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Product Camp / @ IIIT, Hyderabad. Mar 28nd

 

Announcing: Hyderabad BarCamp6- a PRODUCTS BARCAMP and WORKSHOP

By Hysea in conjunction with TiE and IIIT-H. March 28, 2008.

 

Hysea in conjunction with Barcamp-Hyderabad, IIIT and TiE is organizing a Product Barcamp and Workshop to showcase the intense product development work happening in Hyderabad- both, among Indian startups/technology companies and at the offshore development centers of MNC product companies.

 

 

The event will be an opportunity for the technology and products fraternity to interact and network as also to highlight the support eco-system available in Hyderabad for new products and startups. Apart from showcasing products being built out of Hyderabad, we will have leaders from Product companies and the VCs/academicians share experiences building IP and products. We will also be compiling and releasing a ‘Hyderabad Software Products Directory’. Below is the early announcement being sent out to our member companies.

 

  • Have two parts in the event- Demos and a Seminar.
  • Get all the 32 nominations to demo their products. Publicize the event and enlist get some more demos.
  • Have a specific showcase of successful products from Hyderabad.
  • CEO Speak- where we have successful Product entrepreneurs/leaders from Hyderabad sharing their experiences and views on specific facets of startups.
  • End with eco-system presentations- VCs, Hysea, TiE, IIIT/ISB, hardware vendors and others that have some support system/offerings for startups.

 

On the whole a comprehensive event that will both highlight the products and successes from Hyderabad (important for someone deciding to venture in) and also talk about the eco-system available. We will have talks from other MNC product dev orgs and established local product companies (like Pramati, SDG, Zustek, FourSoft, Yasu).

 

 

 

 

Theme: Product Barcamp- Hyderabad Software Products Showcase

Showcase producs from Hyderabad, demo recent new products/startups, established products from Hyderabad, successful entrepreneurs sharing perspective, discuss the eco-system and support network available

 

On March 28th, Friday, 2008 tentatively.

 

Target: Product companies, Startups, Aspiring Entrepreneurs

 

Objective: To highlight the strong product traction, successes, opportunities and eco-system available. Publicize this and encourage active Product Entrepreneurship among students and professionals.

 

 

Venue

@ IIIT Hyderabad / March 28, 5pm.

Emerging products landscape

Expose the intense product development underway in Hyderabad. Hyderabad is rapidly emerging as a Software products hub. Several global software companies and Indian startups are rapidly showing product successes from Hyderabad.

 

 

CEO-Speak

Product company founders and country managers of global poroduct companies share their perspective on conceiving and building products. And experiences starting up and running product companies. Share their views, and then as a panel discuss the opportunities and challenges.

 

Product Eco-system

Highlight the support system available for new product initiatives and startups. From Indian and global VCs present in Hyderabad, research capabilities and support provided by academia, organizations that can help with bootstrapping, industry bodies in Hyderabad that can assist in the operations. And more.

 

Innovation drive

Tech startups, VCs and academia are increasingly looking for innovations….??

 

Products Showcase

Showcase interesting products being built in Hyderabad. Innovations from academia, tech ideas for startups and cool products from established companies.

 

Chief Guest: IT Secretary, Govt.of AP

Key note speaker: An industry veteran, started a large company and is now a VC helping new startups.

Participating companies include: Pramati, Cordys, Yasu, 3i-Infotech (SDG), Zustek, Progress Software

5:00pmKickoff
5:00pmLandscape/Showcase (major successes from Hyderabad) Demos
6:00pm Product CEO/Entrepreneurs speak
7:00pm The startup Eco-system in Hyderabad
7:30PMKeynote address
7:45PMPanel Discussion
8:30PMDinner

The specific talks in each session will be finalised over the next few weeks. If you are interested in demoingor sharing a perspective, please contact the planning team or Hysea.

 

Key outcomes we are hoping for

  1. Showcase products and successes from Hyderabad- to communicate unambiguously that there is a lot of product development and innovation work happening here. Both in startup modes as well as independent product work at offshore centers for MNC product companies.
  2. Create and publish a Hyderabad-Product-registry- a list of product companies and products they build.
  3. Specifically promote student startups (attached PPT has ideas)
  4. Create an Innovation lab- for student startups and research centric products
  5. Highlight that there is a clear eco-system and support network available. Publicize very clearly. (Any new startup should get the confidence from proven past successes, and also be well aware of the support system and contacts).

 

(Demo formats- strictly 6 minutes only!)

Demos deferred to a follow up event

  • 1 minute explaining the product space and functionality
  • 4 minutes demo (describe product details as you demo)
  • 1 minute- explaining current status of product, biz wins, future plans
  • Minimal Q&A (more discussions during breaks)

 

Register your demos

To register, Send in an email to - .

Additionally (as fyi), pls add below:

  1. Brainwave Applications, Brainwave Platform, schemaless database, vinod.kumar@brainwavelive.com
  2. company name, , description, contact-email id,

 

To participate (attend)

Send registrations to Hysea. Edit the wiki and add you name below, or send in a mail to sumankarthik @t gmail dot com:

  1. Ramesh, http://jroller.com/rameshl
  2. Suman Karthik, Spinaxys, http://www.zerocaffe.in
  3. Poorna Sashank, Spinaxys, http://www.zerocaffe.in
  4. Srinivasan S K, srinivas_an@yahoo.com, BACS
  5. Sai Konduru, ADP, http://saikonduru.blogspot.com
  6. Bhargava Chowdary M, IIIT-H, http://iaintnonerd.wordpress.com/
  7. Srujan Kumar S, IIIT-H, http://students.iiit.ac.in/~sunkoju
  8. Sashidhar G, IIIT-H, http://students.iiit.ac.in/~sashidhar
  9. Gaganpreet Singh, IIIT-H, http://gaganpreet.wordpress.com
  10. Saifi Khan, TWINCLING Society, http://www.twincling.org/
  11. Sanrag Sood, IIIT-H, http://sanrag.wordpress.com
  12. Srirang Ranjalkar, IIIT-H, http://students.iiit.ac.in/~ranjalkar
  13. Rajeev Lavu, United India, http://talkman.wordpress.com/
  14. Himank Sharma, IIIT-H, http://lifeizlikethat.wordpress.com
  15. Satya Krishna, IIIT-H, http://students.iiit.ac.in/~satyakrishna
  16. DSK Chakravarthy, Project Lead, http://dskc.blogspot.com
  17. Krishna Raj, http://flashactions.wordpress.com
  18. Pravin Tamkhane, http://blog.tamkhane.net
  19. Kale Balkrishna, Sri Jaitirth Infotech Pvt Ltd, www.srijaitirth.com
  20. Nitesh Maheshwari, ntsh _dot_ maheshwari _at_ gmail _dot_ com
  21. Sandeep Kumar, IIIT-H, http://students.iiit.ac.in/~sandeep_kr
  22. Ankur Jaiswal, IIIT-H, http://students.iiit.ac.in/~ankur_j
  23. Shwetabh Garg, IIIT-H, http://students.iiit.ac.in/~shwetabh
  24. Ranjai Banerji, IIIT-H, http://students.iiit.ac.in/~ranjai
  25. Ankit Garg, IIIT-H, http://theanksden.wordpress.com
  26. Ajey Ghaligi, Acuvate Software Pvt Ltd,http://ajeyghaligi.wordpress.com/
  27. Niyaz PK, Keane, http://www.diovo.com/
  28. Kartik Bansal
  29. Ravindra Babu,SatNav Technologies,http://ravigadu.blogspot.com/
  30. Chandrashekar V, IIIT-H, http://students.iiit.ac.in/~varkala
  31. Srikar R, IIIT-H, http://students.iiit.ac.in/~srikar
  32. Rohit Bharadwaj, IIIT-H, http://students.iiit.ac.in/~bharadwaj
  33. Varun Jampani, IIIT-H, http://students.iiit.ac.in/~varunjampani
  34. Vamshi V, IIIT-H, http://students.iiit.ac.in/~vvelagapuri
  35. Srinivas S, IIIT-H, http://students.iiit.ac.in/~sunkara
  36. Lakshman Prasad, Infosys, http://digital-passion.blogspot.com/
  37. Sunil Soni, IIIT-H, http://students.iiit.ac.in/~sunilsoni
  38. Debasish Dey Acuvate S/W http://acuvate.com
  39. Chandra Sekhar Yalla , Pramati Technologies
  40. V Kiran , Inteq Solutions
  41. Suhail Abbas, Brainwave Applications, www.brainwavelive.com/blog
  42. Balbir Thomas, Brainwave Applications
  43. Vinod Kumar, Brainwave Applications
  44. Chaitanya Sagar, http://www.peopletoworkwith.com http://blog.chaitanyasagar.com
  45. Rohit Bindal, http://fireinyou.blogspot.com, rohit063@gmail.com
  46. Maruti Borker,IIIT-H, http://marutiborker.wordpress.com
  47. Qaja Mohiddin,Wipro Technologies, Qaja.mohiddin@gmail.com
  48. G.P. Deepti , IIIT-H, http://penningmythoughts.wordpress.com
  49. Rakesh Alladi, Wipro Technologies, rakesh.alladi07@gmail.com
  50. Vasudhara Kantroo, Microsoft
  51. Tanushree Jindal, Microsoft
  52. Himanshu Pokhariya, Microsoft
  53. Saurab Paruthi, Microsoft
  54. Anuradha, avellal@gmail.com
  55. Hrishikesh Barua, Pramati Technologies, http://www.jroller.com/talonx
  56. Vardhan Varma, vardhanvarma@gmail.com
  57. name, company, blog

 

 

Panel Discussion

Discussion items for the eminent panel:

1. What exactly prompted the journey

2. Employment Vs Entrepreneurship

3. Fears and Apprehensions - Sensing the Market

4. Initial funding & First Customer

5. Failures and erroneous assumptions

6. Leadership and creating the atmosphere (People, Attrition)

7. Sharing the vision with stake holders

8. Sustainance and the Scalability question

9. Successes and Success Management

10. Learnings

11. Was the vision limited or impaired - Was it Global

12. Competition and the battle to outlive

13. Pricing

14. Are we truly World class. Next steps

 

In addition :

 

1. The importance of a good Board

2. Networking

3. The face of the Org. - CEO

4. Conflict Management

5. When to exit

6. Diversification - Too early too late

7. Differentiating between good and great staff.

8. When retention works against you

9. When to drop customers and why the largest customermay not be the best.

 

 

Tentative program:

 

In two parts. First one for startups/technologists, and second a seminar with invited speakers and guests.

 

Part 1: Demos

In two tracks…

Tech products

Portals/Services

Press interactions

Press must be invited. And highlight the product opportunities, present traction and Hysea’s plans

 

How it started

The fifth BarCamp at Hyderabad ended up tremendous! IN keeping with the products and startups spirit, we had asked Hysea (Hyderabad Software companies' association) to talk about their push for IP and products. Suheim Sheikh, Founder of SDG (now part of 3i-infotech), who now heads the Products Initiative at Hysea, came and spoke briefly on Hysea and the Products' push. This was followed by a talk from Prasad Y (Co-founder of Teleonto), also active in startup circles in hyderabad, to share his ecperiences starting up Teleonto.

 

Carried by the momentum, in a sidebar discussion, right there the next barcamp took shape! We decided to conduct a "Products Barcamp"! In conjunction with Hysea & TiE. In the BarCamps most of the active participation is among technology enthusiasts or startups/aspiring-startups. There is a clear emphasis on technology startup ideas. Given this, Suheim suggested if we can build on this and have a barcamp focused just on Products and Startups- a ‘Product Barcamp’. The idea is to continue on from the Product Awards’ nominations.

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