8:30am - 9:40am
Tea, Networking & Registration
9:40am - 09:50am
Introductory Note
09:50 am - 10:05am
Special Address: Key Initiatives by Govt. of Karnataka for encouraging entrepreneurship
Srivatsa Krishna - Secretary, Dept. of IT, BT and S&T - Government of Karnataka
10:05am - 10:45am
Panel I: How Bengaluru can retain its edge as “Top Entrepreneurial destination”
After experiencing quality lifestyle, world class infrastructure, good connectivity, junk of talented pool and mixed culture, there couldn’t be a better time for large number of emerging companies and mixed income class crowd to set up their base in Bengaluru. What, apart from the existing pluses, is driving investments in the city? Is it becoming a saturated business land or it offers much more than what has been explored? How is a new age “Entrepreneur turned investor” looking at the untapped opportunities? What more can be done to retain its edge as top destination for investments?
Ashish Gupta - Senior MD, Helion Advisors Pvt. Ltd
Prashanth Prakash - Partner, Accel Partners
Sudhir Sethi - Founder & Chairman, IDG Ventures India
Srivatsa Krishna - Secretary, Dept. of IT, BT and S&T - Government of Karnataka (Moderator)
10:45am – 11:10am
Keynote Address: Startup evolution - Managing growth, team and finances
V. Balakrishnan - Partner and Chairman - Investment Committee, Reservoir Investment Managers
11:10am - 11:30am
Tea & Networking Break
11:30am - 12:10pm
Panel II: Bengaluru beyond IT, How they built multi-million dollar businesses
Being called the “Silicon Valley of India”, Bengaluru has a lot more to offer beyond IT. Centre of excellence, state-of-the-art R&D facilities, world class service delivery, product development and innovations seems to be warming up in the non- tech space as well. While the rising wave of entrepreneurship spreads in the city, what is the scope of young companies to build big businesses across non-technology sectors - consumer, real estate, financial services, education, and healthcare? What has taken large home grown non-software companies from south to build India’s most successful businesses?
Udayant Malhoutra - MD & CEO, Dynamatic Technologies Limited
Harinarayan Sharma - Chief Strategy Officer, Manipal Health Enterprises
Sandeep Singhal - Co-founder & MD, WestBridge Advisors Private Limited (Moderator)
12:10pm - 12:40pm
In conversation with Phanindra Sama, Co-Founder & CEO - Redbus
Interviewer - Ms Shrija Agrawal - Managing Editor, VCCircle
12:40pm - 1:40 pm
Lunch & Networking
Insights: Bangalore beyond IT, short focused insights along with Q&A
1:40pm - 2:20pm
Insight I: South India’s Real Estate Market
Residential, commercial, SEZ’s, IT parks, modern format stores and retail categories - Which of these segments are driving the real estate market in South? Is the real estate market successfully contributing to the leasing volumes? Will Bangalore witness healthy real estate absorption in 2014? What are the risks in achieving expected ROI in real estate space?
P.S. Jayakumar - MD, Value & Budget Housing
J.C. Sharma - Vice Chairman & Managing Director, Sobha Developers Ltd
Ravindra Pai - MD, Century Real Estate Holdings Pvt. Ltd.
Rajesh Krishnan - MD & CEO, Brick eagle (Moderator)
2:20 pm - 2:50 pm
Insight II: Food & QSR chains: Chasing India's consumption story
If we have one industry to name which have come up spectacularly along with the rising disposable consumer income, it is food retailing. What are the business opportunities for QSR chains down south? Are local QSR chains able to grow beyond their regional/city specific operations? Is the concept of considering ‘regional taste’ in the menu driving QSR revenues? There are plenty of break points - Dissatisfied consumers, loss of revenues, challenges in scaling and this puts the question mark on how to get the solutions right?
Jayanth Narayanan - Co-founder, Mani's Dum Biryani
Uday Kumar - Chairman, Nalas Aappakadai
Kazi Arif Uz Zaman - MD, Private Equity, Everstone Capital Advisors (Moderator)
2:50 pm - 3:35 pm
Insight III: Building innovative healthcare business models
Healthcare being capital intensive in nature, how are the players able to bring in best global practices for large middle class population? What are the opportunities awaiting for the emerging and innovative healthcare players in south? Is recession proof health care sector considered to be a lucrative business for the investors to bet on?
Mallik Sundaram - Co-Founder, President & CEO, Mitra Biotech
Naresh Malhotra - Director & CEO, Modern Family Doctor Pvt. Ltd
Dr. R. Kishore Kumar - CMD, Cloudnine
Dr. Vikram Chhatwal - Chairman, Medi Assist India TPA Pvt Ltd
Tara Prasad Mohapatra - Chairman & CEO, Asian Health Alliance
Pramod Ahuja - Partner, Tata Capital - PE (Moderator)
3:35 pm - 4:00pm
Tea & Networking
3:35pm - 4:30 pm
VCCircle “Deal Room”
A special networking session, where curated set of companies looking out for investments/ strategic partnerships will meet select investors in a structured format (To be on the guest list for this session, share your interest at vijay@vccircle.com)
4:00pm - 4:15pm
Insights Session - “Decoding the myths of Financial Management”
Aditya Tulsian, Accountant Ecosystem Head, Intuit India
4:15pm - 4:45pm
Insight IV: Consumer Services
Given the evolving consumer lifestyle, compelling value for money deals, rising disposable income, what opportunities is this sector bringing in for entrepreneurs? How are investors looking at profitable consumer business and untapped needs? What edge does Bengaluru provides entrepreneurs to use it as a starting ground?
Rahul Bhalchandra - Co-Founder & CEO, YLG Salon
Gaurav Singh Kushwaha - Founder & CEO, BlueStone.com
Sharad Devarajan - Co-Founder & CEO, Graphic India
Nikhil Khattau - MD, Mayfield Advisors Pvt. Ltd (Moderator)
4:45pm - 5:30 pm
Panel III: New breed of tech companies from South
Starting from scratch to building large IT businesses -Silicon Valley of India is arguably the most happening hub in India accelerating infant businesses to grow up to large enterprises. What makes Bengaluru breeding ground for more startups? How good is south in protecting and nurturing budding startups? Is reverse brain drain streak driving the startup space?
Mohammed Hussain Naseem - Co-Founder & CEO, GetActive
Solomon Prakash - Founder, mGaadi
Rohan Jahagirdar - Head - Marketing, Teabox
Gandharv S. Bakshi - Co-founder & CEO, Lumos
Sreenivas Karanam - Founder & CEO, Cooltok
Samir Kumar - MD, Inventus Capital Partners (Moderator)
5:30pm onwards
VCCircle Unwind
The session will provide more networking time to top entrepreneurs and leading investors over cocktails.