Two-day E-Summit ‘An Arduous Carrefour’ by Entrepreneurship Cell of IIT Hyderabad takes off on Saturday

The previous E-Summit 2022 has been a huge success with an 80,000 outreach including the participation of over 50 startups and 30+ eminent key-note speakers.

ACN Correspondent On Jan 19, 2023

Countdown begins in Hyderabad: The two-day E-Summit ‘An Arduous Carrefour’ featuring a series of keynote addresses, panel discussions, and intellectual talks by renowned experts hailing from corporate, education, and government is going to be organnised on January 21-22 at IIT Hyderabad.

Being organised by the Entrepreneurship Cell (E-Cell) of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hyderabad this offline Entrepreneurship Summit 2023 carries a very crucial theme – An Arduous Carrefour.

“With the looming recession and the funding winter, the last year has been a rough one for startups. There has been a significant fall in funding compared to the previous year. After a triumphant revival in 2021, the Indian startup ecosystem faces multiple challenges again in today’s market. With “An Arduous Carrefour” as the theme, our objective is to explore the difficulties, setbacks, challenges and opportunities that lie at this crossroads for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship and how more effort is required to excel and succeed,” said a statement by E-Cell of IIT Hyderabad.

The previous E-Summit 2022 has been a huge success with an 80,000 outreach including the participation of over 50 startups and 30+ eminent key-note speakers.

Some of the renowned Keynote Speakers joining us this year include Dr. Shanta Thoutam – Chief Innovation Officer, Govt. of Telangana, Rama Iyer – Head Of innovation at GMR Group, GV Krishnagopal – Group CEO at Access Livelihoods Group, Sri Charan Lakkaraju – Founder & CEO at stuMagz, Avishek Gupta – Managing Director and CEO at Caspian Debt, Dr. Ravishankar Polisetty – Founder & CEO of Sai Ganga Panakeia Private Limited, Udaya Kumar Dintyala – Ex Exec. Director at AT&T Global Business Services India, and Sandip Poddar – Co-Founder and Director at Navikarna Ventures.

This year’s Topics for Panel Discussions include Transformation of India’s Digital Payment Landscape, Technological Innovations – The Driving Factors and Impacts, and The Employer-Employee Paradox: Concurrency of Layoffs and Hiring.

The renowned panelists for the Transformation of India’s Digital Payment Landscape include Hussaini S F – Technology and Innovation Leader; Executive Director, JP Morgan & Chase, N Srinivasan – Sr. Executive Vice President, HDFC Bank, Neeraj Bansal – Co-Founder & CEO at CredRight Pvt. Ltd, and Dhruv Gupta (Moderator) – COO at iTIC.

The panel discussion titled Technological Innovations – The Driving Factors and Impacts would witness participation of Saumya Ranjan Pradhan – Head of Applied Innovation Exchange, Capgemini, Raghu Mangaraju – Vice President, India at BLEND360, Rajesh Shenoy – Sr. Director, Research at Cetas Healthcare, and Dr. Nakul Parameswar (Moderator) – Assistant Professor, Department of Entrepreneurship and Management IIT Hyderabad.

Yugandhar Penubolu – Founder of Winzard.io, HR Tech, Dr. Murali Padmanabhan – MD, Leadership Dimensions LLP, Nanda Kishore –President at V.L.S. Systems Inc., and Dr. MP Ganesh (Moderator) – Head & Associate Professor, Department of Entrepreneurship and Management IIT Hyderabad will participate in panel discussion The Employer-Employee Paradox: Concurrency of Layoffs and Hiring

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About the event:
Post-pandemic, it is a wonderful opportunity for E-Cell this year to host E-Summit 2023 offline. E-Summit is one of the biggest business and entrepreneurship conclaves in India. It brings together entrepreneurs, corporate professionals, venture capitalists and students to share their entrepreneurial thoughts, experiences and endeavours. We host thought-provoking talks, panel discussions, competitions and many more, aiming to address the present entrepreneurial scenario and nurture an entrepreneurial mindset among students across India.

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