Startup Times successfully organized our series of Meet hosted by Startup Times in Partnership with MeitY- NASSCOM Centre of Excellence, NASSCOM, Ministry of Information and Technology, F6S, DevoByte Hartron, and Government of Haryana on 10th December 2022.
The event was a huge success, with the participation of more than 100 plus startup founders from different domains.
The entire session was full of critical aspects for the Startup Founders to get the knowledge and value of years of experience and expertise. Around nine speakers from different domains were invited and provided their valuable input for the young entrepreneurs who joined the session.
The session began with a small discussion about the startup ecosystem and how these small meetups create value for the founder’s journey, beautifully explained by Sarfraz Khan, Founder of Startup Times.
Miss Palakh Khanna (Founder/CEO@Break.The.Ice |UN SDG Regional Officer(Asia-Pacific)| India’s 20 Under 20|Josh Talks|Harvard Innovation Fellow|10+ talks| World Record| HPAIR| Mentor|Youth Changemaker|Environmentalist|Social Entrepreneur): She explained the importance of networking and how LinkedIn can be a vital tool for growing their business.
Kewal Kishan (MSMEs Expert on Business Automation and TEDx Speaker): He explained the CABA (Chota Admi and Bada Admi) concept and the importance of sticking to the same marketing strategy for a longer time to get recognition from the audience.
Virendra Sharma (TEDx Speaker | 21x Keynote Speaker| Mentor of Change-AIM, NITI AAYOG, Govt. of India | Corporate Trainer| Start-up India Mentor| Motivational Speaker | Enabled 10,000+ students & 8000+ professionals| Life Coach): He explained about different funding opportunities and the how to overcome the fear during the entrepreneurship journey.
Maj Pawan Kumar ( Shaurya Chakra (Retd) Tedx Speaker | Motivational Speaker | Defence Manufacturing ): He beautifully explained the entire startup journey by comparing it with how a camp base is a setup up in the Indian Army.
Sumit Jain (Building SaaS for Dairytech | Featured in Forbes & CNBC | TEDx Speaker): He explained the technological aspect of any startup and why it’s essential to have an in-house development team for tech startups.
Samyak Jain (Founder & CEO at MyWays.ai (B2B JobTech) | IIT Delhi | TEDx Speaker | Josh Talks Speaker): He explained his journey in IIT-Delhi and how he managed to move from introvert to extrovert.
Nidhi Sharma (Founder and Designer – BREATHE by Nidhi Sharma): She explained the importance of creativity and shared her insights from the Fashion industry.
Deepak Solanki (Founder & CEO @ Velmenni | Researcher | TEDx Speaker): He shared his funding journey and explained about LiFi (Revolutionary Wireless Communication Technology). Also, he shared his insights into the Startup Ecosystem and the characteristics necessary for becoming an entrepreneur.
Sunny Ahlawat (Business Advisor, Growth Hacker, Keynote Speaker, Author, Startup, Enthusiastic, Seed Fund Angel Investor, Startup Mentor, and Podcaster): He explained the funding process and was keen to interact with startups who are struggling to get funding. He even offered startup founders one-on-one sessions with him so that he could guide them in the right direction for their entrepreneurship journey.
The session ended with a talk from Mr Sudhanshu Mittal (Head & Director Technical Solutions – CoE IoT & AI), who explained the incubation opportunities with NASSCOM COE and their upcoming event promoting businesses that want to expand in the European region.
All the attendees got the opportunity to individually interact with all the speakers and clear all their doubts. Everyone enjoyed the snacks and coffee during the event.
While talking to Sarfraz Khan and Sunny Ahlawat, they said they would soon take this globally and are planning to conduct such events in the Middle East, starting from Dubai in the coming future.