April 9 & 10 2014, India Bangalore A list of the Top 50 IT innovators selected by Global CIO’s, CIO’s from India, successful entrepreneurs, and VC’s. The selected IT innovators meet up with a selected list of Global CIO’s, CIO’s from India, VC’s and M&A leaders from strategic companies to provide a trajectory to IT product innovation in India. A true marriage of needs from both the innovator and the industry will surely result in unique world-class products. The event is custom designed to empower creative entrepreneurs in the Indian IT space meet up, discuss and discover solutions to tomorrow’s greatest challenges. With the world’s finest CIOs, VC’s and M&A folks from leading global companies in attendance and a unique format, the event will be a rare, one-ofa-kind opportunity to make your mark and fly into a global future.
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1,326 software product start ups in India in 2012. India provides software to 375 Fortune 500 companies. India, an attractive technology investment destination.
Break out. Make it Happen! Most of the world is not aware that product innovation has taken off in India - there were 1,326 software product startups in India in 2012, compared to 600 in Germany and 492 in Israel for the same time period. The eco-system of software services firms in India has overshadowed this silent but strong movement towards product innovation. Indian software firms provide software support to over seventy five per cent of the Fortune 500 companies, a commendable achievement in less than a quarter of a century. Imagine the footprint that will be created around the world once product innovation takes off from the same land! InTech50 is being co-hosted by Terrene Global Leadership Network and iSpirt. TerreneGLN and iSpirt will also be giving out awards to innovators who make it to the “InTech50” list as well as the best in class as evaluated by the CIO’s.
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The Agenda InTech50 provides for exposure to each of the fifty companies in a rapid-fire mode and exposure to the CIO’s, large product companies, VC’s and M&A specialists. The interactions will help everyone – exposure to and showcasing of the most promising start-ups, and an opportunity for the world to evaluate how these companies can be part of their innovation agenda.
Break out and make it happen!
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What’s in for CIOs & Technology Leaders? CIOs have a tough job. They have to cater to the technology requirements of the enterprise operating in a fast globalizing world. While they have to sustain their enterprise-wide legacy systems on one hand, they also have to keep their nose out to snoop up future technology trends that will play a considerable role in shaping their future businesses. From meaningful market analytics, augmenting user experience design to data safety and security, CIOs have a very wide and dynamic canvas. This forum will provide CIOs an opportunity to think beyond and evaluate new world technologies/solutions that can be easily integrated within their existing framework. To be able to have their peer group identify the most promising companies and then be able to see the Top 50 in one day is tremendous value for their time.
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What’s in for Software Product Companies? Conventional product development companies have had a very narrow vision of innovation. It meant creating a product road-map. In future the product companies can no longer be successful in the model of having a road map of core functionality for the next three versions - that is now considered hygiene from the buyers standpoint and not a differentiator. Buyers are looking to quickly incorporate the paradigm shifts in technology as part of their solution sets. They seek breakthrough innovations. The need for the hour is agility and new world functionality. The buyers are looking for new world capabilities (social, analytics, mobility, user-experienced design, content management, third-party data integration, etc.) that are fully integrated with the existing core systems providing an enriched solution set. They do not like buying disparate parts and spending their efforts to integrate them. On the other hand the product companies cannot do everything themselves. This forum will introduce you to technologies and solutions that can be bolted-on/integrated to your existing product sets.
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What’s in for the Entrepreneur? Most of the entrepreneurs are visionaries and thought leaders and they are the folks who will help us change the way the world is going to be in future. Their actions and innovations will play a major part in our lives in some way of the other. They have a few dreams that they pursue – one is to change the world and second one is to succeed commercially. The forum provides them an environment to partner/align/ showcase themselves to visionary CIO’s and large software companies. The leading CIO’s who are visionaries in their own way can see the potential of possibilities very quickly. The forum will create unimaginable possibilities and willcreate a network that will grow and evolve in ways that we cannot predict in any way!
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Registration www.intech50.com Due to the nature of the event and its unique format, it promises to be a sellout early. To avoid disappointment, please register early at InTech50 and plan your travels to Incredible India accordingly.
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Agenda Wednesday, April 9 9:00 - 10:30 am
Registration Booth setups
10:30 - 11:00 am
Tea/Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:15 pm Opening General Session Opening/Launch of the event
Piyush Singh/ Sharad Sharma
11:15 - 12:00 noon
Opening Keynote
40 mins of an Inspirational Speaker - someone TBD who is well known and can be a draw for entrepreneurs. Preferably should be a from a different world than IT but someone who put India on the map in their field. Anish Kapoor in Architecture, Amartya Sen in Economics, Rahul Bajaj in Automative, Ratan Tata in conglomerate.
12:00 - 1:00 pm
How to Make it happen - lessons from front-line successes
Role played by entrepreneurs over the history of time - why is it important to have them, what makes them and how have they have persevered to create defining moments for themselves and others around.
1:00 - 2:00 pm 2:00 - 2:45 pm
Julie Stafford
Lunch Break The Importance of the Entrepreneur/ Change agent.
3:45 - 4:00 pm
Role played by entrepreneurs over the history of time - why is it important to have them, what makes them and how have they have persevered to create defining moments for themselves and others around.
Julie Stafford
Coffee Break
4:00 - 4:45 pm
The Psychology of Innovators
This session will delve into the human aspect of what drives their risk appetite, what fears do they have, what kind of people should they have around them, how do they stay naïve and inquisitive- the secret sauce of innovative leaders, and most importantly what should they do to stay the course.
4:45 - 5:15 pm
Relationship Building
This session will delve into the importance of Mukund Mohan relationship and network building - how does one go about building a personal agenda of building a network over a lifetime. The session will teach the importance of relationships that last a long time versus transactional relationships.
5:15 - 6:00 pm
Design
Product design is more than just great user experience – it’s also about building the right thing and giving it that unique feel. Learn more about good UX design, and how entrepreneurs can use lean startup and customer development techniques to build the right thing.
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Dinner and Networking in Booth area
To Be Announced
Karthik Sundaram/ Christine Hudson
THURSDAY, April 10 10:30 - 11:00 am
Tea/Coffee Break
8:15 - 8:30 am
Opening Session
A brief background on the event, its importance and thanks to all participants.
8:30 - 9:30 am
View from VC's -
A Panel of VC's from USA and India - This would Ed Ossie be a panel that discusses the needs of a VC and the challenges they have to overcome as they evaluate companies. They describe in their own words their recipe for success.
9:30 - 10:30 am
Rapid-fire Pitch of Set 1 10 companies get 5 min each Companies to present their story
10:30 - 11:30 am
Rapid-fire Pitch of Set 2 Companies
11:30 - 12:00 noon Rapid-fire Pitch of Set 3 Companies 12 noon - 2:00 pm
Piyush Singh/ Sharad Sharma
10 companies get 5 min each to present their story 5 companies get 5 min each to present their story Lunch/Networking in Booth area
2:00 - 3:00 pm
View from CIO's
4 Large company CIO's talk about their organizational imperatives - where do they see competition coming from, what do they think their weaknesses are, role they see in disruptive technologies, how do they aim to incorporate the same in their environment etc. They also educate the entrepreneurs on challenges they need to overcome to make the leap to large companies so that they can co-innovate.
3:00 - 4:00 pm
Rapid-fire Pitch of Set 4 Companies
10 companies get 5 min each to present their story
4:00 - 5:00 pm
Rapid-fire Pitch of Set 5 Companies
10 companies get 5 min each to present their story
5:00 - 5:30 pm
Rapid-fire Pitch of Set 6 Companies
5 companies get 5 min each to present their story
5:30 - 7:00 pm
Peter High
Networking/Appetizers in Booth area
7:00 - 7:45 pm
View from Sponsors
3-4 of the large company CEO's who have Piyush Singh sponsored will get the floor to describe - where do they see Product portfolio in their space as part of their Growth plans, how do they evaluate companies from acquisition/partnership standpoint, what areas would they like to see product evolution, when do they create themselves versus buying etc.
7:45 - 8:10 pm
Award Ceremony
Awards would be handed out under various categories: Best Presentation in each category, Most innovative solution in each category, Best Booth in each category etc.
8:15 - 9:30 pm
Networking/Dinner in Booth Area
To Be Announced
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