Consumer electronic devices such as smart phones, mobile internet devices, smart television  sets, home devices are driving convergence of computing, networking, storage, media and communications to deliver emerging requirements of the consumer in the areas of  education, work, food and healthcare for hundreds of millions of consumers around the globe. Building new successful consumer electronic devices is complex, amongst the most challenging and rewarding of the industrial activities today.
 
How can an organization or development team transform their understanding of consumer behavior and consumer needs into cutting-edge solutions delivered to the market profitably and ahead of competition ? How can an organization attain leadership in the market ? This talk will focus on discussing the principles of system level design, application of system level design to consumer electronics and the use of system level design platforms like Teraptor for building design innovation platforms.

Speakers

Gopi Kumar Bulusu is the CEO at Sankhya Technologies Private Limited. He is an acknowledged expert in the areas of distributed computing and embedded systems. His team received the Lockheed Martin India Innovation award in the year 2008 and the DST-Lockheed Martin Innovationaward during 2009. He holds 4 granted US patents in addition to several pending patent applications.

Gopi Bulusu is a regular speaker at industry and academic events on a wide range of topics. Gopi is an active member of IEEE and presently serves as the SubSection chair for the IEEE Vizag-Bay SubSection. He is a member on the editorial advisory board, EETimes India. His key interests are in the area of creating innovative platforms that bring the power and efficiency of architectural model driven solutions to IT system designers and business users. On a higher plane, Gopi Bulusu believes in applying the benefits of innovation and technology to promote national prosperity and actively contributes ideas to the Planning Commission through facebook !

 Gopi Bulusu is a founder member of Sankhya Technologies as a garage startup in the year 1996. Prior to 1996, he was a senior software engineer in the embedded software division of Mentor Graphics Corporation, where he was a member of a core team that created one of the industry's first C++ compilers for Motorola 68k processors. Gopi's work at Mentor resulted in 2 US patents.

He holds a Masters in Computer Science from Arizona State Univesity (1992-93) and a Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering from College of Engineering,Guindy (1990).