Hasgeek launched in 2010. It’s been a decade! Join us for a recap of the year, through the words of the community. If Hasgeek made an impact on your personal/professional journey, share it here.
Accepting submissions till 30 Dec 2020, 10:30 PM
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- Did Hasgeek facilitate your entry into the tech community?
- Found a job via Hasjob?
- Launched your start-up after speaking at an event?
- Turned a corner in your career?
Tell us your story -- and how Hasgeek made an impact on your personal and professional life. We are listening, and so is everyone who needs that little bit of inspiration to get started on their quest!
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Accepting submissions till 30 Dec 2020, 10:30 PM
Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay Changing the conversation, context and culture around technologyThe first time I met with the Hasgeek folks was at a HTML5 event at Pune. I think I still have the swag - a coffee mug (those were the days!) from the event. The then prevalent nature of technology conversations was around the specific innards of technology. Over the years Hasgeek has steered the conversation and context to include life - that is a significant and singular achievement. To be able… more
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Rahul Gonsalves A genuinely warm communityI’d just moved back to Bangalore when HasGeek was being born and it gave me an immediate entry into a community I’d been searching for - the intersection of technology and society. There was an obvious focus on fostering not just another meet-up group, but a genuinely warm community based on shared interests and values. more
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Gaurav Lochan A community that helped me get into Android, Indian startups, and a Facebook acquisitionI was a Tech lead/Manager at VMware from 2008-2011. I was thinking of starting up, and i first got excited about Android in 2010. Hasgeek provided an excellent community to give techies voice and recognition (Hasgeek events were cool, and kept a high bar for quality). More importantly, I could meet with other enthusiastic tech/design/data folks in Bangalore. I have so many memories of meeting fol… more
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Ambika Joshi Building culture + technology segment on hasgeek.comHasgeek gave us the space and resources to develop an emerging segment of culture + technology. Aside from their wonderful platform and generous support, we were also able to build diverse audience sets for various projects through their amazing network! more
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Kalyanasundaram Somasundaram My journey with HasgeekMy journey with Hasgeek started with the flash talk I gave at Rootconf 2013. I have been a regular attendee of Rootconf since then. more
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Lakshmi Murthy From menstrual health to camel cheese - Hasgeek's interventionsI got to know about Hasgeek when our NGO, Jatan Sansthan. Jatan was looking for assistance with regard to hosting a six-part webinar series titled “Menstrual Health: Bharat Darshan.” Hasgeek very kindly hosted the series for us, for which we are very grateful. more
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Mohith Bp Making audiences aware about accessibility; and inclusionHasgeek provides a very good platform to exchange ideas and learn contemporary things in technology industry. more
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Sunil Pai  To my posse, my crew, my junta, my peeps, my club; Happy Bithday! Get turnt.Happy birthday hasgeek! Within your community I made my closest friends, learnt how to preapre and present my wild ideas to people, and participated in an ecosystem I could finally call my own. It was nice to do this for fun, it was my club, my posse, my junta. Never did I feel like we sold out to any big corporate interest, and we made some special memories everytime we hung out. Y’all gave me a… more
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Tanushree Jindal An inspiring learning space and communityBack in 2012, I had just moved to Bangalore from US and was working as a freelance front-end developer. Over the next two years, I found at Hasgeek, an inspiring learning space and community. more
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Shreyas Satish My experience with HasgeekAs a geeky kid graduating from college, I was just curious to go meet folks in tech who were doing interesting work. Coincidentally, Hasgeek just launched their first event (Doctype) at the time and the enthusiasm there was contagious. Discussing the latest exploits, figuring out maps, booing Internet Explorer; it was all there and it felt like geek heaven! more
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Aravind Putrevu My journey with HasgeekI discovered tech communities after moving to Bangalore. Hasgeek is one such community where you get a chance to attend, learn, and volunteer for various activities. more
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Aram Bhusal The awesomeness that has been HasgeekWow !! It’s already a decade for Hasgeek and I really hope Hasgeek has many more decades to celebrate !! more
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Aravind Putrevu My journey with HasgeekHasgeek’s inclusive tech community helped me to discover, learn and share a lot of things, which inturn helped in my career growth. more
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Kracekumar R Ten and unbeatenHasGeek has been the reflection of the tech industry’s time in India. Their events have become a reference point for other event organizers regarding content, technology, organization, and community building. They are fearless to experiment with the new formats, conferences, iterative the process, and understand the attendees and sponsors. The geeks who seek end up in the HasGeek community. Chasi… more
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Sreekumar GV Real good team of Geeks and great peopleWe are very impressed with the wonderful support given by the entire team of Hasgeek for Typography Society of India. Kiran and Zainab were extremely knowledgeable and supportive throughout our interactions with Hasgeek. more
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Haris Ibrahim K. V. * smiles and stares blankly .... *Ha ha ha... Oh God... ... ... My first job... The first time I sent money home... more
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Venkata Pingali  Congratulations and best wishes for Hasgeek 2.0From friends at Scribble Data more
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Pramod Biligiri Congrats on 10 years of high quality pioneering workI’ve found at least two jobs through Hasgeek and probably got a few more offers from attending their events. But those seem beside the point as my strongest memories are of the quality of talks and interactions I’ve had at these events. I also admire e their work on tech policy and their speaking up on important issues. Wishing them tremendous growth and success in rhe future. more
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Prasanna Krishnamoorthy Without HasGeek the India community would be poorerHasGeek events are indelibly etched in my memory. In the early days I’ve bumped into so many startup ecosystem founders, CTOs, just trying to get their startups off the ground. And HasGeek was always a cornerstone of where highest quality content, highest quality people, would converge while having the geekiest conversations imaginable. more
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Ashutosh Kumar Sahu **Socializing and Management**With JSFOO/METAREFRESH 2018 I joined Hasgeek as a Volunteer and it was such an amazing experience that there was no going back. It was a great experience to work with organizers/sponsors. Best part was socializing with Hasgeek crew and other attendees. Hasgeek brings you brings and offers you the best platform for people with same set of enthusiasm. Working with Hasgeek was great equaliser. more
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Yagnik Community - Country - Job - Friends - Partner...Hasgeek continues on with it's impact!6 years back at my first RootConf, I talked about how we scaled Shopify and made an impact on commerce around the world. Little did I know, in that moment, Hasgeek, Zainab, Kiran and Amal of course would play such a strong role in making me move to India, find my footing and a year later at yet another Hasgeek conference, make me meet my partner. I haven’t even started what all Hasgeek has done f… more
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Kamala Sripada Thank you for everything!Speaking at RootConf2016 was the beginning of understanding how much I love building efficient work flows. This learning has served be well as an anchor for work related decisions I made ince then. more
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Deepa Venkatraman Community, conversations and valuesHasgeek is the space that makes serendipitous encounters happen. Their conferences have fostered conversations not just about software, but about how technology intersects with regulation, ethics, values, life. Over the years, I’ve had the great fortune of meeting many collaborators, clients, colleagues and friends through this wonderful community. more
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vyshnavy oa The best volunteer experience ever !I got an amazing opportunity to be part of Hasgeek as a volunteer for the event The Fifth Elephant 2019. As a student from Kerala, it was my privilege to get a chance to volunteer for such a big event. I Am always thankful to the organizing team for giving me such an opportunity. And that was the best volunteering experience I ever got over the past 4 years. Got a chance to meet and work with lot… more
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Souvik Das Gupta A friendly community, a resilient organisation and a bunch of interesting individualsBefore Hasgeek, my idea of attending conferences was similar to that of attending a live concert where you watch a few rockstars perform from a distance. Hasgeek turned the entire idea conferences into that of an approachable community. Everyone at their events — speakers, volunteers, attendees, organisers and sponsors — share a sense of belonging to the same community. There’s something for ever… more
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Pranil Dasika Truly inspiring and energizing community. Congrats HasGeek!Brings back many memories from the early days of HasGeek. more
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Abhishek Rai Happy birthday HasgeekI am founder of The Shack, a digital media brand for small businesses. Before The Shack, I have built communities all my professional life. Hasgeek builds better communities than anyone. I first met founders Zainab and Kiran, when I was about to start building The Shack’s community. They had hosted me and let me work with their team to understand Hasgeek’s community. The experience has helped me … more
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Srikanth Lakshmanan My journey with Hasgeek in Community Building and ClicktivismI have known Hasgeek from its early days, but never really attended the events physically until 50p, 2017, but have watched many hours quality content on youtube. I admired the quality of content and the community curated proposal screening online with talkfunnel as against organiser driven programming. more
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Jitendra Vyas For design geeksWhen I had landed in Bangalore in 2011, I didn’t know how to meet local developer with similar interest. more
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Vinayak Hegde Technology with community at the coreI have known Zainab and Jace for the better part of nearly two decades that I have been part of the Bangalore tech ecosystem through events, meetups and conferences. The association goes back to the early days of the Linux user groups with a set of self selecting geeks who were interested in then-niche Linux operating system and the surrounding free software/opensource ecosystem. Hasgeek was star… more
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praveen sinha Building Community , Finding Space, Getting VocalHasgeek helped us put together our first digital open workshop on speculative design this year. From then on, a4achaar has matured to its present form, all thanks to Hasgeek and its team of volunteers who were pivotal in building a community and a space for futures discussion. It was a relief to have all the tech part figured out during our sessions with customized formats of webinar. The communi… more
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Pradeep Banavara My gateway into startups in BangaloreI had just gotten back from the US around 2010 and was fundamentally clueless about what to do in life ( to some extent I still am). StartupWeekend organized their first ever event in Bangalore and that was my foray into the world of startups and Android. Bumped into Kiran sometime around 2011-12 and got introduced to Hasgeek. I must have been one of the first attendees of DroidCon and possibly a… more
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Rasagy Sharma My many *first* experiences with HasgeekFrom volunteering to speaking, mentoring & sketchnoting — Hasgeek helped me shape my identity beyond my day job. more
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Anand Chitipothu PyCon India may not have survived without the support of HasgeekHappy Birthday, Hasgeek! I can’t believe ten long years have passed by. The memories of PHP in the Cloud are still fresh in my mind. more
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saurabh hirani Happy Birthday HasGeek!HasGeek has influenced and shaped up my career in many ways. It has given me and many others a platform to start out public speaking in the easiest and friendliest way possible. I still remember having second thoughts about submitting my first talk for Rootconf thinking it will be a black box selection process. But it turned out to be more of an engaging discussion and iterative approach to honin… more
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Shrayas Rajagopal Many thanks, best wishes and cheers on 10, HasGeek!If there is one organization that comes to my mind whenever anyone talks about building, enabling and engaging with a community, it is HasGeek. more
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Frolic- Amalthea Amazing Organization- 360 degreesHasgeek is an amazing org who ensures that their clients, vendors and support team are able to deliver the best through their outstanding team work. more
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Akshay Bhalotia My experience with HasGeek communityWhen I moved to Bangalore a few years ago, I had a lot of cravings about community engagement. I wanted to engage with more people, listen to a lot more, differing and even opposing ideas, form my own values. This would not have been possible without letting knowledge, compassion and warmth flow freely. These were the core beliefs imbibed by the members of HasGeek and also the amazing community t… more
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Aravind Ravi Sulekha Happy 10th, Hasgeek!My first experience of Hasgeek was at the 2011 JSFoo when I spoke at a conference for the very first time. In fact this was also my first in-person experience of a technology community. more
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Praseetha KR Congrats on the 10th year! 🎉Can’t believe it has been 10 years! When I joined Hasgeek it was 2 years old. It was my first job out of college. I was so lucky to end up being here. Kiran & Zainab are amazing people who had a great influence in my life. Working at Hasgeek was a unique experience. more
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Gaurav Chaturvedi De facto choice for having conversations in IndiaPersonally Hasgeek has played an importaint part in my professional career. I have met and had many interesting discussions and made a lot of interesting friends whom I met only at Hasgeek events. Hence I have always looked forward to attending Hasgeek events. I have known the team from before the genesis of Hasgeek. The entire team has been passsonate about technology. They would not have surviv… more
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Dhaval Trivedi Happy birthday Hasgeek!Here’s to the DoctypeHTML5 days :) I see that the original schedule is still up at https://doctypehtml5.in/ :) more
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Jamna Vyas Happy Birthday hasgeek !I had attended one of the Hasgeek’s meetup with my husband in 2011, just because he didn’t want to leave me alone at home. later I met Zainab and Kiran and they asked me if I can work with them and help them in whatever capacity I can. I found my interest in helping hasgeek in managing their event operational’s tasks. Everyone at hasgeek Kiran, Haris, Krace and Radha welcomed me and It became an … more
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Shreyas Narayanan Happy 10th Birthday, geeks! 🎂Wow! 10 years! I remember visiting the HasGeek house during one of the birthdays to meet the team, interact with fellow geeks and most importantly, to have cake. Just walking in, I was really excited to meet all these new people. I hadn’t met or interacted with a lot of them at that point, and yet, they were all super friendly and welcoming. Over the years, building the HasGeek community, to bein… more
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William K. Moses Jr. Happy birthday Hasgeek, the place where I did my first internship!Long ago in December 2011 I joined Hasgeek (back when it was still HasGeek) as an intern. I saw what Kiran and Zainab and everyone else were doing by building these communities to help tech-oriented people come together and I wanted to be a part of it! I had a lot of fun helping with the conferences, meeting wonderful people, and editing videos. I must say that though the time I spent at Hasgeek … more
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Akash Mahajan  A platform to learn from developers and buildersHasGeek events allowed me to interact with developers and builders. To most, it may seem odd as this may be something they do day in and out. But I come from a community of security professionals null community, and it is rare to find many developers there. more
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Devi A S L A decade of building and nurturing communitiesI’ve witnessed the journey of Hasgeek through this decade, as a participant, volunteer and a speaker in many of their conferences. more
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Raison Emmanuel Dsouza  Hasgeek - my experiences from 2011My journey with Hasgeek since 2011. more
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Prateek Rungta  Tech, Web, Mountains & Community. Moar Please!I’m Prateek Rungta, co-founder of Miranj — a web design studio in New Delhi. I’m so happy that Hasgeek has finished 10 years, can’t believe it’s been that long! The first time I came across them was in 2010 when they were running the DocType HTML5 series. It’s quite fitting that we crossed paths in an event about HTML5 because thanks to Hasgeek, we went on to build quite a few exciting websites f… more
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ravi srinivasan  Technical quizzes at early Hasgeek eventsDuring the first year of Hasgeek, I ran technical quizzes at Hasgeek events. That was a lot of fun! more
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Aravind Krishnaswamy  Completing a decade - Happy 10!It’s been an incredible decade of building the technical community. more
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Shivam Shankar Singh  Speaking at The Fifth Elephant 2018 - and from there onwardsI spoke at The Fifth Elephant 2018, and met lots of interesting people and made lots of connections. more
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Prem Nawaz Khan  Participating in the tech communityI participated in speaking about accessibility on Meta Refresh. more
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Sayan Chowdhury Make it a Ton, Hasgeek!Happy 10th Birthday, Hasgeek! The first conference I attended was PyCon India 2012, and that is also where I met Zainab, Kiran and the Hasgeek team. An year later, I was at CIS helping with PyCon India 2013 as a volunteer, handling the Hasgeek inventory. Those were some amazing hacking nights we spent bringing up the contact points. more
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Karthik Balakrishnan Happy 10th anniversary to the best decision of my career <3Where to begin. As a final year student back in 2014, I’m super grateful to Zainab and Kiran to taking a chance on me. Like most people’s stories with Hasgeek, it was entirely serendepitous that I met Kiran at PyCon 2014 and asked him for an internship. A 1 month internship turned into a 6 month internship which turned into my job for the next 3 years. more
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