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Speakers & Presenters from Past Conferences

USID Conferences are curated for quality content by bringing the thought leaders from across the world representing Design, Innovation, Research, Technology, Business, Arts & Culture, Social Science, from Industry, academia, research institutions, VC's, Startups, development organisatios, NGO's and government organistions. Following are the eminent speakers and presenters from our past conferences:

Bill Buxton Principal Researcher  Microsoft Research	Sharad Sharma Chief Executive Officer  Yahoo India R&D	Debra Danielson President of CTE, SVP & Distinguish Engineer, CA Inc.	Prof. M.P. Ranjan Principal Designer & Faculty,  National Institute of Design,  Ahmedabad (NID)	Jennifer Kilian Creative Director  Frog Design
Lalitesh Katragadda Asst. Managing Director  Google India	Dr. Fredrick Weber Adjunct Sr. Research Scientist  Columbia University Research Institute	Ashish Gupta Managing Director   Hellion Ventures	Prof. Oriville Clubb Professor City University of Hong Kong	Kentaro Toyoma Asst. Managing Director  Microsoft Research India
Prof. Anil K Gupta Professor IIM, Ahmedabad  Founder-Honey Bee Network Ex.Vice Chairman NIF	Warren Greving Director, Srishti Labs	Ed Cutrell Manager, Technology  for Emerging Markets,  Microsoft Research India	Santosh Desai Managing Director & CEO, Future Brands Ltd.	Paul Neervoort Lead User Experience,  Philips Design
Solomon Prakash Country Head Ashoka, India	Dr.Srinivasan Ramani Professor, IIIT Bangalore	Younghee Jung Research Leader,  Nokia Research Center, India	Mahesh Murthy Founder, Pinstorm Managing Partner, Seedfund	Murli Nagasundaram Head, Learning Innovation,  Manipal Universal Learning
Professor Yogesh Atal Eminent Sociologist  & Anthropologist	Sudhir Sharma Founder and Chief executive of Indi Design	Toyohiro Kanayama UX Evangelist,  Mitsue-Links Co. Ltd, Japan	Aditya Dev Sood Founder and CEO,  Center for Knowledge  Societies (CKS)	Prof KR Srivatsan Pro Vice Chancellor IGNOU
Dr. Jerome White Researcher Mobile Research Group IBM Research Lab	Dr. Ruchi Dass Physician,  MHealth Evangelist, India	Dr. Carrie Gates Vice President & Research Staff Member, CA Labs, CA Inc.	Deepa Bachu Group Manager Intuit	Dr. Raj Minhas Asso. Director, Xerox Research Center, India
Pranav Mistry Researcher Media Lab, MIT	Dr. Matt Jones Professort  Swensa University, UK	Dr.Christian Lappe PhD, Director, Sales & Marketing,SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) GMBH	Dr. Ed Cutrell Manager, Technology for Emerging Markets Microsoft Research India	Uma Prajapati Upasana Design Studio Auroville
Silvia Zimmermann Founder & CEO Usability.ch Switzerland	Daniel Scuz Principle Consultant Apogee Usability Asia Ltd. Hongkong	Dr.Pramod K Verma Technology Advisor UID of India Bangalore	Priya Prakash Head of Mobile phone User Experience Nokia UK	Sean Blagsvedt Founder, babajobs.com
Ashok Mutha Jain, IPS IGP-Public Grivences UP Police	Prof. Ganesh Prabhu Professor of Strategy Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore	Sandeep Datar Sr. Director  User Experience Design Yahoo India R&D	Arunva Sinha Chief Product Officer NDTV Convergys	Bill Thies Resaercher, Technology  for Emerging Markets,  Microsoft Research India
Anita B Punja Asia Pacific Leader Learning Content Dev., IBM India	Deepak Menon Group Design Manager Microsoft India Development Center, Hyderabad	Jan Blom Research Team Leader Nokia Research Center India	Jay Puller President & CEO Pramati Technologies	Dr.Mellisa Densmore Post Doc. Researcher Technologies for Emerging Markets, Microsoft Research India
Arvind Lodaya Founder & Designer Lodaya Consulting Bangalore	Prasonjit Ganguly Animator and Film Maker India	Dr. Jayant Chatterjee Professor IME, IIT Kanpur, India	Neil Patel Founder, AwaazDe.com Ahmedabad, India	Khushroo Pasha Founder, Indian Bolld Donor, Nagpur, India
Markus Heggi Founder & CEO Colayer GMBH	Adi Codaty Head Innovation and R&D United Healthcare India	Hemant Lamba AuroRE Auroville	Satyaki Roy Associate Professor Design Programme IIT Kanpur	Jasson Huang Founding Principal,  Tang Consulting and Founder & President,UPA China
Hiren Dalal Director, Quality & PMO ITC, CA, India	Sanjai K. Vice President  SAP Labs India	Dharmesh Jadeja Architect, Buildaur Auroville	Sree Unnikrishnan Head, User Experience Group, Google India	Dr. Alok Bajpai Consultant Psychiatrist Regency Hospital Kanpur, India
Kaushal Sarda Kuliza Technologies	Vijay Taddapalli AVP & Head UXM Group Satyam Technologies	Natalie Buda Smith UX Consultant	Sunil Shanbag Documentary Film Maker  Theater Director	Raghu Dwarkanath Global Business Division Intuit
Suhasini Ayer Architect/Designer Auroville Design Consultant	Atul Tiwari Film Script Writer, Actor  Director	Dr. S Ghosal Professor NID R&D Campus Bangalore	Shashank Deshpande President Clarice Technologies	Paromita Vohra Documentary Film Maker  Film Director
Dr. Arun Mehta Professor & Chairman CE Department, JMIT	Prabhas Sinha Sr. Manager, Product Management ITC, CA India	Sridhar Marri VP- & Head, Corp. Comm. Design Group Infosys Technologies	Dr. Dinesh Katre Group Head, National Multimedia Resource Center C-DAC Pune	Saurabh Karandikar Creative Head Rediffusin - Y&R
Amit Pande Senior Manager Application UX Oracle	Sandeep Pillai Creative Head OnMobile Global Ltd.	Ravi Pudi Krishna Sr. Head PTL-U Trina Systems	Vineet malhotra Co-founder apnakoi.com	Rajiv Puraniye CEO and Founder Hooyee
Abhishek Hazra UX Designer Microsoft India Development Center, Hyderabad	Prakash Siyani Forum Nokia, India Lead Nokia India	Mrinal Wadhwa Founder Blu	Uday M. Shankar  Sr. UX Designer  Nokia R&D	Asim Waqif Architect & Installation Artist,  Faculty, School of Planning & Architecture, Delhi