In depth workshop covering the crucial aspects, which have to be considered by an angel investor while investing in startups. The broad themes covered in the workshop are:
Continuously increasing volume of data and ability to leverage this data has transformed the way applications are being built. We are moving away from dashboards to actionable insights through prescriptive analytics. Agility and continuous engineering through data driven software is driving the world.
While we have seen immense action in the startup world, there are ample opportunities for those willing to provide focused solutions for vertical specific problems. Indian market also provides significant growth opportunities and is definitely a market worth pursuing.
Conservative estimates indicate that more than zebibyte (1024^7 bytes) of new data is created in the digital world and is growing rapidly. Are enterprises and governments able to use all of the data with a holistic view? There are multiple challenges, both technological and organizational to make this happen. Using the power of BigData and Machine Learning, are leaders able to make more informed decisions, is the world becoming more secure and efficient? What are the challenges and what can we do about it, both in the academia and industry.
When it comes to people's personal and sensitive information, there are unique challenges with privacy and consent. India has an advantage in this space because we don't have bad legacy of data hoarding and implied hacking threats, (e.g. recent Equifax breach). Is it possible to leap frog India into a modern and truly privacy compliant data use country? This is a huge opportunity both for educational institutions and enterprisesFasten your seatbelts to have an Edutaining Session on how Data is touted as the most Important asset for any business! Listen to the eclectic Panel comprising of Startup world, Large Corporate and the Academia. A Session not to be Missed!
'Great stories happen to those who can tell them’ - Ira Glass.
No matter which business we are in, we are all in the storytelling business.
As the world becomes more and more complex, stories have become a powerful way to communicate your message and influence the outcome.
How to leverage the power of story for your startup or business?
Learn story techniques, frameworks and pitch secrets at this workshop on Storytelling.
As we usher in the fourth Industrial Revolution, advances in Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning will revolutionize other fields as well. This is nowhere more certain than in the field of software development, where astute developers are just beginning to capitalize on the need for advanced software in nearly every aspect of our lives.
A new revolution in software development is just beginning, which will usher in “thinking” and “self-healing/self-securing” software with capabilities to adapt to the user environment much more rapidly than believed possible in today’s environment.
Dr. Iyengar will discuss opportunities for India to incorporate artificial intelligence and deep learning into software development that will catapult India’s already strong software industry deeply into the trillion-dollar global software market.
Large digital companies are muscling into every sector; for example, who would have thought of Google or Apple or Microsoft becoming big players in Auto? Therefore, CXOs urgently need to digitally transform their companies to compete with these large digital giants, and nimble disrupting start-ups. However, it is easier said than done. How do we manage the experience of today’s millennial customers? How do we cope with newer, digitally enabled business models, a la Uber? Most importantly, how do we manage people and culture, and infuse Digital DNA? How do we do all of this while still leveraging our existing physical strengths? The panel will share how they are moving ahead in the Digital era while preserving their legacy and strengths.
The ability to predict sequences in response to complex inputs is fundamental to many real-life tasks such as translation, conversation assistance, image captioning, speech and handwriting recognition. In this talk, we will start with the basic LSTM-based encoder-decoder model, discuss its limitations, and examine the recent research efforts to tackle them. One line of research attempts to fix the maximum likelihood based training objective so as to align better with inference errors. A second line of research attempt to increase model capacity via techniques like attention, structured attention, and memory models. I will conclude with a discussion of future research direction.
This is a special plenary power panel on main stage themed "Future of Enterprise Products from India", which will comprise Mohan Kumar (NVP), Shekhar Kirani (Accel) in conversation with Klaas Oskam (Signal Hill).
The conversation would be focused on emerging trends amongst B2B / Enterprise Start-ups. What are the horizontal, vertical and emerging new Technology areas where Indian B2B Start-ups are seeing success? What are areas of relative strength and differentiation versus enterprise powerhouses such as the US and Israel? Whilst B2B start-ups are getting more investor attention and funding in last 2 years, very few have hit scale with not a single Indian SaaS start-up having exceeded $100m in revenues. Why are Indian SaaS / Enterprise Software start-ups taking longer to get to scale and what is holding them back from reaching $100m in revenues in 5-7 years that a number of the leading US SaaS start-ups are able to achieve?
This panel will try and find answers to both the areas that SaaS start-ups could focus on as well as how once product market fit has been established, they can hit scale faster in the process putting Indian on the map as an Enterprise Products power house.
In this talk, Sriram Rajamani gives a window into work going on at Microsoft Research India in the area of ML and AI, and paints a picture of a future powered by Artificial Intelligence. He will talk about opportunities, problems and solutions that we can develop in India, inspired by India, and can be applied worldwide. He will also talk about how we can come together as a community to make use of these opportunities.
Dubai is quickly achieving its goal of becoming the world’s first blockchain-powered government to utilize the technology for all transactions by 2020.
Dubai is at the forefront of adopting the latest technology and has set a goal to become the world’s first government to execute all implementable transactions on the blockchain by 2020. The government initiatives in this direction present tremendous business opportunities for the private sector in the UAE.
Hear from Dr. Noah Raford on what possibilities and potential the Blockchain technology hold. He helped establish Dubai’s first national foresight unit and is part of a team that identifies emerging opportunities, develops strategic partnerships and prototypes future initiatives for the Government of Dubai. Recent projects have included The Dubai Global Blockchain Council, The Dubai Self-Driving Vehicle Strategy and the Office of the Future, the world’s first fully functional 3D-printed building. He also acts as Creative Director for the Museum of the Future, opening in Dubai in 2019.
Every progressive company wants to incorporate AI but is confused on how to start. This Summit will guide companies on the journey to becoming an AI-first company.
The Summit will feature a series of TED-like talks from Product Owners and CXOs across different business areas talking about their journey of adopting AI in their business, their story and learnings on how Transform and leverage AI.
This workshop for early stage founders raising or will be raising formal rounds focuses on covering all aspects right from choosing an angel to getting money in the bank.
Finding the relevant method to choose an angel investor
Areas that angels focus on while evaluating startups for investments
Framing of effective pitch decks
Valuations and Term Sheet
Technology is shaping the world in a different way right now than we’ve ever seen. People are starting to think differently about how they learn, how they get entertained, how they work and how they shop. Walmart has this tremendous legacy. We’ve got this real purpose. We save people money so they can live better. The line between shopping and living is disappearing. Customers want value and convenience. They want to go to the store or just sit in their couch and order. They want orders to show up in their porch in two days, and sometimes they order online and pick up at stores. Surely, we are changing the way the world shops.
A CXO talks about their journey of adopting AI, sharing their story and learnings on how to Transform and leverage AI.
A CXO talks about their journey of adopting AI, sharing their story and learnings on how to Transform and leverage AI.
A CXO talks about their journey of adopting AI, sharing their story and learnings on how to Transform and leverage AI.
You’ve read the headlines. One of the biggest trends we are seeing across the industry is that security issues are on the rise. Modernizing your overall security strategy is an imperative, and software alone is not enough. Hardware based security technologies promise to deliver the much needed privacy, security and scalability. Learn about emerging security based workloads like Blockchain, Confidential computing for cloud, AR/VR & content protection, Artificial Intelligence, Transactions protection, Multi-factor authentication etc. and how hardware based securities are making them safe and secure.
A CXO talks about their journey of adopting AI, sharing their story and learnings on how to Transform and leverage AI.
A CXO talks about their journey of adopting AI, sharing their story and learnings on how to Transform and leverage AI.
A CXO talks about their journey of adopting AI, sharing their story and learnings on how to Transform and leverage AI.
What happens when the real and the virtual world are seamlessly integrated? What happens when technology integrates suppliers, warehouses, stores and shopping baskets, allowing data to flow seamlessly across the value chain? What happens when data, backed by AI capabilities, drive almost every decision on buying, merchandising, fulfillment and operations? What happens when technology platforms operate stores allowing rapid multiplication of store networks? What happens when mass advertising is replaced by one-on-one conversations with every customer? What happens when your world and our world becomes one? That is the future, Future Group is imagining, designing and creating. We call it the New Retail.
(Disclaimer: The organizers are only presenting a platform to connect entrepreneurs and investors. Entrepreneurs are responsible for complying with all relevant regulations in this regard. No member of the public is being invited to invest.)
How can startup founders and entrepreneurs communicate their message succinctly, with power, impact, and memorability? Why appeal to the heart and not the head? How can they use the most powerful tool in the communication toolkit to make a point, persuade, sell, convince, motivate and lead? This is about giving a strong voice to the entrepreneur to help him/her communicate their message to VCs, team members, customers, and other stakeholders.
Japan has been identified as a strategic market by NASSCOM to promote collaboration on the Digital front. Japanese ecosystem is extremely innovative and competitive with new cutting-edge technology on the hardware side of things and we believe Indian software capabilities in these new-age technologies complement each other well to co-develop & promote world-class solutions. Committed to this resolve for creating opportunities mutually beneficially for companies from both sides NASSCOM and IOT Acceleration Consortium (ITAC), Japan entered in to MOU earlier this year. This year at NPC - Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan (METI) is leading a delegation of companies that are interested to partner with Indian IT companies to co-develop and also with companies that are looking to invest in Indian startup companies. This session will see introduction to this effect with the Japanese delegation and create networking opportunities.
Today’s online businesses are facing a perfect storm. A proliferation of insecure, Internet-enabled devices, combined with inexpensive compute, means that it has never been cheaper or easier to launch devastating attacks against anyone doing business online. Everyone is a potential target – from the biggest international brands, to small local businesses. This talk will focus on the use of data, analytics, and machine learning to identify threat patterns and protect web and mobile applications.
Unified Payments Interface (UPI) provides a set of APIs that allow innovative financial services to be built for both consumers and businesses. One year since launch, UPI has grown by 3000 times and is now major mode of payment acceptance. Listen to a power packed panel of speakers who will talk about their UPI journey, what innovative solutions are being built and also discuss the impact of the much awaited UPI 2.0.
In "Retail Tech to watch out for in 2017", Forrester highlighted the following - High-priority investments that include personalization, omnichannel, analytics, and digital stores; Medium-priority that include artificial intelligence (AI), digital payments, and mobile solutions and Low-priority that include self-checkout, VR/AR, and IoT. The RetailTech roundtable at NPC will discuss these trends and use cases on how global and Indian retail and FMCG companies are adopting retail tech, how are they leveraging startups, the offline-online integration and customer centric innovations. Attend this roundtable and learn what’s next in retail tech and connect with the leaders who are driving this change.
Cyber security is plagued by bots that are designed to take automated action on the infrastructure, these bots fly under the radar and perform action on objectives. This session will walk the audience through various kinds of bots, threats and scenarios and look at automated (bot like) technologies to evaluate, detect and analyse bot interactions.
Two screens placed side by side will be used and show different phases of bot propagation and how Analytics and Advance deception technologies can be used to detect and prevent these systems in an automated manner. Different permutations for the bots will be used and display different techniques of detection.
In a world where technology is changing our everyday lives, digital transformation tops the strategic agenda in most organizations. To successfully transform, data is becoming the lifeblood of an organization, seamlessly flowing through it in order to enable new customer touchpoints through technology, create innovative business opportunities and optimize operations. Businesses and individuals are creating an overwhelming amount of data that is incredibly difficult to manage.
Thriving in this environment requires creating a data-centric organization, which is no small undertaking. A holistic approach to managing data that is secure, efficient, future-proof and provides freedom of choice, can help you change the world with Data.
Secret Sauce revealed!! Join us in this insightful and provocative panel led by Avnish Sabharwal and top Israeli and Indian experts on what makes Israeli deep-tech innovation eco-system tick and enables them to come up with world-class products like Mobileye, Chromatis and Waze. The panel would deep dive into the key lessons for India startups from Israel to transition from a Jugaad mentality TO buildING world class products in India for the world.
With BHiM, UPI, BharatQR and various other initiatives that are digitizing transactions, India is fast becoming a data-rich economy.
This means lending to all walks of life - individuals, SME's and corporates - will need to scale by orders of magnitude, and most likely will look very different in the future.
* Will more people be able to access credit from formal circles?
* Will P2P lending be significant in future?
* What are the incumbents and innovators doing about it?
* Where are the next "Unicorn Opportunities"
We all remember that successful ad we saw on tv, the creative heads and the CMO’s behind it. Creativity back then was much simpler. But In today’s era where creativity is unleashed on mobile 1st, it is time to redefine the role of the CMO, what are the kind of pressures they constantly face.
Ecosystems bring value to both platform companies and their partners. Hear why and how leading companies like Salesforce and ServiceNow have built successful partner ecosystems and why it matters to you as an entrepreneur and investor.
Connecting technology and consumer research to product innovations is what this talk is all about! How should we listen to consumers and form the habit of building and reshaping insights even when the conventional thinking pundits would fear to tread that path.
Its a story of how Samsung R&D involves from Research to Market.
Samsung R&D in Bangalore is the largest SW R&D of Samsung outside of Korea. Samsung India has contributed in several world firsts of Samsung like LTE, VoLTE, HDR and concentrate on creating IP. .
Hear from Dipesh the story of how IMS was developed way back in 2003 and what it took to commercialize it in 2012 and be the defacto solution on all Samsung Handsets shipped worldwide across all operators. Also learn how Samsung listened to consumers and shaped their products, solutions, services for Indian Consumers and how some of these innovations were taken global after having been made for India.