Prasad Kantamneni

Vishakhapatnam Area, India India

Chair, Technology Incubation Program

Technology / Software / Internet

Prasad currently runs the Technology incubation program at BCT. Projects include $7 mobile computer literacy programs, next gen agricultural advisory services, workforce certification programs, and online learning for bandwidth limited communities. He was also the principal architect of the Eye-Tracking platform at Yahoo!, and was responsible for significant user experience and revenue improvements. One of the achievements he is most proud of is using research to build a case and drive the launch of the search assistance feature (also known as search suggestions) at Yahoo!. This helped Yahoo! be the first search engine to deploy the Search Assistance feature -- a feature that is now...