Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Reporting earthly matters




Rina Saeed Khan is an award-winning environmental journalist based in Lahore. She holds an MA in Environment and Development from the London School of Oriental and African Studies. Earlier she worked with The Friday Times, where she served as the Features Editor until 1998, when she published her first book 'Profiles', a collection of interviews with Pakistan's leading piolitical and social figures. From 1998 she worked as a consultant in communications with the UNDP in Pakistan and WWF-Pakistan, writing reports and documentary scripts. She received the Earth Journalism Award in Copenhagen in 2009 for her climate change reporting. Rina is currently writing a biweekly column on the environment  called ‘Earthly Matters’ for the Sunday edition of Dawn, a major daily in Pakistan,in addition to a weekly blogpost at Dawn.com, where the story of Karakoram anomaly first appeared .

Monday, August 5, 2013

Innovating in Bangalore




Jai Ganesh heads the Pervasive Computing Institute at Infosys and is involved in research, innovation, thought leadership, intellectual property creation, thought leadership and new product and service innovations. He leads research and innovation on business areas such as adaptive enterprises, social network analysis, innovations for the poor, social media, complex systems and technology areas such as big data, web accessibility & usability and augmented reality. 

Jai has extensive experience in patents, research papers, journal editorial boards, research grants and global academic collaborations. He conceptualised and led the development of the first patented product for web accessibility & usability assessment and remediation. He is a double patent holder with over dozen pending patents and he has published in several leading peer reviewed journals and conferences. He obtained his PhD from Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) and also has an MBA. He is a recipient of the Chevening Rolls-Royce Science and Innovation Leadership Scholarship at the University of Oxford.