TiE -Hubli: Events

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The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), A non-profit organization was founded in 1992 in Silicon Valley by a group of successful entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and senior professionals with roots in the Indus region. There are currently over 13,000 members and more than 3,000 charter members in 55 chapters across 13 countries.TiE Hubli is committed to fostering entrepreneurship in the Hubli-Dharwad region. It was launched in the year 2009. It aims to instill the spirit of entrepreneurship through networking; mentoring and lecturing. It aims to focus on instigating the second generation entrepreneurs to innovate and spill unique business ideas in to the business. It also intends to create an entrepreneurial environment in the region. .

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Talk on Secrets of World Achievers.

What an end for the day, by listening to Mr. Vivek Pawar Sir in a session on "Secrets of World Achievers". It was really a inspiring session clearly focused on Goal setting process and achievement. I think each and every individual need to focus on long term goal and try to achieve step by step. We really enjoyed the session, we received lot of positive inputs from this session.

Leveraging Opportunity - Kashif Sami, Nov 12, 2011

Leveraging Opportunity is an interactive session, where in the members of TiE present their business idea/paper to a set of panel and receive feedback. It is a wonderful opportunity to understand business perspectives better, which will help in scaling or diversifying member’s businesses. Leveraging opportunity is a continuous process and this time Associate Members, Mr. Kashif Sami TiE Hubli's Associated Member presented his business plan/idea to a set of panelists involving Prof. P.B Roodagi, and Jagadish Hiremath and got feedback and suggestions to improve their business idea/plan.

Charter Member's Meeting on 03/11/2011

On 03/11/2011 TiE Charter Member's meeting was held in Bellad & Company.

Present:

Mr. Vivek Pawar, Founder &CEO-Sankalp Semiconductor

Mr. Naveen Jha, Director (Programs) - Deshpande Foundation

Mr. P.B.Roodagi, Director, IMSR

Mr. Jagadish Hiremath, CEO, Able Technologies

Mr. Santosh Huralikoppi, CEO, NS Infotech Ltd.

Mr. Gautham Ostwal, CEO, Elegant Drugs.

Mr. Prasanna Dixit, Director, Mahaveer Infoway Ltd.

Mr. Arvind Bellad, Owner, Bellad & co.

Mrs. Madhuri Kulkarni, Company Secretary.

Mr. Satish.S.Munavalli, Managing Partner, Munavalli Associates

Agenda

—TiE Update

—To Chalk out TiE future activities.

—Corporate Olympiad -TiE Cricket League.

—Hubli Special Interest (HR) Group in Hubli.

—TiE Entrepreneurial Summit (TES) 2011, B’lore.

—TiE-Con , Hubli in January 2012

—TiE Hubli office Bearers.

10 Charter Members were present in the meeting, members discussed about TiE Hubli present status and future plans. All the members were actively participated and shared their ideas and views to make TiE Hubli as a active and dynamic organisation in this region.

Leveraging Opportunity - Sikandar M & Padmaraj P

Leveraging Opportunity is an interactive session, where in the members of TiE present their business idea/paper to a set of panel and receive feedback. It is a wonderful opportunity to understand business perspectives better, which will help in scaling or diversifying member’s businesses. Leveraging opportunity is a continuous process and this time Associate members, Mr. Sikandar Meernayak and Mr.Padmaraj Pattanshetti presented their business to the set of panelists involving Prof. P.B Roodagi, Naveen Jha and Neelam Maheshwari and got feedback and suggestions to improve their business idea/plan.

Leveraging Opportunity - Laxmi R and Tanmayi R K

Leveraging Opportunity is an interactive session, where in the members of TiE present their business idea/paper to a set of panel and receive feedback. It is a wonderful opportunity to understand business perspectives better, which will help in scaling or diversifying member’s businesses. Leveraging opportunity is a continuous process and this time WE-TiE members, Ms. Laxmi Rasalkar and Mrs. Tanmayi Kalebar presented their business to the set of panels involving Jagadish Hiremath, Sasisekar, Vinay K, and Prasanna Kulkarni and got feedback and suggestions to improve their business.

CMs meeting with Dr Madhu Atre

On 13th August, Charter Members of TiE Hubli had a chance to interact with Dr. Madhusudan Atre. Members discussed about the challenges faced by them in their respective business and got suggestions form Mr Atre. Dr. Madhusudan V. Atre (Madhu) is the President & Managing Director of Applied Materials India. As the leader of the Applied Materials India leadership team, he is responsible for strategy and operations in India; and ensuring alignment, coordination and execution of all product development, business, and operational activities. He is also responsible for solar sales and market development solar sales and market development, as well as government/university relations, representation in industry forums, media interface.

With over 24 years of experience in the semiconductor and computer industries after his PhD in

Theoretical Physics, Dr. Atre has also donned various leadership, management, and technical roles

– as the Vice President and Managing Director of LSI India, founding Managing Director and Vice

President of Agere Systems India, founding director of Lucent Technologies Microelectronics

Division, and several management positions at Texas Instruments India, and India’s Defence R&D

Organization.

Highlights of Dr. Atre’s career include setting up of the India R&D operations of Multi-National

Companies and guiding them through growth and spin-offs/mergers; policy contributions in the

renewable energy (solar) space; thought-leadership in semiconductor industry bodies; advisory roles

to venture funds/start-ups and colleges. He has also carried out fundamental research in theoretical

physics, parallel computing software; and VLSI testing.

Dr. Atre has played significant roles in industry bodies as a founding Executive Council member of

the Indian Semiconductor Association (ISA) and head of the Solar Segment, founding Co-Chairman

of SEMI PV India, member of American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) Energy committee,

executive council member of AMCHAM Bangalore Chapter, charter member of TiE Bangalore,

advisor to venture capital firm, member of US-India Business Council, member of the Solar Energy

Committee of FICCI, etc.

Dr. Atre has published/authored more than 40 technical papers/thought leadership articles in reputed

journals/magazines/conferences; and also lectured in many technical and industry forums. He holds

a 5 year integrated M.Sc. degree in physics from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay,

and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore. He has held

research positions at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Mumbai), Physical Research Laboratory (Ahmedabad), IISc, and universities in the US and Italy.

Destination Entrepreneur Workshop

TiE Hubli have organised a two day workshop "Destination Entrepreneur" for students and start ups on 10th and 11th of August. Resource person Dr. Nalini Mohan Vanaparthy is the President of Entrepreneurship Services Group and author of popular Entrepreneurship blog “Success Potential Unleashed”. His blog aims to unleash success potential of entrepreneurs by providing education, perspectives and insights on all topics relating to entrepreneurship. Dr. Nalini Mohan’s focus areas for Entrepreneurship include Technology, Technology Adoption, Education, Health Care, Sustainable Energy, Retail and Family Entrepreneurship. Prior to the current role, Dr. Nalini Mohan worked at IBM and Amcast Automotive. His work experience spanned research, product development, manufacturing, consulting, sales and marketing. He has published papers in peer reviewed international journals and spoke at key IT events. Nalini Mohan. V’s educational qualifications include PhD and Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University and a BE in Mechanical & Production Engineering from Osmania University.

Visit to Tropicool Food Pvt Ltd

As a part of "Visit an Enterprise" (WE TiE activity), members of TiE visited Tropicool Food Pvt Ltd on 6th of August 2011. Tropicool Food Pvt Ltd (TFPL) was established in 2006 by Mr. Vivek Nayak (Charter Member, TiE Hubli) and Mr. Prakash Kanoor, TFPL is part of the vegetable and fruit processing industry. It is in the business of processing vegetables and fruits through the individually quick frozen method. Based in Hubli (Karnataka), TFPL has a processing capacity of around 2 tonnes per hour and started commercial operations in April 2009. The company exports its products to the US, Europe, and the Middle East.

During the visit Mrs Rekha Nayak, WE TiE member and wife of Mr Vivek Nayak explained the working of TFPL and also clarified the doughts of the members.

Leveraging Opportunity - Arvind Irkal

Leveraging Opportunity is an interactive session, where in the members of TiE present their business idea/paper to a set of panel and receive feedback. It is a wonderful opportunity to understand business perspectives better, which will help in scaling or diversifying member’s businesses. Leveraging opportunity is a continuous process and this time associate member, Arvind Irkal presented his business to the set of panels involving Dr. Prasad B. Roodagi, Mangesh Shenai and Jagadish Hiremath and got feedback and suggestions to improve his business.

Home Maker to Entrepreneur

"Home Maker to Entrepreneur" was an interactive session organised by WE TiE on 16th July 2011. The session was addressed by Mrs Manjiri Sabnis and Mrs Gandhali Sewak, Directors of WE Bangalore.

Manjiri is Instrumentation engineer having experience of 15+ years of teaching as well as working as a free lance consultant in different institutions from schools to colleges in India.

She has worked in Singapore for more than 5 years. She has excellent communication skills and has worked as a corporate instructor at international locations. She is heading a group of 15 people which is working as a content development workforce called as Women Entrepreneurs Bangalore. Manjiri has excellent presentation skills and is proficient is using many software programs.

She has designed training modules for engineering students as well as experienced engineers as well as technical and non technical persons. She has prepared engineering related training course material for different streams like Electrical, Electronics, Mechanical and Instrumentation. She is very well conversant with manufacturing processes and conducted classroom as well as hands on training.

Gandhali is Civil engineer having 17+ years of experience in Planning, design and management projects. She is experienced in managing projects including budgeting, scheduling and other management tasks. She has excellent people management and communication skills

She is proficient in instructional design for teaching using multimedia and in writing technical reports. She has worked on many prestigious projects in USA, Australia and Europe and also worked as corporate trainer for MNCs. She is Cofounder and director of Women Entrepreneurs, Bangalore and Founder of IDC Technologies new work location: Bangalore.

She is winner of Outstanding Performance Reward in year 2000, in R&M engineers, California, USA.

She was 1st in Pune University in the section “Planning for Transportation & utility Services” and selected as Executive Engineer in Maharashtra Government through Public Service Commission Examination.

Gandhali’s research papers on Improvement in the transport network of Dhule City and Rehabilitation of people affected by Sardar Sarovar Project in Maharashtra region are published in Indian Concrete Journal.

Both of them addressed the members about the concept of working from home and the opportunities, challenges of the working from home model. They also shared their experience of starting and running an enterprise (WE - Women Entrepreneur) which is also based on work from home concept.

Visit to Special Oils

One of the WE TiE activity : Visit an Enterprise. First enterprise visit was on 9th July, Saturday to Special Oils run by Sadhana Rao (We TiE member and Proprietor of Special Oils). Special Oils is into re-refining of used oils and it is the only company in North Karnataka that is into re-refining of used oils. This process of re-refining is environment friendly and helps saving indispensable resource. Visited members had a chance to interact with Sadhana Rao regarding the re-refining industry and to know more about the working of Special Oils. Members also discussed the opportunities and threats of re- refining industry which was both way beneficial to the members as well as to Sadhana Rao.

New Direct Tax Code by B L MEENA

Hon’ble Commissioner of Income Tax, Mr. B L Meena addressed TiE members regarding "The New Direct Tax Code". The talk focused on the proposed direct tax code which will replace the current Income Tax Act, which dates back to 1961. The significant structural changes to direct taxation which new code proposes to bring about in the country. He also stressed on the point that the direct tax code aims at reducing tax rates, but expanding the tax base by minimizing exemptions.

More than 70 members had attended the session at Deshpande Foundation. Mr Naveen Jha, President TiE Hubli and CEO of Deshpande Foundation and Charter Members of TiE Hubli namely Arvind Bellad, Santhosh Huralikopi, Shankar Bijapur, Sheshagiri Kulkarni, Goutam Ostwal, Bimal Mehta, Sandeep Bidasariya were also present in the session.

Business Presentations by WE TiE Members

We TiE started a series of "Women entrepreneurs Week " in this program various known women entrepreneurs will be presenting their business to a select audience once in a month . Following these discussions members will also be visiting Women Entrepreneurs workplace in person to gain first hand understanding of enterprise.
First week We -Tie Entrepreneurs Deepali Gotadke and Sadhna Rao presented the insights into their businesses. It was a unique opportunity to learn from some remarkable women who are not only working in an otherwise unconventional business and aspire to take it to another levels. Presenters also use this platform to seek feedback and comments from the experts and fellow We TiE and TiE members.
Deepali Godkhe : Deepali Gotadke is the Proprietor of WebDreams ,ClickHubli.com. heads the North Karnataka's first e-commerce site. She has designed and developed over 200 sites since 2001, including the prestigious sites of HDMC, Hubli-Dharwad police. and NWKRTC to name a few. She plays a key role in promoting the traditional art of “Ksauti” online. This has enhanced the employment opportunity in this region. She intends to contribute in the area of web related activities, especially in e-commerce and e-promotions.
Sadhana Rao is Proprietor of Speical oils, the only compnay in North Karnataka that re-refines used oils and hence helps saving indispensable resource. Sadhna seeks to make people aware about uses of re-refining used oil and strategies to grow her business.

Sucess of World Achievers by Vivek Pawar

Vivek Pawar is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and founder of Sankalp Semiconductor Pvt. Ltd and also he is the Charter Member of TiE Hubli. He brings in 18 years of industry experience in varied functions of General management, Operations, Program management, Customer Relations and rich experience is Mixed-Signal and Analog Product Design, System On Chip (SoC) Development including firmware development. Prior to Sankalp Semiconductor, Vivek was Program Manager at Texas Instruments Inc. (Houston, USA) during 2003-2005 and General Manager for Broadband Silicon Technology Center in Texas Instruments India, Bangalore from 2000-2003 and a part of the TI India Management Team.
Vivek Pawar joined Texas Instruments India in 1990 as an Analog Design Engineer after completing his MTech from IIT Kharagpur. Vivek took the team leadership role within 6 months of joining TI. In 1995, Vivek was elected to MGTS position in prestigious Technical Ladder of Texas Instruments Inc.
Vivek held various technical and leadership roles in Mixed-Signal Products organization to eventually become the Operation Manager in 1997 of Mixed-Signal Products Group and later General Manager for Broadband Silicon Technology Center (BSTC). Under Vivek’s leadership, the TI India Mixed-Signal Group grew from less then 40 engineers to 200+ by 2002 and more then 35 IC’ products were released to market in different areas such as Video Graphics, Data Converter, Digital Still Camera, GPS RF, Broadband DSL and wireless LAN, with many products winning international acclaim. The team under him was responsible for developing multiple firsts in the world’s Analog/Mixed Signal Products completely from India, with few of them receiving international awards and acclaims such as: the world’s first integrated DSL front-end with analog front-end and hybrid amplifier, the EDN Asia award winner in 1999; the world’s first single chip DSL (at the time, the nearest competition was still at a 3 chip solution), the EDN WW award winner 2003, , along with the SoC.
Vivek completed his BE (E&T/C) from the College Of Engineering Pune (COEP) in 1985 and worked with Videocon International as Production Manager before joining MTech at IIT Kharagpur.

Here in the session, he spoke on the topic "Success of World Achievers" and he explained the importance of setting the goal in life and how to categories and achieve the goal. He also spoke about Neurolinguistic Programing.

Made in India and its Innovations

Ravishankar is the Vice-President of the Silicon IP Business Unit at Ittiam Systems and also plays the role of Business Development Manager for APAC region. Having over 24 years of industry experience in VLSI, DSP and Multimedia domains, Ravishankar was also part of the Ittiam founding team.Prior to Ittiam, Ravishankar was with Texas Instruments India from 1986-2000. During his tenure at TI, Ravi worked and held several positions in the areas of DSP design, DSP applications and Semiconductor Sales and Marketing before becoming General Manager of the DSP Software Development systems group of TI India.

Ravi holds a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from University of Madras and an Engineering Degree in Electronics and Communication from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He also holds a post graduate diploma in IPR Law from National Law School, Bangalore.

He threw light on the topic, Made in India and its Innovations. It was an half an hour long session where in speaker touched different corers of the topic followed by Q & A.

Pankaj Sathe Adresses TiE Members

Pankaj Sathe is the Executive Director of KPIT Cummins. Based in UK, in his current role, Pankaj is responsible for global sales operations and customer acquisition. Operating as a close partner to customers, he drives the development of solutions and service offerings to accelerate growth and profitability. He has been instrumental in KPIT Cummins' growth in Europe across France, Germany and Scandinavia. He was instrumental in successfully establishing local presence in key geographies and integrating acquisitions with the parent organization. Prior to joining KPIT Cummins, he has worked with companies like HCL, Ranbaxy and Godrej in the areas of sales, marketing and business management. Pankaj is an engineer and has a Masters in Business Administration. He is an active member of IEEE and enjoys studying war history and traveling.

KPIT Cummins is a leading technology solutions partner for global Manufacturing corporations with special focus on Automotive, Energy & Utilities, Industrial Equipments, and Semiconductor industries. Our Information Technology solutions help our customers run their businesses more efficiently. Our Product Engineering solutions enable our customers to build products that are energy efficient, safer and yield more comfort for their customers. Our highly focused approach has helped us pioneer innovative solutions and file 33 patents in the Automotive and Semiconductor domains.

Here in TiE hubli Pankaj Sathe spoke on the topic of space for mid tier companies in the market place and stressed on the point that how to be "big enough to deliver but small enough to care".

Leveraging Opportunity

Leveraging opportunity is an interactive session, where in the members of TiE present their business idea/paper to a set of panel (Charter Members) and receive feedback. It is a wonderful opportunity to understand business perspectives better, which will help in scaling or diversifying member’s businesses. Leveraging opportunity is a continuous process and this time two associate members, Sasisekar Krish and Sameer Ahamad presented their business to the set of panels and got feedback and suggestions to improve their business.

Legal Aspects by Madhuri Kulkarni

Madhuri Kulkarni is a Company Secretary at her own Company called Prudent Legal Solutions Pvt Ltd. She is a Graduate in law from University College of law, 1999, Securing 1st Rank with 3 Gold Medals and has passed the final of ICSI Exam in 2000 from the INSTITUTE OF COMPANY SECRETARIES OF INDIA, Delhi.
Business Details:
(a) PRACTICING AS WHOLE-TIME COMPANY SECRETARY
(b) PROMOTER DIRECTOR OF “PRUDENT LEGAL SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LTD”
(c) PROMOTER SECRETARY OF JANAADESH (NGO FOR LEGAL AWARENESS)
(d) PROMOTER VICE-PRESIDENT OF PRERANA EDUCATION SOCIETY (NGO FOR EDUCATION)
(e) VISITING FACULTY TO MANAGEMENT INSTITUTES.

It was an hour long session where in Mrs. Madhuri Kulkarni spoke about various legal aspects for start ups and entrepreneurs followed by discussions and Q & A. Nearly twenty people had gathered for the session and members found the session helpful and they also suggested few topics for upcoming sessions.

BUSINESS MELA

TiE Hubli Organised Business Mela on 28th April 2011 at the Deshpande Foundation.

The theme of the event was Discovering New Business Opportunities. This was an unique initiative by TiE Hubli to promote businesses and networking amongst the business community. Business Mela provided with an opportunity to showcase various businesses at one place and also generate business. Business mela was also an excellent networking platform for different business entities to explore new opportunities.

The Business Mela was inaugurated by Santosh Huralikoppi, CEO, N S Infotech. As many as 25 different businesses houses showcased their business and services at the business mela.

Viz., Prudent Legal solutions Pvt. ltd, White spark ideas, Geetanjali Silk Sadan, Artashastra, Shri Guru Associates, Click Hubli, Hubli Optics Plus, English Helper, Ion Idea, etc..

TiE Hubli Intends to promote the businesses of its members through business mela and also a platform to understand the businesses in a better way.

Mohandas Pai - Infosys meets TiE members

Mr. Mohandas Pai, Director and Head, Admin and HR -Infosys Technologies, interacted with Charter Members of TiE Hubli on making Hubli a better place for companies to grow and a better place to live.

Mr. Mohandas Pai is member of the Board and Director-Human Resources, Education and Research and Administration. He joined Infosys in 1994 and has served as a member of the Board since May 2000. He served as the Chief Financial Officer from 1994 to 2006. In 2006, he voluntarily remitted the office of CFO to lead efforts in the areas of Human Resources and Education and Research.

TiE Hubli hosted Mr. Mohandas Pai, who Met the Charter Members of TiE Hubli at the Hotel Clarks Inn on 12th March at 7 PM for an Hours discussion. Talking on the occasion Mr. Pai, stresses on the need of improving Hubli to make it a better place for the bigger companies to come here and also a better place to live.

He particularly stresses that Hubli needed better infrastructure and education facilities to lure the big companies.

Mr. Pai also made note of many issues such as better roads, better connectivity, better schools and colleges and also made a special note on procuring incentives from the government in getting all these things done and improvised.

Mr. Mohandas Pai gave out a ten point agenda for making Hubli an attractive place for companies to come in & also for people to settle in here. The ten point agenda was

1) Creating a proper growth plan for Hubli, in terms of number of employed, city’s infrastructure.

2) Creating better education facilities and hiqh quality education and educational institutions.

3) Creating more of SEZ’s and research centre’s in Hubli.

4) Creating more opportunities for other industries such as garment industry, fabrications, auto components etc.

5) Making Hubli as a cultural centre, so that Hubli can be made more visible. He was particular in saying that Hubli and North Karnataka holds a very rich cultural heritage and that needs to be showcased in order to pull more people in.

6) The need to get more and more visible and high profile people to the city, which helps in branding the city.

7) He stressed on the need of sowing the seeds of entrepreneurship from the college days and that college students need to be given more chance to experiment and should be given more exposure.

8) Setting up high quality incubators and infrastructure, because the progress needs to be visible and through incubators a regular check on the progress can be kept.

9) Get the Govt to incentivise the set up and that would motivate more companies to come and set up their companies here.. and finally

10) Stressed on the need on improving the quality of life here.

Mr. Mohandas Pai also discussed to the members of TiE as how they should go about their companies so as to create employment and what has to be done to retain the employees back in the Companies.

The Members of TiE put some questions with respect to their companies and got back the feed back from Mr. Mohandas Pai.