Programme Schedule

Mr. Jacob Thomas, 

Delivery Manager, 

TCS Kochi

Keynote Speaker, ICACA2023 - Day 1

Mr. Jacob Thomas has 15+ years of experience with TCS and is an alumnus of SCT college of Engineering and an SDM Institute of Management Development. He has handled variety of roles starting as a Developer, ILP Faculty, Campus Recruitment Lead (Kerala) to Blockchain Sales and Delivery Management. He is currently working as the Delivery Manager of one of the prestigious Life Science accounts of TCS. 

Prof. (Dr.) Mini Ulanat, 

Chair, IEEE Kerala Section,

Systems Manager, CUSAT, Kochi

Chief Guest, ICACA2023

A technology evangelist backed by 3 decades of rich multifaceted experience in Information Technology covering areas of software development, infrastructural development, implementation and management of enterprise IT project.  

Completed Ph.D from CUSAT, PG in Project Management from IGNOU, M.Tech Computer and Information Sciences from CUSAT, B.Tech Electrical Engineering from University of Calicut.

Mr. Jayan Brahmanandan 

Director Cloud Engineering

Hitachi Vantara, Dallas, Texas

Keynote Speaker, ICACA2023 - Day 2

Mr. Jayan Brahmanandan has more than 18yrs of IT experience. Started his career as a Systems Engineer. Worked as - data center administrator managing large HPC clusters, Linux systems, core infrastructure systems and services, storage clusters, data/network security, VMware clusters. Over a decade he has been working on various different cloud technologies and helping public/private cloud customers as well as ISVs from various different industry verticals. Mr. Jayan is currently working as a Director of Cloud engineering with Hitachi Vantara.