NITIE conducted a two day event “Enflammer-2007” to foster the spirit of Innovation and entrepreneurship. Enflammer was conducted under aegis of B-Gyan, series of Interactive Sessions to enlighten students with intricacies of running a Venture.

The event got underway with the launch of NITIE’s own On-campus Student Venture ‘Impact’. Impact, a Pathbreaking initiative by an inhouse committee of Management Students of NITIE would be completely run by Students and would cater to entire Gamut of needs of a MBA aspirant. This Unique Initiative would help these student entrepreneurs integrate their Classroom learning with Practical aspects of running a venture, thus Creating “Business Laboratory” kind of Environment.

    Team IMPACT at the launch

The Director, Dr. S.D.Awale, welcomes the chief guests, with inspiring words on Entreprenaurship. He praised the young business tycoons for their achievement in their respective fields. The Director launched the IMPACT company, in the presence of the chief guests, the media, faculty and the students. Praising the IMPACT company for its out of the box thinking, he was happy being in an institute where he too gets to learn many things each day.
    Director, Dr. S.D.Awale

Launch of this Novice intitaive was followed by Captivating; Interactive Sessions with two of India’s most Successful Entrepreneurs, Mr. Suhas Gopinath- Worlds Youngest CEO and Mr. Alok Kejriwal, Chairman Contests2win.com
Director, Dr. S.D. Awale inaugrating the event

Mr.Alok Kejriwal is the founder of Contests2win, a consumer media company for people to play various formats of contest. Recalling his starting days Mr.Kejriwal said “One should not to be scared of failure, should go ahead and take a risk if one believes in an idea. Be focused and passionate to do what you set out to do”. Alok showed some of the promotions of Contests2win which included a successful promotion of SPRITE in China. With the help of various innovative ideas implemented by Contests2win, Mr.Kejriwal showed how innovative ideas will always find a market and they could in fact change the very rules of the game.
Mr. Alok Kejriwal, Chairman, Contests2Win.com interacts with the students.

Mr.Suhas Gopinath, CEO, Globals Inc, who at the age of 16 was recognized as the World’s youngest entrepreneur in by BBC and e-Business, Canada spoke on his Entrepereneurial Experiences and the need to be focused. He began with the difficulties he faced as a minor starting a business.He also recounted the difficulties that he faced in treading the lesser taken path. He also stressed on the need to break away from the traditional Indian mindset of getting a good education and finding a well paying job. Suhas, who is currently pursuing his engineering in Bangalore, also shared a few experiences of his extraordinary student life, where his professors would forward their CV in lieu of an assignment. Quoting his idols Bill Gates and Michael Dell, Mr. Gopinath drove home the point that it is possible to succeed if you have determination and passion even if you do not have a degree with your name.
Mr. Suhas Gopinath, CEO, Global Inc. recieves a souvenir from Associate Dean-Placements, Prof. Ashok Pundir


The Talk was followed by a Q&A session where Students and even the professors present asked the speakers on various aspects of entrepreneurship, the challenges and Changes needed in Educational set up in India, the future of such ventures in India.