Gautham Pai founded jnaapti to build educational products that make learning fun and engaging. jnaapti's Virtual Coach is a cloud-based training platform that provides personalized skill paths for learners to efficiently learn new technologies in the shortest time possible through activities and personalized review by a virtual coach. The platform aims to address the growing demand for cross-technology training and skilled trainers by automating parts of the learning process.

2. A Little About Me
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Name: Gautham Pai
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Short Summary: Education Entrepreneur, Geek, Loves Free Software
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Career Path: IBM ISL → Ugenie → Lulu → Semgel → Jnaapti
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Roles: Technical Coach, Product Engineer, Business Development
and everything in between

3. About
jnaapti = jnaan + praapti
It means → Acquiring Knowledge
We build products to make learning fun and engaging

4. Technology Evolution

5. Technology Evolution

6. Technology Evolution

7. Technology Getting Outdated

8. What technology stack will be used in another 3 years?

9. Problems
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Technologies are evolving at a very fast pace
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Technologies may vanish overnight
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A single popular technology is getting replaced with multiple
popular alternatives

10. The Opportunity
Businesses are responding by investing more in employee
development, with training budgets increasing 15 percent, on
average, in 2013.
Organizations across the U.S. spent $1,169 per learner, on average,
on learning and development (L&D) initiatives in 2013.
Demand for skills in computer science, … is growing at above-
average rates.
The Timing Seems Right!
Source: Bersin Report - Josh Bersin – Forbes

11. Demands on Training
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Cross-technology training is becoming very common
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Demand for quality trainers is much greater than the supply
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Classroom training has a rigid structure – does not cater well to the
most skilled and the least skilled
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Re-training is expensive as technology evolves
Do you provide training on
Hadoop/HBase/Cassandra
Hive/Pig and R?
Do you provide training on
KnockoutJS/NodeJS
jQuery and Bootstrap?

12. The Current
I am an iPhone Developer
I want to learn Android
I am a Java Developer
I want to learn Android
I know MongoDB
I want to learn Cassandra
One Solution Does NOT Fit All!

13. The solution?

14. Introducing
jnaapti Virtual Coach

15. What We Provide
I am an iPhone Developer
I want to learn Android
I am a Java Developer
I want to learn Android
I know MongoDB
I want to learn Cassandra
Our Skill Graph takes you through the
Shortest Path to your Learning Goal

16. Story so Far
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Experience of over 1500 hours of classroom training
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Invested over 1000 hours in developing content
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100s of hours spent on research
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Over 2 years of design, development and testing of the product
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Product validation is now complete

17. Technologies Trained On

18. Product Features
Learn only what you want & what you don't know

19. Product Features
Activities derived from Real-Life

20. Product Features
Cloud-based Desktop Delivered in your Browser

21. Product Features
Client-side Technologies taught with a Simple Editor

22. Product Features
In-Browser Terminal for Server-side Technologies

23. Product Features
Personalized Review of Solutions by a Coach

24. Training Kids

25. Engineering Students

26. Corporates

27. Our Future Vision
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Immediate goals (next 2 years) – to scale product adoption and to
take it global
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We are a platform. With that in mind:
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Automate what can be automated
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Provide tools to make it easy to adopt
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Scale to as many verticals as possible
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Diversify on customer segments

28. Turing's Test for Machine Intelligence
Computer
Human
Judge

29. jnaapti's Test for Virtual Coaching
Virtual
Coach
Learner Coach