As the Indian software industry moves from predominantly services driven to product enabled. Every software company whether small or big strive to offer solutions that are customer-obsessed. And irrespective of a company that already sells its products globally or the one that aspires to be global, the goal of being truly global cannot be achieved without globalizing the products and thus adapting them to the local culture and language. We look at how global product solutions are being built in India by both Enterprises & startups. How the product first culture is being cultivated in companies 

Madhurima Agarwal – Director Engineering Program & Head NetApp Excellerator | TiE Bangalore Charter Member

Madhurima Agarwal works as the Director for Engineering Program with global responsibility for leading NetApp’s startup program called NetApp Excellerator – startup.netapp.in. She also plays a key role in driving enhanced collaboration between engineering and market-facing functions across NetApp India and acts as the touch point for all external partnerships. She brings with her over 17yrs of experience spanning domains across the globe with leading financial firms. She’s been an entrepreneur and currently dons the hats of a mentor and advisor to startups. An alumna of IIM, Ahmedabad, Madhurima enjoys driving innovation and taming the power of technology to achieve organisational growth.

She’s an avid reader and enjoys writing on topics around entrepreneurship. Madhurima is an advisor to the WIT (Women in Technology) group at NetApp and focuses on professional development of women in the workplace.

Saurabh Kavathekar – Director Product & Support Globalisation NetApp

Saurabh is on a mission to help software users throughout the world with a truly localized experience leveraging technology and innovation. Having spent 20+ years in the field of software globalization, he is among the first few who had laid the foundation of modern software globalization practice in India. In his career, he has worked with large enterprise software companies where he induced many process and technology changes that make globalization teams more efficient and software products more competitive and profitable in the international markets.

Saurabh is presently the ‘Head of Product and Support Globalization’ at NetApp. During his current tenure at NetApp, the company’s product adoption in non-English speaking markets has gone up multifold, and he believes the use of modern cutting edge technology is the key to tap global markets.

Abhijit Joshi – Co-founder & CEO of CloudHedge

CloudHedge transforms applications (Windows, Linux, AIX) into lean containers through its automated containerization tools which include: Discover™, Transform™, and Cruize™. CloudHedge packs in a set of features to containerize and drive efficiency from your apps without touching the source code. In addition, enterprise can be stress-free using CloudHedge as it makes App Modernization predictable and cost-efficient, that too within days instead of months.

Dr. Madanmohan Rao (Moderator) – Research Director at YourStory Media | TiE Bangalore Charter Member