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Atul Chitnis is Senior Vice President (Product Technologies and Strategy) at Geodesic Information Systems.

Arguably one of India's best known technologists, Atul has been at the forefront of India's technology evolution since the 1980s, predicting and driving new technology waves such as datacommunication, networking, the Internet, wireless and mobile computing, and Open Source, among others.

His focus areas include mobile and hand-held computing, wireless data networks, "appropriate technologies" (matching available technologies to actual requirements, instead of the other way round), Linux and Open Source, computing in entertainment technologies (especially the music industry), and the identification and understanding of future technologies that could impact his clients and technology audiences.