Hyderabad: The Association for Computing Machinery is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society for the Computer Science/IT community, delivering resources that advance computing as a science and a profession for the past 70 years. An ACM India council was formed in 2009 to give a boost to the computing activities in India and to increase ACM’s presence here. ACM Hyderabad Chapter is pleased to host the ACM India Annual Conference 2011 on January 28th and 29th, at the Indian School of Business.

About 500 computing professionals, academics, and students are expected to attend the 2 day event, to discuss the current science and technology trends, celebrate ACM’s spirit and India’s accomplishment in computing. Distinguished computer scientists and practitioners, including recipients of the Turing Award, ACM Infosys Award, and President of the ACM have confirmed their participation. Your participation and support will be very helpful to ensure that this event is valuable to the community and encourage ACM India to enrich the regional IT community. The ACM India inaugural event held in Bangalore last year was highly appreciated.

Event date: 28-29th January 2011; Venue: Indian School of Business, Hyderabad

Agenda for meet:
Day 1 (Friday, January 28th): Talks and Panel Discussion by Distinguished guests will include ACM Award winners and officers, and distinguished researchers from India. An event on Indian achievements in computing is also being planned for the day.The following eminent speakers have confirmed their participation:

• Charles Thacker – Microsoft Research (Turing Award 2009)
• Eric Brewer – UC Berkeley (ACM-Infosys Award 2009)
• Barbara G. Ryder – Virgina Polytechnic Institute and State University (Vice President, ACM)
• Alain Chesnais (President, ACM)
• John White (CEO, ACM)

Schedule:

• 8:30 – 9:30 am Registration 9:30 – 10:00 am Inauguration and Welcome P J Narayanan, Co-Chair, ACM India, John White, CEO, ACM, Alain Chesnais, President, ACM
• 10:00 – 11:00 am To Be Announced Charles Thacker
• 11:00 – 11:30 am Tea Break
• 11:30 am – 12:30 pm To Be Announced Barbara Ryder
• 12:30 – 1:15 pm The Business and Scientific Case for Diversity Beryl Nelson, Google, Nandini Chatterjee Singh, NBRC, Mani Abrol, Yahoo! Research, Ben Walters, Microsoft India
• 1:15 – 2:15 pm Lunch
• 2:15 – 3:15 pm To Be Announced Eric Brewer
• 3:15 – 3:45 pm Tea Break
• 3:45 – 4:30 pm Retrospective on Computing in India: presentation Matthai Joseph
• 4:30 – 5:45 pm Retrospective on Computing in India: panel To Be Announced

5:45 – 6:00 pm Closing Remarks Anand Deshpande, Co-Chair, ACM India, John White, CEO, ACM 6:00 – 7:00 pm Networking 7:00 pm onwards Dinner

Day 2 (Saturday, January 29th): Two Technology Workshops (with Hands-on Labs) will be presented, on the latest Enterprise technologies covering Virtualization and Web 2.0 for Cloud Computing. About 200 participants are expected to attend the workshops, about 4 hours long each, presented by technical leaders from Adobe, Google, Microsoft and Trillion Technologies.

Track: Virtualization

Topic: Virtualization for Enterprise Cloud Applications

9.30 AM To 1.00 PM: Track: Web 2.0 technologies, Topic: Web 2.0 technologies for cloud

2.30 PM To 6.00 PM: Session 1

Azure “building and deploying web application on Azure”

Ranjana Rathinam and Sudarshan Yadav, Microsoft Server and Cloud Division, Microsoft

Prerequisites: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsazure/cc974146.aspx

Session 1: Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR): P. N. Anantharaman (Engineering Director) and team, Adobe

Session 2: On A Cloud Platform using Web 2.0 Technology serving Enterprise Apps:Srinivas Tata (Engineering Director) and team, Trillion Technologies

Session 2: Google Technology to Make the Web Faster. (Using PageSpeed and mod_pagespeed technologies): Pradnya Karbhari and Team, Google