Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Kharagpur are proud to present The Entrepreneurship Awareness Drive (EAD), one of our major flagship events. With its initiation back in 2009, EAD has now grown to cover 22 cities in 22 days. You learn when you see, with this basic idea, EAD consists of a series of guest lectures and workshops, wherein students get to learn from the ‘achievers’ of the society.
This year the esteemed presence of Mr. Shripal Gandhi, founder and CEO Swipe Technologies, Mr. Amitava Saha, Co-Founder and CEO Expressbees & firstcry.com, Mr. Ashish Goyal, Co-Founder and CFO Earlysalary.com and other esteemed guests, and Mr. Mayank Ukey and Mr. Sudesh Karad, Associate Members of Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Kharagpur co-ordinating with this event, it surely impels the students and make them envision entrepreneurship as a career. The students would get to know as to what path they must choose to live their dream and turn their out-of-the-box ideas into reality.
Entrepreneurship Awareness Drive 2018, Pune will be held in JSPM’s Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Wagholi Institute on 13th October 2018. A four-hour event, the EAD-Pune, would consist of Guest Lectures which surely add to students’ knowledge and provide an insight to what all things happen after they ‘start-up’.
30,000 students, 24 cities, these are numbers witnessed by the previous edition of EAD 2017, and we look forward to even bigger numbers. Ms. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Founder of Biocon, Phanindra Sama, CEO of Redbus.in, Arjun Malhotra, co-founder of HCL Technologies and many such distinguished personalities have presided over the event.
The Entrepreneurship Awareness Drive also coincides with the launch of our regular round registrations of our International Business Model Competition: Empresario. Empresario is our Annual Business Model competition where business ideas in all fields ranging from Product and Service to Social, get equal opportunity to win the prize and incubation opportunities to the tune of INR 2.5 crore. The prizes and services for the winners as per the last year are worth 25 lacs INR.
This year, Entrepreneurship Cell IIT Kharagpur are proud to present Empresario 2019 in association with International Business Model Competition (IBMC). The best entries will get an opportunity to participate directly in the quarter-final rounds of IBMC 2019, which will be conducted abroad.
About 25% of the entries in our Business Model Competition- Empresario were from participants of EAD, which underlines the impact of this unique initiative towards motivating young minds towards entrepreneurial thought and action. 158 colleges participated in EAD 2017, with 24 colleges associating with us to conduct the EAD in their respective campus. During the drive, many colleges expressed their interest in setting up entrepreneurship promoting bodies for the benefit of the students.
For more details contact:
Mayank Ukey: 9834682054
Sudesh Karad: 8669100890
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