ENTREPRENEURSHIP SUMMIT TO BE HELD IN IIT BOMBAY

Mumbai: E-Summit'08, a unique initiative to encourage the spirit of entrepreneurship among students and young working professionals by the Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Bombay will be held on 10th Feb, 2008 at IIT Campus, Mumbai from 9 am to 8 pm. E- Summit would be a confluence of the Indian entrepreneurial community. The event intends to showcase the emerging Entrepreneurial ecosystem in India and aims to provide an integrated support system in the form of funding, mentoring and networking opportunities.

Do Visit www.esummit.ecell.in

Expected delegates:: 800+

The budget for this one day event is over Rs. 40 lac apart from a huge publicity worth of at least another Rs. 40-50 lac, making it the biggest event in the institute.

Major speakers(Confirmed) at the Entrepreneurship Summit are
Prof. Ashok Mishra (Director,IIT Bombay)
Mr.Ramadorai (CEO and MD,TCS)
Mr.Rana Kappor (Yes Bank)
Mr.Jeh Wadia (Go Air)
Mr.Ajit Balakrishnan (Rediff)
Mr.Shantanu Prakash (Founder Educomp)
Mr.SatyaNarayan (Founder Career Launcher)
Mr.Shravan Shroff (Fame Adlabs)
Mr. V.S.S Mani (Just Dial)
Mr. Alok Mittal (Executive Director, Canaan Partners)
Mr. R. K. Misra (Lead India Finalist)---the finals are on saturday and he has a really good chance to win....
Mr. Sukumar Ranganathan (Deputy Managing Editor, Mint)
Mr. Sandeep Murthy (Partner, Sherpalo Ventures)
Mr. Vinnie Vyas (CEO, Crossover Advisers)
Mr. Ashish Gupta (Managing Director, Helion Ventures)
Mr. Mahesh Murthy (Partner, Seedfund)
Mr. Hitesh Oberoi (Co-Founder & Director, Info Edge(India) Pvt Ltd)
Mr. Mohanjit Jolly (Executive Director, DFJ)
Mr. Sunjay Kapur (CEO , Sixt, India)
Mr. Hrush Bhatt (Founder & Director, Cleartrip.com)
Mr. Shantanu Surpure (Managing Advocate, Sand Hill India Advisers)
Mr. Satya Narayanan (Chairman, Career Launcher)
Mr. Vivek Bhargava (MD, Communicate2)

Tentative Speakers::

Mr.Shiv Nadar (HCL) , Mr. Vijay Mallya ( Kingfisher)

The Entrepreneurship Summit is sponsored by Crossover Advisors, Cleartrip.com, Mint, Global Logic, Yahoo India, Fame Cinema, Café Coffee Day, Educomp, DFJ and Sail. PR Partner for the Summit is Approach Communications.

E-Summit '08 commemorates the Golden Jubilee of IIT Bombay, with an overlying theme of the Emerging Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in India. It is a day long conference with insightful talk sessions and panel discussions along with exclusive mentoring sessions by seasoned entrepreneurs. E-Summit '08 also brings the VC Pitch - a platform for start-ups to raise venture capital, along with playing host to the finals of Eureka'07- the International Business plan competition (the biggest in the country) organized by E-Cell, IIT Bombay and a Conference of Entrepreneurship Cells, Cultural Night( Pt. Ronu Mazumdar) and Corporate Dinner(By invitation only) to discuss with corporates the prospects of association to support ecell activites.

Panel Discussions:(Will go on throughout the day....with different panelists)

As the entrepreneurial ecosystem in India becomes increasingly conducive, it becomes necessary to comprehend how Opportunities are perceived, Starting & Scaling Up issues are resolved and how Business models are constantly evolved. E-Summit'08 will give a platform to gain insight into the key entrepreneurial challenges and opportunities from the diverse experiences of powerful entrepreneurs across the globe. Six compelling Panel discussions are in the offing, each one taking you a step ahead in entrepreneurial journey.

The Panel Discussions are:

1. Emerging Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in India
2. Art of starting up
3. Identification of Business Opportunities
4. Scaling Up
5. Developing dynamic Business Model
6. Entrepreneurs as Change Agents

for more details do visit..............................http://esummit.ecell.in/html/index.php?page=panel

This will be the first time that so many panel discussions with such high profile speakers will be organised on a single day.

Mentoring Sessions: (completely separate from the Eureka—the b-plan competition)

Esummit'08 brings one to one interactive mentoring where exclusive sessions shall be organized between mentors and mentees to ensure maximum substance and purpose for the participants. Our event endorses this absolute need of a mechanism through which guidance and advice from senior entrepreneurs and professionals can be passed gainfully and efficiently to budding entrepreneurs.

This provides people to get mentoring by some of the biggest people in the country on the day of the event itself.

VC(Venture Capital) Pitch: 'Forget the pennies; keeping counts of your pounds will be more organizing this year.

A unique opportunity to take home a funding of close to Rs. 20 crores.........

In first of its kind event, VC-Pitch aims to cater to the funding needs of early stage start-ups and thus goes far beyond the usual business competitions which end only on the paper stages.

Many leading VC Firms and high profile VCs have shown their interest in investing early stage business ideas through E-Summit '08. The three biggest venture capitalist firms in the Silicon Valley, 4 of the most sought after Venture Capitalists in the country and estimated seed capital worth USD 2 million to take home……

Many VC's all set to make deals up to INR 50 Million.

VC Firms attending-

Rajesh Jog (Wygate Capital)
Vikram Godse (Mayfield Fund)
Ajit Deora (Light Speed Ventures)
Mohit Bhatnagar (Sequoia Capital)
Ajay Kapoor (SIBI Venture Capital)
Rajeev Karwal (Milagrow)
Ashish Gupta (Helion Ventures)
Manik Arora (IDG Ventures)
Ajoy Kandheria (Indian Angel Network(INA))
Jai Saboo (INA)
Alok Mittal (Cannan Partners)
Mahesh Murthy (Seed Fund)
Rajesh Srivastha (Ojas Ventures)
Dr. D.Y.Rao Head (Technology Networking & Business Development Division Council of Scientific & Industrial Research)

for more names do visit http://esummit.ecell.in/html/index.php?page=schedu...

Draper Fisher Juvertson(DFJ) and Indian Angles Network are supporting the VC pitch.

Eureka Finals:

The finals of Eureka'07 will be taking place and the teams will be fighting for the coveted 14 lacs prize money (the highest in the country).

Eureka 07, the biggest Business Plan competition in he country, saw close to 2000 applications this year from all over the world, encompassing the student as well as the working professionals around the globe.

Some of the people in Eureka finals:

Mr. Manav Subodh (Manager, Intel Technology)
Mr. Sasha Mirchandani (Director, Imericus Technologies)
Mr. Satish Mandhana (Managing Director, IDFC Private Equity)
Mr. Sanjay Bhattacharya ( Principal COO, Frontline Ventures)
Mr. Vishal Gondal (Founder & CEO, IndiaGames.com)
Mr. Sushanto Mitra (CEO SINE, IITB)
Mr. Isaac Jacob (Ex-CMO, Yes Bank)

Global Conference of E-Cells:

Conference of Entrepreneurship Cells is a unique step towards understanding and collaborating with fellow Entrepreneurship Cells in a better way. This consequently will help every cell in reviewing its activities, discuss/debate the role they play and should play to realize their ultimate objective. People from Stanford, Cambridge and Singapore apart from IIM A, B C, K and IIT's are coming down making the event truly international.

Major Sponsors:

Crossover Advisors is the Title Sponsor for the event. The company delivers private equity with impact by partnering with innovative entrepreneurs and management teams along with investors. Mr. Vinnie Vyas, CEO at Crossover supports the theme of the event completely, and our organization connects with them easily as well.

Cleartrip.com, an entrepreneurial venture itself, is the Associate Sponsor for the event. Mr. Sandeep Murthy, CEO at Cleartrip, has been supportive of E-Cell activities from the very start.

Global Logic, leader in global product development partnerships with technology companies is the Co-Sponsor for the event. With an interest in the Technology plans to be presented at the Summit, they support the fact that the summit endorses, the changing entrepreneurial ecosystem in India.

Yahoo! India is a Patron sponsor for the event.

Other supporters include Educomp, DFJ and SAIL (Steel Authority of India)

Fame Cinemas, our entertainment partner, would be running a 10 day campaign across all its cinemas. So when people watch their next movie at Fame, they will have an event pamphlet in their hand.

Across 125 Café Coffee Day restaurants across the country, our E-Summit ads would be run on the plasma screens. So the next time you drink a cup of coffee at CCD, you might catch a glimpse of E-Summit.