Agenda

NEN First Dot
January 10 - 11, 2011, Chennai | SSN College of Engineering

Objective:
• Directly support 30 shortlisted student companies through 1:1 mentoring
• Provide 600 entrepreneurial participants with learning and networking opportunities
• Ultimately increase the number of student companies in India.

Agenda:

Day 1 - NEN First Dot – The Top 30

Time

Topic

Session Leader

10:00

Registration – Tea/Coffee Networking

10:30

Inauguration

Kala Vijayakumar, President, SSN College of Engineering

11:00

Key Note

Satya Prabhakar, CEO, Sulekha.com

11:45

The Top 30 Student Start-Ups – Awards

Laura Parkin, CEO & Co-Founder, NEN

13:00

Lunch

14:00

Starting-Up!

Track 1	Track 2	Track 3	Track 4
Mentoring	Udaan (2 Tracks)	Business Models:Key Fundas	Opportunities in Emerging Sectors
NEN Resource Bureau	Raj Shankar, Founder, Ichiban Academy	Indus Khaitan, General Partner, The Morpheus Venture	Dorai Thodla, Founder, iMorph

15:30

Tea Break

15:45

The Unconference

Track 1	Track 2	Track 3	Track 4	Track 5	Track 6
Dorai Thodla, Founder, iMorph	G.Laxminarayan, Co-Founder, UMoldIt	Sarabjeet Singh, CEO, LetMeKnow	Samuel Eddy, MARCONS	Siddharth Govindarajan, CEO, Silverstripe	Shrikrishna Shrin, Founder, Sarukai

17:00

Huge Challenges offer Huge Opportunities: Building a Smarter Planet

Sreenath P Venkatesan, VP, Smarter Planet Solutions, IBM

17:45

IBM- NEN First Dot Round Table for Top 30 Startups

18:30

Masti Ki Patshala

Various cultural and entertainment programs

Day 2

Time

Topic

Session Leader

09:00

Breakfast with an Entrepreneur

Dr. R.Karthikeyan, Director, Gemba School of HR

Raja Manohar, Founder, Hexolabs

Raghu Rajagopal, CEO, Energeate

Abhishek Rungta, CEO/Founder, IndusNet Technologies

Yogeshwaran S, Founder & Director, Matexnet

Shalin Jain, Founder, Tenmiles Corporation

10:30

Key Note

Pandia Rajan, CEO, Ma Foi Management Consultants Ltd.