“USID Foundation has been organizing may events since 2007 including Annual conferences, Design competitions, Call for papers, and many more interesting events. USID Events are being participated by representatives from variety of industries, organisations, research & educational institutions all across the design, new media, information technology, hardware/software, manufacturing, education & training, etc. USID Foundation India events are being regularly supported by the industry and professional organisations including CA, Forum Nokia, Microsoft Research, Intuit, User Lab Asia and HYSEA etc. apart from other sponsor including SAP, Tobii, SMI, Colayer and Pramati Technologies, etc on event basis.”
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Speakers & Presenters from Past Conferences
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Bill Buxton
Principal Researcher
Microsoft Research
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Sharad Sharma
Chief Executive Officer
Yahoo India R&D
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Debra Danielson
President of CTE,
SVP & Distinguish Engineer,
CA Inc.
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Prof. M.P. Ranjan
Principal Designer & Faculty,
National Institute of Design,
Ahmedabad (NID)
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Jennifer Kilian
Creative Director
Frog Design
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Lalitesh Katragadda
Asst. Managing Director
Google India
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Dr. Fredrick Weber
Adjunct Sr. Research Scientist
Columbia University Research
Institute
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Ashish Gupta
Managing Director
Hellion Ventures
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Prof. Oriville Clubb
Professor
City University of Hong Kong
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Kentaro Toyoma
Asst. Managing Director
Microsoft Research India
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Prof. Anil K Gupta
Professor IIM, Ahmedabad
Founder-Honey Bee Network
Executive Vice Chairman NIF
Member,National Inno.Council
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Warren Greving
Director, Srishti Labs
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Ed Cutrell
Manager, Technology
for Emerging Markets,
Microsoft Research India
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Santosh Desai
Managing Director & CEO,
Future Brands Ltd.
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Paul Neervoort
Lead User Experience,
Philips Design
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Solomon Prakash
Country Head
Ashoka, India
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Dr.Srinivasan Ramani
Professor, IIIT Bangalore
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Younghee Jung
Research Leader,
Nokia Research Center, India
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Mahesh Murthy
Founder, Pinstorm
Managing Partner, Seedfund
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Murli Nagasundaram
Head, Learning Innovation,
Manipal Universal Learning
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Prof. Yogesh Atal
Eminent Sociologist
& Anthropologist
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Sudhir Sharma
Founder and Chief executive
of Indi Design
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Toyohiro Kanayama
UX Evangelist,
Mitsue-Links Co. Ltd, Japan
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Aditya Dev Sood
Founder and CEO,
Center for Knowledge
Societies (CKS)
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Prof KR Srivatsan
Pro Vice Chancellor
IGNOU
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Dr.Jayanta Chatterjee
Professor, IME & Design
IIT Kanpur
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Dr. Ruchi Dass
Physician,
MHealth Evangelist, India
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Dr. Carrie Gates
Vice President & Research
Staff Member,
CA Labs, CA Inc.
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Deepa Bachu
Group Manager
Intuit
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Hemant Lamba
AuroRE, Auroville
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Pranav Mistry
Researcher
Media Lab, MIT
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Dr. Alok Bajpai
Consultant Psychiatrist
Regency Hospital, Kanpur
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Dr.ChristianLappe
PhD, Director, Sales &
Marketing,SensoMotoric
Instruments (SMI) GMBH
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Adi Codaty
Head, Innovation and R&D
United Healthcare, India
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Uma Prajapati
Upasana Design Studio
Auroville
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Dr.Satyaki Roy
Prof, Design Programme
IIT Kanpur
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Prof. Ganesh Prabhu
Professor of Strategy
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
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Sandeep Datar
Sr. Director
User Experience Design
Yahoo India R&D
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Arunva Sinha
Chief Product Officer
NDTV Convergys
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Bill Thies
Resaercher, Technology
for Emerging Markets,
Microsoft Research India
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Anita B Punja
Asia Pacific Leader
Learning Content
Development, IBM India
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Deepak Menon
Group Design Manager
Microsoft India Development
Center, Hyderabad
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Jan Blom
Research Team Leader
Nokia Research Center
India
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Jay Puller
President & CEO
Pramati Technologies
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Hiren Dalal
Director, Quality & PMO
ITC, CA India
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Markus Heggi
Founder & CEO
Colayer GMBH
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Sanjai K.
Vice President
SAP Labs India
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Dharmesh Jadeja
Architect, Buildaur
Auroville
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Sree Unnikrishnan
Head, User Experience Group,
Google India
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Jasson Huang
Founding Principal, Tang
Consulting and Founder &
President,UPA China
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Kaushal Sarda
Chief Evangelist,
Kuliza Technologies
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Vijay Taddapalli
AVP & Head UXM Group
Satyam Technologies
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Natalie Buda Smith
UX Consultant
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Sunil Shanbag
Documentary Film Maker
Theater Director
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Raghu Dwarkanath
Head of Product Development
Global Business Div., Intuit
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Suhasini Ayer
Architect/Designer
Auroville Design Consultant
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Atul Tiwari
Film Script Writer, Actor
Director
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Dr. S Ghosal
Professor
NID R&D Campus Bangalore
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Shashank Deshpande
President
Clarice Technologies
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Paromita Vohra
Documentary Film Maker
Film Director
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Dr. Arun Mehta
Professor & Chairman
CE Department, JMIT
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Prabhas Sinha
Sr. Manager,
Product Management
ITC, CA India
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Sridhar Marri
VP- & Head, Corp. Comm.
Design Group
Infosys Technologies
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Dr. Dinesh Katre
Group Head, National
Multimedia Resource Center
C-DAC Pune
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Saurabh Karandikar
Creative Head
Rediffusin - Y&R
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Amit Pande
Sr. Manager, Oracle
Applications User Experience
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Sandeep Pallai
Creative Head
OnMobile Golabl Ltd.
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Ravi Pudi Krishna
Sr. Head PTL-U
Trina Systems
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Vineet Malhotra
Co-founder
apnakoi.com
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Rajiv Puranaiy
Founder & CEO
Hooeey
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Abhishek Hazra
UX Designer
Microsoft India Development
Center, Hyderabad
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Prakash Siyani
Forum Nokia, India Lead
Nokia India
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Mrinal Wadhwa
Founder Blu
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Uday M. Shankar
Sr. UX Designer
Nokia R&D
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Asim Waqif
Architect & Installation Artist,
Faculty, School of Planning
& Architecture, Delhi
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