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Entrepreneur India 2013

Conference Agenda

DAY 1 - JULY 6, 2013
10:15 - 11:30

INAUGURAL SESSION

CATALYSING ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A NEW VISION OF STATE-BUSINESS RELATIONS

Session Highlights:
  • How much priority does the government lay on entrepreneurship?
  • Current Regulatory Regimes
  • Present policies encourage or discourage entrepreneurs
  • Performance of recent reforms
Arvind Kejriwal, Aam Admi Party
Som Mittal, President, NASSCOM
Saurabh Srivastava, Chairman, CA Technologies
11:30 - 11:45    Tea
11:45 - 12:30

Session 1:

THE BOSS OF ENTERPRISE “I”: MY STORY AND WHAT I HAVE LEARNT ABOUT BUSINESS & LIFE

Session Highlights:
  • Living through the ups & downs of transition phase of growth
  • Building tolerance for risk –Nurturing temperament to experiment
  • Living through Successes and failures :Balancing Business passion with emotions
  • How to motivate your team & self when you don’t have all the answers
Satya Narayanan, Chairman, Career Launcher
12:30 - 13:30

Session 2:

THE AWAKENED ENTREPRENEUR: DISCOVERING THE BUSINESS YOU WERE BORN TO CREATE FORECASTING

Session Highlights:
  • Creating new opportunities for Business to grow further
  • Recharge your entrepreneurial spirit : what actions to take for leading up to the change
  • Look beyond the current and visualizing what can be done differently
  • Inspiration for the next million dollar Idea
  • The Forecasting process
  • Pivots and Failures: What Now & What Next?
  • Cross-Pollinate for Ideas
Hameet Singh Sawhney, CEO, Falcon Technologies
Sakshi Vij, Vice President, Carzonrent India Pvt Ltd
Devita Saraf, CEO, Vu Technologies
R. Narayan, Member MSME Committee FICCI and Founder & CEO, Power2SME
13:30 - 14:30    LUNCH & NETWORKING
14:30 - 15:30

Session 3:

FROM IDEA TO IDEAL ENTREPRENEUR: FAST-TRACKING THE RIGHT IDEA TO THE IDEAL ENTERPRISE

Session Highlights:
  • It all starts with an idea. How good is yours?
  • Where do all the good ideas come from?
  • Does your idea have what it takes?
  • What is the Return on idea from Individual perspective?
  • The myth of the Golden Idea: Audacious optimism vs. Conservative reality
  • Avoiding the situation of "perfection paralysis" in Idea execution
  • From ideas to IPOs
  • Even the best ideas can fail – “Bouncing Back”
Sundeep Malhotra, Founder & CEO, HomeShop18
Kunwer Sachdev, MD, Su-Kam Power Systems
G.Sambasiva Rao, Founder & MD, Sravan Shipping Services Private Limited
15:30 - 16:15

Session 4:

WHAT MAKES THE ENTREPRENEUR ENTREPRENEURIAL: PEOPLE, PARTNERSHIPS AND PROCESSES

Session Highlights
  • Putting together an optimum team -Readying people by blending their skills for problem solving rather than trouble shooting
  • Marrying people with processes led systems
  • Progress with people, processes and partnerships
  • Basis of Integration - identification of synergies
  • Encouraging cross-fertilization between business units, while preventing cross-contamination
  • Optimizing people and processes to form partnerships
Sanjeev Gupta, Founder & MD, Albion Info Tel Pvt. Ltd
Amit Bakshi, Founder and MD, Eris Lifesciences
Dr. J.S. Juneja, Chairman, SME Committee of PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Gulpreet Kohli, MD, Chrys Capital Management Advisors Pvt. Ltd.
16:15 - 16:30    Networking Tea
16:30 - 17:30

Session 5:

THE GLOBAL ENTREPRENEUR: GOING PLACES WITH GLOBAL PRODUCTS

Session Highlights
  • How to penetrate new markets
  • Considering the right country
  • Operating successful international ventures
  • Boosting trade relationship with UK
  • Building global competitiveness
  • How to compete on a global stage
  • Brand& IP protection
Dr. Indrajit Sabharwal, MD, Simmtronics
Rajiv Chawla, President, Faridabad Small Industries Association
Gautam Sehgal, Chief Representative (India), London & Partners
Rahul Batra, Director & Solicitor - Global Mobility Services, Hudson McKenzie
Heidi Frances, Team Manager (Asia), Smith Stone Walters
17:30 - 18:15

Session 6:

Franchising : A growth Idea

Session Highlights
  • How Franchising strategy is Applicable to all types of Businesses today
  • The reasons that businesses decide to franchise
  • How bank Financing can make Franchise Business grow multi-fold
  • The elements that contribute to success of a Franchise Business
Session Lead: Smt. Saloni Narayan, DGM SCFU, SME BU,State Bank of India
Sachin Marya, President, Franchise India
Jagdeep Chhabra, MD and CEO, Chhabra 555
Dheeraj Gupta, Founder & MD, JumboKing
Day 2 - JULY 7, 2013
10:15 - 11:00

Session 1:

FORWARD THINKERS: ENTREPRENEURS @ EVERYDAY INNOVATION

Session Highlights:
  • Where Should Medium entrepreneurs bet big into changing pace of innovation?
  • When does innovation yield efficiency?
  • Everyday Innovation challenge: the innovation that happens on the back of innovation
  • The Creativity Payback - Measuring the change through innovation dividend reaped The Real worth!
  • How innovation factors into entrepreneur's everyday plans
Sanjay Deshpande, Chief Innovation Officer & CEO, Uniken
Bijaei Jayaraj, Founder, Loyalty Rewardz Mngt Pvt Ltd
Vinay Prashant, Head Sales-North India, Amagi
11:00 - 12:15

Session 2:

RAISING GROWTH CAPITAL: NEW RULES IN AN OLD GAME
Keynote by Mr. Suman Jyoti Khaitan, President, PHDCCI
Financing entrepreneurship: Debt, Angel, Private Equity

Session Highlights:
  • How investor networks operate and how they put deals together
  • Traditional Finance & Cooperative finance (Angel Investors), venture capital, and business support networks - A View from Both Sides
  • Winning Strategies from Prominent Private Equity Investors on Capital flows
  • What approach of scaling up do PE firms seek in a venture
  • What PE company brings to the table as an investor
  • When and How would PE company wants to take an exit
Deepesh Garg, MD, O3 Capital
Kaushik Guhathakurta, Director, Resurgent India Limited
Pankaj Dinodia, Chief Executive Officer, Dinodia Capital Advisors
Shubhomoy Ray, CEO, Finnacle Capital Advisors
Ranjit Shastri, Director, Stern Fisher Angel Network
Akhil Shahani, Director, Kaizen Management Advisors
Anil Joshi, President, Mumbai Angels
Sunil K Goyal, CEO and Fund Manager, YourNest Angel Fund
Iain Quick, Business Development Manager, Welsh Government
12:15 - 13:00

Session 3:

HALF THE WORLD: WOMEN AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE MODERN WORLD

Session Highlights:
  • Making way for both "craftsmen" and "opportunistic" women entrepreneurs
  • Mompreneurs in Business- The time is now!
  • Vision, Leadership & Entrepreneurship- The Women way
  • How can women lead the next decade in entrepreneurship?
  • Are investors excited about women-led ventures?
Archana Garodia Gupta, Vice President, FICCI Ladies Organization & Director, Touchstone
Padamaja Ruparel, CEO,Indian Angel network
13:00 - 13:30 Keynote By Minister of MSME - Sh. K.H. Muniyappa
13:30 - 14:15    Lunch
14:15 - 14:45

Session 4:

TECH ENABLED:TECHNOLOGY CALLS FOR LEARNING AND UN-LEARNING

Session Highlights:
  • Empowering your enterprise with the cloud
  • Best practices to reach enterprise efficiency
  • How IT can maximize the potential besides reducing cost
  • IT enabling productivity
  • The next decade of technology in business
Satish Mittal, Sr. VP, Vodafone Business Services
14:45 - 15:15

Session 5:

"How to Sessions"
PITCHING YOUR BUSINESS TO EARLY STAGE INVESTORS


Session Highlights:
  • The Rules of Presenting a Business
  • What gets the investors excited in the Pitch
  • Defining the Business Plan
  • What & How to Negotiate
Rajesh Sawhney, Founder, GSF SuperAngels
15:15 - 15:40

Session 6:

The IPO Fundamentals

Session Highlights:
  • Getting In On An IPO : The A-Z of planning an IPO
  • Which sectors are hot in SME for planning IPO
  • Getting The Underwriting Process right
  • Tacking your stocks progress
Ajay Thakur, Head, SME Segment, BSE Ltd
15:40 - 16:00

Session 7:

Why logistics is the most powerful Force in a growing business today and why you should understand it ?

Session Highlights:
How Logistics help in
  • opening markets
  • satisfying customers
  • creating sustainable supply chains
  • realizing new opportunities
Sanjiv Kathuria - CEO of DOTZOT - DTDC E-Commerce Logistics Ltd.
16:00 - 16:30    Closing Remarks followed by Networking tea

Instant Information

Testimonials

  • "I am very happy to see this conclave Entrepreneur India. This gives a very good opportunity for the younger generation to be a part of entrepreneurship. This is very much needed by the current. Holding this kind of conferences for India, which will not only help bring entrepreneurs for the domestic market but will at the same time help international markets."

    Padmaja Ruparel, President, Indian Angel Network.

  • "Showing the face of individual in the mirror."

    Syed Sayeed Ahemad- SLNVS Agencies

  • "It was to the subject matter, all topics are effectively covered as this has been a neglected area by most entrepreneurs."

    Manish Pande- President, SB B Infrabuild Pvt Ltd/ SRAM Shakti Foundation

  • "An interactive session that kept all interested and attentive and had good learning points as well."

    Shalika Bhalla, Senior Associate, Obhan & Associates

  • "Very lively and interesting, covered all practical legal aspects. An eye opener."

    Sooraj Rajendran,Business Analyst, James Blake Internet Services

  • "A session should leave an impact to be fruitful and it did."

    Anila Rampuria,Consultant-Consultins One