Monthly Archives: February 2014

NASSCOM Product Conclave Pune 5th March (Early Bird Discount up to 21 Feb)

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NASSCOM Product Conclave is a day long conference focusing on Indian Software Product companies happening on 5th March. However, those interested should keep in mind that the early bird discount on registration ends on 21st Feb (tomorrow).

Here’s a description of the event from NASSCOM’s website:

It’s a great time to be a Product Entrepreneur in India with the buzz in domestic markets, increased interest in Indian start-ups by overseas investors and withmany fold improvement in infrastructure, India has become an attractive ground to breed start-ups. NASSCOM 10k Project is aimed at helping 10,000 start-ups to germinate & grow in India

NASSCOM Product Conclave 2013 at Bangalore, in October last year was a great success and a true show of strength by the Indian software products industry. The event spread over three days saw high voltage, adrenalin pumping, action filled activities involving more than 1400 software development practitioners interacting, learning and sharing. NPC2013 had 180+ speakers, many of them stars/super achievers in their own field including Nandan Nilekani, Rahul Sood, Rajan Anandanwho shared their experiences with an eager audience. It was a carnival of fresh thinking, innovation and match-making. After the huge success of NPC2013 and on the demand of the industry, NASSCOM is pleased to announce NPC West at Pune, a full day of excitement, knowledge share, networking and setting up agenda for the future of Indian product industry. NPC Pune is planned on March 05, 2014 and will be attended by star speakers from the Product Industry, VCs,Practicing Entrepreneurs, Consultants.

The focus of NPC Pune is to set a stage for Indian start-ups and emerging companies to access knowledge & support available in the ecosystem on building their markets, create performing teams and secure funding. People’ s Choice Awards showcasing Top 10 Products in the NASSCOM Emerge category will also be announced during NPC Pune. You can take advantage of workshops on Digital Marketing, B2B Sales planning and Product Design. NPC Pune will see a turnout of around 400 delegates and aline up of software Product industry, VC industry& Entrepreneur Speakers. We will also bring you the softer touch with an interesting speaker from outside the industry.This NASSCOM Product Conclave is being held in Pune, a strategic hub of Indian Product Start-ups. We wish to encourage all companies located in the region to participate and take advantage of interacting with some of the super achievers in the Indian Products arena.

Check out the NPC 2014 website for details on the speakers, agenda, venue.

Fees and Registration

This is a paid event, and the early bird fees are Rs 1500 for members, 2000 for non-members, and the full fees are Rs. 2000 and 2500 respectively. A special startup fee of Rs. 1000 only applies to companies with annual revenues of less than 1 crore, and which have existed for less than 3 years pay only Rs. 1000.

Please register here: http://www.nasscom.in/npc-pune/registration

GSF is looking for an EIR: Good opportunity for some Pune Techie

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@thinkSantosh (Santosh Dawara) points out that the GSF (Global Superangels Forum) is looking for an Entrepreneur in Residence, and hopes people from Pune will take this opportunity to increase their network, increase their exposure, and help improve Pune’s presence in the Indian and Global startup ecosystem.

More information about the EIR@GSF program is here.

What are they looking for?

An EiR (Entrepreneur in Residence) is a misfit, a rebel and a leader, who sees an opportunity for change everywhere he/she looks. An EiR is restless, looking for his/her next challenge, while engaging with the best and brightest startups in India. An EiR is a humble, go-­getter, rolling his/her sleeves up to get the job, any job, done.

EiRs will anchor GSF’s startup accelerator programs in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai by scouting, evaluating and aiding selection of the best startups from different regions of India. They will explore and drive strategic partnerships and expand GSF’s already robust mentor network of top entrepreneurs and executives in the tech community across the four cities. EiRs will also be responsible for designing and executing programming, managing logistics and buddy mentoring startups from MVP to Demo Day to eventual funding. EiRs are also awarded equity into the startups selected for GSF Accelerator.

See additional details in this YourStory article on GSF EiRs!

What qualifications are required?

For its inaugural program, GSF Accelerator inducted 17 EiRs who have have been entrepreneurs, students, investors, and ex-consultants. They have worked at some of the most exciting companies in the world and have educated from top tier educational institutions. Till date 30 EiRs have been part of GSF Acceleration program. For more details, please see the profiles of the GSF 2013 EiR
Team, and the GSF 2012 EiR Team.

Why is this being shared here?

Santosh says this:

I have no direct affiliation to GSF. But here’s why I suggested this,

In the near term an EIR is not a bad thing for an entrepreneur who is in-between ideas and is looking for a filler, or to simply grow his or her outlook, network.

In the long run, it will help us all immensely if any serious incubator were to consider a presence in Pune. If I may remind everyone, we are still missing the institutionalization of failures and successes of Punes startups. It helps to have one roof. As a result, every yr startups get going and attempt to reinvent without the benefit of what’s already been figured out by previous startups.

An incubator in Pune is atleast a step in that direction. If not that, having direct connections is the next best thing.

Can someone help me with the application?

Again, Santosh writes:

If the applicant is serious and has some of the necessary qualifications, I think there’s a lot of people on this list who will be willing to help in whatever way they can.

Tech Events this Week: CloudStack, Agile, Wildfly (JBoss), Ruby, Chef and more

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Here is a list of technology events happening in Pune over the next few days. To be informed of these events in advance, you should subscribe to get the PuneTech calendar event announcements by email. Click here to subscribe.

(Paid) Pune Google Developers Group: Workshop in Product Development in Tech Business

  • Date: 26-27 Feb
  • Location: VIT Pune

We are arranging a two day workshop for – “How to build successful apps and turning that into business viable tech startup companies.”. This workshop will be held by Vishwakarma Institute of Technology ,Pune along with Pune GDG.

If you are a student and enthusiast to build apps, this workshop is very use full to you.

Why and what will you learn?

There is a Global Process of product development in technology. That is followed in biggest tech product companies like Google as well as tech startups. So this process ensures Products (Apps) that are built never fail. So every app that gets built following this process has a huge business viability. It avoids developers end up wasting time and resources on something that customer is never going to use.

What will you get?

A certificate for attending the workshop. A Google-developer t-shirt (Design will be out soon.)

Fees

700rs per person. Contact +Shreyash 8793361469 shreyash.ssn@gmail.com +Jayesh 9271200217 jayesh_vb@yahoo.co.in to register.

About Pune-GDG

Pune GDG is the place for developers to discuss google technologies. Pune Google Developer Group meets on the once every month. Our members are using or want to learn more about developing applications using Google technology, including: – Google Ajax APIs – maps, search, visualization, gadgets (JavaScript), Android – mobile development (Java) – Google App Engine – scalable cloud computing (Python and Java) – Google Web Toolkit – web development platform (Java) – Project Hosting.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/Pune-GDG/events/167280532/

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NASSCOM Event: Building Future Leaders (for Senior Leadership in IT/ITES Industry)

  • Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1:30pm – 6:00pm
  • Location: EON IT Park, Cluster B Auditorium, Kharadi, Pune

NASSCOM presents a Four part “Leadership Development Series”, focused and tailored exclusively for Senior leadership from the IT / ITES Industry. This event’s topic is: ” Multi-generation / GenY Workforce Management” and “Creating Next Generation Technical Leaders”

Details

Over the years, NASSCOM GICs have played a stellar role in making India the global leader in the IT-BPO outsourcing landscape. GICs have played a key role in creating brand India as a global sourcing destination, and establishing proof of concept. The WR GIC Forum was established 2 1/2 years back to provide a platform to foster best practice sharing and create opportunities for GIC leaders to collaborate on areas in need of collective action and in the long term raise the overall competitiveness of India as a location for this industry.

In a survey launched earlier this year most firms in the GIC forum, identified their future leaders readiness to respond to the rapidly changing IT-ITES operating environment as a key development priority. To address the above need a group comprising of Senior Leaders from various GIC organizations created a leadership development initiative based on inputs from CEO’s and other global leaders. The leadership development initiative “BUILDING FUTURE LEADERS” will provide exposure and learning opportunities to Senior leadership talent within GIC’s specifically those on the anvil of assuming Business Leadership roles. As a part of the above initiative, the GIC forum is pleased to launch a Four part “Leadership Development Series”, focused and tailored exclusively for Senior leadership from the IT / ITES Industry.

The broad agenda for the meeting is as below:

  • 1:30 – 2.00 – Registration and Networking
  • 2.00 – 2.05 – Introduction and Context setting
  • 2.05 – 2.30 – Key note address on “Multi-generation / GenY Workforce Management” by Dr Ganesh Natarajan , Vice Chairman and CEO Zensar Technologies and Past Chairman NASSCOM.
  • 2.30 – 4.00 – Panel Discussion on “Multi-generation / GenY Workforce Management, with:
    • Dr Ganesh Natarajan , Global CEO of Zensar Technologies and Past Chairman NASSCOM
    • Anshoo Gaur – President and Head, Amdocs India
    • Mohit Gundecha, CEO & Co-founder ,JOMBAY
    • Prakash Iyer, MD, Kimberley- Clark Lever Pvt Ltd
  • 4.00 – 5.30 – Panel Discussion on “Creating Next Generation Technical Leaders” with:
    • Nitin Deshpande, President AllScripts India
    • Narayanan Ramaswamy , Executive Director ,Otis
    • Kesavan Srinivasan, Senior Director and CTO, SEARS India
    • Priya Damle, HR Head, Otis
  • 5.30 to 6.00 – Networking Tea / Coffee

Who Should Attend?

  • CEO’s / COO’s / CIO’s
  • Senior Leaders / VP’s / HR Heads
  • Dress Code – Formals

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/18jDB8-8Kpw0j_LEIfKVUgZNaUM27LBir3vS5IkFbV7A/viewform

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(Paid) Advanced Excel 2010

  • Date: Fri, 28 Feb 9:00am – 5:00pm
  • Location: Will be SMSed to paid participants

Course costs Rs. 2500. See http://gacademy.in for more details, including course contents and profile of the trainer.

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Visit GMRT (Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope) on Science Day at Junnar

  • Date: Fri, 28 Feb 9:00am – 5:00pm
  • Location: Khodad, Junnar, Pune

http://gmrt.ncra.tifr.res.in/~sciday/sciday/scienceday.htm

February 28th is celebrated as National Science Day all over the country, commemorating the discovery of the Raman Effect by C.V. Raman, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930.

Each year, Science Day is celebrated at the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) observatory at Khodad. The GMRT, which is the world’s most powerful telescope operating at low radio frequencies, was built and is being operated by the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). ‘

The “Doo Things Meetup Group” is planning to go there as a group on 28th Feb.

About Doo Things Meetup Group

Let’s get together for doo-ing lots of activities related to Computers, Arts, History, Education, Open Hardware, Software, Robotics.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/Doo-Things/events/166312532/

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Pune CloudStack Meetup: CloudStack Architecture; Marvin Test Suite

  • Date: Fri, 28 Feb 4:30pm – 6:30pm
  • Location: 7th floor, SICSR, (Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research, near Om Market, Model Colony)

This event is the meet-up for Apache CloudStack enthusiasts, developers, users and whoever is interested in IaaS, Virtualization and Apache CloudStack.

Agenda:

  • 4:30pm – 4:45 pm : Introductions, Setting the agenda
  • 4:45pm – 5:30 pm : CloudStack Architecture Deep Dive-Part 1: Mani
  • 5:30pm – 6:15 pm : CloudStack Marvin Test Suite-Umesh
  • 6.15pm – 6.30 pm: Networking, Tea and Snacks

About Pune Cloudstack Meetup

This group is for CloudStack enthusiasts – Developers, IT Admins, Open Source Contributors to learn and share knowledge about this popular Cloud platform. This group is interested in Open Source, Cloud Computing, IaaS, Virtualization, Building private cloud with CloudStack, Customizing CloudStack

### Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/CloudStack-Pune-Meetup/events/166114302/

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(Paid) Weekend Ventures Pune: 54 hours startup launch event

  • Date: 28 Feb to 2 Mar
  • Location: Thoughtworks Pune, Panchashil Tech Park, Yerwada

Weekend Ventures and NASSCOMs 10000 Startups initiative present a weekend idea-to-prototype event.

Weekend Ventures is a platform for developers, designers & aspiring entrepreneurs to come together, share ideas, form teams, build prototypes & launch startups over a weekend in 54hrs!

It provides the networking, mentoring, resources, and incentives for individuals and teams to go from idea to launch.

Every attendee is interested in working with a like-minded, motivated and skilled team to develop a product or business over a weekend. If this sounds like you, this is the event for you!

Pitch Idea

Whether you are looking for feedback on an idea, mentorship from experts, a co-founder, specific skill sets, or a team to help you execute, Weekend Ventures is the perfect environment in which to pitch your idea and give it a kick-start to launch your startup.

Form Team

Meet motivated, like-minded, aspiring entrepreneurs, developers & designers during the event. Pitch idea to them, get major votes & form a kickass team to build startup! Learn from mentors, investors & industry experts during mentorship round for your team. Walk away with new friends.

  • See more at: http://pune.weekendventures.org/

Fees and Registration

This event costs Rs. 2000. Please register here: http://pune.weekendventures.org/register

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(Paid) @CSIPune Workshop: Agile Skills

  • Date: Sat, 1 Mar 9:00am – 6:00pm
  • Location: Persistent Systems, Phase 1, Hinjewadi

Agile is widely becoming popular amongst professionals unlike any other software methodology industry has known. The demand of competent professionals is also growing exponentially as organizations are trying to make end customer successful! The purpose of this workshop is to provide agile practitioners a hands-on-experience on some of the key agile-scrum practices. The workshop is designed and conducted by agile experts who have successfully established agile capabilities for their organizations. CSI and SPIN invite agile developers, testers, scrum masters, leads, and project managers to get the benefit of this specially designed event. This workshop will help them build right skill which will ultimately help address challenges in real life. Prior awareness of agile-scrum fundamentals is essential as workshop will assume basic awareness.

Target Participants & Pre-Requisites

All Scrum practitioners including Developers, Testers, Team Leads, Project Managers and Business Analysts

Fees

  • Rs. 500/- for CSI members, students, and academics
  • Rs. 800/- for others

Registration Fees:

  • Mode of Payment: Direct deposit in SBI at your nearest branch by Cash/cheque /DD in favor of “Computer Society of India, Pune Chapter” Payable at Pune or through Net banking/(NEFT/RTGS).
    • Bank Account details for deposit of Fees.
    • Name of the Account: COMPUTER SOCIETY OF INDIA, PUNE CHAPTER
    • Name of the Bank: State Bank of India: Address of the Bank: Erandawane, Karve Road Branch, Pune 411004 India.
    • Type of Bank Account: Savings Account. : Bank Account No.: 11138216071
    • NEFT / RTGS / IFSC Code: SBIN0004618 :SWIFT CODE: SBININBB218 MICR Code: 411002010

Registration Process (For Individuals):

  • Pay the Fees in SBI by any one of the modes given.
  • After completing the payment, please send email to events.csipune@gmail.com giving your name, email, cell number and the payment details like the cheque No. /Confirmation (UTR) number of the transaction for the payment.
  • On verifying the payment from our Bank, we will confirm the participation

Registration Process (For Corporates):

  • Please send us an email to events.csipune@gmail.com with the following details: Name of the delegate, Phone number, Email. You can send the cheque for delegates at the workshop venue.

Contact

For any additional info – Email: info.csipune@gmail.com, Phone: +919423007948

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What’s new in WildFly (formerly JBoss Application Server)

  • Date: Sat, 1 Mar 10:00am – 12:00pm
  • Location: 7th floor, SICSR, (Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research, near Om Market, Model Colony)

WildFly 8 (nee JBoss Application Server) is Red Hat’s open source Java EE 7 compliant application server. It contains robust implementations of WebSocket, Batch, JSON, Concurrency, JMS2, JAX-RS 2, CDI 1.1, and all Java EE 7 technologies. Undertow is the new cutting-edge web server in WildFly 8 and is designed for maximum throughput and scalability, including environments with over a million connections. The number of ports is reduced used by multiplexing protocols over HTTP using HTTP Upgrade. Role Based Access Control support organizations with separated management responsibilities and restrictions. Roles represent different sets of permissions such as runtime operation execution, configuration areas that can read or written, and the ability to audit changes and manage users. In addition a new restricted audit log can be enabled including the ability to offload to a secure syslog server. WildFly also provides a “core” distribution that is ideal for framework authors that want to build their own application runtime using the powerful WildFly 8 architecture. NetBeans, IntelliJ, and Eclipse allow WildFly to be used for development, deployment, and debugging.

This session will provide an overview of all these features using several live demos. Format: 30 mins overview of WildFly 8 + 30 mins deep dive on some specific topic(s)

Speaker: Arun Gupta is Director of Developer Advocacy at Red Hat and focuses on JBoss Middleware. As a founding member of the Java EE team at Sun Microsystems, he spread the love for technology all around the world. At Oracle, he led a cross-functional team to drive the global launch of the Java EE 7 platform through strategy, planning, and execution of content, marketing campaigns, and program.

About Pune Java Meetup Group

This is a group of Java enthusiasts in Pune who meet regularly. The events are free and anyone can attend. See http://www.meetup.com/PuneJUG/ for more.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/PuneJUG/events/162596062/

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Pune Ruby Users Group Meetup: SOLID principles in Ruby

  • Date: Sat, 1 Mar 10:30am – 12:30pm
  • Location: Revealing Hour Creations, 402A Town Square, Above Dorabjees, Viman Nagar

Talks

  1. SOLID Design Principles in Ruby – Anil Wadghule (@anildigital)
  2. Open slot
  3. Coding session

About Pune Ruby Users Group

Pune Ruby Users Group is a Meetup Group for all developers interested in Ruby (not necessarily Rails). For more information see the meetup page: http://www.meetup.com/PuneRailsMeetup/

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/PuneRailsMeetup/events/166683992/

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TechNext Event: Using Chef

  • Date: Sat, 1 Mar 4:00pm – 6:00pm
  • Location: Synerzip Softech Recreational Area, 3rd Floor, Revolution Mall, Above Big Bazaar, Kothrud

Topics to be discussed

  • Chef Introduction
    • What is chef?
    • When to use & Why?
  • Chef Architecture
    • Chef Client – Chef Server (open source)
    • Chef Client – Chef Server (enterprise)
    • Chef solo
  • Chef anatomy
    • receipe
    • cookbook
    • run-list
    • role
    • environments
    • attributes
    • databags
    • node
    • worstation
    • knife
  • Example using Chef client/Server
  • Using Vagrant
  • Q & A

About Tech Next

Tech Next is a group which meets twice in a month in Pune, once for expert speakers and once for unconference at Synerzip’s recreation area. This group discuss topics pertaining to IT world from Developer centric technologies, QA centric practices and technology and Agile practitioners experiences.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/TechNext/events/151656962/

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Pune Open Coffee Club Meet: How to Benefit from Improving the Business Communication

  • Date: Sat, 1 Mar 4:00pm – 7:00pm
  • Location: 7th floor, SICSR, (Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research, near Om Market, Model Colony)

Communication is omnipresent in every business – be it small or large. Naturally, an improvement in communication has a positive impact on the business. A lot is said and done about the improving the Communication Skills. However, the area of improving Communication Systems or the Communication Process remains vastly ignored by most organizations. There are sustainable benefits, both tangible and intangible, that can be achieved by improving the business communication system. Some organizations have realized impressive numbers such as 100%+ improvement in operational efficiency and 50%+ improvement in sales. The topic of the talk will cover the “how” part.

This topic would be of interest to companies of all sizes — small and large — that make a good use of digital communication (chiefly email). For startups it helps to keep their communications in order from early days, and for larger businesses it opens up avenues to achieve better collaboration and save productive time. Kindly invite your friends from all such companies to this talk.

Speaker:

The speaker is Ashish Belagali, who is our very own POCC leader. Ashish is an IITan with around 20 years of experience. He runs a software organization. He got interested in the business communication systems area purely our of the needs of his own organization, and has developed a tool in this space. Over the last year, Ashish has researched this space and been interacting with professionals and international experts. The talk is mainly based on the findings of this exploration and interactions.

About Pune Open Coffee Club

With over 10000 members, the Pune Open Coffee Club is the largest forum for startups and entrepreneurs in Pune. It is an open forum, and anyone can join for free. See the PoCC website for more details.

Fees

This event is free and open to all. Please register here: http://punestartups.org/events/event/show?id=1988582%3AEvent%3A312884

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NASSCOM Product Conclave Pune #NPC2014

  • Date: Wed, 5 Mar 9:00am – 5:30pm
  • Location: Westin, Pune

NASSCOM Product Conclave is a day long conference focusing on Indian Software Product companies happening on 5th March. However, those interested should keep in mind that the early bird discount on registration ends on 21st Feb (tomorrow).

Here’s a description of the event from NASSCOM’s website:

It’s a great time to be a Product Entrepreneur in India with the buzz in domestic markets, increased interest in Indian start-ups by overseas investors and withmany fold improvement in infrastructure, India has become an attractive ground to breed start-ups. NASSCOM 10k Project is aimed at helping 10,000 start-ups to germinate & grow in India

NASSCOM Product Conclave 2013 at Bangalore, in October last year was a great success and a true show of strength by the Indian software products industry. The event spread over three days saw high voltage, adrenalin pumping, action filled activities involving more than 1400 software development practitioners interacting, learning and sharing. NPC2013 had 180+ speakers, many of them stars/super achievers in their own field including Nandan Nilekani, Rahul Sood, Rajan Anandanwho shared their experiences with an eager audience. It was a carnival of fresh thinking, innovation and match-making. After the huge success of NPC2013 and on the demand of the industry, NASSCOM is pleased to announce NPC West at Pune, a full day of excitement, knowledge share, networking and setting up agenda for the future of Indian product industry. NPC Pune is planned on March 05, 2014 and will be attended by star speakers from the Product Industry, VCs,Practicing Entrepreneurs, Consultants.

The focus of NPC Pune is to set a stage for Indian start-ups and emerging companies to access knowledge & support available in the ecosystem on building their markets, create performing teams and secure funding. People’ s Choice Awards showcasing Top 10 Products in the NASSCOM Emerge category will also be announced during NPC Pune. You can take advantage of workshops on Digital Marketing, B2B Sales planning and Product Design. NPC Pune will see a turnout of around 400 delegates and aline up of software Product industry, VC industry& Entrepreneur Speakers. We will also bring you the softer touch with an interesting speaker from outside the industry.This NASSCOM Product Conclave is being held in Pune, a strategic hub of Indian Product Start-ups. We wish to encourage all companies located in the region to participate and take advantage of interacting with some of the super achievers in the Indian Products arena.

Check out the NPC 2014 website for details on the speakers, agenda, venue.

Fees and Registration

This is a paid event, and the early bird fees are Rs 1500 for members, 2000 for non-members, and the full fees are Rs. 2000 and 2500 respectively. A special startup fee of Rs. 1000 only applies to companies with annual revenues of less than 1 crore, and which have existed for less than 3 years pay only Rs. 1000.

Please register here: http://www.nasscom.in/npc-pune/registration

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LiveBlog: Intelligence at the Edge

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This is a live-blog of the event organized by @NexusVP, with the CTOs of @DruvaInc, @Helpshift, and @Uniken_Inc, talking about “Intelligence at the Edge” – i.e. the increasing amount of enterprise data that is now found in mobiles, laptops, and other devices of their employees, and how that is changing the world of enterprise software.

The panel consisted of these people:

  • Jishnu Bhattacharjee (@b_jishnu), of Nexus Venture Partners:
  • Sanjay Deshpande, CEO and Chief Innovation Officer at Uniken, a Pune-based enterprise security company.
  • BG (@ghoseb), CTO and Co-founder at Helpshift, a Pune-based company that provides a software platform that allows mobile app developers to incorporate high quality customer service and support into their apps.
  • Milind Borate, CTO and Co-Founder at Druva, a Pune-based company that provides backup solutions for the enterprise.

Here is a random list of interesting stuff said during this discussion:

  • More and more data and intelligence is being pushed at the edges of the corporate networks. Translation: Imagine a large company. It has an IT department that runs many servers and complicated applications in their labs and data centers. In the past, most of the data and intelligence of the enterprise was in these servers. But in recent times, the devices in the hands of the employees (the desktops, laptops, mobile phones) have more and more powerful apps, more sensitive data, and more unique data (i.e. data which is not replicated on the servers). This is the “edge” of the enterprise.
  • What does Druva do? Druva looks at data that is sitting on laptops, mobiles, and other devices at the edge from 4 different angles:
    • Backup of the data
    • Data theft prevention if the data falls in the wrong hands
    • Analyzing the data on all these devices and providing intelligence (actionable insights)

    • Being able to share that data with others: colleagues within the company, but also outside – customers, vendors

  • What does Helpshift do? Built a SDK that mobile developers can download and incorporate into their app to automatically and easily get very sophisticated customer service into their app. For example:
    • Reduce customer service calls through the use of in-app FAQs, which can easily be updated by the developer – updates to the FAQ can be pushed to all customers mobiles automatically
    • When a customer reports an issue, the Helpshift runtime uses breadcrumbs to keep track of what the customer was doing just before hitting the issue, so that without any extra effort on the part of the customer, details of the device, the configuration and what exactly caused the bug are sent to the server
    • Now they are focusing on building machine-learning based higher level features. Their bigger customers have millions of daily users and get thousands of support issues per day. So, they need sophisticated analysis to figure out the common patterns.
    • 80% of Helpshift’s market is the US and the remaining 20% is from the rest of the world, including Europe and Latin America
    • 80% of the money comes from iPhone users. But Android is still young, and growing.
  • What does Uniken do? Uniken realized that most of the technology on the internet has been driven by media companies who want to sell ads on their websites, and maximize the number of users, whereas enterprises (like banks) are trying to use the same internet to give a very secure experience to their (captive) users. There is a mismatch here, and what the enterprises need is a much more secure environment where they have much more control over all the pieces in the chain – including the network and the devices being used by the customers. This is the area Uniken is in.
  • Indian market vs US market: In India, there is a software/web/mobile market, but a lot of it is mostly consumer oriented. The B2B software market is still not really well developed, and is it not easy to make much money here.
    • 60% of Druva’s revenue comes from the US, 30% from Europe, and 10% comes from the rest of the world (India included).
    • Druva started off trying to sell in the Indian market. They tried in-person enterprise sales, and had a tough time. In the meantime, they started getting enquiries from the US from people who had simply downloaded their software, tried it out, liked it, and wanted to buy it. Over time, this increased, and they soon realized that US was where the real market was.
    • One of the key things that helped them was that they built software that was very easy to download off the web and install without requiring any help from the company itself. This was unheard of in the enterprise backup business (which was dominated by companies like Symantec/Veritas, EMC etc.)
    • Druva used Google adwords very effectively to market its products. The big players like Symantec/Veritas, EMC have very large sales organizations with great reach, and it would have been very difficult for Druva to compete with them in terms of reach of their salespeople. But Google adwords allowed them to reach out to customers all over the world.
  • BigData is big. The number of devices (mobiles, laptops, desktops) that people are using is so huge, that with even minimal intelligence in each device the amount of data is huge – petabytes.
    • Collect as much data as possible. You will find uses for it later.
    • Don’t worry about where/how to store the data. Just store it in flat files initially, and then later you can figure out where to put it to analyze it.
    • No single software will solve all your problems. Use everything – SQL, NoSQL, Hadoop, etc.
    • What has made this possible is the fact that all these devices are now internet connected, and hence all the data can be collected and stored centrally in the cloud. Further, again because of the internet connectivity, it is possible to push software updates to the devices, so the data collection abilities can be continuously upgraded.
  • How has Uniken managed to sell into the Indian enterprise market? It is currently 100% in the Indian market – and it sees India as a big market, with lots of potential. Most Indian software startups struggle with this (as seen by Druva’s experience above). You need to do this:
    • In any company, identify the right person – the one who has enough vision to do things differently, try new products, and who can also get things done in that company
    • Choosing the right champion in the customer company is key
    • Keep meeting the right people, keep selling them your story, keep plugging away, until the sale happens
    • Think of an enterprise sale as dating with a long-term relationship in mind
    • Have lots of patience. Don’t give up. India is a market requires a lot of patience.

Tech Events this Week: @NexusVP, @GNUnify, Mobile Apps, @SpotZot, Cocoa, OpenStack

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Panel Discussion: Intelligence at the Edge with @DruvaInc @Helpshift @Uniken_Inc and @nexusvp

  • Date: Thu, 13 Feb 6:00pm – 9:00pm
  • Location: Sumant Moolgaokar Auditorium, Ground Floor, Wing A, ICC Trade Center, SB Road

Nexus Venture Partners is one of India’s top technology venture capital firms, and has invested in 4 of Pune’s top technology startups: Druva, Helpshift, Pubmatic and Uniken.

On 13th October, Nexus is hosting a panel discussion on the topic “Intelligence at the edge”. With the CTOs of Druva and Helpshift, and the CEO of Uniken as panelists, it promises to be a great event that every techie in Pune who’s interested in the future of technology must attend.

Detailed Program:
– 6 – 6:30pm: Introductions
– 6:30 – 7:30pm: Panel Discussion.
– Panel Moderator:
– Jishnu Bhattacharjee, MD, Nexus Venture Partners
– Panelists:
– Milind Borate, Co-founder & CTO, Druva
– Baishampayan Ghose, Co-founder & CTO, Helpshift
– Sanjay Deshpande, Chief Innovation Officer & CEO, Uniken
– 7:30 – 8pm: Q & A
– 8 – 9pm: Networking over dinner

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/16L17gU5zTGPFtfIxQWymz5tJWqcfzG3IsWvdeIag5DA/viewform

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(Paid) Android QuickStart

  • Date: 14-15 Feb
  • Location: Pune – Contact Organizer for details

This Android application programming workshop from Cralina is a hands on workshop designed to address the need of professionals who would like to start up on Android mobile application development. It is also useful for professionals who have worked on any other mobile platform and need to develop a good understanding of Android application development concepts.

Target Audience:

  • Developers, technical leads/managers who need to develop a good basic understanding of Android
  • Engineers/Managers who wish to understand Android architecture, application development on Android and also test Android based products
  • Anyone who wishes to develop a good understanding of the workings of Android

Fees and Registration

This is a paid event. Check the event website: http://cralina.com/upcoming-programs#AS for details.

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GNUnify 2014 – 2-day open-source technologies conference

  • Date: 14-15 Feb
  • Location: SICSR, (Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research, near Om Market, Model Colony)

GNUnify is one of India’s biggest open source conferences, will happen again in Pune, this Friday and Saturday (14, 15 Feb) in SICSR.

The conference will have talks and workshops on Android Hacking/Development, Programming with GCC/GDB/GMake, HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript/JQuery, Python, Google Admob challenge, OpenStack, Drupal and more.

Lots of people from all over India, and also some from abroad, usually come for this conference. This is your chance to connect with people passionate about technologies, and enthusiastic students.

This conference is free and open for anyone to attend. Click here to register.

From Idea to APP (Google Admob Challenge)

  • Date: 14-15 Feb
  • Location: 7th floor, SICSR, (Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research, near Om Market, Model Colony)

This is a 2 day workshop happening at SICSR along with GNUnify, the 2-day free and open source conference. Participants get an insight into how to transform an idea into an app. Student participants can present the same app in “Student’s admob Challenge”. Find more details at http://www.google.co.in/ads/admob/challenge.html

Entry is free. Though students can participate in Student’s Admob Challenge, working professionals too can participate as campus has kept it open to all.

Event website: http://www.meetup.com/Pune-GDG/events/164627612/ and http://gnunify.in

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(Nominal Fees) Breakfast with @TiEPune: Lessons on E-commerce & Internet advertising for entrepreneurs

  • Date: Sat, 15 Feb 8:30am – 10:30am
  • Location: Shekhar Natu Hall, 5th Floor, A-Wing, MCCIA, ICC Towers, SB Road

TiE Pune Breakfast session – with Pehr Luedtke CEO of SpotZot

As with any business move or expansion, considering an online presence can raise a sometimes dizzying list of questions for an entrepreneur. Exactly what must be put in place to make it happen? How does an online presence change the market for the business? What are competitors doing? How will people shop? What kind of security is required? How will customers pay online? Small businesses that have little or no e-commerce capabilities on their websites should know about taking the next step in converting their marketing sites into selling locations that extend their customer bases, images and sales in entirely new ways. Those entrepreneurs not yet online need to discover how the Internet is likely to transform their businesses and introduce them to markets far beyond those which are currently in reach. The most amazing aspect of e-commerce is its ability to impact sales and marketing efforts immediately. By going online, suddenly a neighborhood bakery or a home based consulting service expands its reach to a national, or even international base of potential customers. Web-based sales know no international boundaries.

About the Speaker – Pehr Luedtke

Pehr has a decade of experience in ecommerce, internet advertising, and retail. Currently, Pehr is the CEO of Spotzot, a leading location-based mobile advertising platform for retailers and brands. Spotzot employs proprietary technology to create compelling offers for consumers near retailers that they care about. Spotzot is venture funded with headquarters in San Francisco and a large development center in Pune. Prior to Spotzot, Pehr was on the executive team at Bazaarvoice, the leading ratings and reviews software company. He joined Bazaarvoice through its acquisition of PowerReviews, where he was CEO. Prior to PowerReviews, Pehr held leadership positions at eBay, Levi Strauss, and Oliver Wyman. He has an undergraduate degree from Princeton and an MBA from Stanford. Pehr lives in the Bay Area with his wife, two children, and a new puppy.

About TiE Pune

Pune chapter of TiE – A non-profit global network of entrepreneurs and professionals, established to foster entrepreneurship and nurture entrepreneurs.

Fees and Registration

Fees : 150/ members and 300/- non-members of TiE.

Register here: http://em.explara.com/event/tiepune15feb

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Pune Cocoa Meetup: Database Wars: YapDatabase Vs Core Data

  • Date: Sat, 15 Feb 3:00pm – 5:00pm
  • Location: Synerzip (3rd Floor, Revolution Mall, next to City Pride, Kothrud, Pune)

Chaitanya (@chaitanyapandit) from http://www.includetech.co will be speaking about his new found love towards YapDatabase.

YapDatabase is a “key/value store and MUCH MORE” built atop sqlite for iOS & Mac. It has the a Ton of features can be found on GitHub page

There will be a follow up Panel Discussion on YapDatabase Vs Core Data.

So, roll up your sleeves, brush up your thoughts on both these DBs and see you there.

About Pune Cocoa Meetup Group

See http://www.meetup.com/Pune-Cocoa/ for more details about the Pune Cocoa meetup group.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/PuneCocoa/events/162447612/

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WordPress User Group Pune Meetup

  • Date: Sat, 15 Feb 5:00pm – 7:00pm
  • Location: Cafe Coffee Day, Ground Floor, Mariplex Mall

If you’re interested in meeting other WordPress developers in Pune…

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/WordPress/Pune-IN/1103872/

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Software Developers Meetup: Intro to developing a mobile app using PhoneGap

  • Date: Sun, 16 Feb 11:00am – 1:00pm
  • Location: 5th Floor, A-Wing, MCCIA, ICC Towers, SB Road

In this tutorial, we shall create a fully functional mobile application with PhoneGap. We shall cover:

  • How to use different local data storage strategies.
  • How to use several PhoneGap APIs such as Geolocation, Contacts, and Camera.
  • How to handle specific mobile problems such as touch events, scrolling, styling, page transitions, etc.
  • How to build an application using a single page architecture and HTML templates.
  • How to build (compile and package) an application for 6 platforms using PhoneGap Build.

To attend this tutorial, all you need is a code editor (Notepad++ is fine too!), a modern browser, and a connection to the Internet (will be provided at the venue). A working knowledge of HTML and JavaScript is assumed, but you don’t need to be a JavaScript guru.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/Software-Developers-In-Pune/events/165018212/

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OpenStack Pune Meetup Group: Network Virtualization – Beyond the Basics

  • Date: Tue, 18 Feb 5:30pm – 8:30pm
  • Location: JW Marriot, SB Road

Agenda

  • 5:30-6pm: Registration
  • 6pm-7:30pm: Future of Network Virtualization: Going beyond the basic Use Cases, Speaker : Martin Casado
  • 7:30pm: Networking and Dinner

About OpenStack Pune Meetup Group

This group is for OpenStack and Virtualization enthusiasts – Developers, IT Admins, Open Source Contributors to learn and share knowledge about this upcoming platform. This group is interested in Open Source, Cloud Computing, SaaS and Cloud Computing, OpenStack – Quantum, Virtualization, Building private cloud with OpenStack, OpenStack.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Pune/events/162779722/

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Pune’s Pubmatic gets $13MM funding; preparing for a $1B IPO?

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Pubmatic, a software product company with solutions in the cloud and mobile advertising space, which is fully developed out of Pune, has just received $13 million in funding from Nokia Growth Partners, along with existing investors. This takes the total amount of funding raised by Pubmatic to $76 million.

Excerpt:

The company plans to use the investment raised to improve its platform and for International expansion. PubMatic CEO and co-founder Rajeev Goel is also quoted in the press release as saying this investment will improve its ”direct market access by plugging into the global NGP (Nokia Growth Partners) and Nokia presence.”

The more interesting, and speculative, report comes from the Wall Street Journal article, which claims that Pubmatic is getting ready for an IPO, and are hoping for a valuation in excess of $1 billion.

We have been hoping for a Pubmatic IPO for a couple of years now ever since they hired a CFO who specializes in IPOs. However, it appears to be taking a little longer than expected.

Let’s hope that Pubmatic soon becomes Pune’s first software product IPO.

References:
– Medianama
– Wall Street Journal

@PersistentSys acquires @CloudSquads – Pune/California based enterprise social media startup

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Pune’s Persistent Systems has just acquired CloudSquads, a Pune and San Francisco based startup that builds social apps for the enterprise market.

After cloud-computing and mobile, the new hottest trend in the industry is SMAC (Social, Mobile, Analytics, and Cloud), and CloudSquads is smack in the middle of this trend. CloudSquads builds products that help companies like E*Trade, GE, Autodesk to use social media for customer support, sales, marketing. In addition they build apps that can be used for providing private social networking features within the enterprise.

From the press release:

CloudSquads helps companies develop a strategy for engaging with the modern social customer across all customer facing functions including brand, marketing, sales and support. The company implements platforms which provide rich capabilities that transform these interactions into healthy communities and then integrates those platforms with companies’ internal systems allowing them to better know and serve their customers.

and also:

“Social communities are the natural next step in the evolution and enhancement of external systems of engagement with customers, following the 1-800 number and corporate web presence,” said Ashish Seth, Co-Founder of CloudSquads, Inc. “CloudSquads helps global brands unlock the power of social to realize dramatic increases in employee productivity, double digit improvements in marketing and sales effectiveness and dramatically lower support costs, said Henry Bruckstein, Co-Founder of CloudSquads, Inc. “Combining the global reach and broad technology capabilities of Persistent Systems will allow us to multiply the transformative impact in the market.”

Why is Persistent buying CloudSquads? According to Ranga Puranik, President of Persistent:

“CloudSquads complements our software product development and SMAC (Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud) technology expertise with consulting, IP connectors and implementation services around social community platforms and is perfectly aligned to better serve our ISV and enterprise customer base.”

Persistent had recently reported that it had created “Persistent Venture Fund”, a venture fund to invest in early stage startups, mainly in the SMAC domain. Persistent Venture Fund’s first investment was in US-based ustyme, a free video call app for the iPad.

According to Anand Deshpande, CEO of Persistent, the fund will only invest in startups that are strategically interesting to Persistent’s business.

“We consider two aspects for selection. First is the technology area of the start-up and its similarity to our interests, and second the customers that it needs to align with our customer eco-system,” he added.

Panel Discussion: Intelligence at the Edge with @DruvaInc @Helpshift @Uniken_Inc and @nexusvp

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Nexus Venture Partners is one of India’s top technology venture capital firms, and has invested in 4 of Pune’s top technology startups: Druva, Helpshift, Pubmatic and Uniken.

On 13th February, Nexus is hosting a panel discussion on the topic “Intelligence at the edge”. With the CTOs of Druva and Helpshift, and the CEO of Uniken as panelists, it promises to be a great event that every techie in Pune who’s interested in the future of technology must attend.

Detailed Program:
– 6 – 6:30pm: Introductions
– 6:30 – 7:30pm: Panel Discussion.
– Panel Moderator:
– Jishnu Bhattacharjee, MD, Nexus Venture Partners
– Panelists:
– Milind Borate, Co-founder & CTO, Druva
– Baishampayan Ghose, Co-founder & CTO, Helpshift
– Sanjay Deshpande, Chief Innovation Officer & CEO, Uniken
– 7:30 – 8pm: Q & A
– 8 – 9pm: Networking over dinner

Fees and Registration

The event is on 13th February, from 6pm to 9pm, at Sumant Moolgaokar Auditorium, MCCIA, ICC Trade Towers, SB Road. The event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/16L17gU5zTGPFtfIxQWymz5tJWqcfzG3IsWvdeIag5DA/viewform

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