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Review of NASSCOM Emergeout Conclave Delhi

NASSCOM Emergeout Conclave

Mr. Som Mittal, Chairman, NASSCOM

a. What happens in the background no one is bothered; customer is only bothered with what we deliver at front!

b. Digital Literacy shall overcome Literacy in the coming years

Mr. Aditya Ghosh, President, IndiGo Airlines

a. Low cost doesn’t mean, Low Quality!!

b. Solve problem at root level, it helps in innovating new things

Mr. Venky Mysore, CEO, Kolkata Knight Riders
a. Success = Desire + Activity Knowledge + Action

b. Moneyball – A movie which helped him in team selection process

Panel Discussion on Seizing the Whitespaces in Cloud (Richard Harshman, ASEAN Head – Amazon Web Services, Shabir Momin, CEO, ZengaTV, Indus Khaitan, Co-Founder – Bitzer Mobile, Saurabh Chandra, Co-Founder & CEO, Neev Technologies)
a. Mantra of Cloud: Start fast and Fail Fast. Repeat till you don’t succeed – Richard Harshman

b. Focus on core competencies; not on implementation

Panel Discussion on The Changing Face of Consumer Centric Businesses  (Troy Malone, Asia Head – Evernote, Manish Vij, Co-Founder – Vun Network, Meena Ganesh, CEO – Pearson Education Services, Aloke Bajpai, CEO -iXiGo)
a. TutorVista.com didn’t had a single sales person and still managed to get a good user base in US – Meena Ganesh

b. A person living in US will never know the Cash-on-Delivery model whereas in India it’s quite popular. Indian markets open up huge opportunities and challenges – Troy Malone

Panel Discussion on Whitespaces in Mobile Applications (Katyayan Gupta, Lead Analyst – Forrester, Kavin Bharati Mittal, Head(New Product Development) – BSB, Alok Mittal, MD – Canaan Partners, Arvind Jha, Director & Co-Founder, Movico Technologies)

a. Always consider user feedback and try utilizing it in the product

b. “Angry Birds launched a specific edition only for Chinese New Year”. Objective is to target a specific group of users and this also allows connecting users from different corners of the globe. Also development of a bond with the user.

A workshop on 360o Marketing by Gaurav Mishra, Asia Director – MSL Group

Check out the presentation: slideshare.net/Gauravonomics/purpose-inspired-transmedia-storytelling

Foot in the Door – The CIO’s Perspective (V Ramaswamy, ED-IT – Indian Oil, Rajesh Uppal, CIO – Maruti, Vinod Krishnan, CIO – Walmart India, Umesh Gupta, CEO – Open Software Technology, President – NITEE

Collaboration, Consumerisation, Connectivity: The Future of Technology and What it means for Indian Entrepreneurs – Rajan Anandan, Managing Director – Google India
a. “If you want your company’s turnover in billions in the coming years then hire 100 mobile application developers”. Reason behind everything is going mobile and majority users will be accessing internet for the first time in their life that to from a mobile device.

b. “Solve the video problem. Something like a video based Instagram.”

Microsoft DreamSpark Yatra 2012 at Dronacharya College of Engineering, Gurgaon on 3rd April, 2012

The Microsoft Student Partners, Microsoft Kurukshetra User Group, Microsoft Technical Club ITM University and Dronacharya College Engineering have the pleasure of inviting you to DreamSpark Yatra on 3rd April, 2012 in Gurgaon. DreamSpark Yatra (DSY) is a Microsoft India initiative empowering students who are passionate about technology to get an insightful overview of the current trends in the software industry. As a part of this national campaign, DreamSpark Yatra bring the brightest students and professionals of the IT world and put them together – to discuss about technology, careers in computer science, give technical presentations and some exciting demos. Microsoft’s intension behind DSY is to broaden the technical horizon of the students pursuing or willing to pursue a career in Computer Science/IT and inject them with real-world skills. By that, DSY mean stuff beyond for loop, logic gates and the 8086 – things that engineers were not taught at the university. “Today’s students are tomorrow’s decision makers” is the motto that drives DSY in striving to provide with the latest tools and resources which every student needs to be successful in IT. We are looking forward to meet you at the DreamSpark Yatra, which we hope will pave the path for supporting your innovative ideas by the upcoming technologies from Microsoft. Kindly register at dsygurgaon2012.doattend.com and last date is 29th March 2012. The DreamSpark Yatra will be held in the premises of the Dronacharya College of Engineering. Khetawas, Gurgaon, Haryana. If you need any information about this event in Gurgaon, please do not hesitate to contact us.

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Anupam Atri (+91- 9650045118) anupam.atri@studentpartner.com
Avni Gupta avni.gupta@studentpartner.com
Neetika Kataria neetika.kataria@studentpartner.com
Piyush Saini (+91-9958915037) piyush.saini@studentpartner.com
Shailendra Shukla (+91-9990801867) shailendra.shukla@studentpartner.com
Sulbha Bansal sulbha.bansal@studentpartner.com
Vikram Gupta (+91-9971836572) vikram.gupta@studentpartner.com