Event Incharge-Swati Pal(swatipal@iitb.a)
As more and more designers set up their businesses and the learning that goes with it - one way to success is to learn from the experience of others in the same field. With this intent, the event will facilitate one on one meetings between experienced design entrepreneurs and those starting on that road. This discussion could be on any of the following - how to register, taxation issues, IP related, generating scale, marketing and networking etc.
EXPERIENCE SHARING 1
JAN 7th 9:40-11:00
TANAY KUMAR
FRACTAL INK
With 16+ years of experience, Tanay currently spearheads Fractal Ink, with a vision to take Digital design in India to the next level. Tanay has recently been named as one of the top 50 powerful influencers for 2019 in the Media and Entertainment category by Adgully.
SHAILESH SHILWANT
Kritii Design Studio
He is the lead designer at Kritii Design , which is a boutique design and development studio based in San Francisco Bay Area, India & Belarus. They provide services in User Experience, Visual Design, User Research, and Full-stack development. and are experienced in designing for mobile, tablet and Web as well as the responsive web.
BHUSHAN PATIL
Multiply Ventures
Recently worked as President at Paytm and Paytm Mall, Director for international business at Alibaba, China and earlier led product and business roles at Zapak, Yahoo, Talisma and Vendio. He now has his own startup.
EXPERIENCE SHARING 1 contd…
JAN 7th 11:30-1:00
YOGESH DANDEKAR
SARG DESIGN STUDIO
His studio works on experience design for urban transport, service design and public interest design. It recognizes the need for design to take up responsibility in solving issues related to cities, urban development and shared systems like urban mobility.
ADITI BABEL
ABDS Aditi Babel Design Studio
Aditi formed a team of artisans in 2017 whom she has trained herself in traditional book craft and screen printing. Aditi Babel Design Studio's vision is to create meaningful and fine quality products and services through stories, structure and imagination using practises and processes of art, craft and design.
CHARUTA PALSODKAR
TATA MOTORS
Charuta is involved currently in designing mobility solutions for defence, to be reliable partners of our army, protecting the nation. She is committed for improved experiences of soldiers through optimal designing of mobility solutions ensuring comfortable dwelling-in and operations.
SATYAJIT VETOSKAR
Rubber Band Design
founded the design consultancy, rubberband, which embodies his belief in stretching one’s creativity to its maximum potential. He has worked on a wide spectrum of designs across categories from watches, jewellery, luggage, shoes to electronics and toothbrushes. He designs products, creates brand identities and helps companies set up design hubs inhouse.
DHYAN KUMAR
f1studioz
Dhayan Kumar is a seasoned enterprise product UX strategist and a thought leader. He is the co-founder and chief designer of f1studioz, an enterprise user experience firm located across India and US, focused on creating awesome Mobile and Web User Experiences.
EXPERIENCE SHARING 2
JAN 8th 9:40 - 11:00
CHANDRASHEKHAR WYAWAHARE AND SHANTANU PANSE
FUTURING DESIGN
The ying and yang of Futuring Design, Chandrashekhar and Shantanu run a design firm which is an award-winning industrial design firm, with studios in Mumbai and Pune, focused on new product development through meaningful innovations. It is recognized for the past decade as a thoughtful team with a talent for creating evocative designs. It has a multi disciplinary design studio committed to Design for Good - an user focused approach to design and of product and providing innovative solutions.
UTKARSH BIRADAR
FLATHEADS
Utkarsh started his entrepreneurial journey in 2012 with a Payments business "Momoe" which was a mobile payments app
that allowed people to pay from their phone and check out at restaurants, stores and road toll points. With a million plus subscribers they exited
to e-commerce player Shopclues where they understood the potential of ecommerce that led him to his new venture.
Utkarsh is a Design Entrepreneur
and is adding the serial tag to it with his second venture Flatheads which is an Indian brand of shoes building all day comfort sneakers
for the urban Indian consumer.
Following this ice breaker session - participants can continue their discussion/engagement offline.
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