TiE SAP Summit

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New Trustees to TiE Global Board2014 Elected

TiE Global

OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2013

Newsletter of TiE Punjab & Chandigarh

29 November 2013

On Monday, December 23rd, TiE Global

announced the winners of the 2014

Board of Trustee elections.

There were 10 nominees for the 6 open

slots on the Board.

Those who got elected to the Board

are, Jassi Chadha from New Jersey;

AI Kapoor, Boston; Harish Mamtani,

Atlanta; PK Gulati, Dubai; Lakshmi

Narayanan, Chennai; and

Sanjeev Ahuja, UK.

Our heartiest congratulations to the

new Global Team.

i E Chandigarh-Punjab Chapter

organized a TiE-SAP Summit in Tassociation with SAP Labs, USA. Suraj

Sudhi, Lead for Startup Onboarding

Engagement for Asia Pacific and Japan region,

conducted the sessions with entrepreneurs

and students.

A large number of entrepreneurs with their IT

teams including from IDS Infotech, Smartdata,

Grazitti Interactive, Access Infotech, Viprasoft,

Kinara Group, Winsome, to name just a few,

attended the session.

Suraj Sudhi highlighted the advantages of SAP-

HANA platform which analyses big data with

speed of thought helping organizations make

quick decision as well as serve their customers

in much more effective way.

Since last one year, there are about 1000 new

startups worldwide who have adopted the

system to develop their applications and even

in India it is rapidly being adopted.

Approximately 100 startups across the country

are already using SAP-HANA for developing

solutions for the automobile, healthcare, dairy

production, manufacturing, and retail sectors,

Suraj Sudhi informed.

Earlier addressing the students at the UMIT,

informed that volume of data being processed

has changed dramatically and according to one

study, digital information in India will grow

from 40,000 petabytes to 2.3 million petabytes,

necessitating the need for Data Scientists in the

country who should have statistical and

algorithm skills.

TiE worldwide has partnered with SAP to help

the entrepreneurs learn the fundamentals of

working on this new platform HANA, to build

applications that are very fast and perform

analytics quickly, informed Alok Ramsisaria,

Secretary, TiE Chandigarh-Punjab.

TiE Chandigarh-Punjab would be organising a

comprehensive training programme in

February, Alok informed.

Mr. S.K. Chadha, Director Placement Cell, PU (right) presenting a memento to Mr. Suraj Sudhi, SAP Representative.

TiECon 2013, Delhi

On 8th October 2013 TiE Hard team

met at the residence of TiE charter

member Anuj Aggarwal of Altruist

Technologies in Panchkula.

Current industry trends and action

needed to foster entrepreneurship

in the region were discussed.

Those who participated included

Munish Johar, Ravi Bhargav, Shobit

Gupta, Prabhjit Gill, Manu Bhandari,

Sumeer Walia, Ekant Agarwal, and

Sandeep Gandotra.

They work HARD,

they party HARD...

they are TiE HARD.

TiE-Hard team members have

been meeting informally at

each other homes

over dinner to plan

and discuss their

future strategies to

strengthen the

eco-system for

startups.

Besides the mentoring sessions

being conducted by various

members on one-to-one basis

with the new entrepreneurs,

they have been addressing the

students at various educational

institutions too to inculcate the

spirit of entrepreneurship in

them.

TiE Chandigarh members had a sizable and effective presence at the TiECON in Delhi. A special TiE Chandigarh Lounge was created where the startups from Chandigarh had the opportunity to interact with the TiE members from all over the country.

Here’s the smiling TiE Chandigarh Team with our Guests. (Left) Mr. Sidhharth Roy Kapoor, Managing Director of UTV and (right) Ms. Vandana Luthra, Managing Director of VLCC, who visited the Chandigarh Lounge and interacted.

14th December 2013

TiE Member Connect

iE Chandigarh Chapter with the inclusion of two new Associate Directors

decided to organise an interface between all members including Charter TMembers, Associate Members and members of the Governing Council of the

Chapter. The event was aptly named, TiE Member Connect which was organised at

Chandigarh Golf Club on 14th December 2013. The agenda of this Member Connect

was to have meaningful interaction with the members, receive ideas and suggestions for

strengthening TIE Chandigarh and adding value for its members.

This event was a grand success and was attended by almost all TiE members with

stalwarts like Bharat Ratna recipient Mr. Chandra Mohan, Mr. Ghai, CEO of

santabanta.com, Mr. B.S. Sawhney, Vice President of Nectar Life Sciences, Dr. A.S.

Marwaha of UIAMS, Panjab University, and Mr. Chadha, Director Placement of Panjab

University, Chandigarh.

Our special thanks to Godrej Properties for hosting the event.

TiE Chandigarh Team Shines at

Raising Finance 25th October 2013

Under the inspiration of Mr.MahavirPartap at the annual Retreat in Mussoorie, TiE Chandigarh initiatedthe concept of TiE BBB. Since then we have organised nine successfulBBBs with diverse group of businesspeople, professionals, and experts.

In the last quarter of 2013, TiE membersespecially the new startups benefittedfrom these interactions over breakfast.

E-Cell at UIAMS

WINNERS Rishabh Ohri, Mayank Aggarwal, Anantika Nautiyal, Jiwandeep Singh Ghai, TPO UIAMS and Damanpreet Kaur at the E-Cell of UIAMS at their campus in Panjab University.

8th November 2013

TiE Chandigarh GC Meet TiE Chandigarh had its GC Meet at the UT Guest house under the leadership of President PartapAggarwal, to review the activities and prepared the plans for more engagement with the startups, budding entrepreneurs and other stakeholders in the ecosystem.

9th October 2013

Mr. Venkataraman, Vice President of Business Incubation and Acceleration program at the University of Petroleum and Energy studies and Mr. Sumeer Guglani, CEO at The Morpheus addressed young entrepreneurs of the region on how to raise finance. This session was conducted at UT Guest House, Chandigarh and was moderated by Mr. Sumeer Walia, Executive Director, TiE Chandigarh.

BBB 30th OctoberMr. K. Paul Singh, Co-Founder and Chairmanof InterCentrus Global Data Centres, Inc.USAon ‘Empowering Your Team and IncreasingProductivity’ with TiE Charter Member Mr. Hridesh Madan, CEO, Bulls Eye, as Moderator

BBB 6th DecemberMrs. Chandan Deep Kaur, Co-Founder, Access Infotech on ‘Vendor Management & Customer Retention’

BBB 20th December

Ms. Sunali Aggarwal, CEO, Beon Des Tech Systems on ‘Crafting Business with Creativity’, and C.J. Singh, CEO, CorePR, as session moderator.

To nurturing entrepreneurship in the region, TIE Chandigarh

and Punjab Chapter has started organising Mentoring Clinics.

If you are in need of a mentor or you are facing any kind of

challenge in your business, just send an email to us

mentoring@tiechandigarh.org so that a meeting can be

organised with the mentors.

A successful session on Mentoring Clinic was

held at GrayCell Technologies, where its

Founder/CEO, Mr. Munish Jauhar, and

Mr. Vishal Chalana, Co-Founder, Winshuttle,

mentored the companies who had

enrolled in the Mentoring Clinics.

The second session will be held in

January 2014.

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Our Charter member and CEO of

GrayCell Technology Exports,

Munish Jauhar has been selected as

the Founding Curator for the

Chandigarh Hub in India of the

World Economic Forum's prestigious

Global Shapers Community.

Our heartiest felicitations to him.

Munish Jauhar also deserves our deepest appreciation for being

honoured by the Software Technology Parks of India (STPI),

during the mega IT conclave, Destination IT@North 2013, at

CII, with the STPI “Jewel of the Crown” Award for the Best

Socially Active Unit, on 20th November.

Executive Team@ TiE ChandigarhBon Voyage to Sumeer Walia

Sumeer Walia, Executive Director, TiE

Chandigarh had to bid us farewell as he

became another success story for TiE, having

decided to venture into his own enterprise

as a Cruise specialist. Thanks to the

mentoring by some of our own Charter

members he has successfully chartered his

own career path as Founder CEO of Cruise

Rover. We wish him all success in life.

Welcome to Ekant and HarpreetOur New Associate Directors

Harpreet Minhas is Masters in Marketing & IT

with six years of industry experience having

worked with naukri.com, Uno Infotech, Stands

Academy and National Healthcare Services

(NHS), London. She is also an ORACLE

Certified professional.

Ekant Aggarwal is a lawyer by profession with

masters in management, who practised law in

the District Court, and Panjab & Haryana High

Court, before entering the corporate world, as

Head of Legal and HR for a leading chain of

Restaurants.

Design Thinking15 October 2013

Design Thinking: Desirable, Feasible and Viable was the topic of

highly interactive session at Net Solutions by Himanshu Khanna,

Founder Designer at Sparklin, Angad Kingra, former Head of Design

at Zomato, and Nishant Jain, CEO, Design for Use.

After opening remarks by Sameer Jain, CEO of Net Solutions, and

Avinash Raghava, Fellow, iSPIRIT, the trio made lively presentations

and shared case studies how design helped in enhancing user

experience, and added value to the product and the organisation.