Sohrab Kakalia, Vice President and Head of the Technology Consulting Group at Infosys, brings cross platform, cross industry global experience to help organizations meet their tactical and strategic objectives across the world.

Always happy to be at the cutting edge of technology, Sohrab has worked on mission critical defense and space programs at the beginning of his career with Group Bull and PSI in the late 80’s, he then lead teams building RISC processors and eventually the RS 6000 - from interface chip design to the AIX kernel. In 1993 he, first as team member then as leader, managed the Strategic Software Unit at Group Bull in France, during this phase multiple patents were obtained. With a desire to work on high performance, high transactional systems and closely with client teams, Sohrab moved to the United States with Infosys in 2000 from where he leads his global team.

Being a technocrat at heart, Sohrab finds it interesting to observe the patterns that follow technology and innovation, the impact on micro and macro economies, benefits and risks, and making it work for you. Most of his findings were part of his lectures in various universities or forums, including Stanford, Indian Institute of Science & W3C.

He holds a Bachelor Degree in Science and a degree in Technology in Electronics from the University of Bombay; he then did his Masters in Computer Science from IIT, Bombay.

Sohrab is qualified gadget freak, who unhesitatingly tries and reviews new technology, a beta tester for many products. In his spare time he is either trekking or biking the hills around the Bay Area or discovering the outdoors with his wife and 2 daughters.

Presentation
The Role of the IT Architect in a Global Environment
Leveraging globally capability and expertise is a cornerstone in building lasting business and IT systems. Not only is the world flat with regards to services, it is also flat in terms of consumer market reach lead by organizations such as Amazon, Ebay, Froggle amongst others. There are few geographical, economic and even political boundaries.

In Business and IT architecture provisioning, it impacts the conventional process of thinking, brainstorming, communicating, governing and managing in a global resource pool.

Infosys has 25 years of experience delivering business solutions in a global delivery model. It is driving a more industrialized approach to software development.

Sohrab Kakalia, Global Head of Technical Consulting, illustrates how Infosys has created an architectural ecosystem where business and technical consultants, application architects and delivery teams collaborate in producing solutions reliably; he shows how it integrates with the client’s own architectural functions.

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