TechSparks 2011 Grand Finale Event Schedule, Agenda & Registration

TechSparks™ 2011 Grand Finale is going to be held in Bangalore, on 19th August 2011 with the venue being at IIM Bangalore. The event as always is being organized by YourStory.in, and it is a hunt for the best technology startups and YourStory along with Intel is a platform for the startups to show their best and be a winner, to get the best investors on them.

The top 10 apps / startups would get Rs. 50000 as the prize money from the sponsors. The VCs, Angel investors and the leaders of the technology would be attending the event, and the delegates would be coming in from the various continents. Sequoia Capital, Google, IBM, Amazon Web Services, and National Instruments would be the big companies supporting the event, with their big dignitaries attending it.

Agenda of the event

10.00 – 10.30 : Registration & Networking over Tea
10.30 – 11.00 : Keynote Address – “Scaling Your Startup To Success” by Shailendra Singh, Managing Director, Sequoia Capital India
11.00 – 11.15 : Unveiling of the “Tech30” Report
11.15 – 12.15 : Panel Discussion on Go-to-Market Strategies for Product Tech Startups, followed by Q&A

Narendra Bhandari, Director, Intel Software & Services Group – Developer Relations Division (Asia Pacific)
Shailendra Singh, Managing Director, Sequoia Capital India
Vimal Abraham, Strategy & Marketing, ISV & Developer Relations, IBM India
Jayaram Pillai, Managing Director, National Instruments (India, Russia, Arabia)

12.15 – 12.30 : Introduction to App4India finalists, the 10 most interesting apps being built out of India
12.30 – 02.00 : Networking Lunch
02.00 – 04.00 : TechSparks™ Pitches by the top 20 tech startups selected out of 400 registrants

Jury:
Shailendra Singh, Managing Director, Sequoia Capital India
Shane Owenby, Managing Director (Asia Pacific), Amazon Web Services