GES registrations open

Updated on: Thursday, December 17, 2009

Kolkata: IIT Kgp’s Entrepreneurship Cell is calling for registrations for its annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES).

The summit will held in January 15-17.

This time, going international, E-Cell has launched the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES 2010) will host six international competitions including the first-ever Clean Technology Challenge alongwith the Start-up Camp and VC Pitch.

Entrepreneurship Cell, a student-body at IIT Kharagpur, claims to be one of the most active among the entrepreneurship promoting organizations in India with over 17 start-ups already rolled out and another 7-8 in the pipeline from IIT Kharagpur within its four years of inception.

Swaty Gupta, one of the student managers at E-Cell says, “The kind of response we have received in the campus is overwhelming. Our annual business-plan competition Concipio received more than 40 entries in 2008 from IIT Kharagpur itself and the winners are in progress of getting incubation from reputed organizations like TIETS, TePP.”

The Cell organises Entrepreneurship Summit each year in January, a two-day event, for young entrepreneurs, students as well as corporates, VCs, and media to gather and interact through networking sessions, guest lectures, certified workshops and national competitions. Personalities like ‘father of Pentium’, Vinod Dham, Tata Steel vice-president Anand Sen, NeXT CFO Dominique Trempont and Forbes Columnist and popular author, Sramana Mitra have attended the summit in the past.

For more details and to register for GES, visit www.esummit.ecell-iitkgp.org

GES registrations open

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