Overview

The Indian Tech Tour 2006

For its 23rd edition, the Tech Tour visited India for the first time and showcased its rich culture of technology and innovation. The Indian Tech Tour was co-organized with TiE UK and TiE Asia. The Indian Tech Tour highlighted this enormous potential and depth during its unique three-day tour across the country.

Participation was limited to 60 privately invited international professionals featuring a broad spectrum of senior representatives from VC funds, leading corporations and institutional investors. The Indian Tech Tour met a double agenda, first to showcase 20+ of India's most promising technology companies for potential investment or partnership and for the delegates to extend their local network in India. Secondly, to discover India as a innovation country and learn how to do business in India.

Furthermore, the agenda included interactions and meetings with a range of key figures from various disciplines – venture capital, corporate, entrepreneurs and academia.

Objectives

To identify the upcoming and leading top 20+ high-growth privately held technology companies in India and to introduce them to key European, US and Asian investors and professionals who can assist in their global expansion.

For delegates, the Tech Tour is a unique platform to gain first-hand knowledge of a selection of India's most advanced and innovative high-technology companies looking to expand globally as well as visiting the key high tech centers in India and learning about the business environment.

For presenting companies, the Tech Tour presents a unique platform to introduce their companies to a group of 60+ high level professionals and executives.

Program

Wednesday, October 11, 2006 (Delhi)
Delegates Arrival & Check into Imperial Delhi Hotel.
Thursday, October 12, 2006 (Delhi)
Registration & Company presentations at Imperial Hotel Delhi.
Speeches by Saurabh Srivastava, Member TiE Global Board & Chairman of IVCA & NASSCOM, Creon Butler, British Deputy High Commissioner, Jyoti Sagar, CEO of J Sagar Associates, Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Government of India, and Satish Kaura, Chairman & MD of Samtel Color.
Visit of Genpact Campus and Genpact Showcase presentations by Pramod Bhasin & Lunch.
IBEF presentation & Indian IT Industry Showcase with NASSCOM by Kiran Karnik, President NASSCOM.
Opening Dinner at Imperial Delhi Hotel with 150 guests.

Friday, October 13, 2006 (Bangalore)
Transfer to Infosys in Bangalore.
Welcome by Pradeep Kar, President TiE Bangalore & overview by Mohandas Pai, Director of Infosys.
Visit of Infosys Campus & Company presentations
Lunch, overview by J Parthasathy, Director STPI Bangalore & Dr. Madhu Mehta of Nirma Labs, & company presentations at STPI
Overview of ISA by Janakiraman & Poornima Shenoy, President of ISA & company presentations.
MindTree Campus Tour & Company Presentations.
Networking dinner at Silicon Valley Bank.
Transfer to ITC Windsor Manor Hotel.
Saturday, October 14, 2006 (Mumbai)
Transfer to Reliance Infocomm Campus in Mumbai.
Reliance Infocomm Campus Visit, Company presentations & Lunch.
TCS Vikroli Campus Visit & Company presentations.
Welcome by Pravin Gandhi, President TiE Mumbai, Nachiket Mor of ICICI, Sudhir Sethi of IDG Ventures & Company presentations at ICICI Bank.
Special Bollywood show at Lands End Fort & closing dinner at Hyatt hotel.

Indian Tech Tour Selection Committee

A group of highly regarded professionals is undertaking the responsibility of screening and selecting the companies to the presented at the Indian Tech Tour. A selection committee has been set up to ensure the independence of the selection process. It is composed by experienced and highly regarded senior professionals, from relevant backgrounds and industry expertise, such as venture capital, technology industry, investment banks, research and specialized press.

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Indian Tech Tour Organizing Team:

Pravin Gandhi President TiE Mumbai	Pradeep Kar President TiE Bangalore	Nish Kotecha President TiE UK
Fionuala Pender Executive Director TiE UK	Prajakt Raut Director, TiE Asia	Seema Shukla Administrative Officer, TiE Asia

Indian Tech Tour Selection Committee:

Akhil Awasthi Baring India Private Equity Fund	Shantanu Bhagwat Amadeus Capital Partners	George Coelho Benchmark Capital
Sonali de Rycker Atlas Venture	Geeta Gupta Lloyds TSB	Shashank Jain Nokia Ventures Organization
Chris Kirby SVB Alliant	Samir Kumar Investus Capital	Davinder Mann Consensus Consulting
Sandeep Murthy Sherpalo Ventures	Alpesh Patel Agile Partners & Tradermind	Jay Patel New Media Spark
Dan Sandhu Vertex	Pankaj Sehgal Sun Group	Ravi Shankar GV Sequoia Capital India
Sandeep Singhal eVentures India	Saurabh Srivastava President TiE Delhi	Krishna Visvanathan 3i
Sameer Wagle IL&FS

Presenting Companies

A list of the companies that are selected to present during the Indian Tech Tour will be available 2 months after the Tech Tour.

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