| Speakers | Designation | Organization |
| Ajay Vasudeva | Head R&D, Bangalore | Nokia |
| Alok Kumar | Senior VP IT | Reliance Industries |
| Andrew Kemp | Director - Group Planning & Analysis | BT |
| Arun Gupta | CTO | Shopper's Stop |
| Ashank Desai* | Chairman | Mastek Ltd |
| Ben Wang | CEO | Beyondsoft |
| Bruce Schneier | Security Technologist and Author | |
| C.K Prahalad | Professor of Strategy | University of Michigan |
| Christopher Mines | Senior Vice Preseident | Forrester Research |
| Dale Sartor | Head - Applications Team · Building Technologies | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Dana Stiffler | Director | AMR Research |
| David Andrews | CEO | Xchanging |
| David Awcock | CTO | Standard Chartered |
| Denny McGuire | Founder & Chairman | Emeritus, TPI |
| Divyesh Vithlani | CIO, APAC | Credit Suisse |
| Ganesh S. Lakshminarayanan | Vice President of Global Consumer Services & Support | Dell’s - GCSS |
| Gulshan Rai | CERT | |
| Harsh Manglik | Chairman and Managing Director | Accenture |
| Howard A. Schmidt | President & CEO | Information Security Forum Ltd |
| Hubert Tardieu | Executive Vice President – Global Consulting and Systems Integration | Atos Origin |
| Jack Jones* | Senior Vice President | JP Morgan Chase |
| Jim Champy | Chairman | Perot Systems |
| John Keppel | Partner & Managing Director | TPI |
| John T Chambers | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | Cisco Systems |
| Ketan Patel | Founder & CEO | Greater Pacific Capital |
| Kevin Campbell | Group Chief Executive - Outsourcing | Accenture |
| Krishna Tanuku | Executive Director | Wadhawani Center for Entrepreneurship Development (WCED |
| Les Dawson | CEO | Southern Waters |
| Mike Connly | CTO | United Health Group |
| Mohan Reddy* | Chairman and Managing Director | Infotech Enterprises Limited |
| N. R. Narayana Murthy | Chairman and Chief Mentor Officer | Infosys Technologies Limited |
| Nandan M. Nilekani | CEO and Managing Director | Infosys Technologies, Ltd |
| Neeraj Aggarwal* | Partner and Director | Boston Consulting Group |
| Noshir Kaka | Director | McKinsey |
| NRK Raman | Vice Chairman | Oracle Financial Services Software Limited |
| P. Ravindranath | Director – Strategic Development , Government and Public Affairs | HP |
| Pankaj Ghemawat | Professor Global Strategy | IESE and Harvard Business |
| Paul Coby | Chief Information Officer (CIO) | British Airways |
| Pawal Stelmaszcyk | Vice President | Polish Information & Freign Investment Agency |
| Peter Coffee | Director of Platform Research | Salesforce |
| Peter McAteer | Vice President and Managing Director -Corporate Learning | Harvard Business Publishing |
| Peter Redshaw | Vice President,Research | Gartner |
| Pramod Bhasin | President & CEO | Genpact |
| Rajesh Uppal | Chief GM (IT) and CIO | Maruti Suzuki India Ltd |
| Ralph Davies | Executive Director | Morgan Stanley |
| Raman Roy | Chairman & Managing Director | Quattro |
| Ranu Vohra | Managing Director & CEO | Avendus |
| Ray Wang* | Vice President & Principal Analyst | Forrester Research |
| Rick Steffens | Vice President & General Manager - Systems Technology & Software Division | HP |
| Robert J. Thomas | Executive Director | Accenture |
| Robert Janssen | Senior Advisor | Outsourcing Group |
| Rosabeth Moss Kanter | Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor | Harvard Business School |
| Russ Finney | Vice President & CIO | Tokyo Electron |
| Russ Owen | President - Americas Commercial Group | CSC |
| S. Ramadorai | Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director | Tata Consultancy Services Limited |
| Salil Parekh | CEO | Capgemini |
| Samantha Covell | Vice President Services Procurement | BT |
| Sandeep Sahai | President and COO | Headstrong |
| Sanjeev Agarwal* | Managing Director | Helion Venture |
| Sanjiv Somani | Managing Director | UBS |
| Sanjiv Puri | Managing Director | ITC Infotech |
| Santrupt Misra | Director | Aditya Birla Management Corporation Ltd |
| Sara Garrison | Senior VP - IT | Sabre Holding |
| Shashi Tharoor | Former UN Under Secretary General, fellow USC Center on Public Diplomacy | |
| Sudhakar Ram | CMD | Mastek Ltd |
| Sudip Banerjee | CEO | L&T Infotech |
| Suresh Vaswani | Jt. - CEO, IT Business | Wipro Limited |
| Valentin Makarov | President | RUSSOFT Association |
| Vikram Talwar | President | EXL Services |
| Vineet Nayar | CEO | HCL Technologies |
* Yet to be confirmed

The NASSCOM India Leadership Forum 2009, a milestone event that will mark NASSCOM’s 20th year, will bring under one roof industry leaders, thought gurus, analysts, Government decision makers, academia and IT users from across the world.

Day 3
All's well that's ends well
Importance of critical infrastructure
Need for IT is more than ever: Prahlad
Who'll get funded, acquired in 2009?
How to compete when you are niche
Champy urges IT industry to change
Green IT mkt to grow despite recession
Tharoor praises India's reaction to Satyam

Day 2
'There's no issue with outsourcing'
Thrive, not survive in downturn
Where would the CTOs spend?
It's all about 'open' competition!
Security guru talks of challenges
BPO industry sees future perfect
Crisis brings opportunities
Hexaware chief scoffs at rumours
Best time for IT to bank on BFSI
Asia is the place for IT today
Infy may cut salary, not jobs
H1B visa row not serious: Murthy
Europe in tough competition with India
Murthy's mantras to solve slowdown

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Think small and create success aura
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Economy to revive soon, John Chambers
Indian industry is resilient, says Som Mittal
Tough times for India IT industry
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