NASSCOM Product Conclave 2013

The NASSCOM Product Conclave kicked off in Bangalore on October 29. 1500 attendees listened to 175 speakers.

Sanjeev Bikhchandani, founder of Naukri.com, said it is a good time to be an entrepreneur. Launching a start-up now is more socially acceptable than 25 years ago

Rajan Anandan, Vice President and Managing Director of Google India, gave start-up companies a pep talk. It is possible to build billion dollar product companies out of India and there will be many in the next decade, he said.

Delegates and Nasscom members listen to speakers at the Conclave.

Rahul Sood, Partner and General Manager of Microsoft Ventures says Indian start-ups are parting with too much equity for too little money.

Crowds flocked 25 stalls that showcased start-ups and their products.

Shaili and Jay Sutaria, Founders of Griphin, a Mumbai-based quick films agency, pose at the Conclave.

Founder of Selasdia Cohan Sujay Carlos (left) describes his company as a "robotic salesman". The company can identify leads for salesmen by spotting inquiries as well as analyse people and companies for relevance.

Ajay Chauhan, founder of Gurgaon-based Advanced Business Intelligence and Analytics Pvt. Ltd, at the Conclave. The start-up's flagship product Dataguru.in, is a database search engine that also integrates social media information.

Kameswaran Subramanian, founder of ParaBlu Systems has created a cloud storage product that offers collaboration, digital document management, backup and disaster recovery for enterprises.

Ravi Gururaj, Chairman, NASSOM Product Council (left) speaks to Nandan Nilekani, Chairman, UIDAI

Nandan Nilekani, Chairman, UIDAI, gets ready to speak at the Conclave. Nasscom announced the launch of 'Aadhaar Diffusion Project', which seeks to develop an app ecosystem on the Aadhaar platform.

Attendees take time off from their hectic Conclave proceedings.

Nasscom Chairman Krishnakumar Natarajan checks out the business cards he traded during the conference.

Som Mittal, President, Nasscom, poses for the cameras.

Mukund Mohan, Director at Microsoft Ventures (extreme right), has an animated conversation with attendees.

Charles Phillips, CEO of U.S. based software products company Infor speaks at the Conclave.