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NEN &
Acropolis Launches '
Center Of
Excellence'- Entrepreneurs
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TOPIC:
India’s
Next Move: Start-ups and
Innovation
SPEAKER:
Professor Rishikesha T. Krishnan, Director-IIM
Indore
About the Speaker:
From
1996 to
2013, Professor Krishnan was a member of the faculty at the
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (
IIMB),
India.
Professor Krishnan was a
Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Advanced
Study of India,
University of Pennsylvania (
Fall 2008), and at the
Indian School of Business (
ISB), Hyderabad (2011-12). He held the JamunaRaghavan
Chair in Entrepreneurship at IIMB from 2007-10.
Professor Krishnan’s main areas of interest are strategy and innovation. He was listed among the Thinkers50 India most influential thinkers in management from India (2013) and jointly received the special Thinkers50 India Innovation award (2013). Earlier, he received the
Dewang Mehta Award for
Best Teacher in
Strategic Management in
2010.
Professor Krishnan’s recent book, 8
Steps to Innovation:
Going from Jugaad to Excellence (co-authored with VinayDabholkar, and published by
Harper Collins in
March 2013), outlines a systematic path for organizations to build innovation capabilities. This book has been chosen as the Best
Book of 2013-14 by the
Indian Society for
Training and
Development
Professor Krishnan is an alumnus of
IIT Kanpur,
Stanford University and
IIM Ahmedabad.
TOPIC: New
Paradigm of Funding
Start Ups in India
SPEAKER: Abhijeet
Kumar Co founder -ah! Ventures
About the Speaker:
Armed with a
B.Tech from
IIT Mumbai, Abhijeet worked with
Deloitte Consulting as an Associate Consultant before moving on to found his own company, Pronto
Infotech, in the
ITES space. Here, he faced and overcame the challenges that come with setting up an enterprise, and in the last 6 years, has created a successful venture with a multi-crore revenue stream. He has worked with numerous clients across industries and in various functional domains including Tax, Retail, HR, E-Commerce, Web,
Supply Chain,
Technology, Banking and others.
Having consulted in both business and technical capacities, and with the extensive experience working directly and indirectly for various functional domains, Abhijeet has the ability to evaluate ventures across
the board and help entrepreneurs with intelligent cost planning through optimisation of systems, processes and networks, as well as creating and achieving targets. With his wide network of professionals from various verticals like operations, finance, accounting, and marketing, Abhijeet is not only able to help stem
temporary gaps, but also generate business.
TOPIC:
Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem-Experience at IIT Kanpur
SPEAKER: Dr.
B.V.Phani,
Associate Dean, Innovation & Incubation
Associate Professor,
Finance, Innovation & Entrepreneurship,
IME
About the speaker:
Coordinator,
SIDBI Innovation & Incubation
Centre at
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Dr.
B V Phani is currently faculty of Finance at IIT Kanpur and holds a doctorate from
IIM Calcutta. He is an internationally acclaimed trainer in areas of finance and risk management with several national and international publications and awards. His research areas include
Risk Management,
Corporate Governance and Entrepreneurship. He is also in several government committees and part of EU
Asia projects. He is guiding Aarsh on designing risk algorithms and training solutions apart from guidance for successful entrepreneurial strategies.
Topic: WF-NEN Acropolis COE- A New
Platform for Start Ups
Speaker:
Asgar Ahmed Group Manager,Entrepreneurship Capacity Consulting
About the Speaker:
Asgar heads NEN’s Entrepreneurship Capacity Consulting group, which is helping develop the capacity of over 450 academic institutes to create, educate and support high-growth entrepreneurs. Additionally, he leads NEN’s Incubation and
Innovations program that is helping build advanced infrastructure for high-potential entrepreneurship on select campuses. A certified entrepreneurship educator, Asgar is passionate about working with early-stage and student entrepreneurs
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- published: 17 May 2015
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