Amit Gupta has spent most of his career in high technology, media, and infrastructure. He currently leads the Enterprise 2.0 infrastructure and development team at M&S Consulting.
Amit co-founded Affle Limited, which is a mobile media company with extensive operations in the Asia-Pacific region. While there, he helped to drive new product initiatives and helped to complete Microsoft's strategic investment in Affle. Prior to Affle, Amit worked at Bloomberg New York and, subsequently, at Bloomberg London, helping to plan and implement major new projects such as "Bloomberg Anywhere" that helped to drive $500M+ in new revenues annually. While there, he also designed and implemented highly-scalable system architectures that were used to support millions of users. Systems integration is his specialty.
He is a technology enthusiast and likes to get his hands dirty with new projects. He has also spent time at various high-technology companies, developing and applying virtual reality applications, medical imaging algorithms, neural networks, and financial trading systems. Amit holds a B.S. in Computer Science (Honors) from The Johns Hopkins University (USA).
Sukanta Hazra has a passion for technology and constant desire to try out new areas. This has taken him through academic research on wireless networks and networking protocols, mobile software development, mobile advertisement platforms, and enterprise software and architecture. His experience in various fields has given him a unique perspective on software development and the evolution of software and systems in the evolving technology landscape.
Sukanta was one of the founding members of Affle Limited, which is a mobile media company with extensive operations in the Asia-Pacific region. At Affle, Sukanta led the development of their mobile software products, working on several mobile platforms. He also designed and led the implementation of Affle's mobile advertisement platform. Prior to Affle, he worked as a researcher in the field of wireless networks at the Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore.
He has contributed several papers to IEEE conferences and journals. Sukanta considers himself to be a "geek" and enjoys tinkering with the guts of the system. He is equally comfortable dealing with the high-level architectural view of the system. His current passion is Service-Oriented Architecture and the use of open standards and their consequent impact on the enterprise.
Sukanta holds both a Masters degree in Engineering and a Bachelors degree (Honors) in Engineering from National University of Singapore.