EMERGEOUT Delhi: Opportunities, Growth, Learning to Fill Up the Agenda

NASSCOM EMERGEOUT Conclave 8th edition at Delhi on August 12The IT industry in India has witnessed a remarkable growth in the past two decades, with constant changes that put India on the global map as the biggest service provider in the world. No company hits it big overnight. Companies led by visionary founders and able managers who strategize to put their companies on the growth path followed by execution have scaled to challenge global giants in the business, at times carving a niche for themselves in the process. It’s always lonely at the top and executives and founders always want a direction to take and opportunities to find. They also need to update their skills and capacity to match the growth their companies are set to achieve.

The EMERGEOUT Forum has always focused upon the opportunities that come knocking from time to time. The EMERGE community has been at the forefront of delivering lessons in excellence culled from successful entrepreneurs to emerging companies that are hungry for success and growth. To back up their online and offline activity, the EMERGE Forum holds EMERGEOUT Conclaves twice a year to bring together the community to discuss, deliberate, learn, and share.

The agenda for the upcoming 8th EMERGEOUT Conclave at Gurgaon on August 12 is yet again designed to help entrepreneurs spot opportunities, learn how to scale and how to sell their companies at the apt moment, and know about various opportunities available in the hot sectors that promise to fill the cash registers. And in addition deliver lessons in excellence on executive decision-making.

Keynote

If Rohit Singhal, an MD in radiology (in lay terms a doctor) quits his profession to develop iPhone apps and as a follow through sets up a iPhone App Store in Banglore, and today makes it big in the App world, what gave him the guts? Maybe he is an outlier not following the rules of the game. You have mobile apps for practically every Web application and beyond. Or it is possible to build a mobile app for every Web application. Today, enterprise is betting on apps to run their business-critical functions and enable quick decision making. Apps, to fantasise, might rule the world. Is it a myth or a reality? To tell you all that, Ellen Daley (Vice President & Practice Leader, Forrester Research) will deliver the keynote on “Mobile App Internet Recasts The Software And Services Landscape” backed by stats and analysis. Not fantasy really.

Growing and Selling

To make sure that the five biggies are not enough for IT in India, Dr Krishna Tanuku, Executive Director, Wadhawani Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (WCED), will give tips on “Building the Next Gen High-Growth Companies from India.” Some entrepreneurs lack in them to increase their capacity beyond a point and all humans are not equally gifted like N.R. Narayana Murthy to start small and then stay on top. It becomes essential to exit at the right moment then. Learn the tricks of exiting from a panel discussion that follows Dr. Tanuku’s lessons.

Revenues are drivers of growth. A highly successful entrepreneur, Dr. Anand Deshpande, will conduct a workshop on crossing the Rs. 10 crore chasm.

Opportunities and executive decision making

The afternoon session brings together a session on how mobile apps and Cloud will change the rules of the game shortly. In a parallel workshop, Mukund Mohan will dwell upon talent acquisition and retention. What the CEOs should learn to grow their business will form part of a panel discussion after the mobile and Cloud session.

SMEs stand to benefit from Bombay Stock Exchange’s upcoming SME Exchange.

Lakshman Gugulothu IPS (CEO, BSE SME Exchange) tells SME entrepreneurs on “Raising of Equity Capital and Listing of SMEs on BSE SME Exchange.”

Prasanto K. Roy (President and Chief Editor, ICT Publications, CyberMedia India) will be in conversation with the visionary leader Arjun Malhotra, Chairman, Emeritus, HeadStrong on “What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better.”

AppFame

AppFame will showcase the best 8 mobile apps from amongst the registered apps. A panel of judges will choose maybe the best app.

Unconference sessions

Indus Khaitan and Kishore Mandyam endeavor to infuse guts in you to “How to decide – When should one walk away from a prospect” as we Indians are used to saying yes all the time, even to unreasonable demands of a customer, in an unconference session.

Seasoned entrepreneurs Suresh Sambandam and Ankul Lal then engage the audience on a discussion about “Creating an innovative ecosystem between the BIG IT

Companies and Small IT Companies” in an unconference session, as partnerships will biggies help small IT companies gain visibility quickly.

The Conclave wraps up with this unconference session.

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—Venkatesh Krishnamoorthy, chief evangelist