Dr Sriganesh Rao is an ICT Professional with 37 years of global experience in leading complex technology projects with rich background in Engineering, Business development, QA & Program Management in Telecom, Government & Defence verticals across Embedded, Engineering Services, Testing and Manufacturing horizontal.
His experience spans across leading IT organizations—TCS (India & Australia) & IBM (India & Australia), Telecom Service Providers-- OPTUS (Australia) & TATA Teleservices (India), Telecom OEMs-- Bharat Electronics (India), United Telecoms (India), ERG Telecommunications (Australia), ADC Telecommunications- USA (Through ERG) and Telecom Software Providers- Alopa Networks (India & US). Currently, he is the CEO & Managing Director of Calligo Technologies, a Data Science company at Bangalore, India.
He received his M. Tech (Electronics) degree from NITK-Surathkal and MBA (Technology Management with focus on International Telecommunication Management) from Deakin University in Australia. He completed his PhD in the area of Business Development and Technology related to 5G technologies from Aarhus University, Denmark in 2020. He also holds Certified Corporate Directorship from World Council of Corporate Governance, UK.
He has served as the Chairman of ‘M2M Gateway & Architecture’ Workgroup setup by Govt of India’s Department of Telecom (DoT). He is Member of its National Working Group – “IoT and its application in Smart Cities”. He was also the Vice Chair of the Consultative Committee for the adoption of 0neM2M as National Standard. He has published several research papers in 5G domain in reputed international journals. He has been a Speaker at several international conferences in the topics of 5G, IoT and Smart Cities.
He is Senior Member of IEEE (USA), Senior Member of Australian Computer Society, Life Member of Computer Society of India & Bangalore Management Association and Member of Global Standardization Forum of India. He has been quite active in promoting Australia- India bilateral relationships through Australian Alumni Association (as President), Australia India Business Council (As Member of ‘Make in India’ focus group) and Deakin University as Ambassador -India Alumni.
Sriganesh’ s current interests include 5G, 6G, IoT, Smart Cities, Industries 4.0, Business Model Innovation, AI and Big Data Analytics.