With an ever increasing number of wireless, battery powered devices, products need to be able to communicate reliably but with lower power consumption. India offers additional challenges of solid walls and limited sub-GHz open spectrum. This session explores the possibilities and their suitability for different applications.
Copywriting has enjoyed exclusivity and demand over the years. But, in the age of digital marketing is this particular form of art losing out? Yes, we call it an art form because it you need to be gifted to be a copywriter. Not everyone can stand up to the challenge of telling a story in one sentence. At a time when everyone is trying to cash in on content marketing, copywriters might be worried about their future or, maybe not! If blogs, newsletters, case studies, ebooks are the order of the day, at the same time, people also like the concept of communicating in 140 characters. So, we can safely say that copywriting is not a dying art form but, if it join hands with digital marketing, then it will surely open up a different avenue altogether.
iBot’s product suite enables machine-to-machine (M2M), human-to-machine (H2M) and machine-to-system (M2S) interactions; thereby creating a framework for interconnectedness between humans and machines to create smarter everything a.k.a “Smartiverse”.
iBot’s products can be combined in a variety of ways to create solutions for consumers, businesses, citizens, government and public sector; thereby illustrating a true platform for IoT as well as the larger IoE.
Nimble Wireless - Nimble provides end-to-end IOT solutions to track, trace and monitor assets location, temperature and other parameters. Nimble Wireless helps customers wirelessly connect, control and manage their remote assets. Nimble Wireless does this by providing state of the art M2M and connected wireless products and services encompassing Cellular, GPS, WiFi, RFID and Zigbee technologies. We offer innovative customized M2M products geared towards multiple verticals such as Transportation & Logistics, Telecom Infrastructure, Green Energy and Healthcare industries.
Cyber security market is expanding at an astounding race. Following major data breaches, corporate customers and venture capitalists have shown increased interest in cybersecurity. In the 2015 first half, venture firms invested $1.2 billion in cybersecurity start-ups, according to research.The market right now for private investment is pretty robust, pretty frothy. Cyber security presents enormous opportunity in terms of innovation and unexplored white spaces. It goes without saying the VCs and the angel investors are aggressively exploring cyber security market to back ingenious solutions in this domain. Cyber security product ecosystem is steadily gaining traction and the sheer innovation showcased by product companies has enticed investors to this domain.
The primary goal of product management is to define product capabilities and drive product adoption. In the world of information security, a product might be a hardware gadget, such as a network tap, a piece of software such as an anti-malware tool, or a service, such as a managed security offering. Sometimes it is a combination of these categories. The purpose of enterprise level security product is to facilitate implementation of a strategy to mitigate risk and avoid costly penalties for non-compliance.The security products must integrate into the enterprise infrastructure with a minimum of complexity.
Scalability of existing capabilities and the ability to diversify the array of solutions offered to the stakeholders holds the key to the survival and expansion of Security Product companies. There have been several examples of companies effectively integrating several domains to offer ingenious solutions and services.
NPC 2015 Opening Session on the 13th October presents a fireside chat with Nikesh Arora. Hear Nikesh Arora share insights on India’s Leapfrog Moment. A broad array of questions across social media and NPC delegates will be addressed by Mr Arora and will include the following:
As we see more and more product companies coming out of India, TiE SV in partnership with NASSCOM and other TiE groups within India launched a program called Billion $ Babies in 2014. In this panel we explore from these companies that are part of the B$B and others the Challenges of building product companies in India, finding local customer traction, local VCs investing in such companies, hiring talent etc. We will also discuss in depth on various aspects of building initial customer base and revenue growth in India and real possibilities of building the next Google, VMWare or Cisco from India.
Snapdeal is evolving from an e-commerce venture into a technology company, offering a suite of products and services. Join this fireside chat with Anand Chandrasekaran, Chief Product Officer share insights on how is Snapdeal making this change, what is the product in ecommerce and insights on building great products.
If you can write ”Hello, World!”, you can change the world.
MediaTek chipsets ship in almost a billion devices every year. It is broadly accepted that the Internet of Things (IoT) market opportunity will be vast in terms of potential unit volume and scope. Analysts estimate 50 billion devices to be connected to the Internet by 2020. Your idea can be in the next-generation of IoT devices coming to market.
Most of what you need to make a difference in IoT and Wearable development is already inside your head. MediaTek Labs is where you get the rest: the resources, tools and supply chain partners to go from idea to prototype to product.
We believe that the global developer community will be a major source of innovation in IoT. According to Vision Mobile (June 2014), there will be 4.5 million IoT developers by 2020. In this exploding era of IoT, MediaTek Labs serves as an open and inclusive global ecosystem program to support the development of a new generation of IoT enabled devices and associated services that will help connect billions of things and users, across different markets and applications.
If you really want to change the world, this is where you start.
From smart light bulbs to smartwatches, the next-generation health monitoring devices, robotic rovers and tracking devices – find out what it takes to make them and how to join the new developer movement.As the startup journey in India accelerates at a very rapid pace, we are hearing the murmurs of – is this a bubble about to burst, is their excessive funding in certain segments that is leading to entrepreneurs focusing on similar ideas and not the next gen innovative solutions.
Join our power packed panelists to discuss the following;
India is going through a mobile revolution. India today has ~300 million mobile internet users and yet only 120 million English speakers. This means we have close to 200 million people on the internet today with no comprehension of the content presented to them. Given that we're adding 20 million mobile internet users every quarter, we're set to reach 500 million Internet users by 2017. As per a recent report, the number of Internet users in India could increase 24% with greater availability of local language content. Startups and established players are focusing more resources on their mobile apps or even going mobile-app only. To realize this opportunity, it is important that we have solutions available in Indian languages.
Hear industry leaders who are enabling Indian language solutions ascertain what is the opportunity ahead, the adoption curve and what is still lacking in the ecosystem. Key discussion themes include:
The government has launched an ambitious Make in India initiative to promote manufacturing in the country. At the same time, disruptive technologies are creating the Connected Internet of Everything, providing an opportunity for entrepreneurs to build hardware solutions that power this interconnected world.
Hear a interesting panel of leaders discuss and share their perspectives on:
Calling all product developers - A unique opportunity to participate in an Open House with the Google team. If you need to know/interact with the folks running the Developer Relations, Google Developer tools, know more about Google Cloud Platform and Play . This is the right workshop for you to attend.
The Storyteller captures our imagination with compelling narratives of initiative, hard work, and innovation. Given the power of stories to inspire, move, and in fact, shape a culture, they have tremendous value for business strategy. Strategists increasingly recognise that in today’s fast-moving world, strategic agility—the ability to move fast but keeping the long-term in mind—is a necessity; they realise that culture is more important than strategy (for instance, see Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast). So, how can we use stories in an organisation to influence the organisational culture? Hear this keynote and discussion session to understand why storytelling is so important for culture building.
The education industry is not only huge; it’s also undergoing more changes recently than it has at possibly at any other point in history. As an industry that has resisted online and digital technologies for decades it is now ripe for disruption. Startups are sprouting to fill in gaps and create new technologies to service this increasingly lucrative field. Digital education has the potential to be the global economy’s reset button as country’s race to become lifelong learning societies to gain competitive edge in the global marketplace. Karl Mehta of EdCast will explore in his keynote address and in a fireside chat with Mark Dorman of McGraw Hill and Gorsi Parekh of E-PathShala about the impact of new pedagogies and technologies in personalized, social, mobile, adaptive, immersive, experiential and exponential learning@ Scale, to transform our lives and economies and usher us in a new era of abundance.
Sheryl Sandberg in her talk to Harvard Graduates spoke about the need to `Get on a rocket ship. If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat. Just get on’. Just as talent is looking for rocketships, so are the investors.
This panel talks to two leading investors who spotted rocket ship investments at very early stages and have themselves built rocket ship organizations. The key themes that will be discussed include:
- Your story and lessons learnt in identifying rocket ship investments
- Imperatives in scaling a rocket ship company
- Advice to today’s startup entrepreneurs
While TV took a while to become mainstream, most millennials don’t subscribe to cable or satellite, so the Internet has become the way to reach a new generation. With the current shift toward easily consumable media, organizations and marketers are building video assets to share. Join our panel and hear market leaders discuss how video technologies and marketing are disrupting the future and what are the opportunities ahead.
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Wanna get more intuitive, unleash your creativity & beat your stress? Think you handle the pressure? Funding giving you blood pressure? Come to our session, learn to MASTER YOURSELF and WIN.
In our industry, there is a saying that great businesses get acquired and not sold. Entrepreneurs don’t build businesses with exit in mind, but having been through a big exit, it is important to look back and see what the learning’s were. This panel includes three high profile leaders who have had great exits – Freecharge, TaxiforSure and NetMagic and will discuss the following themes:
Silicon Valley is the most influential place for entrepreneurship in the world, but it operates to a large extent according to its own sets of rules. For an Indian product company to become a global business, the founders need to consider setting up in silicon valley at a very early stage.
Come and learn from a panel of experts on how can you “break into” the otherwise competitive world of silicon valley, and leverage the silicon valley culture to “Make in India, and Sell in the World.”
Hear from industry leaders on what is the Valley Way. Key discussion themes will include:
- Why Silicon Valley
- Demystifying the Silicon Valley Entrepreneur
- Building a business from Silicon Valley –key imperatives for Indian entrepreneurs
- Leveraging the Strong India Network in Silicon Valley
- Structuring for Success: Key issues to consider
India is the big frontier for consumer Internet space and smartphone penetration is increasing like crazy. Every day you read about a new consumer internet company and billions of dollars of valuations and funding is being raised across different categories of Consumer Internet.
Hear this invigorating panel across a cross section of consumer internet companies that are market leaders in their categories discuss key themes including:
The Prime Minister announced the Start-up India initiative on Independence day. What does this initiative mean for startups, how do you enable ease of doing business. Join us for an interactive policy roundtable that discusses the following themes:
1. Update on various Govt initiatives for start-ups / ease of business– AIM, SETU, Start-up India initiative, High Level Committees for SME financing, Bankruptcy and closure, Companies law, India Aspiration Fund to help create more early stage funds for start ups, SEBI initiatives on AIFs, SME exchange, etc
2. Impact areas for ease of business – identifying concerns and issues – Moderated by Nishth Desai and Associates
Studies show that startups are going global more quickly than ever before: economic forces and globalization are pushing startups to explore new markets, technology has made cross-border transactions and communication comfortable and accessing capital and reaching more early adopters are strong incentives to expand internationally. However, founding, building, and growing a global startup will require pretty serious work. This session discusses opportunities in new markets, strategies that startups should focus when they decide to go global and what pitfalls to avoid. Key discussion themes include:
Fintech companies, are easing payment processes, reducing fraud, saving users money, promoting financial planning, and rehaping a giant industry. As we move to an era of banks without branches, personalization of services, analytics defining risk and fraud, what are the opportunities for the new age fintech companies. Hear this panel discussion wherein some of the best fintech companies from India talk about how they are building global businesses and disrupting the traditional financial system.
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At this session, we will have 3-4 entrepreneurs pitch to Sandy and a jury comprising of investors and industry experts who will give detailed feedback to the entrepreneurs. This session will end with a presentation from the Founder of Fitternity who recently raised money successfully.
By invitation only and limited to 15 entrepreneurs
BSE Hi-Tech will enable efficient exits and exciting investment opportunities to venture investors while providing access to capital to young fast growing companies. Join the CEO for an interactive session and understand how your company could raise capital on this platform.
There should be no difference between the in-store and online experience for the customer. Hear how WalmartLabs and Walmart is ensuring that the customer experience is completely seamless between mobile device - picking up, searching, delivering to your house or shopping in-store, navigating capability etc.
Jeremy will also share what are the innovation opportunities for start-ups and how can start-ups partner with Walmart.
Lowe’s Innovation Labs (LIL), the disruptive technology arm of home improvement retailer Lowe’s, is breaking new ground by leveraging professional science fiction writers to create intuitive narratives, in comic book form, about how technology could benefit consumers and change the future of the business.
Through this process, the company envisioned a future where technology could bring significant changes to the retail customer experience. This led the home improvement company to introduce the Lowe's Holoroom, an augmented reality home improvement design tool, the OSHbot autonomous retail service robot, and in-store 3D scanning and printing services.
Kyle Nel, executive director of Lowe’s Innovation Labs, will outline the evolution of exponential technologies and present the case for why now is the time when this technology is poised to forever change human behavior, customer experiences and consumer communications.
Nel will explain how Lowe's Innovation Labs has approached the innovation process and successfully introduced technology to real-world consumer audiences.
It is a small, inconspicuous country, yet hardly any other nation is as advanced in the area of digital adaptivity as Estonia: thanks to Taavi Kotka. Mr. Kotka has been the CIO of the Estonian government since 2013. Under his management, Estonia is working to introduce virtual citizenship. At the event, Mr. Kotka will speak about how digitization is changing the mechanisms of citizen political involvement, public administration, and even democracy itself.
All moonshots funded today are not enough to meet the Grand Challenges facing humanity. There is a growing moonshot ecosystem that can rise up if we join in this effort and unleash the talent of our people.
As a species, we face a range of challenges that pose threats to our survival. When we analyze the fall of major civilizations of the past it was not war but more often environmental and resource implosion which did them in. The good news is that innovation can solve each one of these challenges. Who will meet these grand calls for breakthroughs at scale? Our governments cannot face these issues head on since they are structured to think in short-term election cycles and focus on local issues; they are unable to attack problems that span larger tracts of time and space.
We will not see the breakthroughs from most establishment scientists since they must support themselves through the byzantine grant process that we as a society have set up and so they apply for incremental work to increase their chances of funding.
Private sector companies are rewarded for increasing shareholder value, not spreading solutions to those who cannot pay for them or uprooting sunk-cost plants that may be destroying the planet but are already paid for. Thankfully, there are some standout exceptions as we shall see in this piece.
In the face of the lack of leadership from traditional sources, new organizations have stepped up to the plate. These organizations and companies have initiated "moonshots" which are large scale efforts that can tackle one of the great challenges -- inspired by the moonshot program of the 1960's which put a man on the moon.
India has two sides to the coin: On one side, an extremely entrepreneurial economy and set of people and on the flipside, India has big problems. Some of the next innovations need to come from India.
If you want real solutions to massive problems, then you just don’t go to the experts. You have to create an incentive for people to come together to work for the problem. XPRIZE defines a grand challenge. It creates a call for action for something that is very audacious yet achievable. Hear about the X Prize journey and how they are enabling high impact innovations.
The Room to Read story began in 1998, with a trek to Nepal and a chance encounter that led John Wood to a local school. While looking at the school's dismal library - a dog-eared Lonely Planet, a couple of Danielle Steel bodice rippers - the 35-year-old Wood was told: "We're too poor to afford an education. But until we have an education, we'll always be poor." That terrible catch-22 poverty trap hit Wood hard, and when the headmaster asked if he might return one day with some books, Wood knew that he would. Six months later, he was back with his dad and 3,000 books, carried on the backs of donkeys. He hasn't looked back.
"We live in a world where over 200 million kids woke up this morning and didn't go to school, where 780 million people are illiterate. Two thirds of who are girls and women. If we don't change that, then nothing changes.
"I looked at this and took a 'go big or go home' mentality - if I'm going to give up millions of dollars to devote my life to this, I'm not going to do it on a small scale. It has to be on a massive scale, otherwise, personally, it's not worth doing," says Wood.
The idea of scaling was one of the most important lessons he brought with him from the business world and his nine years at Microsoft. It's what makes Room to Read stand out. "In the US there are 1.2 million charities and 90 per cent of them operate on a budget of less than US$300,000. They stay small," explains Wood.
Room to Read's growth comes down to two key factors: costs are kept low and the local community is always committed to every project.
Hear the Room to Read story and how they are reshaping education.Maker Exhibits and Free Flowing parallel Maker Workshops
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The special interactive program “NPC Business Connect” is planned for large enterprise leaders looking for most innovative cos in India for any possible partnership/ collaboration. The Business connects is a closed door connect program where highly curated start-ups will get an opportunity to do a pitch (~5-7 minutes each) to interested Enterprise CXOs.
The key focused segments include Fin-tech (as a key Vertical) and emerging technologies (as General Tech horizontal) –
Join the keynote by Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO and co-founder of NVIDIA Corporation to hear the awesome story on how NVIDIA transformed itself from being a start-up to the world leader in Visual Computing and then expanded its reach into high technology areas like Deep Learning and High Performance Computing . This session will be a great inspiration to all the emerging startups in India.
If anyone knows about start-ups it’s Dave McClure. Dave is known as one of the world’s foremost investors in early stage ventures. Since 2010 500 Startups has invested in more than 900 companies, of which more than 50 companies in the portfolio have already been acquired. Three of his investments, Mint.com, Slideshare and Mashery, have delivered returns above $100 million., Dave says we punch above our weight when it comes to innovative start-ups. This is important because every single industry is being disrupted by early stage ventures. Savvy investors know this and want to get in on the ground floor of the businesses that will be the next big things in their industry. In this keynote session, Dave will shre some of his secrets when it comes to picking winners from the universe of start-up enterprises.
Will India be able to transition it's software services advantage in SaaS? What are the issues?
Business incubators have been around since the 1980s and were primarily places that gave free office space. Since then, incubators have been going through an evolution, and some have changed into ‘business accelerators’.
The startup world is booming like never before. Accelerators are looking for ways to create distinctive value for startups, ultimately leading to successful exits. However, it is paradoxical that many of them are following the same pattern and expect to deliver outstanding results. The truth is there’s a high chance of failure by not breaking the startup accelerator mold.
So what are these new models of accelerations and how are leaders thinking of these. The panel discusses the following themes:
The session will focus on
- Volume vs. Value
- Will Indians pay?
- Difference the new pricing structure of Rs 10 has made
- Made In India or Made For India or Both
- Is it sexy to say "I'm into mobile games"
Design Awesome is a workshop to share experiential learning on taking an idea from concept to reality using the Lean StartUp methodology. It includes a brief introduction to the concepts and building rapid prototypes by the attendees of the workshop that we guarantee will test your beliefs and change your outlook towards product development.
Who should attend?
As these sessions involve high amount of interaction and deep hands-on exercise the participation would have to be limited.
Agenda
Awesome Product Design Introduction by Klaus/Aparna (20 mins)
Hands On Workshop “Building Awesome Experiences through Rapid Prototyping & Customer Empathy” – Nitin/Cheryl (70 mins)
Methodology:
The focus of the workshop would be completely on hands-on designing and building rapid prototypes. After meeting with customer and identifying pain points, participants would be coached by Intuit coaches on designing rapid prototypes and learning from customers. These experiments would then be performed on real life scenarios. The learning in this case is expected to be much stronger due to the emphasis on experiential learning.
One size does not fit all and too many implementations end up failing to produce the expected results – end-user adoption and desired behavior change. This session showcases the unusual approaches adopted by leading SaaS companies. Choosing the right approach(es) can make the difference between a failed implementation and stellar success.
Marc Andreesen righthly said, “In technology products the most important thing is knowing what you can’t know”. In this session we discuss with two successful product leaders the key imperatives for success or failure in building and scaling great products. Learn about what pitfalls to avoid, is there a structured roadmap that entrepreneurs can follow and how do you deal with a failed product.
RBI has given approval for 11 new Payment Banks and 10 new Small Banks being announced. In additional a number of new, large, players have recently entered the wallet sector – including large banks and retailers.
What is the future of this industry? Are wallets likely to make it to the offline world? Exactly how will this heavily funded industry shape-up? How will the incumbents stave off the competition? Can the old banks make a play?
Hear from the pioneers, the leaders and the new challengers.
"Great companies start with great products”. This session outlines what are the key imperatives for building great products that can scale and build sustainable business models. Our expert panelists discuss the following:
- Key priorities for product management – Strategy + Technology + Marketing
- Product management in an agile world
- Creating a strategic product plan
- Role of the Product Head - is it the voice of the customer or the technology lead
- Building the team
- Pivoting your product – lessons learnt
Unconference with Sandy Carter, IBM General Manager, Cloud Ecosystem and Developers
Session led by Lathika Pai, Head, Asia, Kollective Inc
Nasscom is pro-actively encouraging more women led entrepreneurs to take their companies to the next level and scale up. As a part of this ongoing series of workshops and bootcamps, IBM's GM Sandy Carter will engage with women entrepreneurs to share her journey and discuss what it takes to create a world class product and team.
Ajay Kaul, CEO of Jubilant Foodworks explains how he is plans to leveraging technology to ride the wave of changes in consumer preferences away from the concept of dine-in to food deliverance. He will also talk about what it takes to succeed in the a highly competitive consumer market, how he plans to leverage mobile technologies and what it takes to win against both incumbants and upstart startups!
The keynote will cover how to build scalable architectures that control thousands of individual robots and products that cater to the new demands for automation.
The mobile ad spend market is expected to cross USD 100 billion in 2016, making it is the biggest digital ad market. Ad tech companies are constantly reinventing the ecosystem, and because they live in the data world they can run campaigns on any metric, and also deliver rich and unique pre-campaign and post-campaign insights. Hear about what is the future of Adtech and is this the leapfrog moment for Adtech. The keynote will discuss the following:
Come learn product management best practices from Steven Lurie and lessons he learned in over 20 years of product and start-up experience at companies that reached scale such as Zynga. For instance, learn about product prioritization and avoiding the 3 key errors made by most product teams.
After helping to scale start-ups, Steven launched a venture capital fund based in San Francisco and the second part of the talk will review fundraising best practices and tips from Silicon Valley.
What might the Indian startup scene look like a few years from now? What might the new unicorns be like - or will unicorns prove to be extinct? What'll be hot, what'll be not? Come to the final keynote for NPC 2015 and get insights from the iconic Mahesh Murthy on what might lie ahead. Will funding shrink or multiply, will there be a boom or bust... all these and other insights in what should be a fun session to round off NPC 2015.
For the first time in India, you will witness a pitch within a boxing ring! NO POWER-POINT, NO PRESENTATION, SHEER TALENT AND POWER TO CONVINCE…..
NASSCOM 10,000 Startups has shortlisted 32 startups for the pitch battle who will Get In The Ring (GITR) There will be 5 rounds, ending in a Q&A and a vote for the winner by our Champion Judges and the audience.
Join the finale session and cheer for the finalists. Winner will get a all paid trip to compete for regional finals in South Korea.
The referees are Dave Mclure, Steven Lurie, Ravi Gururaj, Mukund Mohan, Ajeet Khurana, Abhishek Gupta, Rahul Khanna
GITR is conducted in over a 100 countries across the world. It’s backed by the Global Entrepreneurship and Research Network (GERN) a Kauffman foundation initiative.