Proposed Agenda

09:30 - 09:45 am -- Overview of IBM in India, IBM Research  -- Anupam Saronwala (IBM)
09:45 - 10:30 am -- Research areas at IBM in India -- Shivkumar Kalyanaraman (IBM)
10:30 - 11:15 am -- Panel discussion -- Cyber-Security and Cyber-physical systems
(Sandeep Shukla (IITK), Indranil Saha (IITK),  Shivkumar Kalyanaraman (IBM), Mahesh Paradkar (IBM))
11:15 - 11:30 am -- Tea break
11:30 - 12:30 pm -- Panel discussion -- Big Data, Web and Text Mining
(Arnab Bhattacharya (IITK), Piyush Rai (IITK), Purushottam Kar (IITK), Arun Kumar (IBM))
12:30 - 01:00 pm -- Technical talk - "Approximation Algorithms for Resource Allocation Problems" -- Anamitra R Choudhury (IBM)
01:00 - 01:45 pm -- Lunch
01:45 - 02:15 pm -- Technical talk - "Cloud-based offerings and technologies" -- Sreekanth Iyer (IBM)
02:15 - 02:45 pm -- University Relations at IBM -- Nazia Hasan (IBM)
02:45 - 03:00 pm -- Awards for "Outstanding Phd Student Award"
03:00 - 03:30 pm -- Talks by the winners, followed-by Vote of Thanks
03:30 - 04:00 pm -- Q/A session with students