Mysuru: As a prelude to the Bengaluru Tech Summit to be held from Nov. 18 to 20 at Bangalore Palace, the Department of IT, BT and S&T, Government of Karnataka, will host Bengaluru Tech Summit – Mysore Road Show at the Radisson Blu Plaza Hotel in  city tomorrow (Aug.28) from 10.30 am to 6 pm.

The chief guests for the inaugural function include: Nicole Gerard, Consul General for Canada; Dr. E.V. Ramana Reddy, Additional Chief Secretary, Department of IT, BT and S&T;  Prashant Kumar Mishra, Director, Department of IT, BT and S&T; Abhiram G. Sankar, Deputy Commissioner, Mysuru; Shailender Tyagi, Director, STPI; Sid Mookerji, Founder and Managing Partner, Silicon Road; Bhaskar Kalale, Chairman, CII Mysore Zone; Dr. K.S.M.S. Raghavarao, Director, CFTRI, Mysuru.

The event will bring together IT and Bio Experts, R&D Institutes, Technocrats, Academicians, Industry Associations and Policy-makers from across Karnataka to deliberate on making Mysuru as the next innovation hub. It is aimed at giving a boost to the Mysuru region to emerge as the next IT, Electronics and Biotech destination.

11.30 am: Keynote address by Vishwaprasad Alwa, Founder & Managing Director, Skanray Technologies. 

12.15 pm: Session on Mysuru – The Next Innovation Hub to be addressed by Sid Mookerji, Dr. K.S.M.S Raghavarao,  Abhiram G. Sankar, Shaji Mathew, Executive Vice-President, Infosys and Pavan Ranga, MD & CEO, Rangsons Technologies & NR Group.

2.15 pm: Session on Race Against Pace of Technological Changes — Sanjeev Kumar Gupta, CEO, ESDM Cluster, Mysuru (Moderator); Sudhanva Dhananjaya, Founder and CEO, Excelsoft Technologies; Shrilakshmi Desiraju, CEO, Triphase Pharmaceuticals and  Shivashankar, Chief Executive, SJCE-STEP.

3.15 pm: Session on Role of Incubation in Entreprenuerial Process — Sanjay Srinivasmurthy, India Head & Director, Silicon Road Ideation Labs (Moderator); Dr. Jitendra Kumar, MD, BBC; K.S. Viswanathan, Vice-President, NASSCOM; Dr. K.R. Prakash, Department of Mechanical, NIE (NAIN) and Vinod Shankar, COO, Ginserv.

4.30 pm: Session on Mysore Startups Scaling to Newer Heights — B.V. Sathyanarayana, Deputy Head, Startup Cell, KITS (Moderator); K. Harsha, CEO, Holosuit (Elevate Winner); Rohan M. Ganapathy, Director, Bellatrix Aerospace Private Limited (Elevate Winner); Dr. A. Kumudha, Magnimous Info Tech Pvt Ltd; Madan, Smart Cooking Machine and Sumanth, Kidvento (Elevate Winner).

5.30 pm: Summing up Closing Ceremony — Prashant Kumar  Mishra, MD, KITS and Abhiram Sankar, DC. For details contact Mob: +91 80505-44115 or +91 99869- 38281.