opening presentation for bangalore #collabhack13

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What is #Collabhack13

• 36 hour hackathon• Over night hacking or go home and come back – choice is yours

• Hacking till 8.30 pm on Saturday after which you’re hack will need to be presented to our judges in Silicon Valley & Bangalore

• Judges will deliberate over all hacks in Bangalore and also Silicon Valley to announce the winner on Sunday morning over breakfast

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Event Schedule

Friday Saturday Sunday

6.00 pm Registrations 8.00 am Breakfast 8.00 am Breakfast

7.00 pm Presentations9.00 am Presentations from Silicon

Valley 9.00 am – 10.00 am Final round

8.30 pm Pitching Ideas10.00 am Bangalore Pitches to Silicon

Valley (WIP)

judging, including Bangalore finalists

and any joint U.S.-Bangalore teams

8.30 pm Networking and dinner 10.30 pm Teams hack and collaborate 10.00 am Closing ceremony

9.45 pm Team announcement 1.00 pm Lunch

10.00 pm Hacking over night, resting 8.00 pm Dinner

9.00 pm Bangalore teams pitch to

judges in Silicon Valley

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Judges1. Tanvi Shah Rangwala,

Director - iAccelerator & ICT Initiatives Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship

2. Julie Woods-Moss, Chief Marketing Officer, Tata Communications

3. Karl Perkins, Chief Architect - UC & C, Tata Communications

4. Jack Hidary, Founder and former Chairman and CEO, Dice.com

5. Prashant Shah, TiE Board of Directors & Head of TiE Angels

6. Dan Gonzalez, Director of Strategic Partnerships, nestGSV

7. Bill Haskins,Senior Analyst Wainhouse Research, LLC W Denver, Colorado USA

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Judging criteria

•30% - usefulness of solution demonstrated

•30% - strength of business model and monetization potential of solution demonstrated

•20% - creative usage of open APIs such as WebRTC in the technology stack

•20% - market impact

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Prizes•First prize: $15K plus 3-month accelerator program (USA = Nest GSV; India= iAccelerator-CIIE)•Second prize: $10K•Third prize: $5K

•Best Business Model: $5K•Best U.S.- India Collaboration: $8K•Audience favorite – US : $2K•Audience favorite – Bangalore : $2K•Best use of video collaboration for education: $3K

Other prizes :•F1 tickets in either Austin or Delhi; includes hotel stay and airtravel

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Ashok Vohra

www.evoma.com

Evoma

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Evoma prizes:•1st Prize: 3 months 2 seater office space•2nd Prize: 3 months 1 seater office space•3rd Prize: 6 months Virtual office standard package

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Why Collaborate ?



Some of the challenges facing us are really big

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They need collaboration at a global level to be solvedThey need collaboration at a global level to be solved

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Example of a Globally collaborated Project - Example of a Globally collaborated Project - UnicefUnicef

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Collaborating brings best practices from one part of Collaborating brings best practices from one part of the world to anotherthe world to another

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Collaboration helps you avoid reinventing the wheel

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Collaborating helps you stand in the shoulder of giants

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Collaborating brings in fresh perspective and outside the box thinking

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Collaboration is one of the pillars through which innovation is born - whether done through partnerships or otherwise

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Talking of Innovation … what's common between...

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They have all lost their competitive edge and position as world leaders in

their industry due to the lack of Innovation



TechMeetups believes in global collaboration and hence built a community of 10,000 startups. Techies and entrepreneurs across 24 cities that collaborate face to face and online within a city and cross border

Tata Communications is a leader in delivering the current generation of collaboration solutions, and has invited you here to imagine the next generation of tools.

So collaboration as you'll guessed by now .... Is very important to us

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Tata Communication Welcome speach

Julie Woods-Moss, Chief Marketing Officer, Tata Communications

Karl Perkins, Chief Architect - UC & C, Tata Communications

Tanvi Shah Rangwala, Director - iAccelerator & ICT Initiatives Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship



THANKS TO OUR EVENT CO-SPONSORS

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Interested in competing for our special prize for best entry from a joint California/Bangalore team?

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Idea Pitching

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