Recently I got an opportunity to attend one more Tech related meets, it is from Yourstory.in and it was my pleasure to be there on 24th November 2012 from Morning till in the evening at Hotel Royal Orchid, Bangalore. This MobiSpark meet is somewhat related to my last meet of Nokia AppTasting meets in ITC Gardenia, Bangalore.
Coming back to the said meeting and program, I was there in the morning on said dated, and time at 9:30am sharp and got registration as well. I was able to see more than ninety percentage of the audience were from tech related background with potential talents. This awesome program / event was sponsored by Sequoia Capital India, Vodafone, MphasiS, One97, Venture Partner – Seed Fund, Citrix System Inc., InMobi, AdNear, Intel and Sourcebits etc.
As time rounded to 10am, welcome and introduction of MobiSparks 2012 started, following that there were some keynotes from Mohit Bhatnagar of Sequoia Capital and presentation given about how OS and apps for Laptop, Tablet PC and Smartphone dominated the world surrounded with high tech innovation within shortest period. How Apple product like iPad, iPhone and Mac product dominated in their own design and iOS following that how Google’s Android OS took over the market with huge international competition across globe for OS and apps.
Once the presentation and statistic over against the aforesaid topic, the Q&A begun for the tech audience and got some interesting and challenging questions and its answer. This one kept us interesting from the event due to various tech and their different types of question, challenges and answers accordingly, very excited to learn additional things around.
Following that, there were Panel discussion from Sponsors’ head for few topics including Mobile Opportunities and Trends in India that helps tech to ask few Q&A. We got to know that India is one of the cheapest markets for mobile prepaid or postpaid tariff compare to other countries, challenges of service provider huge balancing Government rules and regulation with their subscribers across country. After observing this, this meet created few question, one of them was why Indian outstanding techies not created any OS but only the US reputed companies like Apple, Microsoft, Google and few others.
It was brought to our discussion in that program that why Indians’ maximum mobile users are not having advanced feature Smartphone or iPhone etc. and its answer like majority users used to or need to wait for low tariff for subscription like 3G against low cost on advanced featured devices, like Reliance launched during 2003-04 etc. at that time it was advanced one with low cost of Rs 500 only.
Prior to lunch, there was fantastic presentation from Mr. Ravi Gururaj to encourage all techies to do some outstanding work within existing sources. Apps need to be developed using existing apps sources by implementing a new apps which can innovate and help maximum users. This is one of them, but each user has different choices of apps and need to meet their demand in all devices within existing apps to improve or combine in another different and new apps. There were examples given to do so. Lunch break given, there was great lunch provided by the MobiSparks.
Post lunch, there were few new and old tech companies given chances to Demo their new innovation apps and device products, most of them through live presentation followed by question and answer for the tech audiences. There were judges to select the best innovation and products for announcing MobiSparks 2012 Winners. There was launch Pad by most promising Mobile startups and followed by Special Tea time.
There were few companies who started to promote their products, ready to invest funds for techies on their project, and assisting them to coordinate for business project in the UK with partnership or per choice etc. For more detail about this MobiSparks 2012, please visit the link given here. Thanks to yourstory.in.
