As the Indian online audience expands and matures, we are proud to announce VCCircle Digital Content Investment Forum, a first-of-its-kind initiative focused on the Indian digital content industry, to be held in The Lalit Ashok in Bangalore on November 16, 2011.
As various projections claim, India's Internet users will triple to 300 million from the current 100 million mark over the next couple of years. This will create several opportunities for entrepreneurs and investors for creating innovative business models.
The forum will try and answer questions such as: Is there an opportunity for India-specific user-generated content play or does it have to be global? What are the monetisation challenges? What about advertising supported or paid content models? What will be the next level of evolution in segments like classifieds, Bollywood, cricket, financial services and mobile content, among others. What is in store for local search and information market in India?
Join us at the forum, which will bring together successful and up-and-coming entrepreneurs, industry experts, venture capital and private equity investors. This is an unmissable opportunity for you to understand the evolution and growth opportunities in the Indian digital content industry.
9:30am to 9:40am
Introduction Note
Sahad P.V., Founder & Editor, VCCircle
9:40am to 10:20am
Fireside Chat: The Future Of Digital Content In India
Ravi Adusumalli - Managing Partner, SAIF Partners (Moderator)
VSS Mani - Founder & CEO, Just Dial
Naveen Tewari - Founder & CEO, InMobi
10:20am to 11:20am
Panel I: User Generated Content In India: Its Evolution & Opportunities
What are the kinds of user generated content consumed in India? What are its monetization challenges, be dominated by advertising, or will new models emerge? What are challenges in the discovery of user generated content? What kind of content will work in terms of genre? How is the segment developing in areas related to local languages and regional content?
BG Mahesh - Founder & MD, OneIndia.in (Moderator)
Suresh Reddy - Chairman and CEO, Ybrant
Rishi Khiani - CEO, Indiatimes
Hari Nair - Founder and CEO, HolidayIQ
Kiran Gopinath – Founder & CEO, Ozone Media
11:20am to 11:40am
Tea & Networking
11:40am to 12:40pm
Panel II: Local Search & Classifieds
What will be the next level of evolution in this segment? Where are the emerging opportunities between B2B and B2C business models? What are the monetization challenges and new models in this category? Which direction will the growth and new opportunities take – vertical play specific to certain sectors or a diversified horizontal play covering a variety of sectors? How is local search segment shaping up in India? Can mobile internet spur additional growth for this sector?
Hitesh Oberoi - MD & CEO, Infoedge (Moderator)
Mohit Dubey - Co-Founder & CEO, CarWale.com
Amarjit Batra - Country Manager, OLX India
Pranay Chulet – CEO, Quikr
12:40pm to 1:40pm
Lunch & Networking
1:40pm to 2:40pm
Panel III: Entertainment
Entertainment, comprising of Bollywood and Cricket and other emerging segments seem to be the driving forces of digital content in India. Can digital content providers successfully syndicate movies and TV soaps? Will they be able to make online and mobile rights for cricket tournaments as big a business as the Indian sport? Will India come up with its own version of Hulu and iTunes? What will be the impact of 3G on this segment?
Kishore AK - CEO, Althea Systems
Sameer Pitalwalla - Business Head, 3G, UTV
Radhakrishnan Ramachandran - Founder & CEO, iStream
Mukul Singhal – Vice President, SAIF Partners
2:40pm to 3:40pm
Panel IV: Financial Services
What role will internet content play in the next phase of India's financial inclusion as the Indian middle class increasingly spends on financial products such as loans, mutual funds and insurance plans? What are the products gaining traction in this segment - loans, insurance, mutual funds etc.? Can consumer driven forums work on this space? How will the regulatory environment to sell financial services online shape business models?
Deepak Srinath – Director, Viedea Capital Advisors (Moderator)
Girish Batra - Chairman and Managing Director, Netambit
Adhil Shetty - CEO, BankBazaar.com
C.R. Chandrasekar - CEO, FundsIndia
3:40pm to 4:00pm
Tea & Networking
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Panel V: Mobile Content
How will 3G help mobile content take off in India? Will monetization be driven by consumers paying or is mobile advertising reaching critical mass? What will be the segments that take off in this new wireless broadband world – news, video, gaming, maps?
Manik Arora - Founder & MD, IDG Ventures India (Moderator)
Rakesh Verma - MD, Mapmyindia
Anuj Kumar - CEO, Affle
Vamshi Reddy - Founder, and Director, Apalya
Vijay Shekhar Sharma - Chairman and Managing Director, One97
SAIF Partners is a venture capital firm that is sector and stage agnostic. SAIF is extremely active in early stage technology-enabled businesses. SAIF was the first institutional investor in companies such as MakeMyTrip (Consumer Internet), One97 (Mobile VAS), JustDial (Local Search), and HomeShop18 (eCommerce). In China, SAIF Partners was early stage investors in gaming companies - Shanda and Perfect World. The fund has strong experience of investing in companies at an early stage and helping them through multiple rounds of financings and eventually an IPO.
In addition, SAIF is an active growth investor in companies like Catmoss (Apparel Retail), Speciality Restaurants (Restaurants), Network18 (Media & Broadcasting), TV9 (Media & Broadcasting), SIFY (Consumer Internet) IL&FS Investmart (Financial Services) and the National Stock Exchange (Financial Services).
SAIF currently manages $4.0 billion across funds and is actively seeking investment opportunities in early stage and growth stage businesses.
iStream is an online video service showcasing premium content across multiple genres like News, TV shows and Movies. Our goal is to help Indians around the globe discover and enjoy their favorite programs, at their convenience on multiple devices - that too in over eight languages.
The company founded in 2007, entered into a tie-up with You Tube three years back and grew to become one of their largest partners in the country, clocking close to a billion video views since then.
We are earnestly trying to build an eco system that will help content owners and advertisers derive maximum value.
To begin with, we are offering News across all major Indian languages, both Live and On Demand. In a month or so we will be ready with our other offerings.
Just Dial is one of India's leading local search engines and was founded by VSS Mani in 1996. Just Dial was created to provide people with immediate access to fast, reliable and comprehensive information on businesses, products and services across India.
Our search service is available to users through multiple platforms, such as the Internet (justdial.com), mobile Internet (m.justdial.com), over the telephone (69999999 and 08888888888) and text/ SMS (08888888888).
5 Things You Should Know About Just Dial
* Just Dial received approximately 180.7 million search requests from our users in fiscal 2011.
* Justdial.com received 77.2 million Internet searches and 9.6 million mobile Internet searches in fiscal 2011.
* Just Dial received 93.9 million voice searches in fiscal 2011.
* Our database comprises of approximately 6.0 million business listings across various cities and towns in India, as of June 30, 2011.
* Just Dial users have contributed 4,163,100 reviews and ratings for various listings, as of November 11, 2011.
We believe that our search service bridges the gap between our users and businesses by helping users find relevant providers of products and services quickly while helping businesses listed in our database to market their offerings.
Just Dial is one of India's leading local search engines and was founded by VSS Mani in 1996. Just Dial was created to provide people with immediate access to fast, reliable and comprehensive information on businesses, products and services across India.
Our search service is available to users through multiple platforms, such as the Internet (justdial.com), mobile Internet (m.justdial.com), over the telephone (69999999 and 08888888888) and text/ SMS (08888888888).
5 Things You Should Know About Just Dial
* Just Dial received approximately 180.7 million search requests from our users in fiscal 2011.
* Justdial.com received 77.2 million Internet searches and 9.6 million mobile Internet searches in fiscal 2011.
* Just Dial received 93.9 million voice searches in fiscal 2011.
* Our database comprises of approximately 6.0 million business listings across various cities and towns in India, as of June 30, 2011.
* Just Dial users have contributed 4,163,100 reviews and ratings for various listings, as of November 11, 2011.
We believe that our search service bridges the gap between our users and businesses by helping users find relevant providers of products and services quickly while helping businesses listed in our database to market their offerings.
VCC Events opens up the avenues for participation. Join hands to be a part of India’s largest gathering of alternative investments leaders, industry stakeholders and Asia’s influential limited partners, general partners and marquee advisors. Your chance to actively participate and augment yourself as thought leaders.
The Lalit Ashok, Bengaluru
The Lalit Ashok, Bengaluru
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