The two-day National Startup Workshop organised by Srinnovation Club of Sri Sri University came to an end with a series of sessions of mentoring, presentation and awards.
The workshop was organised in collaboration with National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN) of Wadhwani Foundation, sponsored by Nalco along with media partners like Odisha Diary and India Education Diary.
20 teams presented their business plans. The innovative plans included ideas pertaining to cost waste management, organic products, packaged tender coconut water, agro-tourism, biogas plants, jaggery, kungfu yoga, village e-commerce and admission solutions for academic institutions.
Participants came from NlUO, Vivekananda Institute of Technology, XlRI, GITA, Srusti Academy of Management, College of Engineering and Technology, Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan and Sri Sri University. Teams competed on the basis of product, service, feasibility and viability. The mentors chose top three teams for supporting, mentoring and funding by NEN.
Avelo Roy of Kolkata Ventures, KC Mishra of eKutir, Swayam Baral of Canyon Consultancy, Pritam Mishra of Travdots, Sanjay Mohanty of MayiFind, Debasis Sahoo of Playbook Consultancy, Rakesh Gupta of SPP Associates, Natabar Rout of ARVI Innovation, Ayush Agrawal of lecturenotes, Ambika Nanda of Tata Steel, C Chandra Shekhar Managing Director of Catalyst IT Solutions Pvt ltd, Anil Kumar Mishra of Citigit Technologies and Mukteshwar Patra of Tanvi Consultants joined the two day event as mentors and judges.
In the pre-lunch session, KC Mishra of eKutir emphasized on why everyone is a potential entrepreneur. He urged everyone to understand the need to be job creators. Ayush Agarwal shared his experience of entrepreneurship.
In post lunch session participants presented their business plans before the mentors and judges for questions and feedback. Prof Srinivas Subbarao, the mentor of Srinnovation Club, presided over the valedictory session.
Ambika Nanda of Tata Steel spoke about great qualities of entrepreneurs. Avelo Roy of Kolkata Ventures advised the entrepreneurs to graduate from why to wow.
The team of Tilotham, Pallavi and Priyanka of Sri Sri University won the first prize for the Annadata Agri Solutions. The team of Gourav Baghel and Prateek Joshi of Sri Sri University won the second prize for Rig Agri Tourism. Sushant Kumar of XlRI won the third prize for his project on use of Foundry Sand.
Barada Prasad of the NEN proposed Vote of Thanks.