Join these interesting conversations at Starfleet India’s Demo Day
From innovative startup pitches competing for LIVE for investment, to thought-provoking conversations between eminent speakers from governments, corporates and startups from around the world, Starfleet India is a one of a kind event that you wouldn’t want to miss.
AE Ventures and IBC Media organized India’s first Blockchain Startup Accelerator and after scrutinous shortlisting from the initial applicants, 13 were selected for Genesis Week — a boot camp of intensive training and mentorship. After an internal selection day and a month of remote acceleration, seven of the most innovative blockchain startups in India have made it to the final Demo Day where they will pitch for investments LIVE.
In addition to these pitches, Starfleet India also has in store a brilliant line-up of speakers who will engage in intriguing panel discussions and deliver keynote addresses.
Introducing the Speakers
Innovation always requires enablement in some form to make it available for wide-spread use and Starfleet India was organized with the goal of supporting startups in the Indian ecosystem that are solving real-world problems with blockchain technology. Demo day kicks off with keynote addresses by the minds that made it all happen.
Nikola Stojanov — CEO, AE Ventures
As someone that recognizes the tremendous potential of blockchain technology, Nikola works tirelessly to further the development of the Starfleet Global Accelerator Program and hopes to have as many great and innovative applications built on the aeternity blockchain as possible. With a background in the pharmaceutical industry, he has worked in cities across Europe and even Hong Kong. In his current role at aeternity, he is in charge of business development and partnerships.
Raghu Mohan — CEO, IBC Media
Raghu has an affinity for innovation and technology in the booming startup culture and having built expertise as a marketer with some notable brands in the tech industry, he has an invaluable store of wisdom in these matters. Raghu was part of the early teams at leading startups like HackerEarth and YourStory before leading IBC Media to enable innovation in India by solving enterprise and industry level problem statements with the help of problem solvers in the Indian startup ecosystem.
At Demo Day, our last keynote speaker is someone who has devoted their attention to giving the right kind of exposure to India’s budding startups:
Shradha Sharma — Chief Editor & Founder, YourStory
Before establishing YourStory, one of India’s most popular startup news sites, Shradha had built an acumen on media organizations during her time as an assistant VP a CNBC, and as a brand advisor at the Times of India. Her penchant for storytelling aided her in her quest to give exposure to innovative startups in the Indian ecosystem solving real-world problems.
With the Seven finalists of Starfleet India pitching for investments, what better way to kick off Demo Day than to hear from who has managed several IPOs on NYSE and NASDAQ, and is currently responsible for financial risk at one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges.
Wei Zhou — CFO, Binance
Zhou is a fine example of managers from the traditional financial system who decide to move to the crypto and blockchain world. As an experienced capital markets specialist, Zhou brings over 15 years of executive experience of leading technology, internet and media companies where he built up particular acumen in financial management and accounting, capital markets and investments.
The key to finding the solution to a problem statement or identifying the problem itself often lies in sparking the right kind of conversations between a wide array of stakeholders. Demo Day features two such panel discussions:
Startup way from adversity to success
The current COVID-19 seems like the perfect test for Antifragility — a concept where organizations not only thrive in chaos but need it to grow and flourish. At this panel discussion, we hear from these leaders about how they overcame obstacles in their careers and how to manoeuvre through disorder and chaos.
Neeraj Khandelwal — Co-Founder & CTO, CoinDCX
Neeraj is a hard-core believer in blockchain and it’s real-world applications and has extensive technical experience in blockchain development. He also specializes in building large-scale web applications with demanding throughput and availability and along with his team at CoinDCX has built India’s 1st and most advanced Crypto-to-Crypto trading platform.
Prashanth Balasubramanian — CEO & Founder of LastBit
Prashanth is a perfect blend of developer and entrepreneur, who is pursuing his dream of creating an economy that gives people the true custody of their funds with LastBit — a hardware solution that securely and instantly stores and spends Bitcoin. As an individual who is truly inspired by blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies, Prashanth will, no doubt, inspire aspiring entrepreneurs in this space.
Vivek Prakash — Co-founder, HackerEarth
Vivek has become one of the biggest names in tech in India’s start-up circles due to his invaluable contributions to HackerEarth, where as CTO, he built an exceptional product that has over 3 million developers and 1000+ customers. He co-founded HackerEarth with the motivation to provide developers with a platform to improve their skills and be part of a greater community
Kartik Mandaville — CEO,SpringWorks
Karthik Mandeville is the exceptional combination of entrepreneur and engineer who founded Springworks — The first professional reputation network powered by artificial intelligence and blockchain. Over the years, Karthik has gathered valuable insights as an innovator in the realm of emerging technology like blockchain tech and is astute in discerning what makes innovative ideas and startups scale-up
Jason Eisen — CEO & Co-Founder, UTU
Jason is a serial entrepreneur and is known for founding MARAMOJA Transport, Africa’s first ride-hailing app and is a strong believer in the power of trust to ease friction in the modern digital economy, In 2018 he launched UTU a vibrant community space for AI and Blockchain projects in Nairobi, Kenya. Prior to this, he spent nine years leading strategy, design, & development of large international donor projects across multiple sectors in 40 countries, including significant work in East Africa since 2010.
Crisis 2008 Vs Crisis 2020 — Panel Discussion
Learning from our mistakes in the past is what allows us to make an educated assumption about future outcomes by recognizing a recurring pattern. It is the same logic that allows for the concept of fluctuation mapping in the economic cycle. To sift through and discuss the learning from the last economic crisis of 2008, mitigate the outcomes of the current one and explore the opportunities and products that will bring about a new order of positive change we have the following eminent speakers:
Sri Rama Devi Lanka — Director of Emerging Technologies, Government of Telangana
Sri Rama Devi is an exceptional individual who has built a career working in several domains like civil engineering, information technology, product development, and e-governance. Her experience across domains enables her to build a proclivity towards enabling innovation and opening opportunities for those exploring emerging technologies like blockchain, AI, ML, etc.
Plamen Russev -Investor & Chairman -Webit Foundation, & GW Ambassador for Digital Affairs, Bulgaria
Dr. Russev is an investor, philanthropist, and serial entrepreneur with a proven success record in developing business ventures in multicultural and challenging business environments. He is currently appointed as the Goodwill Ambassador for Digital Affairs of his home country — Republic of Bulgaria whose work and impact have been recognized and awarded by governments, associations, and NGOs along with 2 honorary doctorates from Universities in Europe and South America.
Sriram V Iyer - VP of Product and Engineering, Flipkart
Sriram has an astute understanding of building great products which can be clearly observed form his experience of about 20 years working in leadership roles at various tech giants. At Ola, he created the Ola Play and Auto Connect Programme. During his time at Myntra-Jabong, he launched the 30-second checkout stores, revised the Myntra Wearable Platform, and launched the Blink collection of wearables.
Rajesh Dhuddu -Global Practice Leader, Tech Mahindra
Rajesh leads Blockchain Practice globally at Tech Mahindra, under his leadership, a team of over 25 Blockchain architects and coders, built the world’s largest Blockchain network empowering 350 mn+ subscribers to safeguard them from Unsolicited Commercial Calls and Texts for communication providers in India he is also an alum of Columbia Business School & an avid cyclist.
Prashanth Swaminathan -Founder & CEO, Tandem
As a former investment banker with Morgan Stanley London, Prashanth entered the exciting world of digital assets and cryptocurrencies by building Tandem — a global P2P exchange for such assets. He strongly believes in the transformative power of cryptocurrencies and maintains that Blockchain will change our lives.
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Join these prominent personalities and witness these engaging conversations in addition to the 7 innovative startup pitches at the final phase of Starfleet India’s Accelerator Programme — Demo Day
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