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Explore Bharat Series: Coimbatore | 21st August 2019
2019-08-21 14:00 - 21:30 (Asia/Kolkata) | Welcomhotel Coimbatore
Today, 10 prominent Indian states account for more than 75 per cent of India’s aggregate GDP including Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh, and tier II cities such as Surat, Jaipur, Indore, and Patna have shown an economic growth rate of more than 40%.
This paradigm shift in the tier II and III cities is quite evident in the current economic scenario where an extensive number of startups are emerging with the motive of solving more localized problems with the help of on-demand applications, consumer tech solutions, online delivery, ride sharing and more, thereby driving the growth of IT in these cities. Several tier II and III cities in the country are showing promise of growth, with some garnering more interest than others due to their relative infrastructural robustness.
Explore Bharat Series: Coimbatore
Date: 21st August 2019
Venue: Welcomhotel Coimbatore
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Explore Bharat Series ~ Chandigarh
2019-07-26 13:00 - 17:00 | JW Marriott Chandigarh
Tech Cities
Today, 10 prominent Indian states account for more than 75 per cent of India’s aggregate GDP including Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh, and tier II cities such as Surat, Jaipur, Indore, and Patna have shown an economic growth rate of more than 40%.
This paradigm shift in the tier II and III cities is quite evident in the current economic scenario where an extensive number of startups are emerging with the motive of solving more localized problems with the help of on-demand applications, consumer tech solutions, online delivery, ride sharing and more, thereby driving the growth of IT in these cities. Several tier II and III cities in the country are showing promise of growth, with some garnering more interest than others due to their relative infrastructural robustness.
As IT is an integral part of every sector, with the rise in investments in any sector in tier II or III cities, investments in IT too will grow simultaneously. Specifically, within tier II and III cities, SMBs contribute a significant proportion of the IT spending. A study by AMI Partners has revealed that cities like Kochi, Trivandrum, Nagpur, Vadodara, Vizag form the next rung behind metros and are anticipated to ride the growth wave in areas such as formation of new businesses and expansion of current businesses.
Consequently, it is predicted that the IT investments by SMBs within these cities will also intensify. The study has also revealed that SMBs in tier II and III cities exhibit a substantially higher growth-rate in terms of their IT spending compared to their compatriots in tier I cities; thus, they are likely to be the future growth-engines of SMB in terms of IT spending.
It has also been observed that channel partners in these cities are no longer attached to traditional SMB, education and home segments. In fact, they are looking to work closely with new set of vendors and startup companies in the areas of emerging technologies. Most importantly, these tier II and III cities are land of immense resource and workforce and ripe with possibilities and future of success.
To tap the emerging possibility and growth of these non-metro cities, CRN India & Express Computer is introducing a new market connect initiative – Explore Bharat.

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The Explore Bharat – Initiative will help vendor companies to:

Explore new markets as well as deepen relationship in existing ones
Strengthen their engagement with SMB customers as well as partners
Offer their perspective on how technologies such as cloud and analytics can be game changers for uplifting the fortunes of SMB firms
Address the key concerns of partners by providing assistance in deep technical sales skills, lead generation, sales transaction progression, training and certification in order to facilitate growth
Build their business partner interface and enhance partner incentives
Participate and gain from a market that is exploding exponentially

The SMB customers can leverage this platform to:

Share their best practices and challenges with respect to growing their business
Leverage the emerging technologies in a bid to expand their business regionally and globally and also to gain a competitive advantage over their peers
Understand how technology can help them adopt best practices and streamline their businesses along with better managing their business and scale it up more efficiently

For Channel Partners, this platform will help them:

Discover collaborative ways to work with vendors
Tap technology resources for better product positioning
Benefit from various incentives that are in store
Identify new growth opportunities and align with vendors who have products and solutions that will be in great demand and assist them in framing their growth strategies.

Target Audience:

Small and Medium Business organizations across vertical industries
IT Channel Partners (SIs, hardware/software partners, managed service partners, solution providers, ISVs, application partners, networking partners, data center partners)

Why Partner:

Connect – Network and collaborate with potential business owners as well as traditional and emerging IT players of each city
Reach – This multi-city platform will help you to expand footprints
Explore – Target the untapped industry segments
Association Tie-ups – CRN will be combining forces with Channel Associations in each of the cities
Visibility – Each city will get prominent coverage in print/online editions of CRN
Multimedia Campaign – EDMs, Print Ads, Banner Ads, eNewsletters as well as a microsite that will feature event and vendor product information

Key Cities to be Covered:
In the first phase of Explore Bharat, CRN India and Express Computer will go deep down into following cities of each region:

Chandigarh/Mohali/ Panchkula, Bhopal, Jaipur, Ludhiana, Dehradun, Lucknow, Jammu
Nashik, Surat, Gwalior, Ahmedabad, Indore, Nagpur, Bhilai/Chandrapur
Mangalore, Amravati, Kochi, Mysore, Vishakhapatnam, Thiruvananthapuram, Coimbatore
Patna, Raipur, Bhubaneswar, Ranchi, Guwahati, Howrah, Jamshedpur

Contact Us:
Prabhas Jha (Sales) – +91 9899707440, prabhas.jha@expressindia.com
Srikanth RP (Editorial) – +91 9819687097, srikanth.rp@expressinidia.com
FOR SPONSORSHIP & EXHIBITION BOOTH
NEW DELHI:
Prabhas Jha – +91 9899707440, prabhas.jha@expressindia.com
Vivek Thakur – +91 9871614501, vivek.thakur@expressindia.com
MUMBAI:
Ravindranath Nair – +91 9820955602, ravindranath.nair@expressindia.com
Deepak Patel – +91 9820733448, deepak.patel@expressindia.com
BANGALORE / CHENNAI / HYDERABAD:
Durgaprasad Talithaya – +91 9900566513, durga.prasad@expressindia.com
Praveen Kumar Soman – +91 9895429991, praveenkumar.soman@expressindia.com
KOLKATA:
Debnarayan Dutta – +91 9051150480, debnarayan.dutta@expressindia.com
Ajanta Sengupta – +91 9831182580, ajanta.sengupta@expressindia.com
FOR DELEGATE REGISTRATIONS
Vinita Hassija – +91 9820590053, vinita.hassija@expressindia.com
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CRN Channel Series | 11th February 2018
2018-11-02 18:30 | Deccan Rendezvous Pune, 1202/3, Apte Road, Near Santosh Bakery, Shivajinagar, PUNE, MAHARASHTRA, 411004, India
DISCOVER HOW TO IMPROVE
APP AGILITY AND AVAILABILITY
While we live in a consumption-driven world, the same cannot be said about our IT infrastructure. As the world rapidly moves towards digitization, ISVs and software product companies are still struggling to create a flexible infrastructure environment that can provide scalable capacity on demand and consumption-based pricing.
Factors such as security, compliance, app performance, migration challenges and cost are also issues that are of critical importance to ISVs as they look at scaling their applications in a cloud and mobile-first world.
In this context, as part of the CRN CHANNEL SERIES, Netmagic Solutions and CRN are delighted to invite you to discover a full range of cloud-based services and solutions that will help your app to scale up quickly to meet the demands of a rapidly changing world.
Your honorable presence is requested on 2nd November 2018 at the Deccan Rendezvous, Pune at 6.30 pm, as we are keen to know your perspective and valuable views on how the cloud is changing the way services and apps are being consumed and delivered. Extensive coverage of this event will be featured in CRN.

CRN Channel Leadership Summit & Awards 2018
2018-09-07 - 2018-09-09 | Novotel Goa, Pinto Waddo, Off Candolim Road, Bardez, Candolim, Goa, Goa, 403515, India
RECOGNISING EXCELLENCE IN AN INDUSTRY KNOWN FOR ITS COMPETITIVE SPIRIT AND EXACTING STANDARDS!
To succeed in a fast-paced IT industry requires the mindset, agility, and flexibility of a champion. Which is why CRN Channel Leadership Summit & Awards 2018, India’s most Powerful Network of Technology Partners and Vendors has kept as its theme this year ‘RECOGNISING EXCELLENCE’
To be held 7-9 September 2018, at Novotel Goa, and organised by CRN and Indian Express Pvt. Ltd, the event is a knowledge and business creating platform focusing on the latest technologies and trends, research, best practices and networking with the leading lights of the Indian Channel Community.
Featuring the Industry’s Leading Players, Domain Experts, a Pan-India Audience, an Innovation/ Showcase Zone, Trending Topics, One-on-One Meetings, Power Discussions, a unique Channel League Interactive Module, Indian Channel’s most coveted Industry Awards, and Customised Marketing Initiatives, there is just no better way to build profitable Channel relationships in 2018.

CRN Channel Directions 2018
2018-03-16 - 2018-03-17 | Novotel Hyderabad, Kavuri Hills, Kondapur, Novotel Hotel Road,, Hyderabad, Telangana, 500081, India
CRN Channel Directions, an annual conference, the event would have a singular mission – to help vendors announce their channel plans that would in turn set directions for the channel community.
