Dalal street will be Startup street today: TechSparks Mumbai

We are at the 18th floor of the Bombay Stock Exchange on the Dalal Street and the view is gorgeous. This is also home to the Zone Startups Accelerator who have helped us in setting up the event which is creating all the startup buzz in Mumbai this weekend.

If you're still wondering about the event, you sure need to subscribe to our newsletter to stay updated. Today is when the Bombay Stock Exchange is going to be meeting ground for entrepreneurs, investors and other stakeholders in the startup ecosystem- TechSparks Mumbai (final regional event before we dive into the Grand Finale @Bangalore).

What's happening?

Well, we kick off with the special feature of all regional events this time around- The Tech Bazaar or the Marketplace where a bunch of startups would be showcasing their products/services. The marketplace is open during the networking sessions and whenever you do come across something interesting, do tweet about it with #tsparks.

The Tech Bazaar will be on from 12.30PM- 1.25PM along with some refreshments and networking.

After this inaugural meeting session, we officially kick off the event with a 5 minute speech followed by the first talk of the day- The ScaleArc Story by Gaurav Gupta, VP Engg, ScaleArc. It is a database infrastructure software maker and is a thriving venture funded company. Gaurav will take the audience through their journey.

After half an hour, at 2PM we have the show stealer, "Storytelling as a powerful tool for brand creation by Sussanne Khan, thehomelabel.com & Preeta Sukhtankar, The Label Corp" These ladies will be talking about creating a brand and some of the secret sauce about how they've been doing it till now.

The other talk which is scheduled for 3.15PM is by by Roy De Souza, founder & CEO, Zedo on "Running a global business on the cloud." In between, we have a small talk by the MD and CEO of BSE and a Startup Metrics Workshop by Sequoia Capital.

At 3.45 we dive into two workshops: "The branding and marketing" workshop and one on "Design Thinking". We wrap up at 6PM with a final round of networking.

HERE is the exact agenda and timelines for the event. (For on the spot registration, make sure you're walking in by 12PM)