On Friday, the E-Summit'16 started in Bhubaneswar. It is an
event to promote entrepreneurship being organized by Centre for
Entrepreneurship, IIT Bhubaneswar.
According to director, R V Rajakumar, the event's focus is to promote the Make-in-India concept by infusing IT into manufacturing processes. It will be held for three days with its theme being "Industry 4.0".
It will begin on Friday with its inaugural speech to be delivered by Rajnish Kumar (MD NBG, SBI) and Jagi Mangat Panda (MD, Ortel Communications).
As the event is to focus on entrepreneurship so, the first panel discussion "Vision Night" is planned to be an open house discussion on "India, Industry 4.0 & Entrepreneurship". It will be graced by the presence of many industry leaders including Varun Jha (ex-COO Tata Steel), Jagi Mangat Panda (co-founder, Ortel Communications), Rajib Shekhar Sahoo (president, TiE Bhubaneswar), Devesh Sinha (founder, ESSPL), J K Rath (chairman, UCCI), Prasant Satpathy (M D, SCIL), Jagadanand Mohapatra (MD, AGIL), and Tapan Das (MD, S K Engineers).
The other discussions are to be held on topics- digital India and entrepreneurship in mineral-based industry, bio-science and bio-technology industry, and public systems. These will be attended by- Rajiv Lochan Mohanty (Chairman, MGM Group), Mukesh Kumar (COO, Vedanta), Gyana Parija (IBM Research Labs), G C Pati (former Odisha chief secretary), and G Nayak (Director, IIIT, Bhubaneswar). These reputed leaders will share their thoughts with budding entrepreneurs providing them with help for starting their ventures i.e. the ideas.
Another interesting event is "Investors' Drive" where students will present their business plans before a number of investors who might invest in them. The potential investors include- Raghav Kanoria (Calcutta Angels Cofounder), Sushant Nayak (IVY Consultants), Srikanth Sunder Rajan (Helion Ventures), and Binayak Acharya (Unitus Seed Fund), and investors from Indian Angel Network.