Ravinder Zutshi, deputy managing director, Samsung India

• LCD monitor contribution to grow to over 65% of the total monitor market.
• Shift in the market from 15 to the 17 and 19
• Proliferation of large format retail stores

Sashi Reddi, founder & CEO, AppLabs

• Renewed focus on building non-US business
• More sophistication regarding currency management
• Greater emphasis on productivity

Sunil Patil, president, UBICS

• Major revamp in business plans of Indian IT firms
• Productivity of resources
• Process automation

Prabodh Vyas, MD, Gigabyte Technologies (India)

• Increased penetration of broadband will encourage more online applications like video streaming
• Ultra Mobile PCs or PDAs with bigger screens will gain market share. GPS devices will also gain market and some of the GPS features could be incorporated on PDAs or UMPCs.
• Significant implementation of WiMax

Vinnie Mehta, director, MAIT

• Domestic consumption will remain robust
• Mobility will continue to drive the market
• Manufacturing in India will be attractive

Ninad Karpe, MD, CA (India & SAARC)

• Realization that investment in security and infrastructure management technologies is as important as investing in business applications
• Embracing best practices and industry accepted processes, in addition to investment in technology, people
• Strong alignment of IT to business

Rufina Fernandes, CEO, Nasscom Foundation

• 2008 will see several companies that would forge partnerships with local companies to get a foothold in rural areas
• Innovations and inventions will help people deliver better products and services at the bottom of the pyramid
• While many grassroot innovators will find solutions, industry may come forward to help build a robust business model around them

Shailesh Shah, chief strategy officer, Satyam Computers

• Increased levels of consolidation with global companies of Indian origin buying overseas and vice versa
• The trend toward global sourcing in Continental Europe will begin growing in earnest
•  Increased prowess in vertical-specific and function-specific offerings

Safir Adeni, CEO, Sitel India

• Acceleration of focus toward domestic business
• Migration of international business to other geographies that offer tax holidays
• Further consolidation in the BPO space including divesture of captive units
• Srinivasan Ramakrishnan, director general, C-DAC
• Increase in IT spending as a result of infrastructure spending and SME consumption
• Visible benefits of IT growing, thanks to multiple factors
• Comparative slowing down of growth in exports and increase in the growth of domestic market

Sanjay Kumar, CEO, vCustomer

• Leveraging technology to increase efficiency and bring down costs
• Focus on quality over scale
• Accelerating growth in tier-2 cities

Sanjay Agarwala,director, ESS

• The impact of the falling dollar, especially on the smaller exporters
• Renewed campaigning against outsourcing to India with next elections coming in the US
• Threat of recession in the US likely to increase the volumes being outsourced to India, but India may face very tough competition from other countries due to rising costs