Aura 3

CONVERSATION
Top ten tech inventions coming to India in the next 12 months 
Souvik Bannerjee, CTO, Tata CLiQ
10:55 AM - 11:15 AM
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CONVERSATION
Creating the Cult: Disrupting healthcare & fitness with tech
Ankit Nagori, Co-founder, CureFit
11:15 AM - 11:35 AM
 
PANEL
How to make successful exits happen in India
Radhika Nair, Editor - Special Projects, YourStory (Moderator)
Jyothirmayee JT, Founder CEO, HiveMinds
Bharati Jacob, Managing Partner, Seedfund
Vikram Vaidyanathan, MD, Matrix Partners
Alok Goyal,  Partner, Stellaris Venture Partners
11:35 AM - 12:15 PM
 
PANEL
What does it take for an accelerator to succeed in India?
Madanmohan Rao, Research Director, YourStory (Moderator)
Madhurima Agarwal, Sr. Manager - Netapp Excellerator
Abhishek Gupta, COO, TLabs
Ganapathy Venugopal, Co-founder & CEO, Axilor Ventures
Amit Shah, Senior President & Country Head, YES BANK
Siddharth Balachandran, Airbus BizLab
Naveen Asrani, Director Startups, Microsoft Corporation India
12:15 PM - 12:55 PM

LUNCH

Country partner introduction by YourStory
Madanmohan Rao, Research Director, YourStory
02:30 PM - 02:40 PM
 
CONVERSATION
The making of the Indo-German Startup Corridor
Margit Hellwig-Boette, German Consul General, Bengaluru
02:40 PM - 03:00 PM
 
CONVERSATION
How Siemens Healthineers takes care of innovation
Gerd Hoefner, Managing Director and President, Siemens Healthcare
03:00 PM - 03:10 PM
 
CONVERSATION
Science for a better life
Jannis Busch, Bayer Pharma
03:10 PM - 03:20 PM
 
CONVERSATION
Smart manufacturing and building a connected world
Ramakrishna D, GM - Business Unit Development, (Strategy & Innovation), Bosch India
03:20 PM - 03:30 PM
 
CONVERSATION
Tech innovations
Srikanth Gopalakrishnan, Vice President, IoT and Digital Connected Assets, SAP
03:30 PM - 03:40 PM
 
CONVERSATION
Prof. Dr. H.C. Juergen Lehmann, President, Hof University, Applied Sciences
03:40 PM - 03:50 PM
 
PANEL
Innovation re-interpreted: Germany as the next startup frontier 
Margit Hellwig Botte, German Consul General, Bengaluru (Moderator)
Gerd Hoefner, Managing Director, Siemens Healthcare
Ramakrishna D, GM - Business Unit Development, (Strategy & Innovation), Bosch India
Jannis Busch, Bayer Pharma
Prof. Dr. H.C. Jurgen Lehmann, President, Hof University, Applied Sciences
Srikanth Gopalakrishnan, Vice President, IoT and Digital Connected Assets, SAP
03:50 PM - 04:30 PM

Strategy

MASTERCLASS
Venture debt
Vivek Adhav DVP head credit New economy group Axis bank

FDI
V Somasekhar, VP Transaction Banking Axis Bank
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM

LUNCH

MASTERCLASS
What’s this ‘Bitcoin’ thing?
Abhishek Gopal, Co-founder & CEO, ThroughBit Technologies
Mohammed Roshan, Co-founder & CTO, ThroughBit Technologies
02:30 PM - 03:30 PM
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MASTERCLASS
Corporate India's engagement with incubators and startups
GIZ
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
 
MASTERCLASS
Hacking your growth strategy
Rashmi R Padhy, Product Principal, ThoughtWorks Entrepreneur, Product and Growth Expert
04:30 PM - 05:30 PM

Harmony

MASTERCLASS
Solving real-world problems using AI and ML
Gaurav Goswami, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Expert
IBM Digital Business Group
Krishna Chaitanya Balaga,
Watson and Cloud Developer, IBM
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM

Aura 1-2

Welcome Note
09:30 AM - 09:40 AM
 
CONVERSATION
How to create an impact in education through technology
Byju Raveendran, Founder & CEO, Byju's
09:40 AM - 10:00 AM

CONVERSATION
Little Eye Labs to Facebook to starting up again
Kumar Rangarajan
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
 
CONVERSATION
Obsessive Customer Devotion - Why it matters
Nikhil Rungta, MD Intuit India
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM

CONVERSATION
New media, new voices
Shekhar Gupta, Founder, ThePrint
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
 
CONVERSATION
How Reliance's GenNext Hub is enabling the 3Ts of Indian startup ecosystem - talent, technology and trust
Amey Mashelkar, Head of Gennext Innovation Hub
11:00 AM - 11:10 AM

PANEL
Tech and the Future of Jobs
Sanjay Anandaram, Startup Advisor (Moderator)
Mohandas Pai, Chairman, Aarin Capital Partners,
R Jagannathan, Editorial Director, Swarajya
Rahul Matthan, Partner, Trilegal
Mr.Sameer Garg, VP Market Head New Economy Group, Axis Bank
11:10 AM - 11:50 AM
 
FIRESIDE CHAT
How to build a successful content business out of India 
Chiki Sarkar, Founder & Publisher, Juggernaut
Sagarika Ghose, Journalist
11:50 AM - 12:15 PM
 
CONVERSATION
Chatbot strategy or AI strategy -What enterprises really need
Animesh Samuel, Co Founder, Light Information Systems
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM

TECH30 - 15 startup pitches
12:30 PM - 01:15 PM

LUNCH

CONVERSATION
Technology empowering 7 million farmers
Sandipan Chattopadhyay, Founder & CEO, Xelpmoc
02:15 PM - 02:30 PM
 
PANEL
Internet for the next 500 million Indians
Alok Soni, YourStory (Moderator)
Rajendran Dandapani, Director of Engineering, Zoho Corporation
Sahil Kini, Principal, Aspada Investments, Kamal Kanth Tumala, Director Sales - SMB, Salesforce India
Shankar Maruwada, Co-founder and CEO, EkStep
Vikram Kotnis, Founder & MD, Amura Tech
02:30 PM - 03:00 PM
 
CONVERSATION
Why large companies need to think like startups
Deepak Visweswaraiah, Senior VP & MD, Data Fabric & Manageability Group, Netapp India
03:00 PM - 03:15 PM
 
‍TECH30 - 15 startup pitches
03:15 PM - 04:00 PM
 
PANEL
Omni Channel a Fad or Game Changer?
Shradha Sharma, Founder and CEO, YourStory (mederator)
Souvik Banerjjee, CTO, Tata CLiQ
Reuben Pandian, Chief Omni Channel Officer, Tata CLiQ
04:00 PM - 04:30 PM
 
BOOK LAUNCH
Cut the crap and jargon: lessons from the startup trenches
Shradha Sharma, Founder and CEO, YourStory
TN Hari, Head of HR, BigBasket
Milee Ashwarya, Editor in Chief, Commercial and Business books, Penguin Random House India
04:45 PM - 05:00 PM
 
CONVERSATION
Startup to Scaleup: What got you off the ground won’t get you to scale
Bala Girisaballa, Managing Director, Microsoft Accelerator
05:00 PM - 05:15 PM
 
‍Closing keynote and Tech30 prize distribution by Dr Gopichand Katragadda, Group CTO, Tata Sons
05:15 PM - 05:40 PM

Aura 3

STORYTELLING
Thinking Tomorrow
Sheelika Ravishankar, Co-founder, TeamIndus
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
 
STORYTELLING
How to build your personal brand
Meeta Malhotra, Co-founder, Varana Design
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM
 
STORYTELLING
What I learned about happiness when I stopped dieting
Moritz Warntjen, Founder, Bodylisteners
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM

STORYTELLING
How one encounter with cancer changed my life 
Samara Mahindra, Founder and CEO, CARER Program
10:50 AM - 11:10 AM

STORYTELLING
How to be a successful professional while finding your balance
Margit Hellwig-Botte, German Consul General, Bengaluru
11:10 AM - 11:25 AM

STORYTELLING
How we fostered corporate engagement in startup incubation
Eileen Trenkmann, Project Manager, GIZ
11:25 AM - 11:40 AM

STORYTELLING
When tech walks the ramp: the ElektroCouture story
Lisa Lang, Founder, ElektroCouture
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM

STORYTELLING
How social media has changed storytelling
Pankaj Dubey, Novelist and Filmmaker
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM
 
STORYTELLING
Bridging the Gap between Farmers and Consumers: Can Tech help? An
Indo-Swiss Experience
Balz Strasser, Consul General, CEO Swissnex India
12:15 AM - 12:30 PM
 
CONVERSATION
The psychology of design
Himanshu Khanna, Founder & CEO, Sparklin
12:30 PM - 12:45 PM

STORYTELLING
Cyber Security for everyone
Vineet Kumar, President, Cyber Peace Foundation
12:45 PM - 01:00 PM

LUNCH

PANEL
Future of innovation from India to the world
Vishal Krishna, Business Editor, YourStory (Moderator)
Ajeya Motaganahalli, Director - Engineering Programs & Leader of NetApp's Startup Accelerator, NetApp India
Sriram Rajmani, MD, Microsoft Research Labs India
Subramanyam Putrevu, Chief Information Officer, Mindtree
Sanket Atal, Group Vice President - R&D, Research & Development Center, Oracle Corporation
Naganand Doraswamy, Founder & MD, IdeaSpring Capital
Alok Nanda, COO – GE India Technology Centre GM, Engineering - GE Aviation, India
02:20 PM - 03:05 PM

PANEL
Why culture is critical in a scale-up
Dipti Nair, Editor at large, YourStory
Amitabh Mishra, Founder & CEO, GoFro.com
TN Hari, Head of HR, BigBasket
Sidharth Gupta, Co-Founder, Treebo Hotels
Anu Sharma, Founder, The HR Practice
03:05 PM - 03:40 PM

STORYTELLING
Yoga and work-life balance
Akshar, Akshar Power Yoga
03:40 PM - 03:55 PM
 
PANEL
How startups are transforming manufacturing
Naman Shah, Co-founder, NowPurchase (Moderator)
Swapna Gupta, Investment Manager at Qualcomm Ventures
Viraj Kalyani, Founder,Kalyani Studio
Prof MS Rao, Professor, IIT Madras
Tarun Mehta, Co-founder & CEO, Ather Energy
Lakshman Thattai. Co-founder, Unifize
03:55 PM - 04:25 PM
 
CONVERSATION
How deep-learning algorithms are driving AI today
Vishal Dhupar, MD, NVIDIA - South Asia
04:25 PM - 04:40 PM
 
PANEL
Defining the unit economics of the sharing economy
Sindhu Kashyap, Senior Correspondent, YourStory (Moderator)
Greg Moran, Co-founder & CEO, Zoomcar
Ashwin Venkatraman, COO, Furlenco
Smruti Parida, Co-founder and CTO NestAway
Christian Freese, General Manager, South India, Uber
04:40 PM - 05:15 PM
 
PANEL
Innovative model from China for emerging markets
Gurpreet Singh, Founder/CEO, ATM. Ventures (Moderator)
Guest speakers:
Ruan Long COO, Yeecall
Kan Liu Co-founder & CTO of Wosai Technology ( Shou Qian Ba) 
05:15 PM - 05:45 PMStrategyMASTERCLASS

ML@Google Cloud: The power of machine learning for any data, any size
Kunal Deo, Solutions Engineer, Google Cloud
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

MASTERCLASS
Financial fitness: The first step to funding
Bikash Chowdhury, Head of Marketing, Intuit India
Aditi Puri, Head of Sales, Intuit India
11:30 AM - 12:30 PMMASTERCLASS
Partnering for Growth: Vodafone IoT and CloudStore for Startups
Govindaraj Avasarala, Vice President, Propositions, Vodafone
02:30 PM - 03:30 PM
 
MASTERCLASS
7 mistakes to avoid while fundraising
Rahul Chowdhury, Partner, Stellaris VP
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM

MASTERCLASS
Intellectual property and patenting for startups and SMEs
Dr. Hemang Shah, Qualcomm Technologies India
04:30 PM - 05:30 PM

Strategy

MASTERCLASS
ML@Google Cloud: The power of machine learning for any data, any size
Kunal Deo, Solutions Engineer, Google Cloud
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
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MASTERCLASS
Financial fitness: The first step to funding
Bikash Chowdhury, Head of Marketing, Intuit India
Aditi Puri, Head of Sales, Intuit India
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

LUNCH

MASTERCLASS
Partnering for Growth: Vodafone IoT and CloudStore for Startups
Govindaraj Avasarala, Vice President, Propositions, Vodafone
02:30 PM - 03:30 PM
 
MASTERCLASS
7 mistakes to avoid while fundraising
Rahul Chowdhury, Partner, Stellaris VP
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM

MASTERCLASS
Intellectual property and patenting for startups and SMEs
Dr. Hemang Shah, Qualcomm Technologies India
04:30 PM - 05:30 PM