Thread by @ngkabra

1/ PuneConnect event this Saturday (20th) is shaping up well. With 4 tracks (technology, startups, research, and leadership), there are a lot of good talks to attend & startups to check out

See the rest of this thread for details (or register to attend: townscript.com/e/pune-connect… )

2/ Plenary session #1: Pari Natarajan, CEO of Zinnov, will talk about the strengths of Pune and how to leverage those for the future. Zinnov provides strategy consulting to companies all over India, which puts them in a unique position to do comparative analysis across cities.

3/ Plenary session #2: Vaibhav Tewari, COO of Portea Medical, will talk about how to punch above your weight in customer care. Portea Medical is Asia’s largest in-home healthcare provider with a 24-city network and 4500+ staff who handle ~1,00,000 in-home visits in a month

4/ Plenary session #3: Talk on Leadership by the Giripremi team. Giripremi is a non-commercial mountaineering organization which recently sent a team to the summit of Mt. Everest

5/ Startup session: Panel discussion with @patanjalis (whose startup @getwalnutapp was recently acquired for $30MM), angel investor @vaibhavdom, moderated by @nitingdeshpande

6/ A talk by Hunamantha Rao Susarla, Chief Architect of [24]7.ai — a company that successfully leveraged chatbots and voice-based APIs to reinvent itself from a small BPO to a AI-powered $400 million company.

7/ Discussion on data with @rohit11 (Director at Security company QuickHeal), @DataGeekSatish (Chief Data Scientist at AI research company Crysagi Systems), Milind Barve (Head of India Ops at Platform9 systems) and Sandeep Suryavanshi (Co-Founder AideExpert Advisory)

8/ A fireside chat on understanding Blockchain Technologies and Enterprise Applications with @pandurangkamat (Persistent Systems), Bharani Subramanian (Thoughtworks), moderated by @ngkabra (me)

9/ Mrityunjay Singh (@munjays), will give a talk on how companies can become data leaders. Munjay is CEO of Axiscades, a high-technology solutions company catering to the futuristic (and #makeinindia) needs of Aerospace & Defense, Heavy Engineering, and other such sectors

10/ Talk on Innovation and Research by NCL's Dr. V. Premnath, Director of @Venture_Center — one of India's top incubators (winner of multiple awards), and focuses on startups and technology innovations in life sciences (biology, biochem, biotech, chemistry, medical technology)

11/ Panel discussion on Academia-Industry collaboration with Bhalchandra Puranik (HOD of Mech Dept, at IIT-Bombay), Neeraj Gupta (IUCAA), Anil Ghegade (Head of Corporate Research at Eaton Corp.) and moderated by @sanjaykanvinde (a 20+ year veteran of Schlumberger)

12/ Those are just a few selected talks. Please see the full agenda at puneconnect.com

But there's more. The demo hall will showcase a bunch of startups, and this year the quality and maturity is higher than ever.

13/ @TaranaWireless is building Gigabit Broadband System using 5G Wireless Technology (hardware, protocol, and software) for high-speed last mile connectivity.

db.puneconnect.com/pc/company/634…

14/ @NlpBots uses Natural Language Processing technology to provide customers with chatbots to automate enterprise processes. Used for several live implementations across domains like Customer assist, HR assist, Marketing insights and Hiring assist

db.puneconnect.com/pc/company/636…

15/ @haqdarshak empowers citizens, both rural and urban, by providing easy access to relevant welfare schemes information and provide the last-mile support for applications for these schemes

db.puneconnect.com/pc/company/635…

16/ ShunyaOS provides ab Operating System for IoT with integrated AI which works on all Arm based Micrprocessors designed for IoT solutions

db.puneconnect.com/pc/company/634…

17/ @SpiderGApp is an intelligent (AI powered ) mobile & web enterprise application for companies to do the following;
• Attendance, Leave & Payroll
• Task management & collaboration
• Expense and Reimbursement
• Chatbot for HR queries and support
db.puneconnect.com/pc/company/633…

Those were just a few highlights of what to expect at PuneConnect. There's much more. Check out puneconnect.com

You can register to attend at: townscript.com/e/pune-connect…

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