Events around web, advertising and technology

After doing its first panel in Mumbai amongst students and industry people at IIT Bombay WATBlog Panel is now heading to New Delhi. And this time we are connecting the digital media space with traditional brands who are looking to go digital.
WATBlog Panel On Bridging the Digital Divide examines the challenges and opportunities faced by [...]

WATGame was at the India Gaming Summit and Session 4 was on Marketing The Gaming Industry.

Session Chairman – Arun Mehra, Zapak
Panelists –
+ Shantanu Sirohi, Interactive Avenues
+ Madan Sanglikar, Mindshare
+ Saurabh Kanwar, Channel [V]
The session was focused on marketing the games themselves and marketing done through the games.
Shantanu started his session first. Being from an Interactive [...]

WATGame was invited to the Zapak Gaming Summit 2008 I Mumbai. We reached late. Session 3 and 4 were what we were able to attend. In this two-part article, we give a rather detailed overview of what was discussed in the summit.

Session 3 was on Gaming Platforms – Online / Mobile / PC / Console
Moderator [...]

It wasn’t even a week ago that we announced our first WATBlog Wednesday on WATBlog and the response has been overwhelming! We have had more than 130 registrations and people still seem to be calling us asking if they can get a few friends along

Honestly we are thrilled at seeing this support from [...]

Well in our november events update we missed on one of the important gaming events taking place this month. So here is a mid month update on the same.
India Gaming Summit 2008: Intel and Zapak are all set to take a close look at the Gaming industry this year again with Intel & Zapak India [...]

The 4th and final panel of the IAMAI Digital Entertainment Conference held at Mumbai this week was on mobile entertainment.
The panelists included:

Viren Popli - Sr. Vice President & Head-Mobile Entertainment, Star India
Probir Roy - Co founder & Director, Coruscant Tec
Manoj Dawane - Chief Executive Officer, Mauj Telecom
Srinivas Gopal - General Manager Marketing, Idea
Salil Bhargava - [...]

The third panel at the IAMAI Digital Entertainment Conference focussed on Online Video and Gaming.  The panelists of this panel were:

Ajay Khanna - General Manager, EA Games India
Bruno Goveas - Head Marketing & Product Management, Akamai
Parminder Singh - Business Head, Technology, Google India
Ashish - CEO, Ibibo Web Pvt Ltd
Rohit Sharma - COO, Zapak Digital Entertainment [...]

The second session at the IAMAI Digital Entertainment Conference revolved around Entertainment from 10 feet i.e. Digital TV.
The panelists for this session were

Vikram Kaushik - MD  - Tata Sky
Sujata Dev - CEO Time Broadband
Preeti Desai - VP Marketing & Strategic Alliances
Saurabh Kanwar - Vice President Content and Communication, Channel V
Panel Moderator - Govindrj Ethiraj, Editor-in-Chief, [...]

WATBlog is launching its own brand of Mixer events for Web, Advertising and Technology Industry in India. We call it WATBlog Wednesday!
WAT is WATBlog Wednesday?
WATBlog Wednesday is a networking event where in professionals (has to be a focussed group i.e. techies, advertising folks or startups) come together on a wednesday evening network and have a [...]

Yesterday the Digital Entertainment Conference was organised by IAMAI in Mumbai and the theme was discussion on the various screens of entertainment i.e. the cinema theatre screen, TV screen, Computer screen and the mobile screen and the digital revolution in all of them.
The first panel was on entertainment from 25 feet i.e. the digital cinema [...]

Sandeep Singhal spoke on differentiation as a marketing strategy for startups at the TIE-ISB Connect happening in Hyderabad. Here are the points he mentioned.
Sources of Differentiation
The main sources of differentiation for startups which cause a competitive edge:
1) Tech - Patents or New technology that your competition doesn’t have.
2) Process - Process patents or way of [...]

We are at the TIE-ISB Connect happening at ISB, Hyderabad and yesterday was day 1 of the conference where in workshops were conduction on raising funding and marketing strategy for startups.
One of the sessions was on fund raising by startups and DD ganguly of dimdim.com was the speaker.
DD Ganguly of Dimdim.com on How to raise [...]

WATBlog attended the Mobile VAS Roundtable on crystal ball gazing for the VAS Industry organised by IAMAI and Businessworld and came back with some interesting insights from the panel which had the following panelists.

Krishna Durbha, Head-VAS Business & Marketing Applications Solutions & Content Group, Reliance Communications
Manoj Dawane, CEO, Mauj Mobile
Abhijit Saxena, CEO, Netcore Solutions
Sanjay Swamy, [...]

There are events happening across India this november and here is a list for you to check out:
5th-7th November - TIE-ISB Connect, ISB, Hyderabad: Tie-isb connect is an annual networking event for entrepreneurs and investors organized by the TiE, Hyderabad Chapter and the Wadhwani Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (WCED), ISB. The event is a must [...]

Divyansh Sharma our guest blogger attended the TIECon Delhi which concluded last week and came back with some interesting insights from the panel discussion on ‘The future of internet’.

The panel included

Sanjeev Bikhchandani, Founder, Naukri.com – Chair
Shailesh Rao, MD, Google India
R.Ramaraj, Sr.Advisor, Sequoia Capital Advisors
D.Shivakumar, Vice President & General Manager, Nokia
Mahendra Swarup, Chief Mentor, SITG
Rohit Agarwal, [...]