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IIT Bombay Alumni Association (IITBAA), Pune Chapter are organizing a innovative event titled Innovations2007 in Pune on 7th Jan 2007. Further details are at http://www.iitmumbai.org/innovations2007.

We interviewed Dr Shridhar Shukla, President, IITBAA, Pune Chapter to learn more about the event.

Q : Please give us a background on Innovations 2007 and how was the idea conceived to organize such a unique event?

TiE are organizing this interesting event, it is an interactive conversation between Ayaz Memon and Kishore Biyani on Thinking Large Scale. I will miss the event as am in London, but would highly encourage our members to attend and also avail of the networking opportunities with other attendees.

Kishore Biyani is the Chief Knowledge Officer and the entrepreneurial spirit behind Pantaloon Retail India Ltd. a Rs 4.45bn retailing giant, that has given India multiple formats of retailing in less than six years. He has rewritten several rules in an industry that was branded ‘western’ and this resulted in the framing of the company’s corporate credo – Rewrite rules, retain values.

The award ceremony for DFJ TiE IVC was held in ISB on Feb 20 and the two awards were sweeped by alumnus of IIT - Mumbai.

* Dr. Girish Saraph, Vegayan Systems, Mumbai(IIT B incubated company)
* Mukesh Hegde, NCE Technologies, Bangalore

You could read the more details here:IITians(B) winners of TiE DFJ contest

- Rajan

I am most likely to attend this event in Hyderabad,anyone else attending pls connect.

DFJ & TiE conducted a national level business plan competition that saw participation from over 125 budding and aspiring entrepreneurial teams from across India. The teams went through two rounds of stringent evaluation and selection. At each round, participants were given feedback on their proposals. DFJ and TiE are now ready to announce two winners from the 10 finalists short-listed by a team of judges comprising of charter members from TiE and DFJ.

As announced earlier, the first prize winner will receive seed funding of USD 100000 and the second prize winner will receive seed funding of USD 50000.