Welcoming the gathering, Dr Anil Jampala, president, HYSEA, highlighted its past initiatives in this area - product leadership accelarator (pla), concept 2 cash workshop, changing landscape in AP etc.
Leaders from several product companies, venture capitalists (VCs) and academicians shared their experiences in building intellectual property (IP) and products. They also highlighted the support ecosystem available in Andhra Pradesh for new products and startups. The software product leaders also talked about their experiences in conceiving and building their product companies, which was followed by a panel discussion around software products and technology startups.
The CEOs panel included: Jay Pullur from Pramati, Suheim Sheikh from 3i Infotech, CK Shastri from Intense Technologies, Ashhar Farhan from Serial tech Entrepreneur, Mahesh Murthy from Pinstorm and Sandeep Bhandarkar from Fineng.
The event was coordinated by Suheim Sheikh (founder of SDG Software and responsible for HYSEA’s Product forum), Ramesh Loganathan (MD, Progress Software India and Adjunt Faculty IIIT) and Prof Vasudev Verma (IIIT). |