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Emerging Trends in Medical Gadgetry – Giriraju Sakappa

Lounge47 47, 2nd Main Rd, Defence Colony, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

            This presentation drew Medical Gadget enthusiasts from all over the city. The discussion that followed centered around the readiness of the Indian market for innovative medical devices, solving rural healthcare issues and the challenges that businesses face when addressing these needs. Some areas for innovation were also discussed - […]

The Internet of Things – Dr. Raghunath Govindachari, VP of Research & Innovation, Mindtree

Lounge47 47, 2nd Main Rd, Defence Colony, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

          Dr. Raghunath Govindachari from Mindtree speaking about "The Internet Of Things". This presentation drew a large crowd of both young and experienced IoT enthusiasts. The talk and discussion that followed helped us all better understand the scale and scope of IOT, what is to come, the players that are latched in, […]

How to Create a Lovable & Scalable Organization – Muki Regunathan, Founder & CEO Pepper Square

Lounge47 47, 2nd Main Rd, Defence Colony, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

          Mr. Muki Regunathan founder & CEO of peppersquare who will speak about  "How to create a lovable & scalable organization”. The presentation led to interesting insights into how to create a lovable and scalable organization. Key takeaways - identify the person within, operate with passion and work towards building an organization […]

A 9-TO-5-job or Startup-job – What is right for me? – Khamir Bhatia, Founder & CEO, Trotez

Lounge47 47, 2nd Main Rd, Defence Colony, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

          Khamir Bhatia, the founder & CEO of “Trotez” who has worked at a string of Startups including InMobi. The presentation engaged a room full of entrepreneurs with the speaker's journey and experiences through the challenging landscape of the Startup world. Why entrepreneurship needs to be a full time pursuit, the […]

Design Mindset – How to Apply to Startup Thinking? – Francis Xavier, Founder & Principal Vizen Design

Lounge47 47, 2nd Main Rd, Defence Colony, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

          Mr. Francis Xavier, Founder & Principal of Vizen Design, a design studio talking to us about a "Design Mindset - We already have 40 reservations and the numbers move up pretty quickly. Besides, we have guests coming in from other places too. May I please request 7er's to please cancel reservations […]

Ensuring Startup Success Through Cross Border Entrepreuneurship – Prof. Shivaram Malavalli, Mentor, Advisor

Lounge47 47, 2nd Main Rd, Defence Colony, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

          Professor Shivaram Malavalli, our speaker on the 11th of January will be talking about his ideas on introducing innovation. He will address the issue of moving from a service culture to a product culture and how this can be achieved and his ideas and experiences around cross border teams being used to build […]

Understanding Bitcoin – Benson Samuel, ‎CTO & Founder Coinsecure.in

Lounge47 47, 2nd Main Rd, Defence Colony, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

            Mr. Benson Samuel. He has been involved in setting up Bitcoin businesses, writes a blog, advises startups and is currently setting up his own Bitcoin venture – Crypto Labs. Bitcoin, launched in 2009, has been described as a digital currency, a protocol and an open-source software stream that allows […]

Trends: The Unwired Home – Yuvraj Tomar, CEO Thinqbot Technologies

Lounge47 47, 2nd Main Rd, Defence Colony, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

          Yuvraj Tomar. His venture - Thinqbot Technologies aims to make homes futuristic and smart at the cost of a Smartphone. Yuvraj will talk about the latest trends in the home automation industry and how the Thinqbot Technologies model attempts to make the most mundane items in our lives talk wirelessly […]

A Novice’s Experiment with Affordable Healthcare – Dr. V Renganathan, Co-founder Vaatsalya Healthcare Solutions

Lounge47 47, 2nd Main Rd, Defence Colony, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

          Dr. Renganathan, Co-founder at Vaatsalya Healthcare Solutions, who will talk about "A Novice's Experiment with Affordable Healthcare". While Dr. Renga describes himself as a "jack of all trades but absolutely master of none", he holds a PhD from IISc and an MBA from Portland State, has worked at Glaxo, Smithkline […]

“From Idea to Funding- Prof. Shivananda Koteshwar – Director Mediatek

Lounge47 47, 2nd Main Rd, Defence Colony, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

          Prof. Shivananda Koteshwar will talk about “From Idea to Funding”. While sketching the funding journey of his Startup - Sparsha Learning Technologies, he will enlighten entrepreneurs on how to build value into Startups and grow ideas to the point where they are attractive to investors. Prof Koteshwar has many pursuits […]

Building Product – What it takes to be World Class – Vishwas Mudagal

          Vishwas Mudigal, CEO & Co-Founder GoodWorkLabs who will be talking about “Building Product – What it takes to be World Class?” Mr. Mudigal, a serial entrepreneur built his first company at the age of 18, a rural education Startup for students. In addition to starting technology companies, he has a […]

Building Creative Communities – Daniel Oxenhandler, Creative Coordinator Construkt Festival

Lounge47 47, 2nd Main Rd, Defence Colony, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

    Daniel Oxenhandler who organizes the 5000-strong Construkt Festival– a multi-day event focused on connecting creative communities with the aim of pushing disruptive innovation within societies. Daniel has gathered experience in different parts of the world and will be sharing his learnings. If you look carefully, the challenge of planning a Construkt Festival in a new city […]

IOT unPlugged@Lounge47 – Wisense Platform Demo by Arvind Padmanabhan & Ram Krishnan

  Connectivity, smart devices, the demand for data and new sensors are increasing rapidly while the cost of computing is dropping. These developments are fuelling the IOT trend that has a growing number of enthusiasts, entrepreneurs and markets. Lounge47 would like to support this entrepreneurial community by offering an opportunity to learn from the experts […]

De-risking a New Venture & Building a Better ISP – Luke Langford, COO Vivint Wireless

Lounge47 47, 2nd Main Rd, Defence Colony, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

    Luke Langford, COO, Vivint Wireless & Director of Strategy, Vivint. Luke's mandate was to put an innovation process in place and identify new billion dollar business opportunities, a role he took on just after the Blackstone acquisition of Vivint closed, at the end of 2012. In 2013 he piloted Vivint’s entry into the […]

Tracing the evolution – Open Source and Embedded Systems – Jayakumar Balasubramanian – Director Emertxe

Lounge47 47, 2nd Main Rd, Defence Colony, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

          Mr. Jayakumar Balasubramanian who will be talking about “ Tracing The Evolution – Open Source & Embedded Systems”. He is a Director at Emertxe Information Technologies, an IT finishing school and creator of innovative self learning kits. Prior to Emertxe, he worked for 12+ years with Ishoni Networks, Hewlett Packard […]

How to Make your Business Plan Crisp – Nandini Vaidyanathan, Founder CARMA

Lounge47 47, 2nd Main Rd, Defence Colony, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

          Professor Nandini Vaidyanathan, Founder of CARMa (Creating Access to Resources and Markets), who will be conducting a workshop on the topic "How to Make your Business Plan Crisp". Prof. Vaidyanathan is an Alumnus of the London School of Economics and has spent 20 years with MNC's. She currently teaches entrepreneurship […]

Entrepreneurship A Pursuit of the Disciplined – Mukund Mohan, Director Microsoft Ventures

Lounge47 47, 2nd Main Rd, Defence Colony, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

          Mr. Mukund Mohan- is the Director of Microsoft Ventures, and has founded 3 Silicon Valley Startups in the Internet & Enterprise software markets, his most recent being BuzzGain (a DIY PR company). He has held executive and management roles at Hewlett Packard (Mercury), Ariba and Cisco and has a Master's in Computer […]

How to Acquire Customers Online – Mohit Doda, Associate Vice President, Zoffio.com

Lounge47 47, 2nd Main Rd, Defence Colony, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

          Mohit Doda, Associate Vice President at Zoffio.com (a Zuri Group Company), is our speaker this week, and the topic he plans to address is - “How to Acquire Customers Online”. Mr. Doda intends a workshop-style session that should be highly interactive and teach us a bag of tricks applicable to […]

Transform As You Go – Rohit Nair – Cofounder, QuizWorks

Lounge47 47, 2nd Main Rd, Defence Colony, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

            Rohit Nair, cofounder of QuizWorks, a trivia and quizzing company who has conducted about 300 quizzes in Asia. He is the former COO of Contests2win and is currently also working on a stealth-mode Startup that combines gaming, content and technology to “gamify” corporate training. Quizworks grew revenues from 10 […]

My Experiences as an Entrepreneur – K Vaitheeswaran, Founder & CEO Indiaplaza

Lounge47 47, 2nd Main Rd, Defence Colony, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

          Serial internet entrepreneur and "Father of India's E-Commerce", Founder & CEO of Indiaplaza, Mr. K Vaitheeswaran, is known for his pioneering work related to online shopping. His foray into Ecommerce started in 1999, and in 2001, he cofounded Fabmall, India's first integrated online & brick-and-mortar retail store. The Fabmall physical […]

Safety & Security Risks in a Hyper-connected (IoT) World. – Tamaghna Basu, Senior Security Specialist, EBay

Lounge47 47, 2nd Main Rd, Defence Colony, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

          Mr. Tamaghna Basu, Senior Security Specialist at eBay, who is a hacker and researcher at heart. His areas of interest span App security to Cyber Forensics. Being an active presenter on the security conference circuit he is well positioned to tell us about the world of Internet security and its […]

The Art of Pricing for an Online Business. – Swapnil Deopurkar, Founder Yemple.com & Former Pricing Specialist, Amazon

Lounge47 47, 2nd Main Rd, Defence Colony, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

          Mr. Swapnil Deopurkar who will talk about “The Art of Pricing for an Online Business”. Mr. Deopurkar has worked for some of the toughest and most successful online businesses – Amazon & Expedia. He has managed critical areas of their business such as pricing & promotions for Amazon and Business […]

Saying It With Pictures – Future Opportunities in Digital Content – Biren Ghose Country Head, Technicolor.

Lounge47 47, 2nd Main Rd, Defence Colony, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

          Biren Ghose is Country Head of Technicolor, a 100-year leader in the field of Media & Entertainment. He leads the Technicolor India facility that is reputed for its animation visual effects and media services. His work is seen on the silver screen everyday – Skyfall, Harry Potter, Pirates of the […]

Digital Marketing – Strategies for Startups. – Hemant Soreng – Entrepreneur, Digital Marketing Specialist

Lounge47 47, 2nd Main Rd, Defence Colony, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

          Hemant Soreng – author, blogger, mountaineer, marathoner, entrepreneur and Marketing specialist – is our next speaker who will talk about a subject he has spent 16 years perfecting – “Digital Marketing – Strategies for Startups”. His expertise lies in the Internet & Digital domain, Marketing Communications, E- commerce, Web solutions, […]

Nutrition – Opportunities for Startups – Dr. Swami Subramaniam, R&D Head Abbott Nutrition India

Lounge47 47, 2nd Main Rd, Defence Colony, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

          Dr Swami Subramaniam, head of R&D Abbott Nutrition India, will be talking about “Nutrition – Opportunities for Startups”. Abott labs is a worldwide leader in diagnostics, medical devices, nutrition and pharmaceuticals with a presence in more than 150 countries. Dr. Subramaniam is a medical doctor and a Molecular Pharmacologist (PhD, […]

Demystifying Funding for Startups. – Abishek Surendran, AVP Investments, Reservoir Capital

Lounge47 47, 2nd Main Rd, Defence Colony, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

            Mr. Abishek Surendran, AVP Investments, Reservoir capital - Exfinity fund. Mr. Surendran has 9 years of experience in Private Equity, Investment Banking, Corporate strategy and Software development. He currently leads investments at Reservoir, a 125 Cr VC fund. He holds an MBA from IIM Bangalore and a B.E. from […]

Internet of Things (IoT) – Areas of Opportunity – Jayraj Ugarkar, Head, IoT Center of Excellence, Infosys Labs

Lounge47 47, 2nd Main Rd, Defence Colony, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

          Jayraj Ugarkar heads the Internet of Things Center of Excellence in Infosys Labs. His focus is on helping Infosys’ clients identify opportunities, define solutions and realize benefits from Internet of Things concept. He has been active in the IT and Telecom industry for over 19 years and has worked or consulted […]

Apollo Hospitals – The Entrepreneurial Journey – Dr. Umapathy Panyala, CEO Apollo Hospitals Group

Lounge47 47, 2nd Main Rd, Defence Colony, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

            Dr. Umapathy Panyala, CEO, Apollo Hospitals Group, Karnataka is our next speaker, and he plans to run us through the entrepreneurial journey of Apollo Hospitals. His current role entails strategy & execution of the hospital network in Karnataka and developing the US, Europe and Asia Pacific markets. Dr. Panyala […]

Preparing To Be An Entrepreneur While You Study – Prof. B. S. Satyanarayana, Principal, R.V. College of Engg, Bangalore.

Lounge47 47, 2nd Main Rd, Defence Colony, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

          Prof. B.S.Satyanarayana, is Principal of R.V. College of Engineering (RVCE), Bangalore, and Professor of Electronics and Communication Engineering. Through his career spanning 29 years, he has been involved in transforming organizations and managing change. He has worked both in India and abroad (UK & Japan) - with industry, R& D labs, […]

Startups – How to Survive the First 3 Years – Tapan Kumar Das, CEO of iTiffin.in.

Lounge47 47, 2nd Main Rd, Defence Colony, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

          Tapan Kumar Das, CEO of iTiffin.in, and Director & Co-Cofounder of Qua Nutrition. He is a seasoned professional with 15 years experience in the Retail, E-commerce and Wellness domains, both in larger companies as well as Startups. Mr. Das was previously CFO of Flipkart , CFO of Indian Terrain and […]

‘Apps ֠- What Not To Do’ – Bala Sundara Raman, Co-founder IdeoPhone.

Lounge47 47, 2nd Main Rd, Defence Colony, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

          Mr. Bala Sundara Raman, Co-founder, Ideophone, has over 10 years of experience in information extraction and retrieval, for web & mobile. He has built key products at Yahoo!, Ziva, and InMobi before co-founding Ideophone, a Startup which built mobile apps for commuters. He currently works at Zettata, a Bangalore /California […]

Leveraging Open Source To Build Startups – Srivibhavan Balaram, Co-founder & CEO CloudByte

Lounge47 47, 2nd Main Rd, Defence Colony, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

          Srivibhavan Balaram, GM & MD at Vocera Communications India, has spent over 25 years in the software Industry building servers, switches and storage systems at HP, Novell, Business Objects and AT&T Bell Labs. He was the Founder & CEO of CloudByte, a storage company with a vision to deliver guaranteed […]

Chaipoint.com – The Power of Execution – Tejus Chandra, CFO Chaipoint

Lounge47 47, 2nd Main Rd, Defence Colony, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

          Mr. Tejus Chandra is CFO of Mountain Trail Foods, parent company of Chai Point, a Chai (tea)-on-call delivery service Startup launched in 2010. Mr. Chandra has also worked at Ernst & Young and Goldman Sachs and holds a CA and IIM degree. Chaipoint has grown to 19 outlets in Bangalore and […]

How To Create Breakthrough Innovation Using Design Thinking – Parameswaran Venkataraman CEO Ideo

Lounge47 47, 2nd Main Rd, Defence Colony, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

          Mr. Parameswaran Venkataraman has over the last 17 years, worn multiple hats - Interaction Designer, User Researcher, Design Director, Innovation Consultant - at IDEO, GE Healthcare, and Sapient. As Director at IDEO, he led strategic innovation engagements across India, China and Russia. Mr. Venkataraman's passion lies in finding design-thinking led […]

Successful Apps – The Hygiene Factors – Sudhir Goel, Director App Mantras

Lounge47 47, 2nd Main Rd, Defence Colony, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

          Sudhir Goel, is Director of App Mantras Software, a mobile-focused software company and MD, Obsidian Software, a KPO (Knowledge Process Outsourcing) that provides medical coding and billing services to US healthcare providers. Mr. Goel has also worked in senior leadership positions in Global IT companies both in India & USA. He […]

Angel Investment Insights – Mr. Nagaraja Prakasam, Angel Investor

Lounge47 47, 2nd Main Rd, Defence Colony, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

          Nagaraja Prakasam is an Angel Investor and member of the Indian Angel Network (IAN) where he founded “IAN impact”, a sub-group that focuses on ventures that solve problems of people at the bottom of the pyramid. He is also a mentor at N S Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL), […]