Title: Everything Elastic: Accenture Technology Vision

Speaker: Atul Kumar

Affiliation: Accenture Technology, Bangalore

Date: February 26, 2009

Abstract:

We at Accenture, study and analyze new technology trends and come up with a "Technology Vision" at the beginning of every year. We highlight a small set of top technology trends that we believe will influence the future of IT business.

This year, we present four top technology trends that we believe will have greater impact than the others. We also highlight three key non-technology "influencers" that may shape the course of technology and business in future.

Speaker's bio:

Atul Kumar works as General Manager (Research) at Accenture Technology Labs in Bangalore. Before joining Accenture, he worked for Microsoft and IBM Research. He received his masters and PhD degrees from IIT Kanpur, both in Computer Science and Engineering, in 1998 and 2004 respectively.