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Saturday, May 22, 2010


As the school year nears an end, we wanted to take a few minutes to reflect on EA’s activities over the past semester and thank of all of partners for making this semester such a success!

EA highlights from the semester include:

  • Guest speaker session for E-Cell members and faculty with Kanwal Rekhi, eminent venture capitalist and co-founder of The IndUS Entrepreneurs (TiE)
  • Guest speaker session for E-Cell members and faculty with Gururaj "Desh" Deshpande
  • Faculty trainings on social entrepreneurship courses
  • Training of trainers on entrepreneurial motivation for EA faculty with expert trainer, Rita Sengupta
  • Trainings on advanced IT applications for academics
  • Trainings on IT applications for perspective entrepreneurs
  • Memorial event in honor of CK Prahalad at IMSR
  • Presentations on 2K challenge
  • Inaugural E-Cell Advisory Committee Meeting
  • Boot camp for 4th semester students at JSS on how to develop and pitch an entrepreneurial idea
  • Site visits to local social enterprises
  • Female entrepreneur, Shrvani Hagargi, visited social entrepreneurship courses to discuss women's role in entrepreneurship and building a social venture
  • Completed Entrepreneurship Cell inaugurations for EA's current partners, bringing the total number of EA partners to 7. Partners include: IMSR (Hubli), GBS (Hubli), JSS (Dharwad), KIMS (Dharwad), IMER (Belgaum), BIMS (Belgaum) & BET’s GBS (Belgaum)

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