Two of the most respected names in the Indian software industry answer queries on the trends in software development and the IT industry in India. Dr Ganesh Natarajan (Chairman of Nasscom, CEO of Zensar) & Dr. Anand Deshpande (Founderof Persistent Systems) answer queries on topics like developer skill enhancement, cloud computing, software product development and how acceptance of mediocrity is hurting India’s growth prospects.

In this session Dr. Ganesh Natarajan looks at growth trends in Indian IT. He talks of how entry into new verticals and end to end service is reducing Indian IT’s dependency on a few market segments. He talks at length on how the slowdown in the economy will affect the IT industry and how companies are countering the slowdown.

The 3rd IndicThreads.com Conference on Java Technology kicked off at Sun-n-Sand Pune. The meet started off with Mr. Harshad Oak giving a general introduction and then taken up by Mr. Ganesh Natarajan (Chairman NASSCOM, CEO Zensar Technologies) where he talked about “How the Indian IT-BPO industry is facing the current global uncertainties”, highlighting the ways how the downfall can be handled by belt tightening, salary moderation, expanding to 2/3 tier cities, domestic market, creating new products; tackling new verticals, end-to-end service. and by not being just US centric.

India is having more than 89 companies at SEI CMM Level 5 assessment and many more IT and BPO companies are acquiring quality certifications. Quality everywhere is the state of Indian IT-ITES industry. And in these days comes NASSCOM Quality Summit 2005.