PINAKI MAJUMDAR
Jamshedpur, Feb 3: XLRI’s Innov8 E-Cell Committee hosted its Start-up Conclave – Ingenium 3.0 on Friday. Ingenium 3.0 is a humble attempt to showcase the start-up journeys, the success stories, the routes taken by a few prominent start-ups, and the challenges that they have faced to become the unicorns of the world.
The conclave provided the entire audience with some thought-breaking keynote speaker sessions, panel discussions and knowledge-sharing sessions, etc.
Start-ups play a vital role in competitive markets with their focus on innovation, and new markets/products.
They provide dynamism to markets and offer more efficient ways to enhance consumer welfare. Against this backdrop, this conclave is an attempt to bring different stakeholders together on a platform for the exchange of views to create a better understanding of the start-up ecosystem and competition.
The conclave was held offline with Saurabh Kothari, Aparajita Chaudhuri, and Akash Raj Shukla as Moderators for the session. Students Dilpreet Kaur, Shivank Chaudhary, Surabhi Sinha and Urvashi Kaul were hosts and co-hosts for the event.
It started with the inaugural address by Fr. S George, director of XLRI Jamshedpur and Fr. Donald D’Silva, Dean of Administration and Finance, XLRI Jamshedpur.
Father George Sebastian addressed the audience and thanked the speakers for taking the time to interact with the students of XLRI.
He requested the speakers to share their life stories with the students as he believes that effective change in a student’s mindset comes from inspiring stories. Fr. Donald D’Silva, S.J. addressed the audience and thanked the speakers for taking the time to speak to the students of XLRI PGDM (GM).
He also thanked the Innov8 committee and others in the organizing team for organizing this Ingenium 3.0. In his address, he asked the students to contemplate their entrepreneurial ideas.
He also advised the students to interact with others to turn those bright ideas into reality.
It was followed by the Keynote Speaker Rajeev Warrier, EVP Wadhwani Entrepreneur, Wadhwani Foundation.
The topic was: Business School role in Start-up Ecosystem. Rajeev spoke about decisions you take at the right time, which does entrepreneurship work. Diving deep into the role of Business schools in the Start-up Ecosystem, he mentions partnering with institutes to develop a new brigade of entrepreneurs with various models of upskilling and mentoring.
It was followed by another keynote speaker Saurabh Garg, Co-Founder of NoBroker.com. The topic was: To Start Up or Not to Start Up. He started by narrating his life journey about how an interaction with a broker to rent a house in Mumbai eventually convinced him to start this venture. He talked at length about how the logo of NoBroker.com came into existence and how he eventually convinced VCs to invest in his company.
The Women Entrepreneurship Panel discussed “Entrepreneurship and Social Impact” by Dipti Tandon, Co-Founder, CoffeeMug and Ex Co-Founder, of Jeevansathi.com, Yeshasvini Ramaswamy, Serial Entrepreneur & CEO, of Great Place to Work® Institute (India).
They shared their point of view on entrepreneurship, which is entrepreneurship is a fast-track path to Zen, as one faces many emotional upheavals in the journey that enhance one as a human being.
The grand event concluded with a vote of thanks by the Innov8 E-Cell Committee of XLRI summarizing the whole session and bringing it to a delightful close.
