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Pune Flex Users Group Meet with Raghunath Rao, Tech Evangelist, Adobe – 12 Mar

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What: Pune Flex Users Group meeting with Raghunath Rao, Tech Evangelist, Adobe
When: Thursday, 12th March, 5:30pm
Where: Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research, 7th Floor, Atur Centre, Gokhale Cross Road, Model Colony. Map.
Registration and Fees: This event is free for all to attend. Please register here

Details:
PuneFUG (Pune Flex Users Group) is an RIA discussion forum primarily focussing on Adobe Flex and related technologies. This is the place where Pune Adobe developers/designers discuss on user group activities and happenings.

PuneFUG will meet for a general get-together on Thursday evening at SICSR. Raghunath Rao, will speak about latest Adobe technologies and practices. In addition if you have any interesting Flex/Flash application to show the group and get feedback, bring that along.

More details about PuneFUG:

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Breakfast with TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) – Mar 12

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TiE Pune LogoWhat: An informal get-together with entrepreneurs from The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), Pune
When: Thursday, 12th March, 8:30am to 9:30am
Where: PYC Hindu Gymkhana, Near Deccan Gymkhana, Bhandarkar Road, Pune
Registration and Fees: Anybody can attend. Fees are Rs. 10 for TiE members, and Rs. 50 for non-members. Send mail to namita[dot]shibad[at]gmail[dot]com.

Details:
This is an informal event with no specific agenda. During this event, we can ask the TiE members to share their story. It can be followed by discussions on any current topic and general chat session.

It’s a sit down fixed menu breakfast – Two items + tea/coffee

Around the table, 3 associate members will present their company and interests.

This will also be a chance for new entrepreneurs, and wannabe entrepreneurs to interact with successful entrepreneurs for guidance and mentorship.

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Marketing for Startups: A Pune OpenCoffee Club event – Mar 7th

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What: POCC program on Marketing for Startups. Pune
When: Saturday, 7th March. 4pm to 8pm
Where: Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research, Atur Centre, Model Colony. Map.
Registration and Fees: This event is free for all to attend. No registration required.

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Schedule

4.00pm – 4.50pm – Anuj Khurana, “How to build traffic for your online product? PurpleTrail.com – a case study”.
5.00pm – 5.50pm – Alok Kejriwal, CEO, Games2Win “My Games2Win story”.
6.00pm – 6.50pm – Abhishek Goyal, Accel Partners “What Accel looks for in Startups”.
7.00pm – 8.00pm – Networking.
The event will start at 4pm sharp.

About the speakers

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Abhishek Goyal represents Accel India Venture Fund and will walk the OCC through the critical aspects of Businesses from an Investor’s perspective. Accel India Venture Fund works with early-stage Business in Web and Mobile technologies. Accel provides both Investment and Venture Development acumen for their Portfolio companies.

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Alok Kejriwal is a serial entrepreneur and founded Contests2win (c2w) in 1998. Alok and c2w have gone on to create 3 more exciting businesses – Mobile2win in China and India, Media2win and Games2win. Alok will talk about the Games2Win story, about how Games2Win hit the sweet spot on the web. Alok also mentors first-generation Entrepreneurs in building Strong Brands, Strategy, Funding and several other areas.

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Anuj Khurana will present his first hand experience with PurpleTrail – an online invitations and party planning website (focused on the U.S market). 6 months into going live; the site has tried all the tricks in the book with varying degrees of success. Today it is growing at a steady clip and is drawing hundreds of thousands of visitors a month. Though these are early days for the service it makes for a useful case study and presents the success and impact of various online marketing efforts. Anuj is Director of Products at MangoSpring, Pune.

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Why Analytics Matter in Business Intelligence – CSI Pune Lecture – 6th March

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Computer Society of India – Pune Chapter presents the 5th lecture in a series on Data warehousing. The first lecture gave an overview of BI and DW. The second lecture was about how these techniques are used by businesses. The third was about data management for business intelligence. The fourth lecture talked about technology trends in BI. This is the fifth in the series:

What: Why Analytics Matter in Business Intelligence by Ajit Ghanekar of SAS R&D India.

When: Friday March 6th, 2008, 6:30pm to 8:30pm

Where: Dewang Mehta Auditorium, Persistent Systems,402, Senapati Bapat Road, Pune
Entry: Free for CSI Members & Students, Rs. 100 for others. Rs. 50 for Persistent employees.  Register here.

Details – Technology trends in Business Intelligence

One of the areas which adds significant value to business is application of analytics to solving complex problems. These can be in the areas of scoring, risk management, fraud detection, forecasting and so on. The focus of this session will be to give an introduction to the role of statistical techniques in BI applications.

It is not necessary to have attended the previous lectures.

For more information about other tech events in Pune, see the PuneTech events calendar.

About the speaker – Ajit Ghanekar

Ajit is a Senior Software Specialist – Analytics at SAS Research & Development, India, and has 10 years of experience in developing various Analytical solutions in the areas like Statistical Inference, Modeling, Time Series in Banking and Pharma domains. Currently, he is engaged in SAS Credit Risk Management Solution.

Ajit has a Masters in Statistics from Pune University & PG Diploma in Banking and Finance from SIBM

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Sprout IT ’09: SCIT Entrepreneurship Seminar on 28th Feb

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What: Half day event by Symbiosis Center for Information Technology (SCIT) entrepreneurship cell in innovation and entrepreneurship
When: 10am to 2pm, Saturday, 28th Feb
Where: SCIT, Hinjewadi
Registration and Fees: Rs. 50 for students Rs.300 for others. No registration reequired.

Highlights of the event

Panel Discussion on “Entrepreneurship and innovation are two sides of the same coin”.

Mr. Vishnu Swaminathan, Cheif Innovation Officer Nationa Innovation foundation.
Mr. Monish Shah, Founder and CEO, Indra Networks.
Mr. Kashyap Dalal, CEO, Inkfruit.com
Mr. Rajeevlochan Phadke, CEO, Image Point Technologies
Mr. Sudhir Sharma, Elephant Director and COO

Bhartiya Yuva Shakti Trust presentation
BYST is keen on working with young people in the age group of 18 to 35, who are either unemployed or underemployed. We invite individuals with sound imaginative business ideas, along with the will and determination to succeed.

More details are here.

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Hi Tech Pune Maharashtra 2009 Conference: 26 & 27 Feb

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Hi Tech Pune Maharashtra is a two-day conference on technology that is held in Pune every year. This year, the theme is “IT in Governance” and the schedule features a number of very interesting speakers. I attended this conference last year, and live-blogged it here and here.

Here are some of the lectures that I am looking forward to. On Thursday, Dr. R.A. Mashelkar is giving a keynote speech on a vision for Pune. Mr. Vijay Kumar Gautam, the COO of the Commonwealth Games is also speaking. I had the opportunity to hear him talk at the last Hi Tech Pune conference, and I was absolutely blown away. He is a great speaker. Anil Valluri, MD of Sun Microsystems India is also speaking. Although I know nothing about him, I am hoping that as MD of Sun, he would have interesting things to say.

On Friday, afternoon, Anup Tapadia of TouchMagix will talk about product innovation. TouchMagix is my new favorite Pune startup and we are publishing an interview with Anup on PuneTech later today. So, I think that should be interesting. TouchMagix technology will also be on display on both days, so that’s another reason to go check it out.

Baba Kalyani of Bharat Forge will speak later. One of his talks that I attended started of slowly, but improved significantly later, and was worth it in the end. So that is another one that might be interesting.

There are other talks that you might find interesting. See the full schedule. The conference will be at the Hotel Orchid near Balewadi Stadium (or, to use its real name: Shri Shiv Chhatrapati Sports City Balewadi). It’s from 1:30pm to 7pm on Thursday (26th) and full day on 27th. It is free for anybody to attend, but you must register here.

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Microsoft Community Days: “Safeguarding your Applications” – 28 Feb

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Pune (Microsoft Technologies) User GroupWhat: A half-day event by the Pune (Microsoft Technologies) User Group (PUG) on security issues in safeguarding your applications
When: Saturday, 28th February, 9:45am-3:30pm
Where: Kalpa Banquet and Party Hall, E-101, Kumar Business Court, near SKC Mall, Mukundnagar, Pune
Registration and Fees: This event is free for all. Register here.

Details – Safeguarding your applications

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Fundamentals of Security: 40 Minutes
Common attack patterns, data classification, and security data in storage/in transit

Authentication: 40 Minutes
HTTP Basic/Digest/Kerberos, forms authentication, and .NET framework identities and principles

Authorization: 40 minutes
Common authorization techniques, principles of least privilege net role based security, and code access security

Input Handling: 120 Minutes
Cross-site scripting (XSS), persistent XSS, non-persistent XSS, SQL injection, one-click attacks, XML and XPATH injection, canonicalization issues, file upload/creation, and exception management

Logging & Auditing: 20 minutes

Q&A: 30 Minutes

About the Speaker – Sachin Rawat

Sachin Rawat is the co-founder of Crypsis, which offers consulting and training in the field of Information Security, Hi-Performance Computing (CUDA) and Software Development. Crypsis has offerings built around Microsoft’s Security Development Lifecycle which includes Threat Modeling, Design Review, Code Review, Deployment Review and Pen-testing. Crypsis offers Vulnerability Assessment and Security Audit Services for the IT infrastructure of organizations and is developing a product addressing visual media piracy detection.

Sachin has earlier worked as a Security Engineer with the Microsoft ACE
Team, where he worked on application security assessment for LOB applications.

He holds a B.Tech. (CSE) from IIIT-Hyderabad and has cleared ISC2’s CISSP certification exam. He was the only student among the top 10 winners of Security Shootout Competition organized by Microsoft, which had over 30,000 participants across India.

About Pune (Microsoft Technologies) User Group

”’Pune User Group”’ is a local user group of developers interested in Microsoft technologies and platforms. It has an informational portal with very active forums, it holds monthly user group meetings, an annual developers conference, and it also has a number of special interest groups.

For more details see the PuneTech wiki profile of PUG.

For other tech events coming up in Pune, see the PuneTech calendar. See also other PuneTech articles tagged: PUG, and Microsoft.

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Ruby Fun Day: A barcamp for Ruby developers – 21 Feb

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What: Ruby Fun Day, an unconference style get-together for all those interested in Ruby
When: Saturday, 21st Feb, 10:30am-4:30pm
Where: Thoughtworks, GF-01, Tower C, Panchshil Tech Park, Yerwada, Pune
Registration and Fees: This event is free for all. Register here.

Details:

If you don’t know what Ruby is and why it is cool, see today’s PuneTech article: Why you need to learn Ruby and Rails.

The second edition of Ruby Fun Day will happen on Saturday, Feb 21 at Thoughtworks, Pune. The first edition which happened in Impetus Technologies, Noida was a great success.

Ruby is a very powerful OOP language, while at the same time fairly intuitive and easy to learn and understand. Rails is an MVC web framework where models, views, and controllers are fully integrated in a seamless fashion for the Ruby programming language. At the end of the day, Rails is all about helping you stay productive and happy while building awesome web applications.

Ruby Fun Day is an unconference like Barcamp – a sort of on the fly, day long get together for ruby geeks to talk about geeky stuff and hang out. RubyFunDay 2 is going to be a pure Code Burning session. Every session would be full of live code demonstrations.

If you are based in Pune (or on a short trip to this city) and excited about Ruby or Ruby on Rails, this is a not-to-be-missed event! For more details visit the official event page at  http://barcamp.org/RubyFunDay2

If you would like to present a session at this event, visit the event wiki at  http://barcamp.org/RubyFunDay2 . The only constraint we have is, it should not be mere presentation, you will have to show the live code in the session.

(Thanks to Kapil Bhatia of Vinsol for this write-up of Ruby Fun Day.)

Schedule:

Sr No Topic Name
1. Basics of Ruby Programming Language OR Advanced Metaprogramming with Ruby Sur
2. Integrating voice and text (sms) gateway with rails application Saurabh Purnaye
3. Test::Unit vs RSpec vs Expectations Aman + Dhaval
4. DSLs made easy with Ruby Sunit + Saager
5. What’s new in Rails Sur
7. REST full Rails Kumar Chavan(Bakal)
8. Importants of wrting “test cases” in ROR. Kumar Chavan(Bakal)
9 Web application testing using Watir Sai Venkat
10. Using Ruby to drive functional tests in Selenium Vijay Nyayapati
11. Ruby OOP: objects finally dethrone classes! Aman King
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TiE Pune Seminar: To sell or not to sell – 24th Feb

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TiE LogoWhat: TiE Pune Seminar on whether or not to sell your company, by Girish Godbole, CEO and Founder, CEO ally, Inc.
When: 24th Feb, 6pm
Where: Renu Electronics, Baner Road (Near Lexus Furniture)
Registration and Fees: Free for TiE Members, Rs. 250 for others, mail namita.shibad [at] gmail [dot] com to register.

Details:
To most of us, our companies are our own, forever. We never think of selling them. Why should we sell our own creations? What good can come out of it? But in the West companies are sold off on a regular basis. There must be some benefit from that? Given that we are in the midst of a challenging global recession that most of us will witness only once in our lifetime, does selling out make sense? The events that will unfold in the next few quarters will result in the widespread destruction of value – for companies, investors, management and employees, and will span industry verticals, geographies and sectors.

So would this be the right time to sell your company? How can you best position your company for a potential acquisition? Should you get a strategic investment into your company? Why is mid-market M&A still active? How can you best prepare your company for a strategic exit? The seminar will address these questions and walk you through all steps of a typical M&A deal from the point of view of a small to mid-sized technology company.

This workshop will be by Girish Godbole, Founder and CEO of CEO ally, Inc. (www.ceoally.com), a boutique M&A and business advisory firm based in the U.S. Girish brings hands-on experience as a serial entrepreneur and executive who has built, operated and sold businesses successfully.

The workshop will address the following questions in detail:

  1. Should you sell your company? Why? When?
  2. Why do buyers buy?
  3. How can you best position your company to sell?
  4. What do buyers read into financials?
  5. What is a fair valuation?
  6. How does this all work? Can you do it alone?
  7. How will an acquisition affect your work life?

This seminar is free for TiE members. Non members will be charged Rs250/- payable by cash or cheque at the venue. The event will be held on Tuesday, Feb 24, 2009, 6.00pm, at Renu Electronics, Survey no 2/6 Baner Road, (lane next to Lexus Furniture. It is 250 metres after Hotel Mahabaleshwar going towards Mumbai) Pune 411045. Kindly email Namita at namita.shibad[at]gmail[dot]com to confirm your attendance.

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