Prof. Yashavant Kanetkar
Director
KICIT Pvt. Ltd. and KSET Pvt. Ltd.
Yashavant Kanetkar has created, moulded and groomed lakhs of IT careers in the last two and half decades through his books and Quest Video Courseware DVDs on C, C++, Data Structures, VC++, .NET, Embedded Systems, etc. His books and Quest DVDs have made a significant contribution in creating top-notch IT manpower in India and abroad.
His books are globally recognised and millions of students/professionals have benefitted from them. These books have been translated into Hindi, Gujarati, Japanese, Korean and Chinese languages and are published in India, USA, Japan, Singapore, Korea and China. He is a much sought after speaker in the IT field and has conducted several seminars/workshops at TedEx, IITs, RECs and global software companies. He has been honoured with the prestigious "Distinguished Alumnus Award" by IIT Kanpur for his entrepreneurial, professional, and academic excellence. This award is given to the top 50 alumni of IIT Kanpur who have made significant contribution towards their profession and for the betterment of society in the last 50 years. He has been awarded the "Best NET Technical Contributor" and "Most Valuable Professional" awards by Microsoft for 5 successive years for his contribution to Indian IT Education. He holds a BE from VJTI Mumbai and M.Tech. from IIT Kanpur. Current Affiliations: Director of KICIT Pvt. Ltd. and KSET Pvt. Ltd. Email: kanetkar@kicit.com, Website: http://www.kicit.com.
Prof. Shrirang Korde
Technology Expert
Shrirang Korde is a technology expert in product development with international exposure. He has a passion for various technologies and realises the same through design and programming. He has more than 21 years of rich experience which spans across companies like Bharat Electronics Bangalore (BEL), Tata Elxsi Bangalore/Japan, Philips Software Bangalore/Netherlands, Persistent Systems Pune/Nagpur apart from working in an ERP based startup. He has been instrumental in starting Technology Incubator at VNIT Nagpur in cooperation with SINE@IIT-Bombay. He has handled various overseas customers in countries like USA, Japan, Taiwan, Netherlands, and Belgium and has also worked onsite. His current focus is on sharing his industry experience in the field of education by training and grooming young college undergraduates in various technology areas.
Shrirang Korde has done his B.E. from VNIT, Nagpur (VRCE) and M.E. from BITS Pilani. He was a merit student during B.E., both at department level and college level. He has authored a book titled "21 IoT Experiments" (Yashwant Kanetkar/Shrirang Korde). He also has various research publications to his credit.
Denny P. Julius
IoT Edge Solution Architect, Ex-TCSer
Denny P. Julius has a rich industrial experience of over 30 years ranging from industrial-grade embedded product development, customer project management, managing CoE for edge analytics to team mentoring in niche technology areas.
Mr. Denny holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology. His education is backed with a plethora of experience that he gained over years working in areas like IoT Edge Project Management, Project Execution in Medical Devices and Railway Projects, CoE Project Management: Research and Development on IoT Edge Analytics, Technical Proposal Development for IoT Edge projects and Learning and Development (L&D).
Mr. Denny’s work includes PM Edge Analytics CoE - TCS Hyderabad, Technical PM Ventana ODC - TCS Hyderabad, EE PM Coca-Cola Atlanta, USA, PoC of award-winning Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) therapy device, Covidien, USA and many more. His knowledge and skills are supported by some on-site experience from projects like GE Meter Testing, Somerset, USA, S4000 video conferencing PictureTel, Andover, USA, Telecom switch testing, Lucent, Holmdel, USA, Motorola, Chicago, General Bandwidth, USA. His ideas and thoughts has helped to develop products like Cyber-Physical System for Robotic Automation for Hearing Aid Testing (selected as Top Seed Entry in Tata InnoVista 2018), Bearing Fault Simulator for Industrial Vibration Analytics Solution (selected as Tata InnoVista Top Seed Entry 2019), development and deployment of industrial-grade Remote Terminal for Industrial Automation: Substation Automation, Railway Traction Automation and Portable RTU diagnostic kit for Field Engineers. His skills include knowledge of software like Microsoft Office, MS Project, Vision, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), and mind mapping tools for planning, brainstorming and architecting.