ASSOCHAM STARTUP SUMMIT & TECHAWARDS, 2016 DRAWS HUGE RUSH

Chandigarh, August 31, 2016: A galaxy of stalwarts representing the best of Indian entrepreneurship will come together in Chandigarh for the first time on Friday to honour the winners of the North India’s first ever Startup Summit & TechAwards, 2016 being organized by the apex industry body, The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India, ASSOCHAM.

The Summit is being organized in partnership with Software Technology Parks of India, STPI, Government of Haryana and Government of Punjab.

Sharing details of the Summit, Dalip Sharma, Director, ASSOCHAM said, “The one day summit promises to be a day of lightening interactions between the start-ups and the 30+ speakers which includes mentors, techgurus, motivational orators, successful entrepreneurs, angel investors, venture capitalists et al.”

The interactions shall see a spin of information, knowledge, and hard-headed business talk about how to give a boost to the sunrise sector in North India, added Sharma.

“There is a huge potential in the area. The entrepreneurial spirit of the region is very well known. The whole idea of organizing the Summit is to channelize this potential and fathom the demographic dividend to India’s advantage”, stressed AS Mittal, Chairman, Regional Council, ASSOCHAM.
Manipal Dhariwal, Chairman, Entrepreneurship, IT-ITeS & Start-Ups Committee, ASSOCHAM said, “More than 250 startups will celebrate achievements of their peers, and policy-makers will engage with the gathering on what the government can do to make the region the best place to start up.”

The highlights of the show will be the live pitching session wherein the shortlisted startup shall contest to the panel of venture capitalists and angel investors for fundraising besides the panel discussion on fundraising and capital management, shared Dhariwal.

“The day shall begin with a Start-Up Clinic- the Mentor Connect session where the start-ups shall have a one to one interaction with the peers and lead into the session on unfolding the startup policy wherein the Startup policy of Government of India, State Governments of Punjab & Haryana and the support being provided by STPI shall be shared with the delegates”, said Co-Chairman, Entrepreneurship, IT-ITeS & Start-Ups Committee, ASSOCHAM, Nitin Monga.

“The Summit being held on 2nd September would witness the participation of innovators, entrepreneurs, founders, business owners, students, educators, investors and senior marketers apart from the other stakeholders enabling the Start-Up ecosystem like digital executives and professionals, web & mobile strategists, designers and web project managers, business leaders and business developers, venture capitalists, equity funds, NBFCs etc. who are operating in the Startup ecosystem in North India”, added Monga.

The Start-Up Summit, 2016 has been conceptualized to develop the entire eco-system for the growth of the Start Ups in Northern India from informing Start Ups with their capital requirements, incubation, issues related to intellectual property, marketing support, financial and technical help to scale up their businesses.

Prominent personalities including Shailendra Singh, IAS, Joint Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy Promotion, DIPP; Devender Singh, IAS, Principal Secretary, Electronics & IT, Haryana, Co Dr. Omkar Rai, Director General, Software Technology Parks of India STPI; Sanjeev Bikhchandani, Founder and Executive Vice Chairman of Info Edge, the naukri.com fame; Anirudh Tiwari, IAS, Invest Punjab; Vivek Atray, IAS; Rajneesh Agarwal, Director, STPI; Samar Singla, Founder, Jugnoo; Sonali Sinha, Soaring Angels, Sameer Guglani, The Morpheous, Kevin Sandahl, GlobalPueblo.com, Vaibhav Agarwal, Founder, Inc42, Ritu Marya, Franchise India, J.B. Singh, President, TiE, Chandigarh, Jitin Talwar, Co-Founder, TT Consultants and many other dignitaries will also be the part of Start-Up Summit.