Calendar, Motivations, News, Resources

SME Leaders of Tomorrow

The contribution of SMEs towards nation’s GDP and employment opportunities cannot be overstated.ET NOW and IndiaMART endeavor to capture the inspiring stories of SMEs who have carved a niche for themselves and are shaping the course of Indian economy.

Over the last two years, Leaders of Tomorrow has reached out to millions of SMEs across the country and has set phenomenal benchmarks in participation. A three-fold jump in entries in just 2 years speaks volumes about the stature of this initiative. In its 3rd year of running, we strive to grow further in scale and aspirational levels.

We welcome you to be a part of journey in our quest for the Leaders of Tomorrow.

Click Here for the event.

Calendar, Networking, News

Strategic Growth Forum

Growth insights, new relationships

SGF will provide you an excellent opportunity to connect with the finest thinkers and business leaders; gain insights and also build important relationships. Over 50 global and Indian speakers have confirmed comprising political leaders, strategic thinkers, founders and CEOs. Some of the prominent keynotes include globally renowned achievers and champions like Rasmus Ankersen, High performance anthropologist; Viswanathan Anand, current World Chess Champion; business leaders like Harsh Mariwala, CMD, Marico; D. Shivakumar, Head – India. Middle East and Africa; Dr. Robert Kuhn, international corporate strategist, among other global thought leaders.  Moreover, keynote sessions by Shri Prithviraj Chavan, Hon. Chief Minister of Maharashtra and Shri Praful Patel, Minister of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises.  

For details on exceptional International and Indian speakers and panel discussions, please visit ww.ey.com/in/sgf

The inaugural SGF India 2011 was highly successful and attended by over 40 speakers and 250 CEOs from India and across the world. You can view a two-minute film on the SGF India 2011 here 

Register now!
 
The Forum participation fee is INR 27,000 (plus service tax). This will include all forum-sponsored knowledge-sharing sessions, networking meets, exclusive access to SpotMe – the international networking app, entertainment and meals.  
 
Click here to make the participation fee payment and book your place. 
 
Please feel free to write at sgf2012@in.ey.com or call 91 124 464 4149 for further information.   
 
I do hope you can make the most of this opportunity and look forward to your participation at the SGF in Mumbai. 
 
Kind Regards,
Ernst & Young

Innovation, News

EyeRing finger-mounted connected cam

 

EyeRing finger-mounted connected cam captures signs and dollar bills, identifies them with OCR (hands-on)

TheMIT Media Lab’s EyeRing project was designed with an assistive focus in mind, helping visually disabled persons read signs or identify currency, for example, while also serving to assist children during the tedious process of learning to read. Instead of hunting for a grownup to translate text into speech, a young student could direct EyeRing at words on a page, hit the shutter release, and receive a verbal response from a Bluetooth-connected device, such as a smartphone or tablet. EyeRing could be useful for other individuals as well, serving as an ever-ready imaging device that enables you to capture pictures or documents with ease, transmitting them automatically to a smartphone, then on to a media sharing site or a server.

Click Here for the full details

 

Innovation, News, Uncategorized

The ŠKODA Prize for Indian Contemporary Art

FIRST PRIZE –  Rs. 10,00,000

RUNNER’S UP (2 PRIZES) – A 4-week residency in Switzerland, courtesy Pro Helvetia, The Swiss Arts Council

The ŠKODA Prize for Indian Contemporary Art was designed and developed as our deliberate attempt to create one of the world’s great art prizes.

The justification for producing a world class, contemporary art prize was simple. The ŠKODA Prize exists to showcase all of India’s exhibiting artists on a single platform – as a single snapshot in time. It exists to uproot and publicize new talent, and to create new heroes of Indian art. It exists to provide a single, annual focal point for Indian and International collectors, galleries, museums, dealers and institutions to follow and chart the story of Indian contemporary art. Finally, and in my mind at least, it is a window for the outside world to see in to a modern India that is carrying the weight of its history into a challenging 21st Century.

Click Here for the details and the entry forms

LAST DATE FOR SUBMISSION OF ENTRIES IS 31 AUGUST 2012

Networking, News, Resources

Indo US Entrepreneurship Summit, September 12-21, 2012 – Women Entrepreneurs

Please alert your membership and other friends both in the USA and India to this 9-day Summit (see attached brochure) to be held on the UI Campus. This first Indo-US Summit will give emphasis and highlight the work of women entrepreneurs.

 The Summit, interactively will explore, engage, and enhance the capabilities of participating entrepreneurs. 

Some of the topics covered would include:

• Meeting and sharing ideas with women entrepreneurs and leaders

• Visiting and observing practices of small businesses

• Visiting selected major business enterprises in the area

• Participating in several entrepreneurship classes

• One-on-one and group interactions with Tippie College of Business faculty and students

• Attending an all-day Innovators Expo

(with an estimated 500 participants)

• Visiting successful incubators/enterprises at the UI’s Oakdale Campus

• Exploring new technologies of the future

• Attending Friday Speaker Series (depending on schedule)

• Visiting a local family farm enterprise

• Attending cultural programs and events

• Engaging with the Iowa City Indian community

• Experiencing Iowa City’s farmer’s market and shopping

• Socials, mixers, banquets and recognition ceremonies

• Developing a summary of lessons learned

• Developing an agenda for the next Indo-US Summit

 

We plan to register only a limited number of qualified registrants (maximum of 30), majority of them from India. The 9-day program fees for the Summit is estimated to be $3,000. Two-thirds of the estimated program fees will be underwritten by UI scholarships, and the remainder of $1,000 will be borne by participants. In addition, IUES participants will be responsible for direct expenses of travel, lodging and some of the meals. If you know anyone who might be interested, please request them to contact me ASAP, so that I can arrange to get an invitation sent to them. Of course, you are welcome to register and join us at the Summit as well. The Summit will give participants a marvelous opportunity to connect with Indian entrepreneurs. 

 Note: Prakasam Tata has already recruited two individuals, one from Chicago and another from Vijayanagaram, India to participate in this conference.

If you have any questions on IUES related matters, please do not hesitate to write or call on me.

Best wishes and regards,

R. Rajagopal, Ph. D. (r-rajagopal@uiowa.edu)

Professor, Convener, IUES

The University of Iowa

319-594-9442 (Cell)

 Courtesy :  Porus Dadabhoy, Program Chair, IDCA
Click Here for the brochure
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News, Social Entrepreneurship

India’s Global Waste-Recycling and Resource-Recovery Company

Hanjer Biotech Energies is a India based group with a proven track record of Solid Waste Processing using Multi-Product Recycling and Waste Minimisation (MPRWM). Hanjer’s decade long experience in multiple locations with varied climatic and weather conditions across India has perfected the process and technology that can be implemented and work successfully anywhere in the world. The principle of the process is to extract usable, commercially viable end-products out of the MSW and create a processed remnant of less than 20% of the input volume, for the landfills. Hanjer has 16 operating plants in India with total installed annual processing capacity of 2.95 million tonnes. 9 more projects with an additional 1.05 million ton processing capacity are in implementation stage.

  • Proven track record over 7 years
  • Capability to handle Mixed and Residual Solid Waste
  • A complete recycling solution with Green Technology
  • Recycling to Green Products
  • Process and operation adaptable to customer needs and comfort
  • Serving 25 Indian cities with an annual processing capacity of 4 million tons benefitting 30 million people
  • Aligned to global objectives

Click Here for their website

Finance, News, Startups

Angel Funding in India


YourNest

invests in businesses built on vibrant, new ideas. We, at YourNest, provide value to the first generation entrepreneur through mentoring, coaching, and business process development. The start-up team is often bereft of support in this competitive world. As an Indian Early stage fund focussed on Angel investments, YourNest offers support, constant guidance, handholding, expertise in business strategy, and access to a wide network for entrepreneurial growth – besides funds. As a significant player in the Angel Funding eco-system in India, YourNest has already designed and tested systems and processes that can be easily replicated across start-ups for a quicker time to market and agile decision making.

Fund Objectives

  • To invest, as an Angel Fund, at an early stage, in the opportunities opened-up by the explosive growth in entrepreneurial activities in India.
  • Maximise returns by enabling portfolio companies of the Angel Fund to build scale and create value.
  • Focus on building a diversified portfolio of fast growing unlisted start-up companies which –
    – are attempting path-breaking use of technology or
    – have an innovative business model or
    – build on a scalable & SMART Idea or
    – represent an emerging sector.
  • Operate a balanced, long-term, venture capital fund focussed on Angel or Early Stage investment in India.
  • Hold significant minority stake to extend collaborative support for ventures’ growth.
  • Mitigate risk associated with Early Stage investing by identifying successfully incubated ideas led by promising entrepreneurial teams that are ready with a Go-To-Market plan.

Click Here to reach YourNest

News

Digital Sharing

kleeto is founded with the vision of simplifying your paper management and ultimately reduce the usage of paper to the bare minimum working towards a greener world.

Consider the number of documents you have in your possession that are, to a large degree irreplaceable: sale deeds, insurance policies, merit certificates, Income Tax documents, degree certificates and medical records among other things; and the kind of risk they are exposed to every day: loss, theft, termites, dust, moisture

Botheration required for replacing even the so-called replaceable documents is worth a lot of your precious time and mindshare.

With kleeto, you can rest assured by giving these documents where they will be stored with the utmost standards of security, indexed for easy access within seconds and delivered to your address on demand.

Innovation, Motivations, Networking, News

Creating an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem – The Power of Ideas

India’s largest entrepreneurship development programme is back. Seeking to create a culture of innovation in the country by touching more lives, the programme aims at encouraging individuals with a business idea to come forward and connects them with relevant mentors and investors. This year, equipped with a superior degree of mentoring and a larger corpus of funds, The Economic Times’ Power of Ideas will make an even bigger impact than 2010.

The programme is conducted by The Economic Times in partnership with the Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India. DST brings to the programme its immense expertise and relationships in the entrepreneurial space as well as a corpus of Rs. 6.2 crore of guaranteed funds. The funds are open to all deserving ideas with genuine innovation on their mind, regardless of whether they have just an idea or a fully functional start-up.

Highlights of the programme structure:

Phase I: Submission of busi-ness ideas — Last date for submission of Business Summary form is June 25, 2012

Phase II: Mentoring and Elevator Pitches for those entrepreneurs whose ideas make it to the first cut-off list

Phase III : Final cut-off + Intensive Mentoring at IIM-Ahmedabad

Phase IV : Felicitation Ceremony

Connect with The Power of Ideas@

• Website: www.ideas. economictimes.com

• SMS: To get details of the programme in your mailbox, SMS ETPI your name email id to 58888

• Faeebook : http://tinyurl.com/ideaset

• Twitter : http://tinyurl.com/ideastw

Click Here for more details

Business Ideas, Motivations, News

The Flying Car

This week the Dutch company PAL-V announced the first flights of its prototype “flying car”.
This unique vehicle is called the PAL-V One, or the ‘Personal Air and Land Vehicle’, and It marks the start of a new era.

On the ground the vehicle drives like a sports car. Within minutes its rotor is unfolded and its tail is extended: then it is ready to take off thanks to the advanced gyrocopter technology.

With these successful test results it is proven that it is not only possible to build a flying car but also that it can be done within existing international rules for both flying and driving.

Having passed this important milestone the company is now inviting investors to join them in creating the future.

The next step will be the design of the first commercial production model of the PAL-V, and first deliveries are expected in 2014.

For 100 years people have dreamed of a flying car, and many attempts have been made to realize this dream, but now it has truly become a reality. www.PAL-V.com