Archive for the ‘External Visitors’ category.
Phanindra Sama, CEO & Co-Founder redBus.in to speak in Pune – 16 Sept
redBus.in is a truly Indian internet commerce success story. Nowhere else can I imagine a website that sells bus tickets being so successful. And, to be frank, when I first heard about redBus, I did not think much of its prospects myself. Hence I think it will be very interesting for the tech as well [...]
Noted Cryptographer Dr. Whitfield Diffie to speak in Pune – 8 Sept
If you have any exposure to computer security, you have heard of public key cryptography. If you’ve done a little work in the area, you are no doubt aware of the Diffie-Hellman key exchange that solves the key distribution problem, one of the fundamental problems of cryptography. Whitfield Diffie, one of the pioneers of public [...]
PuneChips Event: PCI Express Architecture and Applications for FPGAs – July 30
PuneChips invites everybody to a talk on PCI Express Architecture and Applications for FPGAs by Kiran Puranik, a Principal Architect at Xilinx. This talk will be on 30 July, 10:30am, at the Venture Center, NCL Innovation Park, Pashan Road. Abstract Modern FPGA devices offer great advantages for designers of industrial imaging, networking, automation and control, [...]
EVENT SHIFTED: Java 7 Launch Event moved to Symbiosis Vishwabhavan, 16 July, 5pm
Note, the Java 7 Launch event on 16th July has been shifted to Symbiosis Vishwabhavan (the main Symbiosis on SB Road (the one with the statue of R.K. Laxman’s common man)). The timings have also changed slightly. The new timings are 5pm-7pm. Everything else remains the same – Chuk-Munn Lee will be speaking. And there [...]
Event Report: “Building Tech Products out of India” with Naren Gupta of Nexus Ventures
(This is a live blog of the event Nexus Venture Partners’ event “Building Global Tech Product Companies out of India” where Naren Gupta, founder of Nexus chatted with Abinash Tripathy, founder of Pune-company Infinitely Beta about the challenges faced by companies trying to build a global product. The other four partners at Nexus were also [...]
Java 7 Launch Event: Speaker Chuk-Munn Lee – 16 July
Java 7, a major upgrade to Java was released recently, and the Java Pune group, with support from Oracle is organizing an big launch event to celebrate. Chuk-Munn Lee, from Sun Singapore, who has been associated with Java since 1996 will fly in to speak about the features in Java 7. And there will be [...]
Talk by Ramesh Raskar, MIT Media Lab – 6th July
Mark your calendars. This is an event you cannot miss. Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab (that’s Massachusetts Institute of Technology, not Pune’s MIT), considered one of the top young innovators in the world, is in town, and we’re taking this opportunity to have him give a talk. The talk is at 5:45pm [...]
“Building Tech Companies out of India” – with VC Naren Gupta co-founder of Nexus – 12 July
Dr. Naren Gupta, co-founder of Nexus Venture Partners, is visiting India and will be in Pune on July 12th. An event for Pune’s entrepreneurs has been arranged where Naren will chat with Abinash Tripathy about “Building Tech Companies out of India”, and this will be followed by networking. The event will be from 2pm to [...]
Event Report: CarWale.com CEO Mohit Dubey
(This is a live-blog of the TiE Pune talk by Mohit Dubey, Founder and CEO of CarWale.com. This is essentially an unorganized collection of interesting/insightful statements made by Mohit during his talk.) “Carwale.com, the story so far: Started in 2005, seed funding in 2006, hit break-even point in 2007, series A funding in 2008, got [...]
WikiPuneri Meetup – Lots of visitors from out of town – 4 June
There’s a Wikipedia meeting in Pune tomorrow (4th June, at 6pm, at SICSR, Model Colony), and anyone interested in becoming either a campus ambassador or generally contributing to Wikipedia (specially things like adding/editing pages about India or Pune, contributing to Marathi or Hindi Wikipedia, etc) should attend. A lot of visitors from other places in [...]