 Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 4: The Institution Innovation Council (IIC) at Model Institute of Engineering and Technology in collaboration with Campus Dunia, Startupz Hub, Vibrant Networking Forum & FICCI Flo, JK&L Chapter organized an event on "Unleashing Growth: Creating Startups, Generating jobs and Empowering Women Entrepreneurs'' on 3rd June 2022. The Guest speakers at the event were Vivek Attray, Former-IAS and Motivational TEDx Speaker, Vikas Gupta, VP, IoT Strategic and Smart Connectivity, Vodafone Idea Limited, Prof. Ankur Gupta, Director MIET, Ruchika Gupta, Joint Director MIER Group and Treasurer, FICCI FLO, JK&L, Manik Soodan, Founder and CEO Campus Dunia. Other dignitaries present were Maj. Gen. S.K Sharma, Advisor MIER Group, Varuna Anand, Senior Vice Chair, FICCI FLO JK&L and other esteemed senior members from FICCI FLO chapter, Dr. Sahil Sawhney, General Manager Strategic Initiatives apart from the representatives from IIT Jammu Incubation Centre, Faculty Members from MIET and 250+ students.
Vivek Atray, very succinctly introduced the concept of start-ups and the three elements of idea, resources and support needed to launch a successful startup. He also stressed on the role of innovation and creativity combined with calculated risk-taking ability to ensure success. He cited the example of Campus Dunia as a successful startup in the Fin-Tech space to reinforce his mantras for startup success, especially from a student perspective.
Vikas Gupta related to the different aspirations of the students in choosing careers and then elaborated on the start-up journeys of many recently turned Unicorn companies like, Super Dairy, Fresh to Home, Licious, NetMed, 1MG, Pharmeasy and Apollo 24/7. He highlighted the role of the mentoring received through accelerators/incubators in ensuring rapid growth of all these unicorns. He hoped that students from Jammu will also embrace the startup culture and try to solve real-world problems through innovation and ingenuity.
Prof. Ankur Gupta, made a presentation on "Demystifying Startups for Students", answering questions like What? Why? When? Where? and How? to launch a start-up. He highlighted the need of a customer centric approach for continual innovation and value generation. He advised the budding entrepreneurs to seek mentorship support early on to ensure agile course correction. He urged the students to ensure unit profitability for their start-ups from early on for sustainable growth. He gave the Mantra of 'Diligence' to the students for pursuing success in their respective ventures. He also apprised the audience that a MIET faculty startup with an IT-analytics product has reached revenue stage which is a major success at MIET and the region in general.
Ruchika Gupta, spoke about the successful women Entrepreneurs in the region who achieved success against the odds. She highlighted the role of FICCI FLO JK&L chapter in promoting women Entrepreneurship in the region. She also introduced the successful women founders and business leaders from the region including Splendor of Kashmir, KC-360 Cloud Kitchen, Ambrosia Nuts, Monalisa, and P-Mark.
Lastly Manik Soodan, who is also the son of the soil and a proud alumni of MIET, shared his journey of entrepreneurship with the audience and highlighted the need to act swiftly towards one's passion and create start-ups as the ecosystem is now fully developed to nurture the growth of the start-ups. He reiterated his company's support towards young entrepreneurs who wish to take the plunge into entrepreneurship.
A formal Vote of thanks was delivered by Mr. Parveen Kumar Abrol, Convenor of the Institution Innovation Council at MIET.
MIET IIC is top ranked Institutions Innovation Council in the region and has been selected amongst top 50 IICs across India Mentor five different IICs in the region under Mentor Mentee Scheme. MIET is preparing students for Entrepreneurship by exposing them to advanced tools and technologies through its linkages with Ministry of Education's Innovation cell, JKEDI, GiGA Innovations, Inspire360, Amazon, Bentley, Nvidia, Ui-path, Dell EMC, IBM and Cisco. |
