Design Camp 2012, Chennai India - Event Coverage

Last week, Design Camp India 2012 was organized by RIA-RUI Society at IIT Madras. It was an two day event (29-30 Sep.), had may great key speakers like A.Z.Ranjit, D. Udaya Kumar, Abhijit Bansod, Kaustav Sen Gupta, Ranjan, Shwetank Dixit. Check out the full speakers list & session list.

The first day sessions includes the main event, while the second day was organized as workshops. The whole event was well organized by the organizers and had a turnout of more than 400 participants for the event.

Just couple of snaps and their slides from the Design Camp 2012 event sessions:

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Design of the Indian Rupee Symbol D. Udaya Kumar

Designing Delightful Experiences Uday M. Shankar

Typographic history, systems and perceptionl Shiva Nallaperumal

Indian Design and the art of story telling Abhijit Bansod

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit 2012 – Chennai, India: Event Coverage

Amazon has globally organized 2012 Amazon (AWS) Cloud Summit at all major cities, designed to bring AWS customers and those interested in Cloud Computing together to meet and share ideas. We at Coworkable.com attended the Chennai edition of (AWS) Summit 2012. The summit had great separate tracks for Corporates and Startups.

Session Registration starts

Opening Keynote: Your Future with the AWS Cloud and The 7 Transformations of Cloud Computing with Dr. Werner Vogels, Chief Technology Officer, Amazon along with AWS Customers Shiva Bayyapunedi, Co-Founder and CTO, Apalya Technologies, Balaji Sethuraman Head - Cloud Computing Center of Excellence Cognizant, Satya Kaliki Co-Founder and VP of Engineering and Architecture Indix, Virender Aggarwal, Chief Executive Officer, Ramco Systems

Startup & Developer Tracks:

AWS Enabling the Startup Ecosystem by Pieter Kemps, Business Development Manager, AWS

Agile Development on the Cloud by Joe Ziegler, Technology Evangelist, AWS and Shishir Das, Continuous Delivery Practice Lead - India, ThoughtWorks

Partner Presentation by Intel: The Disruption of Big Data by Mukesh Gangadhar, Senior Performance Architect, Intel

Architecting your Killer App on AWS by Joe Ziegler, Technology Evangelist, AWS

Developing for your Target Market: Social, Games & Mobile Apps by Kingsley Wood, Business Development Manager, AWS

Best Practices: Microsoft on AWS by Miles Ward, Solutions Architect, AWS

Finally, Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon on Data without Limits which focused on the unique challenges of big-data, the changes in infrastructure required to support the new world and how innovations in crowd sourcing and cloud computing are removing barriers for companies to be successful. BTW, he is wearing Team India T Shirt to show his support for the Indian T20 team.

Closing Remarks & Lucky Draw

Amazon Partners Booth

Madeira Cloud : Madeira Cloud, an awesome and great Visual Integrated Management Environment (VIME) for cloud applications. You should try this tool; it also has a free version.   

SafeNet : leading global provider of data protection.

CloudMunch platform : an application delivery Platform-as-a-Service (adPaaS) that addresses the entire application lifecycle.

CSS Corp : an global Information and Communications Technology company with strong focus on Cloud, Mobility, Technology Support, RIMS, Application and Network services.

Interesting Networking Board

For those of you who are not able to attend the event, can find the presentation materials at:

http://aws.amazon.com/apac/arc-india/

The Experience was quite GREAT and the whole event was wonderfully organized by Amazon. The sessions were quite informative and highly interactive. Thanks a lot Amazon, for organizing such an great event!

- Coworkable.com Team