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 […]

IOT unPlugged – Workshop by Jayakumar Balasubramanian, Syed Adil & Ipsit Kumar, Emertxe

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

          Mr.Jayakumar Balasubramanian, Syed Adil and Ipsit Kumar from Emertxe Information Technologies, Bangalore, an IT finishing school and provider of self-learning kits will be conducting a demo. The main focus of this session would lie in demonstrating the controlling of heterogeneous devices with the help of sensors (both in home and industrial […]

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 […]