The document provides an agenda for the TiE Chennai conference. It lists the times, sessions, speakers and topics to be covered throughout the day-long event. The agenda includes sessions on awards, keynote addresses, panel discussions, and breakout groups covering various topics related to entrepreneurship such as accessing funding, emerging technologies, education sector opportunities, and changing faces of entrepreneurship. It also allocates time for networking, presentations to venture capitalists, and discussions on cloud computing opportunities. The full program information and registration details are available on the conference website.
1. PROGRAM AGENDA
TIME SESSION NAME SPEAKERS
8.00 AM to 9.30 AM BREAKFAST & REGISTRATION
Inauguration Chief Guest:
9.30 AM to 9.45 AM Mr. N Sankar
Chairman, The Sanmar Group
Chief Guest:
TiE Chennai Mr. N Sankar,
Entrepreneur Chairman, The Sanmar Group
9.45 AM to 11.00 AM Awards 2010
Moderator:
Mr. Gopal Srinivasan
Chairman & MD, TVS Capital Funds Ltd.
11.00 AM to 11.30 AM COFFEE BREAK
“The Entrepreneur’s Keynote Address
11.30 AM to 12.15 PM Dharma” Mr. Gurcharan Das
Best-selling Author & Management Guru
Panel Discussion
Moderator:
Mr. Sudhir Syal
Associate Producer - ET NOW
12.15 PM to 1.15 PM “Where Is the Money”? Panelists:
Mr. Shyam Srinivasan
MD & CEO
The Federal Bank Ltd
Mr. Malcolm Frank
Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer
Cognizant
Mr.VT Bharadwaj
Principal
Sequoia Capital India
Ms. Bharati Jacob
Partner, Seedfund
1.15 PM to 2.15 PM LUNCH
Panel Discussion
Moderator:
Break-Out 1 Dr. Murli Nagasundaram
Principal, Academics & Head, Learning
Innovation
Manipal Universal Learning Pvt. Ltd
2.15 PM to 3.15 PM “Opportunities in the
Education Sector” Panelists:
Mr. Ashish Rajpal
CEO, iDiscoveri
2. Mr. S. Giridharan
Chairman & CEO
EdServ Softsystems Limited
Ms.Nirmala Shankar
MD & CEO, HeyMath!
Mr. R. Gopalakrishna
DGM & ZM, Bank of India
Panel Discussion in Tamil
Moderator:
Mr. Y.Gee. Mahendra
Dramatist, Actor, Comedian
2.15 PM to 3.15 PM Break-Out 2
Panelists:
“Unnaal Mudiyum Thambi” Mr. A. Padmasingh Issac
Founder Chairman, Aachi Group
Mr. K.P. Natarajan
Founder, KPN Travels
Dr. A. M. Arun
Chairman & MD
Vasan Healthcare Pvt Ltd.
Break-Out 3 Un-conference style, Participant-driven
2.15 PM to 3.15 PM discussions.
Moderators:
“Emerging Technologies TiE Chennai’s Start-up SIG
and Business Models” (Special Interest Group)
3.15 PM to 3.45 PM TEA BREAK
Guest of Honour:
3.45 PM to 4.15 PM LIBA-TiE CHENNAI-EDI-NEN Mr. Ajit Balakrishnan
Business Plan Awards CEO, Rediff.com
Key Note Address
4.15 PM to 5.00 PM “The Changing Face Mr. Ajit Balakrishnan
of Entrepreneurship” CEO, Rediff.com
Panel Discussion:
Moderator:
Mr. Srikant Sastri
Country Chair, Vivaki India
Panelists:
5.00 PM to 6.00 PM “Raising the Money - Mr. Alok Mittal
When and How Much?” MD, Canaan Partners
Mr. Ranjith Menon
Vice President
IDG Ventures, India
Mr. Prashant Choksey
Co-Founder, Mumbai Angels
Mr. GV Ravishankar
Principal, Sequoia Capital India
3. Please visit www.tieconchennai.org for detailed program information.
Principal, Sequoia Capital India
Ms. Kami Narayan
Co-CEO, PreMedia Global Inc.
Parallel Track Budding entrepreneurs presenting
9.30 AM to 6.00 PM to VCs, one-on-one.
“Pitch-to-VC”
6.00 PM to 6.30 PM High Tea & Networking
“Pie in the Sky – Mr. Hemanth Dattatreya
6.30 PM to 7.30 PM Opportunities in HP India
Cloud Computing”
Mr. Dhruv Singhal
Senior Director, Oracle India