In the last 2 weeks registrations have really picked up.

Professionals with 337 unique Roles from 228 different Companies worldwide have registered so far.

Following is the profile of the registered participants:

Companies

Role/Profile

Total Number of Participating Countries = 21

We are extremely happy to announce the Agile India 2012 Conference Program.

We'll be hosting total of 12 Stages, 120 Sessions, 125 Speakers from 18 Countries.

Detailed stats below:

With a wide variety of session types:

63% of session targeted at practitioners:

Large number of 60 and 90 mins sessions:

We've 120 speakers selected through the submissions system and 5+ invited speakers:

We had an extremely good team of 111 program committee members from 21 Countries who reviewed all the submission and selected the conference program:

We regret to inform you that at this time we only support Online Payments. We're currently not setup to handle offline payments (cheques).

Why?

There are many complications in the offline payment model:

• Most companies require a hard copy of the invoice. Logistically this is hard as it would require a full time person to do all this paper work.
• The event management company (AgileFAQs) will need to be a registered vendor in the company's vendor database to raise a Purchase Order. The Vendor registration process is a very lengthy process requiring all kinds of registration and company formation documents including a letter from the Bank.
• Once the PO is raised and hard copy of invoice is sent, companies require 30 or 60 days net to make the payment. This is the standard procedure to pay. Apart from the long waiting time, should we block their registration? What happens if the company does not end up paying? Lots of complications.
• Also is the amount exceeds 20,000 Rs, then when companies make a payment they will deduct 10% TDS. Next year, we'll have to run behind the companies to get the TDS certificate.
• Finally once the payment is made, we'll need to send the hard copy of the receipt.

Please remember Agile India 2012 is a non-profit conference organized by a group of volunteers.

In the spirit of simplicity: We request you to ask each of your participants to register for the conference directly using the online payment option. After they've registered for the conference, they can get the registration fee reimbursed from the company. Many fortune 500 companies are using the same approach.