GITPRO World 2012

Emerging Technologies and Opportunities

Fees
Tech and Career/Leadership Tracks Combined
Early Birds: $35 (non-Members) $30 (Members)
Regular: $50 and $60 at the door on 18th Feb

Startup Bootcamp
Early Birds: $40 (non-Members) $35 (Members)
Regular: $60 and $75 at the door on 18th Feb

GITPRO World 2012 conference provides an unique opportunity to understand the wave of emerging technologies that would matter in 2012. This understanding would give you a leverage to succeed in profession and entrepreneurship. This conference would also give opportunity to meet industry leaders, executives, and fellow professionals from various leading companies and startups.

Great opportunity for Professionals:

Learn from industry leaders, technical experts, and successful startup executives
Prepare to take advantage of emerging technology trends
Master tips and tricks to succeed in professional career
Startup bootcamp for early stage startups and Wanna-be-Entrepreneurs
Network with Professionals, Experts, Executives and Startups CEOs
Exhibits

Speakers:
CEOs and Executives
Technical Experts
Invited speakers from startups to leading industries
Mentors and Coaches
Successful Entrepreneurs
VCs and Investors

Program:

Timeslot: 9:00-9:30 - Inauguration

Timeslot: 9:45-1045
Tech Track: Developing & Monetizing Mobile Apps: Shisu Bedi COO AdMaxim
Career Track: Career Pathing: Individual to Manager to Leader: Anjul Bhambhri (VP - Evolved from Engineer to VP) and Dilip Saraf (Career Coach)
Start Up Track: Startup Lesson Learnt: Chet Kappor CEO of Apigee (Sold GlueCode to IBM)

Timeslot: 11:00-12:00
Tech Track: Big Data with Hadoop, NoSQL: Panel: Milind Bhandarkar (Chief Architect, Greenplum Labs), Anjul Bhambhri(VP Big Data IBM), Amr Awadallah,CTO of CLoudera, Arun Murthy VP Apache Hadoop
Career Track: Mid-Career Accelerators / Switch through MBA,PMP: Panel of Career Coach, PMP Coach and MBA
Start Up Track: Startup Essentials from legal structure, Cap Structure to protecting IP: Carol Belis(Partner Corp Governance-M&A, Townsend), Anil Advani(managing Partner, Inventus Law), Sujit Kotwal(IP Attorney)

Timeslot: 12:00-1:00 - Indian Lunch

Timeslot: 1:00-2:00 - Inauguration and Keynote by Steve Blank , Entrepreneurship Coach at Stanford & Serial Entrepreneur

Timeslot: 2:15-3:15
Tech Track: Business Use cases in Social CRM and Social Commerce (Jose Lazares, SVP Marketing) Programing with Social Media (Khanderao CTO GloMantra )
Career Track: Managing With Influence: Panel: Praveena Varadrajan (VP PM FICO) Rajesh Setty (Mentor and Coach)
Start Up Track: Marketing and Selling at Low Budget: Dennis O'Malley (VP Moxie, Sales & Marketing Executive)

Timeslot: 3:30-4:30
Tech Track: Developing with Cloud (PaaS, SaaS and IAAS): Tyler Jewell (VP Public Cloud at Oracle)
Career Track: Job Market in 2012, Preparations and Negotiations: Panel: Prabakaran CEO of Corp2Corp and Dilip Saraf (Career Coach)
Start Up Track: Raising Investments & Valuations: VCs Perspective(Ajit Deora LightSpeed Ventures) Pitching Startup (Shan Sinha exCEO of DocVerse sold to Google

Timeslot: 4:45-6:00 - Keynote: Business and Career Opportunities for
2012

High Lights:
Leaders from Industries and Startups
Unique Opportunity to Learn Emerging Technologies
Understand Career & Business Opportunities
Network with Technology Leaders and Startups
For Early Stage Startups: All that you need to succeed
In Career & Leadership Track: Learn How to Climb the Corporate Ladder

Invited Speakers from: VMWare, Oracle, Salesforce, Adobe, Greenplum (EMC), and many others
Starting Keynote: Emerging Technologies and Trends for 2012

Tracks and Sessions:

Track 1: Emerging Technologies:
Big Data Analytics: Hadoop and NoSQL Ecosystem
Developing and Monetizing Mobile Apps
Leveraging Social Media for Business: Social CRM and Social Commerce
Developing Cloud Infrastructure and Developing using PAAS

Track 2: Professional Career & Leadership:
Leading Career from Individual to Management & leadership
ROI of MBA and PMP and preparing for them
Managing With Influence: Soft Skills for Success
Job Market and Opportunities in US and India in 2012

Track 3: Startup Bootcamp:
Lessons Learned in Starting and Selling Startup
Customer Development / Lean Startup
Marketing and Selling at Tight Budget
Startup Investments: VCs Perspective on fund-ability and Success

Conclusion: Keynote on Innovation and Leadership in 2012