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NASSCOM Product Conclave 2014 is the flagship event of the Indian software product ecosystem. The summit events are scheduled for Wednesday October 29th. They are open only for NPC delegates who MUST pre-register and who have received a confirmation specifically for an assigned summit. The summits are being hosted at different corporate locations throughout Bangalore. The main NPC 2014 Conclave on Thursday October 30th & Friday October 31st is @ Vivanta by Taj, Yeshwanthpur, Bangalore. Please budget sufficient travel time to arrive on time (typically allocate 75 mins in heavy traffic).

9:00am IST

Seed Summit: Registration & Networking Grand Ballroom Design Summit: Registration / Networking / Welcome Idiom - Auditorium Innovative Devices Summit: Registration / Networking / Welcome Google India Campus Early Stage Summit: Registration / Networking / Welcome MS Ventures - Hall A Growth Summit: Registration / Networking / Welcome Swiss Re Auditorium - Hall A

9:45am IST

Welcome to NPC Seed Summit & Ecosystem Benchmark Report Release Grand BallroomSunil Rao • Rajat Tandon

10:00am IST

The Landscape for Wearable Technologies Google India CampusPaul Ravindran Making Technology Accessible Through Intuitive Design Idiom - AuditoriumNick Talbot 6 Funnel Optimization Strategies to Double Your Growth Swiss Re Auditorium - Hall ADhaval Patel Keynote Talk: From Bangalore to Beijing Nurturing The Perfect Global Startup! Grand BallroomZack Weisfeld Product Management Workshop: Get from MVP to Product Market Fit MS Ventures - Hall BSaran Chatterjee • Sridhar Iyengar • Pallav Nadhani Legal Workshop for Early Stage Venture Founders MS Ventures - Hall AAnil Advani • Gosakan Aravamudan • Sharda Balaji

10:20am IST

Building Products for Millions of Users - My Trials and Errors Google India CampusJayanth Mysore

10:30am IST

Workshop Introductions & Signups Idiom - Auditorium How Simplilearn Hacked Growth? Swiss Re Auditorium - Hall AGagan Singla Accelerating The Success of Accelerators: New Models, Strategies & Approaches To Successful Nurturing of Early Stage Ventures Grand BallroomAbhishek Gupta • Pankaj Jain • Arihant Patni • Ajay Ramasubramaniam • Sreemoyi Sanyal • Sanjay Vijaykumar

10:40am IST

Introduction to Android Wear Google India CampusAmrit Sanjeev

10:45am IST

Coffee & Tea Break Idiom - Auditorium

11:00am IST

Case Study: Real Life Wearables Integration Experience Google India CampusNarayan Babu Content Strategy for selling into Enterprise Markets Internationally Swiss Re Auditorium - Hall AAditya Sanghi Keynote Talk: Corporate Accelerator 2.0 Grand BallroomJohn McIntyre Using Design Thinking In Our Everyday Lives Idiom - AuditoriumDeepa Bachu • Jay Dutta • Narendra Ghate • Sachin Kelkar • Sneha Lakshman Workshop: Email Marketing Swiss Re Auditorium - Hall BKalpit Jain Design Culture WorkshopLIMITED Idiom - Lunch RoomSonia Manchanda Leading by Design WorkshopLIMITED Idiom - ThinkTank RoomPrasad Kantamneni • Satyam Kantamneni

11:15am IST

Coffee & Tea Break Google India Campus

11:30am IST

How to Find, Engage and Monetize App Users Google India CampusRohith Bhat • Anila Marina Andrade • Suresh Narasimha • Pratyush Prasanna • Karthik Srinivasan The New Co-Innovation Methodology - Corporates Accelerators Grand BallroomAnil Joshi • Lalit Ahuja • Narendra Bhandari • Navneet Kapoor Hacks To Get Mobile Apps Downloads and Engagement Swiss Re Auditorium - Hall AAbhishek Rungta • Pravin Jadhav • Alok Kejriwal • Pathik Shah

11:45am IST

Product Design Showcase Jury Round Idiom - Auditorium

12:00pm IST

Understand How Device Manufacturers Think & Act Google India CampusHareesh Ramanna • Anand Virani Expert Talk: Product Management for a Mobile + Cloud World MS Ventures - Hall BYezdi Lashkari Keynote Talk: Disrupting the Status Quo. The Rise of the Micro-VC! Grand BallroomDave McClure Workshop: Social Media for Customer Acquisition Swiss Re Auditorium - Hall BPradeep Chopra

12:20pm IST

Smart Phone: The Shift Google India CampusOchintya Sharma Expert Talk: Product Metrics That Matter MS Ventures - Hall BAmit Somani

12:30pm IST

Learning from International Ecosystems Grand BallroomPrashant K. Gulati • Dave McClure • John McIntyre • Zack Weisfeld

12:40pm IST

The Future of Wearables Google India CampusRajan Anandan Expert Talk: Building a Cloud First Product at Scale MS Ventures - Hall BSudhir Anandarao

1:00pm IST

Lunch Break Google India Campus Lunch Break & networking among delegates MS Ventures - Hall A Lunch Break & Networking MS Ventures - Hall B Lunch Break & Roundtable Networking Swiss Re Auditorium - Hall A Networking Lunch Grand Ballroom Lunch Break Idiom - Auditorium

2:00pm IST

Welcome Delegates for the Session on Building IoT Products : Design to Marketing Google India CampusArun Seth The United Kingdom is your Innovation Partner & Gateway to Europe Grand BallroomGita Krishnankutty Market Strategies for India SMB Sector MS Ventures - Hall BRajinish Menon • Shoaib Ahmed • Pari Natarajan It Ain't About The Money Honey! Swiss Re Auditorium - Hall ABK Birla Structuring Business Plans to Ensure Fundability MS Ventures - Hall AShripati Acharya Workshop: Content Marketing & SEO Swiss Re Auditorium - Hall BDhaval Patel

2:05pm IST

Designing IOT Products Google India CampusParag Prasad

2:15pm IST

Creating a Suitable Policy Environment for Startups to Thrive Grand BallroomChetan Krishnaswamy • Praveen Bhadada • Mahesh Murthy • Satyajeet Rajan Design Transforms Business Idiom - AuditoriumSonia Manchanda • Pallavi Gupta • Kaushal Sarda • Sudhir Tiwari Bridging Gaps Between Founding Philosophies and Final Design WorkshopLIMITED Idiom - ThinkTank RoomRajesh Bysani • Harish Sivaramakrishnan Design Awesome WorkshopLIMITED Idiom - Lunch RoomApparna Ramadoss

2:25pm IST

IoT Product Engineering Google India CampusShyam Vedantam

2:30pm IST

Marketing Your SaaS Offering to the Globe MS Ventures - Hall BRajinish Menon • Avlesh Singh • Krish Subramanian Customer Acquisition Using Lean Sales and Marketing Swiss Re Auditorium - Hall APallav Nadhani

2:45pm IST

Manufacturing, Prototyping IOT product, Maker's movement Google India CampusVaibhav Chhabra M&A Market Presentation by Corum Group Grand BallroomRob Schram

3:00pm IST

Tea/Coffee Break MS Ventures - Hall A Tea/Coffee Break MS Ventures - Hall B 5 Ways to Increase Your Landing Page Conversions Swiss Re Auditorium - Hall ARavi Trivedi Designing World Class Consumer Experiences – UX Process, Methods & Learnings Idiom - AuditoriumSunil Gopinath • Pradeep Joseph • Deepak Menon • Sree Unnikrishnan Unconference: Growth Hacking Swiss Re Auditorium - Hall BDorai Thodla

3:05pm IST

Testing & Certifying IOT Products Google India CampusC S Raghavendra

3:15pm IST

Making Winning Bets at the Angel Stage Grand BallroomPankaj Jain • Rajan Anandan Fueling Innovation Through Research Led DesignLIMITED Idiom - ThinkTank RoomAurobinda Pradhan • Durga Prasad Vemula

3:20pm IST

How to Pitch Effectively to Top Enterprise CIOs? MS Ventures - Hall BSanjay Mehta

3:25pm IST

Partnerships and Alliances for your IOT Product Google India CampusJoy Rajan Cheruvathoor

3:30pm IST

Top 10 Winning Pitch Hacks MS Ventures - Hall ASundi Natarajan Rapidfire Talks by Delegates: Growth - Art or Science? Swiss Re Auditorium - Hall A Off The Record: What No One Tells You About Angel Investing (But SHOULD) Grand BallroomVikram Ahuja • John Cook • Ajeet Khurana • Shanti Mohan • Padmaja Ruparel

3:45pm IST

Why Design Led Innovation Idiom - AuditoriumRakesh Mishra Growing an IoT Business from Scratch Google India CampusHarit Soni

4:00pm IST

Coffee & Tea Break Idiom - Auditorium Networking Coffee Break Google India Campus Dymystifying Valuations, ESOPs & Structuring Cap Tables MS Ventures - Hall AAkash Gupta • Raj E. Valli • Yogendra Vasupal • Sundi Natarajan Expert Talk: Top 10 Commandments of Product Launch MS Ventures - Hall BAkancha Srivastava Coffee & Tea Break Swiss Re Auditorium - Hall A Dancing with Giants Grand BallroomRavi Narayan • Ken Foo • John Kuruvilla • Kartheepan Madasamy • Kanumury Radhesh

4:15pm IST

IoT Applications- Global and India Perspective Google India CampusAshwani Garg Design Summit: Design Explorations Idiom - AuditoriumBoris Gomes • Puneet Gupta • Muddasir Hussain • Ragini Lall • Delmo Oliveira • Ashis Panday

4:30pm IST

Building a World Class IoT Venture at Hyper Speed - An Entprepreneur's Perspective Google India CampusVishal Gondal Expert Talk: Product Branding Thru Storytelling MS Ventures - Hall BDr. Somdutta Singh Startup Metrics for Pirates Swiss Re Auditorium - Hall ADave McClure Keynote Talk: Top Tier Investor Opens the Kimono on Deal Metrics Grand BallroomShailendra J Singh Ask an Investor! MS Ventures - Hall AShripati Acharya • Sundi Natarajan • Vijaya Kumar Ivaturi • Ravindra Krishnappa

4:45pm IST

Lean Experimentation - Lifestyle & Technology Design Idiom - AuditoriumAbhijit Bansod

5:00pm IST

Hardware Venture Goes Global From India Google India CampusAkash Gupta Keynote Talk: Winners have product strategy, losers have advertising strategy. MS Ventures - Hall BMahesh Murthy The Investor's Perspective of Growth Swiss Re Auditorium - Hall AGautam Mago Successfully Securing Funding for Portfolio Companies Grand BallroomAmit Anand • Rehan Yar Khan • Mohan Kumar • Sanjay Nath

5:05pm IST

Lean Experimentation - In Pursuit of a 'Sound' Design Idiom - AuditoriumKedar Nayak

5:15pm IST

Connecting Up the IoT Community Google India CampusNihal Kashinath • Arvind Tiwary • Kumaran Venkatesh • Dr. Jay Warrior

5:25pm IST

Un-conference: The Future of Design Idiom - Auditorium

5:30pm IST

Summit Vote of Thanks / NPC Announcements / Networking High Tea Grand Ballroom Summit Vote of Thanks / NPC Announcements / Networking High Tea MS Ventures - Hall A Summit Vote of Thanks / NPC Announcements / Networking High Tea Swiss Re Auditorium - Hall A

5:40pm IST

Summit Vote of Thanks / NPC Announcements / Networking High Tea Google India Campus

5:45pm IST

Summit Vote of Thanks / NPC Announcements / Networking High Tea Idiom - Auditorium

6:00pm IST

Arrivals and networkingLIMITED Grand Ballroom

6:45pm IST

Welcome and NPC-2014 Curtain RaiserLIMITED Grand BallroomRavi Gururaj • MR Rangaswami

7:00pm IST

Address by Mr R. Chandrashekhar, President, NASSCOMLIMITED Grand BallroomR. Chandrashekhar

7:05pm IST

Address by Mr Praveen Vishakantaiah, IntelLIMITED Grand BallroomPraveen Vishakantaiah

7:15pm IST

Digital India: Opportunity for Product Companies and Startups Grand BallroomShri. R.S. Sharma

8:00pm IST

Felicitation of Emerge 50 2014 League of 10 AwardeesLIMITED Grand BallroomR. Chandrashekhar • Ravi Gururaj • Shri. R.S. Sharma

8:15pm IST

Closing Remarks and next stepsLIMITED Grand Ballroom

8:30pm IST

Cocktail and DinnerLIMITED Grand Ballroom

8:00am IST

Registration & Networking Aura Hall

8:30am IST

NASSCOM Japan Council Meeting Upstairs Board Room - Agenda

8:45am IST

Welcome by NASSCOM President & Co-Hosts Aura HallR. Chandrashekhar • Ravi Gururaj • MR Rangaswami

9:00am IST

Golden Rules For Building Great Products Aura HallAnupam Pahuja

9:20am IST

Entrepreneurial Journey: From Startup to Fortune #1 Aura HallJaya Kolhatkar

9:40am IST

How to Think & Act Like an MIT Media Lab Inventor Aura HallRamesh Raskar

10:00am IST

What's So Special About Israeli Entrepreneurship Aura HallZack Weisfeld

10:20am IST

Startup Leadership Lessons for Founders Aura HallBV Jagadeesh

10:40am IST

Product Council Briefing Aura HallRavi Gururaj

11:00am IST

Networking Tea / Coffee Aura Hall

11:30am IST

Opportunities for leveraging BigData in Fintech Aura HallNikhil Nadkarni Harnessing the M2M Revolution Harmony HallNigel Chadwick Understanding the Entrepreneurial Magic of Silicon Valley Aura-3 HallJohn McIntyre Is the Ecosystem at Inflection point today? Aura-1 HallSarv Sarvanan Hard Problems in M-commerce Strategy-1 HallPragati Ogal Rai Master Class: The Art of Dealing with Investors and Fundraises Strategy-2 HallGirish Mathrubootham

11:45am IST

Recurring Payments in India - Do's, Dont's and Gaps Aura HallSrinivasu MN (Vasu) Open Source Software Success Story Harmony HallAsankha Perera

11:50am IST

Winning Investors and Early Believers Aura-3 HallShradha Sharma • Amit Anand • John McIntyre • Stewart Noakes Beyond Closed Door - Working with Ecosystem to Expedite Innovation Aura-1 HallVijay Anand • G N Shrinivas • Arjun Singh

12:00pm IST

Aadhaar: Identity Cornerstone of Digital India Aura HallDr Ashok Dalwai, IAS Early Company Culture Matters Big Time Harmony HallSanjay Parthasarthy Building & Scaling the Marketplace – Focus On The Basics. Strategy-1 HallVivek Pathak Master Class: Thinking & Acting Like Successful Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs Strategy-2 HallBV Jagadeesh Unconference Session: Learning from Failure Upstairs Board Room - AgendaBlake Merriman • Dorai Thodla

12:15pm IST

The Nuts and Bolts of Creating Aadhaar Applications Aura HallSrikanth Nadhamuni • Rajesh Mashruwala • Vivek Raghavan • Vipin Surelia

12:20pm IST

How should Founders think when fundraising from VCs! Aura-3 HallSateesh Andra

12:25pm IST

5 Must Do's - The Five Things Every Company Must Do To Innovate Aura-1 HallRamesh Loganathan • Sejal Shah Gulati • Navneet Kapoor • Ganesh Vaideeswaran

12:30pm IST

Going Global from India Harmony HallGirish Mathrubootham Designing The Right Message And Medium for PR Strategy-1 HallDr. Somdutta Singh • Madhavan Narayanan

12:40pm IST

Bangalore Warehouse to Yahoo Silicon Valley HQ! Aura-3 HallShradha Sharma • Aditya Bandi • Niketh Sabbineni Wallets & Payments: Present State & An Aadhaar-Enabled Future Aura HallSanjay Swamy • Srikanth Rajagopalan • Madhusudhan Rangarajan • Sampad Swain • Upasana Taku

1:00pm IST

Inorganic growth-Big Boost : Big Bucks (By invitation only) Upstairs Board Room - Agenda Special CxO Luncheon (by special invite only) Strategy-1 HallPari Natarajan • Ramesh Raskar Networking Lunch Aura Hall

2:15pm IST

Going Global with Big Data Harmony HallAtul Batra Stories And Lessons From Rapid Growth @ Twitter Aura-3 HallDr. Pankaj Gupta Ground Zero - Building Products From Scratch From India Aura-1 HallRam Narayan • Anindo Roy • Ushasri Tirumala • R (Venki) Venkateswaran Huddle Session: with Zack Weisfeld Upstairs Board Room - AgendaZack Weisfeld India's Top CxOs Deliver Guidance to Enterprise Startups Aura HallVishwas Mahajan • Anil Jaggia • Harmeen Mehta CxOs - Startups 1:1 Interaction Session Strategy-1 HallSanjay Mehta Deep Dive of the Silicon Valley M&A and Corp Dev Landscape Strategy-2 HallRob Schram

2:30pm IST

Big Data and Retail: The Best Is Still To Come Harmony HallVijay Raghavendra Trends, Disruptions and Opportunities Across Global Entrepreneurial Landscape Aura-3 HallPrashant K. Gulati • Dany Farha • Ihsan Jawad • Shaukat Shamim

2:45pm IST

Explore Most Popular Big Data Use Cases Harmony HallSanjay Parthasarthy • Ranjit Nair • Krishnan Raman • Abhinav Shashank Product Company Showcase: MNC Giants Dance With Local Startups Aura-1 HallBala Girisaballa Explore The World of Innovative Devices with Ramesh Raskar & Rajeshwari Kannan Upstairs Board Room - AgendaRajeswari Kannan • Ramesh Raskar

3:00pm IST

Global CxO Perspective on Early Stage Ventures Aura HallRamesh Loganathan • Ashwin Ballal • Rajesh Mashruwala • Pankaj Kumar Mishra

3:05pm IST

The Art of Starting Tech Ventures Aura-3 HallMahesh Murthy • Vishal Gondal • Alok Kejriwal

3:15pm IST

Emerging Big Data Startups Pitch Investors Harmony HallMohan Kumar • Arihant Patni Leading IoT Revolution In India Aura-1 HallDr. Aloknath De • Nagaraj Dixit • Sanjeev Narsipur

3:45pm IST

NASSCOM-UIDAI Press Interaction Upstairs Board Room - AgendaRavi Gururaj • Shri Vijay S. Madan Networking Tea / Coffee Aura Hall

4:15pm IST

Building and scaling marketplace- focus on the basics (By invitation only) Upstairs Board Room - Agenda

4:20pm IST

From Digitally Disrupted to Digital Disrupter Aura HallJim Ehrhart

4:40pm IST

Going Global from India Aura HallFarzana Haque

5:00pm IST

Culture as the Ultimate Differentiator Aura HallNaveen Tewari

5:15pm IST

Leveraging Convergence in Product, Hardware, Data and Services Aura HallDhiraj Rajaram

5:30pm IST

Global Stars Emerge From India Aura HallZoher Abdoolcarim • Dhiraj Rajaram • Naveen Tewari

6:00pm IST

Tenets of Great Relationship Between Founders, Management and VCs Aura HallShailendra J Singh • Alok Goel • Kunal Shah

6:30pm IST

Vote of Thanks Aura HallMR Rangaswami • Ravi Gururaj

7:15pm IST

Networking Cocktail & Dinner Aura Hall

8:00am IST

Registrations & Networking Aura Hall

8:45am IST

Welcome & Day 1 Recap by NPC Co-Hosts Aura HallRavi Gururaj • MR Rangaswami

9:00am IST

Reimagining & Disrupting University Education Worldwide Aura HallBen Nelson

9:20am IST

Building a Billion Dollar Company Aura HallTarkan Maner

9:40am IST

The Mobile Tsunami Aura HallGovindraj Ethiraj • Caesar Sengupta

10:10am IST

The Art of Identifying High Impact Technology Investments Aura HallRavi Gururaj • Promod Haque

10:40am IST

NPC Product Showcase People's Choice Awards Aura HallRavi Gururaj

11:00am IST

Networking Tea/ Coffee Aura Hall

11:30am IST

IoT Opportunities for Indian Entrepreneurs Aura-1 HallAlok Bardiya Consumer Internet Insights for Enterprise SaaS Teams Aura HallMichael Korcuska Huddle Session: with Tarkan Manner Strategy-1 HallTarkan Maner ** Omni Channel Product Pitchfest Harmony HallSushil Choudhari • Jasminder Singh Gulati • Saurabh Nangia • Rajeshwari Purohit Rapidfire Office Hours Strategy-2 Hall Nurturing Women Tech Entrepreneurs - Roundtable of Leaders Upstairs Board Room - AgendaKritika M. • Lathika Pai • Anu Acharya • Revathy Ashok • Sangeeta (San) Banerjee • Sangeeta Devni • Archana Doshi • Sucharita Eashwar • Seemantini Godbole • Farzana Haque • Richa Kar • Judy Werthauser • Dr. Somdutta Singh The Art of Growth Hacking the KISSMetrics Way Aura-3 HallDhaval Patel

11:45am IST

Smart Future Where Every Thing is Connected Aura-1 HallBahubali Shete

12:00pm IST

Key Ingredients for Successful Scaling a SaaS Company Aura HallKanchan Kumar • Bhanu Chopra • Sumeet Kapur Founder Perspectives on Internet of Things Aura-1 HallSagar Apte • SenseGiz Technologies Pvt. Ltd. • Gautam Morey • Kiran Nataraj • Sai Srinivas Huddle Session: with Promod Haque Strategy-1 HallPromod Haque

12:30pm IST

Top 10 Tips for Successfully Bootstrapping Your Venture Aura HallPallav Nadhani IoT - Bracing for a Tsunami of Devices, Sensors and Data Aura-1 HallAmit Chitale • Harsha Ramesh Angeri • Tarun Mishra • Sundar Varadraj Perangur

12:45pm IST

Lessons Learned Building a Global Software Business Aura HallAneesh Reddy

1:00pm IST

Mint Roundtable (By invite only) Upstairs Board Room - Agenda Networking Lunch Aura Hall Special Luncheon with Promod Haque (by special invite only) Strategy-1 HallMohan Kumar • Promod Haque

2:00pm IST

Mobile in an Omni-Channel World Aura-1 HallSean Barlett The Future of AgTech - How Technology Will Revolutionise Farming! Aura-3 HallMark Kahn • Krishna Kumar • Shourov Mukherjee • Ranjith Mukundan • Jatin Singh Global M&A Radar Briefing Aura HallRob Schram Huddle Session with Dheeraj Pandey Strategy-1 HallDheeraj Pandey Career Lessons from Silicon Valley Harmony HallMichael Korcuska Rapidfire Office Hours Strategy-2 Hall Building an Ecossytem for Made in India Security Products Upstairs Board Room - AgendaVinayak Godse

2:20pm IST

Going Mobile First From India Aura-1 HallAakrit Vaish

2:30pm IST

The Future of Politics: How Big Data & Social Media Transformed National Elections Aura-3 HallB G Mahesh • Dhanya Rajendran • Viral Shah • Shashi Shekhar Getting to YES & Managing Your Investors Aura HallRajinish Menon • Shirish Deodhar • Raghunandan G • Tushar Vashisht Huddle Session with Dave McClure Strategy-1 HallDave McClure

2:40pm IST

Learnings from the Trenches of Mobile Startups Aura-1 HallJustin Keeling

2:45pm IST

Embracing the Suicide Quadrant - The Disruptive Entrepreneur Harmony HallSharad Devarajan

3:00pm IST

The Future of Recruiting & Talent Management Aura-3 HallSid Talwar • Hari Shankaran K • Arjun Pratap • Manjunath Talwar M&A: The Road Ahead for Indian Technology Companies Aura HallBharati Jacob • Sateesh Andra • Ken Foo • Sanat Rao Startup 3.0 - Fundable Mobile First Ideas for India. Aura-1 HallShekhar Kirani • Prayank Swaroop

3:30pm IST

Networking Tea/ Coffee Aura Hall

3:45pm IST

Scaling Up Across India Aura HallGovindraj Ethiraj • Bharat Goenka

4:10pm IST

Startups Dancing with Giants Aura HallJudy Werthauser

4:15pm IST

E-tail: The mega-buck affair – The Ecommerce space, where is it headed , challenges etc (By invitation only) Upstairs Board Room - Agenda

4:30pm IST

A Different Type of Social Network Aura HallDivya Narendra

4:50pm IST

Classic Silicon Valley Entrepreneurial Journey Aura HallDheeraj Pandey

5:15pm IST

Meet The World's Most Prolific Early Stage Investor! Aura HallPankaj Mishra • Dave McClure

5:40pm IST

Closing and Vote of Thanks Aura HallMR Rangaswami • Ravi Gururaj