Events Updates July 08: VAS Asia, Proto.in & Digital Payment IAMAI

By Rajiv Dingra • July 2, 2008

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Well events season is back again! Here are the events to look out for and must attend for this month:

VAS Asia 2008 - July 11th - Le Meridien, New Delhi - This conference cum exhibition is in its 4th year currently and expects to attract the who’s who of the Indian VAS (Value added services) Space. The event is sponsored by Onmobile and the discussions would revolve around the following:

1000 - 1100 hrs - Successful Growth Strategies for VAS in Indian Telecom Industry & Asian Service Provider’s Perspective
1130 - 1330 hrs - Future Directions for the VAS in Indian Telecom Industry
1430 - 1600 hrs - Market Drivers for the Growth of VAS in Indian Telecom Industry
1630 - 1800 hrs - Successful Strategies to Face the Future Challenges for VAS in the Indian Telecom Industry

Speakers are not yet announced but if you are from teh VAS space expect to see some very familiar faces.

Proto.in - 18-19th July 2008 - IIT Delhi

Proto.in as we have covered previously on WATBlog is a startup showcase whichy helps startups connect with venture capitalists, future employees, partners et al.

Proto.in would have a fasttrack session besides for the usual startup pitch presentations. These sessions are as follows:

KEYNOTE: Shall we Take Over the World?
Building a Fast Growing Business, Recounting Experience : Bhavin Thurakia
Monetizing In India: Murugavel, Bharat Matrimony.com
Building Products That People want: Sameer Guglani
The Art of Marketing The Startup : Mahesh Murthy / Kiruba Shankar
Freeconomics: How Long Can Free be Free?
Building a Brand That Never Dies: Narayan, Director, 20:20 Media
Virality is a Design. Viral Marketing is the effect : Amit Ranjan, Slideshare
The Test for a Good Investor: Sanjay Anandaram

Digital Payments IAMAI - 25th July - ITC Grand Central - Mumbai

As the name suggests this conference is on digital payments and one can surely expect a good discussion on the following:

Digital Payments a way to accelerate financial inclusion
Digital & Payment Convergence for financial inclusion
Fraud Prevention through risk management - Role of Merchants/ Card Association/ Bank
Exploring the mobile financial ecosystem

Thats it for July then.. Hopefully we shall bump into you in one of the above events!

Categories: Events
Tags: digital events, iamai digital payments, online events, proto.in, vas asia

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Rajiv is a prolific blogger who has over 1000 blog posts to his credit at WATBlog. The Founder & CEO of WATMedia our parent company and the Chief Blogger at WATBlog, he has been the driving force of the WAT Evolution. Rajiv does some excellent analysis of the digital media industry in India and often brings out deep insights with his inimitable style of interviewing. Just mail rajiv|at|watblog|dot|com and it will reach him..