Land and Expand: Canada
Land and Expand program is an Flagship program of Ideas to Impacts Hub, the whole objective is to help start-ups expand internationally. We have successfully executed program in Europe and USA and this will be an 3rd Edition in partnership with TBDC Canada.
This Program will be specifically helping start-ups to expand in North America:
Session 1 - Break Into the North America Market: Our Expansion Guide for Founders.
The First Workshop will be by an Expert founder who has successfully scaled oraganisation in North America:
Speaker: Akash Surekha
Time: 6:05 – 6:35 PM IST
Key Takeaways:
• Identify market opportunities and investment trends in various parts of the North America/Canada
• Understand how doing business in the North America is different from other parts of world
• Reflect on both your personal and business acumen to ensure the timing is right
• Know your competition, evaluate product-market fit (PMF) and strategize your go-to-market (GTM), Resellers and Channel Partners.
Session 2 - Rapid Fire round with Vikram Khurana:
Time: 6:35 – 7:00 PM IST
Q&A:
• TBDC Canada Startup Visa Program, how will help Indian Startups benefit from this ?
• Start looking into visa and immigration requirements early for yourself and the team
• Analyse the pros and cons of various accelerator programs and hiring on the ground
• Determine whether you should reincorporate in Canada.
• It is vitally important to develop a clear and customized go-to-market strategy that’s based on a lot of research, planning and support from trusted partners, How can TBDC help here?
| Particular | Speakers & Guest | Duration |
| Introduction | Tushar Shetty – CEO
Ideas to Impacts Hub | 8:30 – 8:35 AM ET |
| Break Into the North
America Market: Our Expansion Guide for Founders. | Akash Sureka CEO & MD at Tavisca, A cxLoyalty Technology | 8:35 – 8:55 AM ET |
| Startup Visa Program
– TBDC | Vikram Khurana – Chairman TBDC Gireendra Kasmalkar – Founder Ideas to Impacts,Lead Investor Pentathlon Fund. | 8:55 – 9:25 AM ET |
| Q&A Session | Vikram Khurana – Chairman TBDC Gireendra Kasmalkar – Founder Ideas to Impacts ,Lead Investor Pentathlon Fund. | 9:25 – 9:35 AM ET |
| Thank you Note | Tushar Shetty – Ideas
to Impacts Hub | 9:35 – 9:40 AM ET |
Vikram Khurana is Chair of Toronto Business Development Centre, a leading business incubator, and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Canada Post Community Foundation. He is founder of a number of multinational businesses including Prudential Consulting Inc. and Leading System Consultants, and has advised multinational organizations in Information Technology (IT) and IT enabled services, and business process outsourcing. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Mr. Khurana worked at TD Bank. He is currently member of the board of Ontario Lottery and Gaming Commission of Ontario. Mr. Khurana served on the Board of Directors of Export Development Canada, FinDev Canada, the Dean’s Council of Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson Unviersity, the Technical Standards and Safety Authority. Asia Pacific Foundation Canada and the Advisory Board of the Indo Canada Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Khurana is an active participant in a variety of fundraising activities for development-related causes and was an honorary member of the Board of Governors at Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation in Toronto.
Akash Sureka is the Chief Executive Officer at Tavisca. He is a serial entrepreneur with a successful exit to a public company. He has a diverse background, with more than 20+ years of work experience in technology products and business leadership domains. Some of his previous assignments include pivotal stints at global technology companies like NVIDIA, Bilcare, Persistent, Nokia, & Motorola and start-up unicorns like Icertis. Prior to joining Tavisca, Akash was a Founder & CEO of a global product start-up company in the mobile internet ecosystem. He was also the CEO of a SAAS company, later acquired by Software AG.
Gireendra Kasmalkar is the Founder Director and CEO of Ideas to Impacts Innovations Pvt Ltd Lead Investor of Pentathlon Fund and . India’s leading software testing entrepreneur, in 2016 he exited from his company Verisoft after growing it from 0 to 2000 employees and its acquisition by SQS Germany. Giri is active on industry forums as a Founder Director at Inter-Institutional Inclusive Innovation Centre, TiE-Pune Governing council chapter member, and previously at SPIN-Pune, CSI-Pune and MCCIA.
He is a Mechanical engineer from IIT Mumbai and University of South Carolina, (USA), with management programs at IMD (Switzerland) and Columbia University (USA).