2EE 1.4 Bible.

He has spoken at conferences in several countries. For his contributions to technology and the community, he has been recognized as an Oracle ACE Director and a Java Champion.

DevOps for Cloud
Track Keynote Speaker
Mangesh Surve Mangesh Surve
Senior Director- Sales Consulting (Database), Oracle India

Mangesh Surve, Senior Executive Leasding Oracle Technology team for Database, Big data and Analytics in India.

A technology evangelist, having helped many organizations to consume technology to tansform business.

23 years of experience spans over a good mix of hands on programming, IT administration, enterprise architecture and technology blueprint to business solutions. The roles that he worked for includes, heading Application Perfomance Management Solution Consultant team in Veritas, leading a core Infomation Management team at ICIC, Leading Big Data Analytics for IBM in India and South Asia and currently leading the Oracle technology team for Database, BigData and Analytics.

Session Speakers
Siva Krishna Siva Krishna
Principal Product Manager, Oracle India

Siva Rama Krishna is a Principal Product Manager at Oracle India Pvt Ltd. He has more than 16 years of IT experience with his core expertise on Oracle Fusion Middleware technologies, Oracle Engineered Systems and Oracle PaaS. He has been the pioneer technologist for Exalogic in India, where he successfully concluded a lot of complex engagements and helped customers adopt the technology starting from the initial conception to the eventual production rollouts. He has been active in the area of Continuous Delivery and DevOps, contributed in developing assets for Oracle Developer Community. His experience includes Sales Consulting for clients across APAC region.

Ravi Pinto Ravi Pinto
Director, Product Management, Oracle India

Ravi Joseph Pinto is Director, Fusion Middleware Product Management with Oracle. He is a seasoned IT professional with 25 years of experience in Enterprise Computing space. He has been working with Oracle since 2008 and was with BEA Systems (acquired by Oracle) before that. At Oracle, he has handled roles such as Consulting, Architecting, Pre-sales etc.

In his current role as Product Manager, Ravi interfaces with customers and partners across JAPAC to advise and evangelize about Oracle's Middleware Strategy and Product Roadmap. His focus areas are Oracle's Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Oracle Cloud Machine.

Philip Kim Philip Kim
Director, Product Management, Oracle

Philip is Director, Fusion Middleware Product Management with Oracle. In this role he is responsible of defining product strategy, requirements and go-to-market growth initiatives for Oracle's middleware products for Japan and Asia Pacific with WebLogic Server, Coherence, SOA Suite, Application Platform as a Service (aPaaS) and Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) as focus areas of responsibilities. He has over 15 years of experience on the enterprise middleware products including WebLogic Server, Coherence, SOA and BPM. Prior to this role, Philip was an middleware architect supporting key accounts in Asia Pacific. In the past, Philip was a sales consultant supporting the North America's strategic accounts including Credit Suisse, and Standard and Poor's in New York metro area for Oracle USA. He received both the bachelor's degree in Information Systems and the master's degree in Management of System Software Development from Carnegie Mellon University.

Sudershan Singh Sudershan Singh
Director, Product Management, Oracle Public Cloud, Oracle India

Sudershan Singh works as a Director of Product Management for Infrastructure (IaaS) services. He is responsible to help shape and deliver on strategy for Oracle public cloud offerings.

Sudershan has over 19 years of experience in cloud, middleware and integration areas and has worked with customers across the globe. He began his career as a software developer and has worked in product management, pre-sales, consulting, enterprise architecture for customers across verticals.

Prior to Oracle, he was working with Lockheed Martin in the US as a consultant for cloud and integration technologies. He is a regular speaker at various at conferences and developer events.

Roshan Sathe Roshan Sathe
Principal Sales Consultant, Oracle India

Roshan has over 16+ years of international experience in IT industry. Roshan has been speaker at various APAC Oracle Users Groups, Cloud events and Oracle product events. Roshan is currently PreSales for Oracle Linux, Oracle VM and Virtual Box products. Prior to Oracle, Roshan has worked at Red Hat Inc. working with RHEL OS and RHEV virtualization software. Roshan also has experience working on SCO Unix and Solaris operating systems.

Mobile for Cloud
Track Keynote Speaker
Sharad Medhavi Sharad Medhavi
Senior Director, Product Development for Mobility and Application Development Tools products, Oracle India

Sharad Medhavi is the Senior Director of Product Development for Mobility and Application Development Tools products, at Oracle India Development Center. Mr. Medhavi is responsible for leading various aspects of product strategy, software development and delivery of Oracle's technology frameworks and development environment products. This includes some key products such as the Oracle Mobile Cloud Service (MCS), Oracle Developer Cloud Service (DCS), Oracle JDeveloper, Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF), Oracle Mobile Application Framework (MAF), Oracle Metadata Services (MDS) and Oracle Forms Developer.

Sharad has more than 23 years of experience in software product development, including more than 20 years at Oracle. He has been with Oracle since 1995, holding various product development positions in the Java Tools, Database Tools and Systems Management product areas. During the mid-1990's, he was involved in one of the first cross platform product development efforts using Java. He has been a key part of Oracle's evolving technology offerings during the past decade. At present, he is driving the product development technology platforms for the Cloud and Mobile areas. He has also been facilitating the successful consumption of these technologies by Oracle's next-generation business applications, the Oracle Fusion Applications, as well as by external customers.

Mr. Medhavi holds a masters degree from Birla Institute of Technology, India, and has gone through a focused management and leadership program at IIM Bangalore. He has also been groomed by T V Rao Learning Systems.

Session Speakers
Ramakrishnan Ramakrishnan K
Director, Middleware Technologies, Oracle India

Ramakrishnan brings with him 20 years of rich experience in Enterprise Architecture, Software Engineering, Solution delivery & Consulting roles. He has worked with customers in diverse domains like BFSI, Education, Telecom, Media and Communications. Key areas of expertise are - Enterprise Architecture, Rationalization, Digital Strategy, Cloud Architecture, Mobility & Enterprise Integration.

Abhay Bhavsar Abhay Bhavsar
Principal Consultant, Mobility, Oracle India

Abhay Bhavsar is a high performer with an IT industry experience of over 22 years. He has an outstanding professional career that spans across Oracle and Java technologies with a strong focus on Oracle Cloud Platform & Enterprise Mobility. At Oracle he is regarded as an Oracle Mobile Solution Expert who has both the breadth and depth of product expertise and industry knowledge making him the perfect candidate for positioning Oracle Platform for Digital and Mobility initiatives in BFSI, NBFC & Telecommunications industry.

Javed Beg Javed Beg
Group Product Manager, Oracle India

Javed is a Group Product Manager at Oracle. In his current capacity, he is leading a team of product managers with a goal of increasing visibility, awareness and adoption of Oracle PaaS with enterprise developers. This team's portfolio includes evangelization of Oracle Fusion Middleware technologies deployed in Oracle PaaS, namely -Java EE, DevOps, Node.js, Messaging, Document and Content Management with Social networking (Webcenter), Business Process Management, Big Data Analytics, Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), Enterprise Mobility, Integration (SOA) and Identity and Access Management (IAM).

Prior to PaaS Evangelism, Javed used to focus on building the strategy and roadmap of Oracle IAM products. He used to lead a team of product managers who collectively executed as a synergized group focusing on IAM product pillars like Oracle Mobile Security Suite (OMSS), Oracle Identity Governance (OIG) and Oracle Access Management (OAM). This Team's portfolio also included streamlining, across all IAM products, the Lifecycle architecture aspects like Install, High Availability, Migration, Manageability, Patching and Upgrade. Under Javed's leadership, this team worked in strong propinquity with large number of customers and system integrators worldwide, for catalyzing their success in deploying Oracle IAM in production environments, secure enterprise IT and transform business.

Javed joined offshore division of Oracle (Thor Tech) in 2003 as Senior Member of Technical Staff, where he was responsible for architecting, developing key modules of Oracle Identity Governance products. Thereafter, he had an exciting journey in the world of Oracle IAM, playing the roles of Tech lead, Dev manager, Product Architect and eventually landed himself in the exhilarating career of Product Management.

Javed has 17 years of experience in IT industry. As his highest education, he has pursued Master of Science (By Research) from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras.

Yagnyeshwaran Hariharan Yagnyeshwaran Hariharan
Senior Manager, Sales Consulting, Oracle India

Yagnyeshwaran Hariharan is a Senior Manager Sales with Oracle Direct and heads the Sales consulting function for the Infrastructure vertical (Hardware , Database and Middleware) in India. He has close to 14 years experience in various roles in Consulting, Sales, development and the services industry in multiple geographies across the world.

Yagnyeshwaran has worked with some of the largest Fortune 500 Customers across the world in Retail and BFSI segment providing consulting services and acting as a trusted advisor in various business transformation Programs.

Yagnyeshwaran holds a bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Bharathidasan University.

Mandar Tengse Mandar Tengse
Director, Sales Consulting (OFM Specialist Products), Oracle India

Mandar Tengse is Director, Sales Consulting Digital, PAAS & Security for India region at Oracle India Middleware business unit.

Mandar is responsible for helping customer on transformation journey using Oracle Digital, PAAS & Mobility. Mandar has more than 18 years of IT experience of which 12 years are in Oracle India. He has performed various role in the IT industry in various technical and leadership capabilities in services delivery; program and project management; software architecture, design and development; and presales.

Mandar has vast experience in Oracle Middleware technologies and has been involved in strategic customer engagements for building & architecting solutions across industries especially Banking, Insurance, Telecom and Government aligning it to business objectives using Oracle Middleware. Mandar holds B.E. Honours from Mumbai University and SMP from IIM Calcutta.

IoT & Enterprise Integration for Cloud
Track Keynote Speaker
Sundar Ram Sundar Ram
Vice President, Enterprise Architecture, Oracle India

Sundar Ram is Vice President for Enterprise Architecture for Oracle India.
In his role, he and his architecture team will play a major role in helping Oracle India's large & strategic customers embrace the Cloud. Additionally, Ram will also work with customers to help them identify and deliver on strategic initiatives encompassing Big Data and other national programmes like the Government of India's 'Digital India' initiative.

Prior to this Sundar Ram was Vice President, Technology Sales Consulting, Oracle Asia Pacific region. Ram has been a key leader in Oracle, serving customers in India and Asia Pacific, for almost two decades.
Ram joined Oracle in 1996, as a Consultant in the ERP Pre-Sales team. He has also been the CRM Pre-Sales manager and Technology Pre-Sales manager for India during his career at Oracle. Prior to his tenure at Oracle, Ram was a systems executive at Maruti Udyog Ltd.

Ram holds a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from IIT Madras (India) and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM Ahmedabad (India).

Session Speakers
Sarabjit Madan Sarabjit Madan
Director Cloud Technologies, Oracle India

Sarabjit Singh Madan is Director Cloud Solutions at Oracle. He has around twenty plus years of experience around Middleware and Cloud Solutions. He leads some large Strategic Accounts at Oracle for all their Solutions. He has strong record of working with prestigious Customers across different Geos; served clients across industries - Telecom / Media / Public Sector/ Utilities/ BFSI etc. He has extensive experience in developing architecture blueprints, roadmaps, leading discussions with CIO/CTO/CISO, working with customer business teams, influencers and SI ecosystem. He holds certifications in technologies like Cloud Computing, Integration Technologies, Workflow and Security Solutions.

Vijosh Ammayath Vijosh Ammayath
Director Middleware Technologies, Oracle India

Vijosh Ammayath has over 20 years of experience in software engineering, technology, enterprise solution architecture, sales and IT consulting. He has used his experience in design, development and commissioning of large and complex solutions for key customers in BFSI, Telecom, Manufacturing and Utility industry. Key areas of expertise are - Digital Strategy, Cloud Strategy, Enterprise Integration, API Management, Micro services

Unnikrishna Panicker Unnikrishna Panicker
Principal Sales Consultant, Middleware Technologies, Oracle India

Unnikrishna Panicker has over 15 years of experience in IT Industry with core focus on architecting efficient and reliable solutions around Java and Middleware technologies (on-premise and cloud). Unnikrishna is a frequent speaker at various APAC Oracle Middleware Forum, Cloud events and Oracle product events. He has worked with customers across diverse domains like Manufacturing, Insurance and BFSI. His key areas of expertise include - Enterprise Integrations, Process Automation, Enterprise Mobility & Internet of Things (IoT).

Ravi Pinto Ravi Pinto
Director, Product Management, Oracle India

Ravi Joseph Pinto is Director, Fusion Middleware Product Management with Oracle. He is a seasoned IT professional with 25 years of experience in Enterprise Computing space. He has been working with Oracle since 2008 and was with BEA Systems (acquired by Oracle) before that. At Oracle, he has handled roles such as Consulting, Architecting, Pre-sales etc.

In his current role as Product Manager, Ravi interfaces with customers and partners across JAPAC to advise and evangelize about Oracle's Middleware Strategy and Product Roadmap. His focus areas are Oracle's Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Oracle Cloud Machine.

Ashutosh Joshi Ashutosh Joshi
Principal Cloud Solutions Consultant, Oracle India

Ashutosh Joshi is a seasoned IT Professional with an overall work experience of 16+ years. He is a hands on person and has played various roles in his career, including that of a software developer, Project Manager for Delivery and Support projects and now Pre-Sales. He has been in a sales consulting role for almost half of his career now. His experience revolves around varied technologies like Cloud, Middleware, Databases, Mobility. He is currently working as a Cloud Architect with Oracle India, and works with Customers across India to help them in their Cloud Initiatives.

Subhabrata Banerjee Subhabrata Banerjee
Director, Integrated Cloud, Oracle India

Subhabrata is a solution leader with global experience across Cross Functional Business Transformation, and Solution Consulting. He has led solution consulting engagements across verticals like Customer Relationship Management, Business Analytics and Digital across Industries like Banking, Insurance, Automotive, Oil & Gas, Telecom, Retail and IT&ITes. He has consulted with a several Fortune 100 clients like GE, BP, Prudential, Shell etc. He has won several awards both in India as well as globally in the field of business analytics and digital. Currently he is leading the cross functional integrated cloud team for solution consulting in India. He is a gold medalist in MBA Finance and Strategy from MDI Gurgaon.

Database & Big Data for Cloud
Track Keynote Speaker
Mitesh Agarwal Mitesh Agarwal
Vice President & CTO -Sales Consulting, Oracle India

Mitesh Agarwal is the Vice President & CTO -Sales Consulting for Oracle India. In this role Mitesh provides technical leadership to customers, partners and Oracle India's sales consulting and sales teams. His role includes technical consulting across Applications, Cloud, Middleware, Database, EPM/BI and Systems. He is the conduit between Oracle's corporate product engineering, product management and field teams. He expands Oracle's influence by helping develop, articulate and refine our overall strategy, technology vision, and case examples of customer impact.

Mitesh joined Oracle in 2002, and in his ~13 years tenure in Oracle he has held various leadership roles. Most recently, he was responsible for the Engineered Systems business for India. Previously, Mitesh was the Director, Sales Consulting for the Systems business at Oracle India, where he was responsible for leading technology solutions & presales for Oracle's hardware line of business. He has also held pre-sales positions at Ramco Systems & Wipro Infotech prior to Oracle.

Mitesh holds a Masters (Hons) Physics from BITS, Pilani and a BE (Hons) Mechanical Engineering from BITS, Pilani.

Session Speakers
Kapil Malhotra Kapil Malhotra
Director - Database Sales Consulting (North), Oracle India

Kapil brings more than 17 years of experience in driving technology innovations. In his current role he manages technical pre-sales of Oracle technology solutions for North India.

He possess years of Industry experience in designing, deploying & managing Database and solutions associated with data management. He has expertise on multiple Oracle technologies (Database optimization & tuning, High Availability, Replication, Disaster Recovery, Data Integration, Oracle E-Business Suite) blended with skills on platform and infrastructure cloud services.

In his earlier role with DELL he manages India Pre-Sales for Dell's Software portfolio (Cloud & Virtualization Management, Application Performance Management, Database & Information Management, Data Protection and Security solutions)

Twitter Handle: @kapsmalhotra

Shray Bansal Shray Bansal
Product Manager, Oracle India

Shray is a Product Manager at Oracle India Pvt. Ltd currently focusing on increasing adoption of Oracle PaaS services among enterprise developers. He is also part of the ongoing strategic development and execution of technical content and programs specific to adoption of PaaS strategies and technologies throughout the global developer community. He has been part of Sales Consulting for EMEA clients where he provided technology solutions and assisted in product sales by facilitating customer understanding of the solution through Proof of Concepts, presentations, and Demonstrations. His experience also includes being part of design and development teams for Oracle Data Service Integrator product.

Shray has graduated from BITS Pilani with a B.E in Computer Science and has been part of Oracle ever since. He was also invited to join the Outstanding Corporate Leadership panel for prestigious Harvard conference held at Tokyo in 2014.

Chaitanya Koratamaddi Chaitanya Koratamaddi
Principal Product Manager, Oracle India

Chaitanya is a Principal Product Manager for Oracle Application Express. He joined Oracle in 2005. Chaitanya has extensive knowledge and experience on various Oracle technologies such as Oracle Application Express, Oracle SQL Developer, SQL Developer Data Modeler, Oracle Database, Oracle XML DB, Oracle Database XE, Oracle Database Vault, Oracle REST Data Services, and Oracle Fusion Middleware. Chaitanya is a seasoned technology professional with 13 + years of experience in IT in various roles.

Chaitanya is a regular speaker at various conferences like Oracle Develop, Oracle Cloud World, OOW, OTN Developer Days, ODTUG, JavaOne, AIOUG Tech Days, and Sangam, and other user groups. Chaitanya spends his free time gardening, volunteering, learning music, and enjoys traveling. Chaitanya writes his technical blog @ http://chaitanyain.blogspot.com/. You can gain insights into what Chaitanya is up to by following @chaitanya_in on Twitter.

Goutam Kurumella Goutam Kurumella
Director, Big Data & Analytics, Oracle India

Goutam is currently the Director for Big Data & Analytics at Oracle India and leads the technology team for building value proposition around Analytics, Big Data and Digital Initiatives.

He has extensive experience partnering with clients to advance their competitive positions by developing and executing business strategies leveraging analytics, redesigning business processes, and advising on technology investments. To his credit are the architectures of some of the largest warehouses and big data platforms in the country. His core strengths are around stream computing, large scale distributed data processing, warehousing and predictive analytics, as well as building financial justifications for technology investments. Prior to that, he was a Senior Consultant at a start-up firm in Singapore specialized in implementing retail/ corporate internet banking, trade finance & cash management solutions across multiple banks in Asia.

Goutam holds a B.E degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering from University of Mysore. In his free time, he enjoys photography and participating in data mining challenges.

Sachin Arora Sachin Arora
Big Data Lead Architect, Oracle India

Sachin has `16 years of experience in various technology startups & IT biggies. Prior to joining Oracle, Sachin worked as Sr. Data Architect with Yahoo! India R&D for almost 7 years. He has also worked with startups such as Tribal Fusion, & managed data for McKinsey & Company. Sachin finished his engineering in Mechanical with distinction in year 2000 from Bangalore University. Sachin is Java certified programmer and Oracle certified professional. He is also a well known speaker in Big Data meetups.

He is an avid reader of upcoming technologies (not just big data) and loves deep dive technical conversations. He maintains a technology blog oracle-online-help.blogspot.com

He can be reached at Sachin.x.arora@oracle.com or +91-9818815570 and is based in Gurgaon.

Monitoring & Management for Cloud Services
Track Keynote Speaker
Prakash Ramamurthy Prakash Ramamurthy
Senior Vice President, Product Development Systems & Cloud Management, Oracle Corporation

As Senior Vice President of Product Development for Oracle's Systems & Cloud management products, Mr. Ramamurthy is responsible for all aspects of product management, development, strategy and field enablement.

Prior to re-joining Oracle in Oct 2013, Mr. Ramamurthy was most recently an Entrepreneur in Residence at Trinity Ventures, a leading venture capital firm in Silicon Valley. Prior to that, he was the Chief Product & Technology Officer for LifeLock, a leader in identity theft protection, where he helped guide the company to a successful IPO in 2012. He brings 20+ years of experience leading technology vision, directing strategy & product development in both enterprise and consumer software. Prior to joining LifeLock, Mr. Ramamurthy served as the senior VP of product management and engineering for Gaia Online, a social gaming and community website. During his time there, he helped Gaia Online become one of the leaders in virtual goods and microtransactions.

Before working for Gaia Online, Mr. Ramamurthy was the VP of identity management and security products for Oracle. In the nine years before representing Oracle, Mr. Ramamurthy served as senior VP of products and technology at Oblix, an identity and access management company, whose products have been deployed by Fortune 500 companies to protect and secure mission-critical applications.

Prior to joining Oblix in 1996, Mr. Ramamurthy held senior technical and management positions at C*ATS Software, Mentor Graphics, and Verity. He holds an MS in computer engineering from Boston University and a BE in computer science and engineering from College of Engineering, Guindy, in Madras, India.

Session Speakers
Sanjeev Chauhan Sanjeev Chauhan
Middleware India Sales Consulting Director, Oracle India

Sanjeev Chauhan is the Director -Sales Consulting (Middleware). He is responsible for leading Oracle's Middleware Sales Consulting organization in India. He is helping customers in their transformation journey of revamping on prem applications, Digital innovation and cloud Adoption.

Sanjeev joined Oracle in 2008, and in his 8 years tenure in Oracle he has held various Technical and leadership roles. Most recently, he was Enterprise Architect for large oracle customers in India. He has also held pre-sales positions at Red Hat, Pentasoft and TCS.

Sanjeev holds a Masters (Hons) Management and M.Tech (Hons) in Information Technology.

Dan Koloski Dan Koloski
Senior Director, Product Management & Business Development, Oracle Corporation

Dan Koloski is a software industry expert with broad experience as both a technologist working on the IT side and as a management executive on the vendor side. Dan is a Senior Director in Oracle's Systems and Applications Management group, which produces Oracle Management Cloud Services. Previously, Dan was CTO and Director of Strategy for the Web BU at Empirix, which he helped spin out and sell to Oracle in 2008. Dan holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Gagan Chawla Gagan Chawla
Senior Director, Strategic Customer Programs, Oracle India

Gagan Chawla, Sr Director - Strategic Customer Programs(SCP) at Oracle is currently responsible for driving adoption of Oracle Management Cloud (OMC) services in Asia Pacific and seen as a trusted advisor from Oracle Product Management for customers and partners in region. Gagan has more than 18+ years of related industry experience and has been with Oracle since past 15 years in various Development and Product Management roles spread across Oracle Applications, Database, Enterprise Manager and Oracle Management Cloud organization. Gagan also has an additional responsibility as a regional sales liaison between Product Management and regional sales teams for Oracle Management Cloud and Enterprise Manager business in APAC region.