Techcircle Mobile Forum 2013
Everything and everyone is moving to mobile now. Keeping in mind the fast-growing mobile penetration, companies across industries are seeing the mobile space as one of their core marketing, customer engagement and service delivery strategies.
This phenomenon is driving several segments such as retail, consumer products/services, healthcare, education and enterprise services, among others, in addition to creating new-age mobile infrastructure-related companies.
At the same time, there are innovation-led new businesses in the field of entertainment and various utility-based products and services connect the offline and the online world together.
Techcircle Mobile Forum, now in its 2nd edition, will be held on June 27 in New Delhi, bringing together India’s top mobile innovators, entrepreneurs and marketing heads across sectors, as well as venture capital investors and consultants, to discuss and debate these new-age mobile-based products and services, and also to discover how they are changing many areas of Indian consumption and traditional business channels.
The forum will cover areas such as what lies next for mobile commerce; how one masters the business and economics of mobile apps; innovation and traction in mobile-led entertainment products; mobile advertising; the next phase of mobile monetisation; mobile payments and mobile handsets, among others.
Join this initiative to identify what businesses can create as the mobile ecosystem fast becomes an integral part of India’s growth story.
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8:00am - 8:45am
Tea & Registration
8:50am - 9:00am
Introduction Note
9:00am - 9:50am
Keynote Panel: Building Large Mobile Businesses In India: The Road Ahead
Mobile-centric opportunities in India are well known and much talked about today. As innovation is taking place across many mobile categories and users are increasingly engaging with these products, what will create large sustainable and scalable mobile businesses in the country? What is the future of mobile technology in a diverse market such as India? How do companies maximize revenue potential across all platforms?
Madhu Nori - Head of Operations, Bharati Soft Bank
Hitesh Oberoi - MD & CEO, Infoedge
Badri Sanjeevi - CFO People Group, CEO Mauj Mobile
Mohit Bhatnagar – MD, Sequoia Capital
Rahul Chandra - MD, Helion Venture Partners (Moderator)
9:50am - 10:35am
Panel: Bridging The Offline & Online Worlds Via Mobile
What is the new-age value add through mobile as an interface? How do mobile products transform and translate offline ecosystems to the mobile platform? What does mobile-tech innovation mean for Indian population? How is mobile empowering businesses and consumers for enhanced services and experiences?
Abhishek Sinha - Co-founder & CEO, Eko
Virendra Gupta - Co-Founder & MD, Verse
Krishna Mehra - Co-Founder & CTO, Capillary Technologies
Sharmil Shah – Head Mobile, Loylty Rewardz Mgmt Pvt Ltd
Anupam Rastogi – Principal, Nokia Growth Partners (Moderator)
10:35am - 11:05am
Tea & Networking
11:05am - 11:50am
Panel: Mobile Commerce
How does mobile retailing fit into the overall mobile internet consumption market? How is mobile commerce ecosystem evolving across verticals such as retail, airline travel, bus tickets, entertainment, events? What is the growth possibility in mobile transaction values over the next 3 years?
Amit Somani - Chief Products Officer, Makemytrip.com
Ankit Khanna - Vice President, Product, Snapdeal.com
Ratul Ghosh - Head Strategy, eBay India
Mrigank Tripathi - CEO, Applied Mobile Labs
Rahul Khanna - MD, Canaan Partners India (Moderator)
11:50am - 12:30pm
Techcircle Runway
A special session, where 5 handpicked Mobile apps/products/services will be showcased, presenting on their product, innovation, market opportunity, business model and how they will disrupt existing markets to create value, followed by live feedback and Q&A with a panel of jury members. Each presenter will be given a total of 5-min on stage.
12:30pm - 1:50pm
Lunch & Networking
1:50pm - 2:35pm
Panel: Music & Video Streaming
Defining new-age music and video consumption via mobile in India? What is the level of innovation in the segment today? What are the next-level improvements the function of search and discovery? How do companies tackle the content licensing conundrum? What are prevailing business models for players in the mobile music industry? What are the new entertainment categories, products and services in music and entertainment? What are the unique opportunities for growth and investments
Sameer Pitalwalla - Director, Video & Celebrity, Disney UTV
Swapnil Shinde - Founder & COO, Dhingana, Inc.
Avinash Mudaliar, Business Head, Gaana
Samir Kumar - MD, Inventus Capital (Moderator)
2:35pm - 3:20pm
Panel: Mobile Gaming
India is emerging as one of the top gaming destinations with rising number of gamers & technically upgraded games. With the advent of smartphones, 3G services and world-class mobile game offering, what is it that is accelerating mobile gaming sector? What are the challenges to monetization, how can companies overcome them? Is gaming market still untapped & has high potential to surge? Will Graphics and animation industry, 4G services, game outsourcing take mobile gaming sector to next level of upgraded version?
Virat Singh Khutal - Co-Founder & CEO, Twist Mobile
Siddhartha Jain – CEO, Spice Labs Pvt Ltd
Alok Kejriwal - CEO & Co-founder, Games2win (Moderator)
3:20pm - 3:40pm
Tea & Networking
3:40pm - 4:25pm
Panel: Mobile Payments
Though M- Payment is yet to pick pace in India, the segment is known to have a very bright future given the Indian landscape. What will take mobile payment to transform itself from alternate channel to primary channel of payment? What remains a major hurdle for M- Payments early adoption? What are the business opportunities emerging out of M- payment? A quick peep into the present status of m-payment journey, methods of payment and business models, and regulatory initiatives
Ajay Adiseshann - Founder & MD, Paymate
Nitesh Singhal - VP Prepaid Cards & E-Commerce, Oxigen Services India Pvt Ltd
Alok Mehta – Head of Technology, Atom Technologies Ltd.
Shashank Joshi - MD, My Mobile Payments Ltd. (Moderator)
4:25pm - 5:10pm
Session: Insights On Discovery, Business & Economics Of Mobile Apps
How to drive efficient discovery of your apps? How are sustainable businesses built via mobile apps? What are the success stories in India and other markets?
Sulakshan Kumar - Co-Founder & Director, Mysmartprice
Sandipan Chattopadhyay – CTO, Just Dial
Bhavish Aggarwal - Co-Founder & CEO, Ola Cabs
Amit Somani - Chief Products Officer, Makemytrip.com (Moderator)
5:10pm - 5:40pm
Panel: Mobile Advertising
What is the current state of Indian mobile advertising market? What are the global opportunities for growth? What is the next level of innovation in this segment? What will create large businesses here? What models would work in India?
Dippak Khurana - Co-founder & CEO, Vserv
Amit Bhartiya - VP & MD Mobile, Komli Media
Upen Rai - Co-Founder & MD, Fork Media
Karan Mohla– Vice President, IDG Ventures (Moderator)
5:40pm - 5:45pm
Concluding Remarks
6:00pm Onwards
Techcircle Unwind
Continue the energy and networking of the day with more social time with top mobile entrepreneurs and investors with cocktails.
Brand Capital is a part of Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. (BCCL). We work with young businesses in creating iconic brands for our clients by putting the unmatched might of our media offerings along with our brand building expertise. At the core we engage with growth- oriented Indian entrepreneurs; established as well as new-gen; to provide funding for long- term advertisement solutions. To augment the core offering of Brand Capital as above, we have 3 more solutions offered - Brand Estate, SpringBoard & BrandScope.
Brand Estate helps to propel real-estate brands to top-of-mind by providing innovative brand-building solutions. Spring Board helps to propel Asset-light concepts into Super Brands through the infusion of high-decibel advertising. At BrandScope we create brands, positioned at different consumer segments with the ability to straddle multiple content, experience and product categories. Our aim is to help businesses targeting similar consumer segments to ride on the equity of our power brands.
We also work closely with the investor and mentor eco-system through our initiatives like ScaleUp and Propel, which bring budding young businesses in deep contact with investors and experts to help develop strategic direction and access to capital.
Most trusted brands in India and globally have an underlying common thread - a sustained Brand Building effort. At Brand Capital our mission is to ideate, articulate and establish our client’s business growth potential through the Branding prism. Through our unique and pioneering models, Brand Capital is poised to provide critical leverage for brand-led growth and value creation.
My Mobile Payments Limited is a mobile payment service provider that offers pre-paid and electronic payment instruments, to mobile phone subscribers for purchasing goods and services. It also allows merchants to electronically accept payments and facilitates easy movement of funds received.
The Brand Name for the service is “Money on Mobile”
Our service operates independent of the Mobile Phone Carrier, so any mobile subscriber can subscribe to our service.
We provide merchants the ability to accept payments via a mobile environment, reducing payment time with a lower cost per transaction. Merchants who currently do not accept electronic form of payments can save a major cost as they do not require a POS terminal to accept Mobile payments.
My Mobile Payments Limited is a mobile payment service provider that offers pre-paid and electronic payment instruments, to mobile phone subscribers for purchasing goods and services. It also allows merchants to electronically accept payments and facilitates easy movement of funds received.
The Brand Name for the service is “Money on Mobile”
Our service operates independent of the Mobile Phone Carrier, so any mobile subscriber can subscribe to our service.
We provide merchants the ability to accept payments via a mobile environment, reducing payment time with a lower cost per transaction. Merchants who currently do not accept electronic form of payments can save a major cost as they do not require a POS terminal to accept Mobile payments.
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