He is one of the renowned specialists in Event Management, Experiential Marketing & Trade show Management with over 25 Years of Experience. Event & Experiential Marketing Ideation, Execution and Innovative Data driven Marketing programs are his areas of special interest.Today, He is the Founder Director of HostIndia Events & Marketing Pvt. Limited one of the reputed Events and Integrated Marketing Services Organizations in the Country. Head Quartered in Bangalore HostIndia has its service wings spread across the length and breadth of the country. HostIndia'​ s Events & Experiential Marketing services help Reach Out, Acquire, Build, Nurture and Retain relationships with Customers, Partners and Talent. They help businesses in New Market Entry, New Product/Service Launch, Awareness Creation, Customer Acquisition, Rewards, Recognition & Celebration Events etc.HostIndia has been working with the Events, Experiential Marketing & Target Audience Reach-out programs of their Clients who are Worlds' top Computer Brands, Embedded Systems & VLSI giants, Large Software companies, Leading Media Houses, Textile majors, Trade promotions organizations, associations and the likes.Besides Database Driven Marketing, Events, Conferences and Trade Show Management, HostIndia is also a renowned name for Conference & Exhibition Registration Management. They are one of the largest agency in the country today for Registration Management & Exhibitor support Services. Prior to HostIndia Events, Mr. Vilas Hegde was the Associate Vice President with the Events & Trade Fairs division of Cyber Media India Limited and earlier was the National Head of Exhibitions & Events with Sercon India (currently 141 Sercon)

Mr. Vilas Hegde was the Associate Vice President with CyberMedia India Limited's SBU CyberMedia Events Limited and was heading both Sales & Operations of Events & Trade fairs.He was instrumental in putting together many events at CyberMedia including the Bangalore IT.in , first Emtech India 2009, ISACA 2007, OWASP 2008, E Revolution etc. He and his team also marketed the events such as the first Freescale technology Forum, the first IBM Rational Developer Conference, TI Developer Conference and 100s of other events of IBM, Intel, Intellinet, SRIT, Kaseya, DIT Kerala and others. They also marketed and managed several events for Dataquest, CIOL, IDC etc.