Couple of interesting events are lined up in chennai-

Social media summit’s second edition is planned for November 4-5, with an impressive list of speakers- Details here

our CEO Kiruba Shankar will be speaking at the event.

TEDxChennai is planned for the next day, November 6. Details here tedxchennai.com

Indiblogger organized a bloggers meet in association with Tata Grande- details

Have you got that killer app that can take the world by storm? Got great ideas but need funds/help in executing them? Here’s an opportunity for you.

IAMAI is organising 2nd edition of Mobile Application Developers’ Meet on 23 November 2010 at Vel Tech University at Chennai.

As part of the seminar, IAMAI has scheduled for a session to promote application developers in the country. Each developer shall get 10 minutes to make a presentation. There shall be no fee charged to the presenting developer and his team to make the presentation or attend the seminar.

In addition to making the presentation, IAMAI is also providing an opportunity to display your applications at the App room at the venue. Selected developers’ shall get to either make the presentation or display their apps at the app room.

Mobile Application Developers may send in their entries to Mr Gaurav Chopra or Mr Kalyan Biswas at gaurav@iamai.in or kalyan@iamai.in respectively. Developers need to send a brief note (not more than 100 words) about their applications, video link/ website about the apps, Number of downloads/customer base, revenue model and current partners. Entries of only those applications must be sent which are live and running. The last date for submission is 19 November 2010.

All the best…

Ford India is currently running a road trip called Ford Figo discover Smart drive, a month long road trip from Chandigarh to Chennai, where in 4 lucky couples are selected to Drive the Figo, one week each.

The event is leveraged effectively online, mainly in Figo’s facebook page and twitter. The road trip has been of great success so far and Figo’s facebook page is looking to double its fan count very soon. Figo’s fanbase was about 8000+ at the beginning of the month and currently nearing 15k level.

We congratulate Ford India for this success and the observation serves as a testimony that offline events can be effectively leveraged online. Figo’s Discover India smart drive has been running lots of contests online, on facebook, orkut and twitter, giving away prizes like Nokia phones and so on, actively engaging the fans, in sync with the road trip happening on the field. October 2010 hasn’t ended yet, so we can expect the number to keep shooting up.

Figo’s Discover Smart drive [Read its comparison with Nano Superdrive] is all set to have its Grand Finale in Chennai next week. Standby for More

Image sourced from Figo’s facebook page.

The Madras Naturalists’ Society, World Wide Fund – India, Tamil Nadu State and British Council jointly present various programmes to celebrate the Wildlife Week 2010 and the International Year of Biodiversity.

The event is from 30^th September 2010 to 7^th October 2010.Film-maker Mr. Shekar Dattatri Inaugurated this program on 30^th September and he shared some interesting things about his new film “Truth About Tigers”. Everyday evening 6.30 to 7.30 Wild Film Screening will happen (open to all).

On 1^st October Wildlife Film-making Workshop by Mr. Shekar Dattatri happened for Viscom and Film Institute Students.

“Celebrating Biodiversity” is a Theme for Poster Presentation by School students. Ten to Fifteen schools students participated and each school presented a poster.

A Media Workshop for School Children’s Organized by International Climate Champions will take place at British Council as a part of a Wildlife Week Celebration on 6^th October 2010. Registration required for the participation. It has three categories that are Journalism, Radio, and Photography. Students from classes VI to VIII can participate in this event. People from International Climate Champions are going to train the students in this Media Workshop.

Interested Students can Register

For more details and for registration

Contact 044-42050600-02 or email to kumaran.sriram@in.britishcouncil.org

Look at the poster for entire Schedule

B Parameshwar Babu, CEO, Param Projects shared his story at Facebook Developer Garage… Here’s the copy of his presentation

IAMAI’s next event is on 29^th July2010 at IIM bengaluru, India. This Seminar, aimed at Mobile Applications Developers’ to provide them a common platform to deliberate upon the opportunities and challenges of growth pertaining to the mobile applications services in India. The Seminar will start at 9am and go on till 5.30 pm.

For agenda: http://ievents.iamai.in/mad/agenda.php

Speed dating is one of the activities at the meet… To know what this speed dating is, check this post

If you need assistance reaching the venue, check this post

The event has got a fairly impressive list of speakers and over 100+ registrations have been received already!

BusinessBlogging team will be live blogging the meet. Be there to make the most of it or follow the updates online at IAMAI official blog, powered by BusinessBlogging Looking forward to meet you all in Bengaluru on 29^th.

Cerebrate’s first edition in the United States, Cerebrate Silicon Valley, is all set to take place this July End, at Mount Madonna.

Rajesh Setty, a serial entrepreneur, author and speaker, who was an invited delegate for Cerebrate Tapovan held earlier this year, is spearheading the Silicon Valley Edition.

If you know any US based achievers, whom you think should be invited to Cerebrate Silicon Valley, do let us know.

More details at Rajesh Setty’s website and Cerebrate Website.

Business Blogging is proud to be associated with Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) as Official Social Media Partner.

The Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) is a not-for-profit industry body registered under the Societies Act, 1896. Its mandate is to expand and enhance the online and mobile value added services sectors. It is dedicated to presenting a unified voice of the businesses it represents to the government, investors, consumers and other stakeholders. The association addresses the issues, concerns and challenges of the Internet and Mobile economy and takes a leading role in its development.

The association’s activities include promoting the inherent strengths of the digital economy, evaluating and recommending standards and practices to the industry, conducting research, creating platforms for its members, communicating on behalf of the industry and creating a favorable business environment for the industry.

Founded in January 2004 by leading portals in India, IAMAI is the only specialized industry body in India representing the interests of online and mobile value added services industry.

IAMAI regularly conducts various conferences, workshops and roundtable events on key issues concerning the telecommunications industry and users. As the official social media partners for IAMAI, Business Blogging will be bringing following value additions to  IAMAI’s activities.

• Live Blog the event
• Live tweet the event
• Manage Event Website
• Create Podcasts, interview with speakers,
• Facilitate Q&A from audience who may not be physically present at the venue
• Do pre event and post event promotions on social media for IAMAI
• And much more

The recent most IAMAI event which we covered extensively was National Security & Digital Technology Conference in New Delhi. Check the event coverage here and photos here.

The next event will be The Mobile Ad Conference, hosted at Hyatt Regency, Mumbai, on 7^th of April. Catch us there for all the action or stay tuned to IAMAI blog to catch the live blogging updates.