Challenges for Kozhikode based IT companies in becoming a national player – Panel Discussion

The Indian domestic IT industry is slowly waking up. The number of small and medium industries are realising the need to be lean and IT is the only way ahead to build scalable businesses. Regulatory norms are being tightened and a lot of the submissions are now online. E governance is coming up in a big way. AADHAR is being implemented by most of the state governments. The number of cities with a million plus population is going to double in the next 10 years. There is a lot of opportunities for the Indian product companies to leverage on the India Growth story
and go national. However the challenges are many ; from product pricing to multilingual experts to implemementation and regional variances, that beside hiring cross cultural workforce, the finances, strategy, operations, logistics etc. The cloud provides opportunites, but there are challenges and needs complete rework on existing selling strategies.

Calicut Forum for IT (CafIT) is holding a panel discussion as an eye opener for the small IT companies in Kozhikode to look at there opportunities around the India growth story

Program Details

6:00 pm  – Welcome address by Ajay C Thomas, Sweans Technologies / President CaFIT
6:10 India growth story – 10 minute presentation – Duleep Sahadevan, Co-founder and director of Software Associates

6:20 Panel Discussion

George Ninan – B’tech from NITC (Former REC) brings over 20 years of experience in enterprise selling. Tech27
Duleep Sahadevan – 2 decades of product management and marketing expertise. Software Associates
Nishi Ranjan – MBA 23 years of sales and marketing experience in pan india operations. Arbitron Kozhikode
Sheje Chungath – 18 year of sales experience in banking and Business Intelligence. Sesame software
Anwar – B. Tech with 10 years of pre sales experience in enterprise segment. Aufait technologies
Leepesh Parat – Founder of Zestybeans. One among the fastest growing companies in the region

Vote of thanks – Sainul Abideen,Cybrosys Techno Solutions

8 pm – Subscribed dinner – Rs. 250 per head
Date – 29th August 2011
Venue – Asma Towers, IG Road, Kozhikode

Who can attend

Startups
Business owners
Senior sales managers
Senior marketing managers