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October 10-11, 2020

About
the summit

Organized by The Product Folks and Inc42; The Product Summit is India’s first-ever virtual summit with a focus on High Growth Products for India and from India. With the world going through a digital transformation and Governments promoting/urging startups and companies to solve for India its time we break ground and bring together the top minds driving the current Product wave in India and share their wisdom and experiences with the product community.

The Product Summit is India's Biggest Product Conference

Sridhar Vembu

Cofounder & CEO, Zoho

Satyan Gajwani

Vice Chairman, Times Internet

Harsha Kumar

Partner, Lightspeed (ex-AVP, Product @Ola)

Nithin Kamath

Founder & CEO, Zerodha

Tejas Vyas

Director of Products, BigBasket

Ritesh Agarwal

Founder & CEO (Group), OYO Hotels & Homes

Rahul Ganjoo

VP Product, Zomato

Karan Bajaj

Founder and CEO, Whitehat Jr

Snehal Patel

Director of Products, BrowserStack

Kaushik Subramaniam

Product Leader, Facebook

Pallav Nadhani

Founder & CEO, Charts.com

Sairee Chahal

Founder & CEO, SHEROES

Sumit Ghosh

Cofounder & CEO, Chingari

Suumit Shah

Founder, Dukaan

Shashank Dixit

Founder & CEO, Deskera

Shivank Agarwal

Cofounder & CEO, Mitron TV

Lalitha Ramani

CPO, Myntra

Khilan Haria

VP Product, Razorpay

Miten Sampat

Angel Investor (ex-CSO, TimesInternet)

Amit Somani

Managing Partner, Prime Venture Partners

Ritesh Banglani

Partner, Stellaris Venture Partners

Sajith Pai

Director, Blume Ventures

Sanjay Mehta

Founding Partner, 100x.VC

Ashneer Grover

Cofounder & CEO, BharatPe

Sakshi Tulsian

Cofounder, Posist

Monica Jasuja

Head Of Product Management, Comviva

Anirban Das

Head of Product, Dunzo

Gaurav Arora

Head of Startup Ecosystem — Asia Pacific and Japan, AWS

Ranjit Radhakrishnan

CPO, BYJU's

Sruthi Sivakumar

Head Of Design, Bounce

Apurva Joshi

VP Products, DigitalOcean

Shesh Vasudevamurthy

Product Leader & Mentor, Ex-Amazon, Groupon, Walmart

Dr. Ritesh Malik

Founder & CEO, Innov8 Coworking

Shaheena Attarwala

Design Manager, Microsoft

Sameer Chavan

Design Leader - Intel, Intuit, Flipkart, Oracle

Manish Gupta

Sr. Director & GM - DCCS, Dell Technologies

Karthi Subbaraman

Founder & CEO - Xperian

Ripu Bajwa

Director & GM - Data Protection Solutions, Dell Technologies

Seema Chaturvedi

Founding Partner, AWE Funds

John Cutler

Head Of Customer Education, Amplitude

Rachel Bethany

Head of APAC Customer Success, Amplitude
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11:30 - 12:00

The Growth Mindset

Nithin Kamath

CEO & Cofounder,
Zerodha

Vaibhav Vardhan

Cofounder & CEO,
Inc42 Media

The opening keynote of the Summit will talk about what it takes to engineer hypergrowth in fast-moving and diverse markets like India. The first barrier to engineering hypergrowth is a growth mindset over the typical "being busy building" attitude and how this mindset can be cultivated in teams while navigating the complex challenges every startup faces in the Indian market.

Learn about:

  1. Why growth is not a division but a mindset
  2. How to build a culture of experimentation, fast iterations and growth?
  3. The organisational frameworks and mental models for product teams to 10x growth
  4. Growth hacks and rapid experimentation techniques for product managers
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12:10 - 12:55

Defining, Finding, Measuring Product-Market Fit And Beyond

Gaurav Arora

Head Of Startup Ecosystem,
AWS

Rahul Ganjoo

VP Product,
Zomato

Harsha Kumar

Partner,
Lightspeed Ventures

Tejas Vyas

Director of Products,
BigBasket

The success or failure of the product is dependent on how soon one can identify the right product-market fit. Finding product-market-fit is challenging enough. But how can you position your product beyond product-market-fit and scale growth?  Our speakers from rich product backgrounds would share some of the candid encounters that they witnessed during their journey and their steps to find and measure the product-market fit.

Learn about:
  1. Product-market fit an beyond
  2. Guide to select the right metrics/parameters that helps in finding and measuring PMF
  3. What's the way forward after achieving the first PMF
  4. Why don't most products achieve PMF?
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12:55 - 13:40

How to Build A Growth Model

Anirban Das

Head Of Product,
Dunzo

By definition, A Growth Model is a representation of the growth mechanics and growth plan for your product. In this session Anirban from Dunzo elaborates on general principles and best practices to consider when building a growth model.

Learn about:

  1. Why do we create models in the first place?
  2. What really is a model and how do you measure effectiveness of the model?
  3. Building a growth model for any consumer product
  4. Building a model for performance management for product managers
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13:40 - 14:25

Engineering High Growth Product Teams

Kaushik Subramaniam

Product Leader,
Facebook

Khilan Haria

VP Product,
Razorpay

Snehal Patel

Director of Products,
BrowserStack

Pallav Nadhani

Founder & CEO,
Charts.com

Is there a secret code to engineer high growth product teams? It’s easier to scale from 0-1 but if you want to scale from 1 to a billion, the only thing you scale is people. Want to know what high-performing teams are getting right?  Understand the art of breaking down complex challenges into simple actions. In this session, we’ll talk about the processes that drive results, happiness and call out the behavior that leads to mistrust and confusion. Decode the secret sauce with a panel of product leaders who have played a crucial role in building and scaling some of the successful products without compromising on the product culture.

Learn about:
  1. Where do most product leaders fail? 
  2. Know what high-performing teams are getting right
  3. How to bring radical changes to transform your product team culture?
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14:35 - 15:05

Building A Category Shifting Product Against "Edtech Giants"

Karan Bajaj

Founder & CEO,
WhiteHat Jr

Miten Sampat

Former CSO,
Times Internet

In this fireside chat, we have Karan- Founder of Whitehat Jr moderated by Miten Sampat, Angel Investor, Ex-CSO Times Internet. Here Karan will be sharing his journey on how he built a startup in a saturated market with multiple offerings and products. Get insights on how he scaled and achieved a $300Mn exit in just 2 years after starting up.

Learn about:

  1. Playbook for Building Edtech Products for India
  2. Challenges and Opportunities in the Edtech Space
  3. How to focus on the things that matter and let go of the noise
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15:35 - 16:20

Building For India's New Digital SMBs

Ashneer Grover

Cofounder & CEO,
BharatPe

Sakshi Tulsian

Cofounder,
Posist

Shashank Dixit

Founder & CEO,
Deskera

Suumit Shah

Founder,
Dukaan

Monica Jasuja

Head Of Product Management,
Comviva

SMBs contribute to 30% of the overall GDP of india. With some of the sectors contributing to the digital revolution in the last 5-10 years, Tech Giants across the world have all eyes now on the indian SMBs. Over the last few years key players from fintech, ecommerce, retail among other industries played a major role for the unprecedented Growth for SMBs. This enabled many SMB's to rise sharply and scale rapidly. Some of the major product-led organizations like BharatPe, MyDukaan and Deskera with the help of product driven infrastracture have been influencial in breaking the barriers and in equipping SMBs digitally to achieve the scale and success.

Learn about:

  1. What sectors with SMBs will witness a digital revolution?
  2. How are they preparing to increase the adoption of the some of the growing / emerging markets which are not mature yet?
  3. Any recommendations for the future founders on types of markets to look out for and how to pick the right opportunity.
  4. What do India’s SMB’s need? Decoding the unknown
  5. How to think When you are building for SMBs? Is it about Product First and top of the line Customer Support?
  6. Does India’s SMBs need Micro-Software?
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16:30 - 17:15

Building Products For The Next Billion

Lalitha Ramani

CPO,
Myntra

sairee chahal

Founder,
Sheroes

Sumit ghosh

Founder,
Chingari

Shivank Agarwal

Cofounder and CEO,
MitronTV

Miten Sampat

Former CSO,
Times Internet

Is building great products enough for most companies to thrive? India is a land of talent and opportunities. Whether you are making for India or from India a great product can always impact billions of people. The great ones who release success after success tend to be product-led organisations. In this diverse panel, we explore the business models, opportunities and challenges when it comes to building products for India’s next billion. 

Learn about:

  1. Products disrupting the current landscape of business, startups and technology
  2. Current opportunities in the market for all stakeholders
  3. Is India ready to target the next billion?
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17:25 - 17:55

Bharat, A Product Nation

Sridhar Vembu

Cofounder & CEO,
Zoho

Pallav Nadhani

Founder & CEO,
Charts.com

With the onset of liberalisation in the early 90s, India’s IT companies catapulted themselves to the huge services opportunity in the developed world — the nascent sector went on to become one of the biggest contributors to the nation’s economy in the next couple of decades. In this keynote address, Zoho founder and CEO Sridhar Vembu will speak on how India can transform itself to a product hub — the policies and reforms required to achieve the goal and what should be the role of ecosystem stakeholders such as entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, engineers and the government be.

Learn about:

  1. India’s journey from an IT to a Product hub
  2. What will it take for India to be a Product Nation
  3. The policies, reforms required as India transforms into a Product Nation
  4. The role of ecosystem stakeholders
  5. Building world-class products from India
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11:15 - 11:45

How OYO Created A New Product Category For Bharat

Ritesh Agarwal

Founder & CEO (Group),
OYO Hotels & Homes

Taking a look at his journey of building the $10 Bn company, Ritesh Agarwal will speak about scaling an integrated online and offline experience, cross learnings from different markets, the evolution of product UX, and catering to diverse user cohorts in a particular geography. The OYO chief will also shed light on what role standardisation, delegation, and automation play in the journey of building a product and how the hospitality startup is innovating the product experience using technology and data.

Learn about:

  1. Scaling an integrated online and offline experience of the product
  2. Speed, execution, and user experience at scale for the new world
  3. Cross learnings from markets and applying to the Indian market
  4. Evolving the product journey and user experience for the new world
  5. Product unification catering to diverse user cohorts of India
  6. How standardisation, delegation, and automation play in the journey of building a scalable product
  7. Mistakes to avoid and must do things for building a scalable product for Bharat
  8. How's OYO innovating using technology and data sciences
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12:00 - 12:45

User Experience for Bharat - The 10x Growth Lever

Ranjit Radhakrishnan

CPO,
BYJU's

Shaheena Attarwala

Design Manager,
Microsoft

Sameer Chavan

Design Leader,
Intel, Intuit, Flipkart, Oracle

Karthi Subbaraman

Founder & CEO,
Xperian

The Panel Discussion has been designed to be an experience where we will explore how to ‘build a product’ with outstanding customer experience. In this panel our speakers share with us the diverse strategies, implementations, and insights from a wide range of A/B tests that they have done to scale their products.

Learn about:

  1. How to think like a customer?
  2. How to create tech products that customers love?
  3. Decoding the “X” in UX
  4. How to deconstruct conventional truths by not relying on assumptions
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13:00 - 14:00Masterclass Track

Why you should not pursue Entrepreneurship?

Dr. Ritesh Malik

Founder & CEO,
Innov8 Coworking

There are multiple realistic factors that come into play when you decide to become an entrepreneur and some can easily be overseen due to passion driving the nerves to pursue the dream. These factors can be both emotional and Intellectual, whether we talk about having the grit to keep failing and still keep moving forward, building an expertise in the domain the beat the competition, building a team, learning to do sales and marketing to get the first paycheck, building a strong support network and many more. Hence, its not important but very crucial that when you decide to put the 2-3 years commitment towards building your own, you are more aware about the decision. In this Session, Ritesh Malik, talks about all the skills and values that one need to have to become an entrepreneur and the importance of gaining the right experience in your jobs, how to become Intrapreneurs in your existing companies and how to set your goals to start your own.

Learn about:

  1. A roadmap to bring an idea into reality
  2. How to map your skillset and experience while thinking of building your own product
  3. The future of innovation
  4. Trends that every person should be following who is pursuing entrepreneurship
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13:00 - 14:00

Meet the Moment with Product-Led Growth

John Cutler

Head Of Customer Education,
Amplitude

Rachel Bethany

Head of APAC Customer Success,
Amplitude

What are the trends we're seeing today at Amplitude and in this unprecedented year for digital products and digital product development? What can teams learn from these trends to make better decisions about their own product strategy? Rachel and John share some insights from Amplitude's own platform of data and reflect on the best practices for product-led organizations in our current reality. 

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14:00 - 14:30

Building A Scalable Product: From 0 To 500k Active Users

Apurva Joshi

VP - Products,
DigitalOcean

The session will be focused on 'Building a Scalable Product: From 0 to 500k Active users' and the speaker will cover key lessons learned from building the DigitalOcean platform that is loved by developers and startups around the world! The session will also highlight how to achieve Product-Market fit, Scaling the product, and also designing waves of innovation within the company to maintain the lead in the market. 

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14:30 - 15:30

Re-Design for Bharat

Sruthi Sivakumar

Head of Design,
Bounce

In this session we take on a challenge, Designing for Bharat has been a relevant and hot topic for quite some time now. Due to the current wave of a lot of Companies going digital and India becoming the hub for the Next Billion Users(NBUs), it’s time we set the rules. In this session, we will be Designing an on-demand subscription-based streaming service for Bharat.

Learn about:

  1. Who are we designing for? A quick persona building exercise
  2. Empathy Mapping
  3. Designing for accessibility
  4. Wire-framing
  5. Flow Validation
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15:30 - 15:50

Creating a Digital World – Role of Emerging Technologies

Manish Gupta

Sr. Director & GM - DCCS,
Dell Technologies

Today, a business’s potential will only be limited by the imaginations of its digital leaders. Integral to becoming a digital organization are emerging technologies, and most leading organizations already recognize their significance. Without these technologies, most of the leading organizations believe that they will not be able to transform. And if they don’t transform, a competitor will disrupt their business, and maybe their entire industry. Emerging technologies are redefining how organizations build and deploy software, modernize and simplify their infrastructure, inspire their workforce, and secure their most critical assets. These technologies will enable large-scale shifts in our economy and transform entire industries. Those who understand their potential and apply them correctly will gain a competitive advantage and thrive.

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15:50 - 16:10

Proven & Modern Data Protection

Ripu Bajwa

Director & GM - DPS,
Dell Technologies

Dell Technologies’ 2020 Global Data Protection Index Snapshot confirms the ongoing importance of maintaining a sound data protection strategy as the amount of data that organizations must manage continues to grow and the cost of downtime along with it. The research also reflects the impact of a continued shift to the cloud (public, private, hybrid) for new applications and the complexities of advanced technologies on data protection readiness. The compounding effect of data growth, protecting mission critical applications alongside new workloads, spread across edge, core and cloud reinforces Dell Technologies strategy of combining proven and modern data protection to address organizations needs for both today and tomorrow.

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16:15 - 17:15Masterclass Track

CAREER IN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

Shesh Vasudevamurthy

Product Leader & Mentor,
Ex-Amazon, Groupon, Walmart

This workshop will help a Product Management enthusiast visualize a typical day in a Product Company, through a few simple simulations and an interactive hands-on exercise. Through his experience that spans the US and India and large MNCs to early start startups, Shesh will share the learnings (that has both pitfalls and success stories) of his personal journey of over two decades, from an Engineer to Product Management Leader.

Learn about:

  1. Key insights on how one should tread the path to successful career transitions in the Indian and Global Product Ecosystem.
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16:30 - 17:15

The Metrics VC Invest in

Sajith Pai

Director,
Blume Ventures

Ritesh Banglani

Partner,
Stellaris Venture Partners

Seema Chaturvedi

Founding Partner
AWE Funds

Sanjay Mehta

Founding Partner,
100x.vc

Amit Somani

Managing Partner,
Prime Venture Partners

Tune into this exclusive VC panel to learn about the exclusive metrics that VCs care about. Why some startups get funding and others are passed over. Get cues and insights into some candid conversations and decode how VCs think. This just might help you secure funding for your own startup.

Learn about:

  1. The Metrics that matter
  2. How to focus on the right metrics to achieve hypergrowth?
  3. Why some startups get funding and others are passed over
  4. How VCs think
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17:30 - 18:00

Engineering Product Experimentation To Reach 1 Bn Users

Satyan Gajwani

Vice Chairman,
Times Internet

Vaibhav Vardhan

Cofounder & CEO,
Inc42 Media

Understand product experimentation and the growth levers that product owners need to pull to reach the scale that Times Internet is at today from the person who led the transformation of the group into a digital empire from being a legacy media giant — with startups and products such as MX Player, Gaana, Dineout, Cricbuzz and more under the Times Internet umbrella. Get a crystal clear picture of what makes a successful product team and how to build a product universe — with the right competitive edge — and take it from the drawing board to millions of people. 

Learn about:

  1. Mastering the product acquisition playbook for scale
  2. Product experimentation and growth levers to reach at a scale
  3. How to build network effects and additive products to optimise for the scale and retention
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