1. India Events 2013
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3. SDC India Events
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And much more…

4. Events by numbers
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Yahoo
Hack
India
1
2
SDC
Leaders
Dinner
The WIT
Gig
4
TEDx
1
Internal
Hackday
1
1
Year-end
Party
2
Big
Thinkers
5
HackU
4
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1
Bloggers
Night
FYI
7
Social
FYI
Demos &
Drinks
92
Bring your
Kids to
Yahoo
4
5
Have a
Seat
6
Birthday
with Hari
124 events in 2013

5. Gl obal R ol l outs

6. FYI
 FYI was rolled out in India in Jan 2013
 On an average, 250 people attend the event at EGL and 100 at BTP
 Participation has gone up to 400 – 500 during Exec visits, Monsoon special FYI, New
logo launch FYI, etc.
 India became the 1st location to align to the collaborative viewing
 Punched in local flavour with local demos, Q&A, monsoon special FYI, etc.
2014 Plan:
Continue as is
OR
Change to weekly
screening but monthly Q&A
and Demo
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7. Internal Hackday
 Held quarterly with specific themes and different categories
 50 – 80 teams (i.e. approx. 150 – 200 people) participated
in each of these events
 Science Fair demo display to engage more people
 The Q4 global winner was from Bangalore - YNot
2014 Plan:
Continue
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8. Have a Seat
 Conducted 7 Have a Seat events in 2013 including ones with Tim Parsey, former SVP
Design, Scott Burke, SVP Advertising and Data Platforms and Mike Kerns, SVP
Homepage and Verticals
 100+ people attended each of these events
 Post event survey results showed extremely positive feedback of 3.7 / 5
2014 Plan:
Continue
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9. Demos & Drinks
 5 Demos & Drinks events including 1 at our office in Mumbai
 The Bangalore D&D is very well attended, seeing 600-800
footfalls every qtr
 Q3 D&D in Bangalore beat SNV in terms of participation
 Dogfooding has become an important element with the latest
innovation being the online ‘idea boards’
 Q4 D&D got positive feedback of 4/5
2014 Plan:
Increase dogfooding
opportunities
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10. And the FU N ones

11. The Birthday Party Makeover – Birthday
with Hari
 Increased exec participation at the event
 Made a regular birthday party much more fun by:
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Giving very popular gifts (people fight for it sometimes)
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Conducting MC lead team activities and fun games
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Serving mocktails and better food
2014 Plan:
Themed parties
New look
New feel
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12. Social FYI – TGIF!
 Not just food, music & fun but a lot of brand attractions like
Krispy Kreme, Harima, Café Noir, etc.
 Movie quizzes with popular RJs Danish and Sriram
 Each of these events were well attended by over 700 people
at EGL and 250 in BTP
2014 Plan:
Once a month with
internal teams driving it
for a startup feel
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13. Bring back some of our popular events
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Ethnic day,
Ice-cream day,
Quarterly quiz, (which everybody loves)
Purple Gavel,
Day or Theme based events, etc
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14. The party j ust got BIGGER

15. Bring your Kids to Yahoo
 570 young visitors took over our offices
 The theme of the event was Fun-da-Mental – Big fun with
cool science woven in
 Popular TV anchor Prateek Sethi conducted a science &
design workshop for his young fans
 The kids walked out with cool color coded kiddie bean bags
at the end of the day
2014 Plan:
Continue with new
themes, popular hosts
and lots more games
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16. Year-end Party
 Over 1100 Yahoos and their guests attended the event
 The highlight - a spectacular performance Benny Dayal and
Shalmali Kholgade
 Glitch free transport
 Indian and Chinese spread by ITC Gardenia
Fun Contests:
2014 Plan:
Themed event
Employee only or
employee + family
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Best party shots
Coolest selfie
Coolest film
Backstage pass

17. Large format / Fl agshi p Events

18. Bloggers Night
 First ever bloggers event in India
 Evening of product showcases, fun, drinks and a lot of
laughter
 Turnout of over 30 bloggers of which 8 were top influencers
 Stand-up comedian Tanmay Bhat ensured he kept the
audience in splits
2014 Plan:
4 Bloggers Nights across
the country
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19. TEDx
 A huge success with over 160 attendees
 The quality of content & talks was far superior as compared to the previous year
 Celebrated TEDx’ 4th birthday with a cake cutting and a fun photo-op
2014 Plan:
Continue
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20. Big Thinkers
 Conducted 2 Big Thinkers in 2013 – 1 at the Marriot in
Bangalore targeting working professionals and 1 at IIT
Bombay for students
 Over 130 people attended the Big Thinkers event with Ronny
Lempel, Sr. Director, Yahoo Labs, Israel, in Bangalore
2014 Plan:
Increase
participation
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21. Summer School
3079
registrations
 Received a record breaking number of registrations out of
which we shortlisted candidates and had a full house of 280
people attend the event
 5 day event with workshops, training and lectures from senior
research scientists from Europe and Sunnyvale like Peter
Mika, Edgar Meij, etc
2014 Plan:
Continue
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22. HackU – University Hack Event
 Conducted 5 HackU events last year at IIT universities in
Kharagpur, Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi & Kanpur
 Better prizes and great food were the key factors that lead to
increased participation
 HackU 2013 at IIT Kanpur is Yahoo’s largest university hack
event globally in terms of both, participation and no. of hacks
demoed
IIT Kanpur
590 registrations
293 hackers
51 successful demos
2014 Plan:
Theme based events with
hack categories (similar
to Internal Hackday)
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23. Yahoo Hack India – Hyderabad
 The 6th edition of Yahoo Hack in India was held in
Hyderabad
1st external hack
event in India that
saw zero internet
outage
 1st external hack in India held outside Bangalore
 The event saw over 250 developers from 20 states in
India
2014 Plan:
2 events in India – 1 in
Bangalore and 1 in Pune
or Hyderabad
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24. The WIT Gig
 Over 200 women technologists from companies like IBM,
SAP Labs, Oracle, Intel, Accenture and Dell attended 'the
WIT gig – A Yahoo Women-in-tech Initiative’
 The panel comprised top women leaders from across tech
companies, PR, networking startups, academia
 The panel discussion was moderated by Abha Bakaya, news
editor, Bloomberg TV
http://video.corp.yahoo.com/video_detail.php?vid=6886
Event was telecast
on Bloomberg TV
2014 Plan:
Align with Change Your
World and include a
hack event
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