Dr.C.S.Chethan Kumar EDC-Coordinator

Highlights Of Entrepreneurship Development Cell 2019

Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC)

Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC) was established in July 2003.

EDC is a Platform for the RIT students dedicated to development of multidimensional skills.

Creating a forum where we can bring Interdisciplinary students to bring the heterogeneous

culture together. It invites various eminent entrepreneurs to deliver lectures to educate students

about the joys and hardships of entrepreneurship. Guest Lectures, Workshops, Case Study,

Group Discussions are conducted throughout the year to involve students in activities that are

essential to be an entrepreneur. E-Cell also actively incubates startup ideas by creating required

eco system to be an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurship Development Cell basically aims at

recognizing and developing soft skills of individuals. To be a successful entrepreneur it is

important for an individual to be a leader, a team player and a risk taker. He should also be an

excellent judge of opportunities and recognize the potential a market can offer. A good

entrepreneur has to analyze the market, plan and implement his ideas for a better society.

Keeping these objectives in mind E-Cell functions to guide the budding Entrepreneurs in their

endeavour.

Centre for Advance Training and Continuing Education (CATCE) RIT

This CATCE is an abstract view of Finishing School Concept of AICTE. Under this banner

not only the training related to Leadership & Entrepreneurship, it will also focus on the training

required for RIT students related to their academic, & Industry requirement. The main

Objective is to enable them in lifelong learning.

VISION

To provide and sustain entrepreneurial activities to foster startup culture and strive to

implement environmental, social and economic solutions.

MISSION

To generate new and innovative ideas. To organize entrepreneurial Conclaves/ Ideathon / Hackthon / Competitions. To convert innovative ideas into tangible products and solutions. To encourage start-ups and its ecosystem.

CORE VALUES

To identify creative students and inspire them with an innovative ecosystem which

provides professional and ethical inputs to become successful entrepreneurs. To enable students to follow the path of enterprise with commitment to service.

EDC-RIT EVENTS 2019-2020

EMPYREAL

The Entrepreneur Development Centre (EDC) organised Empyreal with the vision to spread

the spirit of leadership and entrepreneurship, to nurture and encourage the expression of

creative and innovative ideas and channelize the same to actual implementation. It was

conducted this year from 27th February to 2nd March,2019. Empyreal aimed to encourage

entrepreneurs and provide a platform for their participation. This fest celebrated the skill of

entrepreneurship over a huge scale. It basically focused on the development and exposure of

the new comers in the field of the Startup world. Empyreal means ‘pertaining to the highest

sky’ where this fest aimed to push the new talents up to. The fest experienced a formal

inauguration by lighting of the lamp by the faculty coordinator Shri Chetan Kumar CS, EDC

Faculty head, Shri NVR Naidu, Principal of Ramaiah Institute of Technology and by our chief

guest, Kashyap Karnala, Founding farmer at Findmymentors.com on the dias .The head of

Entrepreneurship Development Cell, RIT, Nikita Menon, also took part in lighting of the lamp.

The main events under Empreal were B-Plan, Debate, Crowd PItch and Hackathon. All these

events dealt with Business problems and ideas and how to come up a solution with. It also had

some some non technical and fun events such as IPL Auction, Jam, PUBG, Treasure Hunt etc.

The primary aim of the fest was to spread awareness about entrepreneurship and start-ups to

the students and the public in general. There had been several technical and non-technical

events organized by the members of EDC. There had been active participation in the events

throughout the fest and it exceeded the expectations of the members. Organizing an

entrepreneurial fest gives the students a lot of exposure of how things work in the real world

and what is expected of them. They learnt how to enrol themselves in different measures and

causes related to entrepreneurship.

MY STORY SESSIONS

My Story Session' is an informal engagement event that involves candid conversations, ideas, community betterment initiatives and opportunities in business, with prominent tycoons. Every year in "My story Session", we come across various discussions on the on going topics and interact with influential people, come across their life stories and experiences which guide us to implement their ideas in our life.

Miss. Siddhi Mahajankatti

The guest speaker was the beautiful budding Indian actress, Miss Siddhi Mahajankatti, who had started her acting career in the tamil film industry. In an interactive session with the audience. Miss Mahajankatti spoke about her journey and how the movie “Anandam” happened to her. She told that she was inclined towards acting from her childhood .

Aparna Athreya

We had Aparna Athreya, founder member of bangalore storytelling society She worked in software development field for 17 long years and now she is known for her influential words. she is also a famous Tedx speaker. She started her session with a chant which all the persons sitting in the hall repeated. She chanted “Everybody grow, People want to know, Why we are; Where we come from; And we tell them ; Mighty mighty student; Tomorrow's leader; Today’s chainmaker”.She tried to express her vision with the help of several stories in the whole session.

Panel Discussion

This year, we had an amazing women panel discussion with few beautiful ladies who made a great impact on our lives. One of the strongest character among them was ‘Tanvie Hans’, popularly known as “The Alex Morgan of India” who had played football for big clubs like Tottenham Hotspur and Fulham. She had started playing football at a young age and has continued as her profession now; ‘Simran Chopra’, a 35-year old mother who is a famous nutritionist and a fitness blogger who lost 23Kgs in 5 months and started working as a fitness blogger; ‘Niharika NM’, a famous YouTube comedian with 340k followers who gave an outstanding performance in the videos of GIRLIYAPA. We had our moderator ‘Ms. Prarthana Jagan’ who is a vitiligo model and a famous beauty blogger. She is a student of 3rd year, Medical Electronics from our very own college RIT.

Bert Mueller

He is the director of California Burrito restaurants, Mr. Burt Mueller. In an interactive session with the audience Mr. Mueller spoke about how hard it was to sustain in the Indian market as he was a foreigner and was not having proper clue about the Indian taste. When asked about his inspirations, he told that there were many people who inspired him, one was the ceo of The Red Lobster. Mr. Mueller said that the CEO of Red Lobster told him a basic principle which people generally skip and that is “Cash is King”. He said that for any start up, you require proper funding , you require sponsors who are with u and a proper idea how to go about investing the money.

Rosewall Da Cunha(BFC)

We had was Rosewall Da Cunha, assistant manager (operations) at BFC. He started his story as when BFC club was formed he was passing out of college. He had done masters in management studies and his coach informed about this new club coming and that he could try it out. He was passionate about football from his early days and he thought to be a part of it . He wanted to build qa career in sports as he used to play football. When he went to join the club he was questioned as what were his future plans. Finally he joined it and started off by

doing nominal jobs . He did it all in passion to be a part of such a club which had famous footballer like Sunil Chhetri.

STARTUP MEET

Date:April 11,2019 Time:4PM. Venue: DES Stairs

EDC had organised an entrepreneurial meet regarding startup of various companies which led to a huge failure. The objective of the meet was basically giving a case study about companies like Nokia, Kodak, Compaq, Dunkin Donuts which were once well established in India but because of certain wrong decisions they failed and are either bankrupt or are facing huge losses. We had a very informative discussion among our students where they came up with some really good ideas that could have been taken in consideration by the companies at that time.We felt extremely happy that the ideas pitched about these companies involved acumen with full dedication and enthusiasm.The students wanted to know more about such startups and are interested in more such meets. We had also gifted our best pitchers with a famous entrepreneurial book #ZeroToOne by Peter Thiel.

STARTUPS INCUBATED BY EDC-RIT

E-Drive

Year of Establishment: 2016

Founders: Mr Suraj Singh

Mr Sumit Kumar

A technology driven startup which aims to provide modular electric bicycle conversion kits.

The kit can be mounted on any bicycle and convert it into a smart bicycle that aims to improve

lives of thousands of people. The company will be launching their product by the end of 2016.

They are a team of riders, designers, dreamers and doers. They might have different job titles,

but are united by one goal: to help city-dwellers get from A to B faster, smarter, happier, and

in utmost style. They were founded in 2015, All they had back then was a dream of improving

lives of the people nationally as well as internationally. .E Drives is an Electric vehicle ODM

company and their scope of works lies with the electric two wheeler (bicycle, scooter) and three

wheelers.

Aidapp Intelligence Pvt. Limited

Year of foundation - 2017

Founder and Team - Divyansh Lohia Koushik AS, Daniel Monteiro

At Aidapp, they build products that simplify life. Started by a group of young, enthusiastic

students in 2017. They are committed in building revolutionary products with a single vision

to transform the sales management in India.

Aidapp is driven by the values of solving the problems that we care about the most- to help

people achieve more. We innovate in artificial intelligence and over-the-top user experience

design implementations to build the next big product that shall empower businesses in decision

making.

They have built 'Saledrive' - The simplest sales team tracking compliance for enterprises. With

Saledrive, worry less about sales management. Coordinate with your team in a hassle-free

manner. No more guesswork; everyone knows what they are doing.

They currently work from Bangalore (IN) and want to create a supportive and collaborative

environment, so that we can learn, build and grow together and move the world forward.

@DCOM - Marketing and Advertising

Year of foundation: 2018

Founders: Mr. Niraj Agarwalla

Mr. Nirvana Dogra

Mr. Pratush Maheshwari

@Dcom is a startup that institutionalized innovative methods of advertising offline. We work

to embark a new era of promotion and are very stern with our belief of eradicating pamphlets

as means of promoting. We collaborate with people at a grass root level to bring out the most

effective form of advertising amongst the youth of the nation. We provide a range of ingenious

ways of advertising. By choosing from our methodologies you will be able to advertise on

every page printed by a student. Check out some of our advertisement methodologies!! 1.

Advertise using a QR. 2. Advertise using a logo of your company. 3. Advertise using

watermark of your company. The company can choose any or all of these options for

advertisement.

ORIENTATION '19

Date : 31st August 2019 Time : 11:15 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Venue: Apex Auditorium

The Entrepreneur Development Centre (EDC) is an organization run by the students of Ramaiah Institute of Technology (RIT) with the vision to spread the spirit of leadership and entrepreneurship, to nurture and encourage the expression of creative and innovative ideas and channelize the same to actual implementation. As New students get admitted, EDC organised an ORIENTATION function to introduce those students with the basic vision, mission, working procedure, structure and outcomes of the organization. The ORIENTATION function was conducted on 31st August 2019 in Apex Auditorium in the presence of core & secondary core members, faculty coordinator and the students from the first and second year.

While the students were arriving in the auditorium the environment was made interactive by some light question-answer session by Satyam and Aditya.

As soon as the faculty coordinator Dr C. S. Chethan Kumar arrived he was welcomed by Satyam on the stage to address the gathering and start the orientation. He started with informing the audience that the basic concept of EDC is to develop innovative ideas, building market and converting one's prototype into market-level product and EDC is having a budget of around 20lacs/annum for it, then he briefly explained about the vision, mission and events organised by EDC. He also talked about PRADARSHANA which is an open day and project exhibition annual event organised by RIT in which around 470 projects are displayed in front of the public and analysed by the top industrialist which helps in showcasing and attracting investors, financial sector and marketing people. He also mentioned that "ENTREPRENEURS ARE HUNTERS OF FORTUNE IN FUTURE". He told that simple things can be transformed into big business, for example, Sulabh Toilets, Karshan Bhai Patel's NIRMA COMPANY, Steve job's APPLE, Mark Zuckerberg's FACEBOOK and Jack Ma's ALIBABA. He also told about Ratan Tata's "Seven Rules of Success".He concluded by saying "Forgot Everything and Run else Face Everything and Rise".

After that Abhigya and Vivek explained about the departments, structure, working procedure and annual events of EDC through a presentation.

Then Mr.Sundar and Mr.Deepak detailed about their new CUSHY app which will help people to find the best local places, shops, pubs etc.based on people experience. Furthermore, LANCIFY founder Gowtham Sundaresan and Azan Barodawala briefly gave the concept of LANCIFY that how it solves the problem of youth unemployability with freelance projects at dynamic businesses.

After their addressing, an advertising video on intel core i7 processor was displayed through which they showed it is the fastest and efficient processor around the globe. Then one of the ex-core head, Shashank went on the stage and spoke to the crowd, he talked about the education system and classified it into several parts like back to School, before 10th Standard, after 10th Standard, college life and try to prove that our entire education is based on conventional practices without innovations.

Furthermore, Under25: After Movie was displayed on the screen and The enthusiasm of the audience boosted up after watching the great, motivating and exciting video and the excitement level of the audience knew no folds when Aditya announces that the UNDER25 summit is going to be held in our college on 19th of September 2019.

Afterwards, Vivek and Shashank went on stage and distributed the prize to the winner of the events organised by EDC during ORIENTATION publicity. Aditya and Satyam concluded by asking the audience to fill Consent forms given to them during the event and announced the first meet date.

The outcome of the event is to introduce newly admitted students with the motive, procedure and achievements of the EDC. The event ended with core and secondary core members clicking some pictures and marking a great start to this journey.

EDC FIRST MEET

DATE: 11th September 2019

TIME : 3:35 pm - 5:30 pm

VENUE: DES Stairs

College life is that phase of everyone’s life where each one of us creates tonnes of memories with frie

nds. Every student in college comes with a dream to get a good college campus, good teachers, good environment and at the end a good job. In all these years, a student explores and finds out what talent or skills he or she has. Surprisingly, students of today’s generation aspire to become entrepreneurs and that is one of the best things which will help our country.

After a huge and successful orientation presented by EDC club, there was huge number of students that registered. To keep the spirit high and to officially welcome students in EDC club, the first meet was organised by Core and Secondary Core team of EDC. To create a good meet, several thought processes, ideas and brainstorming are required and following this, beautiful posters were designed by the Design team, classroom publicity and online publicity also created curiosity for meet among first years which were done by the members of EDC club. As per the message delivered, students were coming at DES Stairs along with their friends. In a short span of time, whole DES stairs compound was filled by first and second years. High enthusiasm was filled in each student. The meet started with an introduction about the club and was addressed by all the core members.

Then to take away the meet, the main activity which was planned to take out the best from students was “ Tete-a-Tete”. It is basically a French word, where a conversation takes place between two persons and some quick, interesting and tricky questions are asked by each other and they have to give answers. The main motto of this activity was to create open communication among everyone, to bring out to make more friends and to understand how people can be different and useful.

Set of 15 interesting questions were printed in numbers and were distributed. The students were divided into groups and each one of them was assigned, mentors. The rules were explained and the students played and interacted well. People made new friends and gave interesting and bizarre answers. To end the meeting on a good note, a quick meeting was again done by all the core and secondary core members with the students and reviews were asked. Some students are already having their own ideas and startups which is very beneficial for society. They were also briefed about Under 25 Summit which will happen in college campus along with the interesting and brainstorming meets and workshops planned for them.

Contact details were taken so that a record can be done of the students who are now part of EDC. Overall, after the meeting, the students were confident, energetic and were ready to work and appear for the next meet.

INTEL ADVERTISEMENT COMPETITION

Date-06/09/19 Time- 4:30-6:00 Venue-LHC SEMINAR HALL-1

Intel is the world's largest manufacturer of microprocessors and other devices related to communications and computing. Intel in collaboration with EDC organized a competition of creating an advertisement for the latest laptop powered by Intel Core i7 processor, and the prize money for the winning team was 30 thousand rupees. Nowadays users are Creators, gamers, multitaskers and those who go the extra mile and they prefer a device which enables them to get going anytime, anywhere. The seminar hall was full of an enthusiastic crowd as one sets foot inside the hall could feel the adrenaline rush. The anchor briefed everyone about the competition and its rules and regulations. And then judges Dr T Mohan Sundar, Dept. of Management studies from Anna University, Chennai, Mr Guru and Mr Suraj, the founder of Eco-drive were introduced. And then Mr Guru took over the stage and had an excellent interactive and fun session with the public. He also shot a question as food for thought about the increased fine over traffic rules violation. After that anchor played a quick quiz over the trendy games PUBG and CS GO, and it was a great response from the public. The presentation started, there were 9 teams up for presenting their creative ideas namely the teams are- 1)Satyam and team. 2)Manoj P and team. 3)Anushreya and team. 4)Gaurav and team. 5)K Sai Charan and team. 6)Sourav and team.

7)Akash B and team. 8)Devesh and team. 9)Saket and team. The presentation started with a bang, the presentations were really out of the world. Some showcased their creativity by making a short video comparing Intel i7 processor vs another processor by comparing them as humans. The one-man in the video can process information faster, perform multitasking and many more without lagging while the other can't. And one team related the intel i7 processor from the movie Endgame's character most powerful being and it was the unique way of representing intel i7 as inevitable. And some team used the meme content to advertise Intel i7 processor in a distinctive way. Another team also came up with unique concepts and presented their idea for an advertisement. After all, the presentation ended and then anchor played a small game with the crowd to light their mood. Finally, it was the result time. The participants were nervous and then all the three judges took over the stage to announce the result. They cleared the criteria over which they selected the winners that the one who had the best presentation skills, whose idea would target the audience and had a unique way of advertising the product. They collectively decided the winner and the winning team's name was announced by Mr Suraj and it's Akash and team who finally made it to the top and won the cash prize of 30 thousand rupees. The competition was successfully completed by the efforts of volunteers, participants and obviously the public.

IGNITE WORKSHOP

DATE: 30th August 2019 TIME: 2 pm - 4:30 pm VENUE: LHC Seminar Hall 1

IGNITE WORKSHOP was basically an entrepreneurial event cum workshop for the youth, students and budding entrepreneurs of the college and also for the ideas of entrepreneurship. This workshop was conducted and presented by GIGA Team from GIGA Innovation Centre. GIGA stands for “ GIVING INDIANS GLOBAL ACCESS”. The innovation centre not only helps in India but it is also spread worldwide like USA, Germany etc. The main aim is to give access in terms of networking, provide training, develop marketing skills, acts as a bridge to convert and bring entrepreneurial ideas into the market , etc. God’s blessings are always a good sign to head start any event and hence blessings were taken by all the members present. The chief guests were Dr C S Chethan Kumar, professor at RIT and faculty coordinator head of EDC; Mrs Geetha Ram Murthy, CEO and co-founder of GIGA, Mr Suresh, chief of design and entrepreneur and Ms Padmini, member of GIGA and Mr And Kishore, alumni of Ramaiah Institute of Technology. Mr Chethan Kumar addressed and gave a brief welcome to Mrs Geetha Ram Murthy. GIGA has nurtured more than 1000 entrepreneurs globally. One of the centres of GIGA is present in Rajaji Nagar in Bangalore.

A proposal has been sent to Principal for Ramaiah students to set 10 incubation centres to nurture entrepreneurial ideas of the students which will be in collaboration with GIGA. An interactive session was conducted by Ms Geetha in which she asked students about how the college life is going and what are their future plans? According to her, an entrepreneurial idea is not something that can be invented rather it comes from day to day life problems. Problems such as environmental, educational, technical, economical etc can become entrepreneurial ideas.

Entrepreneurship is exploding in India and the Central Government is exploding leadership. But to decrease the load on central and state government, institutions like GIGA has to come to act as a bridge and help dreams come true. Ms Geetha Murthy inspired students by narrating a story of great entrepreneurs and business tycoon, Mr Narayana Murhty. Today his company INFOSYS works on a slogan, “ We will have your product ready by the time you wake up.” The moral came out was to motivate students that even silly ideas can change your life. Also, we have to work hard and face struggles to get success. She was also assigned as an executive for THE INDUS ENTREPRENEURS (TIE) in Boston. Her son became an entrepreneur at the age of 15 with the help of TIE Young Entrepreneurs in which young students are taught for 8 weeks and are divided into teams. They are then tested to come up with their own ideas and the one which is most feasible is taken ahead. So by this, she told that we should start early and work on own for our entrepreneurial dream. The stage was then taken ahead by Mr Nand Kishore. He is an alumnus of Ramaiah Institute of Technology. He addressed everyone about what challenges he dealt and how he finally

established his own startup. According to him, there are 5Ps which define an entrepreneur. They are “PASSION, PERSPIRE, PERSEVERANCE, PRACTICAL and PHILANTHROPY.” Further, Mr Suresh addressed people by telling about the importance of sowing seed at an early age. He has his own startup which basically is an alternate of blood clotting medicines. His product works faster and is feasible. The product is a polymer cloth which does clotting in just 12 seconds by Kytosins.

To end the event on a good note and to bring out the best, an activity was conducted by GIGA team in which two real-life problems which people are facing in Bangalore were given. They were , “ Trash Manipulation and Wastage in the city” and “Traffic in Bangalore.” The students were divided into teams and they have to present on anyone idea on the basis of the problem, its solution and its market profit and impact. Students were highly determined and enthusiastic. Final results were given by Ms Padmini and a cash prize was given to the team who won. Overall the students were highly encouraged and had a good time by exploring new ideas and the future of the country with the help of entrepreneurship.

INDUCTION PROGRAM

Date: 7th September 2019

Time: 11:00 a.m.

Venue: Apex Auditorium

No. of Attendees : 300 Students

The Induction Program is the event organized by RIT for guiding and motivating newly admitted students and emphasizing them towards entrepreneurship, personality development, serving society and making it better, training them for being a successful person and enhancing their skills.

This program is going to be conducted for 6 weeks and this is the first meet of this session. Alumni of RIT arrive and share their views about various topics and try to encourage students to utilize all opportunities and think in a unique and innovative way.

We had Mr. Shashank Ramamurthy, the founder at The Kingmakers Organization and the campus ambassador of IIM AHMEDABAD, as the alumni speaker for that day.

He motivates lots of people and have his own perspective to analyze and dealing with the situations.

Shashank went on the stage and spoke to the crowd, he talked about the education system and classified it into several parts like back to School, before 10th Standard, after 10th Standard, college life and try to prove that our entire education is based on conventional practices without innovations.

He also told that entrepreneurship and startups are very important for society. It contributes to the growth of managerial abilities of individuals, gives rise to business and opportunities, promotes a better standard of living and helps in economic development too.

He gave a new kind of enthusiasm and energy to the audience and all of them were very influenced and motivated by the way he threw his ideas and acted as an inspiring icon. He makes them understand how thinking matters the most in each and every situation and work you do in your life.

EDC UPSTARTERS MEET

DATE: 27th September 2019

TIME : 3:35 pm - 5:30 pm

VENUE: E-CELL

No. of Attendees: 100 students

EDC conducted its first Upstarters meet fo the year. It was an introductory meet about how a startup works and what all prerequisite knowledge is required to become an entrepreneur. The meet was conducted by Niraj, Upstarters head of EDC-RIT. He mentioned that capacity and willingness to develop, organize and manage a business venture along with any of its risks in order to make a profit is entrepreneurship. The most obvious example of entrepreneurship is the starting of new businesses. It turns out that there are four distinct types of entrepreneurial organizations; small businesses, scalable startups, large companies and social entrepreneurs. They all engage in entrepreneurship. He talked about the four key elements of entrepreneurship which are:

Innovation. An entrepreneur is the key source of innovation and variation in an economy. ...

Risk-Taking. Entrepreneurship and risk-taking go hand in hand. ... Vision. Vision or foresight is one of the main driving forces behind any

entrepreneur. ... Organization.

He also talked about the main features of entrepreneurship which are: Related to innovation: Profit potential: Risk bearing: Idea Generation: Feasibility study: Development of managerial capabilities:

Overall the meet was very informative and students learnt the basics of entrepreneurship.

EDC SECOND MEET

DATE: 25th September 2019

TIME : 3:35 pm - 5:30 pm

VENUE: DES Stairs

No. of Attendees: 120 students

College life is that phase of life where each one of us creates tonnes of memories with friends. Every student in college comes with a dream to get a good college campus, good teachers, good environment and at the end a good job. In all these years, a student explores and finds out what talent or skills he or she has. Surprisingly, students of today’s generation aspire to become entrepreneurs and that is one of the best things which will help our country.

The EDC faculty head, Dr C S Chethan Kumar guided us in every possible way he can and EDC is thankful to him for his auspicious guidance and help. The meet was done on the DES stairs. In a short span of time, whole DES stairs compound was filled by first and second years.

The meet was basically exposure to students towards publicity, creativity, Teamwork and leadership which are the important traits of entrepreneurship. EDC organised Mad- Adds where students were asked to advertise a product which was unique in its way.

At last, the winners were given an entrepreneurial book named “Losing my Religion” a book by Vishwas Mudagal as a reward. The students were confident, energetic and were ready to work and appear for the next meet.

UNDER25 SUMMIT

DATE: 19h September 2019

TIME: 1PM-6 PM

VENUE: Ramaiah Dwarka Hall No. Of Attendees: 800 Students

It’s young India that’s taking up the baton when it comes to new ideas and entrepreneurial startups, so why not create a network for those aged 25 and below, who want to be taken a little more seriously? That’s exactly what two enterprising youth did when they created a business from the Under 25 Club they began as college students. ain and business partner Anto Philip started working on their idea as first-year undergraduate students at Christ University in Bangalore, in 2013 – Jain studying Business Management and Philip a degree in Commerce. EDC with collaboration with Under25 organised Under25 Summit which was a grand success. Renowned speakers such as Sumukhi Suresh, Vineeth Beep Kumar and Anto Philip were invited. If you’re young and want to do something on your own, you’re associated with being restless, vibrant, too casual,” said Philip. India is considered to be home to one of the fastest startup ecosystems in the world. Fifty per cent of the Indian population is under the age of 25. Collaborating with Under25 gave the students a great exposure towards entrepreneurship

GIGA WORKSHOP ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

DATE: 25th OCTOBER, 2019 TIME: 9 am-1pm VENUE: MDP SEMINAR HALL @level 2- RIM

In today’s era , the youth is exposed to advanced technologies and high cut throat competition in the field of computers , sciences , business , software , automation and many other fields. India is now on a path to development and will soon be one of the highly advanced and developed countries all over the world. Hence to keep this dream steady and real , the youth of the country has to be exposed to various advancements and studies which are required in the future. The youth of India comprises of maximum percentage of population and tends to have high potential and talent . Hence to bring out the entrepreneur and potential of our youth , GIGA helps in doing the same. GIGA stands for “ GIVING INDIANS GLOBAL ACCESS”. GIGA is currently working in all over INDIA as well as other foreign countries and helping students in terms of market ,

business , entrepreneurship, technology , internet , etc. Hence currently GIGA has collaborated with RAMAIAH Institute of Management , RAMAIAH College of Arts , Science & Commerce , RAMAIAH Institute of Technology. GIGA has started workshop series in all of them to expose the students to new world.

The first workshop was on the topic , “FUTURE OF AI - Explore new frontiers , a hands on workshop”. AI stands for ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE which is one of the rapid growing industries all over the world. The registration fee was INR 500 to experience the amazing workshop. Light lamp was done , God’s blessings were taken and the workshop was started with high enthusiasm.

The honourable chief guest and the instructor of the workshop was MS. SYEDA AMEENA BEGUM. She is currently an Associate Engineer in Watson Enablement Team IBM Pvt. Ltd. Ms. Syeda since joining IBM India Pvt. Ltd. has risen through the ranks in her career at IBM. In her role, she has made significant contribution in utilizing data science to drive value in industry domain. She has been recognised as the best performer in the project “Watson Assistant - IGA”. Prior to joining IBM India, she has introduced data science and its application in the education industry. She has applied Azure cloud services to build and deploy intelligent solutions. She has applied her skills in Machine Learning , Data Analysis and Visualisation, Power BI for interactive analysis. She has a Bachelor of Engineering in information science

at Acharya Institute of Technology, Bangalore. She has several publications like : HOW DO I EXPLAIN MACHINE LEARNING TO A KID , 3 different ways a MACHINE can learn , etc.

The main objective of the workshop was to give a quick primer covering AI related items and how WATSON technologies relate to these common ideas. A presentation was given by chief guest explaining several topics from basics such as What is data science ? , AI Introduction , Ethical Challenges of AI , Describing AI , When to use AI, Neural networks , Natural

Language. The presentation session was highly motivating and brought a professional atmosphere among all students. The laptops were mandatory . Interactive session took place in which students were asked to put up their questions and ideas. Those who wanted to further continue were invited to join the link for course. To end the session on a good note students receive a participation certificate and were highly enthusiastic at the end.

COMIC-CON POP CULTURE QUIZ

Date : 11th November, 2019

Time : 3:30 - 5:30 pm Venue: LHC HALL-1

No of attendees : 40 teams

Comic-Con India’s Pop Culture Forum is an exclusive event that hosts delegates, speakers & stakeholders from across the Pop-culture ecosystem. Comic-Con India’s

Pop-Ups feature several awesome experiences, activities and meet-ups. The event “COMIC-CON POP CULTURE QUIZ ” was hosted in our college on the 11th of November by Mantasha who was the quiz master , Prajwal , Aishwarya , Prakhyat , Juthan , Tejashree , Sneha , Abhigna. The theme of this event was Anime , Marvel/Dc Movies , Comics , Web Series , Movies , TV Series . In this event , the quiz master asked few questions in different rounds based on this theme and the award was given to the winners . The award for this event was the pass for the COMIC-CON POP CULTURE EVENT happening on Saturday.

This event took place in three rounds :

1st round : CRUEL ELIMINATION ROUND - In this the teams had to guess the name of the character by seeing the shadow of the character. There were 40 slides in total and each was shown for 6 seconds to guess. Once all the slides were shown, the answer sheets were taken and checked by the organisers and cut off for going to the next round was 19. Fourteen teams (14) got selected for the next round.

2nd round : DIRECT Q/A - It was a rapid fire round. Each question carries 2 marks. There were brownie points also in which the quiz master will ask some sub questions related to the theme and if any team answers it they get brownie points. There was negative marking also in which they cut marks by (-1) minus one of that team. You can score brownie points by yourself if you do something exciting related to that question. From this round 4 teams got selected. Then their head came and spoke about the event and asked some questions to the audience and whoever gave the answer and entertained, he/she got the pass for free.

WINNERS OF THE EVENT

3rd round : AUDIO ROUND - In this teams had to listen to that audio and tell which song it is and of which show. In some of the audios teams had to sing the song. In this round 2 teams had a tie in between them and then they were asked some comic questions . Finally at the end, 2 teams won the event. Through all this the event came to an end.

IDEA RISE-2019

Purpose: Create ideas that can potentially be converted into a business opportunity or lead to IPR by conducting an event ‘Idea-Rise ‘@EDC-RIT involving students of all departments. The proposed dates for this event this academic year should ideally end within 20th December 2019. (Follow-up sessions in even semester till Open Day Project Exhibition: Pradarshana 2020)

What is ‘Idea-Rise’?

Entrepreneurship and start-ups sound great as buzzwords but without proper thought and focus they are as good as the water mirage on the road. To remove this mirage and create a real oasis of talent, we at EDC RIT bring to you ‘IDEA-RISE’

IDEA-RISE is an entrepreneurship event which encourages students from various departments and backgrounds to pitch in their ideas, identifying a real world problem something as simple as getting food at your doorstep which we can’t imagine in any way besides Zomato or Swiggy now.

We want to provide not only a platform for these students but also expert guidance so that in this sea of noise, we add a strong footing and contribute to a functional startup culture.

The main aim of the IDEA-RISE is to encourage students to identify problems which can be converted into a business opportunity. Apply technology to find solutions to solve this problem.

The intent of this event is:

Enable the students to imbibe the spirit of field work and research. Through this camp the students will need to meet the societal entities to get a first-hand understanding of the nature of the work they do.

Ø E.g. To use technology to tackle the problem of garbage collection and disposal, the student teams will have to interact with the actual garbage collectors or BBMP employees.

Instill the spirit of ‘innovative and creative thinking’ to figure out the details of how to apply technology to solve the problem in hand.

Inculcate the spirit of entrepreneurship by identifying a real-world problem which can potentially be converted into a business opportunity or IPR.

Overall objectives of ‘IDEA-RISE’

Provide the students with a forum to identify and formulate a systematic approach to solve the problem in hand. This involves two main stages.

· Stage 1: Problem Definition and Ideation – How to turn problems into opportunities

Ø Form the initial problem statement Ø Get to know their idea-solution end-user/customer, and identify their

needs

Ø Refine the problem statement to convert it into a business opportunity

Ø Present the final defined problem to a jury of professional business people and experts.

Ø Selection of valid problems/idea

· Stage 2: Ideathon – How to apply technology to solve the problem

Ø Research the newest technological trends to solve the problem

Ø Analyze and decide which technology to be used to build a prototype model

Ø Ideate along with plans of how to develop a prototype model Ø Review what is already out there that could compete

Ø Build a basic business model around the idea

Ø Present the final idea-solution for a jury of professional business people and experts.

Steps in Planning:

Stage 1: Problem Identification

· Inauguration and Orientation: This step is to bring awareness of the ‘IDEA-RISE’ initiative to students and faculty of RIT. It is basically a motivation step to declare the plan of execution of the ‘IDEA-RISE’. (Tentative Date: 14th November 2019 – Thursday)

· Registration: Team Size: 2 to 4 students. Interdisciplinary Teams are encouraged.

· Submission of the real-world problem: Four weeks’ time to visit the real world with people who face the problem and understand their difficulties. Submit an abstract write-up of the problem with focus on how it can be converted into a business opportunity. (Online Submission Date: 14th December Midnight)

· Selection of valid real-world problem: Online scrutiny the problems submitted and filter out the actual real world problems which can potentially lead to business opportunity / IPR. (Tentative Date of Announcement: 28th January 2020)

· Announcement of Selected ideas and mentorship for pitch: The shortlisted teams would be provided workshop on preparation for the pitch to present their ideas in the second round in front of evaluators.

Stage 2: Mentorship and Ideathon

· Ideathon Stage1: The teams undergone the pitch workshop have to present their ideas in front of the evaluators in the form of a presentation. (Tentative date: 14 th February 2020)

· Mentorship Program: The shortlisted teams undergo domain based mentorship programs covering all the aspects of making a product. The series of workshops conducted will offer the following insights,

Ø Elevator Pitch- illustration

Ø Basic concepts of business & finance

Ø Business Entities, Laws & Regulations

Ø Business Plan- Practical Insight Ø Operational Plan

Ø Financial Plan- Overview

Ø Financial Plan- Practical Aspects

Ø Start-up Ethos & Dynamics

Ø Start-up India – Action Plan

Ø Start-up Funding

Ø Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)

· Prototype Building: This is the next logical step- convert the appreciated good ‘idea solutions’ into a product prototype. It could potentially lead to many interdisciplinary projects during Pradarshana 2020. The potential of this venture is the involvement of EDC, Funding Agencies resulting in startups and incubation at RIT. It could also potentially lead to patenting & other IPR related activities. (Term January 2020 – May 2020)

· Ideathon Stage2: After the mentorship programs are completed for every shortlisted on the basis of domains, the final presentation is conducted where the teams have to present their business model and prototype of the product in front of a panel of judges and investors.

Outcomes

We will have increased enthusiasm among students regarding entrepreneurship and give them a taste of the various processes that they might have to go through during the industrial phase.

o Fund flow from various government and private investors. o Successful implementation of GEF’s “Inspire Innovate Incubate” Model. o Multidimensional skill development for students. o Development of Managerial, Administrative, leadership &

Entrepreneurial qualities. o Maximum Media coverage as a part of Brand Building in International

Level. o Techno-Entrepreneurship through creativity. Societal Impact. o Intangible outcomes such as Overall development of students, faculty

and Institution. o Curriculum design under Project Based Learning