Leading Social Entrepreneurs, Arunachalam Muruganantham & Devender Raj Mehta will address at IIMC’s E-Summit on February 24
• Other speakers include Shri Joe Madith, winner of Schwab Foundation's Outstanding Social Entrepreneur award and Kyoto World Water Grand Prize and Smt Radha Basu, co-founder of Anudip Foundation, the largest social enterprise in East India and an invited lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management.
• Also mark the finals of the first edition of the annual “Tata Social Enterprise Challenge”
Come this Sunday, IIM Calcutta will host the sixth edition of the distinguished E-Summit at its campus in Joka. Budding and energetic entrepreneurs will discuss ideas related to social entrepreneurship and professionalization of unorganized sector in the one day event which will be held on February 24, being organised by the IIM Calcutta’s Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation - (CEI) in association with the Student Entrepreneurship Club of IIM Calcutta. E-Summit will also mark the finals of the first edition of the annual “Tata Social Enterprise Challenge” which will be the culmination of the 2 months long event. Social organisations from across the country were invited to submit details about their venture and they were judged by an eminent panel consisting of members from Acumen Fund, Yunus Business Fund, Ennovent etc.
The event will be graced by stalwarts in the field of Social Entrepreneurship. A team from Yunus Business Fund has already confirmed their participation for the event. The speakers list includes names such as Padma Bhushan Shri Devender Raj Mehta, founder of BMVSS which has received international acclaim for its low cost prosthetic leg the Jaipur Foot, Shri Arunachalam Muruganantham, winner of best innovation award given by the honourable president of India, who developed low-cost sanitary napkin solution for rural population. Arunachalam has a very inspiring story about his entrepreneurship journey that he would be sharing with the audience. Other speakers include Shri Joe Madith, winner of Schwab Foundation's Outstanding Social Entrepreneur award and Kyoto World Water Grand Prize, who runs social program related to Education, Health and Sanitation in through Gram Vikas. An interesting name on the list of speakers is Shrimati Radha Basu, co-founder of Anudip Foundation, the largest social enterprise in East India and an invited lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management. The organisers appear to have left no stone unturned to bring together an inspiring line up of speakers for the event.
Earlier versions of the E-Summit have been graced by dignitaries such as Shri Ajit Balakrishnan - CEO of Rediff.com, Shri Sharath Babu - founder of FoodKing Catering, Shri Sridar Iyengar - CEO, TiE and ex-CEO, KPMG in India and Shri Sanjeev Bhikhchandani - Founder and CEO of Naukri.com. E-Summit has once again this year, made the event open for entrepreneurship enthusiasts from across the city of Kolkata and hundreds of participants are expected to attend the event. You can still register for the event at this link - www.ecelliimc.com
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For further query, you may contact with Prof. Ashok Banerjee at 9831107359
Issued by Aloke Guin, Public Relations Officer, IIM Calcutta, Mobile: 09903857497
• Other speakers include Shri Joe Madith, winner of Schwab Foundation's Outstanding Social Entrepreneur award and Kyoto World Water Grand Prize and Smt Radha Basu, co-founder of Anudip Foundation, the largest social enterprise in East India and an invited lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management.
• Also mark the finals of the first edition of the annual “Tata Social Enterprise Challenge”
Come this Sunday, IIM Calcutta will host the sixth edition of the distinguished E-Summit at its campus in Joka. Budding and energetic entrepreneurs will discuss ideas related to social entrepreneurship and professionalization of unorganized sector in the one day event which will be held on February 24, being organised by the IIM Calcutta’s Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation - (CEI) in association with the Student Entrepreneurship Club of IIM Calcutta. E-Summit will also mark the finals of the first edition of the annual “Tata Social Enterprise Challenge” which will be the culmination of the 2 months long event. Social organisations from across the country were invited to submit details about their venture and they were judged by an eminent panel consisting of members from Acumen Fund, Yunus Business Fund, Ennovent etc.
The event will be graced by stalwarts in the field of Social Entrepreneurship. A team from Yunus Business Fund has already confirmed their participation for the event. The speakers list includes names such as Padma Bhushan Shri Devender Raj Mehta, founder of BMVSS which has received international acclaim for its low cost prosthetic leg the Jaipur Foot, Shri Arunachalam Muruganantham, winner of best innovation award given by the honourable president of India, who developed low-cost sanitary napkin solution for rural population. Arunachalam has a very inspiring story about his entrepreneurship journey that he would be sharing with the audience. Other speakers include Shri Joe Madith, winner of Schwab Foundation's Outstanding Social Entrepreneur award and Kyoto World Water Grand Prize, who runs social program related to Education, Health and Sanitation in through Gram Vikas. An interesting name on the list of speakers is Shrimati Radha Basu, co-founder of Anudip Foundation, the largest social enterprise in East India and an invited lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management. The organisers appear to have left no stone unturned to bring together an inspiring line up of speakers for the event.
Earlier versions of the E-Summit have been graced by dignitaries such as Shri Ajit Balakrishnan - CEO of Rediff.com, Shri Sharath Babu - founder of FoodKing Catering, Shri Sridar Iyengar - CEO, TiE and ex-CEO, KPMG in India and Shri Sanjeev Bhikhchandani - Founder and CEO of Naukri.com. E-Summit has once again this year, made the event open for entrepreneurship enthusiasts from across the city of Kolkata and hundreds of participants are expected to attend the event. You can still register for the event at this link - www.ecelliimc.com
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For further query, you may contact with Prof. Ashok Banerjee at 9831107359
Issued by Aloke Guin, Public Relations Officer, IIM Calcutta, Mobile: 09903857497