TiE Delhi-NCR India Internet Day to lay roadmap for helping startups to become billion-dollar giants by 2025

TiE Delhi-NCR, is all set to host its 8th Annual India Internet Day – India’s largest conference for Internet entrepreneurs, with an aim to enable existing companies and up-and-coming start-ups to become billion-dollar giants by 2025. The conference is scheduled for April 25, 2019 and will see start-ups, unicorns, industry leaders, investors, mentors, policy-makers, and other key stakeholders at the same platform. The theme of the event is headlined as ‘India Internet Unboxed: Getting ready for a 100 Unicorns’. The country is currently home to over 500 million internet users and 21 Unicorns and the event will feature conversations around ‘vision 2025’. It will facilitate a space for the internet and entrepreneurial community to deliver impactful content and showcase internet-centric innovative possibilities that could define the future of technology and entrepreneurship.

The conference will be co-chaired by Vani Kola, MD, Kalaari Capital, and Rajesh Sawhney, CEO & Co Founder of Innerchef. The keynote address will be delivered by Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Founder & CEO of PayTM. The opening address will be followed by conversations with industry experts including Anant Maheshwari, President - Microsoft India and Rajan Anandan, Vice President, Google & President, TiE Delhi-NCR, fireside chats with experienced founders and investors, around the current trends in the industry and how to shape them for the future. 

The committee members who will be a part of this event include Rajan Anandan, Vice President, Google & President, TiE Delhi-NCR; Alok Mittal, Co-Founder, Indifi Technologies; Amarjit Singh Batra, Managing Director, Spotify India; Arvind Jha, Multipreneur, Movico Technologies; Miten Sampat, VP, Times Internet; Deep Kalra, Founder & Group CEO, MakeMyTrip; Gautam Gandhi, Angel Investor; Prasanto K Roy, Policy Consultant ; Karan Mohla, Partner & Executive Director of Chiratae Ventures; Ravi Gururaj, Founder & CEO, Qikpod; Dev Khare, Partner, Lightspeed India Partners.

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The conference also features a Product Workshop to be conducted by Anshumani Rudra, VP (Social & Gaming) at Hotstar with the objective to equip start-ups to become unicorns, with help of fresh insights and innovative strategies on product management.

Geetika Dayal, Executive Director, TiE Delhi-NCR, said, "Our vision at TiE Delhi-NCR is not limited to enabling nascent ventures to reach maturity, but also what lies beyond that. Enabling matured start-ups to become billion-dollar companies & peeling the layers on how this fantasy can become a reality. iDay2019 encapsulates what we envision for the future of the industry, the country and internet start-ups.?

In the past, the conference has hosted over 3,500 delegates and more than 160 high-profile speakers from across the globe. This year discussions will be held on topics including: Unboxing Indian Tech Going Global, Unboxing Funding, Unboxing Talent, Entrepreneurial Milestones: Unboxing Pivots & Pirouttes to Exits, Unboxing 2nd Innings, Unboxing Valuations.