SunTech Days, Hyderabad
I am at SunTech
Days, Hyderabad for the last few days.
The energy here has to be seen to be believed. There were
over 4500 people in the conference hall (at Hyderabad's world class convention
center) watching the keynotes yesterday from Satyam's Ramalinga
Raju and Sun's Rich
Green. In addition, I am told that there were 2500 people
watching via satellite from Mumbai, Pune and Delhi - which makes this
the largest Developer Conference in APAC. Perhaps, next year this would
surpass the attendance at JavaOne in San Francisco!
The conference was opened by Sun's India President, Bhaskar Pramanik.
He walked through a couple of facts. The ones that caught my attention
were:
Raju's keynote was unique to me on several fronts.
This was the first technical keynote I have
attended where no slides were used
He did not speak about India. Instead he talked
about the Global Economy and the opportunities presented
He did not tout Satyam during his talk. So, he
did not make it a "sales pitch".
In the last century, the world population grew from 1.5b to
6b (a 4x growth), while the wealth grew from $1 trillion to $30
trillion (a 30x growth). This will soon grow to $1000 trillion. Just in
the last 15 years, Global Trade has grown from 34% to 50%. While
India's IT and BPO industry was a mere $100m in 1991, it will grow to
$100b in 2010 (1000x growth in 20 years!)
Raju asked the audience to find a balance between Thinking, Doing and
Communicating - between Strategy, Execution and Communication. Find the
balance between outcomes that you generate vs assets for the future.
Find the balance between what is expected of you vs your contribution
to the global eco-system.
He concluded with Winston Churchill's quote, "Empires of the future are
empires of the mind" - directed to the developers in the audience who
have the responsibility for shaping the future.
Rich Green began his keynote contrasting a picture of fruit flies in a
petri dish with the picture of a herd of african elephants. His point
is that for scientists wanting do to experiments, they had multiple
cycles with the fruit flies, while they had one opportunity with the
elephants. That is, for developers, the rate at which you can iterate
is key. Cycle time is everything.
He characterized Web 2.0 as like individuals coming together to share
information. So, the common thread between Flickr,
youtube and MySpace
is that the masses flocking these sites are like individuals who want
to participate and share information.
I had my session on "Developing
SOA Applications" yesterday. PCM Reddy
from Sun's Qaulity team helped me with the demos. It was attended by
over 700 people. The questions that they asked were insightful.
The day concluded with a concert by Kay Kay.
I was quite amazed at the energy level of the audience after
a long and tiring day! Rich Green made an appearance and he was
immediately mobbed for autographs and photo sessions - making me wonder
who the rock star was :)
Comments:
Thanks for the update.
Could you post/send your session ppts to me?
thanks
Sairam
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Sairam
on February 23, 2007 at 08:11 AM PST
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