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Innovative Ideas and Insights
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and YourStory have come together to curate a series of expert sessions with CEOs and industry leaders from various business verticals to answer the most pressing challenges businesses face today. These sessions will serve as a resource to:
Build strong foundational knowledge and subject matter expertise
Uncover actionable insights that translate into concrete actions
Make meaningful connections towards future collaborations
Identify opportunities and generate new revenue streams
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The C-Suite Chapters
With more people online now than ever before, innovation is at an all-time high in India and the country is witnessing significant disruption in digital solutions. To understand the pulse and the pace of this progress, we are bringing together some of the tech ecosystem's most influential leaders to offer their perspective through in-depth conversations and discussions.
Discover what makes great companies move forward and achieve further growth.
Chapter 1
India’s ISV Market - Capturing a global SaaS opportunity
India is one of the largest Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) hubs in the world. ISVs play a crucial role in determining which solutions and products customers are adopting for their business transformation. We look at the changes this diverse community is bringing about and how they are accelerating Cloud adoption in India.
- Changing trends that will impact the ISV market
- Key regions that will remain profitable for ISV market players
- Winning strategies for ISVs to upscale their position in the market
- Low-hanging opportunities: Developed vs developing markets
Airing at 4 pm, 19 November 2020
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Future of Mobility
India’s economic growth is being fuelled by numerous factors, including an increase in demand for personal and commercial mobility. This demand is the result of a spike in consumer demand, higher government expenditure on infrastructure, and an increase in freight traffic. Sustainability is also a rising concern. A 2018 NITI Aayog report showed India can save 64 percent of anticipated passenger road-based mobility-related energy demand and 37 percent of carbon emissions in 2030 by pursuing a shared, electric and connected mobility strategy.
- Role of data analytics to create new business models
- Accelerated innovations in R&D
- Proliferation of connected mobility
- Multiple drivers such as electrification, ride sharing, data monetisation, and connected cars
- The need to build an electric mobility ecosystem involving multiple stakeholders (OEMs, component manufacturers, policymakers, etc.)
Chapter 3
Role of Startups in Economic Prosperity
India's startup ecosystem has witnessed significant growth in the past decade, driven by innovation and by building affordable and convenient solutions to everyday challenges. A significant growth driver, as of October 2019, the startup ecosystem had created over 750,000 jobs. The ‘India Tech Annual Factsheet - 2019’ shows a 25x growth in total funding raised from a $550 million in 2010 to $14.5 billion in 2019. However, only 8 percent of startups in India are funded, showing significant investment potential as well.
- Role of technology in helping startups generate meaningful economic growth
- Importance of a culture of innovation in creating economic prosperity
- Strategies startups can adopt to maximise value and employment generation
- Policy interventions to unlock the full potential of startups as economic growth drivers
Town Hall 1
India’s growth as a digital economy has been closely linked to the growth of its startup ecosystem. Startups have also been key employment generators, contributing significantly to the economic growth of the nation. All this highlights the need to further strengthen the growth of the Indian startup ecosystem. This Town Hall will bring key players of the startup ecosystem to deliberate upon how homegrown startups can:
- Enable innovations that solve for India, create new jobs to boost the economy, and infuse competitive dynamism into the business environment
- Be instrumental in aiding technological enhancement in the country and be the forerunners to help achieve India’s digital economy goals
- Address key challenges with affordable, convenient, and effective solutions
- Leverage the government’s policies and programmes to grow further
Airing at 4 pm, 22 October 2020
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Speakers - Chapter 1
Puneet Chandok
President, India and South Asia, Amazon Internet Services Pvt. Ltd.
Puneet leads the AWS business in India and South Asia. As the country MD, he oversees and manages the incubation, planning, and demand for AWS Services from customers across industry segments and verticals in India and South Asia. In addition, he is responsible for building and leading customer-centric teams that help organisations innovate and transform using AWS services. He holds a Master of Business in Marketing, Finance and Systems from IIM, Calcutta.
Shradha Sharma
Founder & CEO, YourStory
Shradha founded YourStory in 2008, with the aim of championing the untold stories of entrepreneurship in India. She strongly believes that stories have the power to transform, connect and inspire people all over the world.
Shekhar Kirani
Partner, Accel Partners
Shekhar has over 25 years of experience in business and tech leadership roles across several startups and large companies in the US. As part of Accel, Shekhar focuses on investing in early-stage software and mobile startups that help enterprises. He holds a Masters and PhD in Computer Science from IISc Bangalore and the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, respectively
Baskar Subramanian
Co-founder, Amagi
Baskar drives business strategy, investments and technology architecture as co-founder of Amagi. He holds multiple patents and regularly mentors various start-ups and businesses. He says he loves straddling between technology and business strategy and building a bridge between the two. He holds a Master of Technology in Computer Science from IIT, Chennai.
Milind Borate
Co-founder, Druva
Milind has been working in technology for more than 20 years, His main areas of focus have been storage and database technologies, cloud storage and machine learning for unstructured data. He believes in bringing technology to solutions and is passionate about building engineering teams that deliver end-to-end solutions. He holds a Master of Technology in Computer Science from IIT, Bombay.
Ankit Sobti
Founder, Postman
Ankit and his co-founders began Postman as a side-project in 2012 while working at Yahoo. Launched in 2014, Postman has created a collaborative platform for application processing interface (API) development, which helps developers work with existing APIs and modify and customise them according to their needs. Ankit holds a Master of Business Administration in Strategy and Leadership from ISB.
Aneesh Reddy
Co-founder & CEO, Capillary
Aneesh leads a team that helps enterprise customers engage with their consumers intelligently, delivering personalized communications to the right consumers at the right time. He works with enterprise customers to help them put the right communications for the right products into the hands of the right customers at the right time. He holds a Bachelor of Technology in Manufacturing Science and Engineering from IIT, Kharagpur.
Jayant Paleti
Co-founder, Darwinbox
Jayant Paleti co-founded Darwinbox and is currently its head of sales.Darwinbox is a technology company that provides cloud-based workforce management and analytics application for businesses. Before co-founding Darwinbox, Jayant worked as consultant at E.Y. across functions like mergers and acquisitions and private equity. He completed his M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow. Prior to his M.B.A. he was working with Deloitte as a consultant for clients in power, energy and telecom industries.
Engage with AWS
As part of this exclusive partnership, gain access to leaders and senior stakeholders at AWS who have agreed to conduct exclusive workshops and sessions for CEOs and their leadership team to help create solutions for business challenges. These complimentary workshops will be curated to suit your organisation’s unique needs.
Culture of Innovation:
In this workshop CEOs and their Leadership team will explore mechanisms to facilitate innovative thinking, support structures to empower their teams to build, and learn the importance of creating a culture of innovation.
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Working Backwards Workshop:
This workshop will encourage CEOs and their Leadership team to adopt a customer centric focus framed around the 5 Working Backwards questions. CEOs will be guided through the Working Backwards workbook and can begin drafting elements of a press release.
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Executive Briefing Center (EBC)
This is a mechanism to connect AWS architects, business development and senior executives with your Leadership team for customized, collaborative discussions that directly addresses your business and technology objectives. The core focus for an EBC is to provide a high-touch, 1:1 customer engagement to address business objectives including challenges or blockers that a customer is facing and AWS can help solve them.
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