Well we announced our first panel in Delhi last week and have got a tremendous response with over 70 registrations in just a couple of day. We have limited seats (just 150) so hurry and book your place. Even more reason to attend the WATBlog panel is the set of elite panelists that are going to form the WATBlog Panel.

Here is a introduction to the panelists who have confirmed:

Sidharth Rao - Webchutney CEO & Founder Goose Fish Media Ventures - A college drop out who began his career as a copywriter before launching Webchutney. He co-founded the agency in 1999 as a creative shop which now offers a range of internet marketing solutions to a large portfolio of globally recognized brands and companies. Webchutney is now a funded company with Capital18 investing the moolah.

Sidharth is still under 30 years of age and is probably one of the most ‘uncorporate’ CEO’s you will ever meet. He is extremely down to earth, casual and seriously funny. But behind the casual and funny exterior is a sharp, very aggressive and now very experienced internet entrepreneur. He has also branched out beyond Webchutney by establishing Goosefish Media Ventures which incubates online content driven media properties. His latest foray is into the world of ad networks via NetworkPlay which is headed by Rammohan (more on networkplay here).

We expect startling insights and frank opinions from Sidharth at the panel.

Alok Mittal - Managing Director - Canaan Partners India - Alok Mittal is one of the early success stories of the web as he was the Co-Founder of JobsAhead which was later sold to Monster.com. Alok Mittal joined Canaan (a venture capital firm) in March 2006 to lead the firm’s India operations. In India, Alok focuses on investments in digital media and mobile companies, as well as innovators in managed software services.

Alok was also a founding member of Indian Angel Network (formerly, Band of Angels India). Alok has played a key role in Canaan’s investments in BharatMatrimony, iYogi, and Cellcast.

A straight speaking VC who is always available to guide young entrepreneurs. Alok has been a speaker on multiple panel’s before and is know for his sharp and precise insights and his ability to bring out the key points in a discussion.

Sanjay Trehan - CEO - NDTV Convergence - Sanjay has years of experience in heading digital divisions for traditional media companoes. He joined NDTV NDTVConvergence Ltd as CEO has been instrumental in launching many initiatives like the wap portal, mobile.ndtv.com, NDTVkhabar.com, a rich media Hindi portal, Nogyan.com, an attitudinal youth portal and a US edition of ndtv.com.

Prior to joining NDTV, He was Vice President Broadband and Web 2.0 at Indiatimes, where he took Indiatimes into the online Gaming arena. Prior to that, He was the Chief of Internet Business at the Hindustan Times.
Besides for heading digital businesses Sanjay had also co-founded the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) which is a well known industry body now.

Sanjay is an avid blogger and poet himself and is one of the few head honcho’s in India who believe and propagate the power of social media.

I M Swaminathan,VP - Audience Head ,Brand manager of Times Internet Limited.

I.M.Swaminathan has joined TIL as Audience Head and Brand Manager of Indiatimes. Swami reports to Mr. Sunil Rajshekhar and work closely with Business Heads of Teams across the Indiatimes channels for developing and executing the brand strategies and plans for the growth in online properties.  Swami has BE and MBA degrees and comes to us with a rich experience in media spread across print, television and Internet companies

In his last assignment Swami was Director, Communication and Community Products at Yahoo India, where he lead various product teams as In this role he was heading Yahoo! Mail, Instant Messenger, Groups, Movies, Cricket and other properties.   Swami has launched many new products like Profiles, Language versions of mail and messenger and relaunched Cricket. Apart from growing audience numbers and strengthening the market share for Yahoo!. he was also the official spokesperson of Yahoo! India.

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