Truecaller kick-starts “Build for Mobile”

NEW DELHI: Truecaller for Developers, for the first time launched its ‘Build for Mobile’ tour in India with Bangalore as the first destination.

The mobile-community focused India tour is set to inspire developers, influencers and the Indian start-up community to come together in key cities across the country and foster innovation, collaboration on the Truecaller platform.

This first edition of this tour witnessed near 200 participants (developers and product people) in a single day and proved to be a rich knowledge sharing platform for the mobile tech community in The Silicon Valley of India. The event saw an exciting line of speakers from the local mobile start-up ecosystem and Truecaller team, sharing insights and real life experiences from their journey of product building on the mobile platform.

Priyam Bose - Director of Global Developer Relations at Truecaller said “Innovation and collaboration has been core to Truecaller and we are excited to bring this first ever “Build for Mobile” tour to India that focuses on cross pollination, and to inspire knowledge exchange amongst the local developers and startup community that aims to build sustainable products and businesses on mobile platform. “Build for Mobile” is part of our focus initiatives that also enables us to give back to the developer and startup community from where we belong.”

Priyam further added: “During this India tour one will have an opportunity to benefit from Truecaller’s own learning’s on building world class and lovable mobile products with scale. In addition, developers and startups will have an opportunity to learn ways and means to best leverage Truecaller’s platform and tools which would further empower them in building their products and businesses”

The event also witnessed an extremely interactive panel discussion deliberating on opportunities, challenges and real life experiences where each of the panelists shared hands-on insights basis their journey on building product for Mobile. The panel with distinguished product practitioners was Moderated by Vaideeswaran Sethuraman, Founder & CEO at Divum Labs and included Nikhil Jain Director of Product at Zoomcar, Richa Sharma, Associate Director of Product at Myntra, Hari Palappetty, Product Lead at Mobile Apps at Bigbasket, Ishan Vaish, Director - Consumer and Growth Products at Freecharge and  Krishna Mohan Gadi, Product Head - Consumer Applications at Housejoy