Techcircle Mobile Forum 2014
Fast paced and innovative Indian mobile economy seems to be greatly influencing the lives of consumers, shoppers & businesses. Most of our lifestyle, be it shopping, travelling, dining, working has direct interaction with mobile & mobile led services.
Mobile has rapidly become a formidable channel to drive large & sustainable businesses such as retail, consumer products/services, payments, healthcare, education, entertainment and enterprise services among others. It is no more a buzz word even for the government and other allied industries, who have soon realized the importance of mobile in accelerating growth and steering up new businesses.
How will the year 2014 accelerate adoption, generate opportunities and monetize in the mobile ad space; mobile retail & payments; mobile identity & privacy; mobile gaming & music; mobile health world? These are some inevitable questions running in everyone's mind.
To get hold of true and latest insights, join us at the 3rd edition of Techcircle Mobile Forum 2014. And know how world's top brands transform their businesses, engage with customers, gear up marketing strategies & delivery services by adopting next-generation services and growth strategies.
The summit will bring 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.
8:30am - 9:40am
Tea, Networking & Registration
9:40am - 9:50am
Introductory Note
9:50am - 10:35am
Panel I: Mobile as a platform to re-define the way of doing businesses
Mobile driving sustainable businesses in retail, entertainment, OTA & other consumer service space
Among the various sectors influenced by mobile and mobile-led services, which sectors are grabbing the biggest pie in fuelling businesses? How successful is mobile as a medium in re-defining corporate marketing strategies? How to run entire business through mobile? How effective mobile-centric services are in acquiring large scale customer base? What are the new concerns opened up for mobile-preferred businesses? How do they make money?
Saran Chatterjee - VP - Products & Mobile Strategy, Flipkart Online Services Pvt. Ltd
Gagan Bhatia - General Manager - Delhi, Uber Technologies
Sanjay Sethi - Co-founder & CEO, ShopClues.com
Pranav Bhasin - VP - Mobile, Innovation & Content, MakeMyTrip.com
Bejul Somaia - MD, Lightspeed Advisory Services India (Moderator)
10:35am - 11:20am
Panel II: Mobile Commerce
The trend of purchasing goods “on the move” is engaging more & more customers on to mobile however the larger question remains is to which categories are gaining transactions from mobile customers? What are the recent developments seen in the m-commerce space in India? Are the customers sticky towards just the low-value items or even transacting big on mobile? What are the barriers for m-commerce adoption in India?
Aloke Bajpai - Co-Founder & CEO, Ixigo.com
Parag Gupta - Country Head, Amazon Appstore
Ankit Khanna - Vice President- Product, Snapdeal.com
Subramanya Sharma - CMO & Sr VP for Products, Cleartrip Private Limited
Upasana Taku - Co - Founder, MobiKwik
Varsha Tagare - Director, Qualcomm Ventures (Moderator)
11:20am - 11:40am
Tea & Networking Break
Insights: Short Panels on buzzing mobile categories
11:40am - 12:20pm
Insights 1: Entertainment at its peak: Mobile Music, Video Streaming & Gaming market
What is it that is accelerating mobile entertainment sector? What is the potential size of market for ringtones, full track services & music videos on the mobile platform? Are gaming app witnessing high download figures? What are the challenges in discovering right mobile music and games app from app stores? What is the current monetization picture for music & gaming industry in India?
Jaideep Hotha - VP & Head New Products, Hungama Digital
Mayank Prakash - India Business Head, Nazara Group
Badri Sanjeevi- CEO, Mauj Mobile
Rohit Jain - Principal, SAIF Partner (Moderator)
12:20pm - 12:50pm
Fireside chat with Dippak Khurana, Co-Founder & CEO, Vserv.mobi
12:50pm - 1:50pm
Lunch & Networking
1:50pm - 2:30pm
Insights 2: Mobile Enterprise, Analytics and Intelligence
Growing use of mobile technology has impacted almost every function of today’s businesses and we now stand at a point where enterprise mobility, intelligent mobile & mobile analytics are becoming priorities for any growing organization. What opportunities one sees in these upcoming technologies? How is it helping the organizations improve efficiency, reduce turn-around times, and communicate effectively?
Aniketh Jain - Co-Founder & CEO, Solutions Infini
Rajesh Razdan - Founder & CEO, mCarbon Tech
Binil Antony - Co-Founder, Dexetra
Beerud Sheth - Co-Founder and CEO, GupShup
Shripal Gandhi - Founder & CEO, Swipe Telecom India Pvt. Ltd
Rahul Chandra - MD, Helion Advisors (Moderator)
2:30pm - 3:15pm
Panel III: Mobile Apps: Discovery, engagement and monetization
What model will accelerate Indian operators to enhance the app ecosystem & cash cow the app stores? Which categories will dominate mobile applications market in India? Biggest pain point s for mobile apps - acquire customers, drive engagement and monetize, the main worry is how to open doors for large scale user base? What are the opportunities for paid apps segment?
Dippak Khurana - Co-Founder & CEO, Vserv.mobi
Satyajeet Singh - VP Products, Zomato
Damandeep Singh Soni - Business Head- India, LINE Corp
Nilesh Bhagat - Head - VAS, Roaming & Interconnect, MTS India
Nilay Arora - VP Marketing & Business Development, WeChat India
Manik Arora - Founder & MD, IDG Ventures India Advisors (Moderator)
3:15pm - 3:45pm
Tea & Networking
3:45pm - 4:15pm
Techcircle Showcase
Here representatives of exciting and innovative mobile companies will make presentations on their business, differentiation, traction, product market opportunity and how they will disrupt existing ecosystem to create value.
(To be a part of this session, share your interest at ravi.bisht@vccircle.com)
4:15pm - 5:00pm
Insights 3: Creating technology & innovations around mobile advertising space
Very boring banners and displays have put the ad world in limbo, where is the innovation seen in mobile ad vertical? Will local based advertising add fillip to the dull mobile advertising market? Is LBA changing the game? In terms of traffic & monetization which category continuous to lead the pack? How are marketers using mobile as a medium for promoting their brand ads?
Mudit Seth - Co-founder, SilverPush
Gourav Chindlur - Co-founder and COO, Vizury Interactive Solutions
Meera Chopra - VP and Global Head of Advertising Sales,Vuclip
Chetan Shah - Business Head- Online, Ecommerce & Mobile Advertising, Aircel Limited
Rahul Khanna - MD, Canaan Partners India (Moderator)
5:00pm onwards
Techcircle Unwind
Continue the energy and networking of the day with more social time with top entrepreneurs and leading investors over cocktails.
Vserv.mobi is an Award Winning Mobile Advertising Exchange across Emerging Markets, that maximises value of mobile media for advertisers, developers, publishers and telecom operators. Powered by the award winning AudiencePro™ and AppWrapper™ platforms, Vserv.mobi has delivered mobile advertising experiences for leading Fortune 500 brands & digital media companies, across 200 countries. AudiencePro™ leverages privacy compliant Telco subscriber data and user profiling, to enable credible audience targeting capabilities on the Vserv.mobi advertising exchange. AppWrapper™ is an independent platform that brings “One Click” integration of SDKs for App Developers across Advertising, In-App purchases, Analytics, Bug Tracking and more. The company was founded in January 2010 and has a global presence, with offices across USA, UK, South Africa, India, Dubai, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines & Vietnam. For more information, please visit www.vserv.mobi.
Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), through its venture investment arm Qualcomm Ventures, presents the company’s annual QPrize™ 2015 international seed investment competition. The competition aims to identify and provide seed funding into early-stage companies with unique and promising wireless technologies. India finalist will be awarded up to US$250,000 in convertible note financing from Qualcomm as seed funding and will be invited to contend in the QPrize Grand Finals competition against other regional finalists on September 9, 2015. The Grand Finals winner will receive an additional US$250,000 of convertible note financing to aid in converting their business plan into reality.
Since inception, QPrize winners have collectively raised more than $238 million in total venture funding. Past winners include Capillary Technologies, Reverie Technologies, Deckapp, Konotor & Mavin Technologies. The deadline to submit business plans is July 10th, 2015. Upon receipt of entries, Qualcomm Ventures will select up to eight finalists from India. The chosen finalists will participate in QPrize India competition where each of the finalists will have the opportunity to showcase their technology in front of a panel. The panel will evaluate not only the merits of the technology innovation and its commercial potential, but also the company’s leadership capabilities and the attainability of the proposal’s financial projections.To get additional details of the competition, rules and regulations, or to submit your business plan, please visit www.qprize.com.
About Qualcomm Incorporated
Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) is a world leader in 3G, 4G and next-generation wireless technologies. Qualcomm Incorporated includes Qualcomm’s licensing business, QTL, and the vast majority of its patent portfolio. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, operates, along with its subsidiaries, substantially all of Qualcomm’s engineering, research and development functions, and substantially all of its products and services businesses, including its semiconductor business, QCT. For more information, visit Qualcomm’s website, OnQ blog, Twitter and Facebook pages.
Mauj Mobile is part of the People Group, which owns large digital properties including Shaadi.com and Makaan.com. People group is funded by top tier investors such as Intel Capital, Sequoia Capital and Westbridge Capital & was founded by Mr Anupam Mittal, India’s foremost digital entrepreneurs and rated by Business Week as 50 most influential leaders in India.
Mauj Mobile a pioneer of mobile internet services in India provides world class mobile internet platform and content distribution services to Indian and International telecom operators. It also owns and promotes Mobango, rated as world’s top 10 mobile apps store by The Economist with over 6 million registered users.
People Group has won the Deloitte Fast 50 India Award for 3 consecutive years as well as the Deloitte Fast 500 Asia Award. It is a recipient of the prestigious Red Herring 100 Asia Award and the Emerging India Award held by CNBC. People Group is also recognized as a preferred employer by our current team and our alumni. Websites: www.mauj.com | www.people-group.com | www.mobango.com
Paytm is India’s largest mobile commerce platform. Paytm started by offering mobile recharge and utility bill payments and today it offers a full marketplace to consumers on its mobile apps. In short span of time Paytm has scaled to over 7 Million orders a month.
Paytm is consumer brand of India’s leading mobile internet company One97 Communications.
ShopClues.com is India’s first and largest managed marketplace, selling a wide assortment of products including mobile phones, electronics, fashion, home & kitchen goods, etc. With close to 12 million monthly visitors, and over 400k monthly transactions, the company has seen 600% year on year growth making us the fastest growing ecommerce company in India. ShopClues has close to 50,000 sellers and over 5.2 million SKUs.
ShopClues approach reflects Indian products, shopping and cultural tastes. It is inspired by the fact that India has millions of small merchants with interesting products and Indians love to shop in local “bazaars” (markets). While we cover a broad range of products, prices, categories, brands, and sellers, we specialize in non-standard categories, unbranded products or less-known brands, smaller merchants, and tier 2/tier 3 cities.
10,000 Startups is an ambitious attempt by NASSCOM to scale up the startup ecosystem in India by 10x. 10,000 Startups aims to enable incubation, funding and support for 10,000 technology startups in India over the next ten years.
The program’s vision is to:
• Foster entrepreneurship
• Build entrepreneurial capabilities at scale and
• Strengthen early stage support for tech startups
To meet these objective the program aims to bring together key stakeholders of the ecosystem including startup incubators / accelerators, angel investors, venture capitalists, startup support groups, mentors and technology corporations.
With 10,000 Start-ups NASSCOM aims to build a vibrant ecosystem for technology entrepreneurship in India.
Sterling Holiday Resorts (India) Limited is a pioneer in Vacation Ownership and a leading Leisure Hospitality company in India. Sterling Holidays was incorporated in 1986 with the vision of delivering Great Holiday experiences to Indian Families. To achieve this vision, the company pioneered Vacation Ownership in India and set about building a network of leisure resorts at some of the best holiday destinations in India. Currently, Sterling Holidays has a total spread across a network of 19 resorts in 16 scenic holiday destinations in India. The company also has 15 additional sites where it plans to add new resorts in the coming years.
All resorts in the Sterling Holidays network also have specially designed hotel blocks for the comfort and convenience of guests who prefer to vacation as a one-time hotel guest.
With experience spanning over 25 years and expertise that successfully manages 19 resorts across India, Sterling Holidays now plans to expand the Leisure Hospitality industry in India and to set new benchmarks in the Vacation Ownership and Leisure Hospitality space.
Recently, the Board of Sterling Holiday Resorts (India) Limited has approved the merger of Sterling Holiday Resorts (India) Limited (Sterling) in a part equity, part merger deal with Thomas Cook (India) Limited.
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Date: 25 June 2014
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