AGENDA
REGISTRATION
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Welcome to MobileSparks
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Lessons from the journey of scaling to 300 million users
Jason Wang, VP for Emerging Market and MD of SHAREit India
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Enabling life-transformation through mobile-enabled IoT
Qualcomm India
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
Opportunities for startups in Fintech Valley - the roadmap of Andhra Pradesh
Shri J A Chowdary, Special Chief Secretary & IT Advisor to Hon’ble CM, Government of Andhra Pradesh
10:50 AM - 11:20 AM
Turning smartphones into credit cards for the new billion
Bala Parthasarathy, Co-founder & CEO, MoneyTap
Jonathan Bill, Co-founder & CEO, CreditMate
Lizzie Chapman, Co-founder & CEO, ZestMoney
Rajiv Raj, Co-founder & Director, CreditVidya
Vishal Krishna, Business Editor, YourStory (Moderator)
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Smartphones as a tool to boost the economy by empowering SMEs
Ronak Samantray, Co-founder & Chief Software Architect, NowFloats
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Fireside chat
Karan Virwani, GM, WeWork India
Madanmohan Rao, Research Director, YourStory (Moderator)
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM
Rethinking mobile paradigms
Sanket Atal, Group Vice President, Oracle
12:30 PM - 12:45 PM
Building habit-forming products for the new billion!
Pramod Jajoo, CTO, bigbasket
12:45 PM - 01:00 PM
Designing the rural and urban consumer experience
Madan Padki, Founder and CEO, 1Bridge
LUNCH
02:20 PM - 02:40 PM
How data can be used to understand the new billion users
Amit Somani, Managing Partner, Prime Venture Partners
02:40 PM - 03:05 PM
Languages: the frontier to capture new billion users
Arvind Pani, Co-founder & CEO, Reverie Language Technologies
Farid Ahsan, Cofounder & CEO, ShareChat
Harsha Kumar, Principal, Lightspeed India Partners Advisors
Swapna Gupta, Senior Investment Manager, Qualcomm Ventures
Alok Soni, YourStory ( Moderator)
03:05 PM - 03:20 PM
Emerging trends in UI/UX for mobile design
Jay Dutta, SVP, Ux Design, MakeMyTrip; Venture Advisor, SAIF Partners
03:35 PM - 03:55 PM
Disruption inside: fostering and profiting from effective marketing, advertising and analytics
Kedar Gavane, Vice-President, comScore
Avi Patchava, Vice-President, Data Sciences, InMobi
Ravi Vyas, CPO, YourStory (Moderator)
03:55 PM - 04:10 PM
Don’t let bad networks come in the way of good user experiences
Arun Babu ASP, Senior Software Engineer, Uber
04:10 PM - 04:35 PM
The rise of lite apps
Rajiv Thondanoor, VP Product Management, Ola Cabs
Ajay Datta, Group Product Manager, LinkedIn India
Sandipan Chattopadhyay, CEO, Xelpmoc Design & Tech
Ravi Vyas, CPO, YourStory (Moderator)
04:50 PM - 05:05 PM
AI in mobile
Aakrit Vaish, Co-founder and CEO, Haptik
05:00 PM - 05:20 PM
Startup interactions
05:20 PM - 05:40 PM
Digital strategy: Mapping markets onto the mobile opportunity
Karma Bhutia, CEO and Founder, iShippo
Mark Wächter, Mobile Strategy Consultant, MWC.mobi
Madanmohan Rao, Research Director, YourStory (Moderator)