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Traditionally, it has been accepted that effective learning occurs with a display of knowledge and having the students engage in activities that make them think about the course content and transfer it to newer situations. Workshops and lectures are an educational rendezvous emphasizing on the interaction and exchange of information among its participants and the speakers.

In our constant endeavor to bring forth some of the best speakers and experts both from academia and industries, we have conducted various lectures and workshops till date:

IITG B-PLAN CONTEST

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:

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.

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.

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.

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

Marketing Event ADdict

‘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 – Unleash the leader within you - 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    : 17^th 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    : 30^th 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    : 12^th 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   : 18-19^thFebruary, 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.

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.

Mail to: edc@iitg.ernet.in

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