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Coverage

• Objectives• Product Forum Steering Group• Stakeholders and our Initiatives• Product Forum Roadmap

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Objectives

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Create strong Product Business eco system

in India

Promote IP Creation

Promote India as significant player

for Global and Domestic markets

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Product Forum Steering Group

• Formulate, strategize and steer the set objectives• Ensure wider regional, sectors, technology coverage • Team:

– Alok Mittal (Canaan Partners)– NRK Raman (Oracle Financial Services)– Ram Ramdas (Herald Logic)– Sandeep Singhal (Nexus India)– Sanjay Anandaram (JumpStartUp)– Sharad Sharma (Yahoo!)– Subash Menon (Subex)– Sudhir Sethi (IDG Ventures India)– Suhas Kelkar (Digite)– Vishnu Dusad (Nucleus Software)– Vishwas Mahajan (Compulink)– Sucharita Eashwar and Yathish G (NASSCOM)

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Stakeholders and our Initiatives

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• Platform to discuss and share information and ideas

• Events, delegations, platforms, collaborations, hand-on workshops on specific product business issues

• Product Business Guidance Panel to validate and test product ideas

• Product website highlighting casestudies, interviews, articles on product companies

• The Product Advisory group addressing issues for the Product Industry

Product Companies

Product Compani

es

Product Compani

es

InvestingCommuni

ty

InvestingCommuni

ty

Customers /User

Community

Customers /User

Community

Product Professional

s (NA /

Europe)

Product Professional

s (NA /

Europe)

Policy Drivers(Govt. / Statutory / Administrative /

Legal)

Policy Drivers(Govt. / Statutory / Administrative /

Legal)

Incubators / R&D

Centers

Incubators / R&D

Centers

Academic

Institutes

Academic

Institutes

• Connect with Product Start-ups• Networking Platform• Awards for motivating innovative

companies

Incubation Centers

• Showcase Indian Product Companies

• Awards to motivate and use products from Indian companies

Customers / Clients

• Promote Courses on Product Management

• Promote Entrepreneurship• Projects on building software

products

Academic Institutes

• Showcase Product companies for investment / investor meets

• Attract Foreign Investments in Indian Product Companies

Investing Community

• Inputs to IT Policy framework for nurturing Product Business ecosystem

Policy Drivers

• Attract professionals from US and Europe to pursue profession from India

Product Professionals

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Product Forum Roadmap

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ACTIVITY Sept 08' Oct 08' Nov 08' Dec 08' Jan 09' Feb 09' Mar 09'Popularising NASSCOM Product Study in India and US 25th at Pune At Delhi

15th at Bay Area

Promoting Intel Product Connect Event 25th at Pune At Delhi Showcase Companies in specific verticals to CIOs

Speed Dating - Investor meets

Product Directory Ver 1.0 Ver 2.0 Ver 3.0

Product Forum Website / Blog Revamp 2.0 Revamp 3.0

Awards for Top 3 CIOs using Indian products and for Top 3 Angels by investment WORKSHOPS:

Product Conceptualization Engineering and Management (2 days)

Go to Market including Pricing (1 day)

Attracting and Retaining talent (0.5 day)

Operations (Cap Structure, Compensation, IP, HR Documentation, Legal Documentation etc. – 1 day)

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