Nagpur News: Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Kharagpur with an aim to educate every member of India’s collegiate fraternity on entrepreneurship as a possible way of life, and to provide support to all those who choose this path is organises ‘The Global Entrepreneurship Summit’. With an Pan-India initiative to spread entrepreneurship in cities.
The Entreprenuership cell of IIT Kharagpur invites the students of Nagpur to Global Entrepreneurship Summit (scheduled from 10th-12th January, 2014), the annual flagship event of the Entrepreneurship Cell IIT Kharagpur, is 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 endeavours and experiences, and to pledge to take entrepreneurship in India to greater scales.
Over the course of this year, Entrepreneurship Cell of IIT Kharagpur has already undertaken various activities, including the Entrepreneurship Awareness Drive, a pan-India initiative to spread entrepreneurship in cities across India in 20 cities and had visited Nagpur and conducted a seminar at RCOEM on October 17.
Following on the successful culmination of the Entrepreneurship Awareness Drive, which saw close to 20000 participants in total, personalities such as PhanindraSama CEO of Redbus.in, Arjun Malhotra Co-founder of HCL Technologies, Sandip Tarkas President and CEO of Future Group,Varun Agarwal CEO of Alma Mater, Anshu Gupta founder of Goonj, were a notable few among the speakers and coverage in most of the important news houses of India, and E-Cell is now moving on to its flagship event, the Global Entrepreneurship Summit.
The major draw of GES is the quality and variety of speakers that it has seen over the years.
The 2014 edition of GES is no exception, and following in the trend of previous years, will witness Guest Lectures by various eminent personalities! Workshops, focused on building the entrepreneurial acumen of participants are also in the pipeline. Earlier workshops include those by Deloitte on Mind to Market, by Franklin Covey on 4 Disciplines of Execution, the Intel Ideation camp,by Microsoft, Entrepreneurship Development Institute, Novell and Wipro.
Another event of mention is the Start-up Camp, which will involve interaction of Entrepreneurs and students and aims to help Start-ups to recruit the finest talent amongst GES participants for internships/jobs while giving them an opportunity to meet the biggest VC and Angel Investors in India present on campus.30 start-up from various sectors ranging from social ventures to healthcare to technology, from across India participated in GES 2013.
The Global Entrepreneurship Summit, with its varied content and participation, will prove to be the ultimate stage for propagating this cause. Participants can register at www.ges.ecell-iitkgp.org for the event. The accommodation of students attending for the three days of GES will be taken care of by IIT Kharagpur for which they will be charged nominally. For any further queries, please contact.
Nagpur Coordinators :
Hardik Katyarmal AkashRathi
+91-8087178197 +91-8007868568
+91-7872838227 +91-8001341911
hardikkatyarmal123@gmail.com akashdrathi@gmail.com
