HeadStart and Compute 2009 has an agenda that probes the future – keynotes, a series of talks on technology trends by early stage companies who are doing it, a series of talks by early technology adopters in various industry verticals (the ‘innovation panel’), and a series of talks by Venture capitalists on emerging investment trends and opportunities (the ‘investor panel’).
Keynotes
– Jan 9th [9:00 – 9:30 am] Industry-Startup Co-innovation networks
– Jan 9th [2:30 – 3:00 pm] Green computing and clean technology, by Dr Chandrakant Patel, Fellow, HP Labs
– Jan 10th [9:00-9:30 am] Startup opportunities : Going global or local ?, by Ashish Gupta, Partner, Helion Ventures
– Jan 10th [2:30-3:00 pm] Global Indian startups : How to get there ?
Technology hot spots
– Jan 10th [12:15 – 1:15 pm] Search and Social media, Mobility, Application virtualization, Clean technology
Innovation panel
– Jan 9th [3:15 – 4:30 pm] Online Services (Alok Mittal, Partner, Canaan Partners), Mobility (Dr Vishy Poosala, Head, Bell Labs India), Telecom (Karthee Madaswamy, Qualcomm Ventures), Consumer products (tbc), Social enterprise (N Ramakrishnan, VP Technology, ICICI Foundation)
– Jan 10th [3:15-4:30 pm] Aerospace and Automation (Harsha Ramesh Angeri, Head, Strategy & Initiatives, Honeywell), Healthcare (Naveen Kulkarni, Business development director, Philips), Retail and Logistics (tbc), Automotive and Transportation systems (tbc), Semiconductors (tbc)
Investor panel
– Jan 10th [5:00-6:00 pm] Investing trends and Opportunities for 2009 (RJ Sridhar of JAFCO, Varsha Tagare of Intel Capital, Samir Kumar of Inventus Capital Partners, Rajesh Srivatsa of Ojas Ventures, MJ Aravind of Artiman Ventures)