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Speakers & Panelists
Dhruv Dhody
Dhruv Dhody is an Internet standardization expert at Huawei-India with over 23 years of experience in the research and development of technologies including Path Computation Element (PCE), Segment Routing (SR), Network Slicing, and SDN. An active IETF contributor since 2010, Dhruv’s work has focused on path computation, traffic engineering, and SDN in the routing area.
Dhruv serves as Chair of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and co-chairs the IETF SRv6OPS and PCE WGs. They are also active in the Routing Directorate, YANG Doctors, and Operations Directorate, and have previously served as Education and Outreach Directorate Co-chair, IAB Outreach Coordinator, on the IETF list moderator team, and as an IAB liaison to the IESG.
In addition to their technical work, Dhruv is committed to increasing participation in the IETF from the Asia/Pacific region and other underrepresented groups, with the goal of strengthening diversity and inclusion in the Internet standards community.
Viswanathan Ramaswamy
Viswanathan Ramaswamy, commonly known as ‘Vishy’, is a telecom industry leader with over 3½ decades of experience in the communications industry. He has a vast knowledge about various networking technologies and the associated IT solutions. He has been a thought leader in the areas of technology convergence and industry application of telecom networks. He is currently the Vice President for Network Strategy, Planning and IP & Ethernet Engineering at Tata Communications. His responsibility includes developing the long-term strategy for the wireline and wireless network that Tata Communication uses to provide various Enterprise services. Vishy is also responsible for the design, architecture and engineering of the Global IP, MPLS and Ethernet Networks that Tata Communications runs. In this role, he works closely with product companies, standards organization and analysts to understand the trends and set the direction for the network evolution. Prior to this he was the VP & Head of 5G Private Network and IoT Business in Tata Communications. Before that he has worked with companies like Wipro, Vodafone India, AT&T and Crompton Greaves Ltd., in areas of engineering, development, system integration, technology businesses, strategy development and new products introduction for telecom service providers.
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Mohit P. Tahiliani
Mohit P. Tahiliani is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at NITK, Surathkal, India, and a Member of the Board of India Internet Engineering Society. He obtained Ph.D. in Congestion Control Mechanisms for the Next Generation Internet from the NITK Surathkal, India in 2013. His areas of interest include Network Congestion Control, Queue Disciplines, Network Function Virtualization, IPv6 deployments, Named Data Networks and Blockchain. He has executed projects in these areas that have been funded by several industries. Mohit received the EMC Young Achiever of 2015 Award from EMC Corporation, Bangalore, the Outstanding Young Professional Volunteer Award of 2021 by IEEE Bangalore Section and IEEE Bangalore Section Chair's Recognition in 2024.
Mohit has contributed to open-source projects for more than a decade. A packet scheduler developed by his team to fight the Bufferbloat problem got merged into the mainline of Linux (v5.6). He is a Member of the Steering Committee of the ns-3 consortium, and a co-maintainer of traffic-control and TCP modules in ns-3. He served as a Member of the PC for Workshop on ns-3 for the past eleven editions. Besides, he served as a Mentor for Google Summer of Code from 2017 - 2023 for the ns-3 and has been one of the Organization Administrators since 2021. He also served as an Organization Administrator for ns-3’s participation in Google Code-In during 2018-2019.
He is a Reviewer for IEEE Internet of Things, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, Networking, Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Computer Communications, Inderscience journals, IEEE Communication Letters, and held several other roles in IEEE and Springer conferences. He served as a Guest editor for Annals of Telecommunications, Springer. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a member of ACM and TiE. He served as the Chair of IEEE Mangalore Subsection in 2023.
Shradha Hegde
Shraddha Hegde is a Principle Engineer in HPE (ex-Juniper). She has authored or co-authored eleven IETF RFC documents and several internet drafts. She has more than 20 years of experience in Networking Domain in the area of IGP, FRR, Segment Routing, MPLS and IP Security. She has vast experience in building and deploying highly scalable data-communications platforms. Prior to joining Juniper, Shraddha has served as a Systems Architect for a major telecom equipment vendor
Vinayak Hegde
I have more than 20 years of experience in product development & software architecture. My areas of expertise are IoT (and embedded systems), Large scale networks (and internet protocols) and large scale data processing and management, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. I have worked both as a technical contributor (IC roles) and also leadership leading large teams across continents that developed complex software products in Ad-tech, developer tools, Content delivery networks, Analytics, IoT, e-commerce and logistics. I have been a founder, part of a team (Speedera) that got acquired by NASDAQ-listed Akamai (AKAM), part of early stage teams in Unicorns (Inmobi), led the technology team at NASDAQ-listed Zoomcar (ZCAR). I been fortunate to have lead teams in different stages of growth (0-1, 0-10, 10-100) and more while launching cutting edge products and scaling them. I also an advisor and investor in select deep-tech startups.
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