Day 1 : 19th November, 2007

Registration

Opening session: Indian Software Product Industry – Vision 2010

• Welcome address by Mr. Kiran Karnik, President, NASSCOM
• NASSCOM Product Forum objectives and overview of the NASSCOM Product Conclave 2007 by Mr. Subash Menon, Chair, NASSCOM Product Forum; Founder Chairman and Managing Director, Subex Azure Ltd
• Keynote address by Mr. Sabeer Bhatia, Co-founder Hotmail.com
• Product landscape in India and concluding remarks by Mr. Sharad Sharma, Co-chair, NASSCOM Product Forum; CEO; Yahoo! India R&D

Session I: Can India emerge as an IP Hub: Learning’s from international experiences

The session will feature discussions around:

• Various delivery methods of IP
• Can India move away from the traditional licensing model and set a new trend in the software enabled products space (IP Leverage)
• Multiple ways to monetize and deliver IP
• International experience of building an IP hub

Speakers

• Mr. Naresh Gupta, Managing Director, Adobe Systems India Pvt. Ltd.
• Mr. Srini Rajam, Chairman and CEO, Ittiam Systems
• Mr. Mahesh Mehendale, TI Fellow & Chief Technologist – Digital Entertainment Product development , Texas Instruments
• Mr. Deepak Visweswaraiah, Director – Information Management Software Group (IMSG), India COE, EMC Corporation
  

Session Chair
Mr. Sharad Sharma, CEO, Yahoo! India R&D

Session 2: Investing in Product Companies: Opportunities galore or high risk

The panel discussion will feature venture capitalists who will share their perspective on investing in a product company – at different lifecycles of product development.

Panelists

• Mr. Sudhir Sethi, Founder Chairman & Managing Director, IDG Ventures India
• Mr. Ashish Gupta, Founding Managing Partner, Helion
• Mr. Alok Mittal, Managing Director, Canaan Partners India
• Mr. Srini Vudayagiri, Managing Director, LightSpeed Venture Partners

Panel Chair:
Mr. Rajiv Mody, Chairman & CEO, Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd.

Session 3: Forum for Indian Innovators 2007

The NASSCOM Innovations Awards have become the most coveted awards in the industry. The short listed companies in the product innovation space will present to an esteemed panel their innovation journey and an opportunity for product companies to learn from experiences of some success stories.

Innovation Awards - Shortlist companies

Session Jury and Commentators:

• Mr. Anil Bakht, Chairman & Managing Director, Eastern Software Systems
• Mr. Sharad Sharma, CEO, Yahoo! India R&D
• Ms. Deepanwita Chattopadhyay, CEO – ICICI Knowledge Park
• Mr. Sanjeev Aggarwal, Managing Director, Helion
• Prof. Rishikesha T Krishnan, Corporate Strategy & Policy, IIM Bangalore 
• Ms Anu Acharya, CEO, Ocimum Biosolutions

Networking reception / “Quick Dine with the VC” Networking Dinner and reception hosted by SubexAzure

Day2: 20th November 2007

Session 4: India Opportunity

The session will include a thought provoking discussion with CIOs from domestic industry across verticals and will discuss and debate how Indian product companies can help build products for the Indian market and in particular the SMB sector.

Topics discussed will include:

• Domestic opportunity - Digital consumer space, FMCG and financial services
• New Platforms/ distribution channels
• Emergence of new product companies with India focused markets

Speakers

• Mr. Arvind Kathpalia, Group Head Ops, Technology & Finance, Kotak Mahindra
• Mr. Shyamsunder P, VP and Head of Quality and IT, Britannia
• Mr.  Alexius Collette, CEO,  Philips Innovation Campus

Session Chair
Mr Subash Menon, Founder Chairman, MD & CEO, SubexAzure Ltd.

Session 5: Technology Watch: Impact on next generation products

The session will feature technology experts as they highlight the product opportunities for next generation products in emerging technology areas like Web 2.0, mobility and wireless application, SoA, SaaS etc. Discussion at the session will focus around:

• Leverage technology for “India Out” business
• Understanding Technology and Industry Inflection Points and its effect on the Indian market

Speakers

• Mr. Jawahar Malhotra, CTO, Yahoo! India Research & Development  
• Ms. Radha Shelat, VP Engineering, Evergrid
• Mr. Samir Palnitkar,  VP Engineering, AirTight Networks
• Mr. Atul Chitnis, Sr. Vice President, Product Technologies and Strategy, Geodesic Information System

Session chair
Dr. Lin Chase, Sr. Vice President, Technology R&D, Accenture India

Lunch

Session 6:  Industry trends defining product landscape

This interactive session with CXOs of pure play product companies from India will discuss new product opportunities and highlight the following themes:

• Industry trends that play to India’s advantage
• Emergence of new product opportunities:

  Speakers

• Mr. Hanuman Tripathi, CEO & Managing Director, Infrasoft Technologies
• Kavita Iyer – CEO, Minglebox Communication Pvt. Ltd.
• Mr. Anurag Dod, CEO & Co-founder, Guruji.com Software Pvt. Ltd.
• Mr. Vishnu Dusad, CEO, Nucleus Software Ltd
• Mr. Sudeesh Yezhuvath, COO, SubexAzure Ltd.

Session chair
Mr. Sanjay Anandram, Founding Partner, JumpStartup Venture Fund

Session 7:  The Product Development, marketing and branding lifecycle

The session will feature case studies of successful product companies and their challenges / opportunities / learning’s in the lifecycle of the product. The session will focus on product management rather than development, and hence the branding, marketing life cycle.

Speakers

• Mr. Sanjay Swamy,  CEO, mChek
• Mr. Sanjay Nayak, CEO & Managing Director, Tejas Networks India Pvt. Ltd.
• Mr. Venkatraman T S, VP & Head, Product Management and Delivery - Finacle, Infosys

Session chair
Mr. Kishore Kapoor, CEO, i-flex Pte.

Session 8: NASSCOM  Product Forum - An Open Session to define the Product path in India

This session will serve as an open house platform to share ideas and suggestions on activities of the NASSCOM Product Forum. The session will be led by:

• Mr. Subash Menon, Chair, NASSCOM Product Forum
• Mr. Sharad Sharma, Co Chair, NASSCOM Product Forum
• Dr. Lin Chase,  Sr. VP, Technology and R&D, Accenture India