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About GES
Global Entrepreneurship Summit (13th-15th January, 2012), is our annual flagship event, and one of the biggest entrepreneurial platforms for academicians, new-age entrepreneurs, eminent business personalities, venture capitalists and the students to gather at one place and share their entrepreneurial endeavors and experiences, and to pledge to take entrepreneurship to greater scales.
GES 2012 has as its theme "Innovators: The Creators of Tomorrow" and will witness the presence of persona such as Mr. Suneet Singh Tulli, CEO, Datawind, popularly known as the brain behind 'Aakash', world's cheapest tablet device.
It will also bring together Universities across the globe in the International Conference on Entrepreneurship. Besides these, it will play host to numerous Guest Lectures, Workshops (technical and non-technical), and the National E-Cells Conference "Connect the Dots".
GES 2012 also brings our very own Start-up Camp, an invaluable, first-of-its-kind opportunity for the best start-ups of the country to raise seed capital and hire college students as a full time employee or as an intern. The Summit will also play host to the finals of our prestigious B-Plan competitions: Concipio,Envision and Empresario, where finalists from across the globe battle it out for incubation and prize money upto 1.8 crores INR. In addition, there will be a lot of other attractions, conferences, workshops and on-spot events such as TGIF, Inicio, Tag 'em ol and Bizturkz to keep you enlightened as well as occupied.
- Glimpses of previous GES
Ideate | Innovate | Inspire
About Entrepreneurship Cell
Entrepreneurship Cell [E-Cell] is a non-profit student organization with the aim of fostering the spirit of entrepreneurship among college students in India and nurturing young people with bright ideas. E-Cell boasts to be one of the most active entrepreneurship organizations in India - with more than 24 start-ups from IIT Kharagpur itself within five years of its inception.
IIT Kharagpur continues to be Inda’s cradle for technology, innovation and thus Venture Incubation due to new venture support services -Science and Technology Entrepreneurs’ Park (STEP), Global Ventures Lab in association with UC Berkeley and University of Jyvaskyla, International Business (Wales)- and products that reside here. This infrastructure is a result of many technology and service startups and that have since grown to become large, successful companies. E-Cell has a large global network and has ties with renowned universities like Stanford, MIT Sloan, UC Berkeley and University of Jyvaskyla Finland. We conduct the flagship Global Entrepreneurship Conference with its motto as " Local Problems, Global Solutions" with participation from more than 10 top colleges across the world.
In our quest of fostering the spirit of entrepreneurship, we strive to make all the worthwhile support available to the budding entrepreneurs for unleashing the entrepreneur in them and also present successful examples by conducting guest lectures by eminent people. Case study competitions, Knowledge Camps, state of the art workshops, and other focused business plan events are conducted throughout the year to involve students in activities that help them gain an entrepreneurial bent of mind. We extend the maximum possible support to upcoming entrepreneurs in terms of procuring funding, mentorship, team building, company profiling and research collaborations.
Our global competitions on clean technology, business plan, product-design, and social entrepreneurship among others are consistently churning out world-class innovations and successful entrepreneurs.
We have won several accolades from famous organizations like YouNoodle as well as people like Dr D Subba Rao, Governor of RBI and Mr. Shashi Tharoor, former External Affairs Minister.
- To learn more about us visit : www.ecell-iitkgp.org
About IIT Kharagpur
Indian Institute of Technology , Kharagpur is a forerunner of the other IITs and in many ways a role model for them. IIT Kharagpur has ranked among the top engineering colleges in the academic ranking of Indian colleges by various engineering education surveys. . IIT Kharagpur offers a wide spectrum of academic courses and programs not only in engineering but also in fields like management, law and humanities.
Among all IITs, IIT Kharagpur has the largest campus, the most departments, and the highest student enrollment. IIT Kharagpur continues to be the seat of Innovation in India, to facilitate that it has the largest Science and Technology Entrepreneurs’ Park (STEP) among all colleges in India. It has been providing scientists and technologists of the highest caliber who continue to provide leadership in education, research, industry, and management. Many of our alumni are illustrious men and women whose achievements command admiration and respect everywhere and evoke a just sense of pride in the IIT community. The institute has many celebrated alumni like Suhas Patil founder of Cirrus Logic, Arjun Malhotra co-founder of HCL Technologies, Vinod Gupta founder of InfoUSA, Duvvuri Subbarao governor of RBI.
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EMPRESARIO is the annual Business Plan competition organized by Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Kharagpur (Hereby referred to as E-Cell). Its for the first time E-Cell is launching a B-Plan competition catering to all fields of ideas single handedly. Earlier we had 3 different competitions asking for enteries in categories namely Clean technology, Social and Web & Mobile technology based.
To particiate in Empresario applicants will have to fill up a detailed submission form (for more information visit Submissions page) and mail it to empresario@ecell-iitkgp.org.
Submission Closed.
- A team may consist of minimum 1 or maximum 5 members.
- Participating teams will be required to fill up the pdf form available on submissions page and mail it to empresario@ecell-iitkgp.org.
- After the first round of submission, selected teams will undergo the mentorship process.
- The participants are required to make optimum utilization of the mentoring process so as to create an appropriately refined B-Plan.
- After the mentoring process, the final B-plan will be submitted to the judges via e-mail. The plan will be submitted in a PDF format.
- The teams will have to be present at IIT Kharagpur for the final round, to present before the judging panel.
- The submission will be carried out by the event managers after signing the non-disclosure agreement.
PRODUCT & SERVICE :
- Case the fishing four : Varun Kumar Mishra, Future Institute of Engineering & Management
- Trade Mavericks : Ananya Manna, Abhijit Manna, Abhishek Chatterjee
- Capblur : Anurag Singh, Dheeraj Verma, Rahul das,
Arpit Rungta and Kirti Pandey - Cleanoventions : Gaurav Dahake, Nishant Raj, Rohit Shah ,
Ankit Agrawal , Deepak kumar Singh - INVNTN : Roop K. Reddy Tamanampudi, Srinivas Annambhotla,
Vikram Gupta, Mahindra Goguri. - mobHUB : PiyushBagaria,RohanGhosh, PranavRaina, Ajay Vishvanathan
- Paraamarsh : Jai Prakash Gupta, Pradeep,Barola,Pankaj,Kodan, Ritesh Singh
- Flabbi Innovations : Jayan Prajapati
- Project Reverse Trike : Shreesh Tripathi, Sagar Chatterjee & Aditya Sharma
- SuperShopp.in : Wilekh Kaul, Manu Dixit, Nidhi Jaipalan
- Utthaan Services Leadership : Puspraj Upadhyay, Satyendra Pandey
- Vistabridge : Xue Tian, Huizhong Liu, Yichen Chen, Da Liu and Chunyi Hao
- Young Attitude Techologies : Mudit Dudhoria
- Dial an Auto : Dhruv satija,Himanshu arora, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College,
University of Delhi - NOVO Visual : Abhik Chowdhury, Biswajoy Biswas, Chetan Gupta,
Himadri Dutta, Prasun Jana - Nosynotion : Soumyo Sengupta, Sayak Pal, Snigdhodeep Kundu,
Anurag Barman, Satrajit Roy - OMP3 : Supriyo Roy , M.des , IIT Delhi
- Medilinks : Vijay Bhaskar, Aravind Reddy
- Raj : Rajdeep Banerjee ,M. Ramesh
SOCIAL :
- Angel's R & D : Mandar Tulankar ,Praveen Sharma
- ShanSa : Shashanka Shekhar,Cherian Mathan Ponnuran,Anirudha Vishnupant Kulkarni
- JAG CANE : Social Business
- Kora-Kagaz : Varun, Avra,Mohit-IIM Bangalore
- AVANT GARDE : Ambika Agarwal,Surabhi Bajpai,Bhavnish Walia
- Aaditya Salgarkar : Aaditya salgarkar,IIT Kharagpur
- Mobiployment :
- MyThinkTab : Goldie Kedia,
- NanoWE : Akshay Sharma
- Samaridhi : Swapnil Gaurav,Dhane Bipin Shivaji,Ravi Gautam
- Technobots : Swarup Ravichandran
- Breathe Organic : Siddharth Mall
- Eminent Engineers : Murugu Ganesan
- We Thinkers : Social Business
- Segito : Rajesh Mane,VJTI
CONCIPIO is the annual b-plan competition organised by the E-Cell, IIT Kharagpur. The competition promises to bring about a fruitful transition in the regular placement culture of the institute with the introduction of Entrepreneurial avenues to the students. The competition is aimed to transform the raw ideas that are born in the institute into full fledged business models. To ventilate this mission of transforming raw ideas into a full fledged business model, Entrepreneurship Cell IIT Kharagpur has undertaken a unique initiative of introducing the Deferred Placement Program (DPP) which provides an opportunity to the students to defer their placement by a year (maximum 2 years) and pursue any entrepreneurial venture in the given time span. DPP is available to a select few students (maximum 10) selected by the Dean, SRIC, on the basis of their entrepreneurship proposal.
Concipio will provide the teams with the following resources crucial to successful entrepreneurship:
- Assistance in converting your ideas into an actual B-Plan.
- Funding for the enterprise through TIETS (Technology Incubation and Entrepreneurial training Society), started under the aegis of SRIC.
- Finding consortiums to link up your products or service with.
- Networks of world-class entrepreneurs, investors, and potential partners.
- Mentorship by successful and seasoned professionals which include successful industrialist and alumni of IIT Kharagpur.
- Education in specific business planning skills as well as general entrepreneurial insight by the esteemed faculty of IIT Kharagpur.
- Content rich feedback on their business model from world class entrepreneurs, investors, and professional service providers on our judging Panel.
- Team-building opportunities to create a winning team of founders.
- Broad media exposure and PR buzz.
- Concipio is an in-house competition and participation is restricted to the students, alumni and faculty of IIT Kharagpur.
- There are no restrictions on the team size.
- Participating teams should be ready to start up.
- After the first round of submission, selected teams will undergo the mentorship process.
- The participants are required to make optimum utilization of the mentoring process so as to create an appropriately refined B-Plan.
- The participants are required to make optimum utilization of the mentoring process so as to create an appropriately refined B-Plan.
- After the mentoring process, the final B-plan will be submitted to the judges via e-mail. The plan will be submitted in a PDF format.
- The submission will be carried out by the event managers after signing the non disclosure agreement.
CONCIPIO: Shortlisted B-Plans
- Cleanoventions : Gaurav Dahake, Nishant Raj, Rohit Shah, Ankit Agrawal, Deepak kumar Singh
- Medilinks : Vijay Bhaskar, Aravind Reddy
- Team RFID : NishantKoul and Kumar Sourav
- Capblur : Anurag Singh, Dheeraj Verma,Rahul das, Arpit Rungta and Kirti Pandey
- Aadhaar Solutions : Shailesh Gupta, Nalin Gupta and Dipanjan Mukherjee
- Light Box : Tanay Nigam
- mobHUB : PiyushBagaria,RohanGhosh, PranavRaina, Ajay Vishvanathan
- Paraamarsh : Jai Prakash Gupta, Pradeep,Barola,Pankaj,Kodan, Ritesh Singh
- treet Piper : Sameer Kumar, Vicky Verma
- Switch : Kartik Bhandari,Nikhil Yagnic,Tarun Trivedi,Utkarsh Rustogi,Vidit Verma
- Buyhatke : Adil Azeem, Parth Gattani and Bhuvnesh Sharma, Ravi Choudhary
- Dexters : Yash Mehta & Bharat Mehta.
- INVNTN : Roop K. Reddy Tamanampudi, Srinivas Annambhotla, Vikram Gupta, Mahindra Goguri.
- OMS : Lakshman Pasala, Shubhankit Mohan
- Flabbi Innovations : Jayan Prajapati
ENVISION is the annual product design competition organized by E-Cell. It caters to those visionaries who have it in them to impact our present, and revolutionize our future. The aim of this competition is to provide an arena where the next generation of block-buster products can be showcased and to provide a platform for the winners to take their idea to the next level. With the assistance of the TePP, feasible products can get upto 45 lacs worth of funding and mentorship.
Whether the products are software novelties or hardware designs, this contest offers you not only academic recognition but also helps you make that idea a reality. Only the most ground-breaking and innovative products are then developed further with the help of reputed individuals from academia, industry and organizations such as TEPP, TIETS, DST and venture capitalists.
We have recognized five different contention paths. Participants may classify their products in one of these paths along with their justifications.
Submission Closed.
- Mechanical: Do you think your design can beat the Nano? Do you have a design for the next generation biped robot? Then this path is for you.
- Electronics & Electrical: Is the idea for the next iPod floating in your head? Do you dream about circuits in your sleep? Follow your heart, follow your path!
- Information Technology & Software: A path much treaded upon, but there is still a lot of scope for innovation in this field. Animation, business analytics, process automation, IT is just getting started.
- Life Sciences & Biotechnology: Does your product promise a greener tomorrow? Do you have the solution for the ever increasing oil prices? Well what are you waiting for, start moving.
- Miscellaneous: Select this path if you are in a quandary over which path to select.
Submission Closed.
We have recognized five different contention paths. Participants may classify their products in one of these paths along with their justifications.
- Any student or team of students currently studying at any level are eligible to participate.
- Products copied from an existing patent will not be accepted and if found strict action will be taken against violators.
Participants are advised to inform us before hand the requirement of any external software or hardware required for their presentation. Candidates should refrain from submitting an overly abstract or bulky product. The judges decision would be final and binding.
All the winners will be awarded certificates of participation, in addition to the cash prizes on the basis of the judges final decisions. Successful teams would further get a chance to develop the innovation further and receive mentorship and incubation from organizations such as DST, DSIR, TIETS and Venture Capitalists.
ENVISION: Shortlisted
- High Altitude Vertical Axis Wind Turbine : Karthik G., Siddarth K., Prashant Durairaj. S, Pranesh B.
- Food Freshness Meter : Vibhav Zutshi, Ganesh Nachiappan, Madhurima Kumar
- Chef Guide : Jaunani.S
- LIGHTTUBE : AnkurSingh
- Braille Sense : Rajesh Mane
- DAMASCUS FORTUNE : Vivek SahaDevan Nair, Guru Krupa, P M Nikhil
- Robotic Bionic Arm with Advance Sensors : Karthik Rajan
- LightBox : Tanay Nigam
- Wireless Earphones using Kleer® Technology : Yash Mehta
Workshops
Workshop on Digital Prototyping by Autodesk Digital Prototyping is a revolutionary approach to product development that lets one design, visualize, and simulate products rapidly and cost-effectively. Autodesk's digital prototyping software, including Autodesk Inventor and the Autodesk Product Design Suite are used in the manufacturing industry to visualize, simulate, and analyze real-world performance using a digital model during the design process. Read More |
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Workshop by Business Strategies by Mr. Samaresh Shah Global trends and insights on the topic |
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Workshop on Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship by Prof. Anjan Raichaudhuri
Starting and managing a new business involves considerable risk and effort to overcome all the inertia against creating something new. Apart from the zeal and the enthusiasm to start up, a good knowledge of the entrepreneurial scenario and the various steps needed to start up is very essential.
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Interactive Workshop by FICCI on Intellectual Property (IP) The Session on Intellectual Property will cover aspects on IP basics, including key criteria to choose between different types of IP protection, viz., Patent, Trademark, Copyright or Geographical Indication. Some common myths surrounding patent protection and recent emerging trends in patents scenario in India will be discussed. Aspects on patent monetization will also be covered ending with key case studies, both global and national.
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Digital Prototyping by Autodesk
The workshop will take place through a webinar on 14th January, 2012 from 2012 from 2:00 P.M to 4:15 P.M. It will be conducted by senior members of Digital Prototyping Team of Autodesk, India. Some of the topics that will be covered in this workshop include Parametric modelling, working with assembly constraints, analyzing assemblies, incorporating standard parts, assembly animation, FEA and creating exploded views of the assembly.
Rules:
- All the participants interested to attend this workshop have to carry their own laptop.
- A total of 100 participants will be allowed to attend the workshop.
- There is no seperate fee to attend this workshop.
- It is necessary for the interested students to register for attending this workshop beforehand. The registered candidates will then receive further technical details (softwares required, system requirement etc.) required to attend this workshop. So on-spot registration won't be done. To register Click Here
Contact
Saikat Chowdhury,
Manager, Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Kharagpur
Ph. No. : +91 95645 59027
Email - saikat.chowdhury@ecell-iitkgp.org
About Mr. Samaresh Shah
Mr. Samaresh Shah is the Senior Business Manager at Capgemini India.
He is an Electronics Engineer and has more than 14 years of Sales and Business Development background with experience in working with Retail, Manufacturing and Public Sector. Off late Samaresh has focused on market development, breakthrough in new geographies and large organizational transformation projects.
Mr. Samaresh Sahahas been a regular guest speaker at IIM Calcutta, ISB, IIM Shillong, VGSOM, NSHM, Usha Martin Academy and other reputed engineering and management colleges and is known for his energy, creativity and vitality on stage.
Other Details:
- There is no seperate fee for attending this workshop.
- Since this is an interactive workshop, interested candidates are requested to like the Facebook Event of this workshop. E-Cell team will then send a questionnaire to these candidates based on which your prefrenaces a detailed analysis will be done and workshop will be customized for best results
Contact
Saikat Chowdhury,
Manager, Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Kharagpur
Ph. No. : +91 95645 59027
Email - saikat.chowdhury@ecell-iitkgp.org
Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship by Prof. Anjan Raichaudhuri
Starting and managing a new business involves considerable risk and effort to overcome all the inertia against creating something new. Apart from the zeal and the enthusiasm to start up, a good knowledge of the entrepreneurial scenario and the various steps needed to start up is very essential.
This GES, Entrepreneurship Cell brings to you, an interactive session by Prof. Anjan Raichaudhuri, a veteran both in the fields of education as well as industry on "Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship". Prof. Raichaudhuri, an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur and IIM Calcutta is a senior faculty member and founder of the Centre of Entrepreneurship at IIM Calcutta, the founder of a nation-wide management consulting organisation, has also spent time as senior executive in various big firms in the country and is currently Dean, Entrepreneurship, IIPM.
For further queries,
Contact
Saikat Chowdhury,
Manager, Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Kharagpur
Ph. No. : +91 95645 59027
Email - saikat.chowdhury@ecell-iitkgp.org
Guest Lectures
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Mr Suneet Singh Tuli,CEO DataWind & Founder of Akash Tablet The owner and founder of DataWind Co,Suneet Singh Tuli Datawind is now widely known for its development of the Aakash, an inexpensive tablet computer developed in conjunction with the Indian Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and now seen as a way for the country to leapfrog the problems of educating its large population.Suneet Singh Tuli is a visionary behind the world's cheapest Tablet, which flaunts the 'Made in India' tag. Aakash (which means "Sky"), the Android tablet costs INR 1750, which converts to roughly about $35 (USD) He has 20 years of experience as a serial entrepreneur, having previously launched two successful companies that conducted Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) on the Nasdaq stock market. Using patented technologies, these companies created a variety of scanning, printing and imaging products, which were sold worldwide through direct distribution and OEM/private-label channels. In these ventures he managed a team of over 250 professionals across eight countries.The innovative products and technologies created through these ventures have received numerous awards and accolades. Recent news : Aakash tablet has got a whopping 14 Lakh bookings in just 14 days. |
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Mr. Angsuman Chakraborty Founder & CEO of Taragana Angsuman Chakraborty has twelve years of experience in architecting, designing and developing products for Fortune 500 to startup companies in USA. Before founding Taragana he was the Chief Software Architect and Engineering Manager in Oakland based DoubleTwist Inc., a bioinformatics company which was first to annotate the human genome. Previously he was the Product Lead for Expense Report and Travel Plan products and Technical Lead for TimeSheet product at Extensity Inc., now part of GEAC. Angsuman graduated from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He is Sun Certified Architect for Java Technologies and completed senior management training from AMA. |
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Mr Aneesh Reddy,Co-Founder & CEO of Capillary Technologies.
He is also the co-founder of Entrepreneurship cell, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and Kharagpur Robotix and Artificial Intelligence Group, better known as KRAIG in the campus. |
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Mr Debabrata Bagchi,Founder-CEO of Sparsha Learning Technologies Debabrata Bagchi, an IIT Kharagpur alumnus and the founder-CEO of Sparsha Learning Technologies which is a product technology startup offering activity-based learning solutions. Sparsha is a learning technology startup based out of STEP, IIT Kharagpur and Bangalore. It provides innovative solutions to increase the efficacy of the teaching-learning process. They are the first in the country to offer immersive learning solutions using simulations, specially targeting the higher education industry. |
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Sunita Ramnathkar,Former promoter of Fem Care Pharma Ltd. Launching her own business of manufacturing facial bleach which the world popularly knows as Fem, she has set examples of a very successful Women entrepreneur in the last decade of 19th century. She has also created brands like Botanica and Barcode (the first branded women's formal wear in India). Sunita now is focused on her new venture that now targets global markets for cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. |
Panel Discussions
Shailesh Vickram Singh, Seedfund : Shailesh has over 15 years of experience in investing in private equity / venture capital investing, and in business operations and entrepreneurship. Shailesh brings a strong entrepreneurial and operations perspective to investments having co-founded one startup in community space in early 2000 from where the team made a successful exit in 2003 and helped create another startup in agricultural commodities spaces which was acquired by a media conglomerate in 2005.
Digbijoy Shukla, Ennovent : Digbijoy has a wide ranging experience across diverse sectors, initially started his career in education marketing with reputed educational institutes and then subsequently joined the advertising and events industry to execute several projects including a state election campaign for a national party, conceptualizing and running a restaurant chain in Delhi and several other projects. He is currently engaged with Ennovent a Sustainable Enterprise Fund (SEF) which is a venture fund managed by ennovent GmbH, Austria, founded in 2008 with the assistance of advisors in India. The SEF offers a unique investment opportunity to make a sustainable impact at the Base of economic Pyramid (BoP) in India while generating financial returns for investors.
Rajeev Mantri, Navam Capital : Rajeev is executive director at venture capital firm Navam Capital, focusing on early-stage investments in cleantech, advanced materials, energy, Internet and other emerging technologies. Prior to forming Navam Capital, Rajeev worked as a venture capitalist in the water and advanced materials sectors at New York-based Lux Capital. He holds a degree in materials science and engineering from Northwestern University and has conducted cutting-edge academic research in nanotechnology.
K Sree Kumar, Intellicap Ventures : Krishan Sree Kumar, an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, has over 25 years of experience in management, strategy, consulting, offshore services, IT and corporate finance, primarily with major professional services firms. He has worked with development finance institutions, the financial services industry, telecommunications companies, water and energy utilities, governments undergoing reform, and donor agencies across the globe.
Abhishek Rungta, Seeders : Abhishek Rungta is the founder and CEO of Indusnet Technologies, a firm that specializes in all things Internet - design, development, market, training and SEO. Indusnet currently has a team size of above 400 people spread across three offices - Kolkata (India), Chennai (India) and London (UK). He is also one of the founding memebers of Seeders, which provides seed funding to technology start-ups based across India.
Ravi Trivedi : Ravi works as a Principal at Southeast Interactive Technology Funds, an early stage technology venture capital fund. He is also an angel investor in startups based in India and the United States, and in his spare time mentors passionate entrepreneurs. Before Southeast, Ravi worked as an equity analyst with Bank of America Securities, where he participated in covering technology and media companies over $120B in market capitalization. He was part of the team that was ranked runners up in the Alpha Hedge Fund Research rankings.
East Angels :East Angels envisions being a platform where ideating teams, startups and early stage companies interact with seasoned entrepreneurs, professionals, executives and investors and pitch for both intellectual and seed capital. The members of this Angel group guide startups, modify their business plan and prepare a sound business case ready for execution.
Satish Kataria:
With a total industry experience of more than ten years in various domains, including public relations, brand management, fund raising and PE/VC Investment management - Satish has always been keen to assist start-ups. Besides mentoring few start-ups, he is also an active panel member with institutions such as NEN and often addresses various platforms on the subject of entrepreneurism. Understanding the challenges the conventional funding structure has in India, he actively pursues evolving funding mechanisms globally and hence institutionalised Springboard Ventures - with an objective of 're-defining' the start-up support infrastructure and drive entrepreneurs to success.
Mumbai Angels :Mumbai Angels is India's leading group of angel investors, started in November 2006. It has 100 members now, and has done over 20 early stage deals. The typical deal range is 50 lakhs to 200 lakhs INR. Many members of Mumbai Angels have prior Silicon Valley experience. In addition to the capital of its members, the Mumbai Angels provides access to high quality mentoring, vast networks in India and abroad and inputs on strategy as well as execution.
Durva Gandhi, Breathe Arts (Angel Investor) : Durva Gandhi has been an avid art collector, publisher, aesthetic consultant and curator for the last decade. With a background in art and art publications, Durva shares successful, long term working relationships with galleries, artists, auction houses, collectors, art patrons, corporate houses and leading publishing houses in India and abroad. She is currently also looking for early stage angel investment in new and promising business ventures.
Rajinder Balaraman( Matrix Partners):After four and a half years in HUL, Rajinder attended Harvard Business School to complete a Masters in Business Administration. He worked with Booz & Company, in the U.S, where he advised management teams and boards across multiple industries. At Matrix Rajinder aims to support entrepreneurs and teams in India in the fast-growing and highly competitive internet sector.
Innovation Exhibition
Details to be updated soon.
Elevator Pitch
The elevator door opens. And there stands your ideal investor. It's the chance of a lifetime. But that chance only lasts as long as the elevator ride - you have to make an impression in this time. Hopefully, you've got a well-crafted elevator pitch ready to give. The Global Entrepreneurship Summit, 2012 will organize an elevator pitch for the benefit of shortlisted B-plan participants as well as start ups participating in the Start-up Camp; wherein they would have the opportunity to pitch before a panel of Venture Capitalists and investors. A time of 10 minutes would be allotted to each start-up and shortlisted entry to present their idea before the panel and a time of 5 minutes for the Q & A (question-answer) session. Thus each pitch participant would have a total time of 15 minutes to impress the investors with their idea. Opportunity of a lifetime and as a startup, you are not gonna miss it, are you?
Startup-Camp
Want to be a part of a path-breaking venture? Are you looking for an internship which would provide you with an enriching experience?
Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2012 plays host to Startup Camp which would serve as a platform that connects the best startups of the country to students and VC’s. Startup Camp would witness participation of 20 of the best Startups in the country who would showcase their product/services to students and VCs.
These startups would provide college students a unique opportunity to work with them as a full time employee or as an intern. In addition, the participating startups would get a chance to pitch their ideas to prominent VC’s of the country, thus giving an impetus to their venture. Other benefits will be finding appropriate partners and networking. It also serves as a platform of motivation and valuable learning for aspiring entrepreneurs.
Our association with the start ups will continue through start-up camps where they could showcase themselves before a wide array of people like entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, students and media. The camp also targets among other things, students interested in learning about potential job and internship opportunities at start-ups.
Otherwise the start-ups could offer summer internship to students through us. We will be acting as a bridge, helping start-ups connect to the student community in the campus. Internship details will be provided and students are free to apply.
Participating Startups
Global Entrepreneurship Conference
Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2012(13th-15th January, 2012) plays host to the third edition of Global Conference on Entrepreneurship in India. Entrepreneurship Cell IIT Kharagpur aims to provide a platform where promotion of entrepreneurship could be discussed with a global perspective. The conference will serve as a conclave for discussion of opportunities and programs aimed towards promoting entrepreneurship in various universities across the world. We believe that a dispersion of ideas globally shall help refine each others' ecosystem,by learning from each others' experiences.
The conference would see an active participation of student leaders from entrepreneurship cells from various institutes across the country. The Entrepreneurship Cells of India are being brought to one place to learn from the support system present in foreign universities and learn how to implement the same to effectively promote entrepreneurship in their respective campuses. It aims to provide a perfect symposium where ideas discussed could act as the catalyst to accelerate the entrepreneurial activities, at the university level, across the world.
The Global Entrepreneurship Conference 2012 would feature live video conference between delegates from distinguished foreign universities, including University of Cambridge, Boston University among many more and foreign entrepreneurs with the likes of Sramana Mitra (Forbes Columnist and on the board of directors of more than 80 companies) taking centerstage.
One Million by One Million (1M/1M) Conference
About Conference
Entrepreneurs are invited to ?pitch? and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra, a Silicon Valley insider, trend spotter and business development pro who doesn?t sugar-coat her feedback. You'll gain constructive feedback and she'll answer any of your questions. Others can ?attend? to watch and learn. See what entrepreneurs who Mitra has helped say: http://1m1m.sramanamitra.com/testimonials/ http://1m1m.sramanamitra.com/testimonials/
About Sramana Mitra
Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an
educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million
entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. She is a Silicon Valley
entrepreneur and strategy consultant, she writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy,
and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. From
2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. As an entrepreneur CEO, she ran three
companies: DAIS, Intarka, and Uuma. Sramana has a master’s degree in electrical
engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Connect The Dots
"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards."
Every organization has its own history and varied experience to share, with contemporaries in its field. Entrepreneurship Cells are no exceptions. We believe that E-Cells across India should meet and discuss their various challenges and strategies, in order that a comprehensive plan may be chalked out for the over all development of entrepreneurship in India.
With "Connect the Dots" , E-Cell, IIT Kharagpur aims at creating a platform where various entrepreneurship cells of the country can :-
- Exchange ideas and knowledge.
- Discuss common problems and their solutions.
- Address on Growth and sustenance of the E-cell.
- Share their impact.
The Entrepreneurship Cell Conference is an effort to bridge the gap that separates entrepreneurial development across India, which is what is required for the unbridled growth of entrepreneurs across the country and help understanding the entrepreneurial Eco-system constituents.
Registrations closed.
Ahoy Freshers!! consider yourselves Entrepreneurship wizards ? quiz Junkies ? or both ?? For all you aficionados Entrepreneurship Cell IIT Kharagpur presents Bizturkz - a competition that will not just test the Quizzer within yourself but also require you to demonstrate your business skills. Just three Rounds between you and victory, that will include a quiz based on entrepreneurship as the first hurdle, your know how on it in cracking situations like selling products, profit making, and more.And finally the strategy adopted by you will be brought down to a judgment ,which will declare the winner.
Gear up and rise to the challenge and show the rest how its done. Bizturkz awaits you, 9th jan 2012.
See the rules to know more.
- This event is exclusively for the first year Undergraduate students.
- Participants will need to form a team of four to take part in Round one, which will consist of a quiz to check their general knowledge regarding Entrepreneurship.
- On the basis of Round one some of the teams will qualify for Round two ,after which the finalists will proceed to the final Round three. (details of Round two and three will be disclosed during the event itself)
- Use of cell phones is prohibited, any team found using unfair methods will be disqualified immediately.
Will be updated soon
“You’ve got to stop doing all the things that people have tried, tested, and found out don’t work.”
– Michael Dunlop
Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Kharagpur in association with Vinod Gupta School of Management, presents INICIO, an innovative hands-on case study challenge. You could have a million ideas as an Entrepreneur, but they’re all worthless if you don’t get them done. Few would disagree with the fact that coming up with a fully fledged business plan, with every intricate detail taken into consideration, would be a cumbersome task. Thereby, sometimes it might happen that despite of having a brilliant idea, they hesitate or are not able to do justice to the presentation of that impeccable idea to the world! But again if you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not making decisions. The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you’ll fail ten times for every success. In purview of these facts, we have come up with an event which would encourage the young minds to let their ingenuity do the talking without the much talked about hiccups. This event consists of four rounds depicting the four distinct stages which a start-up organization goes through.FIRST ROUND:
Starting your own organization is like riding a roller coaster. There are highs and lows and every turn you take is another twist. This round would be the Start-up Stage wherein the participants will be given a case study pertaining to the issues faced by a start-up just after its inception. They are expected to come up with a strategic plan to resolve the issue in a logical and feasible manner.
SECOND ROUND:
If your start-up is not in an uncomfortable situation every single day, then you’re doing something wrong. The round will be called the Stable Stage; here a specific problem scenario would be given which an organization faces during its stable stage like improving operational efficiencies or coming up with better marketing strategies. They would be judged on how logically they approach these issues and come up with a solution.
THIRD ROUND:
It is an organization’s duty to expand and grow. That’s what you’re in it for. Those who cannot are pitied. This round will be the Growth Stage. Herein the candidates have to deal with the challenges posed to maintain/increase the growth of their start-up. They have to find the intrinsic and extrinsic factors responsible for it and find ways to overcome them.
FOURTH ROUND:
Your organization cannot be incredible by sticking to one thing. You need to drill down deeper and wider. In this round, the Maturity Stage, the participants will have to figure out ways to diversify themselves in a manner best suited for the organization like by modifying their product mixing, customer set and the like.
Every round will be eliminating in nature. After the fourth round, 5 teams will be selected for the finals. These teams will be invited to the campus to present their consolidated strategies. They will be judged by distinguished panel of judges consisting of academicians and industry experts.
INSTRUCTIONS:
- 2 members per team.
- The event is open to all students from engineering & B-Schools. Both the members should be from same college/institution only.
- A sepearate registration other than GES registration is reqired for this event.
- Only the team leader must register on the INICIO website link given below.
- No change in the team structure is allowed after the team is registered.
- Any individual can be part of only one team.
- There is no limit to the number of contestants that can participate from a particular institute.
- The Organizing team reserves the right to modify the terms and dates of the event.
- The decisions of the judges would be final and binding and cannot be contested upon.
- First round Starts on 23rd December, 2011
- Accommodation will be provided to the finalist who will be coming to IIT Kharagpur.
SUBMISSION DETAILS:
Registration Closed.
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Final round judging at IIT Kharagpur on 15th January, 2012.
Tag ‘em ol is a fun online event.Team size is one.You will be given a set of three random words.
You have to use those words as tags and think of a product which is best described by those tags.
Furthermore, you have to write down why you came up with the idea of that product giving explanation and reasoning.
The trial rounds are over and the Game have begun.
To participate CLICK HERE
- The Team size is one.
- As the present round has no link with the last round the participation can be done at any round.Every round is separate from the previous round.
- The judging will be based on the correlation used, supporting parameters (logo and tagline).
- The best idea will be adjudged the winner.
- The event closes on 15th January'2012.
Decision of the judges will be final and binding.
Lots of exciting goodies to be won.
- Anurag Kumar,Email-id:anurag3rdsep@gmail.com
Note:The winners will be given exciting prizes and goodies during the summit.
Ever wondered what it feels like to own a company? e-Monopoly gives you the perfect opportunity to do so. Different teams will purchase stakes in companies they find profitable. But be wary, there are some companies lurking on the ‘giant arena’ which are operating under losses. Also, landing on a competitor’s company would result in a heavy corporate infringement fine.
The twist in the game is the ‘dynamic’ bank balance maintained for every team, which would take into account the profit (or loss) of the companies purchased and the fine(s) paid to competitors among other factors (see rules). So, gear up for an exciting venture and battle it out with your market competitors to be the richest entrepreneur at the end of the game.
Object- The object of the game is to
Time – The game would go on for a duration of 45- 60 minutes.
The Play:
The game ends after the stipulated period of time and the final net worth and profit percentages of the teams are released in the form of a bank statement. The banker keeps a record of the balances of the teams throughout the progress of the game. All money transactions will be taken into consideration while calculating the balances. The teams with the highest net worth and the highest profit percentage win the game.
- Have the largest net worth, and
- The maximum profit percentage.
- 1 cell represents START
- 1 cell represents Prison (either a $20 billion fine to be paid or 2 chances to be missed)
- 1 cell represents Income Tax Raid ($20 billion to be paid)
- 1 cell represents Stock Market Crash ($30 billion to be paid)
- 2 cells each represent Community Chest and Chance.
Time – The game would go on for a duration of 45- 60 minutes.
The Play:
- All teams will initially be given $350 billion in their bank accounts.
- The game proceeds by the throw of dice (virtual). The quoted sales values of all companies are written on the corresponding cells on the arena.
- A team can buy stakes of denominations 20%, 30% and 50% in the company on which it lands by paying the corresponding percentage of amount.
- The profit/ loss (according to the present market conditions) will be added/subtracted to/from the bank balance on a per cycle basis.
- If a team lands on a company space owned by another team (any denomination), it would have to pay a Corporate Infringement fine to the owner of that space. This fine will be 10% of the total investment of the owner(s) of the company and hence will be known to all teams.
- The bank balance and the profit percentage of each team will be revealed at the end of every 2 rounds.
- If during subsequent rounds of the game, a team already owning stakes in the company lands on its space when some stakes are still up for sale, it can buy further stakes in the company without having to pay the fine to the other owner (if present).
- The bank balance of teams dynamic in nature and would test their knowledge about the market, with the previous purchases affecting the subsequent ones.
- If a team owns stakes in more than one company, then its bank balance will be calculated, taking into account the profit/ loss of each company owned by the team.
- The teams would have an option of auctioning off the stakes owned by them in any company to other teams. The auction will start from half the value of the investment of the team starting the auction. Another team willing to pay the highest price will get ownership of the stakes being sold.
- The stakes can also be sold to the bank for exactly half the initial investment of the team in the company.
- The move for auctioning off one’s stakes can be made only in the team’s chance. This will be made by notifying the banker about the decision.
- The teams can end up in a prison for corporate fraud. They would either have to miss 2 turns or pay a fine of $20 billion.
- If the teams land on the spaces corresponding to the income tax raid, they will have to pay $20 billion to proceed further.
- If a team lands on the stock market crash, it loses $30 billion from its bank balance.
- When a team lands on the community chest or chance, the outcome of landing on them will depend on the number that shows up on the dice and will be decided by a show of cards with pre decided outcomes.
- If at any point of time, a team goes bankrupt or feels the need for funds, it can obtain a loan from the bank at an interest rate. The amount will be added to the balance of the team and has to be paid back with interest before the end of the game.
The game ends after the stipulated period of time and the final net worth and profit percentages of the teams are released in the form of a bank statement. The banker keeps a record of the balances of the teams throughout the progress of the game. All money transactions will be taken into consideration while calculating the balances. The teams with the highest net worth and the highest profit percentage win the game.
Will be updated soon
Venture Partners
Shailesh Vickram Singh, Seedfund : Shailesh has over 15 years of experience in investing in private equity / venture capital investing, and in business operations and entrepreneurship. Shailesh brings a strong entrepreneurial and operations perspective to investments having co-founded one startup in community space in early 2000 from where the team made a successful exit in 2003 and helped create another startup in agricultural commodities spaces which was acquired by a media conglomerate in 2005.
Digbijoy Shukla, Ennovent : Digbijoy has a wide ranging experience across diverse sectors, initially started his career in education marketing with reputed educational institutes and then subsequently joined the advertising and events industry to execute several projects including a state election campaign for a national party, conceptualizing and running a restaurant chain in Delhi and several other projects. He is currently engaged with Ennovent a Sustainable Enterprise Fund (SEF) which is a venture fund managed by ennovent GmbH, Austria, founded in 2008 with the assistance of advisors in India. The SEF offers a unique investment opportunity to make a sustainable impact at the Base of economic Pyramid (BoP) in India while generating financial returns for investors.
Rajeev Mantri, Navam Capital : Rajeev is executive director at venture capital firm Navam Capital, focusing on early-stage investments in cleantech, advanced materials, energy, Internet and other emerging technologies. Prior to forming Navam Capital, Rajeev worked as a venture capitalist in the water and advanced materials sectors at New York-based Lux Capital. He holds a degree in materials science and engineering from Northwestern University and has conducted cutting-edge academic research in nanotechnology.
K Sree Kumar, Intellicap Ventures : Krishan Sree Kumar, an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, has over 25 years of experience in management, strategy, consulting, offshore services, IT and corporate finance, primarily with major professional services firms. He has worked with development finance institutions, the financial services industry, telecommunications companies, water and energy utilities, governments undergoing reform, and donor agencies across the globe.
Abhishek Rungta, Seeders : Abhishek Rungta is the founder and CEO of Indusnet Technologies, a firm that specializes in all things Internet - design, development, market, training and SEO. Indusnet currently has a team size of above 400 people spread across three offices - Kolkata (India), Chennai (India) and London (UK). He is also one of the founding memebers of Seeders, which provides seed funding to technology start-ups based across India.
Ravi Trivedi : Ravi works as a Principal at Southeast Interactive Technology Funds, an early stage technology venture capital fund. He is also an angel investor in startups based in India and the United States, and in his spare time mentors passionate entrepreneurs. Before Southeast, Ravi worked as an equity analyst with Bank of America Securities, where he participated in covering technology and media companies over $120B in market capitalization. He was part of the team that was ranked runners up in the Alpha Hedge Fund Research rankings.
East Angels :East Angels envisions being a platform where ideating teams, startups and early stage companies interact with seasoned entrepreneurs, professionals, executives and investors and pitch for both intellectual and seed capital. The members of this Angel group guide startups, modify their business plan and prepare a sound business case ready for execution.
Munish Jauhar, Graycell Technologies (Angel Investor) :A professional turned entrepreneur, Munish founded GrayCell Technologies Exports, a software/web development firm in 2004. Over the past 7 years, GrayCell has grown rapidly to service an ever increasing list of Global 2000 clients. He is currently also looking for early stage angel investment in new and promising business ventures from varied sectors.
Mumbai Angels :Mumbai Angels is India's leading group of angel investors, started in November 2006. It has 100 members now, and has done over 20 early stage deals. The typical deal range is 50 lakhs to 200 lakhs INR. Many members of Mumbai Angels have prior Silicon Valley experience. In addition to the capital of its members, the Mumbai Angels provides access to high quality mentoring, vast networks in India and abroad and inputs on strategy as well as execution.
Indian Angel Network : Started in April 2006, the Indian Angel Network is a unique concept which brings together highly successful entrepreneurs and CEOs from India and around the world who are interested in investing in startup / early stage ventures which have the potential of creating disproportionate value. The Network, in addition to money, provide constant access to high quality mentoring, vast networks and inputs on strategy as well as execution. The Network members, because of their background are better able to assess the potential and risks at the early stage.
Durva Gandhi, Breathe Arts (Angel Investor) : Durva Gandhi has been an avid art collector, publisher, aesthetic consultant and curator for the last decade. With a background in art and art publications, Durva shares successful, long term working relationships with galleries, artists, auction houses, collectors, art patrons, corporate houses and leading publishing houses in India and abroad. She is currently also looking for early stage angel investment in new and promising business ventures.
GES-2012 REGISTRATION FORM
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CORPORATE RELATIONS
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HOSPITALITY
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COMPETITIONS
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EVENTS
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