Monthly Archives: July 2014

Tech Events this Week: Open Source, Joomla, Tech for Social Causes, Bio/HealthTech, Azure, PHP

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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.

Scaale Event: Resource management for Business Efficiency for Indo-US Businesses

  • Date: Thu, 31 Jul 5:00pm – 8:00pm
  • Location: Auditorium, Cluster-C, Eon Free Zone, MIDC Kharadi

To sustain in today’s competitive global market, having a presence in the world’s best markets is imperative. A combination of the world’s best markets as well as those that are cost-effective helps in bringing in the required competitive advantage.

Both India and the United States of America have always been the centre of attraction for global investment. While India is well known as the best source for skilled human resource at the best cost, US is always a preferred market, especially the Mecca of IT, San Francisco – CA, by IT companies worldwide

While many growth stage companies are looking forward to explore both the destinations for growth and sales, there are many unanswered questions they have like, how to get started, what are the legalities, associated costs, etc.

The objective of this event is to answer this queries through insights on Indo – US relations, real life experiences of some senior entrepreneurs / industry veterans and the support system available through Scaale Group.

The event is being organized by Scaale Group, a venture resource group, headquartered in San Francisco, dedicated to implement solutions for startups, SMB’s & Corporations through innovation, sales, capital and talent in association with
Indo American Chamber of Commerce, a non-government, industry led and managed organization, playing a proactive role in India’s development process and serves as a much needed link between the business communities of India and the United States of America and UBER, a global transport network company based in San Francisco.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open to anybody, but only via registration and prior confirmation. Please register here: http://scaale.com/group/events#contact

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FOSSsumMIT: 2-day Free/Open Source Software conference at MIT Pune

  • Date: 1- 2 Aug
  • Location: MIT Pune

FOSSsumMIT is a 2-day conference on Free/Open Source Software, organized by the Dept. of Computer Engineering, at MIT College, in association with PLUG (Pune Linux Users Group), happening on 1 & 2 August, 2014.

The conference has introductory talks and workshops for students on various topics, and is free for anyone to attend. Day 1 has 5 tracks – Python, Scientific Computing, Linux, Linux Overview, and Big Data. Day 2 has 4 tracks – Python, Scientific Computing, Linux, and Cloud Computing.

See Day 1 Schedule and Day 2 Schedule for details.

Fees and Registration

Register here: http://fosssummit.in/register – it’s free. And you get a certificate.

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My Story @TiEPune: Bikram Dasgupta, Founder & Executive Chairman, Globsyn Group

  • Date: Fri, 1 Aug 6:30pm – 8:30pm
  • Location: Sumant Moolgaokar Auditorium, Ground Floor, Wing A, ICC Trade Center, SB Road

TiE Pune presents a “My Story” session with Bikram Dasgupta, Founder & Executive Chairman, Globsyn Group

Career History of Mr Dasgupta:

  • Alumnus of Harvard Business School, USA and IIT Kharagpur, India
  • Dell Deal : Single handed win of the single largest (US $50 million) export contract from Dell Computer, USA
  • Conceptualised Globsyn group of companies
  • Pioneered the first IT Park in India in form of Infinity in, formed the roadmap for IT Parks in India
  • Software Finishing School : Pioneered the concept of Knowledge Finishing Schools in India (high aptitude engineering students are exposed to the relevant software engineering & management skills – SFS has trained over 15000 students, across 21 states in India)
  • Setup India’s first Corporate B-Schools in India (Crisil A** rated & AICTE approved)
  • Setup India’s first integrated BPO Training institute
  • In the form of Globsyn crystals, created “Work Habitat”, bringing Life and Work Together

Industry Connects :

  • President, TiE Kolkata, Member – Executive Council, Indian Chamber of Commerce; Member, Eastern Region Council, NASSCOM;
  • Confederation of Indian Industry : Member of Executive Committee – Easter Region; Member of National Skills Council; Member of National Commitee, Integrity & Transparency in Governance

About TiE Pune My Story Sessions!

“My Story – Inspiring Journey of an Entrepreneur”

This program is created to celebrate entrepreneurship and bring stories from successful entrepreneurs in their own words. The invited speakers will share their entrepreneurial journeys and talk about lessons learned, mistakes they wish they avoided, and key decisions that helped make their venture successful.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://tiepune1staugust.eventbrite.com/

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Pune Joomla User Group Meeting

  • Date: Sat, 2 Aug 6:30am – 8:30am
  • Location: Tekdi Office, #6, Silver Fern Building, Karve Road, Opposite Kothrud Bus Stand & Above Canara Bank

Hey all ! Its been a while since we had a Joomla meetup in Pune. So make sure you don’t miss this one ! From Beginners to advanced users, we have topics to interest all. Plus a chance to socialize & meet Joomlians like yourself !

Schedule

  • 6 30 to 7 00 : Open Networking
  • 7 00 to 8 00 : Tech Sessions
  • 8 00 to 8 30 : Discussions

Session Topics ( 30 mins each)

  1. Joomla 3 (Site Builders) – Are you Building it right ?
  2. 10 mistakes to avoid when writing Joomla code (Developers)

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/Joomla-User-Group-Pune/events/194988962/

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Global Shapers (GSC) Pune: Tech 4 Dev

  • Date: Sat, 2 Aug 10:00am – 2:00pm
  • Location: Courtyard Marriott, Near Pune Station

A half-day session organized by Global Shapers Community- Pune Hub (an initiative of World Economic Forum) on the theme of “Tech 4 Dev” – How technology is playing an important role in revolutionising the development sector.

The program will be attended by I.T professionals from Amdocs, KPIT, Convertex amongst others companies, NGOs in the city, Youth activists, Students and other like minded individuals. It will be a platform for a wide range of stakeholders to interact and explore possible avenues of engagement.

This 3-hour convention will brainstorm on:

  • Technology in Governments
  • Technology in Politics
  • Technology in Education
  • Technology in Non-Profits

About Global Shapers Community Pune

The Global Shapers Community (GSC), is a World Economic Forum (WEF) initiative that comprises a network of hubs founded and led by young people who are exceptional in their potential, their achievements and their drive to make a contribution to their communities.

The Mission and Vision for the Pune Hub and these are:

  • Mission: ‘To make Pune the world’s most inclusive and caring city’
  • Vision: ‘Leverage the World Economic Forum and Global Shapers Platform, to successfully execute projects that will directly impact every citizen of Pune and will improve Gross Happiness Index (GNH) of Pune > 20% by Dec 2018’.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Prior registration is required: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1T9wRe5aG0ycXnchnmnp1yiGvSL27wyf5XGSJhJyRAIc/viewform

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Venture Center Event: Planning and Funding BioTech, HealthTech and other Bio-Enterprises

  • Date: Sat, 2 Aug 10:00am – 12:30pm
  • Location: Library, Venture Center, NCL Innovation Park, Pashan Road

Venture Center presents an event on Planning and Funding Bio-Enterprises with emphasis on Biotechnology Ignition Grant (BIRAC)

The primary aim of this event is to in crease awareness around an important grant funding opportunity in the biotechnology and healthcare space, viz. the DBT-BIRAC Biotech Ignition Grant (BIG) scheme. The focus of this event is to provide background information on this grant, the application through funding process-flow, guidance on writing winning proposals, and an opportunity to interact with BIG grantees and learn from their experience.

DBT-BIRAC’s Biotechnology Ignition Grant (BIG) scheme

  • BIG provides for high level of discovery and innovation in the Biotechnology sector to establish and validate proof of concept, and enable creation of spin-offs. BIG is a very attractive funding scheme for budding bio-entrepreneurs. It is offered as a grant to carry proof of concept and proof of concept validation activities. This is a great opportunity for innovators and entrepreneurs to begin building a start-up.

Broad domains allowed for BIG:
– Health care & medical biotech: Therapeutics, Biologicals, Vaccines & preventives, Diagnostics, Biomedical devices, Tissue engineering, Oncology etc
– Agriculture, food security, secondary agriculture and allied: Agro and plant biotech, Animal biotech, Marine biotech, medicinal and aromatic plants, Seri biotech, Biocontrol/biofertilizers, Food and nutrition, etc
– Industrial product and processes
– Green technology & industrial biotechnology: Biochemical engineering, Biomass value addition to fuels/ chemicals/ materials
– Others: Bio-IT interface, bioinformatics, Analytical methods and new techniques, etc
– Others falling in to DBT mandate

Participants would also get to learn about how to plan a scientific start-up.

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 event is free and open for anybody to attend, but prior registration is necessary. Please register here: http://vcevents.pandaform.com/pub/xzyhwf/new

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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>@PuneUserGroup event: (Microsoft Technologies) Transforming the Data Center

  • Date: Sat, 2 Aug 10:00am – 5:30pm
  • Location: Sumant Moolgaokar Auditorium, Ground Floor, Wing A, ICC Trade Center, SB Road

In the face of an exploding need for technology that supports the business, we need to transform the datacenter to increase agility and make it easier to deliver resources faster. Today, every area of the business, from marketing to sales to human resources, depends on technology. As a result, the need for IT resources is growing steadily. The move to cloud computing reflects the trend: as business requirements grow, a flexible option for keeping up with that growth is by accessing cloud capacity.

We are all seeing trends that reflect the growth of cloud—the question is: how can IT build a cloud strategy that makes sense? And just as important, how can IT continue to take advantage of the strengths of today’s datacenter while evolving to a new hybrid cloud model? One critical step is upgrading older resources. Now is especially timely for an upgrade as July 14, 2015 marks the end of support date for Windows Server 2003. This provides a wonderful opportunity for you to modernize your infrastructure.

Please join us and learn how latest Microsoft technologies provide great options for reducing cost and complexity, as well as simplifying management. As we mark one year until Windows Server 2003 end of support, we want customers to feel confident that they have a great
path forward. During this event, you’ll learn many features of Cloud and Datacenter management including:

  • Computing with Cloud OS
  • Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Still with Windows Server 2003? Migrate it!
  • Virtualization and Cloud Backup
  • System Center in Datacenter Management

About Pune User Group

Pune User Group (aka PUG) is a Pune (India) based not-for-profit organization, an association of professionals and students interested in Microsoft technology who are dedicated and devoted to the noble cause of spreading knowledge. It is a platform for you to share your experiences and educate professionals through the learnt lessons of the best Gurus in IT indutry….because “Knowledge is wealth..” and we “Gain Knowledge by Sharing knowledge…”

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032592405

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PHP Reboot Meetup: Web Security in PHP

  • Date: Sat, 2 Aug 11:00am – 1:00pm
  • Location: GraciousSoft Office, First Floor, Above Jijamata Sahkari Bank, Karve Nagar Bus Stop

Speaker: Kapil Sharma, Technical Architect at Eastern Enterprise with 10 years experience in Web Development.

Web securities in PHP.

Most important factors for a web application are:

  • Performance
  • Maintainability
  • Scalability
  • Reliability and
  • Security

Among developers, Security is one of the most ignored topics. In this session, we will discuss some of the common security threats for a web application and how we can fix them.

Web Security is technology/language independent topic and most of the session will not use any specific programming language. Thus any web developer is most invited to attend the event. However please note, towards the end, we will use simple PHP examples to demonstrate how can we practically take care of security issues.

About PHP Reboot

Today, web development is completely different from what it was two decades ago. PHP matured and developed many new features during this time. However one of the biggest problem with any old language like PHP is, developers have access to lot of old training material/book and learn things which were good in past but not in present.

Major and only goal of PHP reboot is to share and learn, latest and best offering from PHP. This is continuous learning curve and we are here to do it continuously.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/PHPReboot/events/187702032/

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Overview of KPIT: A Tech Company With An Auto Focus – via Forbes

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Forbes has an interesting overview of Pune services company, KPIT.

Some excerpts:

The company, founded in 1990, soon evolved into one of the fastest-growing IT enterprises in the country. Revenues went from $10 million in 2002 to $100 million in 2007 to $444 million in 2014. Profits have more than tripled to $42 million in the last seven years. This performance has earned it a spot on the Best Under A Billion list for the second straight year.

Next stop? It’s targeting $1 billion in 2017.

One of the important ways in which KPIT distinguishes itself from its competitors (including Indian biggies like Infosys, and other Pune companies of similar size, like Persistent) is that it leverages Pune’s manufacturing industry, and thus has a focus on software for the auto/manufacturing industry. This is a USP that that most other Indian software companies are missing:

In the auto sector the company works in a range of areas, including providing software for vehicle safety and developing technology to convert gasoline-powered cars into hybrids.

For instance KPIT offers software that detects when a driver is distracted: turning away from the wheel, say, to look at a child in the backseat or out of drowsiness, elicits warning beeps. KPIT is also developing infrared systems for pedestrian detection.

The company is also jazzing up things on the road. Take its work for Jaguar Land Rover’s sports car, the Jaguar F-type. KPIT has helped in the development of the software that deploys the spoiler at the rear of the car.

Of course, there is competition:

Meanwhile, as KPIT forges ahead it contends with intense competition for software services from midcap IT companies like Mindtree and Hexaware as well as biggies like TCS and Cognizant. And when it comes to auto engineering services, it’s pitted against Ricardo, Bosch and niche German companies in auto electronics.

Keeping up with the competition is hard work, and 12-hour days across the management chain are common.

But:

“We are all workaholics in the company,” says [Chairman Ravi] Pandit. “But it’s not really work when there’s so much excitement. Very few people get this kind of an opportunity to be part of something big like this.”

Read the full article – for much more details.

Call for Papers: Computer Society of India’s Advances in Cloud Computing Conference – ACC 2014

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The Pune Chapter of the Computer Society of India is organizing Advances in Cloud Computing (ACC 2014), an international conference targeting researchers, professionals, and industrial practitioners to share their knowledge in the rapidly growing area of Cloud Computing.

This is the 3rd edition of ACC. The first two were held in Bangalore (2012 and 2013), and it is coming to Pune for the first time this year – on 11 and 12 October, 2014.

The theme of this years conference is Internet of Things (IoT). IoT envisions a self-configuring and adaptive complex system made out of networks of sensors and smart objects whose purpose is to interconnect “all” things, including every day and industrial objects in such a way so as to make them intelligent, programmable and more capable of interacting with human beings. IoT promises to be the most disruptive technological revolution since the advent of the Internet. Projections indicate that up to 100 billion objects will be connected to the Internet by 2020. IoT covers all types of sensors, communication protocols, computational tools, techniques, devices, processors, embedded systems, data warehousing, big data, cloud computing, server farms, grid computing etc.

Call for Papers

The call for papers for ACC 2014 is open, and the last date of submission is 10th August. Topics of interest include:

  • IoT architectures: things-centric, data-centric, service-centric architecture; cyber physical systems; SCADA platforms; smart grids, green technologies; enterprise cloud for IoT; future Internet for IoT.
  • IoT enabling technologies: Sensors and sensor network; radio frequency identification system; mobile technologies; smart phones; smart objects; low power and energy harvesting; resource-constrained devices; real-time systems; embedded software.
  • IoT services and applications: Smart automobiles, smart buildings, smart cities; platform as a service; M2M applications; Social networking; data management; mining platforms; middleware; open service platform.
  • IoT system integration, management, and standards: SOA based integration of IoT; M2M connectivity challenges and potentials; data management, Data Analytics; smart Data centers; open APIs for IoT; networking standards, e.g. IEEE 802.11ah; interoperable systems; ownership, regulation.
  • IoT Business model and Process changes: Supply chain management; collaborative business model; service-driven model; product as a service; resource sharing and optimization; e-commerce, C2C, C2B, B2B; user and process behavior analysis.
  • IoT security and privacy concerns: Identification, authentication, and authorizing objects; secure collaboration; context-aware security; web services security; cloud security; lightweight cryptographic primitives; infrastructure protection; trust management; legal challenges and Governance issues.
  • Big Data: Big Data Science, Data Computing, Data Mining, Data Analytics, Data Understanding, Data Applications, Data Privacy and Security.

For more details of the conference, the process, submission guidelines, see the ACC 2014 website

Startup Leadership Program Pune, Last date to apply: 31 July

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The third Pune batch of the Startup Leadership Program (SLP) will run from September 2014 to March 2015, and they’re looking for startup founders who’re interested in joining. The last date to apply is 1st August.

SLP is a weekend course for startup founders that runs over 6 months (total of 60-hours). It is a volunteer driven program and the “training” is provided by successful entrepreneurs. SLP does not take any equity from the founder for this course – but they do charge some fees (Rs. 12000 this year) to recover their costs for running the program. This is the third batch in Pune – the first batch ran in 2012 and the class had 21 founders.

SLP Pune’s Program leaders are: Sujata Bogawat (Director – Advantage Business Consulting), Abhishek Ballabh (Co-founder, ExtraAEdge.com), Koustubh Naik (Founder, Periwinkle Technologies), Tushar Komawar (Founder, Bharat Endeavours), Vinay Nathan (CEO and Co-founder, Altizon Systems).

SLP bills itself as a selective, world-class training program for entrepreneurs who want to become top startup CEOs. Pune SLP Fellows will build a life-long network with a group of outstanding founders, and connect with a growing community of business partners, experts, advisors and investors. The program kicks off in September 2014, with 10 Saturday all day classes.

SLP was founded in Boston, USA and now runs in 21 cities in 10 different countries. In all, SLP fellows have founded 700 companies that have raised $370 million from the world’s and include startups like Ixigo, DeliveryChef, NatureBox, SideTour, Micello, Momelan, Novira, Runkeeper, Sharypic, Schooladmissions, Shareaholic, Solar Junction, Voicetap and Ubersense. 10 startups founded by our Fellows have been acquired including Savored (Groupon), TomNod (Digital Globe), Kaptur (Aha Life), Momelan (Kinetic Concepts) and Fondu (airbnb).

Here is the pitch for why you should consider joining SLP from PuneTech’s article about SLP when it was first launched in Pune in 2012.

Startup Leadership Program is a NOT FOR PROFIT entity, registered in US and INDIA. What will entrepreneurs get out of SLP?

  • Avoid entrepreneurial mistakes – as you learn from your peer group (that comprises of entrepreneurs from different background) and mentors (serial entrepreneurs, VCs, bankers, etc) and experts.
  • Get solutions to your growth challenges – as you get feedback from super peer group and mentors.
  • Connect to VCs/Investors and raise funding. Make real-life pitches.Understand what VC looks for.
  • Get an understanding of term-sheet, legal aspects and exiting ventures.
  • Be part of high-profile and high impact SLP Global alumni that will help you to scale up.
  • Last but not least, make friends with entrepreneurs, as all know – its lonely at the top.

Apply here. For more information about Pune’s SLP, contact pune@startupleadership.com.

FOSSsumMIT: A 2-day, 5-track open source conference at MIT Pune

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FOSSsumMIT is a 2-day conference on Free/Open Source Software, organized by the Dept. of Computer Engineering, at MIT College, in association with PLUG (Pune Linux Users Group), happening on 1 & 2 August, 2014.

The conference has introductory talks and workshops for students on various topics, and is free for anyone to attend. Day 1 has 5 tracks – Python, Scientific Computing, Linux, Linux Overview, and Big Data. Day 2 has 4 tracks – Python, Scientific Computing, Linux, and Cloud Computing.

See Day 1 Schedule and Day 2 Schedule for details.

Register here: http://fosssummit.in/register – it’s free. And you get a certificate.

Tech Events this Week: DB2, SEO/SEM, Flight.js, RxJava, BigData, Social Entrepreneurship

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TiE Pune Social Entrepreneur Talk: Abhishek Sen of Biosense

  • Date: Fri, 25 Jul 6:30pm – 8:30pm
  • Location: Sumant Moolgaokar Auditorium, Ground Floor, Wing A, ICC Trade Center, SB Road

The story of how Dr. Abhishek Sen and his team are disrupting a market long dominated by the biggies. This session is being facilitated by none other than Ganapthy “Guns” of Villgro Innovations.

Abhishek is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Biosense Technologies.Biosense is a medical device company based out of Mumbai focused on delivering affordable, accurate and connected medical devices. Biosense’s portfolio consists of three products – ToucHb : a non-invasive anemia screening tool, uChek : a smartphone based mobile laboratory and Suchek : an affordable and accurate glucometer.Abhishek has a background in biomedical engineering from IIT Bombay and a MBBS in internal medicine from T.N.Hospital. He is a fellow at the University of Washinton and focuses on research and entrepreneurship on med tech targeted at the developing world. He is an Echoing Green Fellow, 2010.

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

This event is free and open for anyone to attend. Register here: https://tiepune25july.eventbrite.com/

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Pune DB2 Meetup: Inaugural Meet

  • Date: Sat, 26 Jul 10:00am – 1:00pm
  • Location: IBM, Panchsheel Tech Park One, Yerwada

The Pune DB2 Users Group is accepting presentations for our DB2 user group meeting in July 2014.

Please send your presentation title and abstract to punedb2ug@gmail.com for consideration

Please send abstracts that explore into details of implementation, migrating to a new release, or maximizing performance from any member of the DB2 product family. All presentations must be strongly technical in nature, cannot contain marketing content, and must support and strengthen the information services community by providing the highest quality education and services designed to promote the effective utilization of DB2 and it’s family of products.

Suggested Topics:

The Conference Planning Committee strives to achieve a balanced conference program of solutions relevant to today’s IT environment and usage of DB2 on one or more platforms (e.g., Windows, Linux, UNIX, z/OS).

  • Creative methods for:
    • Managing database resource
    • Using ancillary DB2 tools and utilities
      -System management experience with:
    • Performance or availability
    • Migration to a new release of DB2
  • Database administration experiences with:
    • Data warehousing and Business intelligence applications
    • New releases and features of DB2
    • Federation and Replication
  • Data Architecture experiences with:
    • New releases and features of DB2
    • Data warehousing and Business intelligence
  • Emerging Technology:
    • Big Data
    • Cloud Computing

As always we love DB2 Performance topics! this could range from DBA performance tuning from an system or application perspective (or) Application SQL performance tuning, coding techniques etc. (We encourage application developers to share your experience in this forum)

All presentation abstracts must be received by July 6th, 2014 to be considered.

Speaker Biography: In 500 characters or less, recap your professional and outside experiences as they pertain to your presentation(s).

About Pune DB2 Users Group

Pune DB2 User Group tries to bring all IBM DB2 Admins under one roof. It is a channel to host the technical discussions, or feedback or improvisations about DB2. Of course, networking is an optional asset of this group.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/Pune-DB2-User-Group/events/192567532/

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Pune SEO and Social Media Marketing Meetup: First meetup

  • Date: Sat, 26 Jul 10:00am – 12:30pm
  • Location: Cafe Coffee Day, FC Road

This is the first meeting planned by Pune SEO and Social Meedia Marketing Meetup Group. If you have interest in Digital Marketing, you are welcome to join us.

Agenda:

  • Welcome and introduce new members to the group.
  • Tell us about you and your business, website or interest in Digital Marketing
  • Any networking goal your trying to achieve out of this meeting?
  • Discussion – Overview of top SEO/ SMM techniques to drive targeted traffic
  • Networking

About Pune SEO and SEM Meetup Group

This meetup is for all digital marketing enthusiasts in and around Pune city, who wish to make new connections, learn and share knowledge – while having fun. Let’s share our knowledge about better ways to get targeted traffic from search engines and social media platforms such as YouTube, Linkedin, Twitter and Facebook

If you have an interest in Digital Marketing including SEO, Social Media Marketing, Digital Marketing, Content Marketing, Email Marketing, Affiliate Marketing and/or making money on Internet, feel free to join us for our next meetup! Veterans and Newbies – all are welcome !!

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/Pune-SEO-and-Social-Media-Meetup-Training/events/190963402/

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PuneJS Meetup: Taking off with Flight.js

  • Date: Sat, 26 Jul 11:00am – 2:00pm
  • Location: Mediaocean, Suite 304, Bldg A, GO-Square IT Park Wakad Rd, Wakad

Flight is (yet another) JavaScript web framework developed by the smart guys at Twitter and used on their own production code. It’s component-based and event-driven. It’s very lightweight and integrates seamlessly with your existing code — jQuery is a hard dependency, but you’re probably already using it in your project anyway.

This meetup is an extension of the organizer’s upcoming July 19 talk at the Deccan RubyConf – happening in Pune. In this talk he will write a ToDo app to get a feel of the framework and maybe exchange notes on how the other popular frameworks do similar things differently.

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/191927602/

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TechNext Event: RxJava

  • Date: Sat, 26 Jul 4:00pm – 6:00pm
  • Location: Synerzip Softech Recreational Area, 3rd Floor, Revolution Mall, next to City Pride, Kothrud

Learn about RxJava – Reactive Extensions for the JVM – a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable sequences for the Java VM that has been released by NetFlix.

Agenda:

  1. Introduction to Functional Reactive Programming
  2. Reactive Programming with RxJava
  3. Considerations & Use Cases
  4. Demo
  5. Q & A

About the Speaker:

Mohana Rao Pusarla is a solutions architect with more than 7+ years of experience in Java related technologies. He has developed multiple enterprise products from scratch and has scaled applications for larger user base. He has worked with Global Logic and GE Health Care and he is currently working with Synerzip. He enjoys playing badminton when he is not coding or learning some new technology.

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/188011362/

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(Nominal Fees) IIT-Bombay Alumni Association Pune: Networking Event

  • Date: Sat, 26 Jul 6:00pm – 10:00pm
  • Location: GS Lab Terrace, 9th Floor, Amar Arma Genesis, Above Food Bazaar, Baner Road

Are you looking for a change of job, or do you want career guidance. Are you toying with a brilliant idea for a start-up and looking for an investor or mentor. Are you keen on photography, trekking, music etc & would like to find others who are likewise interested.

Then IITBAA Pune has just the right function planned for you. Network with other IITans. Do you know that there are about 1,500 members in the IITB alumni fraternity in Pune alone. We do not have figures for alumni from other IIT’s. Could be about 200 from each. Be it helping with your career, business or leisure, alumni can help each other much more than anyone else because of the common roots we share.

The function is planned for 26th July at 6.00pm at GS Lab terrace. We expect a lot of participation from younger alumni. The format will ensure that participants have good benefits from the event. The function is open for alumni from all IIT’s. Every alumnus can also bring one other person who is interested in networking but not an IIT alumnus. The damages are Rs 200 per head including a light dinner. Beer will be available for purchase at the venue. A referral discount of Rs 50 per person will be given to those alumni (post 2005) that manage to have other IIT alumni (also post 2005) register & attend. This discount will be paid at the time of the function.

A list of alumni who have registered and their interests shall be published 1 week before the event so please register early.

About the IIT-Bombay Alumni Association, Pune

The Pune Chapter of the IITBAA started in 2002, when IITBAA came into existence as a Section 25 Company. Today it comprises of 1500+ alumni who are residents of the Pune Metropolitan area. Thanks to some very active alumni, a thriving Pune with a booming economy, and proximity to Mumbai, the Pune Chapter started with a lot of activity and has remained very active.

The primary mission of the Chapter is to promote networking among alumni and also between alumni and the Institute. We organize several events throughout the year, the flagship event being Innovations Pune, which showcases novel ideas in practice. Over the years, Innovations has evolved into a powerful brand built on integrity and excellence.

Fees and Registration

This event costs Rs. 200 (includes dinner), and is open only for alumni of any IIT. Please register here: http://iitbaapune.in/2014/06/23/iitb-alumni-networking-event-on-26-july-2014/

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Big Data Meetup: Big Data Analytics; Splunk

  • Date: Sun, 27 Jul 10:30am – 1:30pm
  • Location: ThoughtWorks, Binarius, Deepak Nitrate Road, Shastrinagar, Yerwada

We will be having two Sessions

  • “Big Data Beyond Analytics” by Vivek Kant (10:30 am to 11:30 am)
  • “Splunk” by Jayant Mukherjee (11:30 am to 1:30 pm)

Big Data Beyond Analytics – Vivek Kant

Big Data” is currently on a hype curve, and all the focus is on that game changing analytical capability that it bring. However Big Data technologies have implications far beyond “Analytics” and will change the way how applications of the future will be build and integrated. This article describes those set of technologies, the concepts behind those technologies and how they will transform the way we build applications.

More About Vivek: Vivek Kant is the technical lead for Pitney Bowes’s Big Data program. For over 15 years Vivek has worked with world’s largest Banks, Financial Institutions and Telecommunication Companies in building massively scalable enterprise applications. For last two years Vivek is working for Pitney Bowes on Internet scale Applications like Digital Mailboxes, Big Data Analytics and Internet of Things.

Splunk as a BIG Data Platform for Business/Operational Intelligence – Jayant Mukherjee

More About the Topic

  • Splunk Introduction.
  • Splunk Architecture – Deployment, License, etc.
  • Uses of Splunk.
  • Live Demo of how we can use splunk for various operational & business intelligence.
  • Splunk Alternatives.

More About Jayant: Principal Engineer at Autodesk, working in cloud services team responsible for maintaining RESTful API services.

About Big Data Meetup Group

This meetup will help you gain knowledge about everything revolving around Big Data Technologies. We aim to become the “Homebrew Computer Club” of Pune, instigating big ideas in Big Data and providing platform for the individuals/startups/giants in and around Pune to showcase their knowledge.

Fees and Registration

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Tech Events this Week: Cleantech, Amazon Cloud, Ruby, SEO/SEM, Mobile Dev, Robotics

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Opportunities in Cleantech (IT/analytics/internet-of-things) – with Infuse Ventures (Cleantech VC)

  • Date: Fri, 18 Jul 5:30pm – 7:30pm
  • Location: 5th Floor, A-Wing, MCCIA, ICC Towers, SB Road

Infuse Ventures, India’s largest early-stage cleantech VC fund, in partnership with MCCIA, TiE-Pune and POCC, would like to invite you for a unique event on Friday, 18 July 2014 at the MCCIA Trade Tower, Pune. The event will focus on the ‘breadth of entrepreneurial opportunities in cleantech’. While we will outline the ever-expanding boundaries of cleantech, we will also specifically focus on ‘the role of IT, data analytics and internet of things (IoT) in cleantech’.

Traditionally, the cleantech sector has been equated with extensive R&D, technology-heavy and project businesses that require huge capital investment. However, things have been changing. In the west, many different businesses have come up in the clean technology space that rely heavily on data capture, data sharing and analytics to enable energy and resource efficiency and promote sustainability in homes and across commercial and industrial set-ups. The importance of data and the ability to learn and act based on it is changing the paradigm of looking at the clean technology space.

We hope this session will throw open a new area of potential growth for entrepreneurs who are already in either the cleantech space or IT, data analytics and IoT space. Additionally, we hope this session will help you take a fresh look at your (or your company’s) current capabilities from a fast-evolving cleantech perspective. We believe that the cleantech opportunity is as immense as the web itself, since it increasingly touches every aspect of how we live, work and play.

At the event, you will also get an opportunity to listen to a few exemplary entrepreneurs who re-purposed or applied their non-cleantech capabilities to the cleantech field.

The event is free and open to everyone. No registration is necessary. The seating is on a first-come-first-seated basis. The Infuse team will be on hand on the following day, 19 July, for 1-on-1 meetings with any current or aspiring cleantech entrepreneurs.

Fees and Registration

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(Paid) 2-Day Workshop – Working with the Amazon Cloud Program – Developer Edition

  • Date: 19-20 Jul
  • Location: Pune – Contact Organizer for details

This 2-day program from Cralina takes one through all the fundamentals of cloud computing as well as Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud and the infrastructure services which comprise AWS through a delightful mix of lectures, demos and hands-on exercises. By the end of the program one will have enough hands-on experience with AWS to be able to deploy, configure and secure one’s own scalable web application(s) on the Amazon cloud. This program also covers the Amazon API’s useful for developers. The revised edition of the program covers 70% of IBM Cloud Computing Infrastructure Architect Certification and the program material covers 100%.

Target Audience:

  • Engineers/Leads/Managers who would like to get a jump start on programming using Amazon Web Services.
  • Engineers/Leads/Managers who intend to deploy applications or services on the cloud sometime in future
  • Software developers who wish to integrate Amazon cloud services into their own software
  • Industry professionals who would like to get an in-depth understanding of cloud computing using Amazon Web Services

About Cralina

Cralina provides consulting services and technology trainings in niche areas to leading software companies and professionals with an objective to highly improve productivity and skill levels. Cralina’s consultants have a strong background working in a fast paced product development environment in Fortune 500 companies as well as successful startups.

Fees and Registration

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

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(Paid) Deccan Ruby Conference: “Hou De”

  • Date: Sat, 19 Jul 9:00am – 6:00pm
  • Location: Hyatt Regency, Pune

Welcome to the first edition of the Deccan Ruby Conference to be held in Pune on 19th July, 2014 at the Hyatt Regency.

Write to us at team@deccanrubyconf.org

Ruby is fun and this is our idea of having fun while organising a conference. A one-day, single-track conference that starts early and ends late! The conference boasts of workshops and talks for both beginners and experts, a lavish party at a local brewery and a potential Futsal tournament among conference attendees! (After all the World Cup finals would have been just a week earlier). For people staying on till Sunday, we plan to organise a trip to Sinhagad (a fort near Pune that has some pristine scenery and a rich history that will leave you speechless). A good easy 1 hour trek for those who want more than just some football.

“Hou De Karcha” (Let there be expense)

  • Early bird tickets will go at Rs. 1,150
  • Standard tickets will be at Rs. 1,850.

“Hou De Shikshan” (Let there be education)

Pune being a student city (yes – there are about 150 colleges just inside the City!), in a very unique way, we are allowing Companies to sponsor students while getting access to hiring budding Rubyists. Read more about this in the Sponsorship Prospectus!

“Hou De Tota” (Let there be loss)

Welcome sponsors! More details in the Sponsorship Prospectus but here are the sponsor slabs:

  • Lai Bhari: Rs. 1,00,001
  • Bhari: Rs. 40,001
  • Abhari: Rs. 12,501

Note: Do not miss the 1 Re. “shagun” (good luck).

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Pune SEO and Social Media Marketing Meetup

  • Date: Sat, 19 Jul 10:00am – 12:30pm
  • Location: CCD, FC Road

This is the first meeting planned by Pune SEO and Social Meedia Marketing Meetup Group. If you have interest in Digital Marketing, you are welcome to join.

Agenda:

  • Welcome and introduce new members to the group.
  • Tell us about you and your business, website or interest in Digital Marketing
  • Any networking goal your trying to achieve out of this meeting?
  • Optional: Share a SEO/ Digital marketing tip to the group
  • Networking

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend (but you’ll be expected to buy at least a cup of coffee). Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/Pune-SEO-and-Social-Media-Meetup-Training/events/190963402/

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Pune Mobile Developers Meetup: The birth & growth of alternative marketplaces

  • Date: Sat, 19 Jul 11:00am – 2:00pm
  • Location: Talentica Software, 5th Floor, Amar Megaplex, Baner Road

The Mobile landscape is ruled by the sales and availability of Mobile apps. As more and more people migrate to using smartphones, getting the relevant apps out to these folks is the key to ruling the landscape.

This MeetUp will focus on how device Jailbreaking/Rooting has spurned an alternative universe of Marketplaces and Apps, understanding the entire world of custom modded devices, what they aim to achieve and how app developers are cashing on this niche group of users.

Agenda for this event will be:

Talk on custom device modding accompanied with an emphasis on

  • How devices are Jailbroken or Rooted.
  • Alternative marketplaces
  • Apps specifically tailored for modded devices.
  • What functionality modding enables.
  • Pros & Cons of modding

Session will be taken by Reeve Luiz, Product Manager – Opera MediaWorks.

As usual, session will be followed by an open discussion where we can discuss any issues around Mobile development

Target Audience for this event are Mobile App Developers(all platforms), Business Development Folks, Entrepreneurs and Mobile Enthusiasts.

About Pune Mobile Developer Meetup Group

Pune mobile developers group is for enthusiasts in mobile technologies. We will meet to have discussions around emerging mobile technologies and latest trends in mobile development.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/Pune-Mobile-Developers/events/193127402/

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Pune Robotics Meetup: Robots/Raspberry Pi/Arduino Home Projects Demo

  • Date: Sat, 19 Jul 11:00am – 2:00pm
  • Location: Robofun, 205, Vision Galleria, Opp G-Mart, Pimple Saudagar

Bring your own Robot or any other project (on Raspberry Pi/ Arduino platforms) you might have developed and share your story with the group!!

This meet-up is for people who have built something interesting at home and are interested in displaying/ demo their product to a smaller audience first before going big for a quick and constructive feedback and share their experience/ knowledge with others who share similar interest.

I believe kids who are pursuing or want to pursue Robotics as their hobby can also benefit from such opportunities and so they are welcome to join too along with heir parents!!

About the Pune Robotics Meetup

This group is about giving a platform to all robotic enthusiasts and jointly find ways to promote this hobby across Pune. We often receive enquiries from parents about how to get their children started in robotics. ‘Does my child have to know a lot about programming in order to engage in robotics?’ ‘My child is only 6 years old. Is it too early for him to start doing robotics?’ The answer to these questions is ‘NO’. In fact, the appeal of robotics lies precisely in the fact that it is a sport for everyone, regardless of experience and age. One can find like-minded people across the world, ranging from young hobbyist in primary school extra-curriculum clubs to professional researchers in NASA robotics research lab. Perhaps, to many children, the world of robotics may seem to be complicated and mysterious. After all, the daily newspaper is filled with breaking discoveries in the world of robotics. Yet, robotics, at fundamental level, can be very simple. Do not hesitate to take your very first step into robotics—for it promises a journey of unending fun and discoveries!

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/Pune-Robotics-Meetup/events/187126132/

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Tech Events this Week: UI/UX, SAP, ScaleArc, OpenStack, Cocoa, IP @PuneStartups, PHP

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(Paid) : A Front-End Engineering Conference

  • Date: Wed, 9 Jul 9:00am – 1:00pm
  • Location: 5th Floor, A-Wing, MCCIA, ICC Towers, SB Road

Web is very big, beyond the capacity of any one person to comprehend it. Started out as a simple document sharing platform, it rapidly became the communication standard for the world. Static content was replaced by dynamic content. What once were simple websites, are now replaced by complex web applications. Web is not one single technology. It is a mix of hardware, networks, protocols and lots more. However, one aspect of web did not receive the attention as it should have. That one aspect is the User Interface. Other than handful of computer engineers, web is being used by billions of people without having any formal knowledge of computer science. For these users, web is one black box that does things magically. All they have is access to web front-end in the form of websites and web applications. But still, front-end did not get deserved attention. But there were few who gave their energy and efforts to keep the front-end revolution moving. And <web/F> is one such non-sponsored and non-profit effort to keep that revolution going.

What does <web/F> mean?

We focus only on front-end part of web. That is why ‘web-slash-f’ or simply <web/F>. It is our fundamental belief that building a user interface is not as easy as it is general assumed to be. Just like any other software engineering activity, building a better user interface is software engineering process. It needs a discipline, clear thought, future vision and caring attitude towards users. That is why we call it front-end engineering.

And finally it is not about building interfaces, it is about crafting interfaces.

Speakers

Kumar Bhot: An entrepreneur, a technical leader and an established mentor. An inside-out Front-end Architect and Usability Engineer whose last 17 years are dedicated to crafting Web User Interfaces.

Harshal Patil: An avid writer at heart but worthy of wearing many hats. Love Front-end Engineering and always amazed by the challenges of this role.

Niloy Mondal: A Seasoned Front-end Engineer with Un-parallel Technical Skills.
Believe it when you hear him.

Guest speakers

Sagar Apte: Founder at CarIQ. A sharp mind in Product Management, Product Marketing and Business Analytics.

Deepak Thomas: Interface Design Ninja and Co-founder at CarIQ. A gifted artist with an impeccable eye for clean and simple user interfaces.

Pritam Hasabnis: Co-founder & Director at Omni-Bridge Systems. 15 years in IT Industry. Master at Project Management and Database Architecture.

Amit Shitole: Co-founder & Director at Omni-Bridge Systems. Serial Entrepreneur. Business Development and Marketing Strategy Guru.

Fees and Registration

This event is open for anybody to attend, and costs Rs. 500 for early birds. Please register here: http://webf.zone/

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(Nominal Fees) Breakfast with @TiEPune: How start-ups can partner with SAP to transform their business

  • Date: Thu, 10 Jul 8:30am – 10:30am
  • Location: 5th Floor, A-Wing, MCCIA, ICC Towers, SB Road

TiE Pune Breakfast session – on How start-ups can partner with SAP to transform their customer’s business & achieve breakthrough growth

IT software companies face the classical dilemma of make v/s buy – that is, engineer their entire products inhouse, or pick certain relevant portions from leading technology / platform vendors. Building inhouse entails long development cycles, and often the market has moved by the time the product is ready. By partnering with SAP, such companies can not only speed up their Go to market, but also leverage SAP’s brand and leading technologies in Big Data, Mobility, Analytics & Cloud to enter markets and rapidly build transformational solutions for their customers. This session will share some examples of the work SAP’s partners are doing with customers – large & small – across the world, and offer new routes to market for partnering with SAP.

About the Speaker – Siddharth Hosangadi

Siddharth Hosangadi is a Business Leader with over 15 years of experience spanning several industries, geographies and functions. He has been employed with SAP India since 2005 in various sales and leadership roles, and currently leads SAP’s Strategic Initiatives and New Routes to Market in the Global Partner Operations organization. Prior to joining SAP, Siddharth worked in the IT services industry in MNC’s like Satyam and Ness Global Services, where he sold consulting solutions and professional services to customers in India and Singapore. Siddharth started his career in ICI India, as a Regional Sales Manager for their Specialty Chemicals business.

Siddharth is an active community leader, and counsels groups of families on Life Skills and Bhakti yoga in his spare time. He has been a visiting speaker at various business schools, and counsels and mentors MBA students around topics like communication skills, career planning and stress management.

Siddharth received an MBA degree in 1997 from the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute at Mumbai University (a top 10 business school in India), and he has taken formal training in Leadership, Strategic Selling & Effective Public Speaking. He received his B.E. degree in Chemical Engineering from UDCT (top Chem Engg institute in India) in 1995.

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: https://in.explara.com/e/tiepune10thjuly

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My Story @TiEPune: Varun Singh, Founder and CTO of ScaleArc

  • Date: Fri, 11 Jul 6:30pm – 8:30pm
  • Location: Sumant Moolgaokar Auditorium, Ground Floor, Wing A, ICC Trade Center, SB Road

TiE Pune presents a “My Story” session with Varun Singh, Founder and CTO of ScaleArc.

As Chief Technology Officer, Varun leads ScaleArc’s Product Development and Technology Strategy. Varun also served as ScaleArc’s CEO from March 2009 to Sept 2013. Varun is a technologist with broad experience in several fields, from running Linux-based BBS systems in the pre-internet-boom days, to writing about technology and open source software at PC Quest, CHIP, Digit and Network Computing, to creating India’s top online technology brands such as TechTree and Tech2, to hosting technology shows on CNBC, TV18, CNN-IBN and ET Now. He led large Web & Application development teams as CTO at Network 18’s web division and built the highly scalable technology behind large websites like IN.com, MoneyControl.com and various other portals

Varun’s Interests: Horizontally-Scaled Infrastructure, Clustering, High-End Databases, Infrastructure Planning, Planning & Integrating Mergers & Acquisitions, Motorsports, Aeromodelling

About TiE Pune My Story Sessions!

“My Story – Inspiring Journey of an Entrepreneur”

This program is created to celebrate entrepreneurship and bring stories from successful entrepreneurs in their own words. The invited speakers will share their entrepreneurial journeys and talk about lessons learned, mistakes they wish they avoided, and key decisions that helped make their venture successful.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here:

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OpenStack Pune Meetup Group: Open Stack Integration with vSphere and NSX

  • Date: Sat, 12 Jul 10:30am – 2:00pm
  • Location: VMWare Software, 3rd Floor, Bajaj IT Tower, Building “Bajaj Brandview” , Wakdewadi

Agenda

This will be a Hands-on-lab focussed on OpenStack integration with vSphere and NSX.

Attend and learn about OpenStack and its integration with VMware Virtualization stack.

  • 10:30 am – 11:00 am : Registration
  • 11:00 am – 2:00 pm : Lab Exercises
  • 2:00 pm – : Lunch

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/189976362/

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Pune PHP User Group: Test Driven Development in PHP

  • Date: Sat, 12 Jul 11:00am – 1:15pm
  • Location: Webonise Lab, GaloreTech IT Park, 3rd Floor, Behind Maratha Mandir, Bavdhan Khurd

The talks which we will be covering in talk, would solely focus towards Test Driven development, in PHP.

  • Test Driven Development with PHP : By Vijay Kumbhar (V.P of Engineering, Webonise Lab)
    • Vijay will be covering the approach, to be taken while going for Unit Testing. Also, he will talk about the Psychology behind Test Driven Development, what should be the objective in developer’s head.
  • Implementing Unit Testing on CakePHP and Yii Framework By Madhavi Kumbhar & Hrishikesh Ravekar
    • Madhavi and Hrishikesh would be covering the aspects related to Unit testing and will run through practical approach for TDD. What library should be opted, and Unit testing on different frameworks like CakePHP and Yii.

Please contact below, for queries regarding meet-up;

  • Nishant Shrivastava (Cell : +91 762 094 8483)
  • Madhavi (Cell : +91 988 193 5182)
  • Hrishikesh Ravekar (Cell : +91 956 174 1646)
  • Harshal Shinde (Cell : +91 982 271 2714)

About the Pune PHP User Group

This is a group for anyone interested in PHP, application development in Php, design patterns and etc. All skills levels are welcome. This group exists to meet other PHP enthusiasts in Pune.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/Pune-PHP-User-group/events/188638572/

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“@PuneStartups (POCC) Meet: Basics of Intellectual Property, Copyright, and Trademarks

  • Date: Sat, 12 Jul 3:00pm – 6:00pm
  • Location: 7th floor, SICSR, (Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research, near Om Market, Model Colony)

The issue of Intellectual property, patents, copyright and Trademarks is an important one these days, especially for the product startups and companies.

There is a general lack of awareness and knowledge about this in the startup ecosystem in Pune and India in general.

This session from PuneStartups (POCC) will is aimed at providing the basic knowledge and know-how of IP, Patents, Copyrights etc.

Session Outline:

  • Introduction to all forms of IP with emphasis on Trademarks: Patents, Trademarks, Geographical Indications, Industrial Design, Copyright, Trade secret etc.
  • Patentability and Patent filing procedures in detail.
  • Panel Discussion: Details will be put-up soon.

About the Speakers:

Mrs. Archana Joshi: Archana is an IP Associate & Patent Agent at IPFACE, a Venture Centre initiative. She has been a Senior Technical Officer at Aquapharm Chemicals Pvt. Ltd.(June 2004- Nov 2005).

She has done her P.G. Diploma in Patents Law from NALSAR University(Hyderabad) and also completed an “Introductory Course on IPR”, distance learning from WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization), Geneva.

She is also a Registered Patent Agent at Indian Patent Office.

Ms Pallavi Joshi: Pallavi is an IP Associate and Patent Analyst, IP Facilitation Center (IPFACE). Previously, Research Associate Fellow (IP) at Dow Chemical Intl. Pvt. Ltd. Pune. She has done her PG Diploma in Patents Law from NALSAR University, Hyderabad and also Completed an “Introductory Course on IPR”, distance learning from WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization), Geneva.

For more details, see the event page at http://punestartups.org/events/event/show?id=1988582%3AEvent%3A338237 after a few days.

About PuneStartups

With over 13000 members, PuneStartups (aka POCC) is the largest forum for startups and entrepreneurs in Pune. It is an open forum, and anyone can join for free. See the <http://punestartups.com. for more details.

Fees

This event is free and open to all. Please register here: http://punestartups.org/events/event/show?id=1988582%3AEvent%3A338237

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Pune Cocoa Meetup: Understanding Bonjour and Peer-to-Peer networking

  • Date: Sat, 12 Jul 3:00pm – 5:00pm
  • Location: Synerzip (3rd Floor, Revolution Mall, next to City Pride, Kothrud, Pune)

Apple’s Bonjour is a “zero configuration network” (Zeroconf) multicast Domain Naming System (mDNS) protocol used by Apple devices to enable the automatic and easy discovery of computers, devices, and services on IP networks. Bonjour (like other multicast services like Avahi and Microsoft’s UPnP) uses industry standard IP protocols to allow devices to automatically discover each other without the need to enter IP addresses or configure DNS servers. The elegance of this approach is that it brings simplicity and ease-of- use to the users of network devices and services. Eliminating the need to set up services such as Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, DNS, and DNS Service Directory, Bonjour enables each device to continuously publish and discover services. By broadcasting Bonjour service messages, printers, servers, and other shared devices can advertise the services they offer. Client devices then monitor Bonjour advertisements and connect to the appropriate servers, as with any other service. The protocol also allows for a device to request services (Service Discovery) on the network as well as respond to incoming requests, which in some cases means a single device can be both a client and a server at the same time. The automatic discovery makes it easy for clients like iPads and Macbooks to easily use a printer using AirPrint or mirror a display to a projector using AirPlay

About Pune Cocoa Meetup Group

This is a group for Cocoa Developers for Mac OS X, iOS; who eat and drink Objective-C and are passionate about Apple Technologies. I started this group as a place where Apple Fanboys can share thoughts and enjoy. It’ll be restricted for hands on iOS, Mac OS X Developers/QA initially, let’s come together & share.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/PuneCocoa/events/189208702/

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Tech Events this Week: Machine Learning, Ruby, Arduino, Google IO, WebGL

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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) Basic English Workshop for Tech Professionals/Entrepreneurs

  • Date: 1-31 Jul
  • Location: Venture Center, NCL Innovation Park, Pashan Road

Learn : Learn Spoken English with Basics of Grammar

  • English Grammar
  • Formation of Sentences
  • Communication Skills
  • Role Play
  • Public Speaking
  • Voice & Modulation guidance

Fun Interactive programs. Practical Application of course contents.

For Whom

  • Entrepreneurs, Start-ups, Professionals, Corporates, Home makers, Students and interested Individuals of Semi-English mediums

  • Duration : 5 weeks | Starts on 1st July – Ends on 31st July 2014

  • Timings : 3pm -5pm
  • Classes : Mon -Fri
  • Course fees : Rs 2100/-

About the Trainer – Mrs. Lakshmi Srinath

The session will be conducted by : Mrs. Lakshmi Srinath, Founder-Director of Girijamba English Foundation (GEF), English Language Communication Skill Trainer, IELTS Trainer – British Council Certified.

14 + years of experience in training Corporates, Individuals, Home makers; Collegians | A Freelance Content writer | A blogger

A visiting faculty for Business English Communication at INIFD,MIT, ASOM, VIT

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 course costs Rs. 2100, and open for anybody to attend.

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

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Pune Ruby Users Group “Open Source Friday” meetup

  • Date: Fri, 4 Jul 5:30pm – 8:30pm
  • Location: Josh Software, Sunflower Commercial, Baner Road

Gautam Rege writes:

For the past few months, we have been having a lot of fun on Friday evening – we don’t work! We hack on some open-source gems, work on some internal ideas (gems, rails projects and techniques) and we found it to be very useful (and fun).

We decided that this could be a good idea for the community – so every Friday @ 5.30pm, anyone interested in Ruby and any Ruby related technologies is more than welcome to over.

Have an Idea?

If you have an idea and want to get the Ruby community to build it, you’re welcome here – you can propose your idea and if there is a quorum, we can work on it.

Love coding?

Come on over and code with others. Bring your own laptop and share your knowledge with others

What do you need to bring?

Yourself and your laptop if you want to code. We shall provide snacks and soft-drinks at our office.

Beer Sponsors…

Beer sponsors – always welcome! Contact gautam@joshsoftware.com if you want to show your appreciation.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/PuneRailsMeetup/events/158881122/t/md2_rt

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Arduino / Raspberry Pi Meetup: Arduino for Kids

  • Date: Sat, 5 Jul 10:30am – 1:00pm
  • Location: Doo, 402A, Town Square, Above Dorabjees, Airport Road, Viman Nagar

Logic Building with Arduino.

Slated for children aged 8 – 15

At the end of the session, children will be ready for their journey on “Intelligent Things”

About the Arduino / Raspberry Pi Meetup Group

This group is for people interested in Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Sensor Electronics and in general ‘The Internet of Things’. With the help of this group, we would like to help foster a DIY culture and engage with educational institutes to introduce arduino kits for fun learning.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/The-Internet-of-Things/events/187692892/

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The Fifth Elephant run-up event in Pune: Applications of Machine Learning

  • Date: Sat, 5 Jul 10:45am – 4:15pm
  • Location: Thoughtworks Technologies (New Office), 6th Floor, Binarius Building, Yerwada

HasGeek has arranged a day-long set of talks on the Applications of Machine Learning on 5th July, in Pune.

Here are the details:

Grouping similar messages using Topic modeling

In machine learning and natural language processing, a topic model is a type of statistical model for discovering abstract “topics” that occur in a collection of documents. At Helpshift, we get a lot of customer support messages. We use topic modelling and more specifically the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), to classify similar message automatically based on messages. These grouped messages can be processed by the CS personnel making them more efficient.
This talk will cover Helpshift’s experience and the challenges in using LDA for grouping similar messages without any prior knowledge.

Speaker – Vinayak Hegde

Vinayak Hegde is VP of Engineering at Helpshift. In the past, he has worked at Inmobi, Akamai and Microsoft.

Twitter: @vinayakh

The Cookie as a Customer: An E-commerce Perspective

In the brick and mortar days, the shopkeeper interacted with a live human customer with appearance, expressions and behavioural traits. These attributes influenced the way the shopkeeper pitched his goods. Flip to the current e-commerce world where you are interacting with a cookie which was dropped when a customer visited your website. How does an e-commerce store know the appearance, expressions and behavioural traits of a customer? Based on those characteristics, how does the sales pitch change? Where do these conversations happen?
In this session, Rahul Kulkarni demonstrates with real-world examples how big data from cookies translates into appearance, expressions and behavioural traits of the customer, and most importantly how these are used to make a killer sales pitch for the customer.

Speaker – Rahul Kulkarni

Rahul Kulkarni is the CPO of Sokrati and has been ex-Googler. Linkedin

Application of Machine Learning for Financial Markets prediction

This session covers case studies which use some of the classical as well as cutting-edge machine learning algorithms. Due to ill-conditioning and noisy nature of financial data, there are some unique characteristics of this problem that we will focus on. Robustness of modelling methodology, averaging of models, identifying what is true improvement in prediction accuracy versus over-fitting become some of the serious issues people will need look into.

Speaker – Aniruddha Pant

Aniruddha Pant is the founder and CEO of AlgoAnalytics. LinkedIn

Machine Learning in Online Advertising Domain

In online advertising domain, there are various players which play a different role working on behalf of either publisher or advertiser, directly or indirectly. These players interact with each other in real-time to select the best advertisement optimizing their individual goals. Sreekanth Vempati will present key optimization and real-time impression allocation challenges solved using Machine Learning by different players in the advertising echo system.
As a part of this talk, he will present broadly about PubMatic’s work with Machine Learning and their applications. Specifically, Sreekanth will show some of the Machine Learning applications in online advertising domain, showcasing some of the problems that are being solved in PubMatic.

Speaker – Sreekanth Vempati

Sreekanth Vempati is the Team Lead of Machine Learning & Algorithms at PubMatic. LinkedIn

Text Analytics helping IT management get smarter

In this talk, Nilesh Phadke will discuss Text Analytics and how it can be used for better IT management. The talk will cover an Introduction to Text Analytics, going over the basics of what is meant by Text Analytics followed by some of the key techniques involved in Text Analytics and how these techniques can be used to improve IT management solutions.

Speaker – Nilesh Phadke

Nilesh Phadke is the Lead Product Developer at BMC Incubator Lab. He is working on using machine learning techniques for solving problems in the ITSM domain. Linkedin

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: https://fifthelephant.in/2014/machine-learning-pune

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Pune Google Developers Group: Google IO Extended

  • Date: Sat, 5 Jul 11:00am – 2:00pm
  • Location: Synerzip (3rd Floor, Revolution Mall, next to City Pride, Kothrud, Pune)

Google IO: One of the biggest global tech conferences is going to take place in San Francisco on June 25-26, 2014.

GDG Pune will present screening of Keynote for the members.

Join us for new updates, learning, discussion and awesome food !!!

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/188428262/

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Pune Ruby Users Group: July Meetup

  • Date: Sat, 5 Jul 3:00pm – 5:00pm
  • Location: Revealing Hour Creations, 402A Town Square, Above Dorabjees, Viman Nagar

Our monthly meetup for July

Akanksha and Sana who are participating in Rails Girls summer of code this year will talk about their progress so far. They are working improving output of heap dump generated by Rubinius.

Amit Thawait will give talk on “Integrating emails with Ruby application using mail gem & postfix”.

About Pune Ruby Users Group

The purpose of this group is to spread awareness of Ruby Pune.

PRUG wishes to engage with students interested in learning Ruby and Ruby related frameworks like Rails, Sinatra, Rhodes, RubyMotion and any others!

PRUG is a group of Professionals working in Ruby, sharing experiences, solving problems, giving demos and presentations.

Students and people new to Ruby are more than welcome!

Freebies and promotional activities are encouraged.

PRUG on the web:

  • Website: http://www.punerb.org/
  • Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/punerailsmeet…
  • Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/punerb
  • Google Group: http://groups.google.com/puneruby
  • Job Offers on the mailing to be tagged with [JOBS]

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/PuneRailsMeetup/events/192782212/

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EMB3D Meetup: Basics of WebGL – Presentation from Abhijit. Explore use cases

  • Date: Mon, 7 Jul 12:45pm – 4:45pm
  • Location: Autodesk Pune, 11F, 36/3-B, Business Plaza, Koregaon Park Annex

See http://www.meetup.com/EMB3D-Pune/events/188563862 for details.

About EMB3D

Exploring new technologies for creating, publishing and viewing 3D content and data on the web, for consumers.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/EMB3D-Pune/events/188563862

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(Nominal Fees) Breakfast with @TiEPune: How start-ups can partner with SAP to transform their business

  • Date: Thu, 10 Jul 8:30am – 10:30am
  • Location: 5th Floor, A-Wing, MCCIA, ICC Towers, SB Road

TiE Pune Breakfast session – on How start-ups can partner with SAP to transform their customer’s business & achieve breakthrough growth

IT software companies face the classical dilemma of make v/s buy – that is, engineer their entire products inhouse, or pick certain relevant portions from leading technology / platform vendors. Building inhouse entails long development cycles, and often the market has moved by the time the product is ready. By partnering with SAP, such companies can not only speed up their Go to market, but also leverage SAP’s brand and leading technologies in Big Data, Mobility, Analytics & Cloud to enter markets and rapidly build transformational solutions for their customers. This session will share some examples of the work SAP’s partners are doing with customers – large & small – across the world, and offer new routes to market for partnering with SAP.

About the Speaker – Siddharth Hosangadi

Siddharth Hosangadi is a Business Leader with over 15 years of experience spanning several industries, geographies and functions. He has been employed with SAP India since 2005 in various sales and leadership roles, and currently leads SAP’s Strategic Initiatives and New Routes to Market in the Global Partner Operations organization. Prior to joining SAP, Siddharth worked in the IT services industry in MNC’s like Satyam and Ness Global Services, where he sold consulting solutions and professional services to customers in India and Singapore. Siddharth started his career in ICI India, as a Regional Sales Manager for their Specialty Chemicals business.

Siddharth is an active community leader, and counsels groups of families on Life Skills and Bhakti yoga in his spare time. He has been a visiting speaker at various business schools, and counsels and mentors MBA students around topics like communication skills, career planning and stress management.

Siddharth received an MBA degree in 1997 from the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute at Mumbai University (a top 10 business school in India), and he has taken formal training in Leadership, Strategic Selling & Effective Public Speaking. He received his B.E. degree in Chemical Engineering from UDCT (top Chem Engg institute in India) in 1995.

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: https://in.explara.com/e/tiepune10thjuly

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Overview of TripHobo (Formerly JoGuru), Pune-based travel itinerary planning portal

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TripHobo (which was earlier called JoGuru), is a Pune-based online travel/itinerary planning portal that has recently raised Series A funding from Kalaari Capital (the same folks who have also funded Pune-based tablet maker Swipe Telecom). Trak.in reports:

TripHobo, a Pune based online travel planning portal announced their series A funding from Kalaari Capital. TripHobo has not disclosed the amount of funding. However, we have a confirmation that funding is between USD 1 million to 3.5 Million.
They had previously raised their seed funding from a Pune based private investor in 2012.

We take this opportunity to give PuneTech readers an overview of TripHobo’s offerings and it’s current state:

What exactly does TripHobo help its users do?

The main feature of TripHobo is personalized itinerary planner. A traveler can simply choose the destination and date they wish to travel and TripHobo presents to them with the attractions in that city.

Travelers can then choose the attractions and prepare the entire travel itinerary in minutes. If a traveler is not sure of the attractions, they can also search through thousands of itineraries created by other travelers and modify them as per their requirement.

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Also:

On TripHobo, one can discover itineraries created by other users and use them for his/her planning. Users can also create their own itineraries from scratch and share it. The startup has developed a ‘Theory of Constraints’-based algorithm that claims to optimise the trip route chosen by a user, depending on the distances and open & closing time of attractions.

According to the company, the ‘Itinerary Planner’ feature on its site displays the tentative time a user can reach a particular attraction. This is aimed at helping them to accommodate their breakfast, lunch and dinner plans.

“Travellers often struggle to get critical information like opening times, ticket prices, nearest public transport and eateries. We at TripHobo have tried to address all these issues,” claimed Kumar.

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According to CTO Saket, TripHobo has listed more than 25,000 itineraries from close to 200 cities across the globe on its site. It is now planning to add more cities and take the total city count to 2,000 in the coming years.
“At present, about 40 per cent of our users come from the US, followed by 35 per cent from Europe and Latin America combined, and 20 per cent from Southeast Asia. In the last six-eight months, we saw close to one million users checking out the platform. The site has around 1.3 lakh monthly unique visitors,” said Saket.

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According to VC Circle, they are doing quite well as far as traction is concerned:

According to CTO Saket, TripHobo has listed more than 25,000 itineraries from close to 200 cities across the globe on its site. It is now planning to add more cities and take the total city count to 2,000 in the coming years.
“At present, about 40 per cent of our users come from the US, followed by 35 per cent from Europe and Latin America combined, and 20 per cent from Southeast Asia. In the last six-eight months, we saw close to one million users checking out the platform. The site has around 1.3 lakh monthly unique visitors,” said Saket.

What are their next steps?

they are now aggressively looking at developing a mobile app that will help mobile users to create travel itineraries on mobile devices.

Additionally, TripHobo also plans to develop API’s on their platform so large OTA and travel sites can seamlessly integrate TripHobo’s itineraries into their existing flow. Currently non of the large OTA’s provide this service.

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About the Founders

Praveen Kumar – Founder, CEO: Praveen has flair to go on and on endlessly about things he is passionate about, irrespective of who’s listening. He says he is national integration personified. Rajasthani by descent, Hyderabadi by birth, he studied in Lucknow, roots for Royal Challengers Bangalore- IPL, has traveled almost whole of India. His friends say he is over enthusiastic, full of life and a happy go lucky chap. He brings to TripHobo (JoGuru) his 7 years of rich experience in setting up an ecommerce portals for his past organizations. Extremely zealous about traveling and exploring new places, he has occasional bouts of backpacking urge and takes off without notice, his 18 day bike trip to Leh, Himalayas being a case in point. He never misses out an opportunity to tell his travelouges. Praveen is the CEO of TripHobo (JoGuru) and has a Management Degree from IIM Lucknow. He loves adventure sports, fast cars, and dreams of owning a private island in Maldives.

Saket Newaskar – Founder, CTO: Ever since Saket developed some algorithms at Toshiba, and got a patent, he thinks he is a clone of Sheldon from Big Bang Theory, much to the annoyance of everyone around him. He has an uncanny ability to argue about anything under the sun with or without making any sense. He wanted to be a Marathi film star but ended up with a Master’s degree in Management from MDI, Gurgaon. He has over 7 years of experience in Product Development, Product Management and Business Development across the Globe. Passionate about anything related to technology or travel, he has been to more than 20 countries till date and dreams of covering the UN. He loves life, singing, watching movies and is famous for his PJs among friends . Saket is the social media wizard at TripHobo (JoGuru) and manages product development and roadmap.

Karthik Ramachandra – Founder: Karthik is an avid traveler (traveling close to 6 hours daily to and from work) and loves adventure sports, reading and above all – Sleeping. When awake, he constantly dreams of attending every single Grand Prix in Formula 1 someday. He speaks with immense confidence about things he has no clue about and mostly manages to get away with it. He lists Sarcasm as his majors, but has a Master’s degree in Marketing Management from IIM Indore. He is the quintessential salesman. Once Karthik starts talking, the listener almost invariably ends up saying OK. He brings to TripHobo (JoGuru) over 4 years of experience in Business Development for new products and new markets. He is a gadget freak and an Apple fan boy and it is recommended to refrain from asking him about it unless you have a couple of hours to spare.

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