Ajit Jaokar, Founder & CEO of the publishing company Futuretext (www.futuretext.com)

Ajit Jaokar is the founder and CEO of the publishing company futuretext(www.futuretext.com). He believes in a pragmatic but open Mobile Data industry – a vision which he fosters through his blog OpenGardens

The OpenGardensBlog was recently rated a top 20 wireless blog worldwide by readers of ‘Fierce wireless’. The OpenGardens blog is also syndicated on the W3C’s Mobile Web Initiative/ Planet Mobile

Ajit is the co-author of the book 'Mobile web 2.0' and is also a member of the web2.0 workgroup.

Currently, he plays an advisory role to a number of mobile start-ups in the UK and Scandinavia.

His recent talks have included:

• Keynote at O Reilly Web20 expo(April 2007) :
• 3GSM – talk on Mobile Web 2.0
• Keynote at Java One (Motorola CTO Padmasree Warrior’s panel)
• European parliament  - Brussels -  (Electronic Internet Foundation)
• Stanford University’s Digital visions program
• MIT Sloan : Trends in Web 2.0 and social networking
• Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2008 – speaker – Social networking and youth

Technical presentations have included:

• IMS World in Monaco
• Ajax world in Santa Clara and New York
• Fraunhofer fokus in Berlin

Media appearances include:

• BBC – Newsnight – 3phone launch
• CNN money
• The BBC digital planet
• The Scoble show

Ajit chairs Oxford University’s Next generation mobile applications panel and conducts a course on Web 2.0 and User generated content at Oxford University.

Ajit lives in London, UK, but has three nationalities (British, Indian and New Zealander) and is proud of all three. He is a member of the RSA  – The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.

He is currently doing a Phd on Identity and Reputation systems at UCL in London.