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DISRUPTIVE PRODUCT INNOVATION IN THE DIGITAL ECONOMY

Converge aims to bring together ideators, designers, business analysts, solution providers, technologists and product managers, project and program managers to connect, collaborate and learn from each other.

Our lives are more and more intertwined with digital systems such as internet, smart phones, digital cameras, laptops, tablets, 'phablets' and a host of other interconnected devices.

This link marks the beginning of the ubiquitous shift towards technological solutions

Thank you for registering, hope to see you on Saturday, 28th November.

For any further questions / suggestions write to us at:
converge-bangalore-2015@thoughtworks.com

Agenda

9:30 AM

Registrations

10:00 AM

Event Kick Off

10:15 AM

Key Note Address
by Jayesh Ghatge (Market Principal, ThoughtWorks)

10:45 AM

World of Tomorrow
by Apoorv G Gawde (Business Analyst, ThoughtWorks)


Taking you through a virtual tour into the “World of Tomorrow” that is changing rapidly with the help of latest technologies and its relevance in travel.

11:30 AM

Break

11:45 AM

RailYatri
by Kapil Raizada (Co-Founder at RailYatri.in)


How RailYatri is trying to redefine the traditional business models in the travel industry. The approach, the challenges and the model.

12:30 PM

Lunch Break

1:30 PM

Workshop - Truly,Madly,Deeply, designing products for your customer’s needs
by Rajavel Manoharan (User Experience Lead, ThoughtWorks) & Aditya R (Experience Designer, ThoughtWorks)

3:30 PM

Break

3:45 PM

Track 1

Responding to Disruptive Change
by Sachin Sapre (Product Manager, ThoughtWorks)


How do organizations analyze and respond to the challenges posed by disruptive digital changes to their business. Let’s discuss the framework one can use for analysis and the strategies that can be adopted to meet the challenge using a couple of case studies.


Track 2

Is Digital Disruption Destroying the Retail Industry or Fostering it?
by Khushbu Agarwal (Business Analyst, ThoughtWorks)


Have you ever wondered that with the Flipkarts and Amazons of the world, what is the situation in the Retail Industry? Is it destroying this field or helping it grow instead? Let’s uncover these questions.

4:15 PM

Track 1

"Offline First" - Do you always need internet for your application to work?
by Ranganathan Balashanmugam (App Dev, ThoughtWorks) & Venkata Padmavathi (App Dev, ThoughtWorks)


We live in connected world -- till the internet connections can be flakey and non-existent. That should not disturb the user experience. "No internet connection" is a network problem and not the application problem. Let’s hear the importance of "offline first applications" and the technologies that enable that to happen.

Track 2

The Future Bank
by Amit Tare (Project Manager, ThoughtWorks)


While on one hand the technological advancements and rising socio-economic status of vast populations is forcing the banks to change the way they operate, the rise of disruptors from within the fin-services space like "Fintech organizations” etc and from outside the fin-services space like Apple Pay etc is completely going to change how the "future bank" would look like. Let’s hear how the future bank will look like.

4:45 PM

Gamillionaire - How multiplayer gaming has taken the market by storm
by Akhil Sahdev (App Dev, ThoughtWorks)


The popular multiplayer game Dota 2 has developed into a multi-million dollar industry in less than a span of five years. What was the genius behind it? What was the business model that drove it to evolve into a mammoth force that it is today?

5:15 PM

Vote of Thanks


Location

ThoughtWorks Technologies (India) Pvt. Ltd. ACR Mansion G + 3floors 147/F, 8th Main,3rdBlock Koramangala Bangalore-560034 « Open in Google Maps »