Monthly Archives: June 2014

Tech Events this Week: Node.js, OpenStack, Papers we Love, Angel Investing & TEDxPuneSalon

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) Angel Investing Made Easy (for HNIs)

  • Date: Sat, 7 Jun 10:00am – 4:00pm
  • Location: Training Room, Venture Center, NCL Innovation Park, Pashan Road

The workshop is aimed at training HNIs and prospective investors on acquiring rudimentary knowledge of investing early stage risk capital in start-ups.

It is structured to impart an understanding on developing and maintaining a deal flow of start-ups, enabling discussions with practicing angel investors and learning through case studies which reflect the realities of angel investing in India, for HNIs and new angels in India.

Who Should Attend:

HNI’s & Prospective Investors, Aspring & existing Angel Investors

Agenda:

  • Angel Investing 101 – Basics of Angel Investment
  • Investment Mechanics- Valuations, Term Sheet Primer & Understanding Shareholder Agreement
  • How Syndicates Work- A recommended way to make our first investment participate in syndicates
  • Live Pitches- Experience 4 Live Pitches by Startup at the workshop

About the Trainer – Manish Singhal

Manish is an Angel Investor, and Founder of LetsVenture, an online platform for startups to raise early stage investment.

Before starting LetsVenture, Manish spent many years @ Motorola. He joined Ittiam & Sling Media in their initial stages and helped build world-class products & teams right from scratch. He has close to two decades of experience building technology products & teams. He is an ex-member of MPEG committee and holds two patents to his name. He holds a bachelors degree from IIT Kanpur.

Manish serves on the board of companies ranging from technology businesses, consumer businesses, e-commerce to employability like Freshersworld.com, Moontara Technovations Apartment Adda. He is also an active mentor on the CIIE Mentor Edge Panel (IIM Ahmedabad), Start-up Village (Kochi) and Venture Labs (Standford University).

About Venture Center

Entrepreneurship Development Center (Venture Center) – a CSIR initiative – is a not-for-profit company hosted by the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune. Venture Center strives to nucleate and nurture technology and knowledge-based enterprises by leveraging the scientific and engineering competencies of the institutions in the Pune region in India. The Venture Center is a technology business incubator specializing in technology enterprises offering products and services exploiting scientific expertise in the areas of materials, chemicals and biological sciences & engineering.

Fees and Registration

This workshop costs Rs 1500. Please register here: http://em.explara.com/event/aime-pune

For more information, contact: Miss. Lipika Biswas, Venture Center, Phone: +91-20-20250934/64011024; Email: eventsdesk@venturecenter.co.in

See also: http://www.ipface.org/workshops.php

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Doo Things Meetup: Papers We love

  • Date: Sat, 7 Jun 10:00am – 1:00pm
  • Location: 402A, Town Square, Above Dorabjees, Airport Road, Viman Nagar, Pune

There is a Paper’s We Love meetup group.

We really like the concept and want to see how it works here in our community.

So, I want to propose we do a meetup around the theme.

Summarized :

What was the last paper within the realm of computing you read and loved? What did it inspire you to build or tinker with? Come share the ideas in an awesome academic/research paper with fellow engineers, programmers, and paper-readers. Lead a session and show off code that you wrote that implements these ideas or just give us the lowdown about the paper (because of HARD MATH!). Otherwise, just come, listen, and discuss.

If you have read a paper and found it really interesting and want share your thoughts on it – welcome!

If nobody comes up with a paper, I will post a link – and we can take it from there.

Does this sound fun?

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/179548542/

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TechNext Event: Overview of OpenStack

  • Date: Sat, 7 Jun 4:00pm – 7:00pm
  • Location: Synerzip Softech Recreational Area, 3rd Floor, Revolution Mall, next to City Pride, Kothrud

Agenda:

Overview of OpenStack

  1. Brief history of OpenStack and its predecessors.
  2. High Level Architecture of OpenStack.
  3. Basic OpenStack download, configure and install.
  4. Overview of OpenStack Development model and ecosystem.
  5. Component description : OpenStack Compute
  6. Component description : OpenStack Image store
  7. Component description : OpenStack Block storage
  8. Component description : OpenStack Object store
  9. Component description : OpenStack Identity
  10. Component description : OpenStack Networking.

Speaker: Mithlesh Thukral

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/175312382/

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PuneJS Meetup: Intro to Node.js

  • Date: Sat, 7 Jun 4:00pm – 6:00pm
  • Location: Mediaocean, Suite 304, Bldg A, GO-Square IT Park Wakad Rd, Wakad

An Introduction to node.js, server side javascript technology.

About PuneJS Meetup Group

This meetup was started to get the Javascript buzz going in Pune. Let’s meet up and join hacking!

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/PuneJS/events/179783822/

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WordPress User Group Pune: Making Money using WordPress (not ads) – real life case studies

  • Date: Sat, 7 Jun 5:30pm – 7:00pm
  • Location: Cafe Chokolade, FC Road

In the next meetup on 7th June, Manish Chauhan (blogger at http://jagoinvestor.com will be talking about How Bloggers are making money using wordpress (No , I am not talking about advertisements) .

There will be 2 case studies discussed on what kind of things can be done using wordpress and one can earn money using some tried and tested models .

Any new wordpress user or even an expert can attend this short 2 hours meet. The idea is to spread the knowledge about wordpress and help each other to evolve as a strong group and extend support. You dont need to be an expert in the area of wordpress to be part of this meet, just be part of it and we all will enjoy …

At the end of 2 hours meet

  • You will take back some new ideas you can work on
  • You will learn about models where you work less and earn more
  • You will network with other WordPress Enthusiasts
  • Spend some quality time to take your blog to next level

About the Pune WordPress User Group

This group is for anyone interested in discussing WordPress, be it users, developers, bloggers or beginners. We intend to meet every month, one of the item in every meetup would be to decide the agenda for next meet up.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/Pune-WordPress-User-Group/events/181013502/

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TEDxPuneSalon: Monthly event by @TEDxPune

  • Date: Sat, 7 Jun 6:00pm – 8:00pm
  • Location: Pagdandi Books Chai Cafe, Baner Pashan Link Road

Pune is known for ideas worth spreading – from swaraj, quit India, women’s emancipation, swadeshi, super-computing to cell sciences and molecular genetics. Pune has led India – and even the world – and been an ideas capital for centuries. Pune’s thinkers and doers have inspired better citizenship and strived to design better cities.

TEDxPune will strive to collect together contemporary ideas worth spreading to inspire better cities and citizenship. It will seek out ideas that inspire people to live lives with purposes beyond oneself. It will seek to spread ideas that inspire better cities and citizenship.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: https://www.facebook.com/events/424019761071713/

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