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Mar 15 2013 Event Ended

Ever wondered what it takes to be an entrepreneur?

The professional and personal challenges, the high and lows, the failures and the success?

Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures. It is the largest community of passionate entrepreneurs with over 400 past events in 100 countries around the world in 2011.

The non-profit organization is headquartered in Seattle, Washington but Startup Weekend organizers and facilitators can be found in over 200 cities around the world. From Mongolia to South Africa to London to Brazil, people around the globe are coming together for weekend long workshops to pitch ideas, form teams, and start companies.

All Startup Weekend events follow the same basic model: anyone is welcome to pitch their startup idea and receive feedback from their peers. Teams organically form around the top ideas (as determined by popular vote) and then it’s a 54 hour frenzy of business model creation, coding, designing, and market validation. The weekends culminate with presentations in front of local entrepreneurial leaders with another opportunity for critical feedback.

Whether entrepreneurs found companies, find a cofounder, meet someone new, or learn a skill far outside their usual 9-to-5, everyone is guaranteed to leave the event better prepared to navigate the chaotic but fun world of startups. If you want to put yourself in the shoes of an entrepreneur, register now for the best weekend of your life!

SW University is different from a regular startup weekend in the composition of the participants. In a SW University event there are 70% Students and 30% of experienced professionals.

Schedule

Friday

Mar 15

6:30pm Registration Starts
7:00pm Dinner & Networking
7:20pm Welcome & Speakers
7:30pm Pitches Start
9:00pm Attendees vote for the top ideas
9:15pm Teams start forming and discussing ideas
10:00pm Start to formalize teams and take an inventory of skills. Be honest, and direct about what resources and skills are needed for the weekend. You may stay and work as late as the venue will allow

Saturday

Mar 16

9:00am Arrive, simple breakfast & coffee
9:30am Teams formed and setting up workspace for the weekend
12:00pm Lunch
1:00pm Call for needs & skills
2:00pm Coaches help teams one-on-one. They are here to help!
6:30pm Dinner
7:30pm Mid weekend check-in, status reports, call for help
10:00pm Finished for the day. You may stay and work as late as the venue will allow

Sunday

Mar 17

9:00am Arrive, simple breakfast & coffee
10:00am Call for help (this is self motivated, so don’t be shy)
12:00pm Lunch
12:30pm Coaches arrive… ASK QUESTIONS
3:00pm Gut check. Start prepping for presentations
4:00pm Dinner
5:00pm FINAL PRESENTATIONS
7:30pm Judging & awards
8:30pm Wrapup
9:00pm Go home!

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Hyd4Innovation

Hyderabad4Innovation is an initiative from a group of highly accomplished individuals to seed, nurture and grow tech start-ups from Hyderabad. The first initiative is an idea and startup seeding event - IdeaCarnival - targeting students and alumni of IIIT-H, BITS, ISB and IITH, as a pre-cursor to the super-accelerator program jointly offered by these four institutions, TiE and mentorship from the Hyderabad4Innovation group.

Hyderabad4Innovation is a small but highly accomplished group of influential leaders from Hyderabad IT and entrepreneurial ecosystem. It includes well known industry leaders from Hyderabad including Srini Raju, BVR Mohan Reddy, JA Chowdary, Srini Koppulu, Dr. Ramesh Babu, Sateesh Andra & Murali Bukkapatnam, and the Directors of IIIT-H, ISB, IITH and BITS, apart from IT technology leaders/entrepreneurs like Kalyan Manyam and Ramesh Loganathan, and a few others.

P. Ramakrishna, Utthishta

P. Ramakrishna Is a commerce and law graduate from Andhra University and also a rank holder. Fellow member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Has about 3 decades of rich experience across various domains including business development & strategic planning, auditing, accounting, process controls, risk management, corporate governance and compliance, tax structuring and succession planning. Functional expertise in deal making, valuations, due diligence, negotiation support, joint venture structuring and fund raising. Formerly an Executive Director and the National Leader – Entrepreneurial and Private Client Service at PricewaterhouseCoopers Private Limited. A regular speaker at events conducted by CII, FAPCCI, ASCI, ICAI and ICSI. As a Lead Partner and Engagement Partner for Assurance, has advised and reviewed various companies (business groups) which have grown many folds in a short span like Care Hospitals, Rain Commodities, Greenko, Lanco, GMR

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Ramesh Loganathan

Center Head (& VP – Products), Progress Software | LinkedIn

Ramesh is responsible for leading the product development at the Hyderabad Labs, providing strategic guidance to the product teams. Specifically led the transformation from offshore dev to a product engineering lab, with focus on cross-product capabilities/ frameworks, Common Technology and innovation for the SOA/RPM and Data integration products. Prior to joining Progress, he was the Vice President of Middleware
Technologies at Pramati.
Ramesh brings with him over 20 years of Products & R&D leadership experience.

An accomplished technologist and evangelist, regularly speaks at various tech workshops and seminars. As an active member in industry organizations (Nasscom, ITsAP, headStart & TiE), Ramesh drives the product forum and startup events/workshops. Ramesh recently co-authored a book on ‘SOA approach to Integration’. He is also an
Adjunct Faculty at IIIT-Hyderabad, teaching courses on middleware technologies and engaging in research/exploratory work in the area of distributed systems.

Ripul Kumar

Founder Director at Kern, CTO at LionSher Tests | Twitter LinkedIn

Ripul has over 16 years total experience. 8 years with startups. Was one of the first employees at Pramati Technologies and CIOL.com - understands startups well. Set up design & usability practices at both companies.

Co-founded Kern and leads usability innovation at Kern Communications, a leading ethnographic/design research and usability consulting company in India. Kern was mentioned in a Forrester Report on usability in India. As an entrepreneur, he consults with several Fortune 500 clients in Europe, USA, and Asia.

Satya Kalyan Yerramsetti

CEO SMS Country | Twitter LinkedIn

Satya Kalyan Yerramsetti is one of the very successful serial entrepreneurs in India. He grew up in a middle class family in a small town in southern part of India. After receiving his Bachelors Degree in Engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad, he moved to Australia to pursue Masters Degree in Business Administration from University of western Sydney. Upon returning from Australia, Satya worked on his first big dream - to connect enterprises with mobile channels - by founding SMS Country Networks in 2003. SMS Country Networks quickly grew to 12000+ customers, with offices in 8 countries. 4 years later, Satya pioneered the concept of Free SMS in India, by founding 160by2.com, an innovative, add supported free SMS service that has 12 million registered users and sends 1.2 billion messages per month. 160by2.com was recently acquired by way2sms.com. Satya also founded ygoy.com, a leading health care portal that is used by millions of users across the globe. Currently, Satya has incubated 3 new online consumer centric companies with focus on the Indian market.
1) www.360invite.com is a mobile based party invitation service
2) www.ubergrad.com is a gamified online campus recruitment platform
3) blog.aavaaz.com is a online complaints and reviews platform

Satya is very passionate about using mobile, local and social to simplify day to day lives of people. He is not only a true visionary, but is also known for his many innovations in building and running successful companies that attract great talent and produce innovative, winning products! He speaks frequently at conferences and workshops all over India about entrepreneurship and has mentored several entrepreneurs in India.

Pankaj Diwan

Founder CEO of Renaissance Softlabs (P) Ltd | Twitter LinkedIn

Pankaj Diwan is the Founder CEO of Renaissance Softlabs (P) Ltd. He has over 15 years of rich experience in ICT Industry and has been responsible for delivering solutions to global leaders. He is an avid follower of technology and has a broad range of technology expertise in domains such as Mobile Apps, Auto ID technologies and Cloud computing. Pankaj is an IT advisor to several large Business groups in India in conceptualizing and implementing their overall IT strategy. Pankaj has a strong passion for Education for Employability. He has been the founder of IDEALABS-The Incubation Programme, an incubation centre to build Industry ready resources which has trained and placed over 10,000 candidates. He has been an advisor to Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education and is on the board of several prestigious Engineering and Management Schools. He holds a degree with distinction in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Osmania University.

Varun Reddy

Co-Founder VP-Business Development at Mauka | Twitter LinkedIn

Varun Reddy is the co founder and Vice President, Business Development at Mauka, a cloud based application that connects colleges and corporate companies for virtual hiring and training. Prior to Mauka he worked at Frost and Sullivan as a Research Associate analyzing disruptive and futuristic technologies in the areas of Advanced Coatings and Surface Technologies, Industrial Bio-processing, High-Tech Materials and Plastics. His interests lie in quantitative finance, management consulting and business development. An ardent fan of Steve Jobs , Varun graduated from BITS-Pilani Hyderabad with a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering. He is also the winner of Panel Discussion on College Start ups conducted by National Entrepreneurship Network, Varun aspires to become a serial entrepreneur in technology and web space. He is a 2013 Fellow in the prestigious Startup Leadership Program.

Hyd4Innovation

A group of seasoned entrepreneurs, Angel investors and VCs have come together to create a platform for innovation in Hyderabad. If you are planning on starting up, this is the best group you can have access to.

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