There are four special Startup Saturdays across the country, ie, Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad, this coming weekend 13th December. As you must have been tracking WATBlog has been covering the Mumbai ones regularly. But I guess we would need to expand our team inorder to cover 4 of them this week! I guess slowdown aint impacting the startup saturday folks!
The agenda for this weekend across the four cities are
1. Bangalore, venue : Honeywell Technologies, Bannerghatta Road, opposite IIM Bangalore; 10 am – 1 pm, register here.
- Announcement by Honeywell on the startup collaboration initiative in partnership with the HeadStart Foundation, speaker is Harsha Angeri, Head, Strategy & Initiatives, HTSL
- Talk on ‘SaaS to Cloud computing’ by Vikram Murdeshwar, Akamai
- Product demo by LifeMojo (www.lifemojo.com)
2. Mumbai, venue : Dome 2, SP Jain Institute of Management, Andheri (West); 3 pm – 6 pm, register here.
- Product demo of Librarywala (www.librarywala.com) by Hiten Turakhia
- Product demo of Adoroi (www.adoroi.com) by Mitesh Thakkar
- Panel discussion on ‘The effect of the economic slowdown on startups’ involving Mahesh Murthy, SeedFund and Sasha Mirchandani, BlueRun Ventures, Gopal Krishnan, ex-CEO of Mobile2Win, and Rohit Nalwade, ex-CEO of ConsumerVision
3. Delhi, venue : American Center, 24 KG Marg, Near Connaught place; 2 pm – 5 pm, register here
- Product demo by Eko (www.eko.co.in), Anupam Varghese, VP Technology
- Talk on ‘Why Startups should not have a HR department’ by Narendra Nag
- Panel discussion on ‘The future of consumer services business models in India’ involving Sanjay Sindhwani, VP New Initiatives at IndiaTimes and Harish Bahl, Founder, Smile Technology Interactive Group (promoters of Tyroo and Quasar Media)
4. Hyderabad, venue : Taj Deccan; 12 noon – 7 pm, register here.
- Product demo and Talk
- VC meet up : Ranjith Menon, IDG Ventures
- followed by HYSEA Technology Day : featuring talks on Azure (Microsoft), OpenSocial (Google), GWT (Google), Research and IP creation (IDG Ventures, IIIT-Hyderabad)
These Startup Saturdays are a run up to the HeadStart which we blogged about recently. Rajiv chief blogger WATBlog should be attending the delhi startup saturday and Shayon should be attending mumbai. Any bloggers who want to attend bangalore and hyderabad and contribute to watblog should ping us on info @ watblog . com
If you see the Mint article on the 30 companies in the final round of the Tata-NEN Hottest Startups Contest, you will see more from Chennai than Hyderabad and the city is also neck-to-neck with other cities.