MESSAGE FROM THE ORGANIZING TEAM

Dear Friends,

It is our pleasure to invite you to 'Innovation, Startups and Social Impact: Strengthening the Ecosystem', a joint initiative by i-TIC Foundation of IIT Hyderabad and Action For India (AFI). This is an engaging dialogue among distinguished private, public, and social sector leaders to identify opportunities and address the challenges often faced by innovators seeking to scale up their social enterprises. This initiative focuses on bringing together inputs for designing a leading social entrepreneurship accelerator at IIT Hyderabad.

We, at IIT Hyderabad and AFI, collectively believe that it is an exciting time for the social entrepreneurship ecosystem with so many innovators setting the stage for a growing worldwide movement. The social entrepreneurs are the game changers who are setting the rules of today’s world riddled with its complexity and nuances. These bold efforts warrant the creation of an enabling environment for the social entrepreneurs to thrive and reach new heights.

It is a privilege to note that India is increasingly becoming a fertile ground for this new stage of the intermingling of technology and social causes. The available resources and success of social enterprises have attracted attention from across the world.

However, there are certain challenges faced by social enterprises on their way to success which must be addressed at an early stage to allow functional growth and development. With this proposed accelerator, we will collectively try to support social enterprises on their technology based innovations in the healthcare, agriculture, and education sectors. Through this initiative, IIT Hyderabad and AFI, intend to identify high-potential social enterprises and provide a supportive system to help them in their scaling journeys. In this partnership, IIT Hyderabad’s in-depth expertise in technology and innovation will complement AFI’s rich experience in working with the leading social entrepreneurs of the country for nearly a decade.

By playing a more direct role in these scaling journeys, we hope to realize our eventual goal of creating impact unicorns over the next few years, who can in turn have an uplifting effect on the lives of people at the Bottom of the Pyramid.

We would like to take this opportunity to extend my sincere thanks to our partners – T-Hub, RICH, and SVP and our sponsor, CtrlS Datacenter, without whom this initiative would have not been possible.

We sincerely hope that you are able to explore the full potential of the event and the upcoming accelerator program as an opportunity to network, collaborate and build lasting partnerships with technocrats, corporates, investors, and government representatives.

Warm Regards,

Team i-TIC Foundation & AFI

AGENDA

Time/Location

Session

10:30 to 10:35 AM (Room A 620)

Inauguration: Lighting of the lamp

10:35 to 10:50 AM (Room A 620)

Keynote Address: Prof U B Desai, Director, IIT Hyderabad

10:50 to 11:05 AM (Room A 620)

Keynote Address: Sanjay Kadaveru, Founder & President, Action For India

11:05 to 11:20 AM (Room A 620)

Keynote Address: Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI-Aayog

11:20 to 12:10 PM (Room A 620)

Keynote Panel: Building a strong ecosystem for social entrepreneurship & innovation Moderator:

Sanjay Kadaveru, Founder & President, Action For India

Speakers: Jayesh Ranjan, Secretary IT, Govt. of Telangana Srini Raju, Chairman, iLabs Group Sateesh Andra, Managing Director, Endiya Partners Ravi Narayan, CEO, T-Hub

12:10 to 1:00 PM (Room A 620)

Keynote Panel: Scaling Journeys of leading Social Entrepreneurs: Successes & Challenges

Moderator: Ravi Narayan, CEO, T-Hub

Speakers:

Manish Ranjan, Co-Founder and CEO, NanoHealth Amrendra Singh, Co-Founder, DeHaat Aditya Sethi, Co-Founder, Loop Damini Mahajan, Co-Founder & CEO, WeMakeScholars

1:00 to 2:00 PM

Lunch

2:00 to 3:00 PM (Room 627)

Brainstorming session: Inputs from the Healthcare sector to develop a leading accelerator program Co-Facilitators: Rohini Pimple, Director of Lifesciences, Research and Innovation Circle of Hyderabad (RICH) Ravi Narayan, CEO, T-Hub

2:00 to 3:00 PM (Room 626)

Brainstorming session: Inputs from the Agriculture sector to develop a leading accelerator program Co-Facilitators: Reihem Roy, Principal, Omnivore Ram Kaundinya, SVP Partner, Hyderabad Chapter

2:00 to 3:00 PM (Room 715)

Brainstorming session: Inputs from the Education sector to develop a leading accelerator program Co-Facilitators: Hiranmay Mahanta, Honorary Director, GTU Innovation Council Bhanu Prasad, Impact Innovation Coach, TCS Foundation

3:00 to 4:00 PM (Room A 620)

Presentations by the Facilitators of the 3 Sectoral Groups Q & A with Delegates

4:00 to 4:20 PM (Room A 620)

Closing Remarks: Prof U B Desai, Director, IIT Hyderabad Sanjay Kadaveru, Founder & President, Action For India Ravi Narayan, CEO, T-Hub

4:20 to 4:30 PM (Room A 620)

Vote of Thanks B Venkatesham, Associate Professor, IIT Hyderabad

4:30 to 5:00 PM

Networking session with Hi-Tea

SPEAKER PROFILES

Keynote Speakers

Amitabh Kant

Mr Amitabh Kant is presently the CEO of NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India). NITI is a Government of India institution for catalysing the development process, nurturing an overall enabling environment by working in partnership with States, by being a Knowledge hub and a Think Tank and by facilitating implementation. Amitabh Kant is a member of the Indian Administrative Service, IAS. He is the author of “Branding India – An Incredible Story” and has been a key driver of “Make in India”, Startup India, “Incredible India” initiatives which positioned and branded India as a leading destination. Amitabh Kant was also the National Project Director of the Rural Tourism

Project of UNDP. Till March, 2016 Amitabh Kant was posted as the Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) – Government of India. He was also the Chairman of the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (DMICDC) and National Productivity Council. Amitabh Kant has also worked as CEO of the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (DMICDC). Amitabh Kant has worked as CMD – ITDC, Joint Secretary – Ministry of Tourism, Government of India, Secretary – Tourism, Government of Kerala, Managing Director, Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation, District Collector, Kozikhode and Managing Director, Matsyafed. Amitabh Kant did his graduation in Economics (Hons) from St. Stephens, Delhi University and M.A from Jawaharlal Nehru University. He is a Chevening Scholar. He has undertaken the Mid Career Programme of Harvard University, John F Kennedy School of Government and Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He has been the recipient of Economic Time Policy Change Agent of the Year Award, the Bloomberg TV Personality of the year Award, the NDTV Administrator of the year Award and the Distinguished Fellowship of the Institute of Directors. He is the recipient of One Globe Award-2016 for leadership in Transforming Governance for the 21st Century. He is a Member of the Steering Board of “Shaping the Future of Production Systems” of World Economic Forum.

Professor U B Desai

Dr U B Desai is an Indian academician who was appointed as the first Director of Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad in 2009. He is also the Mentor Director for IIT Bhilai and IIIT Chittoor. His research interests are in wireless communication, cognitive radio, wireless sensor networks, IoT and statistical signal processing. He is the Editor of the book “Modeling and Applications of Stochastic Processes”. He is also a co-author of 8 monographs dealing with signal processing and wireless communication. He is the recipient of the 2015 Outstanding Alumni Award from University of Buffalo. He is a senior member of IEEE, a Fellow of INSA (Indian National Science Academy), Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), and a

Fellow of The Institution of Electronic & Telecommunication Engineers (IETE). He is the recipient of J C Bose Fellowship and also the Excellence in Teaching Award from IIT-Bombay for 2007. He is also on the

board of Tata Communications Limited. He is on the Governing Council of several education institutes and research bodies. He is one of the founding members of COMSNETS and also Society for Cancer Research and Communication. He was the Chair for IEEE Bombay Section 2006-2008. He was also on the Visitation Panel for University of Ghana.

Jayesh Ranjan

Jayesh Ranjan is a member of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and is the Principal Secretary of the Industries & Commerce (I&C) and Information Technology (IT) Departments of the Telangana government. He was awarded World Bank’s Social Capital Visiting Scholarship in 2002 and the British Government’s Gurukul Chevening Scholarship in 2005. He has done international consultancy assignments for the World Bank, UN-ESCAP, Sedatu project of Mexico, and for international NGOs working for Youth Issues like YES, Inc of the USA and NMC from Italy. He is a part of the National Pool of Trainers in Leadership constituted by the Government of India,

and is involved in training and mentoring newly recruited Civil Servants.His assignment involves developing policy frameworks, attracting new investments, identifying opportunities of utilizing IT in various government processes, and promoting digital empowerment of the citizens. His last few assignments have been in the Industrial Promotion sector as Commissioner and MD of the Industries Department, Secretary in the Tourism Promotion Department, and Vice-Chairman of the Hyderabad Urban Development Authority (HUDA), all for 2-3 years each, and various rural assignments in different parts of the state for over 12 years, working in diverse sectors like Tribal Development, Natural Resources Management, Poverty Alleviation and other related Social Development Sectors.Jayesh Ranjan supports many social, cultural and charitable causes, and is on the Boards/Advisory committees of United Way (Hyderabad), Save A Child’s Heart (SACH) Foundation, Young Lives India, Save the Children, Sparsh Hospice, APMAS, ML Jaisimha Sports Foundation, Hyderabad 10K Foundation, Vijaya Foundation Trust, Ushalakshmi Breast Cancer Foundation, LSN Foundation, Tejas Foundation, Magic Bus Hyderabad, Hockey Hyderabad, World Wildlife Fund (Hyderabad chapter), Hyderabad Literary Festival and Spic-Macay.He holds a Masters Degree in Psychology from Delhi University, a degree in Business Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and a Masters in Public Management from Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. He has also done short courses in the University of Birmingham (on Environmental Policy Analysis), JICA training Institute, Tokyo (on lake remediation), London School of Economics (on Globalization and Leadership), Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (in Public Policy), and Swedish Institute, Stockholm (on Sustainability and CSR).

Srini Raju

Chintalapati Srinivasa Raju, widely known as Srini Raju, is an Indian Entrepreneur, and Private Equity Investor. Srini Raju was the CEO of Dun & Bradstreet Satyam Software, the in-house technology unit of Dun & Bradstreet, established in 1994, which focused on implementing large-scale IT projects for Dun & Bradstreet businesses. DBSS was later renamed as Cognizant. Chintalapati Srinivasa Raju, widely known as Srini Raju, is an Indian Entrepreneur, and Private Equity Investor. Srini Raju was the CEO of Dun & Bradstreet Satyam Software, the in-house technology unit of Dun & Bradstreet, established in 1994, which focused on implementing large-scale IT projects for Dun & Bradstreet businesses. DBSS was later

renamed as Cognizant. Srini later became the Co-founder and Chairman of Peepul Capital (successor to iLabs Venture Capital Fund), a Private Equity (PE) firm based out of Hyderabad and Chennai. Besides funding and mentoring next generation entrepreneurs, he plays an active role in building educational institutions of higher learning. Besides investing and mentoring young professionals and entrepreneurs, he is continuing to make large contributions to the cause of building Institutions of Excellence in the field of Management and Technology. Member of the Executive Board of Indian School of Business. Srini Raju pledged to donate Rs.35 crores towards developing a Research Center in the areas of Information Technology and Networked Economy. Indian School of Business (ISB) named the IT research center as Srini Raju Centre for Information Technology and Networked Economy (SRITNE) at ISB. Member of Governing Board and Governing Council; Founding Member and a Donor of IIIT Hyderabad. In 10 years, IIIT has become India’s leading Technology Research University. IIIT-H is a non-governmental Public Institution set up on Public-Private Partnership Model by Leading Tech Companies and the Government of Telangana. Srini Raju is also a visiting Faculty at various universities like ISB, IIIT Hyderabad, IIT Madras, IESE Business School-University of Navarre.

Sateesh Andra

Sateesh has worked in or with venture-backed technology start-ups in U.S/India for the past twenty years. Endiya Partners is a Venture Capital fund that offers Startup Capital to Product Startups across Technology, Healthcare and Consumer Services. He serves on boards of Cygni Energy, Slang Labs, AlphaICs, Kissht, and Darwinbox. As a Managing Partner of Ventureast Tenet Fund, Sateesh served on the boards of Little Eye Labs (Facebook), Seclore and OneBreath. While at Ventureast he was also involved with Social Enterprises like Desicrew and Inopen. Prior to joining Ventureast, Sateesh was a Venture Partner and one of the founding members of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) India, an

investor in category-leading startups like Attero, Cleartrip, mGinger and Pubmatic. Prior to DFJ, Sateesh co-founded Euclid, a silicon valley startup in the IT Management Software space

Ravi Narayan

Ravi is the CEO at T-Hub, which leads India’s pioneering innovation ecosystem that powers next-generation products & new business models. In his two-decade long career, Ravi has been a product engineer, entrepreneur, investor, mentor, & leader. He has co-founded three companies that he led from inception to successful acquisition. As the global director of Microsoft for Startups, Ravi established Accelerators & co-sold programs across the world. He has chaired TiE Entrepreneurial Summit, NASSCOM Product Conclave, & PAN IIT Conclave. An engineer from IIT Madras, Ravi also holds an MS & MBA from the University of Southern California.

Dr. B Venkatesham

Dr. B. Venkatesham is an Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. He earned his Doctorate from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, specializing in Duct Acoustics. He worked as a Lead Engineer around 10 years at the General Electric Global Research Centre before joining IIT Hyderabad in 2010. At GE, He worked on research projects and product development programs in industries spanning Energy, Appliances, Business equipment and Locomotive. He conducted 12 Industrial training programs related to Noise & Vibration and completed worth of three crore projects after joining IIT Hyderabad and 2 crore worth of projects are ongoing. He has

published 22 papers in International Journals, 50 conference papers and 3 patents in the area of Engineering Acoustics. He served as faculty-in charge for Placements of IIT Hyderabad for five Years and currently, he is serving as faculty-in charge of Entrepreneurship. He is one of the founding members in establishing IIT Hyderabad Technology Business Incubator and Research Park.

Sanjay Kadaveru Sanjay Kadaveru is the Founder and President of Action For India (AFI), an initiative to help social entrepreneurs in India overcome barriers to scale and achieve greater impact at the Bottom of the Pyramid. AFI connects social innovators with impact investors, mentors, technology resources, government contacts and local partners. Launched in 2012, AFI is headquartered in New Delhi, India and has a chapter in Silicon Valley, California. Prior to launching AFI, Sanjay managed investments at The Seven Hills Group, a family office based in the US, where he supported the deployment of $50M in capital across several sectors: energy, media, IT, infrastructure and education. He is also a co-founder

of the Center for Healthcare Innovation, a US based not-for-profit thought-leadership organization focusing on the life sciences. Sanjay is a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs, the world’s largest network of entrepreneurs, and served as a Co-Chair for TiECon East. Sanjay is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Facilitators

Ram Kaundinya

Ram Kaundinya is an expert in the field of management especially in the business of agricultural inputs. He has a total corporate experience of 35 years at very senior positions in Crop Protection and Seed industries and a 5 years of consulting experience. He is an author, strategic management consultant, teacher and a policy analyst in India. Ram Kaundinya worked in Hoechst India for 13 years at the start of his career. Later he worked with American Cyanamid for 8 years. His last assignment in the crop protection industry was as the CEO of Cyanamid India. Later in the Seed sector he worked as the CEO of Emergent Genetics India. His last assignment was as the global

CEO of Advanta Seeds. Ram Kaundinya has been at the forefront of the expansion of agricultural biotechnology in India. He was a member of the MS Swaminathan Task Force that drafted the Agri Biotech Policy of the Indian Government. He is now the Director General of the Federation of Seed Industry of India. Ram Kaundinya is on the Expert Review Committee of Access to Seeds Index, Netherlands. He is on the Independent Steering Committee of MAIZE in the CGIAR Institution CIMMYT, Mexico. He teaches Strategy to MBA students. He has co-authored a book named ‘ Agri Input Marketing in India’ with Prof Venugopal of XLRI. He has recently co-founded ThinkAg, a platform to promote innovation and entrepreneurship in food and agri sectors in India. Currently he is on the boards of NBFC Axis Finance, Syngenta India and a PE fund CapAleph Advisors apart from a few start-ups in agri sector. He currently advises business enterprises in food and agricultural sector. He is an angel investor in start-ups especially in food and agri sector. Ram Kaundinya is a graduate in agriculture from Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University and is a management graduate from IIM, Ahmedabad.

Reihem Roy

Reihem joined Omnivore in 2013 and runs their Chennai office where he builds and manages a part of Omnivore’s investment portfolio, and serves on the boards of investee companies. In addition to his investment responsibilities, he manages Omnivore’s ESG and Business Integrity systems.Previously, Reihem was an Associate at Villgro, a social impact fund and incubator. At Villgro, he co-founded the healthcare vertical and was also responsible for building a portfolio of social enterprises investments across agriculture, healthcare, and energy. Reihem began his career as an Analyst at the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development

(IFAD), where he worked on integrating climate change mitigation strategies into projects financed by multilateral debt. He earned a BA in Economics from the University of Madras and an MSc in Environmental Economics from the University of East Anglia.

Rohini Pimple

Rohini Pimple is the Director of Lifesciences at RICH (Research and Innovation Circle of Hyderabad). RICH, a one-of-its-kind initiative of the Telangana State government in India, facilitates the process of taking research to market. RICH endeavours to foster greater collaboration between industry, entrepreneurs, startups and academic/research institutions for an effective innovation ecosystem. Prior to RICH, Rohini has worked in the pharmaceutical industry for over a decade in R&D and Intellectual Property Management roles. She holds a post-graduate degree in pharmaceutical sciences from Pune University and MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Bhanu Prasad

Bhanu Prasad works on addressing some of the most complex challenges in India’s social and public services space. As a leader at one of India’s first Open Social Innovation Center at Digital Impact Square (An Initiative by TCS Foundation), he coaches early-stage startups to create sustainable social impact. In 2016, he was one of 12 Indian Leaders to be awarded the prestigious Chevening Fellowship by the British Government where he focused his research around Public Policy-Practice Gap. Bhanu has a degree in General Management from Harvard University. He has been practicing Rajyoga Meditation for over 20 years.

Hiranmay Mahanta

Hiranmay Mahanta acts as advisor to Student Start-up & Innovation Policy, (SSIP) Gujarat Govt. at Gujarat Knowledge Society. As an entrepreneur, he co-founded Techpedia in college to showcase innovations across universities in public domain to build a strong innovation culture across youth. For this he was awarded by Former President, Dr. A.P.J.Abdul Kalam at IIM-Ahmedabad. He has been instrumental in conceiving & deploying youth centric innovation & start-up ecosystem for universities and helping various state governments and universities to shape policies and deploy them. He is a member of Global Shaper community an initiative of world economic forum .He acts as honorary director of GTU Innovation Council and Student Start-up

Support System which caters the needs and support process of innovation and start-up efforts of half a million youth across GTU covering more than 500 professional colleges. At present he acts as an as a member of AICTE start-up policy implementation committee at MHRD. Through this he is making national strategy to take the innovation and student start-up movement across 10,000 plus colleges affiliated with AICTE across all states to harness creative potential of students across disciplines. He has been nominated to contribute to a dozen Technology Business Incubators to support young start-ups.

Social Entreprenuers

Manish Ranjan

Manish Ranjan is the co-founder and CEO of NanoHealth, an organisation that is dedicated to provide integrated health management solutions at scale. NanoHealth works actively with large corporates and governments to provide proactive, coordinated and continuous healthcare, avoiding numerous premature deaths. NanoHealth won the prestigious Hult Prize in 2014. Manish founded NanoHealth while he was pursuing his MBA from Indian School of Business (ISB), where he was awarded the Torch Bearer title for outstanding leadership. Prior to his MBA, he worked as a consultant with a leading supply chain firm, i2 Technologies (presently

JDA), where he designed business processes aimed at driving efficiency and profitability for large multinational firms. Manish intends to use the same expertise in designing healthcare systems that can reduce the burden of chronic diseases. Manish is an engineering graduate from IIT Bombay.

Amrendra Singh Co-Founder, DeHaat

Amrendra is the co founder of DeHaat. He is a computer science engineer by background. In past 7 years he has gained grassroot experience of building network of 150+ micro-entrepreneurs and last mile service providers. He had been invited to XLRI as keynote speaker to address agrientrepreneurs. He led DeHaat for partnering with IARI as a leading AgTech startup. He has led the team to collaborate with most of the leading Agri Input players in India. DeHaat is a technology-led platform to offer complete end to end services to farmers – “from seeds to market". Through DeHaat platform, farmers, on one side get access to best quality input, while on the other side they also get access to institutional buyers for their produce. Currently more than 60,000

farmers in Bihar, U.P and Odisha are registered with 150+ DeHaat micro entrepreneurs and are getting direct access to quality agri inputs, advisory, and market. We are targeting to reach out to 250,000 farmers through 500+ DeHaat micro-entrepreneurs by March'20 and 1 million+ farmers by 2022.

Aditya Sethi Co-Founder, Loop Aditya oversees Digital Green’s technology and product innovation function globally that designs and builds mobile and web solutions to amplify our impact. Prior to Digital Green, Aditya worked in investment banking building portfolio analytics tools and modelling market trends to drive investment strategies at TD Asset Management in Canada; and developing trading and pricing platforms at Barclays Capital in Japan. He has developed graphic card drivers at Advanced Micro Devices and network solutions at Scotiabank. His passion to realize the potential of technology for social development brought him back to India. Aditya holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering with Management Sciences from the University of Waterloo. In his spare time, Aditya loves

to travel, play tennis and catch up on the latest in technology and politics.

PARTNER PROFILES

The IIT Hyderabad Technology Business Incubator, i-TIC Foundation is funded by the Department of Science and Technology. It has been operating from August 2016 and has incubated 11 IIT Hyderabad (IIITH) startups. The incubator welcomes applications from IIT fraternity across India.

Current startups include faculty and students working in deep technology areas including Aerospace, Telecommunication, Digital Manufacturing, Chip Design, Sensors, IT, Bio-Medical, Automotive, Advanced Materials, Energy, Flexible Electronics, Other Emerging Technologies.

T-Hub enables and empowers an ecosystem hungry for innovation. Based out of Hyderabad, it leads India’s pioneering innovation ecosystem that powers next-generation products and new business models. It uses the model of innovation based on interaction and collaboration between industry, academia, and government. Incorporated in 2015, it has provided over 1100+ national and international startups with access to mentors, customers, corporates, investors and government agencies.

Social Venture Partners (SVP) is a philanthropic organization whose aim is to build a global movement of partners working in their communities to create a world where all people have the opportunity to lead productive and meaningful lives. SVP, founded in 1997 in Seattle, has since grown into the world’s largest network of engaged philanthropists comprising more than 3,400 investor-donors across 40 cities in nine countries (U.S, Australia, Canada, Brazil, China, India, Japan, Korea and United Kingdom). Over the years, SVP International has invested more than $70 million in 900 non-profit investees and 2,466 organizations participating in other

programs. SVP India was started by Mr. Ravi Venkatesan, with the launch of first chapter in Bangalore, followed by chapters in Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Ahmedabad. Hyderabad Chapter was launched in July 2017, under the leadership of Mr. Ajit Rangnekar, former Dean, ISB Hyderabad. In about two year' time, Hyderabad chapter Partner base has grown to 20+ families, and have engaged with more than 10 Social Enterprises working in agriculture, waste management, skilling, and city revamping. Our Investees work for persons with disabilities, farmers, and women from marginalized communities.

Research and Innovation Circle of Hyderabad (RICH) is an initiative that has been conceived to unlock the national treasure created by the top scientific research institutions in Telangana State, and to actively facilitate the process of taking their research to market. This requires new ideas, innovations, technologies, advisors, mentors, funding and support services, to be brought together seamlessly. The Government recognizes that there are gaps in this innovation-entrepreneurship-investment ecosystem, which has prevented full utilization of the R&D work taking place in these institutions

SPONSOR PROFILE

CtrlS Datacenters was established in October 2007. At CtrlS, nothing is of greater importance to us than keeping your applications online and your data secure. Our commitment to taking total ownership of projects has resulted in an enviable client portfolio, featuring some of the most renowned brands in Indian industry. CtrlS is also the first choice for the young entrepreneur whose Cloud software needs

secure, continual hosting. CtrlS' commitment to its customer is total ownership. We have developed the capabilities to provide a complete suite of offerings from platform level services which include datacenter infrastructure, storage, backup, hardware to OS layers, network and security layers. CtrlS has developed alliances which cater to the business application layer for automating our customers' business processes, thereby developing the capability of providing end to end custom solutions catering to their unique requirements. This is in line with our corporate policy of being a steward to the IT needs of our customers. CtrlS is promoted by the 18 year old Pioneer Group, which has been building the largest available infrastructure in the Datacenter world and is already into FMS and SI functions. This is but a natural process of amalgamation of Group leadership values. CtrlS assures its clients that all such custom solutions will carry a strong value proposition.

ABOUT ACTION FOR INDIA (AFI)

Action For India’s mission is to help social innovators in India overcome barriers to scale and achieve greater impact at the Bottom of the Pyramid. AFI connects social innovators with impact investors, mentors, technology resources, government contacts, and local partners. Launched in 2012, AFI is headquartered in New Delhi, India and has a chapter in the Silicon Valley, California, USA. AFI Annual Forums

The AFI Annual Forum is our flagship vehicle to support social entrepreneurs. This exclusive, invitation-only event that brings together 100 leading social entrepreneurs, along with 100 “influencers” drawn from the impact investment, philanthropy, government, technology, and public policy sectors. Since 2012, we have organized seven annual forums in Delhi, Bengaluru and Mumbai. At the Annual Forums, social entrepreneurs have the opportunity to build on their knowledge and skills, as well as gain from conversations, discussions, mentorship, partnership and networking opportunities with industry leaders.

AFI Silicon Valley Challenge Trek / Silicon Valley Chapter / Silicon Valley Leadership Circle The Silicon Valley Challenge (SVC) is an annual business plan competition that selects high-potential social enterprises from India for an immersive, experiential learning program held in Silicon Valley, California. AFI has designed and conducted five SVC Treks, a two week intensive trip to the Silicon Valley for competitively selected set of India’s leading social innovators to connect them with the top investors, entrepreneurs and executives of the Valley. The Treks enable Social entrepreneurs to raise money, identify technology partners and connect with Mentors. It is also responsible for building a strong Silicon Valley Leadership Circle – a distinguished group of investors, entrepreneurs, executives and academics who are interested in fostering links between Silicon Valley and India’s most promising social ventures. AFI Social Enterprise Advisory Services (SEAS) The AFI Social Enterprise Advisory Services (SEAS) is a comprehensive set of advisory services, interventions, information sharing, and face-to-face meetings designed to connect social entrepreneurs (SEs) with sources of funding, mentors, technology resources, government representatives and customers. Over the past seven years, through its work in organizing the AFI Forum as well as organizing the Silicon Valley Challenge and Trek, AFI has had a close view of the challenges and opportunities that SEs face. Based on this insight, AFI created SEAS and this package of interventions to assist selected social entrepreneurs in scaling their business operations. The main objective of SEAS is to work continuously, year-round with a set of social entrepreneurs and get them investment ready or the next round of funding. We do this by reviewing the social enterprise business plans, help fill gaps in their top management teams, and help connect them with revenue generating customers or government contacts. AFI Impact Investment Fund The AFI Impact Investment Fund is being established with the objective of making investments in early stage social enterprises at the intersection of technology (e.g., AI, ML, Big Data, analytics) and sector impact (e.g., healthcare, agriculture, education). The Fund will address the need for capital in these key areas to build and provide comprehensive support to help promising social enterprises attain their full potential. One of the differentiators for the Fund is the emphasis on leveraging the Indian diaspora in Silicon Valley, including their capital, their technology domain expertise, and their company building skills. We are currently finalizing the administrative and legal fund structure, and we expect to make the first investment in 2019. Please find attached a two page overview of the Fund.

Brainstorming Session Framework

Impact enterprises are often faced with scaling challenges and needs, which the accelerator seeks to address in a time-bound manner among the chosen cohort. The brainstorming exercise is aimed to help define an operational framework for a leading Accelerator Program at IIT Hyderabad. We are pursuing a two fold mission statement:

1. Be a leading global accelerator for tech-enabled impact enterprises 2. Be a go-to destination for impact entrepreneurs from around the world to access emerging markets

i-TIC Foundation of IIT Hyderabad and Action For India are jointly conducting this exercise to elicit insights into the scaling needs and challenges, the corresponding core operational pillars of the accelerator and the methodologies for cohort formation.

● A moderator and/or note-taker will be recording the session outcomes

● Generate as many ideas / answers as possible in the allotted time

● Avoid judgements and criticism; go for inspiration and encouragement

● Scope as suggested by the Guidelines and Posers below to get going

● Breadth of ideas more valuable than depth – limit detailed idea evaluation / exploration

NB: Next steps on ideas will be solicited from panelists at a later stage as required

● All sections must be covered and suggested time for each section is provided as a planning aid

NB: Some aspects below are in a brick-red font that may be skipped in the interest of time

NB: Time has been allocated at the end to read out, review and edit the captured ideas

Any Questions before we begin? (Note these down as they come)

GOAL

STRUCTURE

CLARIFICATIONS ON GOAL OR STRUCTURE

ACCELERATOR DESIGN GUIDELINES (15 MINS)

1. Identify core opportunities available to SEs in emerging economies like India that should be the focus of the Accelerator? Perhaps around:

2. Unmet needs; Geographical gaps; Value addition; Commercializing existing offerings; Replication;What must be the design of the accelerator program to address the needs of growing SEs targeting above opportunities?

o Per-sector (and cross-sector, if any) Cohort selection methodologies o Programming stages and durations o Location/Logistics of programming (virtual/physical/combination) o Core technological/digital toolkits – organizational, marketing, sales

ACCELERATOR EVALUATION GUIDELINES (15 MINS)

3. What are the specific expectations SEs have from this accelerator program in the following areas (e.g., based on current needs or gaps in other programs/accelerators):

o Strategic o Funding o Mentoring o Networking o Product/Service validation o Others?

4. What metrics and evaluation methodologies best judge competencies in the above areas? o For monitoring / evaluating Individual SEs in a Cohort o For gauging Effectiveness of Learning support for a Cohort o Monitoring / Evaluation for Individual SEs graduated from the Accelerator o Success rates across Cohorts o Any other metrics for Accelerator as a whole

ACCELERATOR PROGRAMMING GUIDELINES (20 MINS)

5. What kind of content and delivery-pedagogy should this accelerator program provide in areas of: o Product development or service validation o Product-Market placement o Regulatory policy challenges o Challenges to engage early customers and market traction o Scaling up challenges o B2G procurement o Operational management and human resource framework o Others?

6. What kind of additional support can be provided to SEs according to the needs during/post the program?

o Community / ecosystem formation and sustenance across Cohorts o Others?

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