NASSCOM Product Conclave

With a broad range of hands-on experience founding, funding and supporting early-stage technology companies, Alok Mittal joined Canaan India in March 2006.  Alok focuses on investments in digital media and mobile companies, as well as innovators in managed software services and other IT enabled businesses. He regularly speaks at prominent industry events such as TiE, NASSCOM, SiliconIndia, VC Circle, Microsoft BizSpark, Adtech and more.

Prior to joining the venture industry, Alok co-founded JobsAhead.com, a leading web-based recruitment business, which was acquired by Monster.com, the…

I am Amit Ranjan, the Cofounder & COO of SlideShare. SlideShare is the world’s largest community for sharing presentations on the web. With 32 million monthly visitors, SlideShare is amongst the top 300 most visited websites on the internet. I live in New Delhi, where I head SlideShare’s Delhi office. The last three years of my professional life have been consumed in building and scaling SlideShare into a global scale internet company. Launched in 2006, SlideShare is used by businesses, corporates, universities & individuals the world over. And it is counted amongst the leading social…

I chip in with all major HeadStart activities including raising money, creating partnerships, media & PR, content and technology.

Besides this, I am also accountable for Startup Saturdays across India. I coordinate with our City Leads across 8 Indian cities and ensure that our customers and team members are extremely satisfied with what we create and deliver. I also take care of building teams and putting processes in new city chapters.

Amit Somani is the Chief Products Officer for MakeMyTrip, heading the online product portfolio. Amit comes with over 16 years of experience. He has worked with Google and IBM where he was Head for Mobile Products for Google for Asia-Pacific and Director for the Enterprise Search and Discovery business at IBM based out of San Jose, California.

Amit has published several papers, holds 7 patents and is the recipient of 3 IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement awards. He holds a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IT-BHU, India (Gold medalist) and an M.S. in Computer Science f…

Over 25 years experience in top management positions in major International and Indian IT firms. Key accomplishments include leading Wipro marketing to IT Industry leading status, building and leading IBMs business in India after their reentry into the country, and starting and leading Sun Microsystems business in India. 2009 on Bodhi Technologies 2006 to 2009 MD, MicroVentures, India 2004 to 2006 Bodhi Technologies 2002 to 2003 Managing Director,S Asia, Network Appliance 1998 to 2000 CEO, Birlasoft Ltd. 1996 to 1998 Chairman & CEO,Linc Software Systems 1995 to 1…

Anand Rajaraman is Senior Vice President at Walmart Global eCommerce, where he heads up the newly created @WalmartLabs, which focuses on the intersection of social, mobile, and retail. Anand joined Walmart when when Walmart acquired Kosmix, the startup he co-founded. He also teaches a class on web-scale data mining at the Computer Science Department at Stanford University.

In his VC avatar, Anand is a Founding Partner of Cambrian Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm. Anand's investments include Facebook (one of the earliest angel investors, in 2005); Kaltix (acquired by Googl…

Ankur Lal has more than 18 years of experience in the IT and telecom solutions industry. His expertise in designing and implementing state-of-the-art, user-friendly software solutions for Next-Gen telecom service providers empowering these companies to compete globally.

Ankur’s commitment and passion to the industry are evident from his eagerness to pursue a diverse range of projects and step into newer markets and technologies.

As a frequent speaker at global conferences on Billing and OSS-related issues and a prolific writer, he has been contributing extensively to leading In…

MD - Indian Sub Continent at Red Hat. I am a multi-disciplinary sales and operations manager with 18 years having lived and worked in all three major markets - North America, EMEA and APAC.

I've incubated businesses in markets from Central US (Chicago), Open Source/Virtualization market for Oracle. Back at Red Hat I incorporated the offices for Middle East & Africa market and now leading the change in the Indian sub-continent.

Over a decade of experience in Open Source in all 3 major geographies.

As Editor, Emerging Business, The Economic Times Archana Rai is responsible for coverage of entrepreneurial news and trends at India's largest financial daily. She leads a national team of reporters who track private equity, venture capital and start-up activity  for the paper and produce a weekly page on entrepreneurship, India Emerging, that appears every Friday. In a decade long career in business journalism which includes stints at some of India's leading media houses, Archana has written on a variety of topics ranging from entrepreneurship to personal finance, corporate analysis and the c…

Ashish Aggarwal holds a Doctorate Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, with a specialization in digital audio signal processing. His initial work was instrumental in the development of new audio standards and was awarded the prestigious IEEE Signal Processing Best Paper Award. Ashish started his career as an audio architect where he led a team of 8 people in algorithm and software development for iPod. He later joined Harman International as part of the Advanced Technology Group where he pioneered the development of new audio algorithms. In 2004, A…