February 8-10, 2006 | India Habitat Centre | New Delhi, India

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Programme: February 9

Day At-A-Glance:  Wednesday  | Thursday  | Friday


WORKSHOPS/TUTORIALS
Workshop:  Linux - Ready for the Enterprise
Unit 3: Groupware
Deepa Mahajan, Tetra Information Services
09:30 - 13:00, Room: Magnolia
Workshop:  Linux - Ready for the Enterprise
Unit 4: Clustering & High Availability
Deepa Mahajan, Tetra Information Services
14:00 - 17:30, Room: Magnolia
Workshop:  Open Solutions by Novell
Novell
14:00 - 17:30, Room: Casuarina

Time CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
07:00 Registration Opens
7am
09:30 09:30
Conference Keynote
What's Next in Enterprise Linux
Sandeep Menon
Novell
Room: Auditorium
09:45
10:00
10:15 Tea Break
  Industry
Sessions

Room: Jacaranda
E-Governance
Forum

Room: Gulmohar
Technology
Forum

Room: Theatre
Fedora
Day

Room: Auditorium
10:30 IS-201 10:30
Customer Keynote
Experiences in Project Implementations across Platforms - is Open Source the Best Choice?
Sandeep Parikh, CTO
Keane India
GOV-101 10:30
Forum Keynote
Neeta Shah
Director E-Governance, Gujarat Informatics Ltd, Govt of Gujarat
TF-201 10:30
Tech Keynote
Migrating .NET Applications on Linux
Dr. Harinath Raja
Mono Project
Novell
FC-101 10:30
Welcome & Agenda
Venky Hariharan, Red Hat
Alolita Sharma, Technetra
10:45
11:00 IS-202 11:00
Panel
Open Source in ITES & BPOs
Chair: Dr. Appa Rao, Chief Consultant, R&D, Cognizant
* Rajat Goel, Keane India
* Umesh Gupta, CIO, Equinox Global Services
GOV-102 11:00
Panel
Open Source E-Gov Solutions
Chair: Sachin Dabir, Red Hat
* Raghunathan Srinivasan, NIC Kerala
* Neeta Shah, Director E-Governance, Gujarat Informatics Ltd, Govt of Gujarat
* M R Rajagopalan, C-DAC Chennai
* Gopi Nath, Head Consulting and Integration, Public Sector, HP India
TF-202 11:00
Agile Software Development
Dibya Prakash
Reevik
FC-102 11:00
All About Fedora
Greg DeKoenigsberg
Red Hat
11:15
11:30 TF-203 11:30
GNOME & the Zen of Deployment
Sayamindu Dasgupta
FC-103 11:30
Fedora Desktop Roadmap
Christopher Blizzard
Red Hat
11:45
12:00 IS-203 12:00
Special Talk
Business Readiness Rating
Anthony Wasserman
Carnegie Mellon University
GOV-103 12:00
Panel
International E-Gov Success Stories
Chair: Mary Ann Fisher, IBM
* Prasanna Karunarathne, Programme Manager, ICT Agency of Sri Lanka
* Sudhir Rao, Govt Affairs, HP India
* Sivarama Krishnan, Associate Director, PWC
TF-204 12:00
Efficient & Secure iSCSI Solutions
Taranisen Mohanta
HP
FC-104 12:00
The Developer Community and OSS in India
Kishore Bhargava
12:15
12:30 IS-204 12:30
Special Talk
Open Source Software - India's Strategic Competitive Advantage
Pradeep Tagare
Intel Capital
TF-205 12:30
Amanda: The Open Source Backup Software
Chander Kant
Zmanda
FC-105 12:30
Community Plumbing: How to Contribute to Fedora
Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Red Hat
12:45
13:00 Lunch
13:15
13:30
13:45
14:00 14:00
Conference Keynote
Klaus Knopper
Creator, Knoppix
Room: Auditorium
14:15
14:30
14:45 IS-205 14:45
Panel
Attracting Venture for Your Open Source Startup
Chair: Pradeep Tagare, Intel Capital
* Javed Tapia, Red Hat Indian Subcontinent
* Deborah Magid, IBM Venture Capital Group
* Murugan Pal, SpikeSource
* Chander Kant, Zmanda
GOV-104 14:45
Forum Keynote
Policy Initiatives
Rohit Singh
IT Secy, Govt of Rajasthan
TF-206 14:45
WiFi in Linux
Ashwin Chaugule
Codito
FC-106 14:45
MySQL and Fedora: A Developer's Overview
Colin Charles
MySQL AB
15:00 GOV-105 15:00
Forum Keynote
Prakash Kumar
IT Secy, Govt of Delhi
15:15 TF-207 15:15
Introduction to AJAX & Rico
Kushal Das
Durgapur Linux Users Group
FC-107 15:15
L10n from a Developer's Perspective
Ramkrishna Reddy
Red Hat
Development in the areas of L10n
Ankit Patel
Red Hat
15:30 GOV-106 15:30
Vote of Thanks!
15:45 Tea Break
16:00 IS-206 16:00
Customer Case Study
Dinkar Sitaram, CTO
HP India Software Operations
  TF-208 16:00
Network Monitoring using Snort
Lakshmi Narayanan, HCL
Raja R K, HCL
FC-108 16:00
Desktop Gaps: Device Drivers, Usability and Testing
Christopher Blizzard
Red Hat
16:15
16:30 IS-207 16:30
Panel
Open Source in SMBs: Challenges and Successes
Chair: Rajeev Kamath, IBM
* Tarun Pant, GM, Om Logistics
* Sudev Barar, VP, Nuchem
* Sunil Malhotra, Business Park
* SQL Star
TF-209 16:30
Embedded Linux: Understanding the Market
Patanjali Somayaji
Codito
FC-109 16:30
Enabling Devices
Satish Mohan
Red Hat
16:45
17:00 TF-210 17:00
Linux Features for Consumer Electronics
Thangaraju Balasubramanian
WIPRO
FC-110 17:00
Bug Zapping: Testing & Triaging
Rahul Sundaram
Red Hat
17:15 IS-208 17:15
Panel
Using Open Source in Media
* Alok Tripathi, SaharaNet
* Shammi Dargan, Hindustan Times
* Times of India
* Indian Express
* Niyam Bhushan, BenefIT
17:30 TF-211 17:30
Leveraging Terminal Services in Your Organisation
Sudev Barar
Nuchem
FC-111 17:30
BoF Session
Community & Contributions
Greg DeKoenigsberg
Christopher Blizzard
Satish Mohan
Red Hat
17:45
18:00    
18:15
18:30  
18:45
19:00 19:00
Industry Awards
Penguin Party
19:15
19:30
19:45
20:00
20:15
20:30
20:45

LEGEND
Workshops
Tutorials
Networking
Session
Keynote Break
Industry
Session
E-Governance
Forum
Technology
Forum
Fedora
Day

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