On 1st August, Fintech Yatra started their journey from Nashik. Founded by Abhishant Pant, the Fintech Yatra is a 10000 km annual road journey that we undertake with an objective of developing a grounds-up understanding of the Fintech ecosystem of the country while trying to catalyse these startup's journey by enabling collaborations between them and our corporate partners like NPCI, Fullerton, Finablr etc. In collaboration with Nashik Information Technology Association (NITA), this event was hosted at Netwin Infosolutions Pvt. Ltd.Nashik. In this event, Few start-ups from Nashik, presented & pitched their idea and got valuable guidance from Abhishant and Fitech Yatra team. Some of the start ups who got benefited from this event, are

• Engenius Park Technologies by Vikram Bodke, having a product in Aviation domain, helping airports for automating their ground handelling services.
• Sudhir Gorade founder & director of Sumago infotech having a product startup called MAHABANDHAN, helping self help group women from rural & urban areas. It focuses on empowering these women to start their own sustainable business and help them in getting financial assistance from different resources.
• Vishal Jadhav, co founder of Prismic Reflections - An award winning User Experience Design Studio, helping fintech & other product startups and established business to design human centric digital products.
• Yogesh Aher from Application Square, having an idea of Digital platform for advertising services via mobility vehicles.
• Krishna Handge, founder of Krishi Agritech, making a mobile application to help farmers to connect with agro research labs and improve their farming by getting their guidance.

Nikesh Ingale from Rural Caravan From NITA, Mr. Arvind Mahapatra President of NITA, Hrishikesh Wakadkar Vice President, Girish Pagare, Vishal Jadhav, Nadeem Sheikh, Nikhil took the initiative to make this event happen to its full potential.

Businesses in today's world cannot survive only by concentrating on a particular area of business or an outlined geographical area. IT businesses are no exceptions. IT has to face stiff competition from all over the world due to the penetration of internet and easy communication technologies available handy for everyone in the world. It is a basic need for all businesses now to reach global audience for sustainability and business growth. However, reaching a global audience is not an easy task. It requires the right efforts and techniques to succeed as the global market is very different from the local market. Strategies need to be formed before approaching the global market without which your investment into getting your business on a global scale would not yield any returns. The Go Global event is especially useful for small and medium businesses who have not yet entered the global market on a full scale or yet to explore the market.

• Educating businesses and business owners on how to size the global market.
• Helping them to analyze their products for readiness in the global market.
• Helping them with positioning their products in the global market.
• Helping them to identify regions and sectors where they can have better exposure.
• Helping them to identify what marketing channels would be more useful.
• Helping them with business pitch.
• Helping them with the help of experts on how international trade works.
• Educating them on aspects they need to watch for during international transactions.
• Helping them with compliance they need to do.
• Helping them to attend events and trade shows globally.
• Helping them to get international investments and investor exposure.
• Helping them to secure international presence.

The idea is to share insights on how companies are transition in out if service based business models into newer offering. This is immersive and experiential workshop at the end of which a new pathway will be paved.

6 Key Areas

1. Demystifying AI powered business  models
2. Why is it important to pivot to new age exponential offerings ?
3. What are the forces at play in the market place?
    
4. What are other similar services companies doing to pivot their path ?
5. Prioritize top 3 business themes to explore
    
6. What are the new jobs created by AI ?

The services sector plays an increasingly important role in the global economy and the growth and development of countries. The service sector accounting 70% of the world's output, 60% of employment and 46% of exports. Trade in services can help create opportunities for countries to expand their outputs of services in sectors where they have a comparative advantage and provide a range of traditional and new export opportunities. WTC Mumbai in association with Nashik Information Technology Association is organizing this seminar to enlighten on the subject and involve companies to participate in this promising sector.

Building new products and applications is key to creating digital disruption for legacy systems on a global platform. Nashik has good infrastructure, talent, and technology capabilities to build top-notch modern digital innovations for global leaders and stakeholders. This is where the Nashik Information Technology Association or (NITA) aims to collaborate with individuals and companies to build long-term products & partnerships through endless digital possibilities.

The theme of this event would extensively focus on:

Words of wisdom from renowned industry leaders and IT professionals. It would also include understanding the complete structure of product development and management that is extremely vital for any enterprise to follow whilst building new products. This event would also showcase success stories of seasoned applications and products that carved a niche in the market through exceptional ideation, skill, development, management, and marketing.

                          StartupFest 2018 is an event organized and promoted by the Nashik Information Technology Association (NITA). The aim of the event is to promote the startup culture in Nashik. Focus would also be on building successful "Product companies".The event will provide insightful information to young startups and IT aspirants when leaders from Startups who have made it big today will share their knowledge and experience.

                              Our aim is to cover the following aspects of the Startup culture briefly. Dedicated events for each aspect may follow this event. StartupFest plans to bring success stories to the floor from real people who overcome all these challenges above and converted their startup dream to a substantially sized business today. Their inputs on the following points would be valuable for the attendees.

Who should attend StartupFest 2018?

It does not matter if you are a student or a working professional or a small startup owner or already an IT company who wishes to make it big in IT. The event is for YOU because even the small, tiny or even silly thought of yours can be a huge startup business idea. The event will provide you with insight on how successful startup owners cultivated their ideas and got their dreams to reality.

Topics Covered:

1. Achieving Product Market Fit

2. Customer / Markets for your Products

3. Scaling the company

4. Processes and Tools - Startups to Enterprise

5. Speed v/s Quality

6. Funding for the Startups

7. Post Funding