Erehwon Innovation Consulting, one of the top innovation consulting firms in the world and popularly known as the creators of the ‘Orbit-Shifting Innovation‘ methodology announces Innovation Bootcamp 2019 which will be held on February 26th and 27th, 2019 at The St. Regis Mumbai.
Executives from some of the top companies like Asian Paints, Max Bupa, ITC Infotech will be contributing as a keynote speaker in the conference. CIOs representing some of the top MNCs like Mercedez Benz, Reliance Industries, Panasonic will be joining as the thought leaders.
Erehwon planned this conference with a distinctive approach to transform the impact of innovation teams, making them central to the next horizon of growth. This Bootcamp is developed to ensure the Innovation teams have key takeaways at both organization and individual levels to unleash innovation journeys powerfully in their organizations.
Sudheer Kiran, Marketing Manager at Erehwon Innovation Consulting, said
This is not the usual passive learning conference where the learnings are individually driven. This bootcamp engages the entire organisation Innovation team in an intensely interactive format. The team taking part will learn from Innovation Specialists, Practitioners from across the globe and from Peers, by design. The focus is on clear, customized takeaways for all teams.
Key features of Innovation Bootcamp 2019
The Bootcamp is designed to trigger & facilitate new path breaking Insights from dialogues with
Successful Innovation Practitioners from across industries
Expert Innovation facilitators
Peers from across 20 ~ 25 other organizations
Who Should Attend?
This innovation Bootcamp is exclusively designed for participants who are individuals in Innovation roles along with their team:
Erehwon Innovation Consulting is a pioneering innovation consulting firm with over 25 years of cutting-edge experience in being able to instill Breakthrough Innovation in the most legacy driven and the unresponsive environments – across different industries, cultures & countries. For more information, please visit Erehwon Innovation Consulting.
GoDaddy Inc., the world’s largest cloud platform dedicated to small, independent ventures, today announced its lead sponsorship for the upcoming CloudFest Conference, the largest domain name conference, being held in Mumbai on May 23, 2018. The sponsorship reinforces GoDaddy’s ongoing commitment to support the growth of its partners – web professionals and local re-sellers in India – by providing them with the right online tools, platform and solutions to manage their businesses.
The event will feature two sessions from GoDaddy leaders, including Chief Product Officer Steven Aldrich and Nikhil Arora, Managing Director and Vice President, GoDaddy India. Steven will present an opening keynote on how independent ventures drive global employment and ways in which GoDaddy can help support them with their online presence. This will be followed by Nikhil’s knowledge session titled Fall in love with your customer’s problem in discussions with GoDaddy customers.
Nikhil Arora, Managing Director and Vice President – GoDaddy India, said
Our association with CloudFest is very important to GoDaddy, enabling us to enhance our engagement with our partner community across India. It is the perfect place for us to showcase our new products and platform improvements with attendees, all of whom contribute to helping entrepreneurs, small business owners and individuals grow their ventures online. We look forward to meeting and working closely with them as we look to scale our business in Tier 2 cities with joint programs and campaigns, continuing to support the country’s growing Internet ecosystem.
At the conference, GoDaddy will launch its latest Virtual Private Server product, a fast, scalable and secure hosting solution, perfect for rapidly growing web applications. VPS hosting gives web pros more control over their hosting solutions, allowing them to get online quickly and to better serve their customers.
GoDaddy will also have a booth showcasing products and conducting live demos by experts to help educate partners and customers about its innovative tools and services. GoDaddy will also announce key new additions to its existing partner platforms [Pro & Reseller platforms], helping them better interact with, and service clients.
Bengaluru-based Institute of Product Leadership, India’s first B-School for technology managers, will hold the Data Science Summit 2018 at Cessna Business Park in Bengaluru on Friday, 6th April 2018. It aims to introduce a few key early adapters in AI, bust some of the myths surrounding jobs and career in data science and Artificial Intelligence [AI].
The Summit is an opportunity for those working in the field of data science and those passionate about the subject, to network with the over 300 professionals and 25 executive leaders from the top companies who work in the space of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. They will demystify how data science and Artificial Intelligence will help you achieve your career goals.
Many of the experts who you will get to hear at the event include
Shivaram K R – Chief Executive Officer, Curl Analytics, among others.
The summit will have experts speaking of the sectors that can extensively put to use data sciences and Artificial Intelligence. The attendees can also get a peek into the future of both these and how they would be put to work in sectors as varied as healthcare and E-commerce.
Speaking of the summit, Dr Marya Wani, Director of Programs – School of Data Science, said
The event will have experts from Hyderabad, Silicon Valley and Bangalore. They are people who have done a lot of work in this field. It will be of use to executives, data scientists, engineers, developers, business development professionals, Data Analysts, Product Managers and most importantly data science enthusiasts who are involved in data-driven decision making.
The experts will also deliberate on how India can be in the forefront in the field of AI.
About Institute of Product Leadership [IPL]
The Institute of Product Leadership was born in conjunction with the Executive Product Industry Council [EPIC], a group of elite product leaders who currently drive product innovation from India in global companies. The EPIC board, along with the Board of Academics and Research [BAR], distinguished Executive Coaches and Faculty, provide advice on the productizing of new technologies and ideas, devise programs that enable technology leaders to graduate from being code-centric to customer-centric and also help the engineering centers in Asia nurture the next generation of product leaders. For more information, please visit Institute of Product Leadership
The January 19th, 2018 event marks the inaugural India Digital Open Summit, a meeting of the top technologists, academia, startups, and industry leaders focused on how open source networking systems and platforms would transform and foster innovation and leadership across the entire digital ecosystem.
Open source is being embraced by leading organisations globally, not only due to its cost advantage, but to leverage the development advantages open source communities offer. By its very essence, open source fuels enterprising organizations, because unlike proprietary systems, it enables greater innovation and differentiation, helping companies customize and manage platforms with more flexibility with the ability to rapidly develop and bring new services to the market with scalability and security.
The summit will feature discussions on various elements of the Open Source framework for policy, technology and security that accelerate the expansion of the Digital India initiative across domains. Over 400 attendees are expected at the India Digital Open Summit 2018. More than a dozen global C-Level Executives will discuss a range of topics, including application to blockchain, Artificial Intelligence [AI], Cloud-scale networking, Open Compute, AR/VR, Real-time analytics and other topics on the open source-spurred digital transformation.
The one-day event will be held at the Reliance Corporate Park campus in Navi Mumbai. For details of the event, please visit India Digital Summit.
Linux Foundation is the world’s premier organization for building sustainable Open Source Ecosystems and Reliance Jio has joined Linux Foundation’s Open Network Automation Platform [ONAP] as a Platinum member. Jio’s Platinum membership in ONAP provides a platform for accelerating its efforts to further its work in open source to support The Linux Foundation.
SMARTup is a platform for knowledge sharing and networking being organized by ah! Ventures & MeetingsAndOffices. Their endeavour is to connect the startup fraternity and create valuable business centric conversations between domain specialists and entrepreneurs. SMARTup will be holding meets in metropolitan cities such as Hyderabad, Bengaluru as well as in startup based cities such as Jaipur, Pune, Chandigarh to name a few.
The focus of these SMARTup’s is to deal with issues and problems that plague young companies and divert their focus from their core competencies and business. Issues such as business planning and strategy development, aligning immediate and long term goals, generating investor interest, scaling a business, managing cash flows, building sticky relationships & customer loyalty, getting paying customers, regulations, compliance, understanding term sheets, understanding how to go about building your tech as a non-techie without a tech co-founder, sales and marketing processes, how to focus on and enhance the logic of business, what is the role of IoT in business, when do you need AI and what does AI mean beyond chatbots for your business etc. will all be amongst the critical topics that would be covered under the series.
Abhijeet Kumar, Co-founder of SMARTup emphasized on his goal to achieve a greater startup nation in a few words
SMARTup is a platform which aims to give the country’s potential startups a boost and a platform to achieve more visibility.
Meenal Sinha, co-founder of MeetingsAndOffices stated how important it is for today’s startups to understand the know-how of smart startups.
Over the past decade, there have been more startups being established. And, they need the guidance to accelerate their young company’s growth in the right direction. That is what SMARTup is driving to achieve.
Indore is populated with startup ecosystems. Indore being the commercial capital of Madhya Pradesh has many industries and startups booming into successful businesses. Indore being the industrial center in the heart of India, we are grooming the ecosystem and wanting to increase awareness about startups, funding, investments, etc. through SMARTup.
At Indore, SMARTup will be curating one on one discussions of our audience with eminent people from the ecosystem. During this meet, startups could benefit the chance to meet prominent investors from across the country, all under one roof. If you want to know more about SMARTup, please visit SMARTup Indore
About ah! Ventures
ah! Ventures is a growth catalyst that brings together promising businesses and investors by creating wealth creation opportunities for both. ah!’s unique model serves investors, entrepreneurs & enablers through a unique blend of customized services, skill, and industry & domain experience. Founded in 2010, ah! Ventures has systematically disrupted the early stage funding ecosystem of India through its innovative approach toward startup investing. First of its kind initiatives like the CLUB ah! platform, ah! Angels [India’s largest angel network], ah! Seeders and ah! VC networks [India’s first seed & VC investment networks], have brought together and integrated the previously segregated startup funding life-cycle, under one roof. For more information, please visit ah! Ventures
About MeetingsAndOffices
meetingsandoffices.com is a managed marketplace based on the ‘Service Aggregator’ model, catering to the office space, meeting space and associated needs of the business traveler. We are aggregating verified & curated Meeting & conference facilities, day Offices, Shared Workspaces, Office Space leasing, associated services like secretarial, catering etc. into an easy access application with search, comparison and total fulfillment capability. For more information, please visit MeetingsAndOffices
IFIM Institutions, in partnership with the Government of India and NASSCOM, hosted their Digital Innovation Conclave, which aimed to bring out the importance of a Public-Private Partnership [PPP] for improving the employability quotient of a skilled India. Prof Sadagopan, Director [President] of IIIT-Bangalore, Sanjeev Malhotra, CEO, IoT, NASSCOM, Dr Ramesh U representing AICTE, Government of India and Sanjay Padode, Secretary, Center for Developmental Education [IFIM Institutions] together inaugurated the session.
As per Analytics India Industry Study 2016, Analytics Market in India currently stands at $1.64 Billion annually in revenues, growing at a healthy rate of 28.8% CAGR. Though analytics is still largely considered a part of broader KPO industry, increasingly analytics is now being considered a separate industry of its own.
Understanding the role of analytics in shaping the career of future professionals, previously, IFIM institutions with NASSCOM had sketched out unique model of ‘Train the Trainer’ in three courses- Associate Analytics, Junior Data Analytics and Recruitment Associate. The program was Level 7 and intended to skill 10,000 Post Graduate students across state.
The Chief Guest for the occasion, Dr Sadagopan, Director, IIIT Bangalore inaugurated the event by stressing the need to upgrade the curriculum of technical and management education in India. He said
India is a magnet of talent and it is high time we nurtured this by providing them the right assistance. With the advent of technology, students, especially in the higher education segment, need to be trained to acquire the right skillsets. The country has a bright future in the space of Analytics, and therefore it is important for a greater focus on data and a good scope for businesses to grow in this space. This should be reflected right from the stage of curriculum design, to help nurture the right talent at the right time. A partnership of the government, along with the educational institutions and the IT sector, is crucial to help catalyze the growth in data analytics.
According to an independent research report, the $155-billion Indian IT sector employs around 3.9 million people, and McKinsey estimates that the skill-sets of half of the existing workforce will be irrelevant as they are not skilled to be in tune with the changing market needs.
Sanjay Padode, Secretary, Center for Developmental Education [IFIM Institutions], said
The event is organised as an acknowledgement of the need to re-skill the workforce in Analytics and AI as this technology is being adopted across industries. As data becomes the new fuel in running industries, the need for a professional knowledge of analytics and utilising it in artificial intelligence gains in importance. Largely, it will define how the existing businesses upgrade to incorporate AI and use analytics. Also, this opens up the gates to many more new business opportunities for young professionals.
IFIM Institutions has been working towards holistic development of the students who would be continuously employable. While automation has entered market like a storm, it is essential for our workforce to be in line with the requirement of industry. With Digital Innovation Conclave we have taken initiative to bring all industry stakeholders at one platform and brainstorm towards ensuring a better future for our society.
The Conclave culminated with the formation of a Think Tank in Digital Business chaired by Prof Chandrasekhar, Chairman of Centre of Excellence for Business Analytics at IFIM Business School. Sameer Dhanrajani, Chief Strategy Officer, Fractal Analytics announced the names of the invited members of this Think Tank and handed over the invitation letters. Members of the Think Tank are below
The Think Tank will be supported by a research group consisting of students and faculty, led by Prof Chandrashekhar, the renowned name in Data Analytics in country. This Think Tank shall develop a well-researched white paper for consumption by the Industry and Academia at large. The paper shall endeavour to outline the curriculum changes and development of coursework to align the present programs with the digital needs of the industry in the future. This paper would be presented to the Chairman of AICTE, UGC and would be circulated to the academic heads of all universities and institutions in the country.
Hundred of the most innovative Karnataka start-ups have got a license to dream as Karnataka government opened floor to the two-day grand finale of India’s first comprehensive entrepreneurship platform, ELEVATE 100 at the Lalit Ashok, Bengaluru on 29th August, 2017.
A brainchild of the Government of Karnataka, ELEVATE 100 programme is a combined initiative of the Start-up Cell, Karnataka Biotechnology and Information Technology Services [KBITS] Government of Karnataka. ELEVATE 100 roadshow traversed the length and breadth of the state in a rigorous hunt to pick the 100 most innovative start-ups and help them turn their ideas into successful businesses. This initiative will give them access to the Government’s INR 400 crore start-up fund as well as offer mentoring from industry experts, idea validation, advisory and legal support.
The efforts of Karnataka government doesn’t stop at elevating the chosen 100. We see ELEVATE 100 as a continuing process where the best ideas from the state gets the support and guidance it deserves.
Karnataka is home to the world’s fastest growing startup ecosystem. The government is trying to nurture this ecosystem with strong policies like the IT Policy, Start-up Policy, BT Millennium Policy, ESDM Policy and the KAVGC Policy, giving the ecosystem a strong foundation to help entrepreneurs and established industries to flourish.
Delivering the welcome note, Mr. Gaurav Gupta, IAS, Principal Secretary Department IT, BT & ST, recounted the year-long journey of ‘ELEVATE 100’ roadshow, through the length & breadth of the state in search of the next big idea.
Mr. Gaurav Gupta, IAS, Principal Secretary Department IT, BT & ST added
This is just one of the many initiatives aimed at creating the largest pool of talented entrepreneurs in Karnataka. Sub segments such as AI & Robotics are already being nurtured through various Centres of Excellence. A harbinger of great things to come, the target is to create 20,000 successful start-ups by celebrating and supporting them through continuous engagement.
This was followed by a chat with Bhavish Aggarwal, CEO – Ola Cabs, hosted by KK Natarajan, Chairman, Mindtree. Attending entrepreneurs got a first-hand take of the nuts and bolts of starting up.
The Karnataka ecosystem fosters entrepreneurship and celebrates failures. Startups here need to move forward, learnings from failures and balance passion with rationality. They need to engage with the community at large. Valuation and value creation are two different things. Capital isn’t the end, it is just the beginning of the journey.
Shruti Mishra of CNBCs Young Turks fame anchored ‘Stories of Success’ segment, where successful entrepreneurs Vikas Malpani, Co-Founder, CommonFloor and Pavithra Y. S, CMD, Vindhya Infotech, shared their experiences from the road not taken. Pavithra stressed on the need for inclusion in organisations.
Beyond valuations, there is a larger social role that startups play. Startups expand the space for those with dreams to become job creators and ultimately contribute to the empowerment of society at large.
Manish Sharma, Co-Founder, Printo, spoke about customer validation of an idea in the early stages of product development, in a segment titled ‘Listening to the customers’. Don’t react to price early in the game; the proposition will evolve, he told the entrepreneurs in attendance.
Ram Narayan, Member Advisory Board, Zinnov, detailed the art and science of making a product the market actually needs in the session ‘Achieving Product Market Fit’.
[L-R] Salma Fahim, MD, KBITS, Gaurav Gupta, PrSec, IT/BT Department, GOK, Bhavish Aggarwal, Co Founder, OLA Cabs, Krishnakumar Natarajan,, Chairman, Mindtree, Honble Minister Priyank Kharge
Another big draw was Peter Yorke, CEO – Yorke Communications who enthralled the audience on the art of molding traditional marketing techniques and channels to the digital age in ‘GTM Masterclass’.
While startups are all the rage and many have scalable business models with the potential to soar, not everyone gets the chance to live out their potential. This valuable lesson was a part of the session by Anjana Vivek, Founder-Director, VentureBean Consulting, who detailed the science of startup valuation, with nuggets on best practices, models and real-world examples of good and bad valuations. Jawahar Bekay of Captive Aide took a ‘Masterclass on Sales for Start-ups’ which was a lesson for startups on what sells and what doesn’t.
[L-R] Bhavish Aggarwal, Co Founder, OLA Cabs, Krishnakumar Natarajan, Chairman, Mindtree
TiE Board Member Sanjay Anandaram moderated a session on big corporates working with startups where industry captains like Nipun Mehrotra, Chief Digital Officer – IBM India & South Asia, Madhurima Agarwal – NetApp, Alok Kumar – Swiss Re, Amey Mashelkar – Gennext Fund and John Kuruvilla – Brigade Reap spoke about the rules of engagement for startups working with the big boys.
The Pitching Sessions were held in Mysuru, Kalaburagi, Mangaluru, Hubballi and Bengaluru, where 1,700 startups pitched to elevate their ideas to successful ventures. ELEVATE 100 is the largest pool of funds that has been offered by any State Government in India for startups. It also highlights the startup climate in Karnataka, which also has the distinction of being first in the country to launch a dedicated startup policy for budding entrepreneurs and a Startup Cell that provides extensive services like legal and accounting advice, mentoring, incubator options, subsidized tariffs, and seed funding, among others.
Day 2 of Elevate 100 will hold The Women Entrepreneur Summit, aimed at supporting women entrepreneurs with access to mentoring and funds earmarked for women entrepreneurs. More than 300 women entrepreneurs, mostly from Bengaluru, Mysuru, Mangaluru, Hubballi and Kalaburagi areas of Karnataka, are expected to participate in the event.
State Bank of India-Collaborative Innovation Centre launched SBI National Hackathon – Code For Bank, an API Hackathon Platform for developers, start-ups and students to put their thinking caps on and come up with ideas and solutions that can change the way banking is done in India. From a technology standpoint, Bank views APIs as a set of micro-services that are individual or a combination of use cases, around which a mash-up of applications can be developed on-the-fly.
In the age of digital Banking, SBI is organizing this Hackathon with an objective to invite start-ups, developers and partners to collaborate, ideate and co-develop disruptive and innovative solutions spearheading Indian Banking Technology Landscape. The bank’s effort is to promote an Outcome based Technology Culture amongst Start-ups and Developers with the focus on Developing Cutting Edge Solution for Bank in an agile manner. This will put in focus the Business Value driven by Technologies like Predictive Analytics, Fin-Tech/Blockchain, Digital Payments, IOT, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, BOTS and Robotic Process Automation.
In the phase-1, participants can register their idea during 20th – 29th May 2017 followed by Hackathon which will start from 6th June 2017 and ends on 20th June 2017. The initiative will allow participants comprising a team of maximum five people to develop applications or solutions using only SBI APIs, only external APIs and a combination of SBI APIs and External APIs.
SBI keeps innovation on priority and CODE FOR BANK 2017 [C4B 2017] is bank’s biggest step in launching this platform for start-ups and developers in India. The initiative will a part of APIfication Strategy and Transformation which is developed by SBI Collaborative Innovation Centre to create a Boundary less and collaborative development ecosystem which is Technology Agnostic, Agile and completely Digital.
Today all Emerging technology is becoming API based, Fintech is Disruptive, RegTech for Banks is gaining and everything is on Mobile. Banks have to respond to VUCA world [Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous] and local themes like Demonetization, Financial Inclusion, Digital Payments, etc.
C4B 2017 will help drive both External and Internal Innovation. Developers can quickly get an Application Ecosystem View, learn the Bank Technology DNA and start developing solutions using the APIs available on the platform.
