Organizing Committee / Speakers

1. Prof. S G Dhande, Director, IIT Kanpur
Director, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (India)
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science

Professor Sanjay Govind Dhande, a brilliant academician of high caliber, is presently the Director of Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and Director-Mentor of IIT Rajasthan. IIT Kanpur, under the captainship of Prof. Dhande has once again become an internationally acclaimed Institution for its excellence in engineering education and research. He was the Founder Director of PDPM Indian Institute of Information Technology Design & Manufacturing Jabalpur. This Institute is being helped in different areas as part of the protocol signed by the Prime Ministers of India and Japan. He has also served as Director, ABV-IIITM, Gwalior with additional charge from September 8, 2007 to April 8, 2008. Another new Institute called Indian Institute of Saddlery Technology and Export Management (IISTEM) at Banther near Kanpur under the aegis of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Govt. of India has been established by Professor Dhande, in order to harness the traditional technology available in the region. He served as a part-time member of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). Presently, he is a member of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India (PM-SAC). He has been extending his unstinted services to the Nation for the past 30 years, in the field of technical education and research.

The Railway Technology Mission, a prestigious mission initiative of the Government of India is propelled under his Chairmanship with a vision plan for development of indigenous technologies for the Railway safety system. His inclusion in the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India is a true recognition for his yeomen work in the area of Applied Science and Technology, Information and Communication Technologies, Engineering & Science education and research. He has been extending the executive help in preparing the vision documents, charters and background papers for helping the Govt. of India in establishment of Indian Institutes of Science for Education & Research (IISER) at Pune & Kolkota. As a member of the Governing Body of the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum, Indo-French Cooperation Program, Indo-Japan Coordination Programs etc., the depth of his contributions are unfathomed. He actively participated in the efforts of Government of India for establishing Indo-French Cyber University. He profusely helped in spelling out Information Technology policy of the Government of Uttar Pradesh as a member of the IT Sub-committee UP Development Council for the balanced development of the slow-paced regions of the state.

Dr. Dhande always contemplated on harnessing the technology for the benefit of rural Indian folks by designing different innovative projects like Infothella and Digital Mandi for agriculture farmers, technology development for Footwear industry and handicrafts , Tele-medicine for healthcare of rural masses, indigenous Saddle Tree designing etc. under the initiative of Media Lab Asia as its Technical Director. A project called Digital Heritage is on anvil under tie up with a team of archaeologists in Allahabad University, for preservation of traditional Indian heritage using the modern technologies.



2. Masamoto Yashiro, Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of Shinsei Bank

Masamoto Yashiro is Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of Shinsei Bank, previously the Long-Term Credit Bank (LTCB), which was nationalized in October 1998. In March 2000, a consortium of foreign investors led by US private equity fund, Ripplewood Holdings, acquired LTCB from the government. Shinsei bank was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in February 2004. Previously, Mr. Yashiro served as Chairman & CEO (2000 - 2005), and Chairman of the Board (2005 - 2006), and Senior Adviser (2006-2008) and Chairman of the Board (non-executive) (June 2008-Nov. 2008).

Prior to Shinsei, Mr. Yashiro was affiliated with Citicorp from 1989 to 1999, building up Citigroup's retail franchise and oversaw Citicorp activities in Japan until 1997. His positions at Citicorp included Executive Vice President (Citicorp/Citibank N.A.) and Chairman of Citicorp Japan. Prior to Citicorp, he served Exxon for 30 years, including Esso Japan as President (from 1974 through 1979 and again 1986 to 1989), and Esso Eastern which was Exxon's Asia Pacific Regional company, as Executive Vice President (from 1979 until 1986).

Mr. Yashiro serves on several committees. He is a Member of the Council of International Advisers of the China Banking Regulatory Commission. From September 2004 until June 2007, he served as an Independent Director of China Construction Bank, and since June 2007 as Adviser. He also serves as a Member of Temasek International Panel. From March 2008 he serves as Director of Achievo Corporation.

Mr. Yashiro was born in Tokyo in 1929. He has a B.A. in Jurisprudence from Kyoto University and an M.A. in International Relations from Tokyo University.



3. Dr. Veena Bansal, Associate Professor, IIT Kanpur

Dr. Veena Bansal received her Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Motilal Nehru Regional Engineering College, Allahabad in 1984 where she was the only girl in the batch of 200 (2 other girls joined after one month in another department). Dr. Veena Bansal received her PhD from IIT Kanpur in 1999. She is on the faculty of Industrial and Management Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur since then. She has widely traveled across the globe to attend school, to teach and to present her research work. One of her main interests is to help organizations use Information Technology for better management of the businesses. Her AHP model for outsourcing is being used by a leading IT firm of India. She has pioneered ERP (SAP and Navision) education at IIT Kanpur. One of her strengths is in managing software projects. She has conducted multiple SAP workshops for the faculty and industry. Her PhD thesis work on Devanagari Optical Character Recognition has become key reference for researchers working in Indian scripts. She is faculty advisor to a very active office automation cell at IIT Kanpur. She has published over 20 research papers in national and international journals and proceedings. She has written a book titled Computing For Management published by Prentice Hall of India. She is involved in joint program of NMCC, CII, IIT Kanpur, IIM Kolkata, IIT Madras and Japanese Government for accelerated growth of small and medium enterprises of India. She is mentoring one of the leading measuring instrument manufacturer. She has guided 10 MTech thesis and 1 PhD thesis at IIT Kanpur. She has taught at University of Connecticut, USA, HBTI, Kanpur, IIM Lucknow and at Tribhuvan University, Nepal. She organized a workshop on Role of patent literature in technology development supported by Ministry of Communication and Information Technology India. She has taught in various quality improvement programs that are organized for industry and academia. She considers it her duty to share the knowledge and makes use of every opportunity and platform for performing her duty. She reviews journal papers for IEEE and IPR journals.



4. Mr. Dhananjay Dvivedi, CIO, Shinsei Bank

Dhananjaya Dvivedi , or Jay as he is commonly referred to, has spent almost his entire career managing technology and operations in the banking industry. Prior to his joining the key senior team at Shinsei Bank, Jay spent over twenty five years with the Citigroup.

Jay has an extremely varied experience, having worked in Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Japan and North America. The variety of assignment he has handled matches the variety of countries he has worked in. A constant theme that Jay has dealt with through- out his career is the restructuring of technology and operations and to get them ready for seminal changes in the industry. He was in the middle of the "Big Bang" in Europe and was instrumental in getting Citigroup readied for it.

Jay as a point person for the technology and operations was part of the team that established Citibank as the No.1 retail bank in Japan. Jay was thus well prepared for one of his biggest challenges in the transformation of the failed Long Term Credit Bank (LTCB) of Japan.

Jay graduated from Madhav Engineering College, Gwalior, India in 1969 and received his Master of Business Administration from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India in 1974.