Note: Agenda details subject to change, as deemed necessary, at the discretion of IDC India and its partners.

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TECHNOLOGY PARTNER

DARE and IDC India will drive database generation and audience acquisition targeting the key decision maker(s) as well as the key influencer(s) for most key decisions in that organization will be present at envision. The target audience is 140-150 C-Level executives of businesses with turnover of upto Rs 500 cr. There will be two to three C-Level attendees participating from 70-75 unique organizations. They will be decision makers and influencers within their organizations from amongst the following five functions:

Delegates would be targeted from the following industries/business sectors:

• Manufacturing

• Healthcare

• Retail and Distribution

• Warehousing and Logistics

• BPOs/Call Centres and IT-enabled Services companies

• IT Services companies

• Pharmaceuticals & Chemicals

• Healthcare

• Banking and Finance

• Insurance and Investment houses

• Energy and Utilities

• Travel, Tourism and Hospitality Services

• Warehousing and Logistics

• Distribution and Retail

• Envision would directly target 70-75 unique organizations.

• A great opportunity to directly target senior business and technology decision makers such as CEOs, CFOs, CMOs, COOs, CIOs/VPs/GMs and Heads of IT and Directors/Heads/VPs/GMs from emerging user enterprises across important industry verticals

• Presentation by Group Editor from DARE who will provide a perspective on the opportunities, tools and best practices to exploit new business areas and how to grow in the downturn economy.

• Industry and product/technology experts from the sponsor organisation would be able to present the Envision viewpoint on how to empower SMB organizations to effectively manage their workforce and how to enable enterprises to reduce costs, increase productivity, improve employee satisfaction, and ultimately enhance the level of service they provide to their customers

• Delegates would have an opportunity to interact face-to-face with sponsor vendor experts and gain insights into the different business aspects like Funding, Branding, Quality and process, Talent management, tapping the global market and their likely benefits in terms of cost savings, easier manageability and better RoI

• Delegates would be able to participate in-group mentoring on specified topics with market Gurus and exchanges notes as well as discuss issues of common interest with the peers.

• An opportunity for Partner to leverage on a neutral platform created by DARE and IDC to strengthen its relationships with emerging enterprises from key industry verticals.

• Online Mentoring: Post-event Service Exchange for better connectivity with delegates.

• Post-event capsule in DARE Magazine (February 2010 & March 2010 Edition)

UNIQUE OUTREACH PROGRAMME

Over and above the participants in the seminar, Envision will have an outreach program that will reach the proceedings and benefits of the program to 3000 more C-Level executives in and around the proposed cities.

This will be achieved by reaching the co-branded DVD (with videos of proceedings + presentations + tools) the printed book and the online website and exchange to them.

NEW DELHI
Date: APRIL 22, 2010

InterContinental Eros
Nehru Place, New Delhi, Delhi 110019
Tel: 011 41331916

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BENGALURU
Date: APRIL 29, 2010

The Leela Palace Kempinski
23, Airport Road, Bangalore,
Karnataka 560008, India‎
Tel: 080 2521 1234‎

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Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
Eminent Journalist, Author, Political Economist and Talk Show Anchor

Paranjoy Guha Thakurta is a journalist with over 30 years experience in various media – print, radio, television, the Internet and documentary cinema. He used to anchor “India Talks”, a daily programme that was broadcast on the CNBC India television channel for nearly six years. Nearly 1,400 episodes of the programme, featuring many of India’s best-known politicians, bureaucrats, social activists, businesspersons, professionals and academicians, have been telecast. He is a regular contributor to various newspapers, magazines, news agencies, websites, radio stations and television channels. He has directed a number of documentary films.

A graduate from St. Stephens’s College, New Delhi and a postgraduate in economics from the Delhi School of Economics, Mr. Guha Thakurta has worked with Business India, BusinessWorld, The Telegraph, India Today and The Pioneer.

He has co-authored a book on coalition politics in India that anticipated the outcome of the 14th general elections. He teaches and trains aspiring and working media professionals and lectures on the working of India’s economy, its polity and its media. He is a consultant to the UNDP.

Krishna Kumar
Founding Editor, DARE

Krishna Kumar joined CyberMedia in 1996 after stints at the National Dairy Development Board and Venkateshwara Hatcheries Ltd., where he was involved in project management and corporate strategy functions. An Engineer and an MBA by training, at CyberMedia he was initially instrumental in setting up India’s first vendor neutral IT products testing facility – Cybermedia Labs. Subsequently, he was the Editor of PCQuest and Living Digital. Currently, he is the founding editor for DARE, India’s first magazine on entrepreneurship and is also the CIO for the group. His blog at http://www.dare.co.in/blogs/krishna-kumar.htm covers issues relating to business, technology and entrepreneurship.

Kapil Dev Singh
Country Manager of IDC (India) Limited
Responsible for the management and business operations of the company in India.

Kapil has over twelve years of industry experience, of which close to eleven years is in business research. In his earlier stints, Kapil has headed several new initiatives at IDC India, including software & services research, corporate research, Internet research etc. Of these Kapil built up the IDC India Software & Services Research practice from scratch. Prior to joining IDC, Kapil worked for three years with IMRB International (part of the WPP group and southern Asia’s largest research firm) and for one year with the HCL group.

Kapil is widely quoted in the press and is a regular speaker at various industry forums. His areas of interest include industry analysis, business strategy, change management, resource planning and teaching.

Kapil holds a bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical) from Bengal Engineering College (Calcutta University) and a Master’s degree in Business Administration (Marketing) from Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management (Calcutta University). Kapil believes in continual improvement through a systematic approach and himself is a lead auditor for ISO 9001: 2000 requirements. He is also a certified Six Sigma ‘Green Belt’ quality professional.

Ravikant Sharma
Senior Research Manager
Head – User Research and Growth Ink

Ravikant Sharma is a Senior Manager with IDC India in the User Research group based out of Gurgaon. He is responsible for the execution of market research projects on the IT and Telecommunications markets for customers based in India as well as overseas customers.

Prior to joining IDC, Ravikant has worked with market research firms like Symphony-IRI a US based research organization and MARCH, Marketing Consultancy & Research, Hyderabad.. In these organizations, he has worked in the areas of retail and telecommunication research.

Ravikant holds a B. Tech. in Textile Technology from M. L. V. Textile Institute, Rajasthan state and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management (Marketing) from ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad.

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Envision is a 360 degree, immersive experience for the participants.

It includes:

• A one-day seminar with two tracks, one for directors and CEOs and the other for other C-Level executives

• Group mentoring clinics on specified topics

• One on one mentoring sessions with experts

• A DVD with seminar videos, presentations and tools that the participants can refer back to

• A website that can carry forward the discussions and deliberations

• A services exchange online that the participants can use to exchange services amongst themselves

• Book with articles and research documents that can help in their business