eDC Weekly! Ft. BECon'23 special!
Kaboom! The time has come! IIT Delhi’s annual Business and Entrepreneurship Conclave is here starting tomorrow, and we have loads of speakers, events, competitions, and here is a quick glimpse of it!
BECon’23! The website is live!
What is BECon'23? IIT Delhi's annual Business and Entrepreneurship Conclave, scheduled to take place on the sixth, seventh, and eighth of January, is right here. BECon at IIT Delhi is India's largest entrepreneurial conference, receiving a footfall of 50,000+ students from more than 500 different institutes. BECon serves as a platform to bring together the world's top business experts, entrepreneurs, and change-makers and connect them to a larger audience of students and future leaders.
We would love all of you to go through our website, https://edc.iitd.ac.in/becon/ where you can look at all the events taking place in the next three days.
Pre-BECon’23
BECon'23 started with a bang when the cast of the popular web series TVF Pitchers came to IIT Delhi to connect with students as part of a pre-fest event. Pitchers is a story that resonated with countless individuals and inspired them to follow their entrepreneurial ambitions. The Seminar Hall of IIT Delhi was alighted by the presence of star-casts Naveen Kasturia (Actor), Arunabh Kumar (Actor, Creator, and Producer), Vaibhav Bundhoo (Director), and Ridhi Dogra (Actor).
The session ended with participants clicking photos with the stars, and the stars gave a heartwarming introduction for the fest BECon'23. You can find the reel on our insta page, edc_iitd.
Inauguration
The inauguration event of the galactic event will witness stellar guests coming from spheres of public welfare, media & journalism and inaugurate the event on Friday, 6th January in Dogra Hall. Smt Meenakshi Lekhi, Hon’ble Minister Of State For External Affairs and Culture, Member of Parliament from New Delhi Parliamentary Constituency along with Mr. Avinash Pandey, CEO Of ABP News and President, NBDA would be the chief guests for the day. Prof. Rangan Banerjee, Director, IITD would also grace the occasion and unveil the curtains for the mega event. The show will witness the guests speak about their journeys, and essential insights, and surely be a great sight for the enthusiastic young sparks seated. The waves of entrepreneurship have washed ashore, what are you waiting for?
Speaker Sessions
Coming onto one of the most exciting and cherishable sequences of events, the ones which hook you forever with their impressionable wisdom and starry charm, the ones you always wished to get a chance to see, absorb and hold on to forever…. The chance to witness your icons, your role models is finally here with BECON hosting a number of guests across industries who all made it big to where they are today.
Sandeep Aggarwal, a serial entrepreneur who founded two unicorns back to back, ShopClues and later Droom, will be having his session on 7 Jan 2-3 PM, which you definitely don’t wish to miss. Ankush Singla, Sandeep Jain Founders of CodingNinjas and GeekForGeeks respectively, Raghav Verma, and Amit Agrawal Cofounders and CEO of Chaayos and NoBroker are just a few names out of several starry others this segment holds for you.
Flagship Events
Shark Tank
Shark Tank is an event made to empower budding entrepreneurs by providing a platform to pitch in front of India's top investors. Startups will have the opportunity to receive INR 3 million on-spot funding from leading investors and will receive personalized inputs to help them correct their mistakes and evolve.
Shark Tank 3.0 will witness the premier investors of India, the likes of Venture Catalysts, Indian Angel Network, 100x.vc, IVY Growth, Startup Lanes, PedalStart, India Accelerator, Kansaltancy Ventures, and Convanto would be deciding whether they would like to invest in the ideas.
Find your Cofounder
This event presents you with a novel situation wherein you will be asked to pitch ‘yourself’ and let your drive and desire do the talking!
The process is fairly simple and requires you to fill out a form with relevant skills (technical, soft skills), courses undertaken, and start-up ideas if thought of any. The shortlisted few will then be asked to present their 1-minute elevator pitch, highlighting their skills as a founder.
Here’s the fun part! After the pitches are over, the founders will choose up to five people to match with, and the participants with the highest approval voting will be the ones grabbing the top sweet prizes!
So grab the opportunity, and let the founder within be freed and fully expressed!
One day CEO Competition
BECon’23 brings you another flagship event, One Day CEO Challenge. If you are vigilant enough to lead a firm and want to nurture your inner entrepreneur, then here is your chance to come and showcase your skills. This competition is carefully designed to test every aspect, from critical thinking to be able to socialize and network. Being one of the most awaited events of BECON’23, it pushes you to the limits, ending with unparalleled rewards, in addition to the memory and accolades.
B-plan 2.0 competition
BECon provides a hearty welcome to all entrepreneur enthusiasts to come in teams of 1-4 members. The event will be based on solving a real life business case study and it will be conducted in hybrid mode and there will be lucrative prizes for the winners.
Competitions with Cultural clubs of IIT Delhi
Developing multiple skills is an inherent part of entrepreneurial journey and to help you develop these eDC IIT Delhi in association with other clubs and societies of IIT Delhi brings to you plethora of events and competitions like start-up the debate, Learning the Troops, Founder’s desk, Bizz Art, etc. These events make you think creatively and make you practice some new skills. So register and experience entrepreneurship through different lens.
Closing Ceremony
On 8th January, we’ll culminate the event with an award show, followed by a creative arts performance to lighten the evening. Thereafter we’ll move to the much-awaited stand-up comedy show by one of the most loved performers Vipul Goyal, who is an IIT Alumnus himself. In the grand scheme of events crafted just for you, this closing ceremony will certainly be the grandest amongst anything you have witnessed do far!
We hope you have a glamourous three days in BECon’23!