Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship Development (CIIED) was organized a Faculty Development Program “IGNITE” on 08.11.2023 to 10.11.2023. Dr.R.Sujatha,Principal Entrepreneur Educator and Mr. Naved Ahmed, Sr. Regional Manager (South) Wadhwani Entrepreneurship Network,Wadhwani Foundation are the resource persons of the program. The Head of CIIED Professor Dr. K Ravikumar felicitated the gathering and introduced the resource persons. Wadhwani Ignite+ is a program is focused on early-stage ventures from incubators, state startup missions and REAL STUDENT VENTURES from the NEN Ignite program with the objective to create successful COMMERCIAL VENTURES.
The Ignite+ program provides the business with goals and a roadmap (designed in consultation with the venture through a self-assessment process. The program support includes curated content, case studies, solution kits, calendared workshops (weekly), masterclasses, ecosystem connects and business mentors/experts.The Ignite Program is designed for entrepreneurs with a Validated Idea; which is classified as follows:
• It solves a problem that is critical for the customer
• This problem is faced by a ‘sizable’ set of customers
• There is no apparent existing solution
• Initial calculations depict that the venture has the potential to be profitable and sustainable.
The session was concluded with the vote of thanks delivered by the Associate Head of CIIED Professor Dr.P.Sreelatha of Bio Medical Engineering.
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