InfoVision 2005 : A GLOBAL CONCLAVE OF INFORMAITON COMMUNITY (September 15-16, 2005, Hotel Le Meridien, Bangalore) Come and listen to the visionaries. Interact with leaders. Join the debate with experts. Visualize a new Information Profession. www.infovision2005.org <http://www.infovision2005.org> Sessions Contouring the Knowledge Society. 1. IT & IM: Meeting and melding points. 2. KM Solutions & Practices. 3. E-Publishing: Changing paradigms and shifting markets. 4. Search Engines & Data mining. 5. E-Learning & Digital Libraries. 6. IPR: ideologies, legalities and technologies. 7. Policy Framework for Information Society. Speakers. 1. R. A. Mashelkar, DG, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, India 2. P. Anandan MD, Microsoft Research India. 3. Ronald Larsen Dean, School of Information Science, University of Pittsburg, USA. 4. Karl Wiig, Knowledge Research Institute, USA (T). 5. Sugata Mitra, NIIT. 6. Derk Haank, CEO, Springer, Germany. 7. Ajit Balakrishnan, CEO. Rediff.com. 8. Andrew Large , Chair, School of Library and Information Studies, McGill University, Canada. 9. R. Ramaraj, CEO, Sify. 10. Ingeborg Torvik Solvberg, Professor, Dept. of Computer & Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. 11. Praveen Anand , Advocate, Anand and Anand Associates, India 12. Jean Claude Guedon, Professor, University of Montreal, Canada. 13. S. Sadagopan, Director, International Institute of Information Technology. 14. Nick Moore, Chairman, Acumen Consulting & Research, UK. 15. N. Vijayaditya , DG, NIC. 16. Eric F. Van de Velde, Director, Library Information Technology, Caltech, USA. 17. Mohan Tambe, MD, Innomedia Technologies. 18. Judith Turner, Editor, Journal of Electronic Publishing, USA. 19. Abhijit Lahiri, Technology Information Program, DSIR. 20. Nancy Buckley, Blackwell Publishing, UK. 21. Jayant R. Haritsa, Professor, Indian Institute of Science. 22. T.A. Balasubramanian, Consultant and Media Advisor, Mumbai 23. Raj Datta, GM, Mind Tree, India 24. Madan Mohan Rao, Editor, Knowledge Management Chronicles. 25. Anand Parthasarathy, IT Columnist, The Hindu. 26. Uma Ganesh, CEO, Kalzoom Technologies. 27. G.Venkatesh, Chief Strategist & CTO, Sasken. 28. Prabhuddha Ganguly, CEO, Vision-IPR. 29. Subas Pani, Chief Secretary, Govt. of Orissa. 30. Rajiv Seth, President, CyberMedia Services. ________________ from N V Sathyanarayana Informatics (India) Ltd Bangalore 560 003, India sathya@informindia.co.in Phone: 91 80 23365940 Fax: 91 80 23344598