International Management Institute (IMI) Delhi recently organised the third chapter of its annual start-up summit, E-Merge 3.0 at its campus. E-Merge 3.0 is a one-of-a-kind affair dedicated to providing a platform for discussion on upcoming trends in the start-up ecosystem.
This year, the event aimed at highlighting how entrepreneurship is becoming bolder and more dynamic than ever before and the growing numbers of young innovative minds who want to start ventures of their own. The summit witnessed the participation of several founders, co-founders and senior executives from leading start-ups in the form of panel discussions and entrepreneurial talks.
Welcoming the delegates, guests, students and faculty members, Debashis Chatterjee, Director General of IMI Delhi, said, “IMI’s role in promoting entrepreneurship and its role in making every effort to serve as a platform acts as an enabler in the promotion and commercialisation of viable ideas of the budding entrepreneurs.”
The chief guest, SK Zutshi, Circle Head South Delhi from Punjab National Bank, said, “Don’t go straight away for the big shot, take some time and move ahead gradually.”
Other speakers included Rajesh Bysani (CPO, Zoom Car), Rasik Pansare (Co-Founder & CMO, Getmyparking), and Gaurav Agarwal (Co-founder, 1mg).
The event was divide into two panel discussions featuring eminent personalities to brainstorm on the topics: 'Is aggregation or disaggregation the answer to solve the enigma of cracking the unorganised Indian markets?' and ‘To be sitting on a pile of money also reduces one’s discipline in the early going?’. Both the sessions offered insights into the enticing journey of entrepreneurship of successful start-ups to the students and acted as a source of inspiration for budding entrepreneurs at the campus.