Proto.in 8th Edition, Chennai, July 9th, 2011

Agenda

Time	Agenda
09:30 AM	Keynote by Mohit Bhatnagar, Managing Director, Sequoia Capital India Lessons learnt while working with India's most dynamic start-ups. The secret recipe of that fast growth start-up
10:00 AM	Keynote by Naveen Tewari, Founder, Inmobi Yes. Product Innovation is possible in India. So is super-fast growth. So is taking on the World. Naveen Tewari of Inmobi tells us how he's done it so far.
10:30 AM	Proto.in Showcase Witness India's 15 most exciting product innovations from the business domains of e-commerce, social gaming, mobile, clean-tech and more!
01:30 PM	Lunch Break
02:30 PM	BSE SME Exchange unveiled! What is the new SME exchange all about and how will it be relevant to product start-ups in India A special interaction between the men behind the SME Exchange, Ravi Narayan, CEO MentorSquare Advisors (Mentoring and Advisory services to SMEs) and late stage entrepreneur Shantanu Surpure of Sandhill Advisors.
03:15 PM	ET NOW ‘Super Angels’ with Vishal Gondal Proto.in plays host to ‘Super Angels’, the path-breaking series on ET NOW where start-ups pitch to angel investors for funding on national television. In this special, Men's E-commerce platform fetise.com makes its pitch to Super Angel Vishal Gondal, the founder of Indiagames
04:00 PM	Early Stage Investing in India – Learnings, Successes and Musings Is there a start-up recipe investors are looking at? Entrepreneur, Business model and product traits that appeal. Follow sectors or create new ones. Strategies and lessons learnt while investing in start-ups which have scaled successfully. How difficult is it really to pick the winners. Panel Moderated by Arun Natarajan, Founder of Venture Intelligence Speakers: Rahul Khanna – MD, Canaan Partners Sandeep Singhal – MD, Nexus Venture Partners Sasha Mirchandani – Managing Partner, Kae Capital Anand Lunia, CFO, Seed Fund Sushanto Mitra, CEO, SINE Ashwin Raghuraman, VP, India Innovation Fund
04:45 PM	Product 101 – Building and scaling a product startup in India Secrets of building a product start-up in India. How to hire right, how to keep costs down, monetization strategies and breeding innovation. How is it really done? Panel Moderated by Gopal Srinivasan, MD of TVS Capital Speakers: Anupam Pahuja, General Manager, Paypal India Rohit Singal, Founder, Source Bits Shalin Jain, Founder, Tenmiles Manav Garg, Founder, Eka Software Gautam Sinha, Director Technology, Times Internet Limited Mukul Kumar, Co-Founder, Pubmatic
05:30 PM	The Secret to Scale Learns from the entrepreneurs who bet right, built right and most importantly scaled right. Each one of them have over 300 employees, over 10 million dollars in revenue and a global footprint. How did they do it? What can you learn? Satya Prabhakar, Founder, Sulekha.com Vishal Gondal, Founder, Indiagames Naveen Tewari, Founder, Inmobi Panel Moderated by Sateesh Andra, MD of DFJ Ventures
06:15 PM	Vote of thanks Memento Distribution Volunteer – Photo Op

Parallel Sessions:

3:00 PM to 6:00 PM Demo Pit

15 of India's hottest start-ups will showcase their demos in the demo pit – and engage and interact with the audience on their growth plans and opportunities for collaboration.

3:00 PM to 5:00 PM Mentoring Session with Sequoia Capital

15 selected start-ups attending the event have the opportunity of getting mentored by Sequoia Capital, 1 on 1 for a period 15 mins each. 15 deserving start-ups will be chosen for this special session

3:15 PM to 4:15 PM Bootstrap with T-Labs

T-Labs, an early stage investor from the Times Internet Limited is playing host to a special Innovation Jam where entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs will get an opportunity to build a start-up and raise funds all in under one hour

5:00 PM to 6:00 PM Finance Fundamentals Workshop by Nurture Talent

Amit Grover and the Nurture Talent team will hold a special workshop for all attendees where they will teach the finance essentials and entrepreneur must equip himself with. Free to attend for all participants

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