The Entrepreneur Development Cell of GITS organised a successful national seminar on  ‘Building Quality Entrepreneurs’ on 8th of Decembers 2016 and was attended by distinguished founders of companies and business personalities from around India.

The seminar was conducted to encourage and prepare young people to undertake entrepreneurial activities and develop the economic and marketing knowledge and skills necessary to be successful entrepreneurs in a global economy.

Director, Prof K N Sheth extend his welcome to the Chief Guests, J P Agarwal, Chairman of the Geetanjali Group, Kapil Agarwal, Vice Chairman and the keynote speaker Vinod Kumat, alumnus of IIT, Delhi & IIM –Ahmedabad is MD Corporate Channels Pvt. Ltd., who articulated the challenges and opportunities of entrepreneurs and explained ways to harness the necessary resources and foster the spirit of innovation.

The audience was enthralled by the speech of J P Agarwal, who related his journey as an entrepreneur and spoke at length of all the obstacles he had to overcome to the set up various organisations until the establishment of the big conglomerate that Geetanjali Group is today.

Two technical sessions chaired by Ravi Soni, Alumni – IIT Delhi and Co – Founder- Obbserv On Line Service Pvt Ltd and Shyam Sundar Verma, Ready Bytes Software Labs Pvt Ltd   discoursed on the topic   “On Qualities of an Entrepreneur”; while Ruchika Godha, COO Advaiya Solution Pvt Ltd and Narayan Singh Rao, IIT- Roorkee & IIM- Ahmedabad, Co-Founder & Ceo – The Indian Iris related their own experiences in the session – “Success Stories of the Entrepreneurs”. The speakers explained with related examples, ways in which the government and organisations support young people towards creating their own business and   provided innumerable inputs on methods, case studies and resources for starting and executing entrepreneurial initiatives.

The convener Arvind Singh Pemawat, said that the seminar has drawn a high degree of attention and this has motivated the EDC to bring together the resource persons and participants, to address the complex challenges and promote entrepreneurship to attain a prosperous future for the youth.