Conference on “Innovation: Transforming Ideas to Business”
9th December 2016: 0900-1730 hrs: Hotel Park Hyatt, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad
Greater Malabar Initiative (GMI)
GMI focuses on bringing malabar region into tourism map with home stay, etc. We visited Rubber plantations near Kozhikode in the backdrop of beautiful Wayanad foothills. Rubber plantations also provides plenty of opportunities for automating the cutting, collection processes. It is always good moving up in the value chain, as it protects the farmers from price volatility. There are entrepreneurial opportunists in value addition of rubber. It’s important to create a local investor community that would support these entrepreneurs as they can connect with the problems better. Good discussions with few HNIs in Kozhikode around this.
NSRCEL’s Women Startup Programme 2018 team had organised a Faculty Development Program (FDP) at Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship, IIM Ahmedabad for its partners IIM Visakhapatnam, IIM Indore, IIM Nagpur, IIM Udaipur, IIE – Guwahati, IIM Sirmaur, on 17th and 18th March 2018. This program catered to imparting the knowledge about the best practicies of bootcamp and incubation along with insights to mentoring and programme practices followed by the best incubators in the country. This programme, supported by Department of Science and Technology and Goldman Sachs has completed its first stage where more than 1000 submitted ideas are evaluated and shorlisted to around 300 ideas for a bootcamp across these partner locations, starting from 2nd April 2018.
‘Leveraging Private Finance to Scale Urban Service Delivery’ at the CityFix Labs final event in Hyderabad on the 4th. During TheCityFix Labs journey, we realised that there is tremendous interest from all the stakeholders (government, investors, citizens and enterprises) in this topic and also, several unanswered questions. So, as we come to the close of our accelerator, we decided to discuss this very important and intriguing subject with a key subset of the stakeholders – government and investors- you all. For the discussion we will use the simple panel format- I will ask questions, you will answer and hopefully, somewhere along the process we can instigate a thought-provoking debate. We will also try to make it interactive by involving the audience.
Shri Arif Mohammed Khan
Guest of Honour Hon’ble Governor of Kerala
Dr Saji Gopinath
Vice Chancellor
Kerala University of Digital Science,Innovation & Technology
Equity Finance for MSMEs – A roadmap
Mr Nagaraja Prakasam
Angel Investor, Mentor, Fund Advisor
If we all innovate and change we can achieve SDG by 2030! Keynote speech kicking off SDG Innovation bootcamp by The Social Town NSRCEL WSP3 startup & Kerala Startup Mission! Kerala already leading the way as Number 1 in the country achieving India SDG goals!
