9:45am – 10:15am
Keynote Address: A Guide To Building A Large SAAS Enterprise From India
Insights on what to focus on as you build your enterprise; Choosing between various strategies on product, pricing, marketing, distribution etc.
Atul Nanda - VP-India Operations & APAC Partner Management, Salesforce.com
10:15am – 11:15am
Panel: Innovation & Entrepreneurship In SAAS: Identifying Simple Solutions For Complex Problems
SaaS applications overcome deployment, costs & utilization barriers. With SaaS, the cost of starting and running a business has fallen. Software developers are able to test, improve and deliver applications to enterprise and consumers more rapidly and cheaply. Hence, companies are focusing on core competencies and relying on service providers to support non core operating processes. What are the attractive SAAS business models that will can be scaled rapidly? How are companies overcoming challenges to marketing, reach, distribution etc.? Targeting foreign vs domestic market. What would define successful businesses in this segment?
Shailendra Singh - MD, Sequoia Capital (Moderator)
Shekhar Kirani - Partner, Accel Partners
Ambarish Gupta - CEO & Co-founder, Knowlarity Communications
Sharad Sharma - Ex-CEO, Yahoo! India R&D
Aneesh Reddy - Co-founder & CEO, Capillary Technologies
11:15am – 11:35am
Tea & networking
11:35am – 12:35pm
Session I: Sectors That Can Be Driven By SAAS
Healthcare, hospitality, education, ERP, CRM, big data, advertising, HRM etc. How do the sectors affect product complexity? What are the opportunities for innovation?
Manik Arora - MD, IDG Ventures (Moderator)
Dhiraj Kacker - CEO & Co-Founder, Canvera Digital Technologies
Samudra Sen - CEO, LearningMate
Nitin Padmawar - Co founder and CTO, Martjack
Mukul Kumar - Co-Founder and SVP Engineering, Pubmatic
12:35pm – 1:45pm
Lunch & networking
1:45pm – 2:15pm
Entrepreneur Interview: On Early days, business model, milestones, raising funding & scaling up
Girish Mathrubootham - Founder & CEO, Freshdesk Inc
Shrija Agrawal – Associate Editor, VCCircle & Techcircle (Interviewer)
2:15pm – 3:15pm
Session II: Pricing SAAS Products: Free, Freemium To Premium
What are the right pricing strategies for various SAAS sub-segments? What works from the profitable scalability point of view?
Mukund Mohan - Angel Investor (Moderator)
Lakshmanan Narayan - CEO & Co-founder, Unmetric Inc
Sharat Potharaju - CEO, MobStac
Valerie Rozycki Wagoner - CEO & Founder, Zipdial
Sriram V Iyer - Co-Founder, United Mobile Apps
3:15pm – 4:45pm
Techcircle Runway
Techcircle.in has compiled a listing of India’s top 10 emerging SaaS companies to watch out for in 2012. The selected companies, who have shown significant market traction, created a unique products or services that can disrupt existing markets, and most importantly have a very high potential to make it big in the coming years, will showcase their product in Techcircle Runway.
Jury members:
Shailendra Singh - MD, Sequoia Capital
Manik Arora - MD, IDG Ventures
Mukund Mohan - Angel Investor
9:45am – 10:15am
Keynote Address: A Guide To Building A Large SAAS Enterprise From India
Insights on what to focus on as you build your enterprise; Choosing between various strategies on product, pricing, marketing, distribution etc.
Atul Nanda - VP-India Operations & APAC Partner Management, Salesforce.com
10:15am – 11:15am
Panel: Innovation & Entrepreneurship In SAAS: Identifying Simple Solutions For Complex Problems
SaaS applications overcome deployment, costs & utilization barriers. With SaaS, the cost of starting and running a business has fallen. Software developers are able to test, improve and deliver applications to enterprise and consumers more rapidly and cheaply. Hence, companies are focusing on core competencies and relying on service providers to support non core operating processes. What are the attractive SAAS business models that will can be scaled rapidly? How are companies overcoming challenges to marketing, reach, distribution etc.? Targeting foreign vs domestic market. What would define successful businesses in this segment?
Shailendra Singh - MD, Sequoia Capital (Moderator)
Shekhar Kirani - Partner, Accel Partners
Ambarish Gupta - CEO & Co-founder, Knowlarity Communications
Sharad Sharma - Ex-CEO, Yahoo! India R&D
Aneesh Reddy - Co-founder & CEO, Capillary Technologies
11:15am – 11:35am
Tea & networking
11:35am – 12:35pm
Session I: Sectors That Can Be Driven By SAAS
Healthcare, hospitality, education, ERP, CRM, big data, advertising, HRM etc. How do the sectors affect product complexity? What are the opportunities for innovation?
Manik Arora - MD, IDG Ventures (Moderator)
Dhiraj Kacker - CEO & Co-Founder, Canvera Digital Technologies
Samudra Sen - CEO, LearningMate
Nitin Padmawar - Co founder and CTO, Martjack
Mukul Kumar - Co-Founder and SVP Engineering, Pubmatic
12:35pm – 1:45pm
Lunch & networking
1:45pm – 2:15pm
Entrepreneur Interview: On Early days, business model, milestones, raising funding & scaling up
Girish Mathrubootham - Founder & CEO, Freshdesk Inc
Shrija Agrawal – Associate Editor, VCCircle & Techcircle (Interviewer)
2:15pm – 3:15pm
Session II: Pricing SAAS Products: Free, Freemium To Premium
What are the right pricing strategies for various SAAS sub-segments? What works from the profitable scalability point of view?
Mukund Mohan - Angel Investor (Moderator)
Lakshmanan Narayan - CEO & Co-founder, Unmetric Inc
Sharat Potharaju - CEO, MobStac
Valerie Rozycki Wagoner - CEO & Founder, Zipdial
Sriram V Iyer - Co-Founder, United Mobile Apps
3:15pm – 4:45pm
Techcircle Runway
Techcircle.in has compiled a listing of India’s top 10 emerging SaaS companies to watch out for in 2012. The selected companies, who have shown significant market traction, created a unique products or services that can disrupt existing markets, and most importantly have a very high potential to make it big in the coming years, will showcase their product in Techcircle Runway.
Jury members:
Shailendra Singh - MD, Sequoia Capital
Manik Arora - MD, IDG Ventures
Mukund Mohan - Angel Investor
Sequoia Capital India currently manages funds capitalized at close to US $1.8 billion and invests across venture, growth and late stage opportunities. It takes a long term view on investments and plays the role of an active, value added partner to entrepreneurs, business families and management teams. Over the last 10 years, Sequoia Capital India has invested in more than 55 Indian companies including Applabs, Café Coffee Day, Comviva (Bharti Telesoft), Dr Lal Pathlabs, Edelweiss, Firstsource, GVK Biosciences, Idea Cellular, Just Dial, Shaadi.com and SKS Microfinance. Sequoia Capital India operates out of offices in Bangalore, Mumbai and New Delhi.
Globally, Sequoia Capital has an unparalleled track record of partnering with entrepreneurs to create global market leaders. Sequoia Capital has been an early investor in companies such as Google, Cisco, Yahoo, YouTube, Oracle and Apple Computers. Sequoia Capital maintains dedicated teams in the US, China, India and Israel.
Mumbai Angels, started in 2006 is the premium Angel network in India. The Mumbai Angels provides a unique platform to start up and very early stage companies by bringing them face to face with successful entrepreneurs, professionals and executives who are interested in and have the funds available to invest in start-up companies. Many members of Mumbai Angels have prior Silicon Valley experience. In addition to the capital of its members, the Mumbai Angels provides access to high quality mentoring, vast networks in India and abroad and inputs on strategy as well as execution.
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