The SmartTechie Startup City | Roll up your Sleeves| Meet the cool startups of your city| Learn new Technologies!!

So many cool products are built in Bangalore and gets rolled out in global markets. Surely you want to meet management of those startups, see their product and learn about new technologies they use.

The SmartTechie is organizing Startup City on Saturday May 24, 2008 at Nimhans Convention Center in Bangalore. This is a technology showcase event wherein cool startups demo the products they are building. There will be over 60 startup companies.

- Watch live product demonstrations
- Get a peek into cutting edge technologies
- Lay hands on the best-of-breed solutions
- Meet young, energetic, passionate geeks
- Experience the culture of innovation
- Learn new technologies

Some of the companies at the Startupcity include:
MetricStream, Sloka Telecom, Sonic Wall, mobisy, Pramati, Yodlee, Netmagic Solutions, SOA Matrix, NetWeb Technologies,Druvaa, Soliton, Axiom DA.
Many more companies will be there.

FEATURING
Visionary Keynotes
In-depth Panel Discussions
Happy Hours
Bird-of-a-Feather Gathering

Some of the speakers include:
Ajit Balakrishnan, founder & CEO, Rediff.com
Sharad Sharma, CEO, Yahoo! India
Paul Murphy, Director of Innovation, Microsoft India
Suresh Vedula, Head - Business Mobility, Nokia India
Rajendra Mishra, Change India Movement
Ashish Gupta, Managing Director, Helion Ventures

There will be exciting sessions on:
From Concept to Success:: Milestones for startups
Where VCs Are Investing? When and How to Raise Money?
Consumers and Business Marketing in High Technology
Startup Essentials
The Social Media Revolution: What’s Ahead

CEO CONCLAVE
Alongside the Startup City exhibition and seminars, we are holding a close-door CEO roundtable, which will be attended by CEOs and Managing Directors of over 150 startups. The roundtable will facilitate an informal discussion amongst the senior management about the best practices of managing a startup in India, what works, what doesn’t work, potential pitfalls and other challenges.

Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, Nokia, Amazon & Yahoo! are sponsoring this event.

REGISTER FREE:
http://www.thesmarttechie.com/startupcity

Startups are always a nice place to work in. If you are working in a startup or want to join a startup or launch your own startup, this is an event you shouldn’t be missing.

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Are you still using Windows? Time to migrate now! Linux installation fest is happening this weekend in Bangalore. You can cring a blank CD/DVD & take your favorite Linux Distro! It’s not piracy, Linux is a open source free operating system which even you are free to distribute. Linux distros like Ubuntu comes with graphical user interface (GUI) which are very easy to use. Few of graphical effects which are implemented on Windows Vista were there on linux long back!

Here is what happening at fest:

Help you install GNU/Linux on your Laptop/Desktop.

We will show you how to type in Kannada and configure, optimize your system for Kannada.

If you bring an empty CD, we’ll copy your favourite distribution on it for you*. (And this won’t be piracy! You’re also free to distribute those.)

We will answer all your questions related to Kannada on GNU/Linux to the best of our knowledge.

So rush to any stationary shop nearby to get the blank CD/DVDs. Before that register yourself for the event at Habba.in

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Blogathon word is derived from most known Marathon. Where in Marathon we run for a cause & in Blogathon we blog for a cause. Blogathon is a six day event where all bloggers across country will discussing about a particular topic. The outcome of Blogathon is a galore of ideas. We might have found an idea to address an issue, but never had a chance to express it. The main stream media don’t care much about collecting citizens opinion, and you might not find like minded people around to express your ideas. Now this is the time, say golden opportunity to give a dimension to your ideas, thoughts about particular issue.

Blogathon is a virtual event which happens on cyberspace, I mean Internet. All you have to do is just create a blog if you already don’t have one, you can get free blog at www.blogger.com or www.wordpress.com. There are many other free blog services, but these two are the most popular. Pick any topic which interests you & write your article/blogpost  on your blog. Remember that you have to use tags as blogathonindia or blogathonindia1. This helps Blogathon team to find your post & aggregate on Blogathon site. You can also use a form to submit your post URL to Blogathon admin team. If you can’t straight away think & write about a topic, Blogathon team is going to publish three blogpost with different view point on each topic. This might give you some idea on how to write, how to jot down your ideas into a blogpost. You can also participate by commenting on other’s posts.

After six days of mass blogging, all the blogposts will be reviewed by jury experts in each category. There are many awards to give away in each category & also few special awards like best commentator, student blogger…etc. Since Blogathon is a zero cost event, web badges are given as awards which you can put on your blog.

Topics:

Infrastructure: Sunday, 20th April 2008
How can we improve the traffic condition in our city?

Politics: Monday, 21st April 2008
How do we change the focus of politics from caste/religion to grassroot issues?

Entertainment: Tuesday, 22nd April 2008
Does Bollywood overshadow regional cinema in India?

Media: Wednesday, 23rd April 2008
Why are Indian news broadcast channels not as mature as their International counterparts?

Gender: Thursday, 24th April 2008
What are the challenges that society faces in accepting the concept of alternate sexuality?

Sport: Friday, 25th April 2008
Are ‘media’ and ‘commercial interests’ in cricket the only reason that are killing other sports in India?

Seed from Blogathon team on each topic will be released as per dates above. But you can stat blogging from now!

More details at www.blogathon.in

Bangalore Bloggers meet is planned on April 12th, coming Saturday. Blogaloreans is brand of Bangalore Bloggers, active blogging community in Bangalore. Main agenda of meet on 12th is Blogathon, which is initiated by Blogaloreans & then supported by blogging groups of other city. I will be writing a detailed post on Blogathon, you can get more info on that at www.blogathon.in

Apart from Blogathon, we are going to discuss about sessions about blogging at BCB6. Though venue is not finalized, it’s almost going to be Traffic Police Park near St.Marks road. Time is also not yet decided, will update once it get finalized. I will be glad if all Bangalore Bloggers can make it, if it is really impossible to attend you can follow updates on http://twitter.com/blogaloreans.
Join Blogaloreans group at http://groups.google.com/group/blogaloreans

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For any help or details about event, you can reach me at +91 99860 35099 & gtalk hnprashanth.

Update:

Venue is finalized to be Traffic Police Park & time 4 PM onwards.

It was a great evening, people which we knew through their blogs were in front of each other. Their were talks by Pavanaja, Hariprasad Nadig, Abdul Rashid & Shyamsunder. It was my luck that i took my portable music player with me. I have recorded all talks & publishing here. If you missed the event or want to recall what they said, listen to these podcasts:

1) Pavanaja:

Pavanaja talking about how he brought up first kannada website vishvakannada.com & what we have to do to improve usage of kannada in web, softwares, computers.
Download this podcast as MP3(22.2MB)
2) Hariprasad Nadig:

Hariprasad Nadig of Sampada talking about how to build kannada web portal, how much investment it requires & revenue model.
Download this podcast as MP3(14.8MB)
3)Abdul Rashid:

Abdul Rashid about importance of having kannada portal & about his kendasampige.
Download this podcast as MP3(9.44MB)
4)Shyam Sunder:

Shyam Sunder talking about, kannada blogs are currently limited to poetry & story writing, which should come out of this & start providing useful information require3d for common people. He made his talk in humorous way. I missed out few bits at the start
Download this podcast as MP3(15.4MB)
More detailed posts:

http://www.raveeshkumar.com/2008/03/blog-post_17.html

http://thatskannada.oneindia.in

http://www.kendasampige.com

Thatskannada.com (OneIndia) Pranati is organizing Kannada bloggers meet in Bangalore. All kannada bloggers in Bangalore are expected to attend it. There will be talks by Pavanaja, person behind firsts kannada internet portal Vishwa Kannada, SK Shyamsunder editor of thatskannada, Hariprasad Nadig of Sampada & Abdul Rashid of KendaSampige.

If you are interested in blogging & want to know more about blogging or already a blogger, this is the right place to come & discuss. Meet is on March 16th, Sunday 4 PM at Indian Institute of World Culture, Basavanagudi, Bangalore. I am participating, will you?

More event details at Thats Kannada

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Compute & Headstart are twin events organized by ACM Bangalore (kickstart.in) at Bangalore on Jan 18th to 20th, 2008. Compute 2008 focusses on computing in service oriented, autonomic computing in dynamic, high performance environments & HeadStart 2008 is a technology showcase and networking event focussing on consumer services, mobility, enterprise applications and embedded systems.

Info provided by headstart team:

Compute and Headstart are twin events organized by ACM Bangalore/Kickstart.in at Bangalore on Jan 18-20th 2008 at the JN Tata complex, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. This is the first time that such an event is being organized that brings together academia, entrepreneurs and industry under one roof. The 3-day event will feature presentations of new products and research; technology tutorials; panel discussions on segments such as consumer services, mobility, enterprise applications and embedded systems; workshops on how to identify business opportunities, raise money, build products and effectively sell them in the marketplace. You don’t want to miss this event if your passion is to see the latest and most exciting technology coming from various research labs in India, or you are looking to hang up your boots and start a new company.

Compute and HeadStart keynotes include Ram Shriram, one of the first investors in Google; Dr Peter Hofstee, a distinguished research from IBM Research and Dr Umeshwar Dayal from the Intelligent Enterprise Lab, HP Labs, USA. Our panels in each segment includes a number of well-known international researchers, industry leaders and venture capitalists. The workshops will be led by well-known VCs and entrepreneurs and will provide you a chance to interact with them. There are also a set of tutorials on the state-of-art technology covering things like Software services, High performance systems, Search engines, etc.

For more information you can visit: http://www.headstart.in and http://compute.acmbangalore.org

Update:

Event was successful, entire event is covered by Harinath Pudipeddi on his blog Hari Says.

After success at Bangalore, 1:1 Film making workshop is now coming to Chennai. Get ready to get involved. At 1:1 Film making workshop you will be making one minute films. Yes, you can’t do that alone. You can do it collaboratively in groups not exceeding 5 members. You can write, visualize, shoot, edit on spot.

Filmcamp team will be arriving to Chennai this mid week. Hey don’t worry workshop will be there on 9th December, Sunday. More information at www.filmcamp.tv & Hari’s Blog