INDIA SOFTWARE PRODUCT MANAGEMENT SUMMIT 2020
INAUGURATION OF INDIA SPM SUMMIT 2020 BY HANS- BERND KITTLAUS, PROF. S. SADAGOPAN, HARAGOPAL MANGIPUDI, PROF. RAJENDRA K.BANDI, PROF. ABOY K OJHA
Professor Rajendra K. Bandi, Chairperson of the Centre for Software and IT Management at IIM Bangalore, said: “India is rapidly emerging as a strong hub for developing software products for the global markets, and it is essential that the industry and academia come together to create an ecosystem to share knowledge and best practices and also to build a community.”
The second edition of the India Software Product Management Summit 2020 was co-hosted by the Centre for Software and IT Management at IIM Bangalore and the Intenational Software Product Management Organisation on January 17 and 18 at IIM Bangalore. The summit featured a wide range of Software Product Management (SPM) themes through keynote addresses, workshops and panel sessions by industry leaders, professors, venture partners, product and talent heads. Research paper presentations, mentor interactions, interviews and practitioner conversations were some of the additions this year.
The ISPMA extended an invitation to the winners to present their success stories at the global SPM Summit at Frankfurt, Germany in March 2020. The summit began on January 17, with the lamp lighting by Prof S Sadagopan, Director, IIIT, Prof Aboy K Ojha, Dean, Academic Programmes, Prof Rajendra K Bandi, Chairperson of CISTM, Hans-Bernd Kittlaus, Chairman of ISPMA, and Prof Haragopal Mangipudi, Adjunct Professor of IIM-B and Member of the Board of ISPMA .
The inaugural keynote by Prof Sadagopan set the tone and broader canvas for India’s software product aspirations, and the Business Leadership keynote, in the afternoon, by Sindhu Gangadharan, MD of SAP Labs offered insights on the next wave of business models for software product leaders. The business leadership panel, moderated by Prof Sadagopan, focussed on India as the Software Product nation in making. The keynote address, by Prof Payal Arora of Earsmus University, Rotterdam, underscored the significance of consumer experience in designing software products/platorms for the Next Billion users.
The Practitioners’ Panel on Innovation and Product Management, moderated by Prof Rishikesha Krishnan, focussed on the biggest challenges faced in driving innovation. It was encouraging to learn from the paper presentations that efforts are being invested into research, both in the industry and academic worlds. Prof Greg Coticchia, of Carnegie Mellon University, gave valuable insights on how prod mangers learn.
The panel on start-up and scale-up focus was moderated by SomShubro, Partner, Bharat Innovation discussed product management aspects for tech start-ups growing exponentially. The HR Leadership panel, moderated by Prof Gopal Mahapatra of IIM Bangalore, focussed on scaling the Product talent pool and the need for deepening and widening the software product management competencies and the means to achieve them.
With the several paper presentations by students, researchers and practitioners and four workshops conducted by Hans-Bernd Kittlaus, Prof Greg Coticchia from Carnegie Mellon University and Prof. Haragopal Mangipudi, the two-day summit provided a rich spread of activities with great learnings focussed on taking the Indian product management expertise to the global level and lead the world in this capability.
OUR KEY SPEAKERS & PANELISTS
Hans-Bernd Kittlaus
Hans-Bernd is the chairman of ISPMA e.v. He is founder of InnoTivum Consulting. He is a trainer, coach and consultant for both corporate IT organisations and companies in a number of industries. “Software Product Management: The ISPMA-Compliant Study Guide and Handbook” (with Samuel Fricker, Springer 2017). He is the chairperson and one of the jury in SPM Excellence awards 2019
Prof. S. Sadagopan
Professor Sadagopan, Director of IIIT -Bangalore, is an alumnus of Madras University, India and Purdue University, USA. He taught for over 25 years at IIT Kanpur, IIM Bangalore, IIT Madras and IIIT-Bangalore, in addition to short teaching assignments at RUTGERS, USA and AIT, Bangkok. He has authored seven books, several book chapters and papers. He is a Fellow of IEE (UK) and Computer Society of India. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, ACM and AIS.
Prof. Rishikesha T. Krishnan
Professor Krishnan, teaches Strategy at IIMB. He was previously served as Director of IIM Indore. He has written 140 publications including the two books on innovation: From Jugaad to Systematic Innovation: The Challenge for India, published in February 2010, and 8 Steps to Innovation: Going from Jugaad to Excellence . The latter won the Best Book Award 2013-14 from the Indian Society for Training and Development. He has done double masters one from IIT, Kanpur and the other from Stanford University, USA. He is a fellow from IIM Ahmedabad. He is the moderator of the Leadership Panel.
Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Georg Herzwurm
Dr. Georg is the fellow member of ISPMA and has been a member of the Executive Board of the Business Administration Institute at the University of Stuttgart and heads the Chair of Information Systems II. Since 2018, he has been one of the founding members of the new research discipline on “Software-Intensive Business”, shaped at the Dagstuhl Seminar 18182. He is also a founding member and spokesman of the QFD-Institut Deutschland and Director of the International Council for QFD (ICQFD). He is also committed to supporting interested students who are interested in foundations within the initiative of the so-called EXIST start-up grants of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy.
Sindhu Gangadharan
Sindhu Gangadharan is SVP and Managing Director of SAP Labs in India. Sindhu joined SAP two decades ago, when SAP Labs India had just set up its operations in Bangalore. Sindhu has played a pivotal role in shaping SAP’s Integration strategy by growing SAP’s Integration product portfolio as Head of Product Management for SAP Cloud Platform Integration, IoT and SAP Process Orchestration. She has been instrumental in bringing to life SAP’s vision and strategy of the Intelligent Enterprise by orchestrating the end-to-end process delivery roadmaps to rapidly transform data into valuable insights for customers. She is a computer science engineer from Bangalore University
Prof. Greg Coticchia
Prof Greg is the CEO, Founder Director and Dean of MSPM (Master of Science in Product Management) program at CMU. He is an award-winning business strategist, product manager, sales leader and B2B marketing expert with more decades of experience driving revenues through the focused ability to cultivate long-term business partnerships within highly competitive markets. He has mastered new company/product launches, creating and communicating strategy for companies ranging from startups to billion-dollar industry giants.
Tech design for the Next Billion by Prof. Payal Arora
Payal Arora is a digital anthropologist and author, consultant, founder, editor, and professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam. She holds the Chair in Technology, Values, and Global Media Cultures. Her expertise lies in digital media experience and user values among low-income communities worldwide and comes with more than a decade of fieldwork experience in such contexts. She is the author of a number of books including the award-winning ‘Leisure Commons’ and most recently the “The Next Billion Users” with Harvard Press. She has a Masters in International Policy from Harvard University and a PhD in Language, Literacy and Technology from Columbia University. She lives in Amsterdam.
Haragopal Mangipudi
Hara is the board member of ISPMA. Founder of Gunaka Consulting, Co- founder of finUNO. A distinguished alumnus awardee from IIM Bangalore. He is the conference chair of ISPMA India Summit.
Sanjai K
Sanjai has a deep expertise in Software products with over 22+ years experience in enterprise applications. He is currently serving as Vice President, SAP ERP offering S/4HANA. He is also the member of ISPMA India mentor board. Prior to current role as the Regional Head of Asia Pacific & Japan (May 2010 – May 2016) was responsible for Business Acquisition, & Delivery of SAP Global Consulting services in APJ region.
Somnath Baishya
Somnath leads the People charter for Intuit at it’s Global Development Centers thereby enabling employees maximise their potential and help the organisation win it’s next phase of great. An alumnus of XLRI and IIT, Som’s prior career journey has been with Adobe, Nokia, Infosys and Tata Motors. He is one of the panelists in the event.
Tridib Roy Chowdhury
Tridib Roy Chowdhury has over 30 years of experience in starting and building software businesses for startups and large MNCs in India and USA with a history of 11 new global product launches and 80+ product releases and starting 6 successful product businesses and multiple patents. He is a B-Tech (Computer Science) from IIT-Kharagpur and has completed M.S (Computer Science- Intelligent Databases) from University of Maryland, College Park. He is currently enrolled at IIIT Bangalore as a full time research student pursuing another post-graduate degree and heads the MINRO COE @ IIITB, working on fundamental research in AI and robotics. He is also the Director of Products in Adobe Systems.
Prof. Gopal Pr. Mahapatra
Gopal is the professor of Practice Organizational Behaviour & Human resource management. He is also chairperson of PGPEM at IIM Bangalore. He has thirty plus years of corporate, consulting and academic experience in leading: Organisational Transformation, Talent and Leadership Development, Executive Coaching ,Career Management, Assessment and Development Center and , Strategic HR and at top corporate organizations.He is a Fellow in Management (Doctoral Programme) from IIM, Bangalore & Post-Graduate in Personnel Management & IR from Xavier Institute of Social Service, Ranchi. He is the program chair of India SPM Summit 2020
Venkatesh Balakrishnan
Venkatesh manages the Centre for Software Information Technology Management (CSITM) at IIMB. Holds an Engineering Degree from REC Trichy. He is a seasoned professional with 20 years of experience in the IT industry. His experience spans across Project Delivery, Solutions, Consulting and Professional Development. Has worked for multinationals and Indian Pure Play in the areas of Software Services and Products. He is in the conference committee.
Prof. Shankar Venkatagiri
Shankar is the associate professor of informations systems at IIM Bangalore. Prior to this, he worked as a consultant with Sapient Corporation, Cambridge and Reuters Consulting, Boston. A technologist at heart, he is committed to the spread of digital learning in India. He has done his Phd in Mathematcis & M.S in Computer Science from Georgia Tech. Shankar has been developing cases based on the IT scenario in India, some of which are listed on Harvard Business Press. He is the program co- chair of India SPM Summit 2020.
Somshubhro Pal Choudhury
Som is a partner with Bharat Innovation Fund. He was a board member and executive council member of Industry Body, IESA (India Electronics & Semi Association). He is an MBA from Wharton, University of Pennsylvania, and an engineering graduate from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur and North Carolina State University. He is one of the panelists in the event.
Venkateshwaran Srinivasan
Venkat heads TCS Financial Solutions, a strategic business unit of Tata Consultancy Services. Over the last 25 years, Venkat has performed a variety of roles in the financial services and financial software products business, ranging from product strategy, program management, sales, customer relationship and key account management. In his present role, he is responsible for managing the products business for financial services, under the brand name, TCS BaNCS, globally. TCS BaNCS is an award-winning universal financial solution suite with components spanning the banking, capital markets and insurance domains.
Sridhar Dhulipala
Sridhar is a product designer by training. His 25-year career spans consumer marketing, information technology and non-profit sectors. Skilled at product design, product management, marketing and technology innovation. He was the first designer at Infosys, designed India's first Internet banking application, setup Infosys's UX design practice, cofounded a big data company with award winning search and discovery products. Currently Sridhar consults to a Palo Alto startup on their UX strategy for a micro services testing automation product. His interest are UX for big data, digital platforms and AI-based solutions.
Sanjay Jain
Sanjay is a partner at the Bharat Innovation Fund, which invests in early stage, IP driven companies. He is also the Chief Innovation Officer at CIIE, where he leads efforts to help create, promote, and encourage entrepreneurship in areas around digital technology. In this role, he leads the efforts at the Bharat Inclusion Initiative to bring more people into the formal economy, and workforce in India. Sanjay is also the founding chair of the technology committee, for the Modular Open Source Identity Platform - MOSIP - that helps user organizations such as Governments implement a digital, foundational ID in a cost effective way, while embracing the best practices of scalability, security and privacy harnessing the power of open source.
Sajit Vijayakumar
Sajit has over 24 years of experience and has played various Delivery, consulting, product management and sales & engagement roles in US, India, and the UK. He has been with Infosys for 20 years and primarily worked with Oracle, SAP and Finacle business units of Infosys where he helped clients drive value from large package enabled transformational programs in the Banking, Finance, HR and Supply Chain functions. Prior to joining Infosys, Sajit worked with ICICI Securities , a joint venture between ICICI Ltd and JP Morgan, in their Financial Control functions.
Sailendra Kumar
Sailendra Kumar is the director of product management in Goibibo.com (Make My Trip Group). Product Management Leader, with a strong blend of business, technology and focus in Online Consumer products , Fintech ( Digital Payments ) & Fraud domain. He has won the “Impact innovator award” for the year 2018-19. He has 10+ years of experience spanning across Product Management, Product Development & Program Management with a mix across high scale product organisations and early age start-ups. He is a management graduate from IIM Lucknow.
Prem Velayudan
Prem brings diverse 20+ years of experience in Sales & Marketing, Consulting and Human Resources functions in Engineering, Services & Information Technology Industries. Prior to joining VMware, Prem has held various senior positions at leading technology multinational companies such as Cisco Systems, Alcatel-Lucent and Philips software Centre.
Nagaraj Mylandla
Nagaraj Mylandla is the founder and Managing Director of FSS. A banker turned entrepreneur, Mr. Mylandla is known for his expertise and vision for the Indian payments industry. He has a 30‐year track record of building India’s Payments infrastructure across almost every Bank in the country through his company FSS. Nagaraj has to his credit a B.Sc, PGD in Foreign Trade from Madras University, CAIIB from Mumbai, and a MBA in International Business from UNO, Omaha Nebraska USA.
Kumar Abhishek
Kumar is the founder of ToneTag a unique concept that harnesses the pow er of sound to enable payments and proximity customer engagement, eliminating any hard ware dependency. Prior to starting ToneTag, he was with Finacle core banking at Infosys and as a Senior Engineer with MindTree. He is a recipient of the NationalEntrepreneurship Award 2017.
Jnanesh Kumar
Jnanesh is the Director of Employee Success at Salesforce. He has nearly two decades of experience in leading & managing Human Resource function in technology companies like Mphasis, Capgemini. He has obtained his post graduate diploma in HRM from Delhi University.
Jaymalya Palit
Jaymalya is the senior vice president at Active.AI. He has been a passionate product professional for over 22 years, handled some of the senior roles in companies like Infosys, iGate, Edgeverve. He obtained his engineering from IIT Kharagpur. He brings in a very deep experience and expertise in all aspects of technology product management, strategy and development.
Rutvik Doshi
Rutvik is the managing director & general partner at Inventus Capital. He joined Inventus after 12 years of successful technology industry operating roles. Rutvik has participated in India’s fast emerging internet ecosystem since 2007, first with Google where he launched several products including Voice Search, Google Mobile App, SMS Channels and managed Google News globally, and most recently as the CEO of ecommerce startup Taggle in Bangalore. Before Google he spent 6 years in the U.S. building internet management software for CA Technologies and a startup. He holds a B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur and an MBA from INSEAD, France. He also holds 6 patents.
Bikash Barai
Bikash Barai is the Co-Founder of FireCompass, an AI Platform for Continuous Breach Risk Assessment and Shadow IT Discovery. It helps Organizations in - (1) Digital Footprint & Shadow IT Discovery (2) Breach Risk Assessment (3) Dark Web Monitoring (4) Third Party Risk. Earlier he founded iViZ an IDG Ventures backed company which was later acquired by Cigital. Barai has done double B.Tech and master’s from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), in computer science (Hons) as well as Architecture. He is passionate about AI, cognitive hacking and attack simulation. He is credited for several innovations in the domain of IT Security and has multiple patents in USPTO under his name. Barai has received recognition from UC Berkeley, Intel, Nasscom, Red Herring, TiE, Fortune 40-under-40 in India, etc. He actively pursues painting and magic and has spoken at various forums like the University of California, Berkeley, Nasscom, DSCI, CISO Platform, NUS Singapore, TiE, TEDx IIM, TEDx IIT, RSA Conference USA, etc.
Sanjeev Prasad
Sanjeev is the vice president of Human resource function at Samsung R & D institute. He has over two decades of experience handling various people leadership roles. Prior to Samsung he was working as Head, HR in Nokia Devices. He has obtained his post graduate diploma in personnel management from XLRI, Jamshedpur.
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WHAT OUR PREVIOUS EVENT PARTICIPANTS SAY?
Highly engaging & informative sessions. Need of the hour topics & expert panel discussions.
- Shyam P. Roa, Vice President
Good Initiative from ISPMA to host this summit. Interesting to hear product case studies, processes & framework behind success stories.
- Akash Hegde
EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2020
SPM excellence awards are instituted to celebrate excellence in the software management practices and show case the best practices and role models.
For more details on the parameters, category, application & selection process
OUR PRESTIGIOUS JURY
Prof. Guenther Ruhe
University of Calgary (North America)
Mr. Hans-Bernd Kittlaus
Chairman, ISPMA (Europe)
Prof. Rahul De
Chair of CSITM, IIM B(Asia-Pacific)
Prof. Rishikesha T. Krishnan
IIM Bangalore (Asia-Pacific)
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