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Turing100 Lecture: Talk on the Life and work of Edsger Dijkstra

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Persistent System presents a talk on the life and work of Turing Award Winner Edsger Dijkstra, on 22 March, 2pm to 5pm, at the Dewang Mehta Auditorium, Persistent, SB Road.

In 1972, Edsger Dijkstra was given the Turing Award for fundamental contributions to programming as a high, intellectual challenge; for eloquent insistence and practical demonstration that programs should be composed correctly, not just debugged into correctness; for illuminating perception of problems at the foundations of program design. Dijkstra is famous for his graph algorithms (shortest path, minimum spanning tree), for writing the first Algol-60 compiler, which was the first high level language with explicit recursion (which was implemented using stacks), structured programming, and a whole lot of important contributions to practical and theoretical computer science.

He is also the guy who killed the goto.

In this event, Ravindra Naik, Principal Scientist at TRDDC Pune, will touch upon some of the contributions of Dijkstra like – Design of Algorithms, Program Design, Programming Languages, Formal Specification & Verification and OS & Distributed Processing.

This will be followed by a talk on “Art and Science of Programming” by Shailaja Shirwaikar HOD, CS Nowrosjee Wadia College. The talk will present Dijkstra’s programming methodology. From writing short, readable and efficient programs to illustrating his point through the choice of apt examples, Dijkstra was an artist programmer. Structured programming, developing loop invariants to separation of Concerns, and Dijkstra’s emphasis on formalism in development of programs has eventually lead to the Science of programming. The formal approach of program development gives the programmer the confidence in the program developed by him and debugging would be unnecessary. Dijkstra believed in disciplined method of programming which is very relevant to the students of programming.

The event is free for everyone to attend. Register here

About the Turing Awards

The Turing awards, named after Alan Turing, given every year, are the highest achievement that a computer scientist can earn. And the contributions of each Turing award winner are then, arguably, the most important topics in computer science.

About Turing 100 @ Persistent Lecture Series

This is year 2 of the the Turing 100 @ Persistent lecture series. The series started in 2012 to celebrates the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing’s birth by having a monthly lecture series, and the success of the talk series in year 1 has resulted in the series being continued in 2013. Each lecture is be presented by an eminent personality from the computer science / technology community in India, and covers the work done by one Turing award winner.

The lecture series has featured, or will feature talks on Ted Codd (Relational Databases), Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn (Internet) Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie (Unix), Jim Gray, Barbara Liskov, and others. Latest schedule is here

This is a lecture series that any one in the field of computer science must attend. These lectures will cover the fundamentals of computer science, and all of them are very relevant today.

All the slides and videos of all the talks in the last year are available here.

Fees and Registration

The event will be at Dewang Mehta Auditorium, Persistent Systems, SB Road, from 2pm to 5pm on Saturday 22 March.

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Register here

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fees and Registration

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why and what will you learn?

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

What will you get?

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

Fees

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

About Pune-GDG

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

Fees and Registration

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

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

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

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

Details

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

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

The broad agenda for the meeting is as below:

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

Who Should Attend?

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

Fees and Registration

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

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(Paid) Advanced Excel 2010

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

About Doo Things Meetup Group

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

Fees and Registration

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

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Pune CloudStack Meetup: CloudStack Architecture; Marvin Test Suite

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

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

Agenda:

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

About Pune Cloudstack Meetup

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

### Fees and Registration

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pitch Idea

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

Form Team

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

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

Fees and Registration

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

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(Paid) @CSIPune Workshop: Agile Skills

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

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

Target Participants & Pre-Requisites

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

Fees

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

Registration Fees:

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

Registration Process (For Individuals):

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

Registration Process (For Corporates):

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

Contact

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

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

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

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

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

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

About Pune Java Meetup Group

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

Fees and Registration

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

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Pune Ruby Users Group Meetup: SOLID principles in Ruby

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

Talks

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

About Pune Ruby Users Group

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

Fees and Registration

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

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TechNext Event: Using Chef

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

Topics to be discussed

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

About Tech Next

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

Fees and Registration

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

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

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

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

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

Speaker:

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

About Pune Open Coffee Club

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

Fees

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

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NASSCOM Product Conclave Pune #NPC2014

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fees and Registration

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fees and Registration

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

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(Paid) Android QuickStart

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

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

Target Audience:

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

Fees and Registration

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

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GNUnify 2014 – 2-day open-source technologies conference

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

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

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

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

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

From Idea to APP (Google Admob Challenge)

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

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

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

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

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

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

TiE Pune Breakfast session – with Pehr Luedtke CEO of SpotZot

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

About the Speaker – Pehr Luedtke

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

About TiE Pune

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

Fees and Registration

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

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

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Pune Cocoa Meetup: Database Wars: YapDatabase Vs Core Data

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

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

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

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

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

About Pune Cocoa Meetup Group

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

Fees and Registration

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

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WordPress User Group Pune Meetup

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

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

Fees and Registration

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fees and Registration

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

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OpenStack Pune Meetup Group: Network Virtualization – Beyond the Basics

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

Agenda

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

About OpenStack Pune Meetup Group

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

Fees and Registration

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

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

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

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

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

Fees and Registration

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

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Internship/Job Mela 2014 by POCC/CSI-Pune

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It’s back! The Pune Open Coffee Club (POCC) and The Computer Society of India, Pune Chapter (CSI) are organizing an internship mela again!

This mela is different! Here you will not meet the same old large corporations, but will meet up with Pune’s rocking startups!

The internship mela is on 18th Jan 2014, from 10am to 5pm at Millenium School, Karvenagar.

What’s so great about that?

Students: You don’t find so many startups in one place, at one time, all accessible to interact with you!

Startups: You get to meet a bunch of enthusiastic students from MCA, BCA, BE, and MBA, who are ready to work as interns at your great company, or would love to work with you on a long term basis too! Last year, there were 770 students!

Why work with startups?

Startups are cool. Startups are where the action is. The experience that you would get in a startup in a few months, would be better than what you would get from large corporations in a few years. In startups, you get an exposure to the various moving parts of a company – coding, testing, admin, HR, marketing… you name it! More than all of this, you get to work directly with founders of the company, who will one day make it very big (like Google, Twitter?).

What do startups want from me?

Life at startups can be very exciting – but you need to be prepared to give more than 100%. Many startups work on cutting edge technologies, and there is going to be a huge learning curve for you, to be able for you to meaningfully contribute to the company. So, it requires dedication, patience and a positive attitude.

I’m game. Am I eligible? Plus, when and where is the fair?

If you are pursuing your B.E, M.C.A, M.C.M, B.C.A, M.C.S, B.C.S or M.B.A, and want to / need to pursue your internship, then you are eligible. Great, right? The fair is on 18th January from 10am to 5pm. The venue is Millennium National School, 18 Hill Side, Karvenagar, Pune – 411052. The directions are at: http://myshala.in/team/contact-us/

What are startups expected to do there?

Get marketing material – lots of it. Visiting cards, leaflets and what not. Get banners – you will have one table of size 3ftx4ft for you. Get a laptop with a running PPT. Come with your mind prepared to be asked the same question a hundred times over, from 10am to 5pm. Stay for the whole duration – you never know when you might find the correct match. You can also interact with other startups to grow your network and see if you can find some synergy!

This must be costing a bomb?!

NO! This event is totally FREE of cost for students. However, prior registration is mandatory (and you have to arrange for your own food!).

For startups: the cost is Rs. 600 (to ensure that only serious companies participate – includes lunch and tea for two, and one electrical point.)

How do I register for the event?

After you register, you can follow the updates for the event on http://punestartups.org/events/internship-and-job-mela-2014

What do I need to do or bring along?

Get your resume along (d-uh!). Here is the format for the event:

  • The event starts at 10am and ends at 5pm. Come anytime in between.
  • Startups have been allocated spaces in the venue, and you are expected to go talk to them.
  • Startups will convince you why they are cool. You need to tell them why you are cool too!
  • Done! Go back with a great feeling of having interacted with Pune’s rocking startup community!

Short and sweet right?

Whom do I contact if I have any questions?

Join the POCC mailing list on punestartups@googlegroups.com, and ask away!

About Pune Open Coffee Club

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

Event website: http://punestartups.org/events/internship-and-job-mela-2014

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CMG Pune half-day conference on Performance, Capacity, Instrumentation, Measurement

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CMG India, a professionals’ forum for measurement and quantitative analysis in IT enterprises, invites performance engineering and capacity management professionals to their second half-day event in Pune, on Friday, 20th December, 2:30pm, at TCS, Nagar Road. This event is free for anyone to attend. See CMGIndia website for details on how to register.

After a competitive round of paper submissions and stringent review by a technical program committee, the following have been selected for presentation at this event:

Agenda

  • 2:30pm: Welcome Note
  • 2:40pm: A High Performing Scalable Architecture to Instrument Software Applications, Anand Kumar, TCS
  • 3:20pm: Messaging Protocols for Real Time System Data Sharing, Deepti Nagarkar, Persistent
  • 4:00pm: Break
  • 4:10pm: Guerilla Capacity Assessment using USL, Prajakta Bhatt, Infosys
  • 4:50pm: Prize Distribution for 1st Pune Event Quiz Contest & Windup

A High Performing Scalable Architecture to Instrument Software Applications

By Anand Kumar

Software applications have become larger and more complicated in design. This increased complexity and scale in software application design present difficult challenges in asserting software quality. Software instrumentation is an effective solution in measuring and improving a software application’s quality. By examining the data gathered by the various instruments, it is possible to determine the cause for the software application failure and a causal analysis of the context in which the failure happened can lead to improvement in the overall software quality. In this paper, we discuss about a generic instrumentation for software applications which can be used to assert software quality. We also discuss about architecture of this generic instrumentation. We illustrate the capabilities of this generic instrumentation using couple of case studies.

Anand is currently a Senior Scientist at TCS Innovation Labs, Pune with research interests in Architecture, Processes, Systems, and Services. He has two decades of experience in the IT industry spanning across programming, architecture, and research.

Messaging Protocols for Real Time System Data Sharing

By Deepti Nagarkar

An introduction to protocols primarily used to share data for Real time systems along with a brief comparison with each other. Realtime systems have different requirements with respect to data delivery. There are protocols explicitly designed to deliver according to these specifications. Protocols analyzed are – DDS, STOMP and AMQP.

Deepti is currently with Persistent Systems Performance Engineering Group. She has over 6.5 years experience in J2EE across a number of projects and domains. Deepti has done her B.E. Computers from Pune University.

Guerilla Capacity Assessment using USL

By Prajakta Bhatt

Traditional Capacity Assessment exercises come with their own challenges. This paper aims to cover how these challenges can be surpassed using Guerilla techniques, originally proposed by Dr. Neil Gunther. It introduces the concept of scalability and shows how Universal Scalability law (USL) can be employed to model scalability of the Systems realistically, combining both Hardware/Software aspects together. USL aids in arriving at maximum point of throughput, beyond which the system performance degrades. This paper, shows how this theoretical limit can be used to predict capacity of a live database server through a detailed case study.

Prajakta is working as a Technology Architect, in NFRs technical focus group that specializes in Performance Engineering Activities at Infosys. She has over 9.5+ years of experience in software development, project management and Performance Engineering across various domains and technologies of applications. She has done M.S. (Software Systems) from BITS, Pilani and B.E. (CSE) from Govt. College of Engineering, Aurangabad.

About CMG Pune

Computer Measurement Group is a not-for-profit, worldwide organisation of IT professionals committed to sharing information and best practices focused on ensuring the efficiency and scalability of IT service delivery to the enterprise through measurement, quantitative analysis, and forecasting. CMG Inc, which is headquartered in New Jersey, USA was setup in 1975 and it now has more than 25 US and International Chapters.

CMG India has been recently setup with the objective of networking performance engineering and capacity management professionals across India. Large IT systems across India need to process millions of transactions per day and CMG India will allow for the experts to share their experiences and learn from one another. The facilitation will be done through regional events across major cities, an annual conference, and posting technical articles on this site.

See the CMG India website for more information.

Fees and Registration

Seating capacity is limited. Event participation is only for CMG India members – but you can sign up for a free membership here. Members can register for this event by sending an email to pune-events@cmgindia.org from their registered email ids. For details about the venue contact Abhay_Pendse@persistent.co.in

Event Website: http://www.cmgindia.org/events/event/2nd-cmg-india-pune-event/

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Turing100 Lecture: Talk on the Life and work of Andrew Chi-Chih Yao

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In 2000, Andrew Chi-Chih Yao was given the Turing Award In recognition of his fundamental contributions to the theory of computation, including the complexity-based theory of pseudorandom number generation, cryptography, and communication complexity. For more details of his work, see the Turing Awards website

Jaikumar Radhakrishnan, of TIFR will talk about “Combinatorial Limits on Efficient Computation”, followed by Srikanth Srinivasan, Dept. of Mathematics, IIT Bombay, who will talk about “Yao’s complexity-based theory of pseudorandomness.”

The event is free for everyone to attend. Register here

About the Turing Awards

The Turing awards, named after Alan Turing, given every year, are the highest achievement that a computer scientist can earn. And the contributions of each Turing award winner are then, arguably, the most important topics in computer science.

About Turing 100 @ Persistent Lecture Series

This is year 2 of the the Turing 100 @ Persistent lecture series. The series started in 2012 to celebrates the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing’s birth by having a monthly lecture series, and the success of the talk series in year 1 has resulted in the series being continued in 2013. Each lecture is be presented by an eminent personality from the computer science / technology community in India, and covers the work done by one Turing award winner.

The lecture series has featured, or will feature talks on Ted Codd (Relational Databases), Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn (Internet) Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie (Unix), Jim Gray, Barbara Liskov, and others. Latest schedule is here

This is a lecture series that any one in the field of computer science must attend. These lectures will cover the fundamentals of computer science, and all of them are very relevant today.

All the slides and videos of all the talks in the last year are available here.

Fees and Registration

The event will be at Dewang Mehta Auditorium, Persistent Systems, SB Road, from 2pm to 5pm on Saturday 25th January.

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Register here

Startup Showcase PuneConnect on 23 November – Apply Now

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PuneConnect 2013 invites all startups from Pune or nearby areas to apply for a chance to showcase their products at to larger companies in Pune, on 23rd November 2013, at Hyatt (Ista) Pune. This event is free for all participants. If you are unsure of whether this event is appropriate for you or not, please go ahead and apply, and our selection committee will figure out whether you’re a good fit or not.

The idea of PuneConnect is to connect established Pune companies with the innovative startups on their doorstep. The hardest thing for a startup is to find early adopters that give them the credibility and experience that they require, and we believe that Pune’s established base of leading edge companies in Software, IT Services, KPOs and Engineering are the perfect early customers.  We want to make sure that a thousand innovative startups bloom in Pune’s Silicon Valley safe in the knowledge that there is a deep and caring ecosystem close to home to serve as mentors, customers, and as angel investors.  And for all of our established companies, the inflow of new ideas and technologies that these startups bring into our offices help to refresh us, energize us, and to make us even more ready for the global stage.

PuneConnect 2013 builds on the success of PuneConnect 2011 and PuneConnect 2012. See an Overview of PuneConnect 2011 Results and Media Coverage to get an idea of the benefits reaped by the startups selected last year (including getting funded, getting featured on TV, getting invited to national conferences, and newspaper articles.)

Benefits to selected startups include:

  • Exposure to Pune’s top companies, potential customers and potential mentors
  • Exposure to Venture Capitalists and Angel Investors who are being invited to the event
  • Press and media coverage before and after the event
  • Winners of the event get automatic entries to other country-level events (e.g. those organized by NASSCOM)

PuneConnect is an initiative of:

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SEAP (Software Exporters Association of Pune)
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PuneStartups.org (Pune Open Coffee Club)
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TechForSeva: Technology for the Bottom-of-the-Pyramid: 2-day-conference

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VijnanaBharati.org, Seva Sahyog, Maharshi Karve Stree Shikshan Sanstha (MKSSS) and MCCIA, are pursuing a new initiative called Tech for Seva under the leadership of stalwarts like Dr. Anil Kakodkar, Dr F C Kohli, Dr. Raghunath Mashelkar, Dr. Jagannath Wani, Dr. Vijay Bhatkar and many more.

Tech for Seva is a platform allowing academic & research institutions, individual & corporate innovators, NGOs & grass root operators to come together on a common platform and share their success stories and problems that need scientific solutions to help the bottom of the pyramid of our country to share the fruits of development.

Please visit the web site for more details.

This is a two day conference in Pune on 28th & 29th September 2013 where all the three stakeholders i.e. innovators, corporates & NGOs will jointly share their success stories, problems and will try to come up with some partnership proposals.

This platform will be an ongoing activity even after the conference is over and will be monitored by a special task force set up by Tech for Seva.

The topics chosen for deliberations / presentation are education, health,livelihood and environment.

The topic of Environment is further classified as energy, water, waste management and bio-diversity.

A grand expo, “Padma Vibhushan Dr.Verghese Kurien Expo”, student competition, “IET TFS Student Competition of Innovative Ideas”, and Leadership dinner will be major highlights of the conference.

In TFS expo individuals/institutes/VOs/NGOs/corporates will showcase their equipments, prototypes, models, products, processes and information about the schemes/programs, success stories, etc. for the delegates and other stake holders.

Event website: http://techforseva.org

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