| Day 1 - December 16, 2013 |
| 10:15 - 11:30 |
Inaugural Session
The state on business affairs: Landscape 2013 & beyond.
Session Highlights:
- Change on the horizon – Economic trends that will benefit Indian SME's.
- Making India an easier place to do foreign businesses – What is changing?
- Environment and policy reforms needed for SME's to grow business.
- Where's the money? – Maximizing the economic power of SME's by strengthening the investment climate.
- Big business and start-ups – A win-win partnership.
Mr. Sanjeev Kapoor, Celebrity Chef & Owner, Khana Khazana India Pvt ltd
Mr. Manohar Hotchandani, Director-Business Development, Microsoft
Mr. Nilesh Gupta, Managing Partner, Vijay Sales
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| 11:30 - 11:45 |
Keynote by Mr. D Ravi Shankar, Brick work Ratings |
| 11:45 - 12:45 |
Session 1: Turning an Idea into a business: Structuring a business plan
Session Highlights:
- Turning your products and ideas into cash
- Pricing for Profits: Managing cash flows & minimizing risk
- Defining essential challenges, solutions in literal aspects of business
- Planning the go-to-market strategy
- Launching a venture – Processes and planning
Keynote & Lead Speaker: Mr. Ambareesh Murthy, Founder, Pepperfry
Mr. Mukund Mohan, CEO, Microsoft Accelorator
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| 12:45 - 13:15 |
Where's The Money?. - The Ipo Fundamentals For Sme Business
Session Highlights:
- Getting In On An IPO : The A-Z of planning an IPO
- Which sectors are hot in SME for planning IPO
- Tacking your stocks progress & the process ahead
Keynote By Ajay Thakur, Head- SME, BSE
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| 13:15 - 14:00 |
Session 2: Angel Funding: Bringing About Business Readiness For Seed Investment
Session highlights:
- Articulating your value proposition in a business plan.
- How network with angel investors.
- Structuring your business to demonstrate capacity
- Preparing for ownership dilution through minority equity stakes
Mr. Anurag Agrawal, CEO, Intellecap
Mr. Vikram Gupta, Ivy Cap ventures
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| 14:00 - 14:45 |
Networking Lunch |
| 14:45 - 15:15 |
Session 3: Keynote by Dr. Pawan Agrawal, CEO, Bombay Dabbawallas Association
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| 15:15 - 16:15 |
Session 4: How To Get The Right It Support For Your Business
Session Highlights:
- Managing your Business Virtually
- The right technology platform for your business
- How to Move to the Cloud
- Hire or Buy: When and What
Mr. Manish Shah, Partner, PH Teknow
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| 16:15 - 17:15 |
Session 5:Giving Credit To Debt Capital: The Anatomy Of A Bank Funding Deal
Session Highlights:
- Key financial ratios that matter to your banker.
- Basic facts of collateral free funding.
- What to know when raising money from Banks
Mr. R Swaminathan,President - Finance & Planning, CFO, Lupin India Ltd.
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| 17:15 - 17:30 |
Networking Tea/Coffee |
| Day 2 - December 17, 2013 |
| 10:15 - 11:15 |
Session 1 : The Business Of Health, Beauty & Wellness � Consistently Profitable ! Small Business That Work!
Session Highlights
- Business & Consumption Mega trends � What drives Beauty & Personal Care Market in 2013?
- What is driving Profitability : The immediate, short, and long term horizon of business growth
- The Business of hair salon, nail salon, beauty salon ,day spa � One opportunity at a time
- Innovative Franchising strategies � Multi-unit, Re-franchising and conversion franchise.
- Creating a scalable Business model.
Mr. Kashiff Khan, Founder Chairman, Aura Thai Spa
Mr. G Ramachandran, Director, Golds Gym
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| 11:15 - 12:15 |
Session 2 : From Running - A Business To Building-An-Organization/ A Family Business To An Enterprise
Session Highlights
- How to lead your organization to sustained higher
- Performance? - Factoring innovation into generations old family-run businesses
- Balancing governance and growth in family business.
- Progressing through people, processes and partnerships
- What to delegate and what not to delegate?
- Building institutional capabilities to achieve sustainable organic growth.
- Leadership succession planning - In-house vs. professional led.
Ms. Priyanka Gupta, Executive Director, MPIL Steel Infrastructures ltd
Mr. Ashok K Shah, President, Kutch Corporate Forum
Mr. Anupam Bansal, Executive Director, Liberty Shoes
Mr. Rajesh Ahuja, MD, Sleek International
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| 12:15 - 13:15 |
Session 3 : Beyond Traditional Investing -- New Age Capital Flows
Session Highlights
- The Basics of Crowd funding: Is it Right for Your Business?
- Why Venture Capital is Intellectual capital
- Funding will only happen when your business can go without it
- Are collateral free loans actually free?
- The IPO route: SME exchange or main exchange
Mr. Shujaat Khan, MD, Blue River Capital
Mr. Deepesh Garg, MD, O3 capital
Mr. Abhijit Joshi, Sr. Partner & CEO, AZB Partners
Mr. Shaji Varghese, EQ India Advisors
Mr. Navin Honagudi, Investment Director, Kae Capital
Mr. Ashish Kumar, MD, pine Bridge Asia Partners
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| 13:15 - 14:15 |
Networking Lunch |
| 14:15 - 15:15 |
Session 4: Getting Innovation And Execution To Co-Exist/Defining
And Reforming In A Failure-Prone Landscape (Valedictory Session)
Session Highlights:
- Having an effective strategy is only half of the winning game.
- How well does your organization execute? Is everyone focused
- On meeting the right production targets, quality standards,
- sales goals, or profitability targets? How can you get the whole
- Organization pulling in the same direction?
- Building a culture of innovation and performance
Keynote & Lead Speaker: Mr. Pramoud Rao, MD, Zicom Electronic Security Systems Ltd
Mr. TP Pratap, Co- Founder, Qwikcilver Solutions
Mr. Dheeraj Gupta, Founder, Jumbo King
Mr. Rohit Mistry, Ex-President, Bombay Industries Association
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| 15:15 - 16:00 |
Session 5: Keynote by Mr. Hemraj Singh, Zonal Manager- West, NSIC
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| 16:00 - 16:15 |
Networking Tea & Closure Speech |
