E-Summit’08, a unique initiative to encourage the spirit of entrepreneurship among students and young working professionals by the Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Bombay will be held on 10th Feb, 2008 at IIT Campus, Mumbai from 9 am to 8 pm. E- Summit would be a confluence of the Indian entrepreneurial community. The event intends to showcase the emerging Entrepreneurial ecosystem in India and aims to provide an integrated support system in the form of funding, mentoring and networking opportunities.

Major speakers at the Entrepreneurship Summit are Mr. S. Ramadorai, CEO and MD, Tata Consultancy Services, Mr. Ajit Balakrishnan, Founder & CEO, Rediff.com, Mr.Sandeep Murthy, Partner, Sherpalo Ventures, Mr. Shravan Shroff, Director, Fame Cinemas, Mr. VSS Mani Founder & MD, Just Dial, Mr. Vinnie Vyas, CEO, Crossover Advisers, Mr. Alok Mittal, Executive Director, Canaan Partners, Mr. Ashish Gupta, Managing Director, Helion Ventures, Mr. Mahesh Murthy, Partner, Seedfund, Mr. Shantanu Prakash Founder & Director, Educomp., Mr. Hitesh Oberoi, Co-Founder & Director, Info Edge(India) Pvt Ltd, Mr. Mohanjit Jolly, Executive Director, DFJ, Mr. Hrush Bhatt, Founder & Director, Cleartrip.com, Mr. Shantanu Surpure, Managing Advocate, Sand Hill India Advisers, Mr. Satya Narayanan, Chairman, Career Launcher Vivek Bhargava, MD, Communicate2.

The Entrepreneurship Summit is sponsored by Crossover Advisors, Cleartrip.com, Global Logic, Yahoo India, Fame Cinema, Café Coffee Day, Educomp, DFJ and Sail. PR Partner for the Summit is Approach Communications.

E-Summit ’08 commemorates the Golden Jubilee of IIT Bombay, with an overlying theme of the Emerging Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in India. It is a day long conference with insightful talk sessions and panel discussions along with exclusive mentoring sessions by seasoned entrepreneurs. E-Summit ’08 also brings the VC Pitch - a platform for start-ups to raise venture capital, along with playing host to the finals of Eureka'07- the International Business plan competition (the biggest in the country) organized by E-Cell, IIT Bombay and a Conference of Entrepreneurship Cells.

Panel Discussions:

As the entrepreneurial ecosystem in India becomes increasingly conducive, it becomes necessary to comprehend how Opportunities are perceived, Starting & Scaling Up issues are resolved and how Business models are constantly evolved. E-Summit’08 will give a platform to gain insight into the key entrepreneurial challenges and opportunities from the diverse experiences of powerful entrepreneurs across the globe. Six compelling Panel discussions are in the offing, each one taking you a step ahead in entrepreneurial journey.

Mentoring Sessions:

Esummit'08 brings one to one interactive mentoring where exclusive sessions shall be organized between mentors and mentees to ensure maximum substance and purpose for the participants. Our event endorses this absolute need of a mechanism through which guidance and advice from senior entrepreneurs and professionals can be passed gainfully and efficiently to budding entrepreneurs.

VC Pitch: ’Forget the pennies; keeping counts of your pounds will be more organizing this year.’

Many leading VC Firms and high profile VCs have shown their interest in investing early stage business ideas through E-Summit '08. The three biggest venture capitalist firms in the Silicon Valley, 4 of the most sought after Venture Capitalists in the country and estimated seed capital worth USD 2 million to take home……

Many VC’s all set to make deals up to INR 50 Million.

VC Firms attending-

Mayfield Fund (Vikram Godse)

Lightspeed venture partners (Ajit Deora)

Sequoia Capital (Mohit Bhatnagar)

Milagrow (Rajeev Karwal)

SIDBI Venture Capital Limited (Ajay Kapur)

Wayate Capital (Rajesh Jog)

Trinity ventures…

And for more names do visit http://esummit.ecell.in/html/index.php?page=schedule

Draper Fisher Juvertson(DFJ) and Indian Angles Network are supporting the VC pitch.

Eureka Finals:

The finals of Eureka’07 will be taking place and the teams will be fighting for the coveted 14 lacs prize money (the highest in the country).

Global Conference of E-Cells:

Conference of Entrepreneurship Cells is a unique step towards understanding and collaborating with fellow Entrepreneurship Cells in a better way. This consequently will help every cell in reviewing its activities, discuss/debate the role they play and should play to realize their ultimate objective. People from Stanford, Cambridge and Singapore are coming down making the event truly international.