In line with the objective of XlRI to encourage entrepreneurship and service, E Cell at XlRI is organising IdeaKon, a speaker series cum networking event on entrepreneurship at its campus.
Startups from different parts of the country, in different fields would share their experiences with the audience. These experiences would consist of the journey of the startups right from inception of the idea to the motivation behind pursuing it further and interesting instances along the way which inspired/changed the thinking of the founders. The speakers may also share any other instances which they think would be beneficial to the members of the audience.
The speakers for IdeaKon include Dhaval Shah (Pharmeasy, XlRI GenSec 2013), Jaspreet Singh Saluja (Founder, Housing), R avi Shankar Mishra (Founder, Medinfi healthcare), Sharad Kumar (Founder, Fashionove) and Ayaan Chawla (Founder and CEO of Asian Fox Developments).
IdeaKon is an interactive event which includes speaker sessions conducted by entrepreneurs, enlightening the audience about their exciting journeys, with an Audience to Startup Networking Session, followed by a Startup to Startup Networking Session. These speaker sessions would be from several back grounds; ranging from fashion ; to green fuel; to healthcare; to IT solutions.
The purpose behind this is to bring variety to the platform and facilitate healthy discussion. To encourage the student fraternity at XlRI, the rounds also have an elevator pitch session that will be running parallel to the aforementioned Networking Sessions. The audience would benefit greatly from the experiences shared by the startups on the stage, as well as off stage. These experiences may also motivate a number of students here in XlRI to take the plunge into an entrepreneurial venture. IdeaKon would also be a great place for the startups to netw ork with each other, as well as with some of the professors here in XlRI. To enable the next startup story, IdeaKon would also have an idea validation round for the students.
XlRI, a fore runner in the field of entrepreneurship houses an Entrepreneurship Cell, a student run body formed with a view to prom oting entrepreneurship among Students and helping aspiring entrepreneurs become one T he Entrepreneurship Cell at XlRI, in an effort to foster and improve the entreprene urship ecosystem in the campus and outside, holds myriads of events, workshops and summits throughout the year.