Bangalore: The SmartTechie, a Bangalore based IT magazine, is organizing Startup City this Saturday May 24, at Nimhans Convention Center, Bangalore. It's by far the largest and most exciting event of its kind in Bangalore - with more than 50 cool startups showcasing their technology.

At the Summit, Lead India winner Rajendra Mishra will share his entrepreneurial experiences of building three technology companies. India's leading Venture Capitalist Ashish Gupta talks about the challenges of building Junglee.com in the hay days of the dot com era and successfully selling it to Amazon for $230 million. He will also present VC perspective on the entrepreneurial world he sees today.

Other speakers at the event include Kris Gopalakrishnan, CEO, Infosys Technologies; Dr. Vivek Mansingh, Country Manager, Dell India R&D; Praveen Vishakantaiah, President, Intel India and Sharad Sharma, CEO, Yahoo! India.

There will be sessions on: Startup Essentials, From Concept to Success:: Milestones for startups, Consumers and Business Marketing in High Technology, Cloud Computing Experts from Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, Amazon, Nokia will speak at the event. Several VCs like Sequoia Capital, Helion Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Nexus India Capital, DFJ, Ojas Venture Partners, Cannan Partners, IDGVentures and Nasscom Innovation Fund will be present at the event to meet budding entrepreneurs.

Some of the technology companies showcasing the cool products they are building include: Akamai, ARADA Systems, Axiom DA, Crederity, Divitas Networks, Druvaa, eLitmus, Glopore IMS, impel, injoos, MAIA Intelligence, MapmyIndia, mChek, MetricStream, mobisy, MyDuniya, Netmagic Solutions, Netcore, NetWeb Technologies, Obopay, Pramati, RGV Telecom, Sloka Telecom, Seclore, Sky Group, SOA Matrix, Soliton, SRA Systems, Starent Networks,Tabs, Tachyon Technologies, Taroby, VANU, Webex, Yodlee.

Over 4000 techies have already registered for the event. At the event there will be live product demonstrations where techies will get a peek into cutting edge technologies and can lay hands on the best-of-breed solutions.

There will be a closed-door CEO Conclave, which will be attended by CEOs and Managing Directors of over 150 startups. The roundtable will facilitate an informal discussion amongst the senior management about the best practices of managing a startup in India, what works, what doesn’t work, potential pitfalls and other challenges.