EDCBrain Child
3rd and 4th September 2011
"Having an idea is never enough, you need impeccable research and proper planning to make an idea materialise in real world.” In Techniche’11 get a chance to get your idea incubated, with a total incubation incubation sum of Rs. 50 lakhs, free legal and financial consultancy and intensive mentoring. It is intended as a platform where youth from across the globe test their business acumen and the future Tatas, Birlas,Ambanis of the country are born.. The competition is aimed to transform the raw ideas to its fruition with multiple stages of evaluation and tough competition marking its transition into a successful Business Plan. The participants get a golden chance to learn about the new venture creation process through their team's efforts and their presentations to the judges. Participation ranges from Indian Institutes of repute like IIMs, XLRI,MDI,FMS, IITs and various other management and technical colleges across India. This process would be aimed towards converting the Business Idea into a Business Plan, We will provide the 10 finalists a chance of getting mentored from distinguished mentors from our Mentors Panel .
" I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference."
IITG Entrepreneurial Summit-2011
5th and 6th March, 2011
IIT Guwahati Entrepreneurship Summit, more popularly known as IES, has been initiated with a primary objective of instilling and promoting the spirit of entrepreneurship amongst the IIT Guwahati community and the youth of North East India.This time around we at EDC, IIT-G are doing things a wee bit differently. IES 2011 which promises to surpass its predecessors is also going to be the first edition of IES with a unifying theme.
The theme decided for IES 2011 is ‘Connecting the Dots’.
A rather vague theme you would say but entrepreneurs revere profundity of thought and so do we. The underlying principles that this theme speaks of are trying your best to make do with the resources that you have, being enterprising and very expeditious. IES 2011 will be all about realizing that all it takes to make it big is a little bit of luck and a whole lot your ability to recognize opportunity and going in for the kill.
The IES 2011 will witness a series of talks by eminent speakers, interactive sessions, start-up showcasing and networking sessions.Apart from the myriad of inspiring lectures, IES 11 will also witness a thought provoking and incredibly riveting panel discussion where in some of our eminent speakers will give their insights on a very interesting topic that is bound to engender an exchange of elegant and meaningful ideas between our audience and the panel.
It takes us immense pleasure in informing that the third edition of IES shall be organized from 5th-6th of March, 2011 in the IIT Guwahati campus.
Speakers that have been confirmed :
- Mr. S B Dangayach ( MD of Sintex)
- Mr. Anup Tapadia (winner of British Council-Y.C.E. (Young Creative Entrepreneur) 2010, Founder of TechnoKarma Labs)
- Mr. Hari Balasubramanian (CEO of RP Infosystem,Chairman and Managing Director of Ontrack Systems Limited)
- Mr. Sivakiran Yellamraju (Co-founder of Vivu)
- Mr. Muki,Founder & CEO(pepper square)
- Mr. Amit Tripathi (Digital Entrepreneur, Id8labs)
- Mr. Ashwani Kumar Rathore (Start-UP Analyst, IndiaCo. Ventures)
Workshops :
- Mr. T Chendil Kumar (Corporate Trainer,CK Consultants) for conducting a workshop on art of persuasion
- Mr. Amitabh Mohan (HRD consultant, humanitarian and a successful psychologist) will be giving workshop on Entrepreneurship
Profiles of Speakers
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IITG Entrepreneurial Summit-2010
6th and 7th March, 2010
IIT Guwahati Entrepreneurship Summit, more popularly known as IES, has been initiated with a primary objective of instilling and promoting the spirit of entrepreneurship amongst the IIT Guwahati community and the youth of North East India. Entrepreneurs, students, corporate, industry and academia are brought on a single platform to promote flow of knowledge and ideas through IES. It is organized by the Entrepreneurial Development Cell (EDC) of IIT Guwahati and comprises of a series of talks by eminent speakers, interactive sessions, start-up showcasing and networking sessions. The first edition of IES organized in March 2009 witnessed inspiring talks by many prominent entrepreneurs and people from various related fields like social entrepreneurship, technology entrepreneurship, leadership and innovation etc. It takes us immense pleasure in informing that the second edition of IES shall be organized from 6th-7th of March, 2010 in the IIT Guwahati campus.
Brain Child
4th and 5th September, 2010
EDC and Techniche Presents:- BRAIN-CHILD is an annual Business Plan Competition organized during "Techniche " the techno-management festival of IIT-Guwahati. It is intended as a platform where youth from across the globe test their business acumen and the future Tatas, Birlas, Ambanis of the country are born. The competition is aimed to transform the raw ideas to its fruition with multiple stages of evaluation and tough competition marking its transition into a successful Business Plan. The participants get a golden chance to learn about the new venture creation process through their team's efforts and their presentations to the judges. click for more info
Product Launch
4th and 5th September, 2010
EDC and Techniche Presents:- With an aim to encourage expertise in innovation with focus on areas of technological entrepreneurship, Techniche '10 and EDC presents Product Launch. Supporting technically sophisticated participants who are prepared to build and design an innovative product with the skills that are essential for meeting the real world challenges. Your innovations may vary from energy solutions to health care... electrical systems to rural technology... mechanical motors to environmental solutions. Unleash the creative genius in you to help the society. click for more info
IES 2009 : The first edition
14th and 15th March, 2009
The first edition of IES organized from 15th-16th March 2009 in IIT-G campus witnessed inspiring talks by many delegates and leading visionaries from almost all walks spanning the entrepreneurial world along with extensive participation from students and budding entrepreneurs. The speakers included:
- Mr. Kunwer Sachdev: CEO, Su-Kam Industries
- Mr. Vineet Rai: Co-founder & CEO, Aavishkar
- Mr. David Wittenberg: CEO, the Innovation Workgroup
- Prof. Dr. Noel J. De Souza: Consultant in Patents and IP (University Institute of Chemical Technology)
- Mr. Manak Singh: Executive Director, TiE
- Ms. Rashmi Bansal: Author
- Mr. Gautam Seengal: Venture Capitalist, Vchunt
- Mr. Raghu Khanna: CashUrDrive, IIT-G Alumnus
- Mr. Ramanan Subramani: AVP Lowe Lintas
Two networking lunch sessions were also organized on sidelines of the summit which provided a very rare opportunity to students and entrepreneurs to interact directly with the delegates and leading visionaries.
Business Plan Writing Workshop
27th January, 2010
EDC has organized the first session of B-Plan writing workshop for this term on 27th January, 2010 in Lecture Theatre. Yashaswy Andavilli and Aditya Bandi presented the fundamental aspects of Business Plan writing, and the presentation was followed by Question-Answer (Q&A) session. The workshop dealt with basic ideation process, conversion of ideas into opportunities and a bit of Customer Analysis. Emphasis was laid on the importance of original ideas and the translation of ideas into viable opportunities. The workshop was attended by many students including Undergraduates from all batches, Postgraduates as well as Research Scholars. Second session of the workshop is planned to be organized during March’10, wherein the financial and technical aspects of B-Plan writing like Investment planning, Returns projection, Capital, Profit and Loss, etc shall be dealt with.
Talk by Mr.Nishant - NSEF
25th January, 2010
EDC with partnerhsip from NSEF has organised a talk on Social Entrepreneurship which helped the attendes in undersanding the new field of Social Entrepreneurship. The talk was gievn by Mr.Nishant. Mr.Nishant is a social entrepreneur and is an active member of National Social Entrepreneurship Forum. The talk was well recieved and the Q&A session that followed was very interactive. Many aspects of Social Entrepreneurship are effectively discussed. EDC is now in the process of a long lasting partnership with NSEF which will have a formal inauguration in a short time.
Investment Lecture series
August, 2009 - present
EDC, this year, has taken the initiative to organize a series of talks on Investment and related fields to give basic understanding of the subject to the students. The lecture series is being handled by Pranjal Kumar, member of EDC (3rd year B.Tech, Maths & Computing). First four talks of the series have been organized between Anugust 2009 and January 2010, which have seen huge turnout from the student community. With such an amazing response from the community, we plan to organize the remaining talks in the upcoming months and continue the series.
A talk on Innovation by Prof.Anil K Gupta - IIM Ahmedabad
April, 2009 | venue : LH 1 IITG
The talk was completely aimed at making the audience understand the importance of Innovation in entrepreneurship. Prof.Anil K Gupta is a professor at IIM Ahmedabad and is the founder of the Honey Bee network. He is also the president of Sristi Foundation which is known to promote grass root innovations. The talk was of one and half hours duration and was very informative with clear examples of successful ventures driven by innovation.
IITG B-PLAN CONTEST
October, 2008
This event is designed to help students generate ideas and begin to build a team. It is intended to encourage a broad range of IIT undergraduates and graduate students to flesh out their ideas in business terms and form teams that combine technology and business strengths. The contest would consist of the following stages:
Stage 1 The team should submit the executive summary of their Business plan in the form of the questionnaire. The last date for the submission of the questionnaire will be 29th October’08.
Questionnaire download (.pdf)Stage 2
The teams selected on the basis of the questionnaire, would then be provided mentorship by people who are experienced and well versed with knowledge in this field for a time span of 1 week. This exhaustive mentorship period is intended to help the teams conceptualize their executive summary to the B-Plan.
Stage 3
The teams after the mentorship period will have to present their detailed B-Plan in front of an elite and respectable judging panel. This would be followed by a question answer session with the judges on the plan.
Rules
1. A team could consist of maximum 4 members.
2. Teams should mail the questionnaire to edc@iitg.ernet.in .
3. One team can send more than one Business Plan.
4. The decisions of the judges and the organizers will be final and binding on all.
5. All IIT students at all levels of education and from any department, are eligible to enter.
6. Entries must be the original work of entrants.
7. Every contestant must agree with the rules of the contest and must agree to accept the declaration of confidentiality.
8. EDC ensures the contestants of utmost confidentiality of B-Plan
Related Links
B-Plan Workshop 1.ppt
B-Plan Workshop 2.ppt
B-Plan Workshop Summary (pdf)
Marketing Event ADdict
6th and 7th March, 2010
Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.
Ever wondered how advertisements work and how they play a major role in the success of any business. EDC-IITG brings to you ADdict - the ad/marketing contest. One thing that you can be sure of is that you don’t need a prior knowledge or experience in the ad-mad world while you advertise the concept, plan the media mix and do the likes. The team which impresses our judges and the consumer jury the most will win. Creativity and out of the box thinking are what count here.
Break Free - Dr. DEBASHISH CHATTERJEE
Venue : Senate Hall, IIT Guwahati
The event kicked off with master-piece instrumentals played in the background, setting the stage for an intellectually stimulating session. Dr. Chatterjee then went on with his lecture starting with questions that stirred the spiritual side of the audience. He asked “If we eat to live, what is life for?” The talk was better assimilated by the audience, with interesting visuals and video-clips, which quite effectively drove home the point. Dr. Chatterjee instantiated the qualities of a leader with examples and short stories; highlighting the need for being a part of the problem, if we were to understand the intensity of the problem. The event concluded with a questionnaire.
A talk on Reverse Engineering by Mr. SHEKHAR KULKARNI
Date : 17th October, 2007 Venue : Senate Hall, IIT Guwahati
Reverse engineering, has at its core, inspiration driven work in any field. Following something similar on the Japanese lines, reverse engineering is adapted to help the budding technocrats build enterprises and produce technical goods of relatively good quality in a lesser timeframe. The esteemed chief-guest started off in a humorous and captivating style, stressing the need of reverse-engineering techniques in our country. The line between inspiration-driven fruitful work and mere plagiarism was quite meticulously implied in the talk. Several ironic and humorous instances of the past were quoted to underline the importance of the adaptation. The suicide of Mr. Diesel, the inventor of the diesel engine is an example. Reverse–Engineering is a field of which most of the student community is ignorant. The field offers a lot to be exploited. Mr. Shekhar also briefly made aware the audience of the different terms in patent policies. Sir concluded his guest lecture with a verbal questionnaire. For presentation of the talk and other relevant material, mail to EDC.
A talk by ARJUN MALHOTRA
Date : 30th January, 2007 | Venue : Senate Hall, IIT Guwahati
EDC-IITG invited Mr. Arjun Malhotra, an alumnus of IIT-KGP, for a guest lecture on “Role of IITians as next generation entrepreneurs in the Indian society”. He currently presides over HeadStrong Inc. as its CEO. An entrepreneur to the core, Mr. Malhotra narrated some real life incidents which provoked him to take up such giant steps. He urged us to dream big and go for them. The atmosphere gained momentum when he, albeit quite informally shared some of the choicest anecdotes from his past. The talk was well interspersed with narratives from the past, each of which gave some valuable lessons. To sum up his talk, he expounded on the old adage that the world belongs to those who tread the “road less traveled”.
Lecture by R. VAIDYANATHAN, Professor, IIM Banglore
Date : 12th November, 2005 | Venue : G1-NAC, IIT Guwahati
R Vaidyanathan, Professor of Finance & Control and UTI Chair Professor in the area of Capital Market, at Indian Institute of Management [IIM] Bangalore, presented a lecture on the topic “Globalization is not a one way street”. He demoed globalization from an Indian perspective, about how India can be profited from globalization in its way to become a world leader. The session was interactive and got an immense response from both students and faculty.
Workshop on SIX SIGMA
Date : 18-19thFebruary, 2006 Venue : Senate Hall, IIT Guwahati
EDC in association with Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T) organized a two days, five and a half hours workshop on Six Sigma. The workshop aimed at making the IITG community familiar with Six Sigma. The workshop was conducted by Mr. G. Tiwari, Chief General Manager of the EBG group, L&T and a master black belt in Six Sigma. Six Sigma is a business improvement methodology to systematically improve processes by eliminating defects. Mr.Tiwari, on the first day, through daily life examples and common perceptions, explained various technicalities of Six Sigma. Subsequently, some examples of six sigma projects that had been implemented in L&T were discoursed.
Download: Six Sigma Presentation
A talk by SACHIN BHATIA
Date : 9 thNovember, 2005 Venue : Senate Hall, IIT Guwahati
Sachin Bhatia, Director of Drishti, visited the campus to buck up the student community to step out of the haunting dilemma of whether to step into GRE or CAT and helped students in getting answers for questions like “where after 5 years I stand?”. He sounded out to “Think BIG and run after your DREAMS”. He is an IITG alumnus, who after a three year stint at Hughes Software decided to work for his dreams. He co-founded DRISHTI, a next generation software solutions company working in the domains of communications and VoIP, which has now launched a successful product DACX (Drishti Advanced Communication Exchange).
Lecture by DR. ARUN CHATTOPADHYAY
Venue : G2-NAC, IIT Guwahati
To say that Nano-technology is an emerging field would be an understatement. The students of the institute had a privilege to hear about the growing trends in this booming field from one of our faculty member, Dr. Arun Chattopadhyay who has done a considerable amount of work in this field. His cogent lecture made people ebullient to think about this field.