Google India celebrated its annual The Google India Community Summit in Bengaluru from November 27 to 30, 2017 and the event was designed and executed by Kestone.The event aims at engaging the developer community at Google bearing the brief in mind, the 4-day summit was crafted in a way that developers gained the opportunity to get together along with the thought leaders and evangelists of Google to network, discuss, share and learn Google technologies, while encouraging community building strategies.
Kestone was given the responsibility to execute end to end event services for the summit and design a memorable experience for the Leaders. The objective was to enable a platform for knowledge sharing, updating the various stakeholders about the technologies of Google and make it a fun filled affair of four days.
Every aspect right from Logistics, Transportation, Stage, Décor, Gala night, engagement activities amidst session breaks Entertainment (Drum Jam, DJ), Photo op, Venue management was effectively managed by Kestone.
In order to make this year’s summit stand out from the previous editions, Kestone added another layer to the existing event and planned an additional, “Women Tech Makers Leads India Summit” for women leaders only.
The idea behind making it a women’s summit, was to felicitate women who have acted as game changing leaders who have made sacrifices and surmounted obstacles to empowered Kestone brought under one roof 25 awe inspiring women from Google’s developer team who shared their experiences to motivate and influence the attendees to be a part of Google’s rising developer community. In addition to the Women Tech Makers Leads India Summit on Day 1 and Day 2, there was India Community Summit for day 3 and 4 respectively.
Talking about crafting a new experience, Sandip Pattanaik, National Head, Events, Kestone IMS Pvt. Ltd. said, “Though Kestone had done this event last year in Goa, the expectation this year was to raise the bar and give a smooth experience. The challenge was to meet the expectation of the attendees as the last year event was in Goa. And give much more experience than Goa in Bangalore. However, Kestone managed to do so with proper planning and seamless execution and was able to creative ideas.”
Syed Adil Hassan, Marketing Event Manager, Google India, “Our leaders in the developer community were thoroughly impressed with this year’s summit. We applaud the idea suggested and executed by Kestone on bringing such interesting and inspiring stories of women tech maker leads. They also did a commendable job on the engagement activities in between the interesting sessions.”
