6,532 total tweets, 12,156,814 total reach and 3,918,290 unique reach, and over 3,700 attendees from across the world. The numbers are enough to show the success of TiEcon 2013 held on 17th-18th May, 2013 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. TiEcon 2013 kept its promise to mesmerize the attendees with the hottest topics delivered by brilliant experts, and devoted a full day to three high-growth tracks- Mobility, Big Data and Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI). The second day was focused on Entrepreneur Track, Global Innovation, Women's Forum, TiE Youth and a new track on Professional Services. The two day content was designed under the leadership of Naveen Bisht, Content Chair with a team of about 80 experts, highly successful executives, entrepreneurs and volunteers that worked since late last year towards it.

One of the world’s largest conferences for Entrepreneurs put together entirely by volunteers, TiEcon is held in May each year since 1994 in Santa Clara, CA. 'The Indus Entrepreneurs' well known as TiE was founded in 1992. TiE stands for Talent, Ideas and Enterprise. Today, it has grown to more than 57 chapters in 14 countries. The mission for TiEcon 2013 is to foster entrepreneurship globally through mentoring, networking, funding and education. TiE Silicon Valley has over 30,000 contacts who interact through events and newsletters.

TiEcon 2013 Highlights

Keynotes and Breakthrough Thinkers

Day one of the two-day event kicked off with the keynote from Satya Nadella, President, Server & Tools Business, Microsoft; and Jeff Weiner, CEO, LinkedIn, followed by discussion on Mobile, Big Data and SDI. Nadella spoke about the BYOD trend. He said, "We are witnessing a big change in how IT probations allow its infrastructure to consumerization. Everybody is inclined towards bringing their own device to work and wants all their data and applications on their device. At the same time, the companies need to work towards making sure the things are complained and should try to get the balance on how you still have the ability to secure access to your information and applications."

Where Nadella stressed on information security, Jeff shared his thoughts on leadership. He said, "There is a very clear difference between leadership and management. With management, you find people who tell you what to do but leadership inspires others. Right focus will help you to hit the bull's eye with right decision policy on right time."

The second day of the event started with the keynote from Bharat Desai, Chairman & Co-Founder, Syntel, and Ronnie Screwvala, Managing Director, Disney-UTV. Desai explained his reason for being an entrepreneur. He said, "To be successful in any business, you have to identify who your customers are. Your customers have to think about you often; you have to be convinced that what you offer is going to be extremely important, relevant and dear to them."
Adding to Desai's thought, Screwvala explained, "Today we see a lot of aspiring entrepreneurs who contemplate working with their spouse and this is perfectly fine. It necessarily makes a difference as we are aware of the strengths and weaknesses of each other and that makes a strong team. Women with skills can be more powerful than Men."

The grand closing keynote was delivered by Manoj Bhargava, Founder & CEO, 5-hour Energy. Bhargava stressed on the need of common sense in this entrepreneurial world that one does not get from his business school. Bhargava said, "Kids think they know everything when they come out of school but they forget that education comes with experience."

Other eminent keynote speakers includes Chris Anderson, CEO, 3D Robotics; Greg Becker, President & CEO, Silicon Valley Bank; Anand Chandrasekhar, CMO, Qualcomm; Boyd Davis, VP, Intel Architecture Group; Arvind Sodhani, President Intel Capital, Om Nalamasu, SVP and CTO, Applied Materials, Maya Strelar-Migotti, Head of Ericsson Silicon Valley and several others.

TiEcon Expo

The third year of TiEcon Expo showcased 148 booths sharing leadership, influential corporate development and investment opportunities, provided platform for recruiting quality talent, and meeting emerging tech leaders. One of the silver sponsors, Dice showcased a truck in the expo area as the element of attraction to leverage the visitors. Visitors were welcomed at the booth with customized gifts like T-Shirts and calendars.

TiEcon Connect

Structured on the idea to provide advice for entrepreneurs, FounderConnect provided TiEcon attendees an invaluable opportunity to meet with Mentors. MentorConnect provided a platform to meet and discover each other and MobileConnect empowers with an opportunity to network with any attendees using the mobile application.


TiE Women’s Forum

TiEcon 2013 dedicated two panels to the emerging women entrepreneurs of the world. The forum emphasized on the rise of women entrepreneurs, women intrapreneurs, trends and resources, creativity and technology and on making successful women leaders.

TiEcon Youth Forum

Dedicated to the youth icons from entrepreneurial world, as young as 13, were discussing the lessons they learnt as a young CEO. Speakers included Ashish J. Thakkar, Founder & MD, Mara Group; Jordan Casey, Founder of Casey Games and Tanay Tandon, Founder, Clipped.me.

TiE50

TiE50 is the annual award ceremony to recognize 50 best startups among 1,100 technology startups worldwide, covering five technology sectors: internet, life sciences, energy, mobile and software.

Entertainment

TiEcon 2013 witnessed a wonderful ending with performances from artists like Anusha, Jazz Musician Eric Bolvin, and comedian Rajiv Satyal among several others.
"TiEcon 2013 was a great success by all measures - attendance, fantastic content, world class keynotes, and a wonderful closing celebration," stated Raj Desai, Executive Director, TiE Silicon Valley. This year's talented TiEcon 2013 leadership team included R. Paul Singh and Sanjay Shirole (Conveners), Naveen Bisht (Chair, Content), Anand Akela (Chair Marketing), Bharath Ram and Saurabh Tandon (Chair, Sponsorship), Venk Shukla, Deepak Bhagat and several others.