Sowmya Narayanan Sadagopan
Founding Director IIIT Bangalore, Former Chairman BoG, IIITDM-Kancheepuram
Professor Sowmyanarayanan SADAGOPAN was the Director (President) of IIIT-Bangalore (a Ph.D. granting University) until July 2021. Earlier he taught at IIT Kanpur (1979-95) and IIM Bangalore (1995-99) as well as RUTGERS University, USA (1997) and AIT Bangkok, Thailand (1990)
IIIT’s represent a set of new generation universities that started in India in the late 90’s with a special focus on IT; IIIT-Bangalore is one of the first such Institutes. As the first Director of IIIT-Bangalore, he was involved in the visioning, planning, and executing the growth of this Institute that is counted as one of the premier Institutes in India.
Sadagopan obtained his MS & Ph.D. Degrees from Purdue University, USA in 1979 and BE (Hons) Degree from Madras University, India in 1973.
His teaching/research interests include OR, IT Applications to Government, Enterprises, and Education.
Sadagopan’s research work has appeared in reputed journals that include IEEE Transactions, EJOR, and J of Opt. Theory & App. He has authored seven books. He was the General Chair of the WWW2011.
Sadagopan is a Fellow of the UK’s IET (formerly IEE), Computer Society of India, and Institution of Engineers (India), and most recently ISPMA. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and ACM.
He has won numerous awards that include Fulbright Fellowship (1995), “Champion of humanity” Award of Hindustan Chamber of Commerce (2009), “Rotary Honor of Vocational Excellence” by Rotary Northwest Bangalore District 3190 (2013), Cisco NDTV “Digital Pioneer” Award (2016), “Distinguished Alumni Award” from the College of Engineering, Guindy (2019) to name a few.
Srivathsa NS
Technology Leader
Srivathsa NS is a seasoned technology leader with expertise in Operating Systems, High Performance Computing, Open Source, Systems Management, Servers, Storage, and Security. With more than 25 years of experience across global product organizations, he has led engineering teams building award‑winning solutions in network security, cloud, and biometrics, and has driven innovation across multiple generations of enterprise technologies. He has shaped technology strategy, guided intellectual property development, and mentored engineering teams across domains. His work spans leadership roles in systems management, enterprise Linux, and high‑performance computing, contributing to products and platforms used worldwide. Srivathsa holds two Master’s degrees in Computer Science, a Senior Management diploma from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, and the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Programme from Cambridge Judge Business School—deepening his expertise at the intersection of technology, strategy, and leadership. He actively contributes to the technology community through keynote talks, panel discussions, and mentorship. His interests include the business and economics of open source, emerging technology waves that influence business strategy, and building careers in open source. He has been an advisor to the Open Source India conference since 2010. As part of the NASSCOM IP Think Tank, he contributes to strengthening the intellectual property ecosystem within India
Janardan Revuru
Web standards and AI community leader
Janardan Revuru is an AI and open source advocate who has served as Advisor to the Open Source India conference since 2011. Currently pursuing a PhD in AI (multi-agent systems communication architectures, expected 2028) with an M.Tech in Data Science from BITS Pilani, he brings academic rigor to his community leadership. Janardan has founded and scaled tech communities reaching 22K+ members across India, organizing 100+ events at venues including Google, Microsoft, HPE, and Nutanix. He co-founded the JavaScript Meetup (since 2015) and the Data Science, AI, Research and Learning (DARLing) Meetup (since 2025), bridging practitioners and researchers. As a co-inventor on three granted patents and one published application in user experience and adaptive systems, he contributes to the technical frontier. His background spans enterprise infrastructure (server, storage, networking) and AI-native delivery and agentic AI adoption, making him a connector between open source innovation and enterprise scale.
Sanil Kumar D
Founder, CEO (Business and Technology), Caze Labs Private Limited
Sanil is an industry-awarded expert with over 26 years of experience across various technologies, including Open Source, Cloud, Containers, Data Management, Edge Computing, Blockchain, Linux/ARM, and real-time systems. Currently growing a technology startup – Caze Labs, as founder, CEO – working on products and solutions in AI, Cloud, Cyber Security, and open source.
In his career, he got the privilege of working with leading MNCs to build cutting-edge technology products and solutions. He contributes to leading industry organizations such as the SODA Foundation, IOS MCN, Linux Foundation, IEEE, SNIA, CNCF, CCICI, and OSI in key roles. He is a founding member of global open source project initiatives such as SODA Foundation (under LF), IOS-MCN and KubeEdge (under CNCF).
He published papers and holds multiple patents in the areas of monitoring, debugging, cloud, edge, blockchain, containers, system optimization, and application migration, and has helped driving innovation in these fields.
Amith K K
Amith is a Sr. Principal – Agentic Engineering, Unisys.
Amith K K is a Sr. Principal – Agentic Engineering in the AI Practice team under Unisys’ Office of the CTO, where he leads the architecture, development, and deployment of Agentic solutions for clients and internal initiatives. A full-stack engineer working across AI/ML, digital identity, distributed ledgers, and IoT, he has authored 30+ articles, 4+ research papers, and 4 patents with more pending, won 20+ national and international hackathons totaling over $100k in prizes, and has contributed to open source since age 12, including Pandas, vLLM, and Ubuntu.
Biju K Nair
Lawyer | LegaliTech.in
Biju K Nair is a founding and Managing Partner of Legalitech.in a Technology focused law firm. He advises established businesses and startups across the globe. Prior to starting Legalitech.in. He was Executive Director of Sflc.in. He has worked with Luthra and Luthra Law Offices and Amarchand Mangaldas. He represents Open Invention Network in India which is a global community aimed at reducing patent tension around Linux and Open Source. He is involved in advising, training, enforcement, compliance for various companies both in India and around the world around Open Source. He regularly speaks at various open source conferences and forums on Legal Aspects around Open Source.
Abhas Abhinav
hacker, entrepreneur and free software activist
Abhas is a hacker, entrepreneur and free software activist. As the founder of DeepRoot GNU/Linux, an twenty-two-year-old Free Software Business that provides support, services and solutions for Free Software deployments. DeepRoot builds mail servers and clusters, provides hosting & support for a variety of Free Software tools and helps organisations of all sizes choose self-hosting for their infrastructure in general.
Abhas also leads a hardware venture called Mostly Harmless, where he experiments with and builds Libre and Liberated Hardware (like hackable mechanical keyboards, liberated computers, home automation solutions and more. The goal is to build and sell hardware and put owners in control of their lives by enabling them to run free/libre software on more hardware than usually possible.
Mostly Harmless operates the LibreTech.Shop – India’s first store for hackable and ethical products that offer convenience.
Abhas is a member of the Free Software Foundation, India working group and has been a participant in the community in India for many years. He advises colleges, govt / defence organisations and start-ups on using, building and adopting free software as a “way of life”.
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