Beyond the Hype: Retention for
Enduring Success
06 October 2023
Beyond the Hype: Retention for Enduring Success
06 October 2023
In this edition we hosted
40+
Speakers
1100+
Attendees
30+
Sessions
Why EngageMint?
At WebEngage, we know that keeping customers hooked is the secret sauce to building a lasting business in this crazy market. EngageMint is a global initiative to bring retention to the forefront, turbocharge networking, spill the beans on success secrets, and share playbooks.
If we can help startups and ventures bloom, we’ll consider it as a mission accomplished!
Highlights from EngageMint 2023
EngageMint 2023 Agenda
Hall 1: Horizontal Track
10:30 AM - 10:40 AM
Opening Address
Co-founder, WebEngage
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
Keynote Session: Let’s go! It’s time to scale
Managing Director, PeakXV Partners and Surge
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Navigating the Red Ocean: The Razorpay Story
Key Session Takeaways
- Making a Dent in the Startup Universe
- Innovation and Adaptation in the Startup Ecosystem
- Preserving the Founder DNA and Values
- Need for Building with Speed
Founder and Managing Director, Razorpay
Moderator
Co-founder, WebEngage
11:40 AM - 12:10 PM
Monopoly Mindset: Market Mastery with Data-Driven Insights
Co-Founder, Rupifi
Chief Data Scientist, KreditBee
Moderator
VP Growth & Marketing, WebEngage
12:10 PM - 1:00 PM
Redefining Startup Success: Fast and Slow
Key Session Takeaways
- Relooking at the VC Power Law
- The growth conundrum: ‘at all costs’ or ‘risk-managed’?
- Choosing founder friendly investors vs aggressive growth drivers
- How should founders plan capital raise and allocation
Managing Partner, Saama
Investor, Venture Highway
Moderator
General Partner, India Quotient
1:00 PM - 1:10 PM
Launch : Startup Demo Day x WSP
CTO & Co-founder, WebEngage
2:00 PM - 2:50 PM
From Startup to Cash Out: Plan Vs. Reality
2:50 PM - 3:30 PM
10 years, 10 insights: The Toppr Story
Key Session Takeaways
- Understanding the right time to do things
- Identification of challenges in the education industry
- Moments of triumph and scaling them
Founder, Toppr.com
Moderator
Co-founder, WebEngage
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Engagement to build Trust: The Eka Story
Key Session Takeaways
- Leveraging engagement to build trust across funnel stages
- Growth and retention in a health-tech business
- Utilizing innovation and technology to enhance healthcare delivery
- The importance of patient advocacy
Founder, Eka.Care
4:20 PM - 5:00 PM
Beyond अंग्रेजी : Carving out Blue Oceans
Key Session Takeaways
- Engagement in a vernacular audience
- Understanding the audience demographics & buying potential
- Discovering white spaces for content: shelf life & use cases
Co-Founder & CEO, Kuku FM
Co-Founder & CEO, Lokal
Moderator
General Partner, India Quotient
5:00 PM - 5:50 PM
Competing in Crowded Market : The Bharath Lens
Key Session Takeaways
- Expanding your TAM sensibely to Tier 2 markets
- Mapping out your customer journey to drive LTV
Head of Product, Jar
Product Director, PhonePe
Moderator
Founder, Indian Silicon Valley
5:50 PM - 6:20 PM
Into the Future: WebEngage Product Story & News
Co-founder, WebEngage
6:20 PM - 6:30 PM
Closing Address
VP Growth & Marketing, WebEngage
Hall 2: D2C, Ecommerce & Startups
11:40 AM - 12:10 PM
Assembling your MarTech Stack for Success
Key Session Takeaways
- Unlocking your business potential via composability
- Breaking the Illusion : We need big all-in-one giant solution
- Understanding problems to find new age, best-in-class tools
- Bringing together a stack that communicates well with each other
Group CTO, Good Glamm Group
12:10 PM - 12:40 PM
Thrive don’t just Survive: Winning in D2C
Key Session Takeaways
- 1000s of D2C brands, what’s the top 1% doing right
- View from the other side of a Shopify Store
- Unpuzzling the Brand.com wave in India & where are we headed
Country Head & Director, Shopify India & SEA
Moderator
Director, ConvertWise
12:40 PM - 1:10 PM
The Marketing Trinity: Conflict, Character, Climax
Key Session Takeaways
- How conflict serves as the engine that propels a narrative forward
- How individuals & entities shape the story through their roles
- How pivotal decisions & agreements serve as the turning points in a story
Lead - Channel Communications, Bira 91
2:00 PM - 2:20 PM
Finding value in values : Akshayakalpa’s Unconventional Story
Key Session Takeaways
- Creating a strong foundation with purpose & values
- Inventing unique value levers for retention & engagement
- Building with your users & community
Head Of Marketing, Akshayakalpa Organic
2:20 PM - 2:50 PM
Scaling Strong in Funding Winters
CEO & Co-Founder, Anveya Living
2:50 PM - 3:20 PM
Perfora’s Journey: Disrupting Oral Care in India & Beyond
Key Session Takeaways
- Disrupting & unlocking the golden potential amidst a crowded market
- The conscious shift to early user engagement for enduring success
- The Shark Tank experience and the orbital shift
Founder, Perfora
3:20 PM - 3:25 PM
Announcement : Startup Demo Day x WSP
Startup Program Lead, WebEngage
3:25 PM - 4:00 PM
Unpacking Offline: Doing Dhanda in India
Key Session Takeaways
- Going beyond the .com with your D2C brand
- How Slay Coffee used Cloud Kitches as a GTM to offline
- How Tagz grows with QComm & FMCG
Co-Founder, Slay Coffee
Co-Founder & CEO, TagZ Foods
Moderator
Founder, Indian Silicon Valley
4:20 PM - 5:00 PM
Baiting the Sharks : The Retention Masterstroke
Key Session Takeaways
- What’s the master bait when fishing for the sharks?
- Journey post the fame: How do you leverage the broadcast high
- Strategic investment utilization and scaling the business
Founder, Bummer
Co-Founder, The State Plate
Co-Founder, SoulUp
Moderator
Founder, Decision Pinnacle
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
The Whole Truth of Catalog Expansion
Key Session Takeaways
- Retaining the Mindshare of your audience
- Building a product portfolio to acquire & retain the right users
- Selling Deep & Wide using multiple levers
Head of Strategy, The Whole Truth Foods
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Mastering the Sales x Marketing x Tech Orchestra
Head of Digital Transformation, Schbang
Vice President- Sales - India & South Asia, Yoga Bar
Moderator
VP- Global Business Development & Partnerships, WebEngage
Hall 3: Growth & Product
11:40 AM - 12:10 PM
Beyond the Hype: Hacking AI Tools for Growth
Founder, GrowthSchool
Moderator
Founder, The Indian Startup Community
12:10 PM - 1:10 PM
Engaging India on the Move
Product Lead, Uber
Principle Product Manager, Rapido
Moderator
Senior Product Manager, Gojek
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Mapping Customer Journeys to Drive LTV
Cofounder & CEO, NxtWave
Moderator
Director - Strategy & Growth, WebEngage
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Moving Engagement & Conversion with AI-Powered Chatbots
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Competing for Market Share
Ex- Chief Growth Officer, Upstox
4:20 PM - 5:00 PM
Habit formation at Scale : Engaging 40mn+ Indians
Chief Business Officer, HealthifyMe
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Top of Mind: Engagement in a Slow Moving Category
VP Marketing & Ops, Headout
Speaker Lineup For EngageMint
Bengaluru’23
Rub shoulders with growth superstars at EngageMint.
Rajan Anandan
Managing Director, PeakXV Partners and Surge
Shashank Kumar
Founder & Managing Director, Razorpay
Deep Ganatra
Group CTO, Good Glamm Group
Bharati Balakrishnan
Country Head & Director, Shopify India & SEA
Rishubh Satiya
CEO and Co-Founder, Plix
Harish Narayanan
Ex- Chief Growth Officer, Upstox
Zishaan Hayath
Founder, Toppr.com
Vikalp Sahni
Founder, eka.care
Madhusmita Panda
Chief Marketing Officer, KredX
Jani Pasha
Co-Founder & CEO, Lokal
Disha Chhabra
Product Lead, Uber
Anand Lunia
General Partner, India Quotient
Ash Lilani
Managing Partner, Saama
Anjan Bhojarajan
Chief Business Officer, HealthifyMe
Abhishank Babbar
Lead - Channel Communications, Bira 91
Jatan Bawa
Founder, Perfora
Vivek Singh
CEO & Co-Founder, Anveya Living
Lal Chand Bisu
Co-Founder & CEO, Kuku FM
Punita Mittal
Co-Founder, SoulUp
Jatin Sinha
Head of Digital Transformation, Schbang
Sriram G
Head of Strategy, The Whole Truth Foods
Anish Basu Roy
Co-Founder & CEO, TagZ Foods
Shreesh Vurutha
Product Director, PhonePe
Priya Mohan
Investor, Venture Highway
Srivathsa D V
Chief Data Scientist, KreditBee
Prashant Singh
Head of Product, JAR
Balaram Bhattacharjee
Vice President, Yoga Bar
Gautam Rajesh Shelley
Founder, AiSensy
Agrima R.
Senior Product Manager, Gojek
Shivalik Sen
Principle Product Manager, Rapido
Rahul Attuluri
Cofounder & CEO, NxtWave
Chaitanya Chitta
Co-Founder, Slay Coffee
Sulay Lavsi
Founder, Bummer
Apurva Chawla
Director, ConvertWise
Parag Jain
VP Marketing & Ops, Headout
Muskaan Sancheti
Co-Founder & CEO, The State Plate
Tanishq Ambegaokar
Founder, The Indian Startup Community
Vaibhav Sisinty
Founder, GrowthSchool
Deepti Karthik
Founder, Decision Pinnacle
Anubhav Jain
Co-Founder, Rupifi
Vachana Shetty
Head of Marketing, Akshayakalpa Organic
Jivraj Singh Sachar
Founder, Indian Silicon Valley
Avlesh Singh
Co-founder, WebEngage
Ankur Gattani
VP Growth & Marketing, WebEngage
Akhilesh Chopra
Director - Strategy & Growth, WebEngageVP Growth & Marketing, WebEngage
Apoorv Sood
VP- Global Business Development & Partnerships, WebEngage
Previous speakers at EngageMint
Ronnie Screwvala
Co-Founder & Chairperson, upGrad
Nitin Sethi
SVP, Chief Digital Officer – Consumer Businesses, Adani Group
Rajan Anandan
Managing Director, PeakXV Partners
Raj Shamani
Speaker, Entrepreneur & Angel Investor
Smita Murarka
Ex-Chief Marketing Officer, Duroflex
Sanjeev Bikhchandani
Co-Founder, Info Edge
Aadit Palicha
Co-Founder & CEO, Zepto
Anshumani Ruddra
Product Leader, Google
Anuj Rathi
SVP - Revenue & Growth, Swiggy
Arjun Vaidya
Ventures Lead—India, Verlinvest
Utsav Malhotra
COO, Noise
Meghana Narayan
Co-founder, Slurrp Farm
Ahana Gautam
CEO & Co-founder, Open Secret
Sanjay Vakharia
Co-founder & CEO
Sahil Gupta
Co-Founder, MyMuse
Saloni Anand
Co-Founder, Traya Health
Pankaj Vermani
Founder & CEO, Clovia
Lokendra Saini
Ex-Chief Operating Officer, EaseMyTrip
Preetika Mehta
Head of Digital & E-commerce Marketing, Crompton
Juhi Singh
Head- International Ecommerce (MENAB) & Global Digital Center of excellence (COE)
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About WebEngage
WebEngage is a full-stack Customer Engagement and Retention platform that helps businesses increase customer lifetime value. The platform provides a unified view of customers with robust data, engagement across 11+ channels with automated workflows, and hyper-personalization of experiences with a state-of-the-art engine, all backed by a solid analytics framework.
With a mission to humanize websites and apps, we now power over 1B+ messages daily to customers across 50+ countries and 20+ industries.
