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Apr 5 2013 Event Ended

The American Center, 24 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi

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Schedule

Friday

Apr 5

5:30pm Registration Starts
7:00pm Welcome
7:20pm Speakers Talk
8.10pm Pitches Start
9:30pm Dinner
10:00pm Voting on Ideas
10:30pm Results and Team Formations
11:00pm Start to formalize teams and take an inventory of skills. Be honest, and direct about what resources and skills are needed for the weekend. You may stay and work as late as the venue will allow

Saturday

Apr 6

9:00am Arrive, simple breakfast & coffee
9:30am Teams formed and setting up workspace for the weekend
11:00am Coaches Arrive
12:00pm Call for needs & skills
1:00pm Lunch
2:00pm Coaches help teams one-on-one. They are here to help!
6:30pm Mid weekend check-in, status reports, call for help
7:30pm Dinner
10:00pm Finished for the day. You may stay and work as late as the venue will allow

Sunday

Apr 7

9:00am Arrive, simple breakfast & coffee
10:00am Call for help (this is self motivated, so don’t be shy)
12:00pm Coaches arrive… ASK QUESTIONS
01:00pm Lunch
3:00pm Gut check. Start prepping for presentations
3:15pm Tech Checks & Practice Pitches
5:00pm FINAL PRESENTATIONS
7:30pm Judging & awards
8:00pm Dinner
9:00pm Wrap Up & Go Home

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Speakers

Hitesh Oberoi

MD & CEO, INFO EDGE INDIA LIMITED

Hitesh is a co-promoter, MD and CEO of Info Edge India Limited. Apart from the country's leading job site, Naukri.com, Info Edge also owns Jeevansathi.com, 99acres.com and the recently launched Shiksha.com and has investments in various internet startups as well.

With 11 years of experience in the internet industry, he is part of various industry forums. He is a charter member of the TiE, New Delhi and also the Chairman of IAMAI – The Internet and Mobile Association of India.

Prior to Info Edge, Hitesh worked for almost four years as the Regional Planning and Distribution Manager (North India) for the Ice Cream Division of Hindustan UniLever Limited, the Indian arm of Unilever Plc.

An alumnus of IIT Delhi and IIM Bangalore, he won the Prestigious Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award along with his Partner Sanjeev Bikhchandani for Business Transformation in 2008.

Ajay Lavakre

Sr Vice President & MD India, RMS

Ajay Lavakare is a Senior Vice President with Risk Management Solutions (RMS) and Managing Director of its India office. After returning from California in 2009, Ajay established the RMS India Data Center of Excellence in Noida. Prior to that, Ajay developed a new business initiative for RMS in the US, focused on creating a range of data services, products and solutions to help insurance and reinsurance companies improve the quality of their exposure data used in catastrophe risk modeling
Ajay is also the founder of RMSI Pvt. Ltd, one of Indiaís leading geospatial information services and solutions companies. He established RMSI in 1992 as a joint venture with RMS. RMSI was sold to the Daily Mail, one the UKís leading media enterprise, in 2002.
Prior to founding RMSI, Ajay worked in Tokyo with Kumagai Gumi Ltd., a leading Japanese architecture/engineering/construction company.
Ajay has a Bachelor of Technology degree in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (New Delhi, India) and a Masters degree in Structural Engineering from Stanford University (California, USA).
Ajay is an active member of the Indian Angel Network (IAN) and a charter member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) Delhi chapter. His investment interests include information businesses that use data and analytics. He lives in New Delhi, and enjoys tennis, jazz and good wine and coffee.

Judges

Sanjeev Aggarwal

Senior Managing Director, Helion

Sanjeev Aggarwal is a co‐founder of Helion and serves on the Boards of IndiaHomes, Amba Research, Eye‐Q, MakeMyTrip, Global Talent Track, Azure Power, Nine dot Nine Mediaworx and Vienova. Prior to Helion, Sanjeev was the Founder and CEO of Daksh, having been with the company from its inception in 2000 to its acquisition by IBM in 2004. Sanjeev ran the company as its CEO till June 2006. Daksh was a pioneer in BPO sector in year 2000 and had over 20,000 employees by June, 2006. During this period, Daksh was rated as the World's Best Managed BPO company (Black Book of Outsourcing) and was ranked as the #1 employer in Indian BPO market by IDC. Sanjeev was chosen "Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the year" in 2002.
Prior to founding Daksh, he worked for 15 years with leading technology companies serving the domestic Indian market. Sanjeev led the Strategic Initiatives at Motorola India. He worked with Digital Equipment Corporation in delivering technology solutions and was recognized as the "Decathlon Winner", a recognition given to top 1% managers worldwide. He also served as the CEO of 3COM India.
Sanjeev has a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and an MBA.

Vivek Agarwal

CEO, Liqvid

Vivek is the founder and CEO of Liqvid. The company derives its name from two words – ‘vid’ for ‘to know’ in Sanskrit and ‘liquidus’ for ‘fluid, flowing’ in Latin. The idea is to provide personalised learning that takes the shape of the learner.

Liqvid is focussed on providing English language learning solutions – English Edge – to individuals and organisations. Liqvid follows a unique technology based, blended learning methodology that leverages the power to technology to make learning scalable. The English Programs are offered on PCs, Tablets and Mobiles. Liqvid has more than 250,000 learners across schools, colleges, vocational institutes and corporate for this program and its customers include IIT Delhi, Jamia Milia, British Council and Educomp. Liqvid also has a tie-up with BBC Active.

Before starting Liqvid, Vivek had co-founded egurucool. eGurucool emerged as the pioneer in the field of elearning in India, combining a unique learning methodology and a huge infrastructure of technology and content creation processes. The Investors included Newscorp and IFC, Washington. eGurucool was subsequently sold to NIIT.

Vivek has done his MBA from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, where he was awarded the B C Roy memorial prize for organisational ability. He has been a regular feature in conferences and seminars in India and has also spoken in the UK, USA and Latin America.

He has a passionate interest in education and is committed to exploring how technology can be used to make high quality education and training available to a very large number of people at a cost that they can afford and at a place they can reach.

Vijay Shekhar Sharma

Founder & CEO, One97

is the founder & CEO of One97 Communications – one of India’s fastest growing mobile Internet companies. Vijay also invests in early stage mobile internet startups from his company’s One97 Mobility Fund. An avid admirer of great design, Vijay believes his ultimate moment is yet to arrive. He says and that too with a straight face, if not in his current job, he would have been singing along with Bono.

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Mentors

Ankur Singhla

Founder and CEO, akosha

Ankur is the founder and CEO of Akosha. He is a corporate lawyer turned entrepreneur He left his job in London to start Akosha, an online consumer platform. Akosha gives shape to Ankur's vision of creating a company that helps consumers in getting better customer service. He has built Akosha from scratch to a 50+ organization. A graduate from National Law School of India, Bangalore, he is a classic film buff, and loves reading biographies.

Harinder Takhar

Head, Paytm

Harinder Takhar aged 35 years, heads the Paytm business which was incubated in One97. His association with the company though is way older than his current stint - he staged the launch for One97's first value added service more than a decade ago. Since then, he has worked at Cadence in a software engineering role, at Nokia at a strategy and business development role and at Research in Motion in a product management role.

Harinder studied Computer Science at the Delhi College of Engineering and completed his MBA from INSEAD in 2006.

Ambarish Gupta

Founder, Knowlarity | Twitter

Ambarish is a dreamer and no-nonsense task-master”. Ambarish come up with the vision of hosted telephony products for enterprises in India in 2008. He looks at the overall strategic direction of the company. On a typical day you can find him segmenting customers in marketing and cheerleading sales.
Ambarish has global work experience in business strategy, marketing, technology and organizational effectiveness. He worked for McKinsey & Company in US as strategy consultant and Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, Germany as researcher. He graduated from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur with degree in Computer Science in 2000 and MBA from Carnegie Mellon University, USA in 2007. You can reach him at ambarishKnow@twitter

Pawan Goyal

General Manager, Adobe

Pawan's experience spans research to running a business. He is currently the business owner of TechComm business at Adobe. He has responsibility for multi-function teams (dev, qa, program management, product management, business development, product marketing, demand-gen, and inside sales). He has conducted research in networking, storage systems, operating systems, multimedia systems, virtualization, data center management, and has 30+ papers and 15+ patents. He has productized his research at startups and large companies. He has delivered early and late stage projects with multi-geo engineering teams. He has built engineering organizations, lead teams of upto 250 people, and been responsible for organization turn-arounds.

Sid Talwar

Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Startup Ass-kicker | Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Google+

Founded Evolv (sold to @niitltd). Investor: @shopclues, @missmalini, @embibe, @Quandlteam. Advisor: @gsfindia, @magicbusindia

Angad Kingra

Design Lead at Zomato | Twitter Facebook LinkedIn

Believes the best way to add value to a product is through good design. Obsessively compulsive about details. Always learning.

Naval Saini

Founder, Flip Flop App | Facebook LinkedIn

Naval runs a lean startup flip flop app (www.flipflopapp.com) and work on some very niche javascript technologies. He works on Sencha touch and Node JS (if you have heard of them). He has a good experience of Android and Embedded too.

Naval is a regular StartupWeekender and this time he is coming as a Tech Mentor to engage more with various teams and provide them tech support during the weekend. He was running an arts startup (ededaa.blogspot.com) before Flip Flop App.

Raveesh Bhalla

Manager GDG & Founder, TwoCents | Twitter LinkedIn

Raveesh Bhalla is the manager of Google Developer Group Delhi Android, a community-led initiative aimed at assisting developers for the platform improve their skills and get the recognition they deserve.

He's also the Co-founder at Twocents.in, a social micro-review platform.

He's crazy about user experience, and a big time data nerd. Building things is second nature to him, so much so that he lives a 7-day work-week because anything else "just doesn't feel right".

Rahul Chandra

MD Helion Venture Partners

Rahul Chandra is one of the earliest members of the venture capital fraternity in India. In 1997, as the first employee for Walden International’s India focused venture fund, he has worked closely with the second wave of IT services companies like Mindtree, Techspan (Headstrong acquired by Genpact) and Sierra Atlantic (acquired by Hitachi). From 2000 to 2005 based in the Silicon Valley with Walden’s Palo Alto office, Rahul invested in startups in the areas of Communications, Storage and Security. Since co-founding Helion Advisors in 2006, a $600M India focused venture fund, Rahul has defined investment themes in Financial Services, Outsourcing and is currently focused on Mobility. Starting from the pre-outsourcing boom period when India had less than $100M of venture capital in 2 technology focused global venture capital firms, Rahul has seen promising ventures fail and failing businesses transform to create multi-million dollar values. At close quarters, Rahul has seen entrepreneurs transform their businesses with day to day implementation of positive thinking, superior hiring and plain good old values. These days, Rahul can be found hanging out at startup events and spending time with early stage tech companies that are placing all their eggs in the mobility basket and who believe like him that Mobility is a once in a lifetime opportunity to create the next business Goliaths. Rahul sits on the Boards of Netambit, Seclore Technology, Shubham Housing Finance and United Lex. He is a graduate of BITS Pilani and has a MBA from the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.

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