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1 BUILDING CAPACITY Future Classrooms: Increasing Learning Achievements Ashutosh Chadha Director, Corporate Affairs, South Asia Intel, India Dr. Safiqul Islam Director BRAC Education Programme, BRAC, Prof. Dr. Mansor Fadzil Senior Vice President Open University of Malaysia, Malaysia Carel De Rooy Representative UNICEF, Dr. Jang, Sang Hyun Global Education Planning Center Korea Education and Research Information Service (KERIS), Korea Dr. Deborah Wyburn Consultant Teaching Quality Improvement in Secondary Education Project (TQI-SEP) Sri Lanka Felicia Brown APAC Education Programs Manager Microsoft, Singapore Open and Distance/Online Learning in the Digital Era Prof. VNR Pillai Vice Chancellor IGNOU, India Ms. Charlotte Imbert Country Director BBC Worldtrust, Prof. Tan Sri Anuwar Ali Vice Chancellor & President Open University of Malaysia, Malaysia Motilal Sharma International Consultant World Bank Education Project, India Localized Content for Digital Learning Mr. K. Anvar Sadath, Project, India Javier Sola President WordForge Foundation, Cambodia Prof. Rozhan Mohammed Idrus Professor of Open and Distance Learning & Technogogy School of Distance Education University Sains Malaysia, Malaysia Masum Billah Programme Manager, BEP, BRAC Harvard Rye CTO, Gyldendal Publishing, Norway Showcasing and award presentation for Teacher-led localized Content for Multimedia Classroom Mr. K. Anvar Sadath Executive Project, India Prof. Faruque Ahmed Senior Consultant A2I Programme, Mirza Muhammad Didarul Alam Assistant Professor Teachers' Training College, Dhaka, Presentations from 5 Award winning teachers Teacher Public Private Partnership Opportunities to ensure inclusiveness and quality in education Gwang-Chol Chang Chief, Education Policy and Reform Unit ICT in Education Unit UNESCO Bangkok Thailand John E. Davies Vice President & General Manager Intel World Ahead Program, Intel Corporation, USA Prof. Ramli Bahroom Financial Controller Open University of Malaysia Dr. Ananya Raihan D.net, Yasmin Rahman Chief People Officer GPIT, Assessment of 21st Century Skills: Techniques and Approaches Dr. Jack Holbrook Professor, Centre of Science Education, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Tartu Estonia, Estonia Robiul Kabir Chowdhury Assesment Specialist Dhaka Education Board, Ashutosh Chadha Director, Corporate Affairs, South Asia Intel, India Russell T. Ahmed Champs21.com

2 PLENARY Plenary Session on building capacity: Building Skills for an IT-enabled Services Industry for the Global Marketplace: TVET, Finishing Schools, Industry Skills Development and Other Avenues 9:30 am - 11:00 am Ashutosh Chadha Director, Corporate Affairs, South Asia Intel, India Prof. Tan Sri Anuwar Ali VC & President Open University of Malaysia Dr. Pradeep Mukherji President & Partner Avasant, USA Wajed Salam The Winners Circle Inc., USA Nazim Farhan Chowdhury Director GraphicPeople Tanvir Ibrahim SSL, Strategic Positioning of as a Leading Outsourcing Destination 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Dr. Rajiv Nag Senior Adviser, KPMG, India Gurujot Singh Khalsa, WorldBridge Global Inc., USA Mark Hillary, IT Decisions, Brazil Dr.Pradeep Mukherji President & Partner, Avasant, USA H Karthik VP, Everest Research, India Johan Gott AT Kaerney, USA Charles Ward COO, Intellect, UK Dr. Richard Sykes Board Member, Intellect UK, UK Dr. Looi Kien Leong Chairman, ASOCIO, Malaysia Jerry E. Durant Philipines Plenary Session : Meet the Technology Leader 9:30 am - 11:00 am John E. Davies Vice President & General Manager Intel World Ahead Program Intel Corporation, USA Prof. Muhammad Zafar Iqbal Professor Shahjalal University of Science and Technology Sylhet, Freelancing Conference Matt Cooper Vice President - Marketplace Operations Odesk, USA Bernard Vukus Freelancer, Croatia Al-Amin Chowdhury Freelancer Dhaka Riabukha Anton Freelancer Onix-Systems Ltd., Ukraine Zakaria Chowdhury Freelancer Sylhet, CONNECTING PEOPLE Strategies for Last Mile Broadband Access Mr. Sanjaya Service Director APNIC, Australia Per-Henrik Nielsen Ericsson, Denmark Mustaque Ahmed Head of Strategy GrameenPhone, Jerry Mobbs Qubee, UK Social Media: Agent for Soical Change Kiruba Shankar, Business Blogging, India Arild Klokkerhaug Somewhereinblog.net, Norway Micheal Roberts Regional Director Bellanet, Canada Mark Hillary IT Decisions, Brazil Kowshik Ahmed Blogger,

3 CONNECTING PEOPLE Best Practices in Safeguarding Digital Content 11:30 am-1:00 pm Cecil Goldstein Training Practice Manager Team Cymru, USA Henrik Pålsson CMO, Novatium Sweden Rana Gupta Business Head India & SAARC, and VP of Sales for APAC Software Rights Management SafeNet Inc., USA Naweed Iqbal Secretary General Bankers' CTO Forum, Thuy Ledinh Chief Communication Officer.ORG, The Public Interest Registry USA Five Pillars of Telecentre Sustainability Miguel Raimilla Telecenre.org Maria Teresa Camba Director, Operations telecentre.org Philipines Dr. Ananya Raihan, D.Net, Senthil Kumaran India Dil Piyaratna Programme Director ICTA, Sri Lanka Prof. Kamolrat Interat Director, Thai Telecentre.org, Thailand Dr. Angelo Juan Ramos Chairman PhilCeCNet, Philipines Siaosi Sovaleni Director Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Fiji Beyond Connectivity: Sustainable business model for application and content 11:30 am-1:00 pm Dr. Kashfia Ahmed, Win Inc., Imran Ali, Amader Cloud Ms. Stephanie Huf Head of Communications & Marketing Ericsson Region South East Asia & Ocenia Australia Klaus Stoll Acting Global Knowledge Partnership, Ecuador Terufumi Takada NTT Communications Corporation, Japan Rezwanul Haque Jami Head of Operations MM Services Limited Maximizing Citizens' Benefits; Debate on an appropriate Telecommunications Regulatory Regime Rohan Samarajiva, LIRNEAsia, Sri Lanka Abu Saeed Khan General Secretary, AMTOB, Mr. Sanjaya Service Director, APNIC, Australia Rene Summer Director Government and Industry Relations LM Ericsson, Group Function Sales & Marketing Sweden Sumon Ahmed Sabir Vice President, ISPAB, SERVING CITIZENS Healthcare Services using ICTs Status, Challenges and Opportunities Tarun Seem Head, Health System Support Unit, India Prof. Abul Kalam Azad Additional Director General, DGHS, Govt. of Peoples' Republic of A K M Nazrul Haider Director, MIS, ICDDR,B, Jaijit Bhattacharya Corporate Director Global Government Affairs Hewlett-Packard India Sales Pvt. Ltd, India Amod Kumar Project Director IntraHealth International, India Jeyaseelan J. Practice Head, Healthcare Solutions Unit, Asia-Pacific of Emerging Markets Cisco Systems, India Dr. Md. Iqbal Kabir Commonwealth IPRS Scholar School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, Australia Agricultural Services using ICTs Dr. Michael Gurstein Centre for Community Informatics Research Development and Training (Vancouver BC and Cape Town), South Africa Dr. Anton Mangstl Ex-Director Italy Md. Nazrul Islam DIrector, AIS, Shahroj Jalil, Director, Services Group Katalyst, Vishnu Mohan Calindi Strategy and Policy Coordinator ITU, Geneva, Switzerland Prof. C.K.Peethambaran, Ph.D. Consultant, e-krishi KSITM, Kerala, India

4 Implementing NeGP in India: Lessons for Developing Countries Best Practices in eservice Delivery Co-creation: Citizens in the role of service provider Un Citizens Services SERVING CITIZENS R. Chandrashekhar Secretary Department of Telecom and Information Technology (DTIT) Ministry of Communications and IT Govt. of India, India Sh. A R Talwar Principal Secretary Deptt. of Information Technology Govt. of Punjab, India Micheal Roberts Regional Director Bellanet, Canada Jana Syeda Gulshan Ferdous Head Somewhere In Net Ltd. Seminar at a Glance Dr. Michael Gurstein Centre forcommunity Informatics Research Development and Training, South Africa Jaroslaw Ponder Strategy and Policy Coordinator ITU, Geneva, Switzerland A. Shahjahan, IAS Director, KSITM KSITM, Kerala, India ifying ID Systems for Sh. Ajay Sawhney President & National e-governance Division (NeGD) DoI, India Dr Rajat Moona Director General Centre for Development of Advance Computing (CDAC), India Ashis Sanyal Former Senior Director DIT, India Md. Mustafizur Rahman Deputy Commissioner Jessore, Steve Glovinsky Advisor, Solution Exchange UNDP, Asia Pacific Regional Centre, Thailand Manik Mahmud Consultant A2I Programme, Prime Minister s Office, Brig. Gen. Akhteruzzaman Siddique DG, NID Wing, Election Commission, Dr YK Sharma Deputy Director General National Informatics Centre (NIC), Govt of India, India Mr. Sabarish K Mission Coordinator, KSITM, Kerala India Pichai Asavanapakas Deputy NETbay Co.,Ltd, Thailand Thuy Ledinh Chief Communication Officer.ORG, The Public Interest Registry USA Ivar Tallo Former Advisor to the President, Estonia Usman Mobin CTO NADRA, Pakistan DRIVING ECONOMY Building Ecosystem towards Knowledge Economy Aditya Dev Sood Founder and Center for Knowledge Societies (CKS), India Aftab Ahmad Programme Analyst UNDP Prof. Charla Griffy-Brown Professor, Information Systems and Technology Management Graziadio School of Business & Management, LA, USA Dr.Roger W. Harris, Roger Harris Associates, China Ms. Stephanie Huf Head of Communications & Marketing Ericsson Region South East Asia & Ocenia Australia Allistair Scott Information System Manager IDS Knowledge Services, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK Electronic and mobile payments: Financial Inclusion for the unbanked Greg Chen Regional Representative for South Asia CGAP, A K M Shirin DMD, Dutch Bangla Bank Limited Philippe Breul Associate Consultant Oxford Policy management & Ex. Vice-President for Business Development in Africa at France Telecom France Asif Saleh Communication Director Brac, Rony Riad Rashid Chief Commercial Officer GPIT,

5 DRIVING ECONOMY Using ICT for Private Sector Development: Perspective by "Information Economy Report 2011" Rémi Lang Economist, ICT Analysis Section, UNCTAD, Switzerland Zeeshan Hasan, Sysnova Richard Colin Marshall Economic Adviser, UNDP Pravit Chattalada ED, ACTI, Thailand Prof. Mustafizur Rahman, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) Public Private Partnership for Citizens' Service Delivery: Lessons Learned Dil Piyaratna Programme Director ICTA, Sri Lanka Syed Mushfiqur Rahman Director NBR, Dr. Basheerhamand Shadrach Shadrach Ex- Telecenter.Org, India Ashis Sanyal Former Senior Director DIT, India Sherif Tokali Assistant Resident Representative UNDP Egypt, Egypt Tiziana Bonapace Chief, ICT and Development Section, ICT and Disaster Risk Reduction Division UNESCAP, Thailand Critical success factors in the offshoring business: the practioners view 9:30 am - 11:00 am Jesper Nyvold Larsen Sr. Director of Development Deltek, Denmark Jonathan Foster Director,Global Operations IMS Health, UK Martin Dommerby Director of Business Development KalpaVruksh Technologies, Denmark Dr. Wong Say Ho Secretary General ASOCIO, Malaysia Dr. Pradeep K. Mukharji Avasant, India Bioinformatics : The future prospect in Asia am - 1:00 pm Dr. Ashwani Pareek Associate Professor School of life Sciences Stress Physiology and Molecular Biology Laboratory Jawaharlal Nehru University India Dr. Haseena Khan Professor, Molecular Biology University of Dhaka, Dr. A M Zonaed Siddiki Associate Professor & Head Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Dr. Wen Wang Professor, Goat Reference Genome Project Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Mohammad Lashkar Programme Manager Jute Genome Sequence Project, M. Azizul Haque Glaxo Smith Kline, Dr. Jabilur Rahman Sinha Acme Laboratories, Emerging SME Outsourcing market: Challenges and Opportunities Peter Dindial, GPIT, UK Yahagi Akira Chairman N-Wave Company Limited, Japan Charles Ward COO, Intellect, UK Martin Dommerby Director of Business Development KalpaVruksh Technologies, Denmark Henriette Kahré Freris DFSME, Netharlands Matt Cooper VP, Marketplace Operation Odesk, USA Paul Tjia Outsourcing Expert, Netharlands Adoption of outsourcing on new ecosystem dominated by cloud 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Dr. Richard Sykes Board Member Intellect UK, UK Dr. Rokunuzzaman Professor, Independent University of Ed Franklin Executive Vice President, Global Cloud Service, VirtuStream, USA Bunrak Saraggananda Chairman, Magic Software, Thailand Henrik Pålsson Novatium CMO Ericsson Forum, DLF Cybercity, Sweden

6 TECHNICAL SESSION ICT as a Career Path for Women : Opportunities and Challenges Anette S.Galskjot Commercial Counsellor Royal Danish Embassy, Denmark Lilia Naas ITC, Switzerland Luna Shamsu Doha President BWIT & Dohatech Ltd., Sarah Hussain Unicef, Making Life Productive for Persons with Disabilities using ICTs Thorkil Sonne Admin.dir./ Specialisterne Bhaskar Bhattacharjee YPSA, Sanjida Rahman Danny Unicef Dr. Omar Rahaman Pro-Vice Chancellor IUB, Monsur Ahmed Chowdhury Chairman National Forum of Organization Working with the Disabled (NFOWD) Building a National e-governance Architecture for Developing Countries 9:30 am - 1:00 pm Sabarish K Mission Coordinator, KSITM, Kerala, India Pallab Saha Singapore National Universiti, Singapore Fokhruz Zaman National e-governance Architect A2I Programme, PMO, Duncan Edwards Information Systems Innovation Manager IDS, UK Sabir Ahmed Sumon Vice President ISPAB, Jasper Nyvold Larsen Sr. Director of Development Deltek, Denmark Application development for mobile platform 2:30 pm - 5:30 pm Mani Krishnamurthy EDX Technical Manager Nokia, India Preparing for IPv6 9:30 am - 1:00 pm Mr. Sanjaya Service Director, APNIC, Australia Nurul Islam Roman Technical Training Officer APNIC, Australia Sabir Ahmed Sumon Vice President ISPAB, Build your own Cloud 2:30 pm - 5:30 pm Prof. Mumit Khan Professor BRAC University, Shinya Kukita Chief Manager, International Sales and Business Operations Unit, NEC Mohammad Zaman Director - Solution Architecture VirtuStream, USA Ed Franklin Executive Vice President, Global Cloud Services VirtuStream, USA Organizers Co organizers Associates Gold Sponsors Silver Sponsors Track Sponsors Knowledge Partners Registration Booth Sponsor Media Partner Platinum Sponsor Video Conference Partners Live Streaming Partners Social Media Partner

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