Presenter

Asoke K Talukder is an innovator and an entrepreneur. He innovated and engineered many technologies and products that are first in the world. He engineered the first 64 bit database in the world for Digital DEC Alpha and Informix in 1993. He setup the first X.25 network with reverse emulator for the Department of Telecommunications, India. He engineered the Network Management System for Queen’s Award winning PDMX. He co-founded Cellnext in 2000 that defined the mobile Web and mobile Internet in India. He co-founded the first big-data genomics company InterpretOmics in India in 2008. He is recipient of many awards for innovation and professional excellence including Karnataka Bio-Excellence Award, ICIM Professional Excellence Award, ICL Services Trophy, ICL Excellence Award, IBM Solutions Excellence Award, Simagine GSMWorld Award, Atlas Club Excellence Award, All India Radio/Doordarshan Award etc. Asoke's expertise ranges from compilers to cancer. He did M.Sc in Physics and Ph.D in Computer Science. He was the DaimlerChrysler Chair Professor at IIIT-Bangalore. Currently he is Chief Science & Technology Officer at SRIT India and Adjunct Faculty, National Institute of Technology, Karnataka Surathkal. Two of his books have been translated in Chinese Language. His current areas of interest are Data Science in Health-care and Bio-Medicine.