All set for the event

Chief Guests of MAD, Chennai along with R.Rangarajan, Founder and Chairman of VEL TECH

Cmde J. Jena, Director, TCoE reading out message from the Director General of COAI

R.Rangarajan, Founder and Chairman of VEL TECH handing over mementos to the speakers

Some of the photos of the Venue for second Mobile Application Developers’ Meet that happened at VEL Tech University, Chennai on 23 NOV 2010

Entrance of the VET Tech University, Venue of MAD

Mahathma Gandhi Auditorium

Participants of Mobile Application Developers’ Meet, Chennai

We’re having lots of buzz going on wondering what this Speed Dating thing is all about…

To clear your doubts, here’re a brief as to what Speed Dating scheduled during IAMAI’s Mobile Application Developers’s Meet is…

At how many conferences do you get an opportunity to interact in detail with a speaker? hardly any. At the max you might manage to exchange cards.

Speed Dating is an arrangement wherein participants would get a 10 min one to one time with a speaker of his/her choice. One gets to interact with the speaker in person, share his/her ideas/concerns, get tips, advices and so on.

Below are some pics from the speed dating room, during the 1st MoBile App Developers Meet held in Bangalore during June 2010

Speed dating is a good opportunity to seek help/inputs from experts. Do not miss it.

Register for IAMAI’s Mobile App Developers’ Meet happening in Chennai on 23rd

Shashi Chaudhary is an Entrepreneur and Academician. Working as Head of Mobile Business Unit, GlobalLogic Inc, backed by Sequoia, NEA and Draper Atlantic (part of the DFJ network), GlobalLogic, partners with the world’s technology leaders to help them accelerate great software products to market. GlobalLogic has developed a unique model that combines agile methods, state of the art tools and global teams of world-class engineers to dramatically shorten product cycles. GlobalLogic has ongoing partnerships with more than 100 technology firms and completed over 300 major product release in the last 12 months with a better than 95% on-time delivery.

Shashi Chaudhary was CEO and President of Lambent Technologies Pvt Ltd ( Now merged in to GLobalLogic). Prior to Lambent co founded four IT companies in Software Services, GIS and Consulting.

Shashi Chaudhary’s area of expertise include In depth understanding of Mobile Business Landscape with special focus on Location Based Services, Product Engineering, Mergers and acquisitions

Shashi Chaudhary has the honor of being recipient of various awards viz.

• Saarthi Award for Emerging Entrepreneur
• Maharashtra Govt State Award for special contribution to IT in Maharashtra
• IEDRA award for IT excellence

Company Profile:
GlobalLogic leverages its proven tools and processes, as well as a decade of experience building thousands of market-leading products, to provide clients with a full range of lifecycle services, including advisory, ideation, customer research, engineering, QA/IVT, maintenance & support, and product line management. The company has ongoing partnerships with more than 150 clients in markets such as Digital Media, Electronics, Finance, Healthcare, Infrastructure Software, Retail and Telecom.

GlobalLogic has been ranked an Inc. 500 company and has been recognized as a top global employer since 2005. GlobalLogic is headquartered in McLean, Virginia and is backed by Sequoia Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Goldman Sachs and Draper/New Atlantic Ventures.

GlobalLogic on the net:
Globallogic Corporate Blog
@GlobalLogicInc
http://www.facebook.com/pages/GlobalLogic/264663092968

Vamshi Krishna Reddy Banda has over 15 years of experience in Information Technology involving strategy, architecture, development and training.

His areas of proficiency include: strong organizational and leadership skills demonstrated through experience leading and managing teams and projects spanning multiple functional areas, diverse business and geographical environments and with multi-million dollar budgets. Demonstrated ability to prioritize and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment and to maintain a high level of performance. Ability to understand business processes and translate end-user requirements into customized solutions. Demonstrated ability to show initiative in resolving issues and solving problems. Solid communication and inter-personal skills with the ability to interface with, support and train end-users.

Company Profile:
Apalya Technologies is India’s leading white-label content aggregation, provisioning and distribution platform in the Mobile Video Delivery space. Apalya’s Mobile Video Delivery Platform seamlessly streams video content to Consumers, integrating Mobile Operators, Content owners and Mobile advertisers, creating new revenue streams across the New Media value chain.

Apalya aggregates premium entertainment content from many different content providers, and then optimizes the content to be suitable for small screen or mobile viewing. Apalya’s unique technology works on delivering the best possible mobile entertainment experience based on the type of the device and the type of network being used.

Apalya delivers content from over 70 media channels through almost all of India’s mobile operator’s platforms, managing all aspects of operations from billing to customer care Apalya Technologies Pvt. Ltd. You may write to Apalya at: contact@apalya.com

Rakesh Godhwani, After spending amazing formative years in great organizations in the High-Tech space, handling different roles in sales , product marketing and business development , Rakesh realized his passion is to help others reach their maximum potential and help fulfill their dreams.

He currently heads the IIMB Alumni Association, coach a promising startup , he always bicycle his way to work and saves the environment in his own way and interested inyoga.

Specialties: high performance coaching, running not-for-profit organizations , Sales and biz dev , Strategic relationship management ,Setup businesses and generate revenue, Product management and marketing, creating ecosystems and building teams.

The IIMB Alumni Association aims to link the alumni to the institution, develop synergistic plans to support the institution and achieve its vision, and to enable the institute to add value to all its stakeholders.

Our objectives are:

* To establish and maintain an alumni association structure – board, chapters, batch representatives that will enable in the smooth governance of the association
* To inspire alumni to enhance the leadership of the Institute
* To provide a focal point of contact among alumni to interact and network with each other
* To support the institute with resources that it will need for its various activities
* To strengthen ties between the Institute and alumni and encourage them to participate in the various cultural and social activities

To view his Public Profile: http://in.linkedin.com/in/rakeshgodhwani

Follow him on twitter at: http://twitter.com/godhwani

Suryanarayanan A is a Chartered Accountant by qualification, and is an alumnus of the International Masters Program in Management at IIMB. He is the Chief Operating Officer at the NSRCEL. His leadership has created a great impact in the area of entrepreneurship and innovation.

He has over 28 years of professional experience , both as a corporate executive and an entrepreneur. After spending the initial years in the finance function at Union Carbide and Nicholas laboratories, he joined a family run pharma start up company, Recon and served as its Group Finance Director. His stint as a serial entrepreneur started in 2000 and since then he has successfully founded, funded and exited healthcare ventures including MedyBiz, a disease management company and LifeKen, an organized pharmacy retail chain.

The NSRCEL has been formed with this mission to bring ideas to implementation through a structured mentored Programme which will help entrepreneurs see their idea taking shape into a planned Organization which will render itself in a phased manner to be a successful business entity. The NSRCEL set up by the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, is a world-class Centre of Excellence for seeding, nurturing and promoting entrepreneurship. The Centre is located in the serene IIM Bangalore atmosphere and boasts of state-of-the-art facilities. A preferred choice by management professionals across the globe!

About NSRCEL
The NSRCEL has successfully incubated many companies in the past and is in the constant process of selecting new ventures on a regular basis for Incubation. The companies receive mentorship from the prestigious faculty who have experience setting up once start up but now successful companies, support from World Class Consulting Firms and access to some of the best facilities in the Indian Industry.

Gulzar is a proud alumni of IIMB…

Gulzar Azad is currently into Mobile Partnerships: Lead – India and Apac from July 2009. His contribution includes Strategic consulting, technology development and business planning. Technology domain – Search, Maps, Location, GSM (GPRS, 3G), SIM, Android, Device apps. Business Verticals – Strategic contracts, Mobile Ads.
Industry Evangelism – Adoption of mobile internet, innovation in UX and a continuous introspecting QoS. Prior to this he was into Mobile Partnerships Manager (December 2006 — July 2009), where he contributed to working for Partner Solutions Organization in Google India, on strategic consulting, technical integration, solution architecture, mobile ad revenue optimizations, product innovation.

He was also associated with Idea Cellular from April 2002 to January 2004 at VAS product innovation group, aimed at creating a CoE (Centre of Excellence) under the leadership of Navin Chadha from AT&T (now CIO at Tata TeleServices) and Dharmesh Gupta (Chief n Mentor). Together with a small team of expert programmers they introduced some of the pioneering mobile VAS products including m-coupons, location based search on SIM, differential content billing platform and music messaging service. Most of these products were designed and created in-house with the energy and enthusiasm of a startup functioning within the larger organization.

Gulzar has finished his GMPIT (exe. MBA), Management, (specializing in IT) from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore

You can find him on linkedIn