The Entrepreneurship Cell of IIT Kharagpur will hold its Entrepreneurship Awareness Drive (EAD) 2015 for Dehradun on October 10 at the DIT University. Seasoned entrepreneurs, including the inventor of TrueHB Hemometre Ambar Srivastava, founder of Webner Solutions Pvt ltd Varun Chopra, director of Holisol logistics Pvt ltd Naveen Rawa, founder and CEO of Rutofy Abhishek Aggarwal and founder and CEO of Xenon Stack Navdeep Singh Gill.
The EAD is one of the Entrepreneurship Cell’s major flagship events, the other being the Global Entrepreneurship Summit held in January. The EAD consists of a series of guest lectures and workshops in 23 cities in 23 days in the month of October. Each city plays host to an Entrepreneurship Awareness Camp (EAC), where eminent entrepreneurs and industry leaders counsel students about the pros and cons of entrepreneurship as a career and how it differs from the usual run-of-the-mill job culture. Each EAC also features a networking session, where startups, students and the guests can freely interact as well as a startup mentoring session, where the startups attending a session get a one-on-one interaction with the guest lecturers.
Since its inception about six years ago, the EAD has seen the number of cities grow from 10 to 23 with a footfall of 20000 in 2014. The EAD also coincides with the launch of IIT-Kharagpur Entrepreneurship Cell’s international business model competition-Empresario.
Business ideas in all fields ranging from product and service, product design to social get equal opportunity to win the prize and incubation money to the tune of Rs 2.5 crore. Empresario 2015 is being presented by the cell in association with International Business Model Competition (IBMC). The best entries in all categories will get an opportunity to participate directly in the semi-final rounds of IBMC 2016, which will be conducted abroad.