RAJKUMAR BUYYA is Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering; and Director of the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is also serving as the founding CEO of Manjrasoft, an Australian company developing innovative solutions for Cloud Computing. He has authored and published over 300 research papers and four text books. The books on emerging topics that Dr. Buyya edited include High Performance Cluster Computing (Prentice Hall, 1999) and Cloud Computing (Wiley, 2011). His book on "Mastering Cloud Computing" is a famous book on Cloud. He is one of the highly cited authors in computer science and software engineering worldwide. Dr. Buyya received the "2009 IEEE Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing" for his pioneering work in utility-oriented distributed computing platforms.

Debashis Saha is currently a Full Professor with the MIS Group, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta. Previously, he was with Computer Science & Engg. Dept. of Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He has co-supervised 14 doctoral theses and published about 280 research papers in various conferences and journals, and directed four funded projects on networking. He has coauthored several book chapters, a monograph and five books including Networking Infrastructure for Pervasive Computing: Enabling Technologies and Systems (Norwell, MA: Kluwer, 2002) and Location Management and Routing in Mobile Wireless Networks (Boston, MA: Artech House, 2003). He was the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Business Data Communications & Networking (IJBDCN) [2009-2013], had served on the editorial board of selected international journals, and is a regular reviewer of several international journals. Dr. Saha is the recipient of the prestigious Career Award for Young Teachers from AICTE, Government of India, and is a SERC Visiting Fellow with the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India. He is a Fellow of West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology (WAST), Senior Life Member of Computer Society of India, Senior Member of IEEE, and member of AIS, member of the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) Working Groups 6.8 and 6.10. He was the co-Vice-Chair of IEEE Calcutta Section (2010-2011) and was the founder chair of Calcutta Chapter of IEEE Communications Society (2003-2008) which won the 'Best Chapter of the World' award in 2008.

Geetha Manjunath heads the Data Analytics Research at the Xerox Research Centre India (XRCI) which creates innovative solutions in healthcare, transportation and customer care. Dr. Geetha has about 25 years of research expertise in IT industry and has proposed and lead multiple research projects in data analytics, crowd sourcing, cloud computing, semantic web, mobile and distributed computing. Her research in the above areas has resulted in innovative prototypes, patents, publications and new products. Her current research focus is on use of analytics for Breast Cancer Screening. Before joining Xerox in April 2013, she was a Principal Research Scientist and Research Manager at Hewlett Packard Labs India for 17 years and a team leader at C-DAC Bangalore. She is a gold medalist from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore from where she holds a Master's Degree and PhD from Computer Science and Automation Department. She was awarded the NASCCOM IT Innovator award in 2009 and was also the winner of the 2010 Grand Challenges for Technologists, posed by MIT Technology Review under Healthcare Category. She is the author of a book on Cloud technologies titled "Moving to the Cloud" published by Elsevier Syngress Publications in Dec 2011, which is used as an Engineering college text book. She is the Chair of the Big Data Working Group and Member of the Governing Board of the CCICI (Cloud Computing Innovation Council for India). She holds ten US patents with 30 more pending grant.

KARTHIK BHARADWAJ is a CEO and Founder of meghasevA, meaning Cloud Services, which is a 'mega saver' of cost to IT Companies. It is an Australian company developing Innovative Solution and Services. Partnered with many industry giants in Cloud Services, Telecommunication, Energy and Metering Companies, we are working on Energy Conservation and Efficient Utilization as well. Karthik is an Engineer majoring in Computer Science with over 12 years of total experience in Software Development, R&D, IT Services Industry, IT Training and Development.

Anupinder Singh is working with Coresoft Solution as a full time IT & Academic Consultant. He has previously worked with Purpleleap(JV Educomp-Pearson) as Technical Consultant and Lovely Professional University as Assistant Professor. He was awarded Google Educator Group (GEG)-Lead for GEG chandigarh Chapter in December 2014 in lieu of his efforts into connecting educators with latest technology